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"SoodiifTceoj' Buty : " « 384/173,150-> »3S0,000^000 Goods Pres of Duty $300,000,000 6oads Frjf oj QuHj $250,000,OOP Goods Free of Oiity Goods Free of OuU) HE ASKED FOR BUTTERMILK. MIND AMD BODY. Real Free Trade foods Imported Free of Duty Nftlior. Ove^4 V^cKitilcj) ^W>overt9' Gorman y Her Company. The Epworth Herald reports "an no tual occurrence" at the Palmer House, Chicago, iu which a zealous night wateuman ami a loquacious parrot wen the causes of considerable embarrass meut for Mrs. Marie Krossling. of Mil waukee. The" cashier put upon tin lady's bill a charge for six extra lodg­ ings for room 7HS. This called forth an explanation, which resulted iu a cli­ max highly amusing to all but the Mil waukee guest. "How is this, sir?" asked Mrs. Kress- ling of Clerk Whipple. - "1 occupied ihf room alone." "1 know nothing about it. except thai the watchman reported hearing voices in your room each night, and you were charged with extra lodgings." "But I protest, sir, it is false. 1 diu not have a s!*iglo caller." The omnipresent night 'watchman was summoned, and he declared that lie had certainly hoard the voices of two persons in room T.vS at various hours each night. "I could plainly hear you talking to some other woman," was all the watch­ man would vouchsafe in response tc -Mrsr-Kressltng's dentals. 7 "Couldn't it have been a servant girl?" suggested Clerk Whipple. "No; the chambermaid never came in during the evening. 1 was alone with only my parrot "Ah, does the parrot talk?" inquired the clerk. "Certainly, quite well." replied Mrs Krossling, "Oh, maybe the watchman heard the parrot." And the watchman, with flushed face and nervous manner, walked into the room. "Hello, there! Won't you take a chair?" oft me from the direction of the parrot's cage. The watchman stared blankly at the guest and clerk for a moment, and re­ marked, "Same voice." He rushed down stairs and hurried up to the cashier's window. "Say, just lop off those six extra lodgings against room 738. 'Twas only a poll-parrot in there." Long Sentence. It was the desire of Rev. Augustus Jessopp, for many years a country clergyman in England, to be welcomed by his people as a neighbor and. friend rather than as a clergyman; but he con­ fesses that he was often pulled up by a reminder more or less reproachful that if he had forgotten his vocation, his host had not! "Ever been to Tomb- land fair, Mrs. Cawl?" he asked during a parochial visit, which lie describes in "The Trials of a Country Parson." Mrs. Cawl had a perennial flow of words, which came from her lips in a steady, unceasing and deliberate mono­ tone, a slow tickle of verbiage without . the semblance of a stop. She began: "Never been to 110 fairs sin' I was a girl; bless the Lord, nor mean to 'xcept once when my Betsy went to place and father told me to take her to a show and there was a giant, and a dwarf dressed in green petticoat like a monkey on an organ, an' I says to Betsy my dear they's the works of the Lord but they hadn't ought to be showed but as the works of the Lord to be had in remembrance, and don't you think sir as when they shows the works of the Lord they'd ought to begin with a little prayer?" Mr. Jessopp admits that he had no reply at hand, and believes that Mrs. Cawl ever afterward privately consid­ ered him an irreverent heathen. Collecting Street Car Tickets. Heinrieli Fellmeth, professor of com­ mercial science at Munich, recommends the collection of street car tickets. He has founded a monthly bulletin. "Tram- billetsport," the object of which is to give pictures of tickets used for car fare in great cities, and furnish detail­ ed information about them. He wishes to establish a society and a tramblllet bourse. What Could He Expect? Mr. Edison has been trying for sev­ eral days to get a cathode photograph of a human brain. He 1b conducting his experiments in New Jersey, a fact which may account for the delay.--Min­ neapolis Tribune. Historical Old Theater. The old Marshall Theater in Rich- win Booth, Billy Florence, Creston Clarke, Mrs. Debar, and other dra­ matic celebrities started out, is to be torn down and give place to a clothing store. Victim--You say you supply"ballo(/ns to guests on the top floor in case of fire. Are they already filled? Chicago Hotel Clerk--Oh, no. Just wait until the fire has made progress enough and you can fill your balloon with hot air. -Life. time. 'What man s courage is as great at o in the morning as at,midday? Whatman's judgment is as clear then?' 'Hallucinations, as well as fears are most apt to appear at night.' 'To check many diseases we cannot employ bet­ ter therapeutics than to strengthen the cortex, and thus strengthen the mental energy.' 'To this end the first thing the good doctor does is to inspire confi­ dence in his patient.' Dr. Clouston thus presents a good foundation for a scien­ tific miud cure which some ingenious therapeutist will doubtless some day work out in detail."--Literary Digest. Ready lor His Opportunity. Never was a better story told of being ready to seize an opportunity than that of the pilot 011 the New York ferryboat, as related in Harper's Round Table. The pilot was at one time a bootblack, and often crossed to the other side 011 the boats. It was his delight to watch the pilot and engineer at work. Partic­ ularly was he fascinated by the engi­ neer's manoeuvers in getting the boat into the slip, and this interest 011 his part stood him in good stead at one time. We were unusually crowded, says the pilot. 011 the trip when my stroke of good luck took place, both gangways running past the engine-room being choked up with horses and wagons. Most of the drivers had gone forward, and I sat in my usual place 011 the ledge at the engine-room door alone. Bang! the first bell sounded to reduce her to half speed, and I glanced around to wat 'h the engineer shut off steam. lie was sitting facing the engine in his arm chair, his chin iu his hand, and his a mi. rosing 011 the side of the chair. I was surprised to see that he made no move, and thinking he was asleep, I ran in to shake him. By this time the pilot evidently thought something was wrong, and the big bell sounded twice, meaning, as you probably know, to stop the engine. I could not make the engi­ neer move, and without hesitating I stepped across to the engine, and grasp­ ing the wheel, I shut off the steam and disconnected the eccentrics. Of course the engine stopped, and the pilot, thinking everything was all right, commenced to send down his signals. I was a little frightened--more at the idea of my working the big engine tliar at making any mistake, for I knew ex­ actly wluijt to do. _ . Well, we had some trouble making the slip, and 1 had to back her out. I can toll you, working that lever bar wa,< 110 easy job. Then came the sharp, tinkle for full speed, and shortly I had her well out into the river. Then came the bells to stop her, and again to re­ verse and go ahead under half Speed. By 1 hat time I was very tired, but 110 longer nervous, and when we again neared the slip and the welcome bell to stop the engine sounded. I was very glad. The-double signal to back water came, and I pushed the lever bar up and down twice before I got my last signal to stop. When I heard the rattle of the chains as they tied her to the slip I was worn out, and it seems to me I must have fainted, for when I came to, it was in the presence of the pilot and some of the officers of the line. They told me the engineer had died of heart disense; and in recognition of my. services .they placed me at school and gratified my ambition to become a pilot, as you see. Covered in the Presence of Royalty. The Lord of Ivinsale lias the privi­ lege of wearing his hat in the presence of his sovereign. On one occasion George IV. rebuked the then hoiaer of the title at a drawing-room for assert­ ing it. • H 1 "Don't bite off move, thaniyouv can chew," but chew all you can. X Rays on X Roads. tory, where he did not allow the affairs of his household to disturb him; and Madame ,Saint-Hilaire, indeed, was careful to guard him against all worry* of doinestie matters. In his laboratory he was accustomed, being a naturalist, to have various strange animals. Of these, a monkey was his favorite. His wife possessed a necklace of diamonds of which she was naturally proud. One day this necklace was missing. Madame was in despair, and had the house searched, with the exception of jllonSieur Saint- Hilaire's room. She knew his dislike of being disturbed, and moreover she had not entered this room for a long time, so that she could not have left the diamonds there. Monsieur Saint-Hilaire was hard at work on some researches at the time; and she instructed the servants not to mention the disappearance to him. But the house was again turned topsyturvy", and no diamond necklace was found. A few days later, at one of Madame Saint-Hilaire's "at homes," her hus­ band appeared; and a lady among the gViests. who supposed he knew of the disappearance of the diamonds, asked him if they liad been found. ."What diamonds?" he asked 'He called his wife and questioned her: "What pt of a looking filing was this that you have lost?" She de­ scribed the diamond necklace. V f "Ah," said the zoologist,' "for several days my baboon has had in' his pos­ session,. generally worn about his neck, a similar thing to that describee!." "But why did you not tell nic'f his wife exclaimed in indignation. "Why," answered Monsieur Saint- Hilaire, "I supposed that it belonged to him. He seemed to be very fond and proud of it!" IN A SORRY PLIGHT. DEMOCRACY KNOWS NOT WHAT : TO DO. 1A Distressed, Discouraged and Dis­ rupted Party Beatins the Bush for a Presidential Candidate--Leaders See No Show to Carry the Country. Free Trade Creates Them. Free trade offers 110 protection to trusts.--New York World, April 11, 1892. Just four years later, under a free trade tariff, the same paper occupied nearly a full page of its issue of April 29, 1396, to describe "Five Great Mo­ nopolies that Are Now Raising Prices." Money in the United States. Per capita Year of population. 1S92 $30 21 Largest on record l»yo 34 3S Less than in 1SS8. Democratic ' decrease... $1 S3 Hopes It Is Un>true. It is to be hoped that there is no truth in the rumor that Mr. Reed wjll decline a reuomination to Congress. His absence from that body would be a favor to the Democrats that he can not afford to grant.--St. Louis Globe- Democrat. And the Weary Walter Lived Over. Again the Joys of the Faijm. "How's the buttermilk?" asked the tired man; and the weary waiter looked the ennui lie felt as he answered: ""Churned fresh every hour." "Well, now, give me a glass from the last hour, and let her be full," said the tired man. Then he unfolded the. mid­ night edition, smiled as if memories haunted him, and never seeing a line of all the black type which tried to startle sated humanity. He was thinking of buttermilk fresh from the churn, and the big, staring headlines were as blank paper before him. The weary waiter disturbed his reveries. • "Buttermilk's all out, sir.' He said the "sir" as one who follows a vacant form, and meant nothing by It. "I'm sorry," said the tired man, tak­ ing coffee and sandwich--of course-- and still conjuring up pictures;of the country. "Great thing when you're tired." said he, smiling, and looking past the weary, waiter and the coffee urn, and the blank wall beyond: "La! I can hear the si>ft chug of the churn dasher.yet when the butter is coming. Gets lighter then, and splashes inside, and 'the yellow drifts wash down from the hollows in the lid, and you hit tw.k-e half-way and once clear clown, and--butter's come." The weary waiter shifted without re­ leasing his stare at the street, silent iii midnight darkness. "And they put the buttermilk down in the springliouse in a great big jar, and the water swishes around it, and there's a board on top, with a stone to keep it down.' And Sunday morning you curry the horses-and turn them out 011 the clover pasture, and dive off the bank in the river and take a wash, and put in a clean hickory shirt and your Sunday clothes, and lay down in the shade of the apple tree in the long, soft grass, and catch the wind from .the woods and the music of the cow bells far away--and then you think of the buttermilk." "That's right,"^said the weary wait­ er, as lie rearranged the sugar bowl and spoon holder. 'And you go down and dip it up with a big tin cup, and drink it in great big swallows, and the other boys come in, and we all sit there and drink and talk of the tough times we are having, and chatter about the girls, and josh each other about going home with them frofn meeting, and after a while dinner is ready, and we go in and eat fried chick­ en and mashed potatoes, and biscuit and custard pie1 " "r-ni-ni," said the weary waiter, fer­ vently. "And then again along in the after­ noon," resumed the timl man. "we get out there when the sun is down, and we have another cupful, and the whip- poorwill is booming from some place up in the clouds, and the katydid is telling of the frost just six weeks ahead, and the cattle are standing along the barn­ yard fence, with the smell of fresh milk in the mellow air, and the tin cup has yellow flecks all over the sides, and we fill it again and drink " "Or in the harvest field," said the weary waiter. "Yes, when the women folks send it out in a jug. with a slab of ginger-bread in the long forenoon, and we take great swallows " "And sweat-- "And sweat, and buckle down with the cradle and the rake, and set up a shook to shade the buttermilk " "And a rain comes up and we run for the barn." The weary waiter stood erect, and smiled delightedly. All. yes! Ah, yes! That was life, after all." The tired man took his check to the elesk and waited outside for an owl car to <-ome along; but all the time he was thinking of that mellow nectar, which mingles the acids and sweets of rural ecstasy, and all the tired insistence of his journey home could not impress the city's hopelessness upon him.- Chicago Times-Herald. Uncle Daniel. I Hole Daniel was one of the charac­ ters of the Saeo A alley. He was al­ ways bubbling over with droll speeches. At one time he adopted a city-bred boy who gave him great annoyance by not 'falling in with country ways. Uncle Daniel-tried hard to teach him to mow, but in vain, and after a time the old gentleman was heard inquiiing at the village for a "small boy about four years old." "What do you want him for?" some one asked. "I want him to ride on the heel of George's scythe and keep it down, was the answer. Again, when it was the custom of the neighbors to "change,. works" in dressing their pork, the water had cooled somewhat before Uncle Daniel's hog was immersed, and the bristles did not yield readily. The other men, at a little distance, were succeeding better. •is your 'bout ready to hang up, Daniel?" inquired a brother butcher across the way. "Yes, Joe," was the disgusted an­ swer, "if you want to hang him up by i the hair of his head." His neighbors complained that the squirrels were eating their corn, but Uncle Daniel boasted that he had no trouble at all. "But how do you prevent it?" they asked. "I never plant any outside rows," lie answered, wisely. Then it was remembered that he did not plant corn at all. A gentleman once asked him if he could remember his grandmother. "I guess I can," said Uncle Daniel, "but only as I saw her once. Father had been away all day, and when he came home he found I had failed to do something he expected of me. He. Caught up a rough apple-tree limb, and walked up to me with it. Grandmoth­ er appeared on the doorstep with a small, straight stick in her hand, and instantly Ijanded it to my father. --- -Here, Joe,' ^aid i.hc,' 'lirk~T)aiIioi with a smooth stick!' And he did. Who wouldn't Yemember such a grand­ mother as that?" Her Diamonds. The inherent ignorance of vnuch-en- grossed men of science as to ordinary matters is illustrated by an amusing anecdote of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire the younger, a famous French zoologist. Monsieur Saint-Hilaire was accus­ tomed to bury himself in his labora- Mental Influence in Its Relation t* Bodily Fanctidns* * The lengths to, which -mind curists and faith curists have gone in advocacy of their sp£cial methods, to the exclu­ sion of all dther modSs of treatment, have caused many persons to look ask­ ance at all assertions regarding the in­ fluence of tlife mind over bodily func­ tions and processes, yet no' physiologi­ cal fact is better established thffti tli£ existence of such an influence. Re­ garding some phases of it Modern Med­ icine (February) has the folio wing, to say editorially, its remarks being sug­ gested by an address maele recently by Dr. T. S. Clouston before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, Scot­ land. We quote a"few paragraphs be­ low: "Every bodily organ and function is represented in the cortex of the brain, by means of. which all are harmonized and unified. Each neuron, with its bund reels of fibers and its thousands of dendrites, has relation to some particu­ lar part and function, and. is connected not only with all other neurons,- but, directly or indirectly, with multitudes of other similar structures which help to form the brain. Every function of the body--laughing, talking, weeping,, di­ gestion, sweating, etc.--is affected through the influence of the brain cor­ tex.- * » * • v.". ' ... • s "Tlie evidence that the brain cortex regulates absorption,' secretion, avascu­ lar tone, as well as the various tissue changes and other activities of the body, is complete. Sores in melanchol­ ic pei-sons wilb not heal. In cases of lung diseases iu idiots and imbeciles, there is so little resisting power against the tubercular bacillus that two-thirds of them die1 of consumption. Sir Sam­ uel Baker noted that grief and hunger is nearly always followed by fever in certain parts of Africa. When in Mex­ ico two years ago, we founei that quite a proportion of chronic invalids attrib­ uted their illness to getting angry, a fit of anger( in that country being-us­ ually followed by a severe illness. Death occurs in many cases, not so much because of disease as because of the diminished Hoisting mental and nervous force which opposes it. A bad memory auei an attack of eczema in a man of seventy-five may be due to the same cause. A cheerful and buoyant mind, as well as a sound'brain, are all- important in both the prevention and the healing of disease. "Blisters have been caused by sugges­ tions eluring hypnotic conditions. * * * Warts have been charmed away, gout swellings have disappeared at the cry of 'Mad dog' or 'Fire.' These are extra­ ordinary examples of an action just as mil. though less patent, of the influ­ ence which the brain is continually ex­ ercising upon other portions of the body. "Most diseases are aggravated at night when the brain is least active. Most convulsive attacks occur at that WOLVES INCREASING IN NORWAY Ravenous Animals Raid Outlying t Settlements. During the lakt two or three yuirs wolves have without doubt increased considerably in Norway. Not only have they committed a good deal of damage among domestic animals, but' in some cases the elk have been-so persecuted by th£m as to be obliged to take refuge among the haunts of ipen. Last win- tei> in the Selbo district^ near Trondli- jem, the remains of several elks were found in the forest with the tracks of the bloodthirsty brutes showing plenti­ fully in the snow all around, while many more of the big deer must un­ doubtedly have fallen victims to their ravenous appetites. Two men driving a sleigh with sleepers for the railway came across a big elk in sore plight; three of the pack which had attacked, him lay around dead or dying, pierced With his great antlers, while he him­ self coulel barely stand. Needless to say-, the worthy peasants made the most of "the occasion; they tilled the un­ happy bull and received the- govern­ ment reward for each of the wolveSi •s Only, however, when they are in droves will wolves attack the larger animals. At first they try to stalk their intended victim, and then, springing upon it with long bounds, they endeavor to pull it down; failing .in this; they proceed to hunt itin the me>st methodi­ cal manner, two or three following: the quarry closely. the others endeavoring to cut off its retreat by lying in wait and bounding at its throat. In spring, and summer wolves are rarely seen, as they keep for the most part at the soli­ tude of the woodlands, but in severe cold and stormy weather they collect together in packs and descend to the more open and inhabiteel tracts of the country. While herding his reindeer during the long winter iu the far north the Laplander must be on his guard against marauding wolves. Frequently for weeKs together there is no sign of the common enemy; then, without warning, the cry of the watcher rings out over the snow. "The wolves are afoot!" And hoft-ovor blinding the snow, however dark the night, all the inhabitants of the little camp , rush forth to defend the animals which to them represent wealth, clothing, food, existence itself. In such a melee the small, wiry ilogs, of which the Laps always keep a num­ ber. purforin an important part, bark­ ing and snapping at their big oppo­ nents in the uiost plucky way,.and dis­ tracting their attention generally until the arrival of their owners upon the scene. Doetor Lost the Bet. William Thompson, better known as "Uncle" Thompson, who five's east of the Boston r<»id, a little south of the north city limits, had a reputation that George Washington might have"envied.. According to the neighborhood tradi-' tion, "I"nolo" Thompson is not only un­ able to tell a lie. but lie is so conserva- tive that he has never been known to tell aii innocent untruth. "I'll bet $5 I can make him.tell what is not so," said "Uncle" Thompson's physician one night when several friends were discussing the truthful man's peculiarity. John Williams, a neighbor te> "Uncle" Thompson, prompt­ ly took the bet. The eloctev walked into Thompson's house next morning, and while he was in conversatie* with the old man Mr. Williams drove up to the gate. "Uncle" Thompson went to see what he wanted, and then the Doctor--as he had agreed to do--went out at the back door and hid iu the barn. "Good morning. 'Uncle,'" said Mr. Williams. "Is the Doe^tor in jour house?" "lie was there when 1 came out," an­ swered "Uncle." The Doctor paid his loss. The Power of Money. Yes, "money makes the mare go," When properly applied In building roads whereon with loads She can get riglit up and glide. " Newspapers and Good Roads. The newspapers published in the country towns are now doing the great­ est amount of good in the matter of se­ curing highway improvement: They are the preachers who.reach the people. | and they are reaching them in the right way.--L. A. W. Bulletin. Should Need No Argument. For fa rm'Crs who. wpuld be brought close to market, increase the value of their farms, adel to the pleashre of liv­ ing, save money on wear and tear of vehicles, be merciful to their beasts and keep the boys on the farm and not iso­ late them from the worlel and society by barriers of impassable highways, 110 good roads argument is necessary. Knglish as Road Builders. Englishmen visiting this country are surprised at the condition of our roaels. Some of them even go so far as to say there is not a decent road in this coun­ try. Compareel with English roads their assertion is in a great measure true. Every street there, county or city, long or short, which comes uneler the control of the authorities,^ either1 paved, asphalted or macadamized. Smoothness, hardness, neatness and durability are its characteristics. While driving along through an Engliskcoun- try an American is surprised to see gangs of men at work repairing what in America would be looked upon as an elegant piece of road. The least hollow is quickly tilled, the legist hump leveled, the first stone is carted away. A Neglected Nee:!. It is scarcely necessary to argue for the construction of good roads, says the Now York Press, but at this time and 111 this part of the country an argu­ ment of great force presents itself to make such a measure one not only of expediency, but urgency. In a period 01 agricultural depression, due largely to the "competition of-theagricultura production of other Western States, it is of the soundest policy to adopt such public measures as will eliminish the cost of agricultural production here. Almost the only measure which the State can take in this elirection is to help the farmers to good roads. When we realize that the difference, accord­ ing to the degree of excellence of the road, between one wagonload and ten, we see what a tremendous betterment of agricultural conditions is possible by the adoption of legislation of which the beneficence has already been proved. Hancock and Arkell. The first news that the President of the Uuiteel Staters received of the death of General Grant came in a dis­ patch that read: "Grover Cleveland, Washington: Grant dead; send two non-commissioned officers and two pri­ vates. W. J. Arkell." That was the first of a series of telegrams that came flying into Washington at the rate of half a dozen an hour, and each one signed "W. J. Arkell." When the fact becajne known that General Hancock was going to Mount McGregor to ar­ range for Grant's funeral, he received a series of dispatches with the same signature. General Hancock reached Saratoga and went to the house of J. W. Drexel. "Mr. Drexel," said he, "who the devil is Arkell?" "This is he." said Mr. Drexel; "let me intro- duce you. Mr. Arkell, General Han­ cock." Arkell reflected a moment as he held the general's hand, and then he said: "Hancock? Hancock? Let me see; army or navy?" A Strange Pet. A Saco girl has got a pig which she leads about the streets of that town as other girls sometimes lead a poodle. The pig is young, and pretty as pigs go, and wears a broad bow of scarlet rib­ bon about its neck. It ambles along contentedly as a poodle would, except when its mistress' walks take it past an inviting puddle, when there is usual­ ly a sharp and noisy struggle for a minute or two before the porker can be persuaded to pursue its promenade.-- Augusta Journal. Not in Correct Time. Sarasate once found his memory ele- serting him at a recital; but he dis­ covered the reason of the mishap in time to prevent a failure, A lady was fanning herself in the front row of stalls. The violinist stopped playing. "Madam," he said, "how can i play in tw.o-four time when you are beating six-eight?" The lady shut up her fan, and the recital was concluded success­ fully. „ Dangers of Travel. f Only one railway passenger among 28,000,000is annually killed in England. In France it is one in 19,000,000, in Ger­ many one in 10,000,000, Italy one in 6,000,0000, America one in 2,000.000 to 3,000,000, and Russia "One in 1,000,000. Pittsburg Dispatch. Vaccination Before Marriage. In Sweden anel Norway, before any couple can be .legally married, certifi­ cates must be producee! showing that both bride axid brielegroom have been vaccinated. • • t We wish we could be born like young chickens are; you bet we would never break the shell. An Eloquent Address. The subject of the protection of Amer­ ican missionaries in Turkey was under discussion in the United States Senate recently, and in the course of the de­ bate, Mr. Frye, of Maine, delive^gd a brief speech which was so effective a' piece of impromptu eloquence as to be worth every American's reading. Schoolboys might well adopt it is a declamation, and all readers, old and young alike, will find themselves stirred by its patriotic apt eal. Let us hope that the United S • s may never fall behind England's o mple in protecting American citizens v herever they may be, or whoever may seek to outrage them. We subjoin an extract from Sen­ ator Frye's speech: "Mr. President: I think that one of the grandest things in all the history of Great Britain is that she does protect her subjects everywhere, anywhere, and under all circumstances. I do not wonder that a British subject lftves his country. This little incident, with which you are all familiar, is a marvel­ ous illustration of the protection which Great Britain gives to her subjects: "The King of Abyssinia took a Brit­ ish subject named Cameron, about twenty years ago, carried him up to the fortress of Magdala, on the heights of a rocky mountain, and. put him into a dungeon, without cause assigned. It took six months for Great Britain to find that out. Then Great Britain de­ manded his immediate release. King Theodore refused the release. "In less than ten days after that re­ fusal was received 10.000 British sol­ diers. including 5.000 Sepoys, were on boarel ships of war, and were sailing down the coast. When they bad dis­ embarked, they were marched across that terrible country, a distance of 700 miles, under a burning sun, up fke mountain, up to the very heights in front of the frowning dungeon; then gave battle, battereel down the iron gates of the stone walls, reached down into the dungeon and lifted out of it that one British subject, King Theo­ dore killing himself with his own pistol. Then they carrieel him down the mountain, across the land, put him on board a white-winged ship and sped him to his home in safety. That rosjt Great Britain 925.000,000, and made Gen. Napier Lord Napier of Magdala. "Tnat was a great thing for a great country to do--a country that has an eye that can see all across the ocean, all across the land, away tip to the mountain heights, ant) away doWn to. the darksome dungeon, one subject of hers out of 38»000,000 of people, anel then lias an arm strong enough and long ocean, across the same lands, up the same mountain heights, down to the same dungeon, and then lift him out anel carry him to his own country and friends. " ' 'in Goel's name, who would not die for a country that will do that?" Nell--Glwllie told - me last night he thought fc»y face would stop an angel in Its filght. Belle--Dont yevg think, you'd better practice on a clock first* my dear?--Philadelphia ItaconL What Will They Do? It would require the gift of prophecy to name the man upon whose shoulders the Chicago convention will cast the (burden of distressed and eliscouraged iand disrupted Democracy. Candidates are not plentiful, anel those that are anentioneel are not well enough known {nationally to make any jjecideel impres­ sion. The dearth of candidates would tie ample indicatieni that tlie Democrats themselves are fully conversant with the situation, but Mr. Cleveland, by his extension of the classified service to UOiOOO Democratic officeholders, by which he secured a reputation as a great anel good and true statesman, added additional weight to the mass of evidence that the leaders of that party kiiow t here is no possible chance for carrying the country. Mr. Cleveland, having inade the use he deeined proper pf tlie- federal patronage, leaves behind very little official pap to be distributed by liis.successor. A magnificent and ..wholly beautiful reformer "he is. But there is a complete appreciation throughout. the" country of the total .lack of sincerity in Gtover Cleveland's civil .service performances, and here ,and there can be found a Mugwump or two ready to admit that Mr. Cleveland has acquired a great reputation at no personal sacrifice. The hypocrisy of his action is understood. Therefore it is not of immediate concern.. What is more pressing is the question of "What Mill tne Democracy do?" That it will nominate candidates and adopt some sort of a platform is settled, as is tlie fact that they will enter into the cam­ paign with as much enthusiasm as pos­ sible and make a suflicjent noise to create an impression that they are real­ ly in earnest, whereas they will be per­ forming but a perfunctory duty. They are a sad anel troubled set of incompe­ tents, to be sure, and were their rec­ ord not no palpably bad it might be possible to pif»y them a little. Not counting ex-Representative Blanel of Missouri, Colonel William R. Morri­ son of Illinois and Secretary John G. Carlisle of Kentucky, there are now four candidates for the Democratic nomination. Ex-Governor William E. Russell of Massachusetts and ox-Gov- ernor Pattisou of Pennsylvania have been in the field for a fortnight. The two most recent additions are ex-Gov­ ernor Campbell of Ohio and Governor Matthews of Indiana. Thus the Dem­ ocrats have four Governors, three of them "exes,' from whom to choose. It is noticeable that three of them, Rus- sell. Pattison and-Caihpb^ll, have been Governors of Republican States, while one is a Governor of a doubtful State. Probably the fact that these men, un­ der certain conditions, have been vic­ torious, is supposed to add to their availability, but this year, "any old Tiling" will elo. Mr. Russell carried Massachusetts three times by his personal popularity, though once he was elected by a scratch. That would make him formid­ able if everything were equal. Ex- Getv. Pattison was elected Governor of Pennsylvania because there was a split in the Republican party in Uie Key­ stone State. He was just lue-ky. E.v- t!ov. .lames E. Campbell, of Ohio, has Jiad a varied career, lie wants to be nominated and pants for it impatient­ ly. Campbell has been elected and de­ feated for Congress and has served as Governor of the Buckeye State for one lerm and been defeated for ro-elccC.on twice, once by Maj. McKinley jnd again by (Jov. Buslinell. He is a Demo­ crat of the Hill stripe. With him the word "Democracy" is far more import­ ant than the principle's it represents. He has run for Governor 011 a free sil- por platform, on a straddle and as a goldbug. It's tlie office he seeks, and 'hangfd be tne issue." Gov. Mathews. !>f Indiana, is the latest addition to the list. He has had longing eyes on the presidency ever since Minister Gray :liod 'u Mexico. For awhile he was re­ aring. but modesty has disappeared and Mr. Ma new* is running a bureau. He' is reall a silver man. a protege of Sen­ ators ^ ftorhees anel Turpie, but he is anxious to subordinate finance and to "reunite" the party. Bland, of Mis­ souri is a silver man. He commands attention as such and must not be over- * looked. He served in the House for years and was defeated two years ago by a Republican. Morrison, of Illinois, is an ;>gnostic in politics, a man with whom a presidential ambition has been <1 bobby for years. He is neither a gold- bug nor silver man, proposes not to veto any financial measure Congress passes, and hopes to be taken upon that issue. 'Carlisle, of Kentucky, is an ex- silver man converted to "sound money" by Grover Cleveland. He is almost as modesi; as Russell, but is quite as anx­ ious. The trouble is that his conver­ sion to "sound money" is so recent that 110 "goldbug" trusts him, while the sil­ ver men e-all him a Judas and hate him. Cleveland is still a possibility, but the Mugwumps are beginning to weaken 011 him. But "What will the Democracy do?" Senator Mitchell's Belief. The people of this country never have believed, elo not now believe, and never will believe, in my judgment, not at least in the next three generations to come, if ever, that a properly devised system of protection to home industries, by which encouragement is given to home labor and houie capital, and whereby the labor anel products of this country are shielded from the ruinous effects of competition with the cheap labor and the products of the cheap anel in many instances absolutely servile labor of European and Asiatic coun­ tries, is one that will tend to reduce the price of either American labor or of American products of either fnrm nr shop or mine. The undeniable facts of history show conclusively that there is no warrant for any.siich belief.--Hon. John H. Mitchell, U. S. Senator, of Ore­ gon. Disgrace of Democracy. If there Is a defalcation in this coun­ try, it is due to Democratic administra­ tion. rf there is dishonor in this coun­ try, it is the child of Democratieiegis- lation. If there-is an inability to pay Chinese Competition. The Chinese Empire possesses in great abundance and variety every nat­ ural resource necessary to make her a great producing and manufacturing nation, lier soil and climate and her immense territory are such as to enable her to produce enormous supplies of cotton and wool, as well as other raw material. Her people are equal to the Japanese in respect to industry and iu their imitative and adaptative faculty, and superior to them in respect to their powers of application and endurance. Wages in Japan are ridiculously low as compared with American nnd Knrn-_ pean standards, but in China wages are even lower tliauin Japan. As a fact of much importance I may here state that Japanese manufacturers are even now building cotton factories in China, because they can there get cheaper labor.--Hon. Lee Mantle, U. S. Senator, of Montana. "Livery of Democratic Tariff Reform." ((;rover Cleveland.) As aelopted by True Democracy from the J. Bull model of the Cobden Club, London. K n o w a n " A r r a n t " L i o i . The truth is that the reciprocity clause has not helped the farmer to a foreign market for any of his products, and the pretense that it does help him is nothing more nor less than r^ross ignorance or arrant lying.--New York World, Oct. 10, 1802. It took the farmers some little time to appreciate the "arrant lying" in the foregoing paragraph, but the universal clamor for a restoration of prosperity shows that the people have pretty well sized up Mr. Pulitzer's paper. the debts of the country, It is the "pro­ duct of Democratic statesmanship. And you stand here paralzyed by your own utter inefficiency. You stand by trying to partition, by scales, by metes and bounds, the responsibilities of this trou­ ble, upon the members of your awn par­ ty. You stand to-elay charging that this faction or that faction is responsible. The President of the United States hurled into the face of the Democratic majority of the Fifty-third Congress the declaration thaf you were guilty of abandoning every principle of Democ­ racy, that you wei;e guilty of "party perfidy and party dishonor;" and the great redeeming feature of Grover Cleveland's administration--that which will save him in some sort of shape in the future records and pages of history --is the fact that you destroyed a great Republican revenue-raising, industry- propagating law, and when you did it Grover Cleveland, in the face of God and man, said: "My name shall never be disgraced by approving that bill."--- Hon. Chas. H. Grosvenor, M. C., of Ohio.