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GUN IN OHIO. MA/. M'KINLEY OPENS "THE BUCKEYE CAMPAIGN. flMBt PI#* fop Honest Monry and J*ro- fj, hetlot of American Industrie*--Doo®- V oc ratio Fallacies Kflectually Expo«*d. Wc:- b m Some Solid. *liot. #• ; * The opening of the Ohio campaign Ip' At Nile* was one of th-s grande.t political demonstrations ever held In the State. Among the . thousands . in attendance it was a notice- :•$ ;4tble fact that farmers compcsed a lan?e portion of the crowd, shown g that g., • the Ohio agriculturists are not so bally Sr out of humor with the grad old tarty p* •<_ 'its the Democrats would make believe. Major McKinley's master address was f "delivered from a platform erected on fe; Central School grounds. Several thous- t t, ^find people stood around the platform ^ for hours patient and happy. Hon. V Henry B. Perkins presented the Bepub- ^ ?ican favorite amidst great applause. st><" ' "McKinley spoke as follows: f fj'> ? The oatiipuign in Ohio formally opened to­day on the part of the Republican party, will be Pi-.." "Unusually inieres Ing because of the Import- I';;* -Saoe to the State «nd tlie count rv of its results .:jn November It is foitunate that the issues jfereof that character wh;ch "will excite no blt- > 'terneas, but nre vreli calcaia ed to invite calm pv; - dispassionate judgment. It la fortunate, too, that th - Issues are BO well defined and • (dearly marked that no misunderstanding or •Evasion can arise. The platforms of the two parties, which eon- Mtiute their official declarations, are singularly .Ireottom ambiguity and confusion. Both de- «'> -«lare in bold and fearless terms their party faith, and botii must be considered as the lines L 'J ' opon which the political conteBt is to be wagonl. T would not change or avoid them if I could, rd nay compet itor cannot change or avoid them he would. Kor are the is suea limited to local questions '.Sfclone. They are general and national. Both Jplatforms speas for their respective parties in f' J*h® State u i on thoee public questions which are . , . the exclusive) subjects of lederal jurisdiction ' *Ild Federal legislation. jf ,< ,, The Democratic platform declares for the free i v fnd unlimited coinage of the silver of the world, ,*to be coined a< freely as gold is now, upon the I' '•? .jf®™® terms and under existing ratio. The plat- ii, of the Republican i*rty stands in opposi- p..; • illon to anything 6horc of a frill and complete h?? .*. *iolla*, and apni oves of the legislation of the last f ... Congress touching silver, which legislation en- !>-, Joins the monthly purchase of tilver up to 4,- i[' ' ' 1*00,0-10 ounced- a i amount fully equal if not in s™. - ' " "Excess of the entire silver product of the United 'A,.' States. p,'.\ •" That legislation is a mighty bulwark for the £* - J>r°tecUon silver. It has preserved and en- f. ' larged its monetary uset. upon a safe basis, and jLi , »as provided that the silver dollar shall be kept « f . as good as the best dollar of our coinage, always £4*; . t^quai in lejal-tender quality and d^bt-paylng , fewer. The leglsla ion of thi las'; Congress Is the : iftroDgen evidence wi.ich can be lurnished of }, " the purpose of the Republican party to main. y:.-. ,...i*ain silver as money, and of its resolution to !- - ^eep it, and the whole of it. .n use as a part of V, 4>ur circulating 11 eiinm equal with feold. The p , 40AV which ihi ilerubli^an par^v put upon the statute book dtclarts the settled policy of the j*. SJovernment "to maiuiain the two metals upon i:\ "• ^ •* parity with each other upon the present legal a- 1 - 'Iff0, or such ratio as maybe provided by h»." f?v\. Under the law p ior to that of last year only .<#,0-^0,OCO silver dollars %\ere coined monthly and Srot into circulation, which sum absorbed leas «han one-half of t'.;e silver product of the United , "HBtates. Although four millions of dollars of . Silver coinage was aulh«ri-ed by the laws of | ,fj? Congress, neither the liapublican nor l)eino- %•* «ratio administrations exceeded two millrons of "('• •oinage numbly. The new law will increase •he use 01 silvo r as a money circulating medium . Snore than two millions monthly, thus giving , *!«. people an increaKcd currancy"with whicu to lo their business, which inureasoii curieucy will ... always be as good as the oeat niou«fy in circula- ' ' . lion. The free and unlimited coinage of stiver, de- V 'Saanded by the Democratic convention recently s •. field In Cleveland, amounts to this : that all the ; #llver in the world, and from every quarter of f • the world, can be brought to the mints of the Vnited StateB and coined at the expense of the , government; that is, that the mints of tne L.v; .'••.'•"United States mu6t receive 412,^ grains of sil- 5k; Ter, which is worth but SO cents the world over, Snd coin thereior a silver dollar, which, by the at of'the Government, is to be received by the ¥".:/( people of the United States and to circulate Among them as worth a full dollar of lou cents. jfe> The silver producer, whose 412.13 grains of silver g{T *re worth 011 y oj cents in the markets of this 4ountry and t:ie worid, is thus enabled to de- v v jpand that the Govemnitnt thall take it at lt»0 «ents, Will the Government be as kind to the ; producer of wheat and pay him Ui) cents more • , - iier bushel than the market price? The silver «ollar now issued under a limited coinage has v cents of intrinsic value in it, so accredited the %'} .-'VfiOTldover; aud the other 2d cents is legislative » • "Will--the mere breath of Congress. That is: trhat the dollar lacks of value to make it a per­ l's Ject dollar Congress supplies by public declara- i , lion, and holds the extra to cents in the Treas­ ury lor its protection. Now it is proposed to •Jtemove the limit and to make the Government »i; ' , i*oin not for account of the Treasury but for the £ • tenafit of the silver-mine owners. .v.. J Major McKiniey then quoted the let- <er of ex-President Cleve.aud, written in ,< • L1885, in which he p;esents the datigets «f unlimitod silver coinaie. Continuing, h • jhe said: ' I am in favor of the double standard, but I , #m not in favor of the free ana unlimited coin- f s of Bilve in the Unitea States unti. the na­ns of 11 e world shall j' in us i . guarante ing silver » Btatus i.ich their laws now accord •e -: lo gold. The double atau<lard implies equality ;•'".••", a ratio, and that equality ean only b estab- *5* lished by the 1 oncurrent law of nations. It was |.s; the concurrent law of nations that made 1 he #" jlouble stai dard ; it will require the concurrent <,' law of nati ns to reinstate and sustain it. Un- - > |il then, fo» us o decree the free and unlimited C , <oin'ige of the world s silver would ordain that * 4ur silver dollars w.,uld surely depreciate and • #ola woul t go to a premium. • No man knows what the future may be, but . Iti our p esent condition and with our present s • :. light every consider tion of -afety requires u ;t, to ho d our preiaent Btatu until the other great £ - Aaticns shall agree to an international ratio. • Besides beine against a depieciation of our Currency, on principle, and for the reasons Sv <|tated, I still have another reason, which, if it ' Stood alone, would be conclusive to mv mind, £w7 lind would place me in opposition .0 the Demo- Sratio scheme of putting in circulation a short ollar. The money Creditors of the Govern- •* *ient, w! o include the boudholders and those ' %ho loaned their money to the Government in » time of war, have been largely pa d off, and in X':- • mvery instance paid off in the best money of the U Country. ITie principal creditors of the Govern- -•', to-day are not the bondholders nor the «nen of capital and large means, but the sol- ittiers who fought the oattlea of the Union in the most sacred and stainless cause in which .Aiaukind has ever engaged. In lH'il the Govern- Jinent owed to its creditors, whose ev.denoe of indebtedness was in the form oi bonds, nearly : #3,j00,('tx),000, upon which is annually paid, |n interest alone, sl4 .,7.S1,00,'. The" pen­ sion roll ofthecouutry was then but 620,935,000. JVhen the attempt was made at that tim-s by he leaders of the part that now stands in op- ioeition to the Republican party, to repudiate tie debt to the bondholder, or pay it off in epreciated currency, insisting that we never "#ould pay it in T-.iII, the soldiers stood with the •tarty which represented good faith to its cred­ itors and honorable payment of every obliga­ tion, and swept t.ack the tide of inflation and Repudiation. They said that the Union which they had eavrd from armed force should have SJ10 stain put uj>on its financial honor, but £very debt it hail contracted to preserve the >'Union should be paid m the best coin of the re­ public, and every obligation should be sacredly «ept and observed. They were willing to wait lor their pensions until this great money obli­ vion was provided" for. The Government edit was therefore, sustained, and over two thousand millions of that great debt has been paid off, not in a clipper dollar, but in a full /.Collar. $4? The positions are now reversed. The chief taoney creditors of the government are now the f " *oluiers ; thtv are in every State and Territory i' ~' <>f the Union North and in many of the States Of the Sou h. 'j he interest on the public debt io the bondholder is only s127.(iOi.OCO annually is against $143,ifl.).OCO hi 18t>7, and the pension •\ ' loll of the soldiers in 1891 is Si37,OD),OiX) against C? #20,0^0,000 in 1M;7. Shall the soldier have his ";reat. debt paid off in the same coin as the ondholder? Is it l ight -o force ujion him a ollav worth KI cents when the other creditors <>f the governmeut were paid a dollar worth 1^0 «>ents? Is it -U6t to the pensioner who re- C';;;-:,'Apeive8 Slii a month to be paid in a silver dollar f,?". • -Vrorth 30 cents, and thus receive i?'.).C0 as his j <•• . inothly pension rat.hor than .*ti which the gov- ;" erniiient has contracted to pay him ? For one 1 tihall never consent that tile soldiers of the ' • - "(tmmtry shall I e pai 1 in any poorer coin then M? fhe most favored ceditors ot the government. ..•> Ohio has never in the past given her vote for 6, ;" ; «. debased currency, and she will not do so in l»he future. When the country was solid for inflation in - 1 , *875, under ires&ure of hard times (and they t "Ver." hard), tue sober sense of the people of this • . State, without regard to party, stemmed that •"-/ #wful tide. The people of Ohio had more to do fhan any other state or constituency of the ^J^JtJnlon in keeping the nation upon the rock of / - ; \ Bionest finance aud honest currency. .3 1 , v Thousaadfi of T>emocrat9 helped in that great TO1*" struggle. Not through their own party organ- '4% >|»tion, but by leaving their party organization jMf' - And joiiflng with the iiarty which represented food faith and honest dealing with the public reditor. They can take DO other course this #ear, aud the people of Ohio will take no back- frard step. It maybe worth while to know the per capita ,4. *>f our circulation at different portions of our liistory. The per capita circulation is neater in thin Country than at any other period before. The is jho £ "HRPiSPP "ffPSPP1 ?. |i,, , amount of mctey in circulation was about tax-gatherers in peace, except upon terms favor- £•tn lfe6>», and the amount per capita able to our citUeni. %aa •13,83. In IBJS there were •itS.uOtt.OOO la %>r«ae Greeley hap aummartasd Sa a. amt to iiwliaiaejal* w culatbn,oai it cannot be done with Hlhrer dol­ lar that are worth lesa than 101 «anta eaeti in Talue. On the Rubiedl of the "tariff" the it sue is equitlly well dettned. The Demoerati • platform drolarea for a purely revenue tariff, ana will not content that it shall perform any ot her service. l>uties mu»t b« 1»%1j1 with a view t > revenue, and upon tuosn for ign ptodtctn which will vi 11 the greatest revenue, and which will nnt, fauMentally or otherwise, favor dou.estic in­ dustry an<i domestic l»bor. Its one mission and on- mission onlv is tha* of raising revmue It in its rp'rwioi s it should favor a home production it would I HI obnoxious to the prin­ ciple upon which itnas originally levied, and must be repealed or modified." The reveu »e tariff, pure and simple, such as the Democratic varty of Ohio sdvo;ate», cau benefit and eneot ra^^ and build up no domes , ic industry. It o a not encourage labor, save in foreign conniries. It does not move a single apindle, aave in foreign countries. It increases tne demand for foreign goods and diminishes the use of domestic goods, it is for the foreign shop and against the American sh p. It sup­ plies work for foreign laboir and takes it from our own labor. It would not light a single fire in an American furnace or mill, but would ex­ tinguish those which now bum, unless our labor would work at the same wages as the labor of competing countries. In short, it is well conceived to benefit every other nation but our own. A revenue tariff has not in our oxperienca been a success even as an ageucy for raising the money required for public purpose*. It has more than once in our history failed to supply the revenue warns of the Government. It has fouPdour country prosperous and our tr<a*ury wel supplied with revenue, aud a few years under its operation has left the treasury bank- nipt and the business of the country in a de­ plorable condition. And thio is easily accounted for and entirely logical. Com enemg with the couutry prosper­ ous under protection, the Democrat* have en- ac ed a revenue tariff, and the people of the country, influenced by supposed and temporary profit, buy foreign goods ipstead of domestic goods. They maybe cheaper for tje time. But this eventuates in the destruction of our industries, for it increases the use of foreign goods, and encourages the disuse of domestic goods, and with the disuse of domes­ tic goods comes diminished production at home and le s employment for homo la or, and finally no employment at all, and with that comes poverty to the people, which limits their capacitv to buy abroad, and, following that, comes diminished importations and diminished revenues, and then a deficient and defaulting treasury. And then there inevitably follows direct taxa- ation, for if the government can not secure needed revenue from tariffs to meet the public expenses it must resort to internal taxation. In the meantime, onr industries are destroyed, and our laborers dimissed from the factory and mine, and forced to the farm to become the farmer's competitors instead of as before his customers and consumers and then there In­ variably follows a rise in the price of foreign goods to the American consumer. As a means of raising revenue a revenue tariff is not as certain and reliable as a protective tariff. The latter has never failed In time of psace, go matter how great were pur expendit­ ures, to supply the rtVonue required, and has never failed but three times, and then in war, to provide the enormous revenue required lor the public service. A protective tariff has proven an unfailing agent in raising public revenues, and while do­ ing this it has served that other important of­ fice of so adjusting the duties upon foreign goods as to give the largest protection to our 0.111 in­ dustries, the widest field of employment for our own labor, and the most generous encourage­ ment tJ our own people. It serves the Treas­ ury. and while doing so serves our own people in their industries and employments. There ought not to be nuj question, inasmuch as we have to stcure revenue from foreign imports, as to the character on he foreign goods upou which the duties shall be impo-eu. i he principle of a protective tariff requires that articles not luxuries, which wecannot pro­ duce in the United Statss, th >uld come iu free from tariff taxation, aud impose.; the tar,tf upon such foreign products as come ia competition with the products of our own land and labor. It does seem to mo that there Biiould be n;i dif­ ference ot opinion upon the subject among Amer­ ican citizens. As we aru compelled to tax some product, every consideration, I think, should require that the foreign product be taxed, the taxing of which would beuetit our own pioduo- ers and do no iujury to our o «vn consumers. A protective tariff is nos only a surer agent for raising revenue than a r'eventi > ta.-iff, but it builds up our own industries and increases 111- duHtria activity in our o n midst. <t furnishes employment for labor and at bet'.er wages than cau be secured anywhere else or under any other system. A revenue tariff breaks down and dest • ys at home, and builds u , and en­ courages abroad No> , if protect! n is a burden upon the peo­ ple, we should find some manifestation o it elsewher . We have boen living under it f r thirty years. Where does the burden rest? The great mass of the peopl of our country were never so well off as they are to-day. Th y are bet er off tha i the rest oi1 mauk mi. There never were s . many men 1 this country who owned thei homes as thero are io-day There never ^ ere so manv workmen who had accumu­ lations in the savings banxs of the country as there are to-day. 'there never were o many comforts, refinemen s, und educated homes as there are in this country to-day. JSo nation of the world can pres< ntj such a picture of prog­ ress, prosperity, aud plenty. Have protective tariffs piled up the debts of the United States? Let the record answer. The monthly report of the Secretary of the Treasury discloses how the public debt is being reduced. We have paid off more than two-thirds of it. State debts have been reduced, and county and municipal debts have diminished. See what has been done in this direction in twenty years, from lb70 to 1S9U : ... In twenty years, from 1 * 187 J to 1890, inclusive, : '; • .'•t' the Federal debt has ; been reduced UUKtt to (lmu'l., 1W8, OJO.OOJ 'the State debts have been reduced from (1' 7T,.. to (,l&)l)).. The county debts have been reduced from (1870).. to (lt:9i)).. In the same time onr population has in­ creased from 38,558,371 to 62,<>i2,250, so that the per capita 1B only 324, compared with nearly $70 twenty yearB ago. The per capita debt of this country is leas than that of any other oooutry ot the world. Here is the record: Belgium France Germany Great Britain.....* tt»iy Peru Portugal Russia. Spain United States Free-trade England increased her taxation between 1870 and 1H8> over 21 per cent., while the United States diminished here nearly 10 per cent. ~ Measured by its usefulness in the develop­ ment of the "country the protective tariff is again unfailing. No nation in the world has reached such a degree of development as we have attained in the last thirty years. In every department of industry, in every avenue of human endeavor, we have illustrated the most marvelous advancement, and in those years we have risen in industrial d velopment to the very first rank in manufacturing, agri­ culture and mining, leading every 01 her nation in the world It is said by our opponents that this system enriches the few and Impoverishes the many. Wealth in England has been con­ centrated in the hands of the few to a far greater extent than in the United States. Cardinal Manning, in Deceiyber last, \> rote as follows on the subject, speaking of free trade : •But it has created tv/o things--the irre­ sponsible wealth, which stagnates, and the starvation wages of the labor market. We have these two worlds always and openly face to face--the world of wealth and the world of want; the world of wraith saying in its heart, *1 sit as queen over'all tollers and traders,' and the world of want not knowing what may be on the morrow." The masses of oar people, those who labor, whether in the faotory or on the farm, are richer in real wealth than in any other country on the globe. It is also said that protective tariffs have In­ creased the mortgages of the country. This is an idle ana absurd statement. Lot toe remind you that mortgages are not always an evidence of poverty. They are much oftener the best evi­ dences of prosperity. I admit that mortgages given for living expenses, for grocery bills, lor taxes, etc., do give e\idence of the poverty of the jmortgageor. But if a wo kman in tbiB city, having accumulated $1,0JO, concludes he wants to buy a home, mid finding one which will cost him S2.00 pays j?l.ti00 in . ash and «ives a mort­ gage for the remainder of the pui chase money, that mortg»ge is not an evidence o poverty. It is the fctrongest evidenc) of thrift and prosper­ ity of the mortgageor. Take the farmer having 100 acres of land who wants to a id 166 more acres to his farm. He has sufficii nt accumula­ tions toe able him to mnko t .e first paym r,t and purchase the adjoining land, giving aimort- gage or the remaining payments. That does not mean that he is distressed and in poverty. It means that he is getting on--that he has faith in himself and iu the future. You may try this system of protection by any test you will, i care not what it is, and it meets every emergency and answers every demand. More than that, it has never been against this Government, either in peace or in war. It ia the patriotic system. It ia for the country. It believes in America for Americans, native and naturalized. It legislates for them and nobody else. It has never sustained any flag in the United States but the American flag. And that can not be Said of the other revenue tariff sys­ tem, for it was the ally of onr enemies in open war. It preserves the home market for the peo­ ple at home, and secures them work and wages. And why is not the system that does these things the best? There is nothing either in conscience or in good morals which can require ns to give up the market to people beyond the jurisdiction of this country, who owe 110 al- legier.ee to its flag, and who can not be reached by the Federal arm in war, or by the Federal 352,000,030 132,000,00J 187,000,030 115,000,100 ..* 72.18 .. 218.27 .. 49.10 .. 1U0.1«4> .. 74.85 .. 143.06 .. 101.1H .. 35.41 .. 75.34 .. 28.0U rate fit easllf' _ _ . ___ tatwwwa tst»iit the waot»j|t>w> of oariai*. pendente and ttaeaaacUuenEof the tariff of Vtm% those which followed tbedoee ot our war with Great Britain, US w<M chzpaUsad by Immense ; importation*! totiVir; jScafctrfM*?.*. when the oompromlaa of 1333 baoan to be seriously felt in tne reduction of duties on imports, and ' those of um-57. when the Polk-Walker tariff of j 18 iu had bad time to take fmll effMet. j So similarly sweeping revnliions ar.d pros- ! trations ever tooK placed-1 think none could take place--nnder the away of efficient pro- ! tectlon. M . Clay, in 1833 after ptemiaing that the lievn year- pMoeding the passage of the tariff of 1H04 baa been the most disastrous, while the seven following the passage of the act had l>een the most pvospe ons that onr country h»d ever known, said this t ansformation of the condition of the country fnnn gloom and i distress to brightness and prosperity has been ! the work of American legislation, fostering American industry, instead of allowing it to be controlled by foreign legislation, cherishing for- j eign industry." 1 This is the testimony of history and cannot be coutradioted. , Gov. > ampboll, in his speech accepting tha nomination of the Democratic State Convention, i speaking of the earlier tariffs, bald "that the j tariff of Washington, of Hamilton and of Jeffer- son, averaged only ? 4 percent." These laws he I commends and would have ns return to them. I feaaiteia not familiar With those early tariffs. I In the eight years of Mr, Jefferson's ad minis- ! tratioh the average ad valorem rate on all im- ! porta, free and dutiable, was U.75. In 18M, in < the midat of Jefferson's administration, the averaas rate was aa.41). not 7S> per cent., as Mr. i • auiplip]? stated. In 1840 the average rate was- ' »2.*>; in 1H30, 46..H1; in 1840,15.4>: in 1850, 23.16; in 1*10, 3/,.ti7 ; in 1870, 42.23; in U80. 29.7; and in 1 1890, li!> iU. These are the average rates upon all articles, both five and dutiable. Under the act of 17SJ-- I "the tariff of Washington" - the duty on com- ' mon salt was 10 cents per bushel, anil later in 1 Washington's time salt was increased to SO I cents per bushel. Under the law of 1890 it Is j less than 5 cents per bushel. This enormous ' duty on salt would the Governor have ua re- i impose. 1 he duty on coal under the Washington and j •letter-on tariffs was equal to #1.40 a ton; while ; the tariff on coal under the new law is 75 cents ' a ton. The duty on cordage under the Wa hington and Jefferson tariffs was 2 cents and 8Si cents a pound; under the new law it is 1?$ cents a pound. The duty on nails under the tariffs of v\ aihington and Jefferson, was it cents a pound, and un<|erthe new law it Is loent a pound. I The duty on twine and pack thread under the tariffs of Washington and Jefferson was 1 > cents a pound; under Madison 8 cents a ponnl, i and under the new law it is from 7-10centB to ! tO$e < *ire eampbor, ebloraCmn, glyeeriae, medicinal preparations. itiis plain statement taken from the new law. should be and wtf #nclushe refuta­ tion ot ua statements of free-traders, and ought to set tight those who have blindly accepted the misrepresentation Of our adversaries. There are no prohibitive duties in the law. Yes, there are. We prohibit the Importation of obscene Ht'rwture. We prohibit the importation of foreign goods bearing an American name or trade-mark, and insist that die foreign goods shall be marketed M JIIUWWS* GREATNESS. INTERESTING FIGURES * yf;' PROM i •The Stats Has Ativans d from Twenty- fourth to Ihlnl Place ia Population-- Her School , tilmrehes, Public lniiebt- ednese ami L Tt-stonk Values. The Bureau of Statistics has got to- gether some instructive and interesting Upon tisilr own SkCf ti their own tr&d^ J fnpta &.nft tffFiif*fw SnMrxr t/j thA Hiffnr* mark. We prohibit the United states from : ngures relating to the differ- i 111 porting anything which is elutiab e, except upon the payment of duties. Heretofore tl United States oould hay It < samples abroad free of duty and did italtoge her too frequently. 'Htiev must hereafter obey the law -which they require their citizens to observe. We prohibit the importation of goods or products produced by the convict lahor of Other lands. We pro­ tect our free labor at home against the conviot labor at home. Bat never before a ainst the convict labor abroad. Tills new law stops the products of .European oonvicts from com- jietition with onr free American labor, and will not admit such products to land on our shores. It is over and over again asserted that the farmer cannot possibly be benefited by a tariff on farm products. That he has a »ur- plu , and therefore he must seek a foreign mar­ ket to disuose of it. There seems to be a gen­ eral impression that no products come Into the United States in competition with American farm products, An examination of the imports of 1SJ0 most effectually disposes of this as­ sumption. Imported in 1890. Cattle, horses and sheep... « 3,270,277 Breadktnfti...t 6,034.272 Fruits 18,871,801 Bay.. »«••**••»•••.».«.- 1,143,445 Hops 1,053,(11® Flax <,188,021 Hemp 7,941,9.36 Meat and dairy products 2,011,314 Rice 8,012,120 Linseed, flaxseed and otbar seeds. 3.530,631 Leaf tobacco 17,6"5,l»a Vegetables 4,455,874 Wool 15,261.0*3 l>j eents ape und. The ie duty 011 raw cotton under tha tariffs of I Washington and Jefferson was i cents a pound; I undt r the new law it is iree. I The duty on molasses under the tariffs of Washington and Jefferson was 9 and 5 cants a ' gallon; under Madison it was 10 cents a gallon, and under the new law it is free. The duty on sugar, brown and raw, under the tariffs of Washington and Jefferson, was 2*4 cents a pound ; under the Madison tariff it was <> oents a pound, and under the new law it is free. The duty on loaf sugar under the tariffs of Washington and Jefferson was 9 cents a pound; under the Madison tariff it was 8 cents a pound, and under the new law it is a half cent a pound. Under tho Washington tariff there were but seventeen articles only free of duty, and here they are: Saltpetre, tin in pigs, tin plates, lead, old pewter, brass, Iron aud brass wire, copper in plates, wool, dyeing woods and dyeing drugs, raw hidea, tea ver aud other furs, and deer ski-us. In the new law 300 paragraphs are required to name the articles tnat are free of duty, and their number amounts to many hundreds. There was much said bv Governor Campbell in his speecn at Cleveland about the low price of wool. He stated incorrectly, aud I have no doubt by inadvertence, that the farmer of Ohio was only getting 20 cents a pound for his wool. At the time he made this statement the farmer was receiving for his choice clips 2-t aud 29 cents. The inference from his speech would be that the increased duty on wool is the cause of de­ pressed prices. If this bo so, then the tariff is not a tax. This was not the Democratic doc­ trine in Ohio in 18-W and J881. They theu be­ lieved that the tariff did liel|) the wool grow* r, and that a great outrage had been committed upon him when the duty was reanced 11 per cent, by the tariff law of 18S3. They BO declared, in a document issued by the Democratic Ma to Committee of that year, and demanded of the wool growers of the state that the party that committed 1 hat great outrage should be defeated at the polls. And, I may say in passing, that they were deft ated. Their statement v as tuat the Ohio wool growers had been fleeced of €8,- 000,' 03 by the reduction of 11 per cent, of the duty. The Governor was one of those who be­ lieved it then. Ti e new tariff law went in' o effect Oct •*, 1890. It had been in o:>eration, therefore, a lew da fa short of 11 ne months on the :^0 h of June last. The last olticial rep rt we fcaveof the statement of oreign commence issued by the Bureau of j i-tatistics of the Treasury Department shows the total value of import of merchanoi e dur- I ing those nine months was $ >90,3«s,(i00. During I t e cor esponding period of 18!tJ the total value j of imports of merchandise was §593,709,81 >5. j There were, therefore, import d during th© nine months of 1891, under the new tariff law. $11,- I 436,100 more than in the corresponding period of 1890 under the operation of the old law. As showing the effect of the operation of the new law, it is important to know what proportion of th< 6} imports were free and what r roportion were dutiable, botn under the old and the new laws. Durmg ihe nine m nths ending June 80, 1891, the foreign goods admitted free of duty were valued at 8-05,1)93X65. Duiing the nine months ending June 30, 18!)0, the value of free Imports vias .*208 !'83,873--an increase of f ee importations in favor of the new 1 .w of §80,- 978,792. The foreign goods which were dutiable under the new law, in that period, were $314,Si42,3{0 In value, and, for nihe-montbs, under the old law, ending June HU, 18y 1 the foreign goods dutiable $)89,780.032, being an increase in the vilueof merch <ndine paying duty under the new law in the sum of #o5,5 IS.t'iM. Forty-six aud nine-tenths per cent under the new law of all our imports, in value, were admitted free of duty, aud for the same period under the old law 81.9 per cent, were admitted iree of duty. Ti-at is to say that under the rew law. which our opponents assert is prohibitory, and a great increase of duties over the old law, 44.9 per cent, in value of all our imports were free and 53.1 per cent, paid a duty, while under the old law for that same period 34.9 per cent, of our imports were free and Ci.l per cent, paid a duty. Such a showing of free Imports cannot be found in any tariff law since the beginning of the Government. Our foreign commerce for the year ending June 3 \ 1891, was greater than it has ever been before. The total value of the products we bought abroad, from June 33. 1890, to June 33, 1891, was $l,72!*,23i),89(>, an increase over those in 1890 of •'?82,]91,601. aud an excess over that of 1889 of- $241,7'.»7,867. The value of our imports for the fiscal year 1691 was the greatest iu our history, and exceeded those of 389» iu the sum of $55,590,. 082. This increase 1B made up largely of the fol­ lowing articles: Coffee, tin plates, hides and skins, chemicals, drugs, dves, and medicines, fruits, raw wool, India rubber, gutta percha, sugar and molasses, vegetables, which for the most part we do not produee in the United States. And yet with this unprecedented importation our exports exceeded our imports in th'j sum of $39,579,914. So that a law which our opponents declare is in restraint of tntde is in fact an en­ couragement of trade, ith tho balance fortun­ ately in our favor, as it should always be. The predictions made by the enemies of the new law, nine months ago, have not been veri­ fied, but on the contrary have been shown to be mere assumptions utterly without foundation. They served a political purpose, and worked a positive injury to the merchant the luanu- 1 facturer and consumer. There are few mer­ chants in the State of Ohio who have not suffer­ ed lrom the exaggeration of the importer and the false prophet, whose dire prophecies of the effect of tltie new law caused them to increase their purchases and prices, which prices have slnoe fallen ; and in some instances the goods | which the merchant has on hand can be re­ placed at from 10 to 20 per cen . less than he I paid for them. Prices to-day in staple goods I are less than they were during the month of October, November, and December of last year, and there is scarcely a manufactured article which goes into the family and which is classed as a necessity, that has not fallen in pric.-and is less than it has been for many years. It is always better to be frank and candid and honest with the people. One thing is cer- , tain, that the prices of manufactured articles j have not advanced, but as a rule have dimin- j iebed. Another thing is equally certain, j that existing industries have been stlinu- . lated to greater activity, ana there is a wider demand for labor than there has been for many j years, while new enierprises are springing up 1 all over the land; and this, too, in spite of the j conspiracy of the Democratic leaders to de- | stroy confidence aud prevent investments. j There are F4! articles in the new tariff law. Of these the duties on 190 were reduced. On 80 | of these articles the duties were changed from ad valorem to specific, because experience has shown that ad valorem duties invite fraud upon the revenue and operate unfairly to the honest merchant and importer. There are 249 articles in the new law on which duties are identical with those n^tder the pre­ vious law. Upon what articles were the duties increased? Forty-eight were agricultural products, forty- three were wool aud its products, twenty- four were fir* and its \>r. duct s. Forty per cent, of the increase was lor the better protec- I tion of farm products. Twenty-eight of the . increases were upon champagne, wine and i spirits, five on tobacco, one on opium, three on silk. Duties -were increased upon liquors, cham- Sagne, tobacco, silk, embroideries, laces, fine osiery, broadcloth, fine linens, opium for smoking, flue cut glass, French and German china, fire-arms, playing cards, pearl buttons, Jewelry, pianos, seal fur and tin-plate. One nundred aud eighty-five duties under the new law are the same as under the Mills bill. Hie reductions were on suga , molasses, leather, boots and shoes, lumber, rice, starch, trace chains, hammers, spikes, tacks and nails, wire, screws, nuts aaA washers, tha, rasps, ropea, binder's twine, log chains, Iran piping. Total *79,ei8,M0 Eggs imported In 1830,15.008,076 dozen. It will be sean that in 1893 wa imported $79,- 812,102 worth of farm products, mnen of which It is believed will be produced here under tha protection given by the "new tariff law. The Democratic party is now claiming that free trade in sugar is iu the direct line ot their economic lheorv and principle. They would hav$tUeco Uiyry believe that the, have always Advocated fred sugar, and that this is one of the items of the bill which they thoroughly ap­ prove. Such is most remote from the truth, as tha history and record of the party will show. First and foremost, every tariff bill wl ich the Democratic party have foruqtj'ated aud passed placed a out? 6h sA^ar, raff ana reilfiM, Kvorf they have proposed to pisl Sugar was made uuti- tariff bill which placed a duty on sugar. able under the Walker tariff of 1840. It waa dutiable under the first bill which the Demo­ cratic party offered after the war, known as the " Wo^d tariff bill." It was made dutiable under the two Mi r.isbn bills and the Mills bill. The late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Man­ ning, in his report to Congress, recommended in distinct terms the retention of tho duty on sugar because it was a revenue daty, and was a subject from which a large revenue could be derived. Every Democrat In the House vo ed aga'nat the clause of the ne«r law making Bugar free, and vo ed for the retention of the duty of 2)4 cents a pound. In th - Senate a united I)em - cratic vote opposeJ the free BUKar clauso, and jus ifled tueir opposition • tcauso it . as a reve­ nue duty and in strict accord with the ecouomic prin iple advocated by the D mocratic pa ty. to that we have fre>e sugar under a protective tariff, wh ch has bten impossible under free trade or a revenue tariff, and we have i free unde a protective tariff, bee use under the p inciple of protection we do not tax those for­ eign product • which experience and a tho: ough trial liave demonstrated we can not produce ill quautit es sufficient for our own consumption. By this one section of the law $ 5.030,000 of taxes are removed from the shoulders of the peopre. Instead of collecting this sum, as It would be under a revenue tariff, it is left in the pockets of the people. But it is Baid thit free sugar is accompanied with the bounty provision, which is even more burdensome than tho tax itself. This is not true. VN e did provide for a bounty to the tugar producers of tne United States. The Kepubli- can paity was unwilling to do anything which would destroy this industry aud make valueless the millions of dollars invested (herein. And so they provided-having removed the tariff-- that the suga • producers of this couutry should leceive a bounty equal to the tariff. This will encourage and stimulate the production of sugar, if anything can, and it will cost the gov­ ernment this year lesa than SU.OOO.ixO, an aunual paving of $4l,t OO.OUo, for the duties amounted to 55,000,000. Ih^re is contained in the new law a reciproc­ ity provision by which the adminsi ration has already made valuable treaties with Brazil, San Douiingo, and Spain. It is a provision which in no way enuroaches upou the protective princi­ ple, nor cau in any way destroy or undermine our defensive or protective tariffs. Reciprocity is based upon our free list and practically upon non-competiug products. It provides that the United States having made sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, and hidea Iree, if the country producing these articles and send­ ing them to the United States shall impose du­ ties or other exactions upon agricultural or other products of the Uuite*! States reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, the President has the iK»wer to suspend by proclamation tho pro­ viso relating to the free introduction of such articles--sugar, molasses, ten, coffee, hides, etc. --against, such countries imposing these duties aud exactions, and the original duties shall be imposed. There Is much criticism about the doty on tin- plate, and fully as mubh misreprt asntation as there is criticism. It is generally supposed that under the new law tin ore or block tin ia now dutiable. Under section 209 of the law it will be seen that the duty on blook tin goea intft effect on the 1st day of July, 18t3. 'Illat is, the manufacturers of tin-plate have iree tin ore or block tin for two years. Then there is this further provision : That unless it ahall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, who shall make known the fact by proclamation, that the product of the mines ot the United States shall have exceeded 5,000 tons in one year prior to July 1, 18!>5, then allpin tin shall after July 1,1895, he admitted free of duty. The duty on tin plates went into effect on July 1, of thia year. There is also a provision In'the law that on and after Oct. 1, 1 97, unless it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the President, who shall thereupon tnake proc- lation of the fact, that the aggregate quantity of such tin plate produced in the Umtod states during either of the years next preceding June 3'J, 1897, is equal to one-third the amount of suoh tin plates imported and entered for consump­ tion during any fiscal year after the passage of this act and s zior to Oct. 1,18i>7, theo Uiey shall become free. It is said we cannot make tin plate. How absurd, for we are already making it, and it won't be long until we shall make the large*. i>art of the consumption. We are making tin plate to-day. Democratic discouragement can not stop it; foreign interference cannot check American genius and resolution. The tariff of 1890 will win its own way--it will achieve its own victories and thoy will be vic­ tories for American labor, American enterprise, American genius, and for the whole American people. We take neither our patriotism nor political economy from other nations--if we had we would yet be in our swaddling clothes, a de­ pendency and province of Great britain, instead of the best Govei nment on the face of the earth, a Government of equal citizenship, equal oppor­ tunities. and e iual laws. The Ei glish press is much concerned about the American farmer. She bad better be more mindful of ter own, under whose industrial policy he has been driven from the BOH t > make a living, and year after year, if he remains, is compelled to incur distres ing debt and to sub­ mit to distressing poverty. Tho next House of Representatives, which is Democratic by a two-thirds majority, will pre­ sent to tne country its plan and purpose of a tariff lav. Possiblv Governor Campbell could indicate to the people of Ohio what it will be. I am impatient to know. Will the new plan be fashioned after the Mills bill, which the country BO emphatically rejected in 1888? ill it have fre»e wool and rfax and hemp? Will it expose the products ot Agriculture to the unre- stralnel competition of Canada and other com jet ing countries ; will it strike a deauly blow at .Northern capital and la­ bor; will it put sugar back on the dutiable list at 2l<j cents a pound, vliere the Mills bill propped o put it; or will it accept the hori- zout # process invented by Morrison for revising the tariff? I long to see this model and symbol of tariff reform. Will it bo tasbioned by Cleve­ land, after the British plan, or constructed by Hiil alter the Kandall model? When it comes the country can look at it. It will be a specta­ cle to beh&ld. New England free raw material, for which the mugwumps and reformers ^oted last year to restore the Democratic party to power, will be left out - jnst as it will be left out in the Mills bill. What will it do on the silver question? A vast majority of the party are in iavor of a de­ based dollar. Will they register their will or that of Mr. Cleveland ? We must wait. In the meantime let Ohio record her verdict against the degradation of Amerioan labor and the de­ basement of the American dollar. Much as the Republican party has done It has great things yet to do. It will be a mighty force in the future as it has been a mighty force in the past. Its glories will continue to blaze on tha heights, a light to the world, pointing to a higher destiny for mankind, aud th' upholding and uplifting of a nation ap­ proved of God. It will not pause in its march and achievements until the flag, the flag of the stars, shall be the, unquestioned symbol M sovereignty at home and of American rights abroad ; until American labor shall be securely shielled lrom the degrading competition of the old world, and our entire citizenship from tiM vicious and criminal classes who are crowding our shores; never while the advccites of a<Ss- based dollar threat an the country with Ha financial heresies, and never until the tass right to vote in every corner of the counttf shall be protected under the law and by xhs law and for the law, and the American haHnfr box be held as saend as tha \marlean ham*, ent States as well as the country as a whole. They portray the agricultural resources, the extent and prowth of the <ountry, aud concisely show many fea­ tures of the jieople's progress,industrial and otherwise. While many of the gen- oral statements are of importance, it is the present purpose to reicat only what is to!d of Illinois and its eitkens. In size Illinois is the nineteenth State. This rank results largely from the extGnt of tho newer btates in the West, but east of the Mississippi River there aro only two States --Georgia and Florida--with a greater area. Stated in figures Illinois con­ tains 55,414 sqt:are miles, or 35,465,093 acres. Classed as ono of the "public land States," its entire area has been surveyed under Government auspices. The Territorial organization dates from Feb. 3, 1809, while the act providing for a State government was oasscd Dec. 3, 1818. No more remarkable evidence of the progress and deve opment of the State couid ba given than the bare stat> ment that 3,S2t%351 people make it their home, and now it is third IA popula­ tion among tho States. It is interesting to note the rapidity with which this settlement of an open country has been accomplished. The census taken in Iilino!s was ihat o? 18 0, when, with 12,2($3 people, it s:ood twenty-fourth in rank as to population. No change is to be lccordod in th.* rela­ tive standing in tho next census (1S20), although the population had risen to. 55,211. But in 1830, with an increase t:> 157,445, it became the twentieth State in the number of citizens. From thl9 point the advance became very rapid, as in 1840 the rank assumed was four- te^nUij ITPj eleventh; and in 1860 fourth, at which place it ha* remained until the present tensus gives it 1 osition only exceeded by New York and Penn­ sylvania. It is n ed!ess to say, with this unequalcd growth, that the public lands long since passed to private or corporate ownership. Indeed, during the last year the quantity disposed of by the Govern­ ment was just is»ti acres, a tract of marsh land in Randolph County. In the number of pupils enrolled in the public schools and the amount of money expended for educational pur­ poses Illinois is again in third place. The number of scholars is p aced at 763,- 411, who are taught by 23,Omu teachers, of which «,980 are males and 16,109 fe­ males. The total expenditures amount to 811,222,735, the calarios of superin­ tendents and teachers using up $6,914,- 389. Illinois also takes high rank In the number of its higher educational insti­ tutions. There are more theological schools than in any other State, the num­ ber being seventeen. They require the services of seventy-seven professors, and have 1,113 pupils, or nearly twice as many as New York and Ohio together. Thero aro four law schools that turned out last year 194 lawyers to prey utxm the community. As to medical schools, there are five of the regu.ar type, with 9.0 pupils, one eclectic and two homeo­ pathic. When you come to the colloges of the liberal arts, thero are twenty-six, with, in both preparatory and collegiate departments, 359 teacheis and 5,757 pu­ pils. Of female coll ges there are eight, with 114 teachers and 950 pupils. It is a little contrary to the usual ac­ ceptation, but none the less true, that in the entire country a larger number of young men are studying for tho Baptist ministry than any other. The recruits to this denomination number 1,283, fol­ lowed by tho Methodists, who havo 1,134, and th n the Roman I athollcs with 1,051, Th • Presbyterians have but 836 stu­ dents. The numter of farm animals In Illinois is given as follows: Horses, 1,123,973: value. 979,214,809. Mules, 94,554; value, »7,182,792. Milch cows, 1,093,922; value, £34,066,- 284. Oxen and other cattle, 1,765,385; value, S31,628,292. Sheep, 770,993; value, £2,45C,769. Swine, 4,944,2"8; value, $24",602,TOT.. With the exception of Texas, Illinois has more horses than any other State, and in valuation the iirst place is taken. It is the custom to think the country is going to the "domnition bowwows," and every fellow thinks his particular se-tion is deepest in the hole. But it docs not seem so in Illinois. Indeed, prosperity appears to be the rule, at any rate with the governmental authorities. Both State and county powers not only maintain themselves but manage to pay a big slice of their debts. In 1880 Illinois owed $'.446,466; the reports for 1890 show that this has been reduced to $1,184,907. The county in­ debtedness, exclusive at municipal and town obligatio ia, less sinking fund, was, in 18*0, {>14,181,134; in 1890, $11,016,380. The t'tal debt, less sinking fund, in M88O, $1?,627,600; 1890, $12,291,287. In short, there was paid off, or provided for. in the decade -St,386,31.1 The debt, less sinking fund, per ctpita, in I860, was $5.08; in 1890, $3. It'. Illinois has by far the largest railroad mileage of the Stat3s, the length being tnilna Jfc Imitu ®r foe: when tb« aoercvry is below (reev­ ing. 11 need the skin on my toeftne. I Don't leave to* hitched in my stall at night with a big cob right where I must lie down. I am tied and can't select a smooth place. Don't compel me to eat more salt than I want by mixing it?with taj oats. I know better than any other Animal" how much I need. Don't think because I go free nnder the whip I don't get tired. Ton would move up if under the whip. Don't think because I ant*horse that iron weeds and briars won t hurt my hay. Don't whip me when I get frightened along the road, or I will expect it next time and maybe make trouble. Don't trot me tip hill, for I have "to carry you and the buggy and myself too. Try it yourself some time. Bunt up hill wi*h a big load. Don't keep my stable very dark, for when I go out into the light my eyes are injured, especially if anow be on the ground. Don't say whoa unless you mean it. Teach me to utop at the word. It may check me if the lines break, and save a runaway and smash-up. Don't make me drink ice-cold water, nor put a frosty bit in my mouth. Warm tho bit by holding it a half min­ ute against my body. Don't forget to file my teeth when they get jagged and I cannot ehew my food. When I get lean, it ia a sign my teeth want tiling. Don't ask me to "back* with blinds on. I am afraid to. Don't run me 4°wp a steep hill, for if anything shuSld give away, I might bfreak your neok. Don't put on my blind bridle ao that it irritates my eye, or so leave my fore­ lock that it will be in my eyes. Don't be too careless of my harness as to titjjl a great aore on me before yon attend to iC Don't lend me to some blockhead that has less sense than I have. Don't forget the old l>ook that ia a friend of all the oppressed, that Bays: "A merciful man is merciful to his -beast."--Farm Journal. Hi BUI BP • COMPILATION QP ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Sunflower fl'IsdoiiL WHATEVER a man does, a woman can be coaxed into. A MAN'S affections are never very re­ mote from his interests. A MAX is as old as ho feelst a woman is is old as she looks PHYSICIANS, who are very closely as­ sociated with human nature, have very little r. spect for it. AFTEI: a man is ^0 and a woman 35 there is no longer any rational excuse for their 1 eing in love.. FIND out the three things a man like9 ' most, and you (an draw a faithful pict­ ure of his character. * MOST people stop wishing for happi­ ness after they have passed 30, and long for ccn entmcnt instead. , I? you ever hear a wise thing said In regard to men, change the sex, and it will be just as true of the women. WHO a man is happy in his thoughts it is because he is thinking of something he wants* not of something he has. Tn» nearer a man approaches his enemy, the less noise ho makes with his^ tongue, 'and the more he makes with his teeth. THK difference between a habitual flirt and a ruined woman is the differ­ ence between two shades of the same color. MEX first make up their minds that they won't do a disagreeable duty, and then announce to the world that they can't IT is a wonder peop'e do uot look more like leopards than they da Eve:y man in the wo^ld is trying to spot his neigh­ bor. A MAX should never ta l anything un­ favorable about himself: the cirdo of iiis friend s friends travels until it reaches his enemy. DON'T blame the peop'e who are doubt­ ing and skeptical: in the first chapter of I their lives you wiil Snd thet they be- 1 lieved too mucK Tha Romans as Engineers. ' The, Romans were the first great engi­ neers, and in their own particular man­ ner have never been excelled. Their genius was more of m engineering quality than architectural,- and it is in this department they erected their most successful structures. Architecturally, thouph of wonderful variety and impos­ ing magnitude, Roman art wa* too rich, too great a combination of diverse ele­ ments to be thoroughly artistio and ia keeping with refined taste. The bar­ baric Etruscan element in the Roman character, which found visible expres­ sion in their gladiatorial and bloody shows, was too strongly rooted to be eradicated even in the centuries of in­ dependent Roman existence. The many lands which Roman conquerors placed under their city's sway made them fa­ miliar with a great variety of architec­ tural forms they did not hesitate to avail themselves of, and the result waa a combination, wonderfully rich and im­ pressively, but often violating the eati-' ons of architectural art. Measured by the faultless standard of the Greek, ito immediate predecessor and the model it most closely followed, Roman art leaven much to be desired from the esthetic standpoint. But however unsatisfactory the Romans were in architectural de­ sign, and it must not be forgotten that after all it is the purist who chiefly finds fault with them, they more than made up as constructive builders. Con­ struction was the Romans' chief point of excellence, and they brought to thia work a native genius and an insight into engineering requirements of a verjf order.--Engineering Magazine," r' To Sl*-ep Atter .Night Work. < A Swiss doctor says that many per> Bons who extend their mental work well into the night, who during the evening follow attentively the program of a theater or concert, or who engage even­ ings in the proceedings of societies or clubs, are awakened in the morning or in the night with headache. For a long while the doctor was himself a sufferer from headache of this kind, but of late years has wholly protected himself from it by simple means. When he is obliged to continue his brain work into tho evening, or to be out late nights in rooms not well ventilated, instead of going directly to bed he takes a brisk walk for half, an hour or an hour. While taking this tremp he stops now and then and practices lung gymnastics by breathing in and out deeply a few times. When he then goes to bed he sleeps soundly. Notwithstanding the shortening of the hours of sleep, he awakes with np trace of headache. There exists a clear and well-kouwu physiological reason why this treatment should be'effeetive.--Scientific Ameri­ can. Broke the Kecord. In these days of popular cynicism aa to the reliability of human nature an incident that occurred at a down-town hotel a few days ago can not be too widely disseminated, says the San Francisco Examiner. A gentleman ia the breakfast-room, who had just finished the extended pe­ rusal of all the morning papers, was startled t>7 the unexpected reappear­ ance of the waiter with his meal. Warmly grasping the hash-bander's disengaged hand he said in a voioe choked by eiriotitfn: "I knew you would return. • They started a rumor a couple of hours ago that you had eloped with the cook or something, but I said: 'No; give him time, geotlemen--give him a chance. It will all come out right in the end.' I knew you would turn up again, if only to bring me the oil cruet with a fly in it.n And the excited guests gave the light­ ning waiter an enthusiastic send-olf as he left again in ballast for an invoice**' buckwheat cakes. The Woman Who Laughs. For a good, everv-day household angel give ns a wornau who laughs. Her biscuit may not be always just right, and she may occasionally barn her bread, and forget to replace dislo-' cated buttons, but for solid comfort all' day and every day she is a paragon. Home ia not a battlefield, nor life one long, unending row. The trick of always seeing the bright tide, or if the matter has no bright side, of shining up the dark one, is a very important faculty, one of the things no woman should be without. We are not all born with the sunshine in our hearts, as the Irish prettily' phrase it,but we can cultivate a cheerful sense of humor if we only try.--Mural Neio Yorker. " AT supper the other evening Fehle witte rather bru&quelv bade the table girl give him some sauce. He got what he asked for, bafc »»in»hewy 4A not seem to relish it Jhil horse, ^aj jtnojJfjNj "own and pled so oadly that she cannol live. KIUHI ky H«r Fayette County Hold a Kuccessfal tat* -- Criminal Csnlenam of Bauer Has Cost Two 1 Ives -- 4' Opaupt(Mirrad K«rthi|asts«. t/aafffit a Home Tkl«t A sTVT.isHi.r dressed young man drove into • Carlisle In a one-horse carriage. The man gave his same as Frank Mc- Cune. He tried to sell the outfit for an unreasonably low figure and wa* arrett­ ed by the city authorities It turns out that the fellow htole the rig in St. Louie. A St. Louis detective went to Carlisle and demanded the prisoner, but the local authorities refu-ed to give him up. The fact that there is a reward of £100 for McCune's conviction in Clinton County is.supposed to have been the reason ion holding the man at Carlisle. Two sttooss of earthquakes have been felt In Jersey County. The first wa* during a violent storir and the other two days later. THE Jefferson County soldiers and sailors closed a very successful three days' reunion at Rome. There was a large attendance. WM. ST A HI, a young man about 31 years of age, and an employe of the Lake Erie and St Louis Railroad, was killed by a train at Idle wood. A DBor in tho temperature of fifty de- - grees was experienced in Fayette Conn- , »* ty within twelve hours* Fires and wraps ^ were brought into requisition ->< MIUJ. JOHN RKAMKK, of Chtcago, killed . herself because her husband hfd been V f ^ out of employment for some time. Sim - had been an invalid for years and was ' , f. subject lo spells of despondency. . r v NEAK Lincoln, ono of John Green's , horses became fastened in a stall and fell. Mrs. Green, in seekihg to release > K;S nd tram- | A LITTI.^ black spaniel tnapped at ~ Mrs. Anna Raffal, a Chicago boarding- A j?. ^ house keeper, but his teeth did not pene- > trate the flesh. The woman could not * • - be persuaded that ehe did not have by- : 4rophobia, and died from nervous pray • tration. ^f-j A FEW days ago two gentlemen, who were curious to see how far out they I could wade in the Mississippi River, f 'i, started in five miles below Dubuque, Iowa, and crossed from shore to shore, The deepest wat>r they foi.ud was four feet deep. <5-,,.^ IN Adams County, though the weather '• ' "**J WM, very cool, no damage waa done to < thefbrn except in delaying .t-< maturity. The only apprehension the farmers feel, N in regard to the cool weather is that its continuance may delay the ripening of .,4" t h e c o r n s o t h a t I t w i l l g e t n i p p e d b y ; • frost. •' JOSEPH O'Down, a promising youngV man of Cent|alia, lost h's life by the '£ criminal negligence of Fred Bauer. They were in the caboose of an Illinois Central train and Bauer was fooling with a pistol, thinking it not loaded. Tae ball struck O'Dowd and he fell dead. This is the second person Bauer has shot by carelessly fooling with a pistol He is under arrest. - j AT Vaiidalia, &e Fayette County -;' Teachers' Institute closed a two week*' . sesston*.. This meeting Was the first mi- it.:* "x- der the working of, the new institute > law, and all present expressed them- - selves as highly gratified with it The _ r m enrollment was 178 . teachers, the full ^ -*% teaching force of tho coonty. The meet- ing was undoubtedly; the greatest edu- \ cational awakening Fayette County has-.,./' ever witnessed. -.v TUE temperance people of Lebanon J #1 • are ma,king war upou the saloons in that £ ' town. A bitter light was waged there' ' tj two years ago. and finally ended in the plosing of all saloons on Sundays. Th® • J renewal of hostilities by the temperance V"^-ig ^ people is because they claim that liqnor \ ^ is being so d to minors. Thtee saloon- 3̂$ : ?*• keepers w^re fined $50 for this offenseu ; They appealed the cases and thero will --••• t be another stubborn light iu the co^rt - A".S> IT has been definitely settled that the American Fat Stock Show, the Ameri- * v * "J can Horse Show, the'American Poultry tV'V'i * Show, and the American Dairy Show J # will be held In the Exposition Building, . 5 ]'& Chicago, this year from Nov. 11 to 21. i, ̂ The American Horse Show, which since 1888 has been held separately from the ' ** others at a great loss, has again been » . a-*: ,f* consolidated with the others, and $12,000 y ^ In premium ? will be offered and paid ia • V" cash. V AT Springfield. Leonard McSherry was v ^ arrested for burglary. He is a son of P . - r / " 3 W. McSherry, a grocer. The complaints ^ was made by C. F. Eberle, of Peoria,1*' whose house was robbed Aug. 1. Then .. '-T4 ;f| police claim fo have found a number of ,v; " 1* - ' ,-3 •• 1 <*•" mM ;• v.- !t ' ",-3 the stolen articles of jewelry in McSher- ry's possession. An officer from Peoria was boarding tho tra'n with the young rV. * ? man, when tho Sheriff, with a writ of 1 * habeas corpus, took the prisoner and \ " ,* lodged him in jail. AT Lincoln, considerable excitement was created by the arrest and imprison­ ment of Albert Leonard and his sister, Jane Clovenger, charged with attempt­ ing to murder Daniel Shockey, after having robbed his chicken house. Shockey is a farmer living near Elkhart. ^ \ t About midnight he heard a noise in his chicken house. Seizing a single-barreled „ shotgun he chased a stranger from the $. roosts. The thief lied, the farmer fol- f?" lowing. After a short race, the thief M: fell and, as the farmer approached, he ^ fired a shot from a revolver, the ball en- tf tering Shockey's breast and lodging near % the heart. When the news of the trag- ;,5 edy reached Elkhart suspicion at once rested on Albert Leonard. He was in < the village about 11 o'clock, accompanied 1 by his sister, Jane Clevenger. Leonard V said that he knew where there were fine chickens, and he was going to have some. A sack found where he had the ^ v struggle with Shockey was identified as the same one seen iu his buggy in Elk- " hart Shockey is in a critical condition, and Logan County officials are appre­ hensive of trouble if he dies. ^ THE eleventh annual session of the * f Southern Illinois Teachers' Association convened in Mount Vernon with about two huudred teachers in attendance. - 1 The exercises of the evening consisted T of an address of welcome delivered by "Sc-; Mayor Watson, which was respond ed by-President J. R. Laud, who also d# livbred the annual address. Dr. Allyn,";' of Carbondale, who was on the pro- S gramme for the e en in?, was detained on account of illness, but attended later. ^ I Tho vocal musi<} was rendered by a . female qua' tet'e from Cairo. Theciti- : Y | sens tendered the visitors a banquet, at «v which 400 plates were spread. A Si'KiNGFiBLD, Deputy United States Marshal has in custody August Terbet, a wood cutter residing at Cave-in-Roek, Hardin County. Terbet is charged with passiug counterfeit money. It is thought that Terbet was the tool of a gang of counterfeiters atCa<e in-Rock, and mors arrests may follow. A ius vsTuors fire started in the stable of Crisp, Mefreery & Fitzgerald at Ben* toa. consuming the First Baptist! hurch, a private dwelling, and an adjoining stable before it could be checked. The heaviest loss falls on the church, it feeing totally destroyed. The bell of the church was melted, hut all the furnish- lags were saved. The total 1WMI lW| reach $10,000; no insurance. ' '%$• ft