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(etui! fJlatudcalcr I. VAN SLYKE, Editor and PobHsher. McHENBY, OJil'J.-. -JS* ILLINOIS. " 1 REV. BOBEBT WH-SON, of Charleston, S. C., lias published a card in which he says that the man who calls the earth­ quake a visitation of God's -wrath for sin is a fanatic who ought to be silenced. PRINCESS BIBMABCK is represented bj a French correspondent as a woman of great worth, and, though of somewhat vulgar manner, possessing a good heart and a great amount of common sense. She has the most unbounded love and admiration for her illustrious husband. She is not in the least proud of her position. She is greatly liked by every­ body around her, though she is always brusque toward them, and sometimes even bearish. M. DE MUNKAC8VS celebrated paint­ ing, "Christ Before Pilate," which brought the master the title of nobility and world-wide renown, and which has been visited by over 1,500,000 admirers in Europe, is to be exhibited in the United States at the urgent invitation of many prominent art lovers. The ne­ gotiations are about concluded between the owner, Mr. Charles Sedelmeyer, and the impresario, Alfred Fischof, elder brother of Sedelmeyer's brother- in-law, the well-known pianist, Fischof. ALFONSO'S widow has had to banish from Madrid an officer who was con tinually on duty about the royal palace, He fell violently in love with h: sovereign, and making no concealment of his passion, jevealed it in varicmjj ways. One day he made his way to fh at present at work on a book which is to be his last. As THE packet Osprey, of Westray, in the Orkney Islands was returning re­ cently to that place from the Kirkwall Lammas market, and passed through the Westray Firth, the crew descried a large shoal of whales disporting them­ selves in the eddy of the firth. The boat shortened sail and some of the passen­ gers took the small boat, and both boats tried to keep them in toward the land. Large numbers of boats came off from the shore. At a whale hunt the first boat come to is taken hold of, despite the ownership, launched and manned, and every useful weapon is in­ stantly secured, such as sytlies, knives, spears, etc. The shoal is cautiously ap­ proached and surrounded, when the crew, by loud noises, drive the whales ashore, A boat containing some En­ glish tourists, who had been out seal shooting, came on the scene, and with their guns wounded some of the mon­ sters, who ran straight ashore, the whole shoal following. At this junct­ ure the noise of the dying whales gave a strange impression to the scene. Hopes were produced, and the mon­ sters, all nearly or over twenty feet, were dragged above high-water mark. The number found to be landed was 130. _______ THREE years ago Mr. John Longwell, of Charleston, Tioga County, began to fail in health, and experienced strange feelings in his stomach as if something were moving in it. In September of last year a powerful emetic was ad- d, and he emitted from his two live garter snakes, 12 and 14 inches in length respect Soon after that he was taken with fits and convulsions, and last month, during an attack which caused Queen's boudoir, and throwing himself, Jxjm untold agony and left him uncon- at her Majesty's feet poured forth liis %eious for upward of an hour, Mr. Long- tale of passion. The gentleman belongs to a powerful aristocratic family. Nevertheless, he is likely to have a warm time in the regiment, which, in consequence of hfe escapade, has been ordered into virtual exile. ENGINEERED DROHAN, of the Cin­ cinnati Southern Railroad, is looked upon as a lucky man. In April, 1882, Dan Driscoll took his place for one trip and was killed. Two months later Dan Angus took his run for one trip and was killed. Three weeks ago Matt Combs, who has been thirty years in the cab, took Drohan's run and was killed, and a few days ago Jim Jordan took Ed's r.un and was killed. All these deaths were the result of acci­ dents. Ed is beginning to have diffi­ culty in getting his brother engineers to take his place in the cab when he wants a day off. A FEW weeks since Major E. A* Burke, proprietor of the New Orleans Times- Democrat, State Treasurer of Louisiana and late Director General ,of the World's Exposition, accepted an invita­ tion from President Bogran, of Spanish Honduras, to pay him a visit. Major Burke shaped his business affairs so as to be able to pass three or four months in Central America. Information has now been received by steamer that Bogran has granted to Major Burke a concession of a tract of land twenty miles square,, on a part of which is a promising gold mine, while the rest of the land is heavily timbered with ma­ hogany find other valuable woods. THERE have been suggested numer­ ous remedies for the pestiferous mos­ quito, more or less efficacious. One is to wet a towel and suspend it in such a manner that its end touches a bowl of water. The mosquito is represented as partaking of the water in such quanti­ ties that he finally can hold no more, but drops off and is drowned in the bowl below. Another is to leave a slice of apple where the sweet singer can get at it, as he prefers it to blood, and, as a consequence, the sleeper is unvexed. A better remedy than either of these is to be found in wedding ice cream. The mosquito is very fond of it, and sinking his bill into it, has it frozen off close up to his head, or lailing in this, the tyro- toxicon in the cream finishes him with­ out fail. MARTIN F. TUPPER'S autobiography, "My Life as an Author," just published, is highly diverting, though the humor of the author of "Proverbial Philoso­ phy" is probably unconscious. Mr. Tupper has cut out and pasted into books all the cuttings from newspapers about himself that ever reached him. He gives all that is favorable, but re­ fuses to give samples of the unfavor­ able, because "he simply declines to be so foolish." The purity of his muse he accounts for by the fact that 1m "was engaged in marriage from 17 to 25." Consequently he "can have no love adventures to offer for amuse­ ment, such as Buskin." Mr. Tupper mildly and modestly repudiates N. P. Willis's assertion that "his chief authorial work," "Proverbial Philoso­ phy," surpassed the writings of Shake sgieare and Solomon. TTTH EMINENCE CARDINAL NEWMAH re­ ceives very few visitors at the Oratory now. He is 87 years old, and is grow­ ing feeble. A few privileged friends, such as the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Emly, and some of the "old boys" at Oxford, call when they please. The Cardinal rises every morning at 5, and after concluding his devotions returns to his room, sweeps out the uncarpeted floor, makes his own bed, and then goes to breakfast, whioh he begins with plate of porridge and a jug of hot milk, of which he is very fond. He shaves himself every morning and, like Lord Macanlay, always manages to cut him­ self. The only distinction he has over the other Fathers is that while they have but one room he has two--a bed­ room and library. He has had for many years a faithful Irish servant named James Cusack, of the Handy Andy school, in whose wit and blunders he well ejected a garter snake that was 18} inches long and a fraction over one-half inch in diameter. Mrs. Longwell, who was with her husband at the time, states that when the snake protruded about four inches from the sufferer's mouth it appeared to stick fast, although she did not recognize it as a snake. Finally, the entire reptile was ejected, but not before Mr. Longwell iu his agonizing convulsions had bitten it almost through in three places. Neighbors rushing in to assist Mrs. Longwell fouhd the snake in the vessel where it had fallen. They took it out and washed it. It is sup­ posed that in drinking from a pool Mr. Longwell swallowed the eggs from which the snakes grew. • A CORRESPONDENT writing to the London Morning Post says: Dr. Cresswell Hewitt, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, has discovered the synthetical or artificial mode of making quinine, by which the price of that drug will be re­ duced to something like 3d. per ounce. The importance of this discovery (which was made two or three weeks ago by the accidental breaking of a medicine bottle) is rendered greater by the fact that while hitherto we have been de­ pending for our qu'.nine on the cultiva­ tion of the chincona tree, from whose bark only about 2 per cent, of good qui­ nine can be extracted, 98 per cent, being valueless, the drug can now be manu­ factured without limit by a very simple process from an article which can al­ ways be got in abundance in any part of the world. A few days ago Dr. Hewitt submitted a sample of his preparation to Messrs. Howard & Sons, quinine manufacturers, Stratford, who have ex­ pressed surprise at the result of their analysis, the sample being elfual to the best quinine in the market. The dis­ coverer is about to communicate with the Government, -who annually spends in India alone about £60,000 in the cul­ tivation of the chincona tree. Children Inventing a Language. Strange stories of how children some­ times invent a language of their own are well authenticated. Twin boys were born to a respectable Boston family in 1860. Miss E. H. Watson, the W riter, tells of them: They were constantly together, and an intense affection existed between them. "At the usual age," the au­ thoress states, "these twins began to talk, but, strange to say, not their 'mother's talk.' They liaa a language of their own, and no pains could induce them to speak anything else. They persistently refuse to utter a syllable of English. Their mother relates that although she could inot understand their language, she contrived, by attention, to discover what they wished or meant." The important information is added that "even in the early stage, the lan­ guage was complete and full; that is, it was all that was needed. The chil­ dren were at no loss to express them­ selves in their plays--their 'chatterings' with each other all day." At last they were sent to a school, where they grad­ ually learned English, as children learn a foreigt© language, and the memory of their own speech faded from their minds. Dr. E. It. Hun, of Albany, has given a clear and scientific account of a simi­ lar phenomenon, with specimens of the language. In this case the speech was invented by a little girl, aged years, in conjunction with her brother, eigh­ teen months younger than herself. About twenty of the words are given most of which were used in several al­ lied acceptations, as meet, meaning both cat and furs imigno-migno, water, wash, bath; bau, soldier, music; odo, t<y send for, to go out, to take away; waia-waiar, black, darkness, a negro. The language had its own forms of con­ struction, as in mea waia-waiar, "dark furs" (literally furs dark) when the ad­ jective follows its substantive. Dr. Hun adds: "She uses her language readily and freely, and when she is with her brother they converse with great rapidity and fluency." Further inquires have shown that such cases of the child language are by no means uncommon, and these cases, it must be considered, are, after all, merely intensified forms of a phe­ nomenon which is of constant recur- A SEAT OR HO FARE. 1 nd Kinks of t Tmwlw «• file Railroad. A member of the Rochester bar, tell­ ing what the legal status of a person is when aboard a train, says: The first thing you set about is to find a seat. Now it is a well-recognized rule that it is a part of the contract of carriage to provide a proper seat for every passenger, and if the company fails to do this there is a breach of con­ tract on its part--13 Hun. (N Y) 70. 36 Wis. 450. But observe carefully what your pro­ cedure should be in order to comply with the law, in case no seat is furnished you. It has been held that yon may decline to surrender your ticket until seated. "Everybody knows that," says a reader. Not to fast. It has been further held that you cannot remain on the train and still keep your ticket. You cannot ride standing; you must get off at the first suitable opportunity. -- 53 Mo, 317. And if you do get off because a seat is not furnished you, you may retain your ticket, and you have an action for breach of contract.--Id. Until suitable opportunity to get off is presented, you, are of course, entit­ led to remain aboard, and may stand in the aisle, or ride on the platform.--35 NY. 670. .It is your sovereign right, also, to go iti the drawing-room car in search of a seat, if there are none in the ordinary coaches.--76 N. Y. 402. Nor are you bound to ask the con dnctor for a seat, or to exert your own manual force in removing some piggish passenger's baggage, before going into a drawing-room or palace car, in search of a seat.--Id. If yqn should exercise your right to go into a drawing-room car, the con­ ductor will likely demand the extra fare from you. You may justly refuse to pay it, and if ejected for non-pay- ment, you may sue for an assault.--Id. It has bpen held that a railway com pany may set apart a "ladies' car," and exclude others therefrom.--70 N. Y. 587. At least if there are no seats in the ordinary coaches, and there are vacant seats in the ladies' car, the servants of the company may exercise their dis­ cretion in selecting persons to put there.--13 Hun. (N. Y.) 70. Any one who takes umbrage because he is left, when the employes exercise this discretion in selecting, has an action for breach of contract of car­ riage.--Id. Supposing you have got a seat _ at least, it would be well to bear in mind some further duties which are incum- bant upon you. It has been said that the seat is for the passenger to sit in, and the window to admit air and light, and if you sit with your elbow or arm in or out of the windnow, you do so at your peril.--56 Pa. St. 294. And yet the courts will not compel you to sit bolt upright, as though your body was of cast iron, and keep your elbows irom protruding the smallest fraction of an inch outside the window if there was no apparent danger.--17 Wis. 487. But if. for instance, the train was passing through the switch yard, and if you saw switch or signal posts flying by, it would be manifestly dangerous for you to put your arm or head out of thJpM indow, and you would do so at >wr peril.--16 Barb (NY) 113. However, you are not, as a matter of law, compelled to remain in your seat from the beginning of your destination, or the destination of the train. If that were so you might die of thirst--L R 82 Q B 161. * And it is a question to be left for a jury to say whether you are negligent if, while looking for a seat, you pass from one car to another, following the direction of a train-man. who tells you there are vacant seats in a rear car.-- 37 N Y. 237. And whether it is negligence to stand up in the aisle and look for a seat, has been left to a jury also.--121 Mass 426. Sense and Sentiment. The poetical and the severely practi­ cal are seldom united in one person, and when the two almost opposite qual­ ities are brought in contact in two indi­ viduals, they do not harmonize. A sen­ timental, gushing woman was traveling over the Rocky Mountains in a stage­ coach. Stopping for dinner at a stage- station, in a peculiarly charming and picturesque spot, the poetical lady entered into conversation with the matter-of-fact wife of the landlord of the little hotel. "Oh, those mountains!" cried the traveler, clasping her hands and rolling up her eves in ectasy. "Beautiful, grand, majestic!" "Yes, they're right purtv," said the mistress of the house; "an' there's real good ros'berries grows on 'em, too." "How illimitable, how vast!" "Yes'm; they're big as all oift-doors, that's so." "What lights and shadow^! what lofty summits!" "Yes, they're lofty enough; that's a fact." "They seem to lift me up to their own heavenly heights." "Well, I guess if they'd let you drop, like they did a old cow of our'n, you wouldn't want to be lifted up agin." "It seems to me I would like to dwell always in the shadow of those mighty walls." "Well, you'd find it mighty poky, now I tell you. Lights an' shadders is mighty pore comp'ny." "Oh, but I would commune with my­ self! I should always have great thoughts amid such grandeur." "You would ? What do you reckon you'd eat? Thoughts, now, aint very fillin', an' the land 'round here won't even raise turnips, an' I reckon you'd git sick enough of it if you had to cook three meals a day on little ornothin'." "Oh, see that beautiful little stream! How it breaks around and over thet gray rock, and then rambles on, singing as it goes!" "Yes, an' there ain't even a catfish in it, an' I never know what minnit a cloud­ burst or somethin' is goin' to send it out of its banks clean into my kitchen. I've mopped up ^fteir that treach'rous little crick half a dozen times now." "I fear you don't quite appreciate the beautiful." "Mebbe not. But I know that them that wants to live here an' raise a fam­ ily on moonshine an' lights an'shadders an' foamy waves kin do it. We're goin' back to ole Missoury this fall, if we have to walk ev'ry step of the way!"-- Youth's Companion. guage takes great delight. His Eminence is j and other lives. rence. Those who adhere to the doctrine of the pre-existence and repeated re-births of the same individual would explain the phenomenon by declaring that these children had brought the strange lan- _ . _ . , with them from other spheres &ed India-rubber joints to make it per- r^?|fectly tight, like the *'«r To Preserve Eggs. The simplest and most effective way, and, indeed, the most econimical,-to preserve eggs, without imparting to •them any foreign flavor, or rendering them unfit for cooking, is to use the patent stopper glass jar? with vulcan- fruit. As soon as the eggs are collected put the jare into hot water, and when thoroughly warm, so as to rarify tl»p 'air, put the eggs in the jar, the pointed ; ends upward, and pack them with paper or something to prevent them from breaking, then close the jar before tak­ ing it out of the water. If the work is skilfully done, and the jar is tight, the eggs wUl keep for many months, and be as fit for the breakfast table as the day they were laid. A Very Conic OpexA* On reaching Lucerne we were at­ tracted by flaming posters which made it known that M. Labitski's company of celebrated and unrivalled artists from Les Folies Parisiennes had begun a summer season of comic opera at the Kursaal. I asked the concierge of the Scheizerof what sort of performances they gave. "Very good," he said. I repeated this question to a loqua­ cious hair dresser who was graciously bestowing upon*my unworthy head his professional attention, and he wasted an extra quantum of Pinaud's eau de quinine in his enthusiasm. Then, seeing that the piece for the evening was Lecoq's latest, I inspected the prix des places. The boxes were 40 francs and 30 francs. The seats ranged from 8 francs to 2 francs. Being a stranger, and having a nose for thrift, aud, as a matter of fact, unused to paying any­ thing at all at a theater door, I made special inquiry at the box oflice, which impressed me at the time as having a lonesome ltk»k about it, as to the two franc seats. The box-keeper was very polite, in­ deed. He took me within and pointed out the diagram of the house. I found that the two frano seats differed from the eight franc seats simply in being cane-bottomed chairs iustead of cush- ioned-armed chairs, and in the addi­ tional circumstance that they coifld not be reserved in advance. "But," said my obliging conductor, "for a small gratuity the lodge-keeper will reserve you the very best places." The lodge- keeper was called, and paviug for six 2-franc seats I told her that if she would hold them for me upon the first row I would give her a franc. Then I de­ parted highly pleased with my adven­ ture in theatrical economy. That evening at 8:30 our party filed into the Kursaal, which was brilliantly illuminated. At the door the box- keeper met us hat iu hand. Down tho center aisle the lodge-keeper made us a sweeping oourtesy. She had six chairs right in the center of the parquette turned down for us. Outside of ourselves und these two officials of the place there was not an­ other soul visible anywhere. Not a beggarly array, but in vast wilderness of empty benches, we sat down. After a while two rough-looking customers entered the gallery. Then a flashy lady and gentleman strided into one of the boxes. Then the orchestra ap­ peared. Next half a dozen women and men lounged into various points in the surrounding spectacle of vacuity. At 9 o'clock the fiddles began to tweak. At 9:30 the curtain rose. At 10:30 we left in the middle of the first act. Next da}r I learned that after we had gone the performance ceased. It was, in fact, simply an adjunct of the gam­ bling house back of the stage--a decoy duck, so to say--and our auditors were markers, lookouts, dealers, croupiers, male and female, attached to the estab­ lishment. It was iudeed a "play" house.--Henry IVatterson, in Louis­ ville (Jmtrier-JournaL FlfCostlng. • It is not necessary to wait for summer nor access to water, in order to practice casting. A housetop, a dooryard, or even the spacious floor of an old-fash­ ioned barn, offers just as good a chance for practice as a lake or river. Fly- casting is a very simple movement, and not a flourish. The elbow is kept down at the side, the forearm moving only a little, and most of the work is done by the wrist. Holding the rod by the "grip," the part of the butt wound with silk or rattan to assist the grasp, one finds that the reel, which is just below the "grip," aids in balancing the rod. The reel is underneath in casting. After hooking a fish, manv anglers turn their rods so as to bring the reel to the upper side, thus letting the strain of the line come upon the rod itself instead of upon the rings. In holding the "grip," the thumb should be extended straight along the rod, as this gives an additional "purchase." For the first cast, take the end of the line iu the left hand, and bring the rod upward and backward until the line is taut. As you release the line, the spring of the rod carries the line backward. This is the back cast. Then comes an instant's pause, while the line straightens itself out behind, and then, with a firm motion of the wrist, helped a little by the forearm, the rod is thrown forward, and the line flies easily out in front. Begin with a line once or once- and-a-half as long as the rod, and lengthen it out by degrees. The main jK)ints to be remembered are: to keep the elbow at the side, to train the wrist, to move the rod not too far forward or back, always to wait until the lino is straight behind on the back cast, and to make sure that in this the line falls no lower than your head, a process which it will take time to accomplish. There is no more awkward fault than that of whipping a rod down to a level with the horizon. When the learner becomes accus­ tomed to handling his rod, he must try to perfect himself in two matters of great importance--accuracy and deli­ cacy. Place a small piece of paper fif­ teen or twenty feet away, and aim at making the knot in the end of the line fall easily and quietly upon it. Your efforts will be aided if you will raise the point of the rod a trifle, just as the for­ ward impulse of the line is spent, and the line itself is straightened in the air for an instant in front. This is a novel kind of target-shooting, but its useful­ ness will be realized when the angler finds it necessary to drop his flies lightly just over the head of some wary tront. --Ripley Hitchcock, in St. Nicholas. HOT SHOT. wwm A Powerful Arraignmsnt of the Ad- - ministration by Hon. D. B. Hen- derson, of Iowa. The False Pretenses and Broken Prom­ ises of the Bourbon De- mooracy. jars for preserving Nothing Could (Jet Away from Him; "One of the amusing things about the fight," said Col. Goodnow, as he gazed at the panorama Battle of At­ lanta. "happened under my eye. Ser­ jeant King, of my command,in the heat of the fight, came on to a set of false teeth that had dropped outof the mouth of a poor fellow who had bee n shot He picked them up, showed them to me, and taid he didn't propose to let any­ thing of that kind get away from him while gold was worth $1.75. He was as unconcerned al«out it as though death was not being dealt on every side."-- St. taul Pioneer Press. , [Speech delivered at Waveriy. b«it] What do we all want? What do Republicans, Democrats! and Groeubackers, and all classes of citizens want? You want good order, good laws, and Rood times. These are the three things that we want. For one, I want each and all of these, and I want them, too, for every citizen of Iowa and every citizen of America. I want such laws, so made aud so executed that the poorest man iu my State can deposit his ballot as safely and with as much potency as the richest man in New York or New Or­ leans. You want the same. We want such laws as will allow the iioorest citizen, by intelli­ gent industry, to carve out a home and inde­ pendence, and when he has secured that home and independence, we want the law to protect both. The toiling man who has to live by his musclo should recognize the sacredness of law aud of social order. The capitalist must also recognize that the labor ng man is entitled to his just share of tlie joint fruits of lal>or aud of invested gold. We are all A 1KEIES of festivals has been hehj at Mmtdidier, in the north of France, in lienor of Parmentier, who--only 100 yean ago--was the first to bring the potaip to French soil. . * „reed upon these propositions, no matter what party we belong to.' Those who favor good government, good laws and freedom to the people, ought to be able to meet upon a common platform. The question before us in this campaign is, which party in the House of Representatives at Washington will best promote these princi­ ples and these ideas ? "If vou believe that the ehiocratic party will best do so. it is your duty to defeat tho Republicans. If you believe that tho liepnblieiui piirt£ will best promote these prinoiples, \vi' 1 most, earnestly and zealously labor for the interest of all, then help to elect theui. I will be pleased if you reach the latter judgment. What has been done by the Democratic Con gress that the people can approve? Little or nothing, if they had been left to themselves. I ha vie watched it. A bill attracting the attention of the whole country- abill to put down piracy ; a bill to put down fraud and lies ; a bill to stamp out bogus butter iIt this country. Who were its friends, and who were its foes, in tho House of Representatives and in the Senate? This was a bill that attempted to secure tho protection of one of the most sacred industries in America. A bill that sought to wrench power from the hands of a few millionaires, in the interests of millions of hard-working people all over this country. The very moment that bill came up for consideration in the House of Representa­ tives, tho great mass of the Democratic party stood side by side against it. Tillman, of South Carolina; Hammond, of Georgia; Reagan, of Texas, Col Morrison, of Illinois, the leader of the House; all leaders in the Democratic House, stood side by side and fought hnd filibustered, trying to defoat the bill. The Republicans, wiih three or four exceptions, worked and voted for its passage. By reason of this filibustering, it seemed that tho session would pass before we could get it through. In spite of the Demo­ cratic chiefs, the bill finally passed the House. It went over to the Senate and was referred to the Committee on Agriculture. What was done by that committee? When it came to vote and report that bill favorably to the Senate, every Democrat on that committee recorded his vote against it, while every Republican voted for it, and it was brought back into the Senate for action. In tho Senato of the United States, Senators on the Democratic side attacked il with every i>ower they could bring, to defeat it. After a gallant fight, the bill was put through the Senate, the Republicans almost solidly voting for it, and the Democrats, iu a great ma joritv, voting agaiust it. Now, there is a reason for this. That reason, gentleman, lies in this, that the old mistaken theory about State rights still lingers around the hearts of our brethren in the South, which controls tlie Democracy and ties every hand from doing justice to the people, and when tho Federal Government attempted to put its hands upon this evil and relieve one of the leading industries of the country, they said : "No, you must leave that to the States. They are strong enough to take care of it." The old philosophy of State rights still lingers in their breasts, am'l to-day, gentlemen, the groat body of the Democ racy in the House of Representatives comes from that quarter and controls the legislation largely of the House of Representatives. Let ine give you oue illustration, nnd it is a signifi cant one. The great bulk of the business of Congress is done in what is termed "tho Com mtttee of tho Whole." The Speaker calls some member of Congress to take charge, and he leaves the chair and often the House of Repre­ sentatives, and then, with freedom from the stringent rules, wo can more easily proceed to the consideration of the bills before us. Now. my Democratic friends and my Repub lican friends will be anxious to know how Mr. Carlisle has been in the habit of shaping the legislation of this Union. I will tell you what you will find in the records of Congress. Those are the men who presided over the Committee of the Whole during the last session: Blount, of Georgia; Hammond, of Georgia; Crisp, of Geor gia; Reagan, of Texas; Wolborn, of Texas Mills, of Texas; McCrearv, of Kentucky, and Hatch, of Missouri--all of them from the South Among those who took the chair there was only one from the North, and that was William M. Springer, of Illinois, and he alone, of all the Dettiocratic lenders of the North. Such men as Randall, Bre.gg, Hewitt, nnd Holman were never called to the chair, but only Mr. Springer, to preside over the Committee of tho Whole. I mention these things, not so much for Repul>- licanB to know, but I want Northern Democrats, men as honest as you, to know that their party has lost its control in the North, and that their Southern Democratic friends have no use for them, and that to-day the legislation of this country has passed into tho hands of the South­ ern States. Are you Democrats contentad to have it so? I am sfating facts and history, and you must make up the verdict in your own mind. No, there are somo other things that I want to call your attention to: Take, for instance, the interstate commerce bill. Tho Iowa Legis­ lature passed resolutions instructing their Sen­ ators to vote for it, and also asking our Representatives to vote for it Tho Senate considered it, and at great length and with great wisdom, and with great patience. They took hold of the great question of inter- State commerce and put through the bill that was approvod by Iowa. It laid its hand upon ev­ ery iron rail in America, and firmly inaugurated Government control. It came over to the House of Representatives. In oue hour it could have become a law so far as legislation was con­ cerned, but Mr. Reagan rallied his forces and put on amendments, without sufficient consid­ eration or debate, and did not approach it with the wisdom that its merits deserved. He •referred a Reagan bill to Government control it railroads, and thus it was hung up in confer­ ence and it is in conference yet. Tliis is the po­ sition they put the Cuiioin bill in ; the bill that our State demanded in the interest of cheap < tran sportation. Now, my friends, let me call your attention to another thing. The great National Republican Convention of this country in 18M4 declared for i«bt recognition of the soldiers and demanded i "ssage of the nrrears bill. The State of -9w-i and nearly all the Republican State Con­ tentions recommended the samo thing. There H daidlv a Republican convention throughout tiio North but demanded that this just act be paSoed for the soldiers of the country. The Senate passed a bill in obedience to th.it de­ mand of the people, a bill which has nothing but jfistice and right for its foundation, OG every man knows This bill comes over to the House, and happening to be near the head of the list to bo recognized nndor a suspension of the rules, I was selected by the Republican side of the House to move a suspension of the rules upon the day when the suspension of the rules would be in order, and to pass this bill. A Democrat called up the Mexican pension bill, of which nine-tenths goes into the Southern States. There was no trouble about getting recognition for that. It was brevght up and passed by a two-thirds vote. Just before my name was to be recognized, Mr. Carlisle sent his clerk to ask me what bill I was going to call up. I did not like to tell, because I might not be able to get up the Senate pension bill for Union soldiers. T was notified that Mr. Carlisle most know what bill I intends d to call up. The Speaker is an honorable man, and has alwavs treated me with the most distinguished consideration and fairness. I told tho Speaker through the clerk the bill that I wanted to call up, and that it was at the re<jnest of the Repub­ licans of the House, and was t.ie arrearage pen­ sion bill. When it was reporti d to the Speaker he instantlv said that he would not recognize me to call up that bill. I went to Mr. Carlisle at his desk, and I tpld him the Mexican pen­ sion bill has passed here to-day. in tho intr-rcst of tho Southern soldiers, practically, and that the soldiers whom I represented waiitod me to call up tho arrears bill. If it was fair in one case it was fair in the other. He said he would recogni '.c me on any other bill, a private bill, but he could not recognize ine for the arrears bill, aud I had to abandon it under those cir­ cumstances, and every effort that was made to bring up Unit bill, ana also what was known as the general disability bill, was absolutely frus­ trated, and no man in the chamber could get a recognition to move the passage of either of these bills. Some inay approve of this, some may not. I give you the facts for you to deter­ mine. I w ill introduce, I will say, a private pension bill for some soldier or some soldier's widow. It is referred at once to the Committee on In­ valid Pensions. They send to the Tension Office for all the papers aud evidence, and thev examine it with great care, and if they think it worthy they rei>ort it back to tho House with a report stating the facts and asking that it be passed. Now the reason for the passage of that class of bills is this : Alter the lapse of twenty years it is no easy matter for widows left alone fcy death to find the evidence and proofs neces­ sary to get a pension It is no easy matter for soldiers after the lupse of years when they find •disease carryin them down and disabling them for work, to get from their scattering comrades the pr^of, showing that they are entitled to a pension. Congress has the" absolute right to look up this class and pass a special bill grant­ ing pensions to deserving men and women. We have been in tho habit of doing this on Friday night. On that night the House is never full, t 1 ou have got to have a quorum, lf>'i members, i present in order to pass hills. Nona con pass if f a ftnqrum to demanded. B hu been under­ stood for years that no one would raise objeo- fiions. The bills were investigated and discussed, and majority of those present should rteteruiine whether they should pass or not. Everything was running along in this recognized way when suddenly we received a shock in the House-- a message came from the White»fcouM saying that 155 pension bills had been allowed to bo- come a law without the approving signature of tho President. He did not veto them, which he said he cu;ht to do. He spoke very sharply to the House of Representatives, und "he gave U8 a very sharp lecture. From that moment a new state of things came into the House, and from that moment when the sharp satire of the White House began to lie directed H gainst theflfe poor cripples and invalids and widows, an evil influence developed in the House of Represen­ tatives, and we found difficulties that we had not before experienced. Aliout this time a message came from the President, vetoing and killing quite a number of pension claims, and at the same time some one was found upon the Democratic sida of the House calling "no quorum," and ever since the House has been blocked for passage of that class of bills, and when I took a Washington newspaper on the evening when the first veto mes­ sage came, I saw it then announced when he had executed that act and killed those bills, depriving these poor fellows of eight dollars a month, that he and a number of genial spirits got into a steam yacht, the "Cor­ sair, "aud went down the Potomac on a jolly junket, and it was a strange combination of history. As I read that item that night, and wondered how he could go and walk off and en­ joy him elf after sending desolation and pain into the homes of the poor, I thought how thai man had not been where those people had been. It be had been, those vetoes would never have been written. Let me tell you an illustration. I received a petition from Blackhawk County asking me to ; >ut through a private bill for David T. Elderkin. it was signed by many of the best citizens of Waterloo, of Cedar Rapids, and of Fiiichford. The facts were written to me. I drew up a bill. introduced it and it was referred to the Com­ mittee on Invalid Pensions, and every member of that committee said that man should have m" tension. The bill was reported back to the iouse with a full report on the facts. When the case WNB stated every member of the House of Representatives present that night said "that is right." and voted for the passage of the bill. Not a dissenting voice neither on the left nor on the right. Let me tell you briefly the facts of the case, and you know something of them, too: David T. Elderkin entered the army from Waterloo, and at the battle of Murfreesboro, w tie re a shell took off the head of a friend of his, and whose blood was spattered over him, and at the same time he was wounded in the neck, which de­ stroyed his hearing--it destroyed more than that, it struck a blow that dethroned the in­ telligence of David T. Klderkin. He was taken prisoner, and lay long iu Libby prison. The proofs which went to the House "ot Representa­ tives showed that the Commissioners of In­ sanity of the county, composed of Dr. W. D. Crouse, E. T. Cor win, and the Clerk of Black- hawk County--and no citizen of Blackhawk l ouiitv will question the ability or the charac­ ter of these gentlemen--that Hoard of Insanity examined him and brought in a verdict of in- saue, and the proof showed that from the mo­ ment that deadly shell struck him his mind began to fail, and when tho citizens of this county petitioned me to get relief, and that he was living near the town of Finch- ford and had a wife and seven children and very little means, struggling with his disease and poverty and his shattered mind, the burden of the whole family resting upon the widow, theso petitions and proofs were supplemented bv letter from this poor widow (she is worse than a widow). These letters would wring tears from a heart of steel. That bill went over to the Senate, and tho Senate referred it to the Pension Committee. It was unanimously re- poited back to the Senate, and they unanimous­ ly voted that he should have a pension. The Congress of the United States under the Consti­ tution said $8 a month was due him by patriot­ ism, by every form of justice to the home of this poor family in Blackhawk. That bill went to the White House aud the President put his veto upon it and sent it back as unworthy of his approval. Let me draw you to another picture: There is a poor woman in Ohio by tlie name of Sally Ann Bradley. She hail a husband by her side when tho war broke out and four sons, who all went into the army, and she said, "Go and I will stay at home, and help to save the country." Gentlemen, two of those boys fell dead upon the field, ono of them had his arm torn off, and lias been at the Soldier's Home ever since, helpless and unable to support her; the other boy had a ball tear through his eye, making him useless, and he lives at the Soldier's Home, und a few years ago her husband died, as was shown, from disease contracted in his long service. Sally Ann Bradley, with ono foot in the grave and*the other in the poor house, turn- iug to Congress of the United States with her withered hands and snow-covered head, said, "I gave my country my all; must I enter the poor house?" Congress said "No," and gave her a pension. The President of the United States vetoed that bill, too, and on the same day, with the samo pen, and at the same time, when de­ nying justice to this dying saint, ho approved the Fitz John Porter bill and elevated him to tho pay and emoluments of a Colonel in the United "States army. I want my Democratic friends to know these facts and tell me if they approve of them. He vetoed 102 private pension bills, thus giving you some samples of Democratic economy by saving $10,'200 a year, and his own administra­ tion asked appropriations for #39,OJO for a con­ servatory and tiower lioiise and ornamentation to the White House iu which he lived, rent free, when ho vetoed these poor pension bills. These are facts. It is all very well for a man drawing a salary of $50,001 a year, but I say that a voice will come from the peoplo that will call a halt and end such abuse of power. The Rat and the Railroad. Yes, he was a very wonderful rat. There can be no doubt about that. At the same time we must make allow­ ances for him, for he certainly could not have known what he was doing, or what fearful consequences might result from his awkward attempts to find a hiding place. The station-master at the little town of D , in Pennsylvania, had long been fretted and worried by the rats, which had established themselves in whole settlements and colonies under­ neath the platform, and in various nooks and corners of the little building where he spent his days and no small part of his nights. The fact is that there was a freight depot attached to the station, where the farmers used to store their grain whenever they had a quantity to send to market. This it was that attracted the rats, for their sharp teeth enabled them to gnaw through , the bags without difficulty; and a good meal of fresh wheat or corn is to a rat what a dinner with all the luxuries of the season is to us. Finally, however, the rats behaved so badly, they destroyed so many bags, and scattered and wasted so much grain besides what they did eat, that the sta­ tion-master decided upon destroying them or driving them away. One night, when he knew that they had all left their holes, and were having a fine feast in the main room of the depot, he rushed in among them with a party of boys, all beating tin pans, rattling pieces of iron, and making the greatest possible noise and din. The rats started to fiy to their holes, but the station-master had provided for that. Two or three boys stood at the head of the staircase down which they must go, and so their only chance of escape was the open door, and the sta­ tion-master ventured to hope that after such a scare they would never return. But an hour later an alarming event happened. Along ca'me the midnight passenger train, and, to the horror and dread of all who saw the occurrence, it ran off the track. The engine ploughed its way into the bank at the side of the road; the cars swayed and bumped, and almost turned over. Fortunately the train was slacking up, or great mis­ chief would have been done. What was it? Why, ono big rat in search of a hole had rushed along the track, fancying, apparently, that he was in some narrow tunnel leading to a splen­ did refuge. He had come to the switch, shoved the loose rail aside, and thus arranged for the wrecking of the train and the loss of any number of lives. Had not the train stopped at that station, some terrible mischief would have been done. As it was no one suf­ fered but the rat. He had run so fast that he had wedged himself tightly in between the rails, and when the train passed over hi u he was very quickly killed. --Harper's Young People. A BARNET man "points with pride" to the fact that his wife has worn one bonnet a ! for twenty-five years. The feeling with which the wife p0"1*8 to the husband has not been described. ILLINOIS STATE NEW* --The Beck £ Marshal] Carpets of St Louis failed for $70,000, Out; pal creditors being in Chicago Mid nati. - --Theodora Peterson* if Chicago, been awarded the contract to bnOt the 1 Soldiers' Home at Marshall town. The ] is $(53,740. | --Mrs. Rebecca Hall was arraigned Jijfff the Cook County Criminal Ccrart for tlMft alleged murder of her hnsband, Hall, and pleaded not gailty. --Captain D. S. Harris, of Galena, * to have strnck a lead of pare galena, wHtH bids fair to be one of the greatest mineral discoveries ever made in that region. --A grip-car on the Cottage Grove Kn ̂ in Chicago, beheaded Isadore llarolagjr, j who, while at work m one of the excaTa- tions beneath the tracks, raised his head at ̂̂ a man-hole. , -- The Central Labor Union of Chicago, j at a meeting held at No. 54 West L'ike k street, appointed a committee to raise every >^"4 cent possible for the defense of the con- •} || rioted anarchists, and to appeal to evacy labor union in the country for aid. J --An Episcopal clergyman from the in-? . Il terior of Illinois, iu Chicago attending thw General Convention, said to a reporter: ,j "Do you know that Chicago is highly com- |f| plimented by the meeting of the conven* tion here. It never came so far West be- fore. The last one was held in Cine innate, -fy and coming to Chicago was quite an in« - fy novation. Some of the older members of | the chnrch living in the East really had _ 'Jj no idea what Chicago was like. They '*'| supposed it was a frontier town, and ex* •> pected. to see Indians chasing buffalo ^ | up and down State street. Coming her* * •< with such notions, it is no wonder they gaze in amazement and awe on yonr mag>* , : nificent city, with its stately buildings, ita -j boulevards and parks, and streets full of1 / - people on the rush, as if they had got nf» « an hour too late in the morning, and wera ' determined to catch up before night. It a big town, and when some of our Eastenl . brethren return home with their scalps - t and are asked about the Indians, they will >. » have to admit they saw men on guard ont» 'H I side cigar stores, and the half-breed deie» , J gate from Wisconsin, who never raised a, • ; scalp and is as devout a churchm$u as - % of the Eastern brethren." u *> *1 "Kiss the baby while you can,"'admon­ ishes a poet. We can kiss her just as well fifteen or twenty years from now--if she's that kind of a baby. CONVICT LABOl. '751 M AM Address of the State Labor Aismli tlon. The following address from the Executive Committee of the State Labor Association explains itself: X To tho Farmers of Illinois: At the ensuing eleotion the following amand­ ine at to the Constitution of this Btate Will hi Hubimttod for acceptance or rejection: "Hereafter it shall be nnlawinl for the Com* niisaioners of any penitentiary, or other re^- formatory institution in the State of Itiinoi% to let by contract to any person, or persons, Of corporatio ns, the labor of any convict confined in s.nd institution." As a studious attempt is being made cer­ tain quarters to misrepresent the is -ue ilk* volved, the undersigned deem it their duty, as l'ar as possible, to present the matter in ita true light, to vindicate the portion taken by the workingmen, and explain the reasons why they asli, desire, and expect your support foe ' Uie fame. * Vfe Tho statement so frequently indulged k j that it is tiio design or desire oi'the industrial | classes to keep the convicts in enforced idle- ' ness is a fabrication so gros) and prepoeterona that a serious denial is unnecessary. No iifc< ; | te.ligent representative body of workmgmea , | lias ever advocated the adoption of such .% suicidal policy. On the contrary, they byliev* r? that under a proper system" the "criminal should not only be compelled to earn his own 1 living, but also to contribute to the support -i of a family (when he has one), instead of havw ; || ing theni, as is too often under the present > system, a burden on the tax-paying commit- nity. Hut there is certainly a vast differeaoa between compelling the convict to contribute to his own ami family's support and forcing tbreu or four trades to bear tlie bruut of the crime of the Mate, by which the law abiding ; nieehunic is too often driven to enforced idle- "%? ness, made a criminal, and then punished far being a criminal, in order that some contra^; tors may enrich themselves on penitentiary labor, secured at 45 aud 50 cents per .day, at the expense of employers, to >, who are willing Vj to pay to free labor an ltoueat day's wage* far .j an nonest day's work. Let us briefly illustrate our position. In tho State of Illinois thero are seven hundred ^ and seventy-seven convicts cmployod in penal "V institutions in the manufacture of boots audi shoes. If theso convicts had been boot and shoe makers prior to their incarceration tiie < craft in general would have little reason to ;! complain, because the fact that by the coin- ; i mission of crime they had forfeited their right to liberty, furnished no reason why thegr •"$ should not earn their living ius»:do a- well aa outside the wa.ls of a State's prison. Investi- ';| gation will prove, however, that outof thia number so omployed not more than twenty- five, or, in round numbers, one in thirty, had ? -J ever followed tho trade. Now, the pertinent . question presents itself, why Btiould the boot v and shoe makers or the coopers be singled out •.• Vf] to bear this onus? Why should they be-spa*.. ---fM ciaily selected any more than the represents*- I tives of any other trade? Suppose the bulk of the convicts were employed as agricultural laborers, would not the farmers of this Stats^";7^ and justly, too, raise their protest a.^ainaftr. ~ S such action? And yet. so far as the questioa of nltstract justice is iuvolved, it would bo aa consistent to advocate tho establishment at * theological, law, or commercial colleges as to. .» make two or three specific trades suffer fair' -A others' crimes. Again, under the contract system, a grosa i injustice is perpetrated on the honest em- I- £ ployer. A short time ago an advertisement*.* 1v appearod in oue of our city papers addressed %« to country buyers, which in snbstanee read aia follows: uIt requires no argument to demottw^ strate that employers who pay $±rik> or | per day for labor cannot successfully .comnelMrI, with the uudersigueJ who have contracted for the labor of four hundred and fifty convicts alk -1 forty-live cen's per d ty." A sermon in a nut» shell which carries its own comments. • ,'M In regard to tho employment of the convicts^ " this is a question that belongs to the LegisI'*- lure of the State; though without attempt? > ing to dictate or formulate a pro* gramme, we insist there are many method# by which the labor of the conviot » may be utilized with benefit to himself and to , 3 the State, without materially infringing on the * ^f;|| domain of honest labor, viz.: Bv a classifies ..tion of the convicts by which a number - I of ablo-bodied male prisoners shad been**: ployed tluriug the summer in constructing^" ,'l|p public highways, and iu prepar ng smiabla ^ materials for snch highways durii.g winter, and that others be employed partly in tha manufacture, by hand, of wearing appareL, etc., and partly in the production of foou; all such products "to be utilized, as far as praetir- cable, in state institutions, such aa peniten­ tiaries, pjgsons, hospitals, blind, insane, auft orphan aSyiums, etc. And should these meth* ; ;I oils prove insufficient for the perniatu employment of a 1, let the talauee be distrib- : fjp uted in numbers not to exceed fifty at etch .,v«S trade, the products to be disposed of at pnblio * ' -.$j roup or in oj>en market. ' It, however, for the sake of argument, we ' . a d m i t a s c l a i m e d b y s o m e o p p o n e n t s o f t h e ^ measure, that tlie change from the iniqiutous*'L"^i to the proposed system would necessitate a* ^ expenditure of $l0u,000, lot us briefly oxan*- ine what this terrible bugbear amount to pee capita, divided among tin ">,lXX\i>00 residents of the great State of Illinois. Tho answer is, not the price of a box of matches, les* thaa six cents p »r annum, less than ha'.f a cent a month, a smaller amount than is expend d every day for trifles in tlie humblest home in •tlie land. Surely in the face of th.-se facts, the complaint of the chronic growler wi 1 be lmshed, especially waeu the advantages honest lab >r will derive'from the changes aro take* into consideration. Farmers of Illinois, we leave the issue Ik your hands; upon your decision haugttiaa great measure tlie fate of the amendiu'at. W« rely, however, on your senje of r gfht am wrong, which wo feel assured you will not Ig­ nore. Remember the golden ru'e--do as yi wish to be done by--and we h i v.- no fear your verdict iixKcrTivs Cowjtrrrw^ -- Suite Labor A»-oc atukt, A a Caaaeron. CM""** ; - ^ - V