The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

I. VMSLYKE. wmrnmi ItoHENKf, f H i 1 • " • • ILLINOIS. P^lfias T. 0. LnniET, of Bohon, Ky., •set ft' hen on three goose eggs. |[!!he faithful * fowl hatched out four lipalthy goslings. - < SILK may some day cost no more than cotton goods did a year ago. Thomas 'Wardie, an English silk manufacturer, has just. returned from India to En­ gland, and is telling the manufacturers there that they had better look out. A Hew era in sUk making has, he says, fljpened up in ikdia, and silk culture is j'deep interest. ; p GEORGE W. CHAPIN, of Pine Meadow, <Jonn., was recently tried for selling elder without a license. His defense Was that he sold the cider in his store, "fetat stipulated that it should be drank llpon a platform outside his door, on another man's property. The State did not consider that a good defense, and i&eorgo was find $1 and costs. > '* DR. W. F. CARVER, the well-known jrlfle-Bhot, says: "It is not generally loiown that an orange hit in the exact center by a rifle ball, will vanish at flbce from sight. Such, however, is the fact, and that is my way of making an orange disappear--shooting through t&e center, which scatters it into such Infinitesimal pieces that it is at once , lost to sight. Try it yourself, and see 4| what I say is not so." CHARLES Boss, of Lyons, Ind., hmS\ three Bwans flying toward him in a marsh at Bee Hunter Prairie. As they were about to alight Boss fired at them with <me barrel, killing two and crippling the wing of the third. Boss captured jthe wounded one and drove it home be­ fore him. The town turned out to see Boss driving a wild swan down the road, and one man was so much interested in the bird that he bought it for $5. H, AMONG Southern and West Indian liegroes a bottle of "obeah water" put Wilder a man's doorstep is supposed to Wing him the worst possible luck. It «• worse than finding a white cock's Itead lying in the yard with the beak pointed toward the door. When a sor- ^rer wishes to give a mild touch of his Supernatural power, he gets some one to bury near his victim's door a bottle Hmtaining a toad, a spider, rusty nails, jpuddy water, and other articles. , ̂ •• v THERE is a good story told by Mr. ifiloehm about the appearance of Mr. Gladstone's eyes when he is excited or angered. The sculptor was taking ob­ servations of the great statesman for a gtatue one day. Mr. Gladstone was lay­ ing down the law to Prof. Blackie in «ome Homeric question, and the sturdy old Professor declared his great friend Iras talking nonsense. "Then," said Mr, Boehm, "I learned for the first time, that Mr. Gladstone's eyes could open 'in two directions, like a vul TOBACCO blindness is becoming a oommon affliction. At present there ?' are several persons under treatment for it at one London hospital. It first 4pkes the form of color blindness, the aufferers who have smoked themselves ihto this condition being quite unable lo distinguished the color of a piece of led cloth held up before them. Some- tfmes the victim loses his eyesight alto­ gether. Although smoking is to a large 4jxtent the cause of the malady, and so gives it its name, heavy drinking is also partly responsible. 1 A BORDEAUX journal describes the pinner usually provided for workmen in that city. A large plate of vegetable Coup costs 2 cents ;alargepiece of bread, I cents; a large plate of red haricot 1>e&ns, costs 2 cents; half a plate of ijjoast veal (the quantity being ample for > In ordinary man), costs 4 cents; a plate jot rice, 1 cent, and half a bottle of vin Ordinaire, cost 4 cents; so it will be ieen a fair dinner was provided, with fialf a bottle of wine included, for 15 «ents. What can be made a successful ^business in Erance, where almost every Article of diet is taxed, can surely be in ode to pay here, where food and meat are cheaper. ANOTHER effective advertising scheme has been invented in England. A lead­ ing confectioner was ordered to put up 10,000 tin boxes of candy, hermetically sealed, with an advertisement of cheap watch in each box, and in some Of the boxes, in addition thereto, coupon entitling the finder to one of the batches. Oil the occasion of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race the 0.0,000 water-tight boxes were thrown Into the river, to be dived and grappled and raked for by anybody who thought it worth while to take so much trouble to get the sweets, and possibly a watch, . 2So little excitement and talk was paused, and the object of the enter­ prising watch vender--the getting of much advertising--was fully attained. a respite from the Governor. The Sheriff believed in capital punishment, but he was a charitably-disposed man and had been doing a good deal of run­ ning around for his, doomed guest. One morning he returned from such a trip and went to the prisoner. "Well," said the man eagerly, "well, what did the Governor say?" "My dear sir, he hasn't said anything yet. He wants time to think." "Good heavens, man! This suspense is terrible," exclaimed the criminal dramatically. "Don't mention it," responded the Sheriff in a cheerful tone, "it ain't anything to what it will be if the Governor doesn't interfere."--Washington Critic. HERE is a curious item about news­ papers which some one has compiled: "The number of pounds of type used in the newspapers of the United States is put at 6,589,878. The newspapers in the five States of New York, Pennsyl­ vania, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa set half the number of ems set in the United States. A pound of type averages about 370 ems, and an average of 2,500 is left in the cases. The average com­ position per newspaper is 74,147 ems for dailies, and for weeklies 57,197. The total amount of type set for one is­ sue of the daily newspapers of the country would make 2,785 duodecimo volumes, and all the papers in a year Would represent as much type-work as would make 10,000 volumes equal to 'Appleton's Cyclopedia.' A slip of the work would extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Eight thomfend persons are employed." THE city of Paris has been treated to a typical French tragedy, such as only the capital of that country can furnish, and no one can understand. A respect­ able clerk married the daughter of a tradesman, and to ay appearances the marriage was a well-advised match, and the couple seemsd to enter upon their honeymoon with every prospect of bliss. When they were called on the next morning by the father of the bride, who wished them to take break­ fast with him, the groom excused him­ self for a moment and told his wife to go on with her father, and he would soon follow. Not coming as expected, the bride and her father repaired to the lodgings where the groom had delayed, and on the way there met a cab just as it drew up before the door. It con­ tained the dead body of the young man, who had committed suicide in a neigh­ boring street, leaving a note explaining nothing beyond the fact that he had hired the cab with the intention of com­ mitting suicide in it, and hoping he would not fail in the attempt. DRCK LAKE, in Nevada, lies on the north side of the Pyramid branch of the Trnckee River and west of the up­ per portion of Pyramid Lake, from which it is only separated by a low hill or ridge of sand. It is circular in form and has neither inlet nor outlet. This small lake is a great resort for ducks, geese, swans, and other waterfowl when there is a heavy wind, and Pyramid Lake is made to boil like a pot. They then flock to this less-boisterous sheet of water by tens of thousands. On such occasions the Indians prepare for a grand duck drive. All who have guns and many who are armed only with bows and arrows form in a line on the crest of the sand ridge between the two lakes. A number of Indians then man a fleet of rafts, and, starting from the western shore of the small lake drive the ducks and other fowl from their resting place. The birds start for Pyramid Lake again, and, as they fly across the dividing ridge the men and boys lying in wait bring down hundreds of them with guns and other weapons. Even small "boys, lying on their backs with their bows on their feet, pull their arrows with both hands, sending the missiles with great force and killing birds in large numbers. HEK SIMPLE STOBT. ' THE farms of America equal the en jtire territory of the United Kingdom, " France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Portugal. The corn­ fields equal the extent of England, Scotland, and Belgium, while the grain fields generally would overlap Spain. The cotton fields cover an area larger than Holland and twice as large as Bel gium. The rice fields, sugar, and tobacco plantations would also form kingdoms of no insignificant size, and such is the stage of advancement reached by American agriouluralists that itris estimated that one farmer like Mr. Darrymple, with a field of wheat . covering a hundred square miles, can raise as ranch grain witl̂ 400 farm serv­ ants as 5,000 peasant proprietors in France. " A MURDERER under sentence of death had a number of influential friends who were exerting themselves to secure No Light in the Window. As the train sped along in the night, with drowsy passengers outstretched upon the seats, the conductor was ob­ served frequently peering out of the frosty window into the darkness. The night was black, and nothing could be seen but a sheen of snow over the shad- owv landscape, and yet the conductor shaded his eyes with his two hands and held his face--a weary-looking face it was too -close to the window pane. "Looking to see if your girl is awake yet?" inquired the inquisitive passen­ ger with a coarse laugh. The conductor looked around and shuddered, as with a husky voice here- plied simply: "Yes." And then the inquisitive passenger became garrulous and familiar. He sat down beside the conductor and poked him in the ribs as he lightly said: "Ah, I see. Going to get married and quit the road. Going to many a farmer's daughter. Worth much?* "She's worth a million to me." Further remarKs in a similar vein did the passenger make, but the conductor deigned no more replies. Suddenly the whistle of the locomotive gave a long, low moan, the conductor stuck his eyes still closer to the window, seemed to fasten his gaze upon some object in the darkness, and then fell back in his seat with a cry of despair upon his lips. The passengers gathered round to in­ quire the nature of the trouble, when the brakeman assisted his chief to rise and led him into the baggage car. The conductor's face was as white as the snow banks which fringed the won roadway, and in his eye was a look of tearless grief. "Poor Sam," said the brakeman upon his return, "it's a bad (night for him. Four weeks his little girl has been ill. Night after night he was at her bed, but then she got better and he came back to his train. He arranged with his wife that if all was well with the little one she'd display a lighted lamp right in the window of the sick room. The boys all knew it, and every night we all* looked for the light almost as eagerly as Sam himself. He lives by the side of the track back here a few miles--and to-night there was no light in the window fof- Sam."--Chicago Herald. _____________ HE who restrains himself in the nse of thing* lawful will never encroach ppon things forbidden. BM It Stopped All Racy KtliUTi A«M| the Men that Day. Three men sat in one end of a diaw- ing-room car telling stories. They ap­ peared to be good stories, too, judging by the frequent laughter and slapping of knees and exclamation of surprise. In the middle of the car was a young woman, the wife of one of the story­ tellers. She did not appear happy. Her face was very solemn, and black eyes sparkled beneath her troubled brow and cast angry glances in the di­ rection of the merry trio. Finally she rose from her seat with a determined look on her face, approached the group of story-tellers, and somewhat pettishly inquired: "Henry, what are you doing here?" "Telling stories, my dear--innooent stories, you know." "Why have you not invited me to join you, instead of letting me sit back there alone?" "Because I didn't know yon liked stories, my dear. Women never do. Besides, it is the rule that ey^ry man in a crowd must tell a story. You couldn't do that, you know. " "Couldn't I though?" Catching the drift of the lady's re­ marks, the other members of the trio at once insisted that she take the vacant seat and initiate herself as one of them by telling a story. The lonely woman sat down and prepared to pay her way with an anecdote. "I don't know what kind of stories men are in the habit of telling when they get off in a corner by themselves," she began; "but, from the fact that they neglect their wives in order to be alone, I judge they must be queer stories, not dignified ones for middle-aged men to relate, and not over-burdened with the truth. If. in my ignorance, I tell a commonplace story, and a truthful one as well, you must forgive the fault and attribute it to mv inexperience." As she gave her companions these rather severe but not altogether un­ merited raps they looked at each other out of the corners of their eyes and would have spoken in self-defense had she not immediately begun her anec­ dote. * "Some years ago," she said, before I was married, a most laughable incident occurred at our house in Cedar Bapids, Iowa. My little sister, then 3 years of age, was an exceedingly lively child. She ran all over the place, and found it impossible to sit still a minute except when sho was asleep--one of these irre­ sponsible, uncontrollable little jump- abouts. Next door to our house was a church, and the parsonage was also close by. The minister used to make a good deal of little Genevieve, and she thought him one of her best of friends. It was an every-day trick for her to steal out of the house and run over to the parsonage or the, .study in the rear of the church to see her indul­ gent and fond favorite, the pastor. "One Sunday--and mind you this is a true story I am telling you--morn­ ing services were in progress at the church, and little Genevieve was at home with me. Carrying out mother's instructions, I took my little sister into the batlx-room, and prepared her for her bath. It was a warm summer morn­ ing, and through the open windows of the church came the words of the good man, eloquent and not too low-voiced in the delivery of his sermon. I happened to step out of the bath-room a few moments to find some towels or some­ thing, and on my return little Gene­ vieve was not there. I hurridly looked into the other rooms of the house, and then, fearing the worst, rushed out the front door, along the sidewalk, and up the steps leading to the church vesti­ bule. I arrived there just in time to see that little thing flying up the aisle of the church toward the pulpit as fast as her short legs could carry her, and as naked as when she was born. I did not dare to follow her, and almost fainted with excitement, and probably would have done so had I not found re­ lief for my agitation in a burst of weep­ ing. "As I* afterward learned the congre­ gation was so much astounded that no one tried to stop Genevieve, and she ran to the altar rail, holding out her hands to the minister, whom she loved so well. There the good man met her, took her to liis breast and carried her down the aisle to the vestibule, saying as he went: " 'May the Lord bless this little angel and keep her heart always as innocent and pure as it is at this moment. As Jesus said, .Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such cherubs as this is the kingdom of heaven," may the Lord bless and preserve this fearless flower.' "So saying, over and over, with im- pressiveness and affection, the minister 'walked slowly to the vestibule and de­ livered little Genevieve into my arms. "This, gentlemen, is my little story. You think it very laughable ? Oh, so do I. We made merry over it for many a day. And little Genevieve would say that she loved the minister more than ever, because he had called her his < lit­ tle angel. "But, gentlemen," the lady contin­ ued after a pause, "please do not laugh any more. I must add a word to my story. Three weeks from the occur­ rence of this pretty incident, which made Genevieve the best known and best loved child in our town, there came another bright morning, when the birds were singing and the plants and trees waving with tho, sighs of a gentle, inter­ mittent wind. The old church was filled jto the doors, and outside werfe hundreds who could not gain entrance, but who stood aside with uncovered heads as( little GeiijvieVe again ap­ proached the altar, to meet her favor­ ite, the pastor. This time she came to join the angels for sure, • end never to retilru to us again." Here the st<*y»teller "Hazed intently out of the window, jvinklng fast over her black eyes. * One of her listeners became suddenly interested in hisnews- pApier, w^ile another sought ft drink of water and then took a se^t in the other end of the car. yere^ pa more stories told thepre „ suit icago Herald. Willing to Repeat. I've noticed that a man can argue on one side until he believes in. it. When I was a youth we had up the question: "Which gives us the greatest pleasure, the pursuit or the possession of an ob­ ject ?" I was then pursuing a maiden with great alacrity and pleasing pros­ pects, and was intensely happy in that particular business, and as I had been assigned to that side of the question, I spread myself like a green bay tree to sustain my cauae. I dwelt upon the eager and fascinating pleasure with which a man pursued fame and fortune, and how vain and empty he found them when once in his possession. I quoted Sliakspeare and recited Cardinal Wol- sev's soliloquy: "If I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my king," etc.. Had I sat. down with a modest content, for the* eyes of the maiden were upon me and I had won her smiles. Just then one of these rollicking boys who never prepared himself bnt just opened his mouth and let her talk, rose forward and said: "Well, now suppose, Mr. President, that Brother Arp were a pursuin' a pretty girl that he were in love with just as hard as he could and were a longin' for her and dyin' to get her, would he druther keep on pursuin' an' pursuin' an' follerin' and follerin' to the little end of time, or would he druther catch up with her an' hold her in his arms an' exclaim, 'She's mine, she's mine, I've got her at \ast, an' bless the Lord, I'm gwine to keep her forever an' ever, amen.' I say. Brother Arp, upon honor now, which had you druther?" Well, of course I blushed and so did the maiden, for everybody knew our secret, and everybody cut one eye at me and the other at her. We lost the case, but I am not yet con­ vinced that I have ever seen happier days than my courting days, and I wouldn't mind being young again and going through the same rapturous ex­ perience.--Bill Arp, in, the Atlanta Constitution. DEMOCRATIC EXTRAVAGANCE tt Permeates Every Department ef the Present Administration -- ftt- '5s Ireasei Appropriations. > How ftenioeratie Pledges Have Violated--Administrative Reform a Miserable Failure. ILLINOIS STATE NEWti A Wild Buffalo Hunt. Upward of ten years ago I was hunt­ ing on the plains. One afternoon I left Fort Wallace, close to the line between Kansas and Colorado, carrying a rifle and ammunition. I followed the railroad for a short distance and then struck across the prairie. I soon came in sight of a herd of buffalo. Crawling a short distance I got in range and brought down five fine, fat ones. Taking off their saddles, or hind quarters, I left the carcasses intending to return the next day with a team and haul them to the fort. By the time I had them dressed it M as dark, and I had a good long stretch to get to camp. I shouldered my rifle, and struck out. In a short time I became aware by the sound that there was a herd of buffalo ahead of me. Which way they were traveling I could only guess. After lis­ tening a few moments I decided to keep on, but soon came right on to the herd. They appeared to be traveling the same way I wanted to go, so I followed, as I supposed, bringing up the rear. - But they did not go fast enough for me, so I struck oil' at right angles to see if I could get past them, and soon found that that, was out of the question. I then tried the left; there, again, I found buffalo. I then faced to the rear, and what was my astonishment to see a line advancing in that direction. I must confess that my hair raised a little when I saw the predicament 1 was in. I had deliberately walked right into the cen­ ter of a herd of buffalo, and they were bringing up the rear instead of me. It was dark and I could not see a hundred feet, but I could distinguish plainly that I was in a little square, with buf­ falo all around me. I had to travel as the herd was moving, and the rear bulls were crowding a little too close for com­ fort. Every few moments an old bull would turn around, shake his head and l>ellow, as if to challenge a fight. But I was not looking for a fight then. I knew if I fired my gun the herd would stampede, and that would end my ca­ reer. I would be trampled to death in the shake of your finger. I thought once of killing a bull and getting on his dead body and let the herd run around me, but I gave up that idea, as they would crowd each other in their terror, and I would be sure to be knocked over and killed. All this time my circle was getting smaller and smaller, and I could see the bulls were getting rest­ less. Every minute one would turn, paw and bellow, while I would dodge, and those behind were so close that I could almost touch them. I saw I must do something, and at once decided on a bold push for liberty. Watching my chance I edged up closo to a 2-year-old, then, making a spring, landed square on his back, sinking my hands into the long hair that grows on his fore shoulders. I gave a yell that would have made an Apache Indian ashamed of himself, and the fun commenced. Away we went, the dust and sand flying, the buffaloes crowding and jamming each other, up and down hill, across gulches, their hoofs rattling, the bulls bellowing, making a noise that could be heard for a mile. I hung on tena­ ciously--like grim death. How it all would end I could not tell. As long as my bull kept his feet I stood a chance, although I came near having my legs broken by the crowding animals. They kept up this race for perhaps half an hour. It was very uncomfortable, and I felt that I could not hold on much longer, and was thinking what I should do next, when the animal 1 rode made such a short turn to the right that I nearly went off his back. Looking up I saw the herd had divided, some going to the left and some to the right. The cause of it was plain. We had struck the railroad, where the bank was very high and steep, and I was now going parallel with, and close beside, the track. I placed the muzzle of my re­ volver close to the head of my poor beast, pulled the trigger and the next minute I went over liis head all in a heap, but I had killed my buffalo, and was safe, although a good deal shaken up, but, after resting a little, was able to go to camp, well pleased that things were no worse.--Detroit Free Press. Why Major Went to Church. I once visited a pleasant country- house, the owner of which had a pow­ erful and sagacious dog called Major. This dog was highly prized by his mas­ ter and by the people of the neighbor­ hood. He had saved many lives. Once when a swing-rope became entangled around the neck of a little girl, Major held her up until help came. One day the butcher brought in his bill for Major's provisions. Major's master thought it altogether too large, and shaking the paper angrily at the dog, he said: "See here, old fellow, you never ate all that meat,--did you?" The dog looked hard at the bill, shook himself all over, regarded the butcher with contempt, and then went b«*ck to his \rug, where he stretched himself out with a low growl of dissat­ isfaction. The next Sunday, just as service be­ gan at the village church, into my friend's pew vaulted Major. The Major' kept perfectly quiet until we all arose for prayer; then he sprang upon the seat, stood on his liind-legs, placed his fore-paw upon the front of the pew l>ehind, and stared gravely and reproachfully into the face of the butcher, who looked very much con­ fused, and turned first red and then pale. The whole congregation smiled and tittered. Major's master at once took the dog home. Bnt the butcher was more considerate in his charges from that time. Evidently he felt mor­ tified and conscience-stricken.--Lizzie Hatch, in St. Nicholas. YOUNG MAN, never say to your sire: "Yon might go, lather, and fate votsa." During the debate in Congfe* aft the legislative, executive and judicial appro­ priation bill, Representative McComas, of Maryland, made a scathing arraignment of the ruling administration for its failure to carry out its reform pledges. He spoke as follows, addressing himself to the Demo­ cratic side of the House: In I87tf?in !'**>, lul«84, to get power you pledged Jrour j>«ity t>v It* platforms to civil-service re-oria. Now that you arc in possession of the Government, vol would throw off the mask and array your party against it. But the reform will survive. It hfts come to 8tav. OSiK VLBDOK RKDBKHBD. Candor i'oiu] «la mo to admit that you b»v® ke*>t one pledge of-your platform of 1884. Irefer to its declaration 'that change la necessary is proved l>v an existing surplus of more than fl0A.00.MKX>." The last Democratic President had left the treasury empty, worse than empty. So the plat­ form pithily pledged the party to do it again, t> pet rid of the surplus. Apparently you have re­ deemed that pledge. Without repealing a tax, without taking oil a customs duty, without lift­ ing a single bnixlen from the people, in a single year yon have wiped out as with a stooge the surplus revenue. Baid l'ieiident Garfield 01 this floor: "There aie two committees of this House that stand, if I may so speak, with their bocks to each other and facing in opposite direction. One is the Committee ot Ways and Means. That committee faces out upon all the business of this country from which a revenuo can be had. They ask the nation this one question. Where can we get a revenue to supply the machinery of this Government, to fill th3 treasury as it ought to be filledAnd thoy apply to all of the people of this country, to a!i its wealth, to all its traoe, to all its commerce, and ask what contri­ butions shall be gathered and how they shall be gathered from the people." But that committee want one thing before they start out upon this inquiry--they want the figures, the sum t*tal. And they turn to the other committee which stands back to back t J them, the Committee on Appropriations, and in­ quire of that committee how much money must we give you to run this Government for the com­ ing year? And they get the figures from the Committee on Appropriations. That committee says to them we will require so many millions of dollars. , The tirst scene in this spirited drama is pre­ sented to-day, and there is a new meaning in it. We behold the eminent chairman of the Ways and Means (Mr. Morrison) and the eminent chairman of the Appropriations (Mr. R t.miall) standing to-day with their backs to each other. They are indeed literally facing in opposite di­ rections on the tariff. The other scene, the fruit of Garfield's long experience on this floor, is omitted. The Ways and Means Committee do not turn to all t^e Committee of Appropriation and ask how much money must we give you to run this Gov­ ernment for the coming year. "The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee." Had thev turned and examined they might have withheld a tariff-revision bill based ou an as­ sumed enormous surplus revenue. Ijet this House tlien turn and look the other way, after six months of session, to see whether the reve­ nue will indeed exceed the appropriations for the coming year. TI1K SURPLUS EXPENDED. The report of the committee on the new Mor­ rison tariff bill says: "The expenditures for the fiscal year 1885, in­ cluding pensions and the legnl requirements of the public debt, were £31*5,830,^70.54. Neither 'the actual needs of an economical administra­ tion of the Government nor the patriotic ex­ pectations of the people justify any increase vt this enormous annual expenditure, and we may safely estimate the annual surplus to exceed 830,001),0J0.' " Upon this estimated surplus, by enlarging the free list and reducing duties it is hoped to reduce the customs revenue more than >43,000,000 nn nuallv. This legislation is based upon the results of 188.~>; b»it the estimates of expenditure by the administration for the year 1887 largely exceed the actual expendituryfor 18S5. The nrpt Demogpiuic President since Bu- ahanan, intris^ftrHtniessage to Congress, for the first time since the war reported that there was an estimate i deficiency for 1887. Secretary Manning reported that as compared with the last year of Republican rule the re­ ceipts had fallen off nearly &J5,000,000 u;:s..14i, while expenditures hud increased more than Sir,,1.0 ),00J (816,100,690.78). tor the year 1887 he estimated the expenditures at $88*.l,589,- 55'2.Mt, and estimated ordinary receipts at &'il5,- 000,000, whereas the Ways and Means Commit­ tee as lime a surplus of $30,0J0,000. The highest fiscal authority of the Government reports an estimated deficit for 1887 of $21,580,552.34. In-1 stead of one hundred millions surplus there is fear, just fear, of a large deli it. Now turn to the appropriation bills already passed or reported to this House. They will increase this apprehension. The agricultural, the army, the Military Academy, the District rf Col innb a, the iDdian bills, as they passed this House, show slight reductions as compared with the current law for 1886; the consular and diplomatic and tho postofflce bills a marked increase, exceeding the reduction made in the legis ative, executive and judical bill now be­ fore the House as compared with the eumnt law for 1886: The amount of regular annual ap­ propriations made at the last ses­ sion were for 1886 9219,895,388.18 The permanent annual appropria­ tions as reported by the Treas carriages, noises, and driven mra pot away with ostentation, bat already some ot these have been restored, and nearly every depart' mentclamors for a larger contingent fund, which is the sure temptation to axtraiagance. There was a loudly ad verdied reduction of the num­ ber an.i salaries of all custodians of public buildings throughout the land. Much clamor was made in the press about a thirty per cent, reduction herein. Butquietly the old number of men and the same salaries were restored, and the difference will be paid in the deficiency bill tills year. The administration received the cred t of this reform, the chance to fill the places anew, and spe nt as much money, and for the next ytar quietly demon I more than thirty par cent, more money than the Republican ad­ ministration ever expended for this purpose. In these and many like instances these early spasms of economy "now quietly swell the de­ ficiency bills. You taught the honest Democrats to believe that the oflices were overcrowded with useless employes at high salaries, and that the mission of your party, returning to power, was to de­ crease the oihees and reduce the salaries. But the very agents vou put in place to do this work report that your cry of "retrenchment and reform" was campaign thunder, and the Demo­ cratic administration demands more men and higher salaries. Take these estimates I hold in my hand at random. The whole book is a surprising tribute to ibe efficiency of Kepubiicau rule. Turn to the Navy Department. Here they want an assistant Secretary at a handsome sal­ ary, an increasa of the salary of the chief clerk Of tha Bureau of Construction and Repair, an increase of the salary of the draughtsman, the assistant draughtsman, and the assistant mes­ senger; they want three additional draughts­ men. All this when thev had to spend 825,000 in England for a plan of a single ship by an Englishman Thoy cajl for more than thirty- five millions of dollars for the navy. Here we find tho Commissioner of Pensions deman ling that all the salaries of all the chiefs of all his divisions ho increased, aud insisting that ah increased forL'e is necessary in tti>? War Office for searches of records. Tho Commissioner of Patents colls for 102 ad­ ditional employes. He appeals for increases of salaries all along the line--»o00 more for the as­ sistant commissioner, iiM more for the chief clerk, S500 more for the law clerk, imore for the financial clerK, and an increase oi S10J more for all the model attendants. He wants an addi­ tional tribunal of appeals iu tue Patent Office, with three judges at adequate salaries. Turn to the United States Treasurer, who asks an increase of the salaries of some of his sub­ ordinates and insists that their compensation is not commensurate with the work done. He pro­ tests that the salaries paid under Republican rule are less than salaries paid for like serv ices by private establishments with' much less responsibility. lhe Sec etary of War asks an increase of salary of S>'25J for his chief clerk, of 5400 for his disbursing clerk, of $400 for each of his three chiefs of divisions, and of >'200 for each of three assistants to them. This cry for increase of salary runs along every line of administration. To administer the executive, legislative, and judicial offices of the Government tho new ad­ ministration demand fifty-three more offices than under the Republican administration were provided for the last year, and they require more money than last year, although, if we re­ gard the decrease of interest on the public debt, the last year was the most expensive since the war. But I will not weary tho House with a recap­ itulation of all the calls for new offices and higher salaries made by the new administra­ tion. It is fair to stato that the bill before us, by the economy of the committee, and tho reduction In the Treasury mainly by the decrease of em­ ployes in the internal revenue servicu to accord with decreased ousiuess in that branch, the deciense iu the Quartermaster General's office by decrease of war claims, and closing unneceh- s.n y mint) and assay offices, muikes substantial rtdiictu ns. But this same bill grants many of the increases of employes and some of the salaries. Takfn? all ot them together, the estimates of the new administration to run all the depart­ ments of the Government for 1887 exceed the appropriations of 1880 more than Sf>6.(XX),tKt0. Omit tho river and li.irbor bill, for whoso ex­ travagance this House is responsible, and still we find tho new heads of the Government, with professions ot "retrenchment and reform," de­ manding for the next year more officers than the Republicans, and fortv millions of money more than was appropriated last year. What a splendid tribute to Republican man­ agement, or what a fraud was the cry of Demo­ cratic economy 1 Never was a general call for higher salaries in every department more unexpected, more indefensible. When we are at peace, when the business of the internal revenue ami the cus­ toms service have shrunken with the depres­ sion of the country, when a dollar is harder to earn, and will buy more than at any time since the Government wa9 founded, I protest against any general increase of salaries, fixed incomes to be mid out of the declining wages of labor and cheapening products of the farm and mill and mine But after the extravagance of this House at this session you gentlemen of the majority are hardly the persons to turn aud rebuke tho new heads of the administration for the extraordi­ nary discrepancy between their and your laud professions and protestations of economy nnd reform in the public service, and the enormous increase of expenditures projiosed for 1887 in running the Government. Alas, administrative reform too iB a failure! The efforts of the Chairman of Appropria­ tions (Mr. Randall), aided by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Holman), cannot stem the tide of extravagance here. The i>as8ionate protests of the gentlemnn from Now York (Mr. Hewitt) against the reckless waste here go un­ heeded. The oft-repeated warnings of the Chair­ man of the Ways and Means (Mr, Morrison) that the majority were not sent here to sp< nd more money and make more offices than the Repub­ licans had, grow more aud more pathetic as he sees his followers sweep away the surplus and begin upon a deficit. If you who are the majority are convinced that you are as dangerous to the country as your ieadera say you are, and if you believe the country is fast'finding it out, you should pass the appropriation bills and go home. You are . forced to abandon all pret nse of being as I economical as tho Republicans were. You 118.154,728.69 ury amount for 1886 to... Making the total appropria­ tions for 1888 $337,750,011.67 The pension appropriation law for 1887 is an increase over 1886 of... 15,754,200.00 The river and harbor bill for 1887 is an increase over 1S£S (when none was passed) of 15,142,100.00 The M8.M6,311.87 he aggregate appropriations which have alreadv passod this House for 1887 show.. The navy bill as reported is $11,• 849,858.70, and the naval construc­ tion bill as reported is 96,425,000, aggregating £18,274,858.70, in ex­ cess of the law for 1886, which was $15,070,817.95, in the sum for i887 of 3,304,020.75 The coast and harbor fortifications bill may readily increaso that of 188t> over 1887 more than 4,000,000.03 The deficiency bills for 1887 will exced those for 1886 more than.. 4,000,000.00 The public buildings and all mis­ cellaneous appropriations will show an increase over 1886 for 1887 of more than 5,000,000.0 ) The total appropriations for 1887 will therefore exceed... .•384,850,332.62 To meet this enormous appropria­ tion we find the amount of esti­ mated revenue for 1887 .$315,000,000.CO And the amount of estimated pos­ tal revenue for 1887.... 47,542,252.00 The total estimated revenue being for 1887 only $362,542,252.00 TARIFF KKVIHION THEHEBY IMPOSSIBLE NOW. With a deficit of twenty-two millions between estimated revenues of 1887 and tho actual ap­ propriations for 1887 what a mockery of the prostrate business, the distress of the people, the unemployed labor of this country is it for tlio tariff tinkers to cry for a cutting down of surplus revenue. With such a deficiency what excuse is there for the eloquent gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Breckinridge) saying that the problem before us is to reduce theBe exces­ sive revenues ? That problem has been solved by this Congress. The surplus has been squandered by the extravagance within this hall and has shrunken with the shrinkage in business outside. To-day and for the next year we nefd the present tariff for revenue. In this year of de­ pression our highest duty is to secure and main- tuin for the American people the advantages re­ sulting from highly paid labor. In a year when laoor is crying out for fewer hours and higher wages you dare not overwhelm our people with the products from abroad of labcr at half wages and twelve or fourteen hours per day. At a time when the crops of the farmers bring tho lowest prices known during tho century, when the dairy industry cries out for relief against oleomargarine, and the wool- clip has steadily falltn in value, you say to the farmer you will take away his home market, you will filibuster on this floor against the bill to save the cows and milk and butter of his furm in order to befriend the oleo manufactur­ ers, and you will ruin tho sheep husbandry of the natiou. We could not if we would reduce the tariff revenue now, and the project of tariff reform is as futile and hollow as your treatment of civil- service reform. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AL80 A FAILURE. What then of your third great campaign pledge of administrative reform? The people heard your cry "tarn the rascals out, * and let you in to look at the books. You control every de­ partment. You huve put ia the heads of every bureau and the chiefs of every division. You have st .'adily turned out experienced men to put in now men wherever the civil-service law permitted or could bt) evaded. You have ignored the laws protecting Union soldiars iu office. The new Secretaries, tho new Commissioners, the new assistants and deputies, the new Comptrollers, the new Auditors, the new heads and chiefs reported promptly thit the books were correct to a penny, and they now report the estimates for appropiiation to run the Govern­ ment during the next year. It is true there was a proclamation of economy at the outset. The Executive Mansion set the example. Tiiree clerks were cut off, but one of them is put back on this bill at an increased salary, and the appropriation for the White House will this year greatly exceed that of last year T,|e pestpono great questions to consider small ones. You waste the people's time and money. There is a fleck of war-cloud on our Northwestern horizon. Take back, therefore, some of the money you have just voted to waste on obscur e bayous end creeks, that with it we may begin to fortify our defenseless ooaats on the lakes, oceans, and gulfs. Watch the flock of public building bills now fluttering over our heads. Alreadv this session $4,167,737.50 have been appropriated iu one house or the other for these purposes, and as much more will be fought for if this session be pro­ longed. I beg you to save that sum to build up the navy. Remember that the pensions justly due the defenders of the nation, their widows and or­ phans are a sacred obligation. Keep the money we will need for these debts of honor safe from the tramp of the army of schemes crowding the calendar, coming with "the Constitution and an appropriation." But there is danger that you may embrace that eminently American, that truly constitutional soheine, the Tehuuntepec Canal, with its enor­ mous demand for $37,000,000. You have returned to cur fathers' house hun­ gry und thirsty and reckless as an erring prodi­ gal son. You have grievously disappointed the great body of the people, both the Repubiiaans and the sincere Democrat', all the citizens who desire under all administrations an econom icai. honest, and capable Government. IGreat applause.] Booming Confederate Bonds* It may be only a coincidence, or it maj be a consequence of the present change in administration, that a formal demand is now laid before Congress asking the United States to pay for $600,000,000 in Confeder­ ate bonds. No such proposition was ever seriously considered during a Republican administration, nor evm suggested, until the solid South obtained control of the Government. Now there is an active move­ ment on foot to demand payment for these worthless bonds, and the case has been submitted to the House Committee on War Claims. Judge Fullerton, of New York, representing the bond-holders, has mude an elaborate argument in suppoit of his position that the United States is in duty bound to pay them. He holds that the Government is responsible on the ground that it has interfered to prevent payment by the debtor. His argument is more in­ genious than sound. But it shows that a 8 ̂ rious attempt is being made to have the United States pay the debts of treason in­ curred in an unconstitutional, unjust, and unneoessaiy rebellion. It is said by some that this effort to boom the rebel bonds is done only for speculative purposes, and without any serious expectation that the worthless paper will ever be paid. There are large hold­ ers of the bonds in Europe who would be glad to have them thought of enough value to sell for any amount in the market, and if some intere-1 can be aroused in this at­ tempt to have the Government pay for them, their owners may be able to unload them at an advan .age. Whether this be one motive in the present attempt to secure Congressional action ou the bonds or not, it is not difficult to understand other reasons for pressing the claims now. With the solid South in possession of lhe Government, controllii g the Executive Departments and one branch of Congress, with the self-as- sertant spirit of unrepentant treason seek­ ing to defame the memory of Union men, aud reverse the judgment of history, it is not strange. that a serious a'tempt shonld be made to have the Government pay for traitors' debts. But they wiH aevex be paid by a loyal Government.--Iowa otatie Register. --Spring City sportsmen have 6rganise4 agon club. --Iioeinda A. Allen, of HilMoro, mfft arrested for murdering her own child. --Clinton sidewalks are being ton op fill: order to put in more substantial ones. --Boating on the bay and river ia flw favorite pastime of the Quincy folks fiafl' days. --A Browasiown cat caught and ate twafe», ty-seven full-grown mioe fat exactly ft«fr minute*. " --John Chism, a pioneer of Loxs, wtriiic telling his son about his purchase of a lot in a cemetery, fell dead. --Mrs. Louis Labart of Broad well waft bitten on one of her fingers by a rattlesnake while picking strawberries. --The North American Toxnerbtna ̂ in session at Boston, decided ro hold ft meeting next year in Chicago. --Lawrence Leonard, who was iajnM in the mines of the Niantic Coal Company nekr Decatur, has been awarded $19,000 by a jury. --Mis. Henry Topp, residing near Efiag* ham, was killed by a bull which she at­ tempted to drive out of the barnyard. She was 50 years old, and leaves a husband and five children. --Hen. James M. Gregg, ex-member <f the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Genferal Assemblies of Illinois, died at Lajuna, Col. His remains will be interred at Hamsbutg, Saline Connty. > - " --Charles B. Perkins, one time » partner of Gen. Grant's father in (lie leather trade and of late years sole pro­ prietor of the Grant leather store, died at Galena. He settled in Galena in 1813. • --The Minton Observatory, at Carlin« ville, was formally opened to the public. It is one of the largest and finest in the State. The telescope i9 of great magnify* ing power. The observatory is the muni* ficeut gift of Professor B. B. Minton, of Carlinville, who has filled the chair ot mathematics of Blackburn University, it that place, for a quarter of a century. --At a sale of unclaimed express goods at Danville Edward Swisher, of Blount, p*UP» chased a package containing an old saddl*» which had the following inscription pasted on its side: "Dug up thirty-five years ago, on the 14th of June, 1844, by James Miller* iu Josce, Livingston County, Mich., when he was breaking ground for a log house. Presented to the State Military Museum at Lansing, Mich., June 18, 1879, by J. D. Allen, Lansing, Mich." --Mr. Thomas BradweU* son of Judge J. B. Brad well and Mis. Myra Bradwell, of the Chicago Legal News, who graduatodi yesterday and has been admitted to the bar, comes from a family of lawyers. Mrs. Bradwell eras the first woman in Illinois to make application seventeen years ago for admission to the bar, and carried her case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The daughter of Judge and Mrs. Bradwell, Mrs. Bessie Bradwell Heimer, is a lawyer, as is also her husband. Judge Bradwell, who next Sunday will celebrate the fifty- second anniversary of bis arrival in Chica­ go, has been a practicing lawyer in this dtp tat a third of a century.--Inter Ocean. --It may interest Chicago people and others in the great Western lake region to be informed that President Cleveland and his bride have under serious consideration a proposition to make a tour of the lakes, with a select party of friends, in a steamer some time during the summer. As soon as Congress adjourns, they intend to spend soma time in the New England seacoast and mountain regions, thenoe go to the Adirondacks for a few days, and thence to Buffalo, the old home of the President and hiB wife. It is proposed to leave Buffalo some time in August on a private steam yacht, which has been tendered the Presi­ dent and his party, and the trip will In­ clude Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan and possibly Superior, making stops at various points of interest. Chicago will bo the farthest objective point of the trip. --"Murder, murder, let me out!" uttered in • shrill voice, startled the crowd ot ladies and gentlemen at the Palmer Hons* entrance, in Chicago, the other. night. People were hurrying toward the theater. "Let me out, let me out!" was repeated louder, shriller than before. Several ladies screamed, and men rushed in the direction from which the cries seemed to proceed. "Murder, murder!" It came this time from the vicinity of the patrol-box on the cor­ ner. It was certainly a woman's voice, and every lady within hearing said some one was being killed. The patrol-box was broken open, but revealed nothing. Mean* while a great crowd had collected. A fat man standing in the middle of the throng suddenly exclaimed: "Gott in himmel! Yot for you mak all dis fuss? Dot's my barrotvostalkin' to himself 'boot nodinge," and the fat man unrolled tin ugly, flea-bit­ ten poll from a rubber blanket. The crowd dispersed. Some laughed and some were disappointed. --The tile ditching contest at QhampalgUji under lhe auspices of the State Board of Agriculture, was attended by over a thou­ sand people. The place chosen for trifel was on the south Bide of the stock farm of the University of Illinois. The ground was in fine condition, neither too wet nor too dry. Water was running freely at three feet in depth. The first machine entered was handled bjy Senator Frank Plumb, of Streator. It has been manufactured about three years. It consists of an engine and boiler driving a large cutting wheel, all on bxotul w heel trucks. It did its work well, opening a ditch four feet deep and ten inches wide, throwing the dirt all upon one side convenient for refilling. The sides of the ditch were left solid and clean-cut. It is claimed to make from 100 to 175 rods in a day, at a cost of from 5 to 8 cents per rod. Th ' second machine is a new one, which cuts four feet deep and a rod long in about three minutes. It did its work well and was soon the favorite. The third machine was run by horse power and is not per­ fected. It worked as well as the others m til it struck a bowlder, when it broke a wheel and was thrown out. Secretary Mills, of the State Board, estimates that th^re are one million miles of the drain to be laid in Ulinois. To cut this by hand costs from 20 to 40 cents per rod. If these grc*t machines will do the sami work at 8 pears per rod, the difference will amount to i great sum of money. Many of the largest land owners, agricultural men and civil en- £ : ivl a. w ' 4 ' * i • '•:S <4 S %