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:-sj^; t-•say •,vV';> •?£"•• k WW iLYICt, Editor tad Ntttosr. StoMBlBY, ^ -- ILLINOIS. 1®" John Bull ever gets into Asia's 1)ig China shop the breakage will be £ tieavy. J' J WHAT the heathen Chinese doesn't •'*' 9tnow about .evading our immigration ^ laws isn't worth finding out. • •" ii 4 PATTI is coining to the United I . States in a few, months. Meantime ,v£y it is to be hoped there will be at tidal £*•> %are of gold from Europ^ , F J THERE are 920 women who are ,t Officiating as pastors of churches, and "'-""•yet not one-millionth of women who Y^preach have ever stood In .a pulpit. THE looseness and flexibility of our ?' • jpenal statutes indicate that they were drawn by criminal lawyers for the benefit of their rascally clients. I TRAHPS make as much as $20 by lagging in Chili. <If you give a tramp «ay cold victuals please wrap them wp in this paper and mark the above Item.) ' • IN a cubic inch of soil there are •lid to be from 60,000 to 2,250,000 giving organisnisms. Even irj the dullest times there is always something going on in real estate. I*-/ PEOPLE who steal only 'WICD .':§£&m •While are said to have "sporadic at­ tacks of kleptomania." The best cwres for such attacks are sparodic in­ stances of judicial severity. tr A MAN in Elizabeth, N. has teen driven insane by mosquitoes. Hhe Jersey mosquito, it must be re­ membered, is almost as bloodthirsty creature as Jack the Ripper. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX would have all bachelors ovA forty taxed to support the maiden ladies over thirty. There might be trouble in finding Out when the thirty was reached. Two NEW ORLEANS editors fought • duel with rapiers and nobody was ;; hurt seriously and "honah" was satis­ fied. In the temporary absence of the editors the papers improved a p&pfctle. ' CmcAGO is the most progressive city on the American continent, but «he will never do justice to her possi­ bilities until she begins to issue mar- . riage licenses with divorce coupons , attached. -- ' __________ A JERSEY CITY man wants to : tmild a model American home on the World's Fair grounds. It should be l especially stipulated that he must not exhibit Jersey mosquitos III connec­ tion with it. A ST. LOUIS man is spoken of as having been caught short in the whea£ bulge. When a man goes against the grain he may be sure that something will get the bulge.oa him la the course of time. » BALLOONISTS are dropping in all v' parts of the country. We trust these gentlemen will not get into this habit to an extent which will make it dan­ gerous for persons to stir abroad ex­ cept in a tunnel or under an elevated , railroad. - - WITHIN the last four weeks no less - ...Ulan a dozen people in the United States who have passed the century mark have been discovered and writ­ ten about. And yet people--some people--whii\e and lament about the e, .degeneracy of the human race. ®?: * <• _______________ " i } A 5 - YEAR-OLD New Yorker named Max Tabachschneider recently crawled out on a fire-escape and fell five stories to the ground. As he was picked tip sound in mind and limb its is assumed that he fell on his name, whicjpacted like an air- cushion. J: * *v-:r' •. THE French Senate, before adjourn- > pig, passed a bill prescribing one day of rest in seven. Plagiarism!--but let that pass. It will be a good thing tor the French to observe the Sab­ bath, even if they do it under the im­ pression ttyt it is a device of their * OWn law-makers. A TALLADEGA justice has decided that the issuing of store checks in payment of wages is a criminal of­ fense against the laws of the State of Alabama and has bound a man over to the grand jury for doing it. It promises to be a "cause celebre," as it will be tested in the higher courts. • SOME one has applied the electric force to counting election returns. By the use of the device the judges can count 240 ballots per minute. This is one of the needs of this coun­ try. It is terribly demoralizing to the average citizen to wait for jokey Judges to count after an exciting election. - A ST. LOUIS wire-walker proposes "• to make the trip lrom Chicago to St. Louis with telegraph poles as his sup­ port. He thinks he could make ten miles a day, and give profitable ex­ hibitions every night. When he gets through with his trip St. Louis will not be large enough to hold "him lind fame." BANK cashiers will do well to pro- •' vide themselves with revolvers and keep them ready for action. Only recently a single desperado in Ohio robbed a bank in broad daylight and shot dead a farmer who opposed him. A similar though unsuccessful attetopt was made in Newcastle, Ru, aad a toai oaahfrr was forced to give a cheek at the jtefeoi'* mouth, In Memphis, on thesai»d|?p. A handy revolver would ap&eir to U the cashier's best friend. > \ WBITIN© poetry in this age must be a pretty healthy business. Lowell v*as 72 years of age. Holmes and "W Wittier are over 80. Tennyson cel­ ebrated his 2d birthday a few weeks ago. But it is to be noted that all three poets have written good poetry-- not the sort of stuff that the average rhymster brings to the long-suffering newspaper editor. ^ ' SOMEBODY who has taken the trouble to look into the matter says that American cities have only about one-fifth as much free playground as the cities of Europe have. Bat the people of America don't need much playground; all they want is plenty of room in the grand stand and they can make enough out of the pools to hire men to do their playing for then*. The Philadelphia Inquirer says of Bardsley, the late City Treasurer who is expiating his offenses in prison, that his face still retains the features that were so familiar to Philadel­ phia n.s for nearly a quarter of a cen­ tury. This sounds like an intima­ tion that is the enstom in the Penn­ sylvania penitentiary to deprive con­ victs of their features. Can thi» be true? < • '•*• •" MONTANA has a level-headed su­ preme court, if it did get a little tangled about the time the senatorial deal was on. A newspaper man was before it for contempt in publishing his opinion that an impartial trial of a certain case could not be had in a certain court. No contempt was found in that statement, or in any criticism not designed to defeat the ends of justice. SHERMAH SILVER. MONEY, THE SUBJECT OP THE SENATOR'S SPEECH- ffUWjr Stated--Gold and «hw at Eqaal l'urclmslag Power--Relation* «| the Market* of the World to Silver-- Duger»«( Tinkering with Our Finance*. Sherman's Opening Sen ate r Sherman made lilt opening speech at Paulding, Ohio ' He confined his remarks almost entirely to the mo .ey question, and among other tilings sa d substantially: Tbe tuouey in circulation In the United , States--all of It--Is good, us gcKXl as gold. ! It will pass everywhere and buy as much as j the same amount of any other money In the world. Our mouey is of many kinds gold, silver, nickel. suul copper are coined Into money. Then we have United States > notes, or greenbacks, geld certificates, silver ' certificates, treasury notes, and national i bank notes, But the virtue of all these | different kinds of money !s t..ut they are all ' goo J. A dollar of each Is as good as a do I- | lar of any other kind. All are a-s good as gold. But, and 1 ere couies the first diffl- I culty, the silver in the silver dollar is not ' worth as much as the sold in the gold dol- i lar. The nickel in that coiu is worth but a small part of 5 cents* worth of silver. And , the copper in the cent Is not worth one-flrth ! of the nickel in a 5-eont, piece. How then, j you may ask. can these coins be made equal ; to tach other? The answer is that coinage is a government monopoly, and though the 1 copper in five cents is not worth a nickel, i and the nickel in twenty pieces is not! worth a silver dollar, and thesilver in sixteen i dollars is not worth sixteen dollars in gold, yet, as the government coin* thcin, and re­ ceive* them, and maintains them at par i country among the nations of the world, with gold coin, they are, for all purposes, j tlie enormous development of our indu-t- mm *** MMtaref t!»NiMf»»Mpo wtbe tw met­ als, and it *w fotind JMP Cfteen p«MMW of silver was then the Mglpnrieat of on# foand ot gold. A few-}-«5ir»Jafer ik«< French peo­ ple found that ftfteeo aas® one-half pouwds of silver was then the equivalent of oner pound of goVk Later. In KS34r in Jackson'» time, it was f mud that sistewn pound* of silver waa the eqaivulent of one- peund of gold. Afterward, In Picrce's time in-1854, gold became relatively of less vslue ; han silver. This was caused by the enormous production of gold in California. The ailver dollar had- not been coined la many year_v and minor pieces of a half-dollar or less were coined at a ratio of less than fifteen lo one of gold. This ?ontluued until the civil war swept away both silver and gold. After the war the attention of Congress was turned ag:tin to the ct inage of money, and, after a care­ ful consideration for three years, it revised the coinage laws, leaving them .substantial­ ly us before the war with the same frac­ tional silver coins, bnt substituting for the old silver dollar a trade dollar, containing eight grains more of silver. Now. wh<n this was done sixteen ounces of silver were worth more than one ouuee of gold. Every Senator and Kcpr-sentati ve from the silver Stales favored the law. They were all goldltes then. Two years after this coifed ago act came the act for the resumption x>f specie piiymonta. Under that act silver xvas rapidly coined to take tbe plane of fractional paper money. Gold' soon came into circulation. Our greenbacks became equal to and more convenient than gold. We were on the high wave of prosperity. During all this time I was the best abused man in America by the same class of men who now want free coinage of silver. I need not now defend the resumption of specie payments. It speaks for itself. The advance of public credit, the lowering of the rate of interest on public and private debts, the hl^h financial standing of our THE importance of beginning the training of children at an early age cannot be overestimated. Little Robeit Reed could aot have been much older than Chicago's 2-year-old smoker when he made that immortal utterance concerning the fllthiness of tobacco and his personal determina­ tion neve* to use it that has em­ balmed his name forever ia the liter­ ature of his country. LIGHTNING struck a Methodist church at Bel pre, Pa., followed a line of gilt on the wall-paper, and burned off all the wall-paper ornaments. Good Methodists who still read Wes­ ley's exhortations upon the sinfulness of display will look upon this as a judgment of Heaven upon the gayer brethren who have yielded to the se­ duction of fancy wall-papers and stained glass windows in churches. THE details of a horrible railroad accident near Paris indicate that the j boasted superiority of European meth­ ods of railway construction and man­ agement over the system in vogne in this country exists only in the imagin­ ation. There is the same heartrending story of telescoped and burning cars and danger signals that failed just when the need for them was greatest. It is unlikely that absolute safety in railroad travel can ever be attained. There is always the element of human fallibility to encounter. Signal-men may blunder, trainmen may mistake their orders, some criminal idiot on board may tamper with brake mech-1 anism "for a joke," as was done on an j American railroad only the other day. But the crime of building cars of in­ flammable material can and must be stopped. Iron and steel are now em­ ployed in every sort of architectural construction, and should be used for the building of passenger-cars. As­ sured of safety, the public can dis­ pense with flimsy ornament. i v A Shower of Mann*. The keeper of a pharmacy in the city of Bagdad in Asiatic Turkey has sent to the scientific journal, La Na­ ture, a specimen of an edible sub­ stance which fell recently during a copious shower of rain in the vicinity of Mardin and Diarbekir, in the same country, in August, 1890. The sender of the substance stated that on falling it had plentifully sprinkled over a considerable area of country. The inhabitants came out and eagerly gathered up the substance, and it made excellent bread. The "manna" was tloury, palatable, nu- tritious, and very digestible. La Na­ ture states that the sample of the "\j»anna" which it received was in the form of small globules about the size of millet seeds, and the mass, yellow­ ish on the outside, was perfectly white within. The substance was given to skilled botanists to examine, and they pronounced it to be a vege­ table substance of the lichen family, scientifically known as Levan- om essulenta. This lichen is frequently found in the most arid mountains ol the desert of Tartary, where the soil is calcerous and gypseous, and grows on the ground amidst the pebbles, from which it is to be distinguished only with the closest scrutiny. Con­ siderable quantities of lichen are found also in the desert of Turkestan, and in other parts of Western Asia. Parrot, the traveler, brought a quan> tity of this substance as long ago as 1828. It had fallen in a shower in Persia, and waS said to have covered the ground to a depth of seyeral inches. Cattle ate it eagerly, and the inhabitants gathered it in quan* titles. It is regarded as likely that this lichen, abundant in the country where it fell, had been drawn up by a waterspout -- not an infrequent phenomenon there--and after being carried by a vaporous'wind at a high altitude, had fallen to the earth again in a rain shower^ Showers of manna of the same sort have several times been mentioned in that part Of the world in the course of history. MEN often rise so high on the'wave > of success as to lose sight of earthly money equal to each other, and wherever they go, even into foreign countries, they are received and paid out as equivalents. The reason of all this is that tbe United States limits the amount of all the coins to be Issued except gold, which, being the most valuable, is coined without limit. If coinage of all these metals was free, and any holder of copper, nickel, silver, or gold could carry It to the mint to be coined, we would have no money hut copper or nickel, because they-are the cheaper metals, worth less than one-fourth of what, as coin, thoy purport to be. For the same reason. If the coinage of silver was free at the ratio of sixteen of silver to one of gold, no gold would be coined, because sixteen ounces of silver are not worth one ounce of gold. A holder of both silver and gold would take his silver to the mint and get a dollar for every 371 grains, lie would sell his gold in the market or export it and get 25 per cent, more dollars for gold than he could at the mint. As a matter of course lie would not take his gold to the mint. Now, fellow citizens, with these simple facts existing, known to you all, I wish to state the precis* issue on this money ques­ tion between the Republican and Demo­ cratic parties lu Ohio made at their recent State conventions, The Republican party declares that: "Thoroughly believing that g61d and silver should form tlio basis of all circulat­ ing medium, we indorse the amended coin­ age act of the last ltepublicau Congress by which the entire production of tho silver mines of the United States Is added to the Currency of the people." The one distinctive, striking feature of this law is that the United States will not pay for silver bullion more than its market value. And why should we? What is there abo'ut silver bullion that distinguishes it from any other product of industry that the Government needs? When the Gov­ ernment neads food and clothing for the army and navy, it pays only the market price to the farmer and manufacturer. The value of silver produced is Insignificant compared with the value of any of the ar­ ticles produced by the farmer, the miner and manufacturer. Nearly all the silver produced in the United States is by rich corporations in a few new States, and its produ<ition at market price is far more profitable than any crop of the farmer, and yet it is the demaud of the producer of sil­ ver bullion that the United States should pay him 25 per cent, market value that lies at the foundation of the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. What U the Democratic position? I will read it precisely as stated in their Ohio platform: • "We denounce the demonetization of sil­ ver In 1873 by the party then in power as an iniquitous alteration of the money standard in favor of creditors, and against debtors, taxpayers and producers, and tfhicli, by shutting off one of the sources of supply of prfmary money, operates continually to in­ crease the value of goid, depress prices, hamper industry and disparago enterprise, and we demand the reinstatement of the constitutional standard of both gold and sliver, with the equal right of each to free and unlimited coinage." Let me first correct some statements in this paragraph. The act of 1873 was not the act of the party then in power, but it was the act of all parties. It was voted for by Republicans and Democrats alijke, after full consideration for three years in Con­ gress. It was voted for by every Represent­ ative from the silver States. It substituted the trade dollar for the old silver dollar, which has not been coined tar thirty years. This was done at the req uest of the Legis­ lature of California, and on motion of its Senators. Tbe silver dollar was then worth more than the gold dollar, for tbe production of gold was then greatet than the production of silver. The silver dollar had been effectually demonetized by the act of 1853. passed by a Democratic Con­ gress, which substituted for the silver dol­ lar the fractional silver coins with which we are familiar. Neither gold nor silver was in circulation in 1873, but only green­ backs and fractional njtes. In 1875 tbe Republican party, by a party vote, pro­ vided for tho resumption of specie pay­ ments, first-by substituting silver coin for the fractional notes, and on Jan. 1, 1870, by the redemption of greenbacks In gold and silver when demanded. In lt>?8 tbe old silver dollar Vas revived and issued and made a legal tender for all debts, public or private. But a'great change had occurred in the markets of the world in the relative value of sliver and gold. Sixteen ounces of sil­ ver were no longer equal in value to an onnoe of gold. The greatly Increased pro­ duction of silver tended to reduce its mar­ ket value. The question then came before Congress whether the United States then, as now, in favor of the use of both metals for money, should buy silver bullion for coinage at it« market value and cover the apparent profit into the Treasury for the comiion benofit of the people, or receive it at its coinage ratio of sixteen ounces of silver for one ounce of gold, the ratio adopted fifty years ago, thus giving to the producer of silver more than its market value. This was the question then, as it Is the question now. Congress then decided that the United States should buy at its market value not more than $4,000,000 worth of silver a month, and not less than $2,000,000, and to coin It into legal-tender silver dollars. T.iat act lias been fairly aid fully executed. Under it the United States has expen led $308,190,261 in the purcnase of sliver bullion. It has coined from this bullion 8378,- 106.793, and has covered into the Treas­ ury of the United States a so-called profit of $60,967,532. In spite of this enormous absorption of silver bullion by the United Siates, it has steadily grne down in price in tbe markets of the world. The people of the United States did not and will not readily circulate the silver dollars. They are too bulky for general use. In spite of every effort by successive Secretaries of the Treasury, they could be k*ept in circu­ lation only to the extent of $50,000,000 to $60,000,000, and we had in the treasury on the 1st of Jaly last by the last report the enormous amount of 347,976,227 silver dol­ lars. The silver in these dollars is not to­ day worth in the markets of tbe world as much as tbe bullion from which they were made, nor as much as they cost Government. But we maintain them at par because we receive tbem at par precisely as we main­ tain our copper and nickel coins at par. though intriusically worth less, but the poor man v ho must work to live is tbe first to feel the advance of prices and the loss oi tbe purchasing power of bis wages, and the last to win an advance in his wages. But it is said that all this applies only to paper money, that silver is a money metal, and that from the beginning of the Govern­ ment 371 grains of silver wap a dollar. Tbe same can be said relatively of goid. Gold and silver have always been, are now, and ever will be the best standards of value. But they constantly vary in their relative value to each other. Four centuries ago eight pounds of silver were equivalent to tn pom* ot spt4t 4^h«acsv«kminmeii% ATV INNEL. ftwfettfialvtwr w«l%«i» tho legislature «»well. k --Bwlintfim Ha'"key:. ] W*» • Bnwmwmr\,Ca*9 ,**•** »• Gwvewdr Boles in opening his can-' { palgt* of eTp]ae#tian at Cherokee omit-' In times of treat and 'Men ex- ted many thisij® which thw p*n>pie would | ffitement to many people, fS k seldom, like to haive <'vplained, and among them I indeed, that men retain f&veV ' wits is the pentose of the T emecratic party : ^ ̂ ^ u, j^en the «s of tries, were the natural results of this policy. Our laws now give It the widest field for usefulness as money. We buy more than all we produce. We pile it in our vaults as the security for our notes and rui! the risk --a very serious one--of its lurther decline. There is now 10,000 tons of silver in the vaults of the Treasury. Hut this is not enough for our silver barons. They want us to buy it at a fixed value, a fixed ratio to ! geld. They want us to demonetize gold and | to make silver alone the standard of value. I They are not willing to take the ratio fixed i by market value, which Is about twenty to i one. They demand the ratio of sixteen to i tn HIVMA nn one. The Iron-master might as well de- u,v,ao UP mand the old price for Irou or nails. The price of all commodities is fixed by the law of supply and demaud. You, as farmers, submit to this law in the sale of your graiu. Now that }<our barns are filled" with plenty, and the supply is great you might expect lower prices, but as the peo­ ple of other countries have not been so fortunate In their harvest, you expect aud have reason to expect that their demand for food will Insure you higher pril-es. This fluctuation, both in supply and demand, is the cause of the striking variation In the prices of your farm products. The varia­ tion in the value of silver and gold is not eo great, for they aro not perishable like wheat and corn. and cost of produc la the event of its success to redistrict i the State, end also- whetlrr it contem­ plates any change in the manner of electing Presidential electors.--Cbuncit Bluff* NonparfU. The Democratic platform* dtetnatvds- a la\r for the-issuance of Ueenses-by tho "towns townships, and municipal cor­ porations-. " In other words, it pledges the Democratic party to> destroy wny genuine local option1. It pledges- the- party to legislate to-the hand of any tough "town,, township, and municipal corporation," to the overthrow of tho public sentiment of a county.--Sioiix Citu .TmirnaU Blunder Boies has made three-attempts to place himself on record in regard to the produ tiohs of Iowa's unequaled soil and the^State's chief business inter­ est--in his Now York beer garden speech last December, in which he so foully and falsely slandered the farmers of Iowa: at Council Bluffs last April, where he made abject apology for the slanders of the beer garden speech, and at Cherokee, where he brazenly attempt;*! to reaffirm the beer garden speech but proved its entire falsity by his own individual in­ vestigation i. --Do- 3fofn<* Stsitr Iteijister. Gov. Boies is building a tine residence at Waterloo. He will need it before long, for after Jan. 1 he will be simply Horace Boies, lawyer.--Spirit Luke Beacon. The Governor opened his campaign at Cherokee with a boomerang. Think of devoting two columns of solid reading matter to an explanation and attempted justification of his New York blunder- bus slander.--Dot Mtincn Slate Rcyto/r. Governor Boles says: "It is infinitely better that this Nat'ou should remain poor, with its property, such as it has. distributed among all its classes, than to become the richest on the globe with its wealth concentrated in the hands of a few." Governor Boies is reputed to be a wealthy man. Let him how proceed with the street lopairers, who pound stone in front of his resi­ dence.--Dubiiifui' Time*. Gov. Boies says corn-growing in Iowa is not profitable because of tho tariff. If the Governor will toll tho readers of tho Capital specifically and without dodging, just what foreign market is closed to American corn b cause of the protective tariff, and just why the tariff makes the price of corn lower, we will pay $5 per column for his production.--Dot Moinet Capital. Ed Hunter's candor i9 charming. "We don't care a blank about license anyway, but want But they vary In amount """ Y",\ *?'rrymander the Congres- :;tton and In the demand ' 8,°"al and legislatives districts." That for coinage, from year to year, and no hu­ man power can prevent this. No single na­ tion can establish a fixed ratio betwoen these metals. We have tried It three times and failed. We must either adopt the single standard of the cheaper metal for tho time being, as was done from 1790 to 1834 with disastrous results, or must adopt j one metal as our standard, purchase the I cheaper 'metal at the market price and | coin It at tbe fis*td ratio and maintain It at ; a par by receiving It and redeeming It on j demand. I appeal to the conservative men of Ohio ot both parties to repeat now the service they rendered the people of the United States in 1875 by the election of Governor Hayes lu checking tbe wave of Inflation that then threatened tbe country. You can render even a greater service now in the election of Governor McKlnley, in defeat­ ing the free coinage of silver, and strength­ ening the hands of President Harrison and the Republican Senate in maintaining American industries, a full dollar for all labor and productions, the untarnished credit of the American people, and the ad­ vancing growth and prosperity of our great Kepubllc. I have endeavored in a feeble way to promote these objects of national policy, and now that I am growing old I have no oth£r wish or ambition than to In spire the young men Of Ohio to take up the great work of the generation that Is pass­ ing away, and to do in their time as much as or more than the soldiers and citizens of the last forty years have boen able to do to advance and elevate our Government to the highest standard and example of honor, courage, and Industry known among men. TWO GREAT CAMPAIGNS. is the sole object of the Democratic cam­ paign in Iowa this tall.--OUumwa Courier. That our calamity Governor should select Cherokee, which with the circum- ] jacent country was recently swept bar.i i by a devastating flood, as the place for | opening his campaign and defending his | calamity crop statistics, naturally strikes ; people as an odd coincldcnce if not an element of a careful plan. Perhaps Mr. Boies concluded that the most receptive ears for calamity statistics would bo found in a calamity-stricken district, and perhaps he wanted bis opening effort to take strong effect.--Clinton HeraUf. Between the Hon. Hiram C. Wheeler and the Hon. Horace Boies voters of Iowa should harve no difficulty in decid­ ing which would make the best Gov­ ernor. Wheeler is a prosperous farmer, a man who understands and appreciates the needs of tbe people of Iofra, while Boies is a truckling politician and cor­ poration lawyer, who knows nothing of the n^eds of the farmer and the Indus­ trial classes.--Davenport Tribune. Exchange Comment on the Politic*! Situa­ tion In Ohio and low*. IX OHIO McKfnley Is marching through in the old conquering fashion in which Sher­ man did the act through Georgia.--New York Recorder. The silver law of July 14, 1693,. and the tariff law of Oct. 6, 1890, are the plat­ form not only of Major McKinley and the Ohio Republicans, but also of the Republican party throughout every State of the Union.--Albany Ji/urnal If she does her duty by Major McKin­ ley, Ohio will give him a majority of 30, • 00.) at the very least.--Boaton Journal. With the People's party in Ohio ex­ pecting the election ol John R, McLean to the Senate, and the hope of electing Governor Campbe'l, Republicans who are eternally antagonistic to the principles which both th se men have advertised, will vote solidly against them.--Toledo Bl'irle. The London Times continues to make valiant battle for Governor Campbell and tho Democracy in Ohio.--Albany Express. Secretary Foster predicts McKinley's election; so does everybody else that un­ derstands the feeling of the people of Ohio. --PiUxhury Dl«ptitch, The qu« stion which is at the present time uppermost in the mind ot the aver­ age Ohio Democrat is not when will Campbell oj en bis campaign, but when will Brice open his bar'l?--Philadelphia < PresH. That was a decidedly shrewd result which Major McKinley accomplished when he quoted ex-President Cleve and against the Ohio Democrats. All the country is smiling over it.--Baltimore American. Congressman Barter hesitates about stepping on the Ohio Democratic plat­ form, the sliver plank in which Governor Campbell will neither remove nor nail down. Mr Harter and many other Democrats like him look upon that ugly plank with great trepidation. They fear a ily-up and a hit on the nose.--Cincin­ nati Commercial Gazette. The news that Ohio will roll up a good old-fashioned Republican majority sounds as If the sober sense of the peo­ ple of that State ha l repudiated the calamity po ities of Simpson et al -- Kansas City Journal. If there is one man In the United States Senate from tbe West who is needed as a continuing factor both in the political education of the West and in legislation for the whole country, that man is John Sherman.--Lewlston (Me. ) Journal. IN IOWA. There are a good many Democrats In Iowa who, like I. M. Walters, of Keo- knk, will this year vote against their party, although remaining still Demo­ crats on all issues except whisky.--Sioux Citu Journal. Tho Dubuque Telegraph admits that what Governor Boies said in his Keokuk speech was "that the negroes needed enlightenment before they could intelli­ gently exercise the elective franchise." Governor Boies of Iowa distributes proof sheets of his speeches to tho press in advance of delivery, with instructions to "publish not before. " He could help his party by burning his proofs and can­ celing his dates.--Minneapolis Triimne. While the Democrats have apparently made the re-election of Governor Boies their «ala purpose, there «an be no AbmiUbm to Own HM Beat Market i Buy la. Articles or goods produced at home under a truo protective tariff cost the country labor only, and saves to our country What would have been, if im­ ported, tho whole foreign price, in addi­ tion to giving Increased employment to our wage earners. To illustrate: If you choose to do your own work, or put it in this way--hire yourself to do your own work, the higher American wages allowed to yourself are immaterial, for what you pay yourself, yourself receives! This applies to our country as well. Again, a protective tariff causes great­ er supply and home competition, cheap­ ens goods, and compels the imported goods to be sold as low a; the American price in competition, and for this reason protection is very desirable and serves the interests of our people favorably. Under a tariff for levenue only, and not for protection to home wages, foreign goods would soon have a monopoly in higher prices, teoa >se of the greater de­ mand for destroyed Ame 1 an co i: peti­ tion and supply fo:- the want of protect­ ive duties. This would increase tho foreign demand and cost of imports at our country's cost and loss, and wouid not increase the value or quantity of our export earnings on a do lar. Piotective tariff laws serve a double purpose It keeps the foreign cost for imports and their prices down to that of tho American price, and our gold at home, which prevents a suspension of specie payments and a business panic to the country by keeping our foreign im­ port expenses down to that of our expor,t oarnings, which prevents our country from becoming a debtor nation to other countries to tbe advantage of business and the whole country. Business and Tin Plate. With the constant discouragement from the British-American free-trade press, the development of the tin-plate Industry goes forward steadily. This industry is being established on business principles, for business reasons and legitimate profit It is not to be expected that we shall manufacture tin plate in this country very largely by the methodsem- ployed abroad. The tin part of producing tin plate by the Welsh method requires that the steel sheet in tinning shall be hand ed seven times, by hand, before It is boxed for shipment. The American method of making tin plate will reduce this hand­ ling by more than two thirds, and the writer has personally examined the ma­ chinery by which this is being done to­ day, It Is only reasonable to expect that the American manufacturers will be slow to give out information pertain­ ing to this subject until their patents may be secured on tfye Continent. From the d evelopment in tbe East and West, from the j;ers<mal inspection of plants we can safely predict that over one-half of the tin plate consumed in this country will be produced here with­ in twelve months. With this largo production will neces­ sarily come the redaction in prices which followed tho manufacture of steel rails, glass, pottery and all oth r articles which are largely manufactured in -this coun­ try. A Tariff Picture. ' I*41M, the McKinley blU has net adraneed the price of needles. They cost v 91.10 iiTjtiTyv The following inrWenfi,. », it- n*hows really quirk and stiwwl culiitio» ott the part of the MadiWQk,1 street gripman,- clearly illustrates truth of this. If it were to be possible that he could stop tbe imperilled train a» he did, it apfwlutely eertoiw that it must hai^r kepC the raalfv and, keep­ ing the tra*>"fcv it whs also eprtain that the train* wan- i«i really no-danger,- for i-t would soow have harmlessly ex­ pended the force of its momentum* on the alternating; inclines, and- stopped quietly from gravitation'. By per­ forming his feat, the gripman risked a collision which might have resulted in fearful loss of life. It was no® nec~ essary for him to follow the runaway train, for cars are frequently stopped on the incline by applying the brakes,, and th^ train broke loose so quickly that its momentum alone would- never have carried it back to the point of collision. The incident occurred recently In* Chicago aud is thus described by the He-raid: Scenes of the wildest description were enacted in the Washington street tunnel and hundreds of men and women consider their escape1 from death miraculous. It was- shortly after 6 o'clock when- a Mil­ waukee avenue grip car and trailer approached the east end of the tun­ nel and at Franklin street became disconnected with the cable. The gripman was unable to catch the rope again and the starter ordered the gripman of the following Madison street car to couple to the Milwau­ kee avenue train and push it through. The delay had the effect of crowding both trains to their utmost capacity and as they started down the incline people were clinging to the steps and footboards. The weight on the' Mil­ waukee avenue train proved too much for the coupling by which the Madi­ son street grip was holding it back. The link snapped and the Milwaukee avenue train shot down into the cav­ ern at tremendous speed. When the train reached the center of the tuh- nel it was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. "Women screamed and men jumped from the cars, being hurled in all directions by the im­ petus of the flying train. A score of persons were bruised, but%one were seriously hurt. There was no car to impede the Milwaukee avenue train's progress, the long stop having cleared the tun­ nel, and the train with its frightened occupants dashed up the incline 200 feet before it stopped and started back. Here occurred a dextrous act on the part of the cool-headed Madi­ son street gripman. He had followed the flying train, but was distanced in the race. As tlie Milwaukee avenue train started back down the grade a collision seemed inevitable. The sit­ uation had flashed across the grip- man's mind in an instant, and when the Milwaukee avenue car started back the Madison street grip, under perfect control, was close behind. Back thundered the Milwaukee ave­ nue train and( the Madison street grip beat a retreat at a slightly slower pace. The runaway avenue train gained but slowly and at the bottom of the incline struck the Madison street grip with but a slight shock. The gripman of the latter then let go his brakes, caught the ca­ ble and pushed the disabled train safely out of the tunnel. AEOOSfD AGSUii a thousand last year, and only 73 5-8 cent* this yew; because we make th m in hl« conn- try and the tar S doee I ot touch home-made goods If we make enough of th m. That's a mighty good reason why we should make «aoo(baftb^iaD^n»--J^7MJV^ ^ Why Alcohol Beddena (be TTtt-- The toddy blossom on the nose has been for years an affliction to the amateur inebriate. Usually he is in terested as to the philosophy of the symptom. It is very simple. The skin that covers the nose is very full of little blood vessels--highly vascu­ lar, as we say. Alcohol weakens the nerves which control the circulation of the blood. Thus an accumulation of blood at the end of the nasal organ closes up the mouth of one of the little sweat glands which are found all over the body. So the perspiration fails to escape from the pore that is ordinarily open; it forms a clot, and nature seeks to remove the clot by inflammation. That makes a toddy blossom. Long continued indulgence in an access of alcohol occasions a general clotting of the sweat glands which results in a swelling of the nose, so that a man's proboscis may eventually assume the appearance of a sweet bread, through fatty enlarge­ ment of the degenerated tissue. This is the final stage of the bummer nose. I have known many a person to be saved from the more serious ultimate effects of the alcohol by the appear­ ance of a few timely toddy blossoms, which had such an effect upon his vanity that he was enabled to exer­ cise a resistance to temptation which he could not have summoned to his aid otherwise. One ounce of alcohol, it is said, obliges the heart of the con­ sumer to do 150 tons extra works; but, nevertheless, I have observed that some of the wisest medical men of my acquaintance, though aware of this fact, take their tod in a mild way regularly.--Globe-Democrat. No Ticket. Many very cute stories are told of John Chinaman. They are excellent servants and are" very watchful of our ways, which probably seem, many times, very queer to them. The Fairhaven Herald tells of one who was employed by a lady in Seat­ tle. He had seen the lady callers deposit visiting cards, and one day the mistress was astonished to see a very dear friend of hers leave the house without coming in., On in­ vestigation she discovered that the Chinaman had shut the door in her friend's face, "Because she no havee ticketee," John said, he having §up- posed the visiting cards were tickets of admission. .f fceavy Vhmy Didn't €Hatter, Doctor--Did you have * chill? Fair Patient--It seemed sot: "Did your teeth chatter?"* * * : "No; they were in my dressing- caser."--New York Weekly. ; -- -1/ »y < V.". ~ . ' -V SHE--Papa, may I marry Jack? - I could go further and fare worse. H©-- You couldn't fare worse. She--Then wbat's tbe use of my $oing ftatha# 'MrS*. r i."-f -V ji" v ^ ^ ^ 4 , arv it J* * TiW w 4* «c* V , ' , • ' h : $ - L B s BRIEF COMPILATION QP »««»- NOIS NEWS. -XRTTFC Thm-Tfrnifrar -FrtnrtwitfrT* p?rl«hab!« IlUnoto Loyalty --utipsioif on a Wagon Shaft CruM Through » Bridge to Hi* Oeatfe* *'"•* Stock Premium*. J 'f " THK state Board of AgriCTiffnti, ^ • 'cussing the premium list for the fat live stock show to be l eld in the B!#PV sition Building in C hicago Nov. IK'!, decided that the aggregate of the premitMs offered shall not exceed £10,- 00<». A vetter wan read from the Lin­ coln Park Commissioners in relation to the en£#g<Vnent ot » herd of buffalo, estimating fV*e cost at JfcJoo. It was de­ cided to make no u.-e of the buffalo, a* it was feared that ilry would be diffi­ cult to handle. R«>SO1»*,®TJS to the mem­ ory of the lat? -(ieor9» S. Haskell, of Rockford. ex-Presklen» ef tbe Boiun!» were adopted. ATJIRRT BKI-TI-KR, of Iais, emnlttii suicide by taking arsenic MAXY burglaries are reported at Ma«^ coutah and in neighboring townst GKOHOE it.SHOP- was rua ovev and fktalty injured by a Cairo Slkect Ltat train*at Kalelgh. A JACKSON VIIXIC SOUTHEASTER freight was wreeked by a broken rail near Jacksonville. The conductor sad w bratteman were severely hurt P. P. GII.LKSPIE, Postmaster of Orney. was arrested on a warrant charging hfat with forgery during h s official career aa Treasurer of Richland County. He to short nearly FU.OOTT. His bond is fixed at$tf,000. CHRIS R IEWEXKAMP, a farmer, while on his way to Centralia, broke through a rotten bridge and was instantly killed. The upright, stake on the front gate ot his wagon bed passed through h"s body* pinning him to the ground seventeea feet below. AT Mascoutah two rowdies, named Dietz aud Frioderich, became boisterous at the Harugari picnic at Lincoln Park and were put out of tbe grounds by Joseph Becker, an officer in tlie order ol the Harugari. The men turned on Becker and beat him into insensibility with loaded canes. Young Friederlch was locked up and Dietz is in hiding somewhere Pecker is badly hurt 1 CLAUD NADOST,- a bartenrer at Lin­ coln, was arrested on a charge of passlaff counterfeit money. THE Wood River .Baptist Association# colored, which was in session at Spring­ field for a week, finished its work and adjourned to meet at Evanston next July. Jomr LEONARD, the chicken-thief who shot Farmer Shockley when the latter: caught him in. Jiis hen-house near IJn- coln, was held on a charge of attempted murder. CHARLKS FRIEX, a Chicago teamster, was sitting on the rear, wagon bolster with the lines about his waist, when hci fell off. The team backed upon him, trampling him to death. POSTMASTRK RKAPK, of Andnlaelfti was attacked by highwaymen, badly beaten, and robbed of $147. Six iftonth* ago he was attacked in hi* otiiee and robbed of several hundred dollars. AT Ewing, the Masonic fraternity su­ perintended tbe, laying of the corneiv stone of Willard College. The bulldinc will be three stories high, and complete and handsome in all. its appointments NKAH Alton, whUe; several men were crossing the river in a small boat, they became involved in a quarcsl and John Seavors knocked Robert Murray into the river. All the men were drunk, and before they could do anything to rescue him Murray waa drowned. Seavors to now in jail. THOS. MoyrooMMtr, a-prominent and well-to do farmer of Franklin County, while returning from Tatuaroa, was stopped by a man armed with a knife. The highwayman demanded Mr. Mont­ gomery's money, when the latter sprang from his wagon and, seizing a board, attacked the ruffian,, killing him. Mr. Montgomery' received several knife wounds. ^ JOHN BRANSON, living - seven miles - southeast of Vandalia, was engaged ia cleaning out a well, when the brick wall gave way and fell in upon him, burying him completely. All the men of the v? neighborhood worked at removing the • ;:* dirt and bricks, but there was little hope ^- of getting Branson out alive, as he was v at the bottom of the well, forty-five feet, M when the well caved in. £ ' ISAAC JOXES, a Chicago metal polisk- or, was on the front end of a grip-ear ^ when an unruly horse ran into the car. fj. Jones was unable to get out of the way, | and a wagon shaft penetrated his right & thigh. To release him it was necessary to saw off the shaft each side of hia ;"-; body, as It had perforated both dash- board and seat. Of al) the people who witnessed tho accident, Jones himself ' was the most self-possessed. He calmly s: gave directions to the rescuers, and re- assured his daughter, who was with him. By most rare chance neither the sciatic nerve nor bono was injured * though the wood parsed between them. ^ The shaft was removed by stretching the tissues, and the patient has achanoa ^ of recovery. " '. THE Town of Okawvllle, in Washing- : ! ton County, is having a bitter fight be­ tween the church peop e and the saloon- ' keeper. Recently the church leadera determined to stop the Sunday beer picnics, and the following Sunday every saloon tn the town was closed The other night about fifty men rode up to the residence of Mr. A. Morgan, a pil ar of the church. Ev<*ry man had a white cap on his head and a handkerchief over his face. They demanded that Moigan ; come out. Mr. Morgan walked out with ^ a ril'.e In his hand aud tired three shots into the crowd, when the mob departed tn haste. The nest morning two strangers met John Teabeau, a ( hutch deacon, and beat him so badly that ha may not recover. These affairs have greatly embittered the feeling between! the factions. THK meeting of the Fruit-Growe*tf Association at 8»jl«r Springs great success. For the World's Fair fruit trees are already planted in t>oxe*» and they will grow and ripen crops dur» ! ing the fair; also trees that are sprayed f and trees that are not sprayed, to show the effects of arsenical poison on the In­ sect enemies of the. fruit-growers. Th» association, by resolution, unanimously ' Indorsed H. M. Dunlap, of Savoy, I1L, for the head of the department of horti­ culture at the Colombian Exposition. ROBERT KK>TAIU>, of Rochester, waa % fatally.in; ured by a vicious hog at the C Fair Grounds at Princeton, Ind. ' ̂ ^ SEVERAL days ago. an Alton physician • " was called to treat a young lady who complained of a sharp pain in her side. To all appearances, it was a case of pleurisy, and tho doctor treated her fqf that malady without "effect. A Httljjt ^ : questioning elicited the fact that hejf f>atn dated from the time a muscula* „ young man paid her a visit. The physfc> - clan made an . examination. an<l ascer* J, ^ i tained that the young 'lady had a rih ' broken. It is Inferred that the younf man hugged her so hard that the broke* . j_, rib was the 'consequence. The prtfal ^ to this unfortunate and very peculiar affair are prominent in social circles, and a mention of names- would V; \ * •*» v\ -•V'-V?