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-sasfsu, v*lf>.> ^ *:f7>fc^T^ > .> •"' I. VMtLYKE. Ii»KNI*r MtifENBY, IOIS, '„ TLohillahd'b hones won him $58,295 last year. The large* winnings were *>y Prearro, $12,485. Sexatok Isham G. Harris, of Ten- IWnnrri. is a small, trim-looking man, with scanty gray hair, a stiff, straight, 4jray mustache and the general appear­ ance of a Malay General. He has a jMlL-toned voice and a very eloquent flrianner after he has lashed himself no enthusiasm. He is a good lawyer. He has all the rales of the Senate on His tongue's end. , ' - As the Irish immigration is falling off somewhat rapidly, says the New York Evening Post, it would indeed not l>e at all surprising if we should before long find magazine writers on this thorae referring to the period be­ tween 1840 and 1880 as at least the sil­ ver age of the kitchen, only* inferior to tfafs goldcih age of Native American help I -which preceded it, and lamenting the Irish servant-girl as a lost source of Household comfort. , ^ . . . ^ _ * y . :k- f~ : f . ^<•- . •1 „ „ Ix Dundee, Scotland, a dairyman used ^portion of his unventilated, undrained ' llbuse as a dairy, and, while a boy in his employment was sick with sctflet fever he allowed his wife \and servant, who -*• liad care of tho boy, to milk cows, fcandle milk vessels, aiM dispose of milk it customers. During four days seven­ teen persons in families supplied with milk from this dairy were attacked with the disease, four of whom died. The -dairyman was arrested and fined £5. U Thb students of St. Andrew's Uni­ versity have lost a first-class lecture through the retirement of Minister Xiowell from the Rectorship of that in­ stitution. Next to Gladstone and Buskin, Lowell is said to be the most pleasing speaker in England. But Jk'otch university students are believed not to care much about oratory, which probably accounts for the preference by the students of another Scotch universi­ ty this year of Sir Stafford Northcote, •prosy and dull, to both Mr. Buskin and >||r. Txevelyau. ' ••->* Thk quarterly fetiifrft of marriages, Mrths and deaths in England, ending Heptember, 1883, shows the resident population of the United Kingdom to |>e 35,639,060 persons; that of England •itid Wales being 26,770,744, of Scotland 3,825,744, and of Ireland 6,042,572. To- fU births in the United Kingdom, 271,- AB2 children; deaths, 148,827; and mar­ riages, 119,428. Birth-rate, 30.3; death- *ate, 16.6; marriage-rate, 13.4. The / 'ipnual death-rate from diarrheal dis- t&osea as compared with continental cit­ ies is given as follows: In twenty-eight large British towns, 2.1 per 1,000; Sreslao, 8.2; Munich,8.4; Brooklyn, 8.4; -Berlin, 11.3 Peof. IjAZENUy, of the Agricultaral Experiment Station at Columbus, O., *sks anybody and everybody to write to tjjim, giving any information they can concerning any insect, bug, worm, or j|y which they know to be injurious to fruits, vegetables or grains, together iritli any remedies which they have found to be of use. If desired, he will a%»nd blanks to be filled out, or any per­ sonal letters reporting any of these points will be gladly received. It will f| ut a large fund of information in his j| ands, which he will collate and put out »i i pamphlet form, with such scientific ' *tkcts as he may possess, which will form ft valuable contribution to the entamol- of Ohio, and resnlt in saving thous­ ands of dollars each year. £*• The thon§kt that this un-American conduct should be pounced down on; hence the salt. Unfortunately Sickle ̂lias gained the suit--and tmgenerons people will be qnidt to east imputations on the fair lame of the hardworking g«« meter. This increase in steam vessels, espe­ cially in Great Britain, is rapidly revo­ lutionizing ocean traffic, says the Chi­ cago News. The tonnage built on the Clyde the present year--mostly steam will not be less than 400,000. When to thiB are added the figures from the Tyne, Tay, Frith, Tees, Wear, Mersey, and other English and continental Eu­ ropean rivers, and the number and ton. nago of steam vessels will far exceed anything previously experienced in the history of the industry. Bnt, while steamers are increasing in number, size, and speed, sailing vessels are rap­ idly decreasing. In Great Britain, from 1873 to 1882, inclusive, there was a net reduction of 3,053 in number of •ailing vessels, and of 679,160 tons in their capacity. On the other hand during the same period 2,133 steamers, with a capacity of 1,795,620 tons, were added to the British seamaiine. Thus, while the net number of sailing vessels strnck off the British register between 1873 and 1882 were 920 greater than the number of steamers added, the steam tonnage added exceeded the net sailing tonnage deducted by 1,226.560 tons. This is an extraordinary revolu. tion in the composition of a nation's marine in a decade. Snch a purging of a national register of effete and inef­ ficient vessels, and replacing them by those of the newest and most efficient pattern, is a lesson for other countries, and especially for our own. It is also having its effect in an enormous reduc­ tion of freight. * ISPMPPlPlllilf •MWV ILLPTOPrWATE THE TARIFF. •'Many people are at present praisled over tho *Soudan* of which they hear so much in the recent reports from |Sgypt," says a writer in the London $Tews. "They are not quite sure if it would betray an unpardonable amount of ignorance for them to confoss to a {general kind of nnacquaintance with |y liat this Soudan is and how far it ex- ? Tends. Would it give these people-- ^ Jrhp, by the way, need not be ashamed to confess their ignorance--any kind of r||atisfaotory information to tell them fhat Soudan is the name given by the flgypti^ns to all their dependent Em­ pire stretching from the Third Cat. ,£fl|ract for an indefinite distance toward fhe lakes, and from the Bed Sea .to the JpVest^iji borden of Darfdur ? This Em- 4' ire comprises much of Nubia, all Sen-Oar, all Kordofan and all Darfour. It said to be about 1,000 miles squase, . fr as large as India; The vast extent 1,000,000 square miles is said to be y^pihabited by about 12,000,000 people, most of thorn Mussulmen, and many of . these of exceptional ferocity, fnnatioism daring." TTI) OonctAL Dakiel E. Sickles, says the Detroit Free Press, has once more «4peaten the gas company with which for Several months he has had a contro. tS^eray. There will be general regret at ' .this result, for if there is any corporate »i>podv that is thoroughly enthroned in !?Hhe affections of the people it is the gas V Companies. Worsetlmn all, the General ' Ipttacked that stanch old friend of the a < public--the gas meter. Could ingrati- •joiude go further? While Sickles was ™ Europe, and the gas was shut off , from the building, the thrifty meter saw •o reason why it should take a vacation oftlso. It could not sit there all the day ""idle. Sickles might come and Sickles ^taught go but it went on forever. As „*t%ho General had been paying big prices r.^ior candles he did not burn over in "JSurope, he was so unpatriotic as to re- to pay for gas he did not burn in Our Marine Hospital 8ervk*. | tion *ill proeeed. One of the most useful and beneficent' the evidence wm fasten upon institutions connected with the Govern- j leader, toe feasibility . . .. _ . , .. , of the Danville massacre and the Oo- ment is the marme hospital service. | |)iah nmrder. If the instanoee of vio- At each port of entry is a hospital for ' lenoe and intimidation have not been the reception of all sick and disabled : more numerous oflate it is because the seamen, where they are carefullv i Woody work hue been done so effect- ,, . .. : ; >vely m the part that there has l»een treated unfal able to resume the* j llttle rw> for ̂ at election avocation. The high state of neeful- \ tinsten. In Bontt CSlflhoMiiB, Mississippi, ncss and efl^ciency now preuented by j Louisiana, Florida, and other Southern the marine hospital service is in striking States the nupremacy of the shotgun is contrast to the inefficiency at that insti- folly acknowledged by the blaoks, who prior to 1872. _ keep away from the polls or vote the This service was established in 1798 'Democratic ticket in sufficient numbers for the relief of sick and disabled to assure the suooeas of the Bourbons, seamen, the word "vessel" in the act of But the anti-Bourbons of Virginia had A CHICAGO Alderman, noted for his oratory, his utter disregard of the rules laid down by Lindley Murray, and his zeal in. behalf of ward-strikers* bum­ mers, and young toughs who find their way to the bridewell, was one evening about four years ago urging the rejec­ tion of an ordinance giving, according to a veracious local authority, the right of way to a certain railroad into the city. He spoke of the injury it would do to the property of the humble work' ingmen along the proposed way, the danger to health, to life, and limb. He had waxed eloquent in opposing the ordinance. Another West-side Alder­ man, noted alike for his discretion, his ability, and his usefulness to corpora­ tions, about this time left his seat and placed an envelope under the oratorical Alderman's hat. A corner of the en­ velope was visible to the orator, and it bore the interesting legend "$1,000" in plain figures. The orator changed his tactics. He said all that he had said against the ordinance was true, but --and here he indulged in a Demos- thenio peroration about the great ad­ vantages conferred on Chicago by rail­ roads, and voted for the ordinance. Im­ mediately on the adjournment he grasped his hat and his envelope and sped home, his coat-tails all the way being parallel with the plain of the horizon. He handed the envelope to the member of his household to whom a husband's secrets are usually intrusted, and desired that person to open, to gaze, to wonder, and thank Providence that the head of her family was on or­ ator and an Alderman, whose vote was worth $1,000. The domestic confidante opened, but found that the denomina­ tion of the enclosed bill did not corres­ pond with the figures of tho legend on the envelope. It lacked one cipher, the domestic confidante cannot yet be made to believe that the Alder­ man is more than one-tenth as great a civic legislator as he esteems himself. Sealing Hotel Figures. An old lady, with a jerky voioe and a great display of snuff-box and specta­ cles, got left by a train at Detroit and had go to a hotel for lodging and breakfast. A few minutes before train time the clerk went up to her room to notify her, and found her sitting in a chair as stiff as a major. As soon as he entered she broke out with: t | | "How much a day is this hotel?" |v j "Two dollars, madam." "How much where don't have supper?" "v-jy,. :f, "Twelve shillings." "How much where you sit hp all night long, expecting to be murdered every minit." "Just the same--twelve shillings." "How much where you don't eat any breakfast for fear of being pizened I" Bhe continued. "Just the some, madam. There is your bed, ami breakfast had lMMn ready these two hours." "Well, I don't pay itl* ^ ^ "But, madam." "No, not if I die fur it! Here I've sot in this blessed cheer all night long, hearing whistles and bells and folks running, and men whooping, and ex­ pecting every minit would be my last "Has that gas been going all night?" "Every minit, sir. I've alius made a practice o' miudin* my business, and I didn't propose to set fire to myself by fooling with that thing. How much is it where you sot and tremble like a leaf, from 8 o'clock at night till next morn­ ing, wishing to goodness vou hadn't been fool nuff to start tor Hlanov alone!" "Just the same, madam." "Not by a jug-full, young man! Here's fifty cents, and you can take the rest out in a lawsuit! I havn't mussed the bed nor touched breakfast, and fifty cents is plenty for having a roof over mv head. Git out o' the way, for I'm going 1" . He had to move aside or be run over, for she picked up her satchel and put on steam until nothing could stop her. She made her way down stairs and started for the depot, and when a boy asked if she would have her baggage toted she wheeled on him and replied: "You meander! I've bin swindled out o* fif*,v cents already, and if there's any more fooling around somebody wiV get hurt V--JDmroit Fns !Yn. Congress embracing "every description of water craft, raft, vehicle, and con­ trivance used, or capable of being used, as a means or auxiliary on or by water." During Buchanan's administration it seems to have presented its lowest de­ gree of inefficiency, conducted as it was on the "contract" system. For in­ stance, at Natchez, Miss., where a hospital had been erected at a cost of $53,250, there hail been no returns of patients admitted and treated during the year 1857. At Portland, Me., # building had been constructed costing over $1UO,OGO, and it was estimated that it would require over $100,000 ad­ ditional to complete it; yet the returns for 1857 showed that only sixty-one patients were treated there during that year. Similar results were presented under the "contract" system at the ports of Bridgeton, N. J., Cincinnati, Ohio, Charleston, S. C., and other ports. In 1872 Senator John A. Logan made a thorough investigation of the entire subject, and very soon formulated a system which he incorporated into a bill, which he successfully pushed through Congress. The result has been satisfactory in the extreme, and bears testimony to tho energy and high statesmanship of its author. The number of seamen in the United States at present contributing to this service is estimated at 200,000. The number of patients actually treated during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, was 28,922. The oSices of the hospitals are, whenever practicable, at the custom houses at the different ports, and the seamen requiring pro­ scriptions only, who are not sick enongh to require being sent to the hospital, are furnished medicines at these offices as "out patients." Nearly 13,000 seamen were treated as "out patients" in 1883. Thousands of human lives, have thus been saved, and untold misery and suffering have l>een averted through the inBtrumentalitv of this most boneficent institution. The "toilers of the sea," the raftsmen, all will remember with gratitude the suc­ cessful efforts in their behalf of the Senator from Illinois, whose statesman­ ship has not been confined to aiding the prosperous, but has been devoted to ameliorating the condition of the hum­ ble and the lowly. He was also the author of the bill establishing a hospital for soldiers and sailors at Hot Springs, Ark., and was himself relieved by its curative waters, but rested not until Congress made provision for his sick comrades in arms, who will soon be able to avail themselves of the benefits of th:s hospital free of charge. -- Wash­ ington letter. The Policy of Silence. Heretofore the Democrats in Con­ gress have talked too much. Now they are disposed to say too little. The can cus has ordered the application of the gag. There is no confidence in the dis­ cretion of the average Democratic poli tician. He cannot open his mouth with­ out putting his foot in it. Henoe the decree of silence. But the silence of fhe Democratic Senators pending the consideration of the Sherman resolution of investigation into recent Southern outrages was ad much of a confession of tho truth of tho charges as if they had optoily <left>iul*(l the Danville riot and tlio t'opiuli »mir< der, and that confe«aion was eiiipluiNi**"! by the solid Democratic vote the passage of the proposal rmolutlMii The Democratic Senators eon Id lit it deny the charges, they were not |ir»< pared to defend them, and yet thrv «<ii deavored by their votes todnfi-nt tlu< in* vestigation. All the usual Dutnoeratii' indiscretions of debute could not have afforded such damuing evidence of Southern terrorism as the silent, sullen, dogged opposition to the impending ex­ posure. The Sherman resolution sets forth the constitutional duty of the National Government to protect its citizens in the exercise of their polit'cal rights; the particulars of tho riot at Danville just previous to the late election, where­ by seven negroes were killed and vast numbers of the same race and party so terrified as to keep from the pollis; the cold-blooded murder of J. P. Matthews in Copiah county, Mississippi, because he cast his vote after being warned thut he must not do so; the resolutions adopted by the citizens of Copiah county approving of the murder and warning the relatives of the mur­ dered man to keep out of politick; and the failure of the authorities of both Yirgiuia and Mississippi to apprehend or prosecute the assassins. After recit­ ing these fact", which are of common notoriety and sustained by ample evi­ dence, the resolution instructs the Sen­ ate Committee on Privileges and Elec­ tions to make a thorough investigation and report their conclusions by bill or otherwise. The Democrats in the Senate voted against this resolution without giving a single reason for their opposition. If the charges are untrue, why do the Democrats oppose the investigation? If they are true but defensible, why do the Democrats decline to meet them on the floor of the Senate ? The inconsistent position taken by the Democrats in this matter can be explained upon only oue theory. The Bourbon leaders of the South approve of the policy of intimidation and assas­ sination as the only means for retaining al soiute dominion in that section and holding it solidly for the Democratic party. They dare not denounce it be­ cause they are personally the benefi­ ciaries of the outrages and have coun­ seled and condoned them among their own people. But they dare not come out openly and defend the outrages be­ cause they know that their party asso­ ciates in the North cannot go before their constituents upon the admission and defense of the Southern Bourbon policy. So they conoeived that there was nothing for them to do but accept the situation in sullen silence. It is not easy to discover how the policy of silence will help the Southern pemocrats out of their ugly dilemma or Protect their party at the North from ie popular indignation which the Bour­ bon methods at the South are bound to taring down upon ft. Tho investiga- organized success on their side. It became necessary to resort to the same methods which had been pursued in other Southern States in ordei" to put down the majority. In Mississippi an occasional political murder like that of Matthews is considered advisable as a precaution against any effort of the ma­ jority to reassert their political rights. The "Democrats in Congress may de­ cline to discuss these affairs, but fortu­ nately there is still one house of that body which is not under their control and will lay before the people the enor­ mity of the Southern outrages com­ mitted in the interest of their party.-- Chicago Tribune. - Bearben A edacity. Por brazen assurance and infamous bulldozing, says a Western contem­ porary, the Yirginia Bourbons are en­ titled to the palm. Not content with defrauding negroes of their political rights, they have tried the same game upon white voters, and when a United States Senator exposes their villainies and denounces their usurpations, they turn upon him, and, by the same bull­ dozing practices, though not carried to the same extent of violence, seek to compel him to resign. The Virginia Senate has passed resolutions calling upon Mr. Mahone to resign his seat. They will, of course, be passed by the House of Delegates alsg, and then it,is stated they will be transmitted to the United States Senate, and a copy of them will also be sent to their intended victim. Neither the resolutions themselves nor the Bourbons in the legislative body which passed them are entitled to any consideration at the hauds of Senator Mahone. They did not elect him, and the manner *in whioh they themselves were elected disqualifies them from making the request they do. Their majority has not a legal existence. If the election laws of the State and of the United States had been duly ohsorved there would have been no Bourbon Legislature in Richmond to­ day. Its alleged members gained their Beats by suppressing the rights of the majority of the people. They were elected by tho shotgun policy, by in­ timidation; by frauds upon the ballot- box. In the couutry adjacent to Danville alone sufficient Re­ publican voters were defrauded of their rights to cliango the com­ plexion of the Legislature. Having been elected by fraud, holding their seats by the grossest of usurpations, the Bourbons then proceeded to get absolute control of the Legislature by turning out men who were legally elected until they had the requisite two thirds to pass tvny measure over a veto. As soon as they gain this abso­ lute control their first step is to de­ mand the resignation of a political op ponent from the United States Senste because he has the badness to de­ nounce the infamous methods by which they stole their seats and to plead for equal rights to all citizens at the polls. Under such oircumstances as these the proper course for Sen­ ator Mahone to pursue is to treat the re jucHt with contempt, and continue in his present position until the end of hit term, before which time there will bo Knot Iter election which will retire thoNM Bourbon usurpers. The Danville cannot bo played twice. There are too many white Republicans and Mi»h<<m>itos in Virginia for that. In Mt*ni»Nippi und Alabama, where the Kt'imlilicttUH are mostly of another and M wi alter ruce, it may be possible to koi p up tho nliotgun polity, but it will luil Wo k with white men more than onoe, Tln re is every indication that tho next election will strike a powerful blow ut ltourlKMtism and its infamous methods, but whether it does or not Senator Malmnc can afford to pay no attention to the demands of usurpers to resign his seat because he does not represent their policy. Sensible Talk. The Petersburg Index-Appeal, one of the strongest Bourbon papers in Virginia, in its discussion of the Sher­ man resolution, says: We do not aav that an lnvestiiration would not have boen ordered by the Senate If tho authorities at Danville had caused the nrrest of every person, white or black, who was snsp?cted on reasonable grounds of having shot at aiM>thei*\>n tho occasion referred to, and bad tried them all; * * * but the edge would have beeq^alcen from any malig­ nant report the eomin ttee inliytat have made iT there had been displayed at Danvl le an earnest, a determined effort lo reach tho whole truth through rovulur judicial inquiry. It is idle--It Is worse than idle--to say thiit the report of tho Oommitteo of Forty or of the graud jury was all thatthecircumstances demanded. Men are not killed and woun<ied with pistols by the half-dozen in the streets of a city without blame somewhere. The cal­ umnies whic'a Penator Hoar will send inio overy home in the "North will.be all the more dangerous bocauee they will be accompanied bjr an Indisputable statement that not one of the persons engi'go^ >ti tho riot haa ever beeu called upon to auxtver in oourt for what he did.«-j* * * It will, we fear, damage Vir­ ginia more than any)bin; has done since the forcible iea4justment of the State's debt was determined upo*). This is very plain and sensible talk, and it shows that the Sherman resolu­ tion is not altogether a brutum ful- men from the Bourbon point of view. The significant declaration in this para­ graph, "men are not killed and wound­ ed with pistols by the half-dozen in the streets of a city without blama somewhere," goes to the core of the shotgun policy. If that blame lies at the doors of the Readjusters, as the Bourbons claim, does any one imagine that the Virginia Legislature would not have investigated it at onoe? Gov. Hoadly is getting into hot water with Standard-Oil Payne's men in the Ohio Legislature. He has sinned against the spoils policy by nominating ex-Gov. Foster for a lunatic asylum trusteeship, and by refusing to remove a one-armed Republican soldier from ofifce. The Payne men threaten to get even with Hoadly by depriving him of power to appoint notaries and other petty officers.-- Chicago Tribune. Sknatoii McPhkrson, of New Jer­ sey, is another able Demo rat who is calling piteously for somebody to come and help the Democratic party let go ofthet«pi$V ft • . r - e f ; • '»•. . ' " " / ' t y ' iMi z LBfe Iaifance. A subscriber asks us to give some practical information in regard to life insurance. It is a very large subject, and would require for proper treatment much more space than we can afford to devote to it. The principle of life insurance is very simple. It rests upon the ascertained fact that there is, at any given age, an average chance of life. That is to say, for example, that of 10,000 people who are 25 years old, the average time they will live can ba predicted with great ac­ curacy. One who insures his life in a mutual company, becomes a partner in tho company. He insures all the rest, and he is insnred by all the rest of the members. If he dies before the aver­ age time, his heirs receive back more than he has paid the company; if he survives beyond the average time, he pays out more than his heirs receive back. This, of course, is a rough statement only, and does not take into account the fact that a large part of the receipts of the company ore used up in expenses and agencies; nor the other fact that as the persons insured are subjected to a rigid examination, their average chance of life is greater than that of the gen­ eral community. Furthermore, it is a remark which applies only to the ordinary "life policy," so called, which requires the person insured, to pay a specified pre­ mium every year as long as ho lives. The principle of what are called "en­ dowment" and "tontine™ policies is somewhat different. We shall explain them hereafter. The first question which any one thinking of insuring his life should ask himself is, Is it worth while to do so ? Or, put in other words, Is life insurance the best mode of saving money for one's family? The question in either form is not one to which it is easy to answer yes ox no. For it is a fact, that were a man to take the sum which his life insurance costs him in annual premiums, and put it at interest in a savings bank, his heirs would, if he live as long as the average length of the lives of persons whose lives are insured, have more to their credit than the amount of their policy. If he does not live quite so long, the difference will be small. If he lives longer, his estate will be a loser by the choice of the life insurance plan. And, of course, if the man dies soon after he has taken out the policy, the advantage in favor of life insurance is very large. But on the other hand, there are cer­ tain advantages which attach to life in­ surance under any circumstances. It is easy to say that if one puts the amount of the premium out at interest, he will do better; but will he put it out? The premium is due on a certain day, and must be paid then. Under the modern system, to be sure, few policies can be forfeited wholly by the failure of the insured man to continno his pay­ ments. But a considerable part of the payment is forfeited. Consequently the insured man has a stronger induce­ ment to make the effort required to meet the fixed payment, than he has to make a periodical deposit in a savings bank. Then, too, money which has been de­ posited in a bank may be drawn out in case of imaginary need, that the savings whicli had been so carefully amassed may bo all used up liefore the time of real necessity arrives. But savings in­ vested in life insurance cannot be touched. Without attempting to decide that either way of providing for the future is better than the other, we may say that each is a good way; and that every man ought, if possible, to adopt one or both of them while he can, so that his family may not be left in want when he dies. v If one has decided to insure his life, the matter which he should first con­ sider is, in what company ? If he lis­ tens to agents, he will find that there are a great many companies, each of which is declared by its agent to be the most prosperous, offers the best terms, is the safest and strongest, and alto­ gether the best. The truth is that there are manv good companies. There are also bad and unsafe companies. But many, if not most, of the States now have com­ missioners, who are authorized to re­ fuse permission to any company to do business within a State, unless its con­ dition has been examined and found satisfactory.--Youth's Companion* Akatraot of Xr Berenue BilL WlM* II A Mexican Breakfast. A crackling fire is burning in the open air and on it are heaped a pile of oysters, cooking for breakfast. The other members are now astir--the la­ dies of the house. Their dress is de­ cidedly neglige. The elder lady, who must be the mamma, has a black skirt, a white bodice and a thin, black shawl. Her hair is twisted into a knot and it looks innocent, very innocent, of the comb. But her manners are perfeet and her smile of welcome and her grac­ ious wish, asked so prettily, for you to pass into the breakfast, are incompara­ ble. It is a little room. The floor is of red brick, broken in some places, and you find your feet imbedded in red brick- dust. The table has no cloth. It is of deal and the chinaware is ooarse. Bnt the eatables are in profusion. There is half a kid before the host and a pile of smoking oysters in the center of the table, fresh from the earth, with grit and ashes and dirt, and the shell has burst and the grit and dirt have found their way to the oyster itself, but who cares? What easier way is there to eat the dainty?" And there are huge jugs of milk and coffee, and chocolate and tea, and hospitality and eggs, and geniality and tripe, and tamales and good-humor. Presently a friend drops in, cigarette in month, and he makes pretense to fling it away, bnt the cour­ teous host restrains him and so he smokes on, provided he shares not in the repast -- Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. No Choice. He was in the Police Court. The judge said: "I shall give yon your choice; you can either work ten days on the street or pay a fine of $20." "What!" ejaculated the prisoner, work on the road ten days or pay a fine of $20! I don't see any choice there, boss. Ill tell you what I will do. I'll shake the dice with you, best two horses out of three,to see whether I work on the road ten days or you pay me $20. But the way you put it, there ain't no chance for me. I can't take no such risks as th«t, judge; I can't, on my honor as a gentleman." But he did.--Texas 8iftin§*,~, ~:r What Book to Beai. Books that can be read without leaving some lasting impression on the mind are mere bubbles on the surface, evanescent as dreams. Books that are worth reading at all are worth repeated [Washington Special to 0Uea«» Xkais.1 <kteaft Interest was manifested fcr Btft* •--tattvas In the Morrison tariff Mil white it was being- read to the Hoose. Yet when tba members were afterword asked for their opinions they replied la guarded words, and not for publication, because, as they said, ttejr had not had time to consider the effect of the bill. The prevalent opinion 'among tariff reformers appeared to be that It was specially drawn in a manner that would win votes from low-tariff men of both parties, sad if enacted into a law would effect a large reduction in the revenues of the Government, nnd compel the continuance of the intornal-revenue taxes on whisky and tobacco. Low-tariff men whose Inter­ ests it proposes to touch bold that it does not make equitable reductions, and that no fair adjustment of duties can be made by a bill that applies the oast iron rule of a tori- zontal-cuttiog of tariff rates. The just pro­ portion of reduction as between articles in different schedules, and as between raw ma­ terials and manufactured articles, cannot be determined by the plan adopted by Mr. Mor­ rison, but by considering eaob case with the faots bearing upon it. Some of the wool men complain that he wcrald make matters worse fw them. Instead of affording even partial relief, by lowering the duties oa man­ ufactures to a point commensurate with the reductions made by the last Congress on raw wool. Among the protectMmic-ts the bill is not well reoelved, nor was it expected it would be. They say it would ruin the manu­ facturing Interests of the Eastern and Middle States, and throw thousands of laboring men out of employment. It may be stated, however, that the view taken generally by the best Informed men, without regard to their differences on the tariff question, is that Mr. Morrison, as the official leader of the tariff reformers, baa drawn this bill simply as a basis for the Ways and Means Committee to operate upon, and to give the tariff reform movement a formal Inauguration in this Congress Crude opin­ ions as to its effect, given without time for reflection, may be modified when it comes to be carefully considered. A reduction of SO per cent, is made In num­ erous articles, while in a few cases the reduc­ tion is greater or less than this rate. A pro­ vision prevents any reduction to a lower rate than in the Morrill act of 1861. The title of the bill is: "An act to reduce Import duties and war tariff taxes." It provides that on and after the 1st of July, 1884, in lieu of the duties and rates of duty imposed by law on the importation of goods, wares, and mer­ chandise, mentioned In the several schedules of "An aot to reduce Internal revenue taxes, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1883, and hereinafter enumerated, there shall be levied, collected, and paid to per cent, of the several dutios and rate of duty now im­ posed ou said articles severally--that Is to say, on all articles mentioned In schedule "1," cotton and cotton goods; schedule "J," hemp, jute, and flax goods, other than Jute butts; schedule "K," wool and woolens; schedule "C," metal and other ores; ached tie "M," books, paper, eto.; schedule "F," sugar; schedule "F," tobaoco; schedule "D," wood and woodenware, except as hereinafter pro­ vided ; on all articles subject to ad valorem duty in schedule "H," earthenware and glass­ ware; schedule "G, "provisions,except as here­ inafter provided; schedule *N," sundries-- o'her than precious stones--salt, coal, bristle, and lime; ethodule "A," chemloal produots, exoept as hereinafter provided. No duty or rate of duty shall, aftor said first day of July, 1884, be levied, collected, and paid In, exoept 40 per cent ad valorem or its equivalent on cotton and cotton goods; 50 per cent ad valo­ rem or its equivalent on metal, and 60 per cent ad va orem on wool and woolen grooms; provided that nothing in this act shall oper­ ate to reduce the duty above Imposed on any articlo below the rate of which said articles were severally dutiable under "An act to pro­ vide for the payment of outstanding treas­ ury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and tlx duties on imports, and for other pur­ poses," approved March 1861, oemmonly called the Morrill tariff, and on all unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window glass, or oast polished plate glass unsllvered, ex- CQC'ling 24x00 inches square, and on salt in bag?, s&eko, harrfels, or other packages, or in butk. On Mid aftor the 1st of July, 1881, the im­ portation of articles enumerated and de­ scribed In section t shall be exempt from duty. That is to say, iron ore, including margonlferouH Iron ore, the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites, and sulphur ore, copper Imported In the form of ores, lead ore, and lead dross, nickel in ore or mattes,ohromate of Iron and chromic ore, coal slack or culm coal, bituminous or fhile, timber hewn and tawed and timber used for spars and In building wharves,- wood manufactured, not specialty enumerated or provided for in this aot, hay, ohioory root, ground or unground, burnt or prepared, acorn and dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or In­ tended to be used as ooree or substitutes tl-erefornot specially enumerated or provided for in this act, Jute butts, bristles, beeswax, lime, glyoerlne, crude fish glue or isinglass, sponges, dextrine, burnt starch, gum substi­ tute or British gum, extract of hemlock and other barks used for tanning not otherwise enumerated or provided for in this act. Indigo extracts partly refined, including Lee's crystals, oement,--Soman. Portland, and all others,--whiting and Paris white, dry wood tar, coal tar, crude coal-tar produots--such as naphtha, benzine, benzole, dead oil and pitch, and preparations of coal tar not colors or dyes not special I j enumerated or provided for in this aot; logwood and other dye-wood ex­ tracts, and decoctions; ochre and ochery; earth's umber and umber earths, and sienna and sienna earths; all earths or clays un- wrought or manufactured not specially enumerated or provided lor la this act; all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots aftd excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums and gum resins, herbs, leaves, liobens, mosses,; nuts, roots, and stems, spioes, vege­ tables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, wood used expfeesly for dyeing, and dried Insects; any of the loreroin# which are not edible, but which have been advanced In value or jondltion by refining or grinding, or by other procesqgs of manufacture, and not specially ~ or provided for in this aot. WORKUWHB*. eora fer eash eftibe by the IBtosIs MM* <Se , their next State Fair. Tin jury In the murder esse at Be eater J returned a verdict giving Hsiij OiljinHilHy . years in the |iwiHwa»l'ai». m .mm Bliidjl' n Bobineon lest Octofces ttwougl death resulting la five minutes. A xioms to Incorporate was 1 St. Louis and Chester gall way Coal < of East St. Louis, with a nominal oeyteal of $4,840,000. The Incorporators ace David T. Tripp, Spencer Tompktaa, and John f. Dom­ ing. Br the verdict of a Jury at JoUet, where the suit was tried by change of Chicago, Mr. P. J. Sexton, the Cbek Court House contractor, gets fUS,Mt for extras. He claimed $90,000 more than that amount. W. D. Nswhah, a young mulatto of Chicago, has been held in UN bail oa charge o£ the malls for fraudulent purposes. resented the American Detective and was engaged in mailing books ttt lali n :%i tion to his victims. A man named Glbney and his wife cars at Aurora for Chkwgo, but no sooner p h/ had the train started than Gibney rushed ! / the platform and hurled himself under the ' wheels. The train was stopped, the remains fe' picked up, and carried by friends to Peoria. * The Illinois State battlo-flags are to be r placed In the art gallery in the State Capitol in Springfield. Amon; them is the relic of pS the battle-flag used by Grant's first regiment. V It is badly riddled by bullets, and is in shreds, and it was a very hard maiter to fix it so that it could be preserved at all. The blue back­ ground for the stars Is nearly all gone, but a few threads remaining, and a piece or two of bronze showing where once the stars were. A SI.IGHT fire in the Fairfield watch factory just before quitting time, caused a panic among the female operatives. Several ' > jumped from the seoond and third story win- ^ , dows, whioh resulted in the breaking of the Kl legs of three younsr women, and one had an arm broken. There were about 1,100 operatives at work in the factory at the time. The fire wan quickly extinguished. It was > caused by the Janitor carelessly throwing a ,j . " lighted match, which fell in an opea benzine i? can. ^ j. v A most singular malady appears to hav« • possessed the negro, 8am Powel, who was ie- - * cently incarcerated In the Jail at Cairo. He '*• a ;; has remained tied to his cell since arrested, 3 and has been so violent that It was not mUm i;: :- to approach him. He has been continually frothing at the mouth, snapping and barking' like a dog, and would attack fellow-primates & if not securely fastened. He has shown k - every evidence of hydrophobia, except that t •' he does not go into spasms at the sight or ^ water. A short time ago he became quieit, b and was taken into the county court-room to be tried for Insanity. Examination by physi clans failed at one time to develop the sMght- est evidence of pulse, and he w be dying for some time. Later and now presents the appaeraaee of total Im-1 beoility. Before being brought to Cairo h»|i terrorised the neighborhood of Unity, and y ran soreaming through the country In anude!^ state.. Thb Governor has received the monthly re^ ports from the two State ^enttentlarisic,^' showing the following receipt and dMn(| of prisoners for the month of January, MM: | JOUR. Oa hand Jan. 1 .WTS ̂; Beoeived during January ... -- 40 Discharged during January 4S» Pardoned I?*-1:-5 Died .*. Temporarily out on writs of habeaaenpea. Bent to Jaefaeawats Insane Asylam. Number of males Number of feaulee Total on hand Feb. l frrotesting Against the Importation el Foreign Laborer* Under Contrast Washington Telegram.} A number of representatives of labor or­ ganization# appeared before the House Com­ mittee ob Labor and argued against the im­ portation of foreign laborers under ooa- traot. T. V. Powderly, ex-Mayor of Boron ton, said he represented the Knights of Labor, an organisation numbering over 500,000. This associittion desires an eight-hour law; leglaMmn preventing foreigners from pur* ehaslng large tracts of public land in this country, and preventing the importation ef foreigners under contract. He spoke of the importation of Hungarians, and said they returned home after saving comparo- tively small sums of noney. One family of nine was instanced that lived oa <27 a month t their diet was said to be mash and water six days, with meat on Snoday. The Hun­ garians, he said, were fast becoming as obnoxious in the Bast as the chine~e In the West. W. F. Barclay, of 1 eansylva- ond they work from two to five days a week, beginning work at 1 or 2a.m. and con tin­ ning until 7 p. m. The Hungarians, Mr. Barclay said, had most filthy habits. In as many as ten lived in a single tS'SS: .i,sTi r? On hand Jan. l.... Beoeived during Jannarr Discharged during Jam Died Sent Anaa Asylam Ml If. « • f c V i Total on hand Fab. 1 «* rV . A Washinoton letter says: Charlie B. Farwell, of Chicago, was one of the groat- . << favorites ssaong the beggars who infest the Capitol Building everyday. Whenit is known ; ̂ that a member has a large fortune he Is never. allowed any rest day or night. Mr. f\»rwell, who is very rich, and who has, moreover, . very generous disposition, was worked by the crowd all the time he was in Congress. A~: gentleman who sat near him in the House cold that Mr. Farwell must have given away,-, M on an average t>0 a day during tho eeaaSaar' . 1 of the House. Besides theee gifts, he always'*" w;- had a number of people whom be was cap ̂ porting almost entirely both in Chicago and.t •- •'] Washington. Ool. Ingeraoll is another maa^ |u| whose kind heart is worked by the beg"'-:,' * gars. It is an Impossibility for the Colonel^ ,, /i to pass by any one who appeals to him for help. "Poor ereatures!" he will say1 > "even if they aie not starving as they' say, there la no donbt but that they are poor? enough, and a little money cannot cocseaiaias, •' Tna report of the Chicago PeUoe Depart­ ment for the year 18SS. detailing thearresta ̂ made, fines Imposed, stolen property reported j and reoovered, orltaes charged, and the as-. tlonallties and ooeupat'ons of the prisons",' ha#been submitted. ' The total number of ^ arreets made during the year was 87,1ST, over ; ,1.3 two-thirds of which Were made during the ^ latter six months. The largest number ar­ rested for any month was In Aurust, when 4,900 arrests were made, and the smallestwae>, ^ In February, when but 1,522 were arretted. / ^ The total amount of fines Imposed was (M,- > William Lynch, of New Jersey, and R. Bul­ lion, of Ohio, were quest oned regarding the importation of Belgians to work in the glass factories. The former said foreigners re­ oelved 85 per cent, less wages than Ameri- Herse Sausages. Otonenl Ballou has written to the State De­ partment at Wasbfhgton that the consump­ tion of horse meat is very much on the Inosease In Germany. He says In Alsaoe this inorease is more marked. The horses are in­ spected before being slaughtered. He says thehorse meat sells in Alsace for from s to t) eenta per pound, and that the working dashes, aying to the depre^ted condition of Ithe labor market, a: e forced to eat horse tneat. In tstrasbura' alone lie says there are ^thirty horses slaughtered in each week. The horse meat, he says, is also worked up into sausages. As there are many Btrasburg sausages imported by AmerKan dealers, it may be that some. of these sausagea have reached this oountry. ____ CANADA'S Indian ponulaUon is estimated aft nijtw 4*1. Of the total number of prisoners, ex­ actly 8,000 were females, the mates number­ ing 39,187. Of the prisoners, 11,OM claimed to be married, and 23,103 to be single. The property reported stolen was valued at $144,- ^ ^ MS; the property reoovered was valued at 990,702; and the property recovered, part eT which was not reported, amounted to Of the persons arrested, JB were ctriMien under 10 years old; 0,483 were between Iks a?es of 10 and SO; 15,190 were between tt ant SO; 9,800 were between 80 and 40; 0,009 were between 40 and 80; and one person nuistil was over 80 years old. Of the sallunillllae, gg,389 claimed to be American, about 10 per cent, of these being colored; M®8 were Irish; 4,576 were Germans; and the remainder, numbering 4,814, were of miscellaneous na­ tionalities. The returns of how the oases were disposed of show that 17,3W were fined in the police courts; 4,170 took ehanges of ronue; 13,661---mere than one-third Of the whole number wrested--were dtsehargedha ' ̂ the police courts, while the reiaalalag 1,»5* | are accounted for in various wsQra Over , | one-half--18,772--professed themselves of no J. occupation; 5,790 were laborers; 1,974were „ ,4; street-walkers; T74 were saloon keepe*S, the remainder being olaaaided under some at ' w different occupations. Of the chSHgS^ 10^18 * j werj for dijorderly conduct; 3,58$ for platn drunks; 813 for drunk and disorderiy; 111 foe ̂ burglary; 1,014 for be'ng inmates of hOMSSS of 111 fame; 1,931 for larceny; 41« for robbery; J 163 for selling liquor to minors; 1,338 for vo- ̂ . graucy; and 5 for murder. About the charges were for violation of | city ordinances. OSS THOUSABD rObbltS SIMM r, /S , 1 * <