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& VAN SLYKE, Editor an* PaUUh*. IjiittBNRYj - ~ r" * fNEVER look a gift revolver M TIL# nuzzle. SAH'L OF POSEN would give his last helef-a-tollar to be out of the scrape .J**1-- AN ancient lyre dated 2,000 years ^6. C. has just come *to light. It took « modern liar to find it, however THEY have had a serious whirlwind 111 Nicaraugua. Revolution is the or­ der of the day down there, wind revolves. • A SEAT in the Boston cbange was sold for $22,000 last week. ^ III some districts a seat UJ a can be had for less. ' TRIFLES should discourage the ambitions. "When a kangaroo is on its last legs it may Still be able to do some good jumping. ig; So OLD MAN ANSON thinks of act­ ing on the stag# It is expected that Boston and New York will crowd all the front seats when he makes his debut. ' THE venerable B. P. Hutchinson must be called "Old Hutch" no longer. He has written an article for a forth­ coming review and ranks with the ,U$erary fellers now. jY\:vWHEN a girl gets hold good complexion lotion, it circulates among her friends as rapidly as a favorite preserving kettle moves among the older women in the neighborhood. WILLIAM WALDOKF ASTOK has de­ cided to locate permanently in En­ gland There is nothing like being right on the spot so as to know when to turn your trousers -up at the bot­ tom. . • H i ' A CANADIAN chemist has dis­ covered a compound that he claims will cute all diseases. He should ad­ minister a dose to some dominion statesman and see what effect it will b$ve upon an itching palm. CHAUNCEY DEPEW is very ISM* phatic in describing the tattered 6tate of the second-hand garments he saw exposed for sale in Whitechapel, but it's safe to say he saw nothing more threadbare than his own stories. •; . • ,: A DEPATMKNT of forestry is to be ie of the attractions at the fair and the work of erecting a building for it will soon be begun. For the enter­ tainment of the effete East some fine Specimens from the dense and ex­ tensive fprests of Chicago will be on exhibition. „ THE first foreign flag to he raised ttVer the World's Fair grounds is that of Turkey. Well did the philosophi­ cal Ben Franklin say that America's national emblem should not be the rapacious and pJtatory eagle but the useful and succulent turkey. . IT is a mournful illustration of the that many of the good things Of this wor^d come too late that the United States is about to lay a cable . to Honolulu now that it is too late ' for Kalakaua to telegraph home for Cash enough to hold up the honor of ^ iteuraces. " • • A N E W Y O R K E R who reproved a "masher" by knocking out two of his teeth is in danger of death from blood poisoning. It has long been conceded that the "masher" is a con- > temptible reptile, but this is the first case that demonstrates that he -venomous. THE latest fad in church social af- is the basket social. To prove of that Westchester County, Mass., elopment, both the parties to which were past thrce-score and t«*. * IN alluding to Napoleon I. as the "Corsican parvenu" the Emperor William said just enough to put the excitable and irritable Parisians into a fever heat. Wars have been pre­ cipitated from slighter incidents, and with the strained relations existing between Germany and France, little more is required to fan the smoulder­ ing flres into a flame. The Mitylene incident, too, comes in to make things more interesting, and when the time arrives for one European power to strike ft would seem that all must become involved in a death grqtpple. '7 'i'-U' "j. ONE shrewd boomer tn the wiglon of Regina, in the Canadian North­ west Territories, has discovered that around Regina frost does not in­ jure wheat as it does in Mani­ toba! And the Manitoba boomers as­ sert that three nights of frost, rang­ ing from three to eight degrees below freezing-point, have not injured milk in the wheat in Manitoba at all, al­ though it did injure some grain in North Dakota and Minnesota. Strange are the ways of the boomers and the conscienceless Number One Hard crop-liars of the sub-arctic North­ w e s t ! • " ; ' : V If Is reported in German^ the story is accompanied by a wealth of corroborative detail, that in the per­ plexing times that now beset him the Emperor has turned rgain to that tried counselor who, more than any other man, made the fortune of the imperial house. If it be true that Bismarck is again restored to favor it will be a most fltting climax to a life of triumphs. It will be a political move, too, not void of effect upon the European situation, for the ex- chancellor is well known to hold the view that it would be better to light France now than later. Yet specu­ lation as to the effect of the return to power of the man of blood and iron is unprofitable in view of the Em­ peror's character, which makes it im­ probable. THE late Senator Hearst's million­ aire son is likely to achieve passing renown as the owner of the fastest steam yacht ever built. This little needle-shaped craft, named the Va­ moose, has been speeded on the Hud­ son to the satisfaction of its owner and its builders, the Herreshoffs, who are also responsible for the Norwood, before the Vamoose the fastest thing afloat. The Vamoose steamed all around the Mary Powell, which is reckoned the racing queen of the Hudson, and when a New York Cen­ tral train came along, the little light­ ning propeller beat it up stream from Yonkers to Hastings, a distance of three miles. It was only an accomo­ dation train, to be sure, but accomo­ dation trains make up between sta­ tions the time lost in stoj»s. So the feat was a remarkable one. At the rate of speed shown in this trial the Vamoose could make the distance from Clficago to Milwaukee in about three hours and a half. Yachts that can run thirty miles an hour will be the next thing. THE CHAMPIONS MEET. IJ' fairs his piety and devotion to religion, a man has to pay an exorbitant price for • basket; some are empty, and some HOtitain prizes. There is a suggestion Of the Louisiana Lottery in this that is fully appreciated by the man who draws an empty basket. But it Is a great sinner who would complain la the cause of religion. IT is a good thing that the dead ^'Isfnnot be restored to life. If a man who has been dead only a day could be brought back to life, it would in­ terfere with the plans of the living, And cause as much annoyance as his death caused grief. If the friends of the most popular man that ever lived could be brought together six months After his death to decide upon hid restoration to life, the cnances are great that he would be left at rest in the cemetery. • -A HIGH explosive said to be more 'powerful than dynamite and safer than gunpowder has been tested re­ cently by United States engineers. It Is called terrorite and its inventor hails from San Francisco. The stories of its wonderful properties as a killer In battles are interesting--at a safe distance. Perhaps it is true as claimed tiiat the new discovery will revolu­ tionize warfare, but warfare has been revolutionized so often by new dis- , ooveries that there is no longer any­ thing novel in the experience. CUPID is a shy rascal. He revels in : surprises While you fancy him Ipisy With the young and tender, he is aim­ ing darts at the hearts of the aged. Nothing pleases him so much as to see the octogenarian playing at Don , Juan, or the blushing and giddy : natron of 75 skipping from home With some lady-killer of four score. And Cupid must have laid down and jftarert wjth Inncrhlipr «'hnn he Imard. HATTIE BELKNAP, 15 years old, is the heroine of Grand Crossing, 111., at present. She had been cleaning the furniture with gasoline, and af­ terward attempted to light the gas­ oline stove. The fumes, with which the atmosphere was charged, ignited, and in a moment the house was in a blaze. Miss Belknap rushed out doors, but remembering that two children were in the house, she saved them by a feat displaying presence of mind rarely equaled. Soaking a blanket in water she wrapped it around herself and dashed into the flames, appearing a moment later with the two children. Nothing should or can be said derogatory to Miss Belknap's brave deed. It was heroism pure and simple and involved astonishing dexterity of wit and ac­ tion. It does seem strange, however, that a young lady of such exceptional intelligence should have allowed her­ self to have set a house on flre by us­ ing gasoline. The dangerous nature .it this highly volatile, treacherous ind inflammable fluid, has been proved again and again. It should never be brought into a private l<ouse at all. Even Miss Belknap, with all her dexterity and presence of ruind, should discard its use. She might not come out of another ex- pfrsion so foitunately. '•*•.• • * • < " / . &• M'KINLEY AND CAMPBEI BATE AT ADA. DE- / BUvar SiftI AI«b« by tlM Carer- •or--He Attempt* to fWk ADoot thn T»rl)T, »n<l, or Cowir, la Distanced by tin Major--A Gnat Day. to |>e 8ttxc« i t w « a u y p N M t i w f g » m -- w - i f c riqueiliili nfnmt. the la­ ic and bwwMn tlM' jpMtlM tar Hit m •tead fixed, not by onraeHe*, but by the platfciiwoftmrreipocttv parties. Tbare 10 on© or two of them whtah I propose to preawat. One of then ia tbe qtws- tlou of siKwr and the ot her the aoeatkm of taxa­ tion. One relates to the standard with which 'W. There fa nrfiMnf fel VMO emse to juatiflr • R'MUal for oar own «xperfc >f cmr protective «yt>« tem or ehaiUp «mr JwotwotWe law*. A lo* tariff kaa atwapa tecraaawl tk* importation of Jorategoofe, naalklpIM oar toraignobUtfatlcms, produoed a kalanoe of tf*d« against M, •appl*' men tod tka Democratic producer an4 maaafact. urer, uderiulnod domestic prosperity, iui'l robbed labor of its Just rewards. J>t me call first Ihomas Ewhig, once HI» eminent United States Sonat or of Onk>. (Here Major McKhilpy •me shall rrnasnra our axobaBgea with each other read a paper «boWiBg the condi lion t>f ngricult ure and the vest of tbe world and the other relates wider the reremaetftritf policy prior to 1 l>cg toread you ati extract from a apwch to the methods of taxation by which we shall false reve jues for pablio parpoaea. l'l>on this question of silver the Democratic platform has declared for free and iinlimfted coinage of the silver of the world an freely as ^•old is now coined and upon the ratios "now fixed. The Ilepubl can party stands oppofteu to - A Bonrboa Watar'o*. M agreat day at Ada wbe« tb% ^W« Ob!o _ . . - - . ebampiona met. It was a great day for Kepub- i thai,, insisting* that it "can" not be sately done lfcana, a great day for protection, and a great 1 until t he great commercial nations shall have day for McKinlov, for he then and there ever- J fixed the ratio bet ween gold and silver. laatinply walloped the political life out of Gov. | The Kepublicaa party stands, therefore, iter a C a m p b e l l . N o o n e * " . . . - . . . . one woul« have known by their manner that they were not old-time friends ooiiie together to battle for the same cause. They lunched together, rode together in the aame carriage to the grounds, and ascended the platform together to receive the plaudits of the •nftnnlni differen dollar worth one hundred cents, whether it he gold or silver or paper, and approves of the leg­ islation of the laat Congress which requires the Government to buy 4,600,0)0 ounces of silver every month at its inarket value. That is a lit­ tle more than the entire silver product oi the who in that moment knew no political j United states, and for every dollar's worth of he wrote: n>ade by Thomaa Ewing, a Senator from Ohio, in defense of the ayatem of protection: "Everv fanner in Ohio long kuew and fe t the pressure consequent, on thia state of things. Year after year their stacka of wheat stood unthrashed, scarcely worth the manual labor of separat ing the grain from the straw. So low was it reduced in comparison with manufactured articles that I have kiwwu forty bushels of wheat given for a pair of boots." Such WAS the state ol things in the Western country prior and at the time of the revision of the taritt in l«i4. Horace Greeley, the late diatinguiahed editor and founder of the New York Trioune, haa sum­ marized in the most striking manner the effects to the country of the two turiff systems, jn 1869 'erences. silver thus purchased the Government issues Gov. CamplieU was given the opening speech. | its Treasury note, which shall be legal tender He had spent three nays in preparing the speech ' for all debts public and private and redeemable and he went at it without introductory re- in coin at the will of the hokter. The Treasury marks. It was an indictment of the McKinley I note thus issued has behind it a dollar's worth bill, bnt was no stronger ilmn have been made j of silver purchased at its market value. The before by those who fought it in Congress and | cost of the silver in the silver do lar averaged Binee it became a law. In many respects his ; to the Government 81 to ttl cents, the Govern- apeech was a disappointment to his "admirers who came prepared to cheer him whenever he should let the eagle scream. He aidn't let the bird looae. He ba>i no time for that. He did not know his subject well enough to be easy and comfortable in handling it. He called protection an infant and he liaiidled it aa deli­ cately and as awkwardly as an old bachelor handles a new baby. He held him&elf down to a written speech most of 'he lime, quoting fig­ ures to show that tbe McKinlov bill had not in­ creased wagea for the workingmen; had not benefited the farmers, and that there was poverty in the country because of its coming. While he protested that he was not a calam­ ity ahrieker, lie did a good deal in t hat line, and Jerry Simpson or yen at or i'eifer would have been rejoiced to hear him. He brought out a serfos of charts and had them elevated back of the stage to show by double-entry book-keep­ ing that the consumer pays the tax. While explaining these charts with tbe thou­ sands of dollars in the debt and credit columns some enthusiastic Democrat stuck up a large banner by the side of the ledger w ith t-enator Bilce'i picture on it. The >htt'on~4h)p between Blico'a election and book-keeping wa4 ao frenh meut put ing its stamp on it and making it _ leeal 1 nider for loo cents, and the difference be­ tween what the Government paid for tliu silver and the face value of the silver dollar amounted in twelve yeara to $67,Ou>,tWO, which went to the benefit of the 63,yoo,tK)0 of people. >'ree and unlimited coinago would give that profit to the silver producers of the worli You can buy to-day the 871gains of pur* ailver which constitutes the silver dollar for 7fi cents. Free and unlimited coinage would invite the silver producers of the world to bring their 76 cents worth of silver to the mints of the United States to be coin« d into a silver dollar, the Government compelling the people to take it for ltK) cents. The Republican party sars that if there is to be any profit in this matter of money making it should go to the Government. When we sell our labor or our crops w e w ant to get for t hem a money that is as good as the thir:g we gave for that snonev, and we want the thing we get to be urvarying in value and not only goi d to-day. but «;ood every day of every week of ever year, mid good wherever trade goes. We want no short dollar. There is a general not ion that if we had free and uulimited coinage we would have more Our yeara of signal disaster and depression have been those in which our ports were easily flooded with foreign goods, those which inter­ vened betwixt the recocnition of our independ­ ence and the enactment of the tariff of 1789; those which followed the close of our last war with Great Britain were signalized by Immense importations of fabrics ; those of 1838 to 18»2, when the compromise of 1833 began to be seri­ ously Jelt in the reduction of duties on imports, and those of 1854-1857, when the Polk-Walker tariff of ,»tt; had time to take full effect. No similarly sweeping revulsions and prostrations ever took place--1 think none could take place-- under the sway of efficient protection.™ In one of Gov. Campbell's speeches he quoted from James G. hlaiue, that gitted American statesman. [Prolonged appl iuse. j Carl Schurz made the same quotation against Mr. Diaiue, to which that gentleman made reply at Cantcn last year. Among other things he said the only tariff the United States ever had approaching free trade was that made after the war of 1812, in 1833, and in 1840, and every one led to pros­ tration in this country which lasted until there wa» a protective tariff. [Applause ] Let us compare the United States with Grufc Britain, wur proportion of foreign commerce of the world in 1H>0 was in i8<0, '24.6; in 18*), 31.2. Great Britian between 1870 and 188J lost 13 per cent, of lier trade and th« United States gained per cent, in trade. The Governor talks about our commerce leav­ ing the heus. We have the greatest interna- tiunal commerce in \he world. The entire in AROUND A GREAT STATE. BRIEF COMPILATION OP ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Mi . , money. Instead of having more we would have ! ternal commerce of the United States is groater less, for every dollar worth 100 cents would go than the whole commtrce of G»eat britain out of circulation at the appearance of a silver Franco, Germany, liussia, Holland, Belgium and flollar worth 7t! cents. A loi'-cout dollar will not I Austria-Hungary. A tingle railroad company keep company w ith tt7t>-cent dollar. I Applause.] j in the United States, and it passes through Governor Campbell said iu one of his speecnos this village, carries more traffic and tonuago that 1 had voted for iree and unlimited coinage | than all the merchant ships of Great Britain. Of stiver. So « did iu 1877. I voted to reinstate [Great applause.] Great Britain's foreign 00m- the ancient ailver dollar to its coinage. Silver nierce is only one-sixth of our domestio com- bnd been stricken from our coinage in 1873 by merce. [ Applause.] both political parties. In 1878 being in favor of | They talk about a protective tariff breaking I both gold and silver as money to be kept at • down our foreign marKets. It has built theiu Bow to Bleep oa a CM^ The majority of travelers will tell you that they don't sleep soundly on sleeping cars, that they never feel rested in the morning, and that night railroad trips are an abomination. This may be all true, but if they don't sleep well it is often their own fault. Very few people know how to sleep in the sleeping car. The secret is this: Sleep with your head toward the engine. By so doing you will not wake up with headache or spend a restless night. When the feet are toward the engine the motion of the train causes the blood to settle in the head, and rest is then out of the question. The porters know this, but only on a few lines will they bother to change ends while making up births. Insist upon their doing it and you will pass a comfortable night, that is, if you have good health and a clear con­ science.--[New York Herald GIBLS who allow sparking in their homes should use smokeless powder so that the engagement might not be 4j§covered. • MAJOR X'KIXUCT. tfiH) of the people that they began to laugh when the Governor thought tliey should be most serious over his lessons in book­ keeping. When he turned to his chart and saw the cause of the commotion he laughed too, and asked them to keep Brlce out of his book-keep­ ing business. But it embarrassed the Governor. The one significant thing about Governor Campbell's npeech was that he forgot to say anything about silw r. He forgot it in his open­ ing and refused to be drawn into any discussion Of that question while on the platform, though Major McKinley attacked the Democratic plat­ form vigorously and the crowd called to him time and again to sav something about ai'.ver. He evidently realized how deeply he pat his foot in it when he did talk about silver. With a helpIesB appeal for consideration for his < ni- barraasmenr, he stood silent whenever he was aakod t<> say something about the troublesome plank in his platform. He spoke for one hour and five minutes and devoted all this to the tariff, qnoting flgurea that neither enlightened nor interested hia hearers. His whole warfare was on the Mc­ Kinley bill. He insisted that this bill had doahled taxation and then made the startling assertion that more than eWO'MKM.OOO had boon lost to the farmers of Ohio in the last ten years by reason of the tariff. This was BO great a loss that it startled the moat enthuiastic Demo­ crats. They thought he must be mistaken, or that he was counting like the man who lost so much money by not betting on the races and betting the right way. But the Governor had based his assertion on the report of the State Board of Equalization that the appraisement for taxation had been cut down $J8,0(X>,000 in that. time. When he ashed if there were any farmers present who were b tter off now than they were ten yeara ago, a great many of them called out that they were. When the Governor had finished hin speech and his admirers hud cheered him, t ol. Howe took charge of the meeting and introduced Maj. McKinley. Then the Kepublicans had their in­ ning and they made it appear that the whole crowd were with them by the noise they made. They cheered for three or four minutes before they would allow Maj. McKinley to speak. Ho waved his hand and quieied them. Then he began his reply to Gov. Campbell at once. He first touched upon what tbe Governor did not say about the silver question. He knocked the Governor's free-silver platform from under liiiu while Campbell sat there biting his lip. Tbe Major not only indicted tbe Gov­ ernor as having beeu on both sidea of the money question, but he made tbe Governor admit it. He explained that he and Campbell had voted together agaiDst free silver. He turned to Campbell aa he said this with the remark : "You were not willing then to chance freo sil­ ver, and I think you think you treie right then but wrong now." A sad smile rested on the Governor's face while he wa<< made to admit that he had not been consistent, and then luaj. McKinley did a gracious act by adding that he honored a man for preferring to be right rather than consistent and it was the Governor's privilege and his dnty to change ground on the currency uud on the tariff if he believed his former course wrong. When he took up the tariff McKinley silenced the Democrats, kept the Kepublicans cheering, and Campbell eat silent biting his mustache in his nervousness, he had not only the argument against the Governor, but the laugh on him. He showed the difference betwten the master and the amateur in a tariff discussion. McKinley was the master of the bitnaUon. He met the Governor at every point and com­ pletely annihilated his alleged argument. He also put the Governor on the witness stand against himself and interrogated him about things that the Governor declined to talk about. It was in his closing that Campbell showed bis weekness most. He had been stupid in his opening, but in his clot-irg, where he naturally up. From 1840 to 1800 we bought of Kurop*. under a low revenue tariff, $to«5,000,000 mure goods from Europe than we sold to Euros*. From 18t>7 to 18m , a i>eriod of fourteen ) ears under protection, we sold to Europe $1,006,000,- (XX) more goods than we bought. We have freer trade under this new protective law than we ever hai under aay revenue law. Fifty-six per cent, of the value of Imports under this new law during ttie last eleven months were absolutely free to the American people. The Mills bill, that Gov. Campbell voted for, made only 44 per cent, of them free. In the first ten months, under the new tariff law, we bought more goods in Europe than we over bought ia any ten months since the formation of the Government, and largely because of the increased free list of articles that we could not produce in the United States and which pro- tec ion lets come iu free. And more and l>etter than that, in those ten mouths we sold more American products to Europe than we ever sold to it in any other ten months, [Applause] And when Europe settled with u» after ten months operation under tha new law it paid us $ :8,UOO,QUO in gold aB a bal­ ance ol trade in our favor. Gov. Campbell aBked me if I was in favor ot organized labor. 1 want to answer him now. 1 am not only in favor of organized labor, but al­ ways have been. I am not only in f ivor of or­ ganized labor at home, but 1 am in favor of de­ fending labor at home from products made by the cheap labor of other countries. [Applause.] At the conclusion of Maj. McKinley'a speech the adherents ot the grea. exponent at high tariff burst into cheerB, hats and parasola war* waved in the air, and a band began to play. parity, one with the other, I voted for a restora­ tion of the silver dollar [Applauxe.] When I did it we had eight million silver dol.ars in cir­ culation and hilver w«s more valuable than it is to-day. Wo have four hundred and five millions Of silver dollars to-day and that is as much as *e can maintuin at parity with gold with the price of silver that prevails throughout the world. Governor Campbell and I voted toget her once. [Cheers and laughter.] We have voted together more than once. [Renewed cheers.] In 1880 he voted against free and unlimited coinage of ail ver. [Applause.] He is for it now. [Great Oheeiing j He was right then, he is wrong now. [Much laughter and cheers.] He voted in 1886 that unless the nations of the worid, by Jan- nary, 1881», should by concurrent action fix the Vatio between gold and silver, the whole silver coinage of the country should be sus}>ended. He and 1 vo'ed together then. [Laughter,] He was not willing "to chance it." [Laughter,] He is willing to chance it now. [Laughter and cheers.] I have twice voted, and I not know but oftener, against the free and unlim.ted coinage of silver. 1 am opposed to free and unlimited coinage now because it means that we would be put upon a silver basis and do business with silver instead of gold and ailver and paper, each the equal of the other. I want to tell the workmen and farmers here that it takes just as many blows of the ham­ mer, as many strokes of the p ck, as much dig­ ging, as much sowing and as much reaping to get a short dollar as it does to get a full dollar. The other issue bet ween the Democratic and tne Republican platforms---the one relating to the tariff. Governor Campbell does not like protection now. I laughter J I remember when, in a former Congress Mr. Morrison brought in a bill which provided for only about a iiO per cent. reduction of the tariff, and asked oven the poor privilege of having it considered, and made a motion to that enect. 1 demanded the yeas and nays, and Governor Cainpbi ll voted with me then. [Laughter and cheers.j Governor (addressing Governor Campbell), you were right then. [Cheer.<.] And Governor, you did not want to vote for the Milla bill either.dld you'? [Great laughter and cheers.1 1 have an interview ot the Governor's which I shall not use until 1 have passed it to him and inquire wcetherit is correct (handing Governor Campbell a newspaper clipping). And now my fellow citizens it is not a ques­ tion of what Governor Campbell believes, it is not a question of what the Governor did in the past, or what 1 have done in the past; it is a question of the present and t he future. We tight living issues. [Great applause.] Gov. Campbell has a right to change his mind; it is a poor uiun who sacrifices right for consistency. [Applause.] [Gov. Campbell here banded back to Major McKiuley the newspaper clipping containing the interview spoken of by him denying it s accuracy. Major McKinley, turning to the %udienee, said :J m My fellow citizens, I do not naa this inter­ view at all. Gov. Campbell has said to tnt it was not in his interviews and that is tbe end of it. My fellow citizens there ai e only two t«aya to test any great question of public policy, one by reason and argument, the bther by ex­ perience and history. The Governor's platform commits him to a tariff for revenue only; that is, a tariff upon foreign products, levied with no other object in view but revenue, unmindful of every other consideration but revenue, not car­ ing for the industries and occupations of the people. A tariff that will produce the moat revenue is the tariff which the revenue tnriff policy maintains to-day. A revenue tariff will raise revenue for the Government; a protectivo tariff, besides raising revenue, will also stimu­ late the industries ol the people, encourage tbe skill and genius of American citizens, develop the resources of the Government and secure to ua as it has done in the past thirty years tbe , - _ first rank in mining, agriculture, and manulac- j no one but the All-Seeing Eye would tllTe"fmewhythe foreign producer should be I have detected_ it, bu* ve have controlled permitted to enjoy thii market equally with J OUrself and closed OUT eyes to the writ* the American citizen; why he should have the • ten message, refusing to take advantage same privilege to enter this market with Ids . .1 ".. . 0 , . . ^ competing products as the American citisen thit confidence reposed in US by our enjoy#? The foreign producers contribute not I Government and those who thus trusted one dcJlar to our State, county, or municipal hn- provements or expenses. He ia beyond our jurisdiction. You can not reach him. You can not compel him to pay 1 cent of taxes. You have made your great highways and y«>ur canals ;you have maintained your State institu­ tions of every character aud you have done it by taxing yourselves. The foreign producer oftes no allegiance to our flag, why should he, u]>on any consideration of justUe, equity, or fair nay. During onr official experience we have been placed where we could hare me resources 01 me uoverumeut ana secum 10 j ,.i„l .i„ a.: j • 1 us as it has done in the past thirty years tbo read postal cards time and again, anu Tbe i'ostal Card. No one denies that the postal card ifl ft great thing, and yet i| makes most people mad to get one. This is because we naturally foel sensitive about having onr correspondence open to the eye o! the postmaster and postal clerk. Yet they do net read them. Postal employes hate A postal card as cordially as any one else. If they were Vanished, and had nothing to read but a package o! postal cards or a foreign book of sta­ tistics they would read the statistics. *"iia wild hunger for postal cards on the part of postmasters is all a myth. When the writer doesn't care who sees hia message, that knocks the curiosity out of those who handle those messages. A man who would read a postal card with­ out being compelled to by some strin­ gent statute must be a little deranged. When you receive one you say, "Here is a message of so little importance thai the writer didn't care who saw it. 2 don't care for it myself." Then you look it over and lay it away and forget it. So you think the postmaster is going to wear out his young life in devouring literature that the sender doesn't feel proud of when he receives it? Nay, had the advantage of the situation, he became 1 ^ Vr«l in t i,)i , ,^1, L, Jlf>, , - , , ulowwish. He did not make a single argument: ^....ahare^this market with been breathed us with their secrets. All over our great land every moment of the day or night these little cards are being silently scat­ tered, breathing loving words inscribed with a hard lead pencil and shedding information on sundered hearts, and they are as safe as if they had never jingle argument; !i#ctM not make a serious statement; he did not courageously answer a single question that Mc­ Kinley had asked him; he even seemed to be EETtiEt he had to c^upy that tw^ty min- I litea ill cloRimr. He had been beaten anil now «'"> say 8 we pay me lax. ltwedo, wH> 1 utcs in closing. He had been beaten, and now be had to get up before the great audience and show his hurts. Ihe crowd began to desert him in the begin­ ning of this pitiful exhibition, but Maj. McKin­ ley promptly Btepped to the front aud asked the people to remain ana hear the Governor in hi» reply. The people did stay, and many of tbem began to ask Gov. Campbell questions. They asked him time and again to atate his views on the silver question, but he looked at them appeal- ingly and held his tongue, He would not say a word about it. They also asked him to answer Major BScKioley's questions regarding the tariff, but he refused and dodged. He preferred to play the clown, and he took up the old lies about tin- plate, repeating these when they have been proved false by affidavits from honest men. Tbe Governor presented several anonymous letters ag&inBt this proof, but he did not dare give the names of his correspondents who aaid there was no tin-plate made in this country. He would not even say for himself that he knew the statement to be true, but he left it aU to anonymous correspondents. He tries to poke cheap wit at the tin-plate makers and at Major McKinley , but the Major's Etnile of assurance disconcerted him every time be turned to look in that direction. He made sport of the Piqua tin-plate busi­ ness and at the same time Maj. McKinley had in his possession an offer from the Piqua peo­ ple to contribute $1,000 to the Democratic cam­ paign fund if they would prove that tin-plate was not made in Piqua and made from American sheet steel and American tin, and another §1,000 if the Democrats would prove that the plates made at Piqua were not commercially known as a variety of tin-plate. McKinley would not present this, though he might have bluffed Campbell with battar material than the Gov­ ernor used. The Governor in this connection also showed his ignorance of the question he was pretending to discuss by quoting an analysis of the Piqua tin-plates as being made of tin, iron and carbon. He then said it was not steel at all,but only iron, when, had be turned to his diction­ ary, he would have found that steel is only iron with carbon. The Governor did not know this, and it is well for him that he had no one to reply to hi* fool­ ish utterances. It was bad enough, and the Democrats were disappointed at the weakness of his closing. It did not require a second charge from McKinley to shatter his speech ; he had nothing to shat­ ter. It was simply a clownish performance. MAJOR M'KINLEY'8 SPEECH. Col. Howe, ^Republican chairman of tho meet­ ing, introduced Major McKinley as "An Ideal, typical American.' One known not only at home but abroad. [Applause.] Major McKinley was greeted with prolonged applause as he stepped to the front. When quiet had been restored he began the American people with his coiui»eting pro-1 m, , . , . , . ducts without condition or restraint? 1 They are safer in most instances, be- The only way we can reach him is when ho ; cause thev cannot be read by anvbody ritina Vita NM.IIIATU T A SITIV* HPB Q Hi T«. , . ^ • * in the whole world. That is why it irritates us to kave some one open a conversation by say­ ing: "You remember what that fellow wrote me from Cheyenne on that postal The Gov- is England making such a fu»s about our tariff? [Laughter and applau%e.l Why is Germany crying out against the newftarift.law if we pay all the tariffsV [Applause.] If you want to know who pays the tax ask the Canadian farmer who Canadian farmer takes 90 cents less 25 cents, the American tariff. They say the tariff is a tax, and the Governor cites "a number of things to show that we pay the tax. If you have to have a chert to tell-- [great laughter]--a chart to point out your pov­ erty in the midst of plenty and prosperity, who pays the tax? The duty on salt is 'i'i.i centa a barrel, or 1'2 cents a hundred pounds. It caa be purchased for 80 cents a bushel where it la manufactured and 5'J cents a barrel in a barrel which costs 20 cents, which makes the cost of the salt, if tbe Government be right, 8 centa The duty on wire nails was 4'i cents a pound. We reduced it to 2% cents. They can be bought at the place they are made for 1 2-10 cents a pound. Who pays the tax? [Applause.] Cut nails can be bought for 1.5(5 cents a pound. Steel rails can be bought for S3u a ton, 96 above the average price in Liverpool. The tariff Is <13.44 a ton. , The duty is 25 per cent, on boots and shoes; the duty was 30 per cent. The Governor seems to think we did not reduce any dnties. I want to say to him that when he voted for the Mills bill he voted to make the duty on binder twine 25 per cent., equal to l1^ cents, and we only made it .7 of a cent. The duty on linseed oil is 32 cents a gallon, and on farmers' flaxseed 22 cents a bushel. The oil sells at 30 cent* a gallon. In London it seUs at 33 cents a gallon, and if tbe tax is added lin­ seed oil should sell here for 65 centa a gallon. But it does not. [Cheers.] Who pays the tax? [Laughter.] The Governor complains that in this iniqui­ tous law of 1BJJ we gave a rebate of 9J per cent, on imported raw material made into a finished product when entered for the export trade. That rebate principal has been in every tariff law since the second administration of George Washington. It was in tbe MiUs bill which the Governor voted for. Let me remind the Governor while on the aubject of rebate that the Committee on Ways and Means, over which Mr. Morrison presided, presented a report which was written by that able Democrat Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, recommending that a rebate of 99 per cent, bejgiven on imported raw material entered after finished lor the export trade. He lecom- mended it as in the interest of labor, stating it fumisned just so much labor to America which would be employed abroad, and the very proposition he suggested, and which every Dt inocrat member ot the Ways and Veans Com­ mittee voted for is in the new tariff law and the provision against which Governor Campbell jclamora so loudly. 1 Now, I want to give yon some experience for 25th, and how he rounded me up for sending him those goods ?" Now, we can't keep all these things in our head. It requires too much of a strain to do it cn the salary we receive. A man with a very large salary and a tenacious memory might keep run of the postal correspondence in a small t.ffice, but we cannot do it. We are not ac­ customed to it, and it rattles and excites us.--Laramie Boomerang. TOMMY--What part of speech is woman? Papa--Woman is no part of speech at all, my son. She is the lUOUMUW; I «w"i * w*|fwwwuvT iva t j # tojgo* tula aiat i»f iyirtfe Ftreproof Process, Still another process for lire-proof­ ing combustible materials is reported from Russia, the medium being de­ scribed as paste, which is said to have been tested recently with most satis­ factory results by the Moscow Im­ perial Society. A shanty was built entirely of straw, and, after being covered with the paste, was subjected to a hot Are, the only effect being to change the straw from a yellow to a reddish-brown color, without igniting or even cracking. The society re­ ferred to has consequently made ar­ rangements, it is said, to introduce the use of this new invention through­ out the Empire, considering it from every point of view as of the highest value in villages or localities where the houses are, as a rule, thatched with straw, and where flres, once started, frequently make a clean sweep of the place. The cost of the preparation is very small. « • •; rk " !' • • : - if1- $ X> . : W*.- - >(. * * ".'if ( ; •o " Sad Deed of an Insane Mother--A Faith- 1«N TFlfe Elopes with a Hired Mao- Came "They Fought Mlt Slgrel.'* THK village of Sigel tendered Gen. Franz Slgel, after whom it was named when Incorporated in 1863, a magnifi­ cent reception, the General being pres­ ent. It was his first visit, and 5,000 people gathered to meet him The pop­ ulation is largely German, and contain; many old Germans who fought with him In the revolution of 1348 ia Germany. His address was rapturously applauded. As a tokon of esteem, a handsome gold* headed cane was presented to him. H« was welcomed by addresses from B» Wood and T. N. Fillmore, of Effingham, and Hor<i-e Claris of Mattoon. A camp-fire by the General's old army friends was given. ; DIPHTHERIA is prevalent In an alarm­ ing form around St Elmo. AT Sa'em, Louis GoUlsboro and C, Rose quarrelod. Goldsboro attacked Rose and the latter shot him' dead. A Coroner's jury decided tk«8 the shooting was done in self-defense: AT Springfield, Julia; Jones, colored, was locked up in the city prison foi drunkenness. During the night she tied her chemise around her neck and hanged herself to the top of the dcor. MKS. JOHN M. PALMER, who accom­ panies her husband to Washingtan soon, gave a farewell reception to her lady friends at the State capital. It was a brilliant affair and several hundred la­ dies attended. Miss ROSA LU»I,AM, aged 20 years, and living at Lake Bluff, was instantly killed by jumping from the fast Milwau­ kee train as it rushed through Lake Forest. She left Waukegan intending to get off at Lake Bluff, bnt boarded the wrong train, got excited, and jumped to her death. THE annual reunion of the Seventy- third Regiment Illinois Volunteers was held at Springfield with about eighty members present The gallant Colonel Jaques. who commanded the reg'ment, was present Co onel Jaques came all. the way from London to attend the re­ union. During the year twelve members have died. The next meeting .will be he!d at Springfield. JAMES SOUTHERN, of Wanda, mourns the loss of his wife. She skipped away with the hired man. The baby began crying, and Southern called to his wife to attend St. Not getting a reply, he be­ gan an investigation. The neighbors volunteered a searching party, but the only trace found was that the pair got aboard a Mississippi River steamboat Southern Is left almost helpless to care for three young children. THE explosion of a gasoline cain fol­ lowed bv a fierce blaze consumed the Gospel tent at Chicago. The tent was owned and ope ated by the Chicago Evangelical society, and was in charge of J. A. Baker, who was in the tent when the can exploded. The tent, which was about sixty feet in diameter, was, with Its furnishings, va'uod at 8600, not covered by insurance. The depart­ ment extinguished the bla e before a valuable parlor organ bad beon de­ stroyed. JUST south ot Sparta, Mrs Sylvester Brown, while laboring under temporary aberration of mind, attempted to take the lives of her two little daughters and then destroy her own. J-he procured a shotgun and three shells, .and placing her two little daughters, aged 4 and 6 years, side by side discharged the gun. The charge took lodgment .lust above the heart of one of the childreu, but strange to ?ay did not kill her. The sound of tho shot alarmed Rrown, who was at work near by. He disarmed his wife, and, leaving her and the ch ldren in charge of his hired man, he went for medical aid. During his absence Mrs. Brown made a frantic effort to t&ke her own life. TOWNS within 150 miles, of Chicazo are to have Improved mail facilities in the near future. WIM.IAM HAMILTON, .a young farmer living in Horso Prairie, was thrown from hfs horse and killed. O. H. STRUFF, of Jacksonville, was expelled from the Anti-Horsethlef Asso­ ciation at its meeting in Springfield. DR. MAYER T. IRWIN, 74 years old, long ago a well-known physician, was instantly killed by a train at Chicago. WM. RANKS, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was run over and killed while attempt­ ing to board a freight train at Effing­ ham. MR*. BROWNING, wife of State Fish Commissioner George Browuing, who was thrown from her buggy at Centralia, died from her injuries. She was 06 years of age. AT Cairo, Capt J. W. McKinney. of the transfer steamer W. H. Osborne, committed suicide by shooting himself through the brain. No cause is assigned. He leaves a widow and five children. THE Secretary of State of Illinois Is preparing a bulletin containing infor­ mation which will enable c erks of coon- ties and towns to distinguish the heads of sparrows from those of other birds. THE Governor issuod a warrant on the requisition of the Governor of Dela­ ware for John Colvin, now under arrest in Chicago, and wanted in Kent County, Dei., for obtaining money under false pretenses. MRS. GEN. JosEPn T TORREXCE, one of the best-known society ladies in Chi­ cago, was killed by bein? thiown from her cart The horse became startled by the sudden passing of another, driven by a man who was speeding the animal. JOSEPH C. CHUMH, P. esident of the Harvard Bank, and one of the most prominent business men in that city, died at the age of 64 years. He had been president of the bank since it was founded iu 18t'6. He was a prominent Mason, and his death is a severe loss. AT Shawneetown, fire destroyed the law office of Bartley & Son, who lost a portion of their law library; two frame business houses owned by Mr. Adams of Kansas City, the stables and out-houses of the Germania House, Sherer's me:- chant tailoring house, Pruett's livery stable, and a frame business house owned by Louis Gross, l.'achman & Co. 's large grocery house was only saved by t fire wall; Goet/.man Bro^'fine glass front on the opposite sido of the street from the fi e was badly broken. The furniture of tlio Germania House was thrown out and badly damaged. Loss about $10,000; insurance light. "UNCLE NOAH" AVERY, one of the wealthiest farmers of Franklin, was probably fatally injured by a runaway horse. THE annual reunion of the Seventh Illino's Cavalry was held at Decatur. Nearly one hundred members were pres­ ent to cclebrato tho thirtieth anniver­ sary of mustering-in day. AT Mount sterling, tho first annual reunion of soldints and sailors of Brow^ County was heM, tnd, although rata fell steadily al! day, an immense crowd was in attendance. At tho fair grounds •eneral JoVn M. Palmor, Govcrnoi Jesjph Fifcr, Captain J. M. Hyman, el vnincy, and Senator J. DL Coadee, ol Cfctc*c<>i made Mdreseev FIGS AMP THISTLE9» ttmmkty WtaaowiitK front tfco Kptgtana - Matte Kam'i Bant I1HNO a- tin trying to steal .*-V love. •'•" GOD never hai t o c a l l f o r r e i i i » ' i force me nts. ^ WhrxkvbII the pig eats ft helps the butch* 1 en NEVE? look down wnen yoB want to see God. A MULE never finds out that his ̂ ears are long. ' ' 1 UNBELIEF is only another name fat self-conceit. GOD'S children are never killed tf the devil's lion. DRESSING conspicuously is a conies* sion of inferiority. . OUR real trasures the prince al evil can never touch. "IF the Son shall make you free; you shall be free indeed." . CHRIST does not want onr admit* tion. He wants oar love. THE place for everyone of us is tbe one God wants us to fill. IT is not often that a long sermon does the Lord much good. Tire devil is always glad when hypocrite joins the church. C ANYBODY who is willing to'wodC for Christ can be always busy. A KIND word will go farther aojl strike harder than a cannon ball. THE lower a Christian bend# fot Christ the higher he can reach. "THE Son of man is come to and to save that which was lost." THE devil shoots hard at the mfli who makes an honest tax return. PEOPLE who look down are alwajt : trying to pull somebody else down. ? IT is safe to distrust the religion of people who have no use for soap. IF you want to make sure thatGdT loves you, become a cheerful giver. I THERE is no lifting power fot Christ in shaking hands with two Angers. THE devil is always kept busy ia the neighborhood of where a good man lives. MEN who get the Bible wide open are not afraid to trust God with thefts money. ONE way of getting clow to TBE devil is by being meanly close witb your money. WHILE the peacock has his plumage spread, he forgets that he has black feet. -1 KEEP yoftr light burning, and God will see that it is put where it can be seen. "BLESSEP are, they whose iniquitiec are forgiven, and whose sins aie covered. THE Christian doesn't need wing*. His way; of traveling is by a look. 1# the Christian life were not • warfare there could be no test# loyalty. WE are made rich by what we give to Christ, not by what we keep frost him. No VAN will ever find God until be i& willing to stand still and let God find him. SOME of us Wonld talk less about our neighbors if we would talk moie about the Lord. ' HEAVEN never seems far away ex­ cept' when ire stand on the deviffe ground to look. GOD never has to look at a mafi*i bank account to find out whether be is fit for Heaven. IF the devil had to do all his work in the daytime, he would never get another follower. THE Christian who Is ashamed ol the cross of Christ will find the wa) to Heaven all up hill. MAKE it impossible for God to suf* fer, and you make it impossible tat Him to reveal his love. ALL the devil can do against tbe man who bears the shield of faith || to waste his ammunition. THE man is most needed who will cheerfully do things that somebody else is willing to do. "THE wages of sin is death; but tbe gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." .^'"-•5.^3$ • A* 'vi 'a .sin , t,; * * •fv ' :; (ij * mm THERE is not a place on earth so low that from it we may not step toe higher place in Heaven. THE devil would rather get one boy to go wrong than to sell a barrel ot whisky to drunkards. IT is possible to fail. a thousand times in the eyes of men, and yet succeed in the sight of God. IF God could have His way, not one of His little ones would ever have* single anxious thought. . Co-Op«raUve JUIIroadiag. The West, generally ahead in Ideas, now comes forward wit! operative railroading. It is si that an air line, to be known as the Omaha, Intermediate and Kansas City Railroad, to run between Kansas City and Omaha, will be built on the co-operative plan. No outsiders wiH be allowed to buy a dollar's worth ot the bonds, and not a share of the stock will be placed on the market. This line is to be owned and operated entirely by Kansas City capitalists; in fact no employes will be taken into its service who have not been resi­ dents of Kansas City at least six months. One of the questions now being discussed by the directors of tbe new line is the idea of making it a strictly co-operative concern, paying nominal salaries to its employes anda dividend out of the pro tits every six months in proportion to salaries pakl on the other railroads. It is believed that by carrying out this method many of the employes will eventually become stockholders and own the road. i , If this proposition is carried o«V it will be watched with interest, Railroad property has been greatly endangered by labor contests, and by railroad strikes the interests of the entire country have frequently sufc fered. The greatest labor disturb* ances ever seen iu this country origin nated on the railroads, and the adopK tion of some plan to prevent these troubles will be welcomed, even if it fn a CTiiitll linA ainnfl. mm* * * ^ • i . 1 1 ^ r , * * # ' " A I1 - \ ^ V <