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-ft wastra. ***** pmu*. MoHKNBT, ILLINOIS MBS. ELIZABETH TSOMMOK, of Bos­ ton, has an income of $50,000 a year, which she receives quarterly, and it is •aid ahe is often penniless before the •end of the quarter. She spends her entire time and fortune in charity, and that without identifying hexaelf with tiie objects of her generosity. . THOMAS STABB KING, the eloquent preacher, had a country relative who strongly opposed his going upon the lecture platform. After much urging he consented to attend one of the lect­ ures. Dr. King asked him what he thought of it. "Waal," was the cheer­ ing reply, "you warn't half as tejus as I thought you'd be." XIOBD STANLEY, of Preston, who will succeed Lord Lansdowne, as Governor General of Canada* is the younger brother of the present Earl of Derby. He was formerly of the Guards, and : has been many years in publie life. He is said to be a moderate, cautious, clear-headed fellow, not at all brilliant, and likely to be timid iu a .crisis. He is poor, bat his wife is ambitious and reftolute. \ AT a family dinner (riven the other day by Valentine Winters, a venerable banker of Dayton, Ohio, under the !.• plates were found envelopes containing , deeds, stocks, bonds, etc., aggregating nearly $500,000, as presents to his chil­ dren'and grandchildren. In like man­ ner he divided $400,000 between them in 1882, and it is not an uncommon "thing for his children tq find $1,000 cheeks under their plates. Miss ETHEL INOALLS, daughter of Senator lngalls, who has taken up newspaper work to help build a new home in place of the one burned at Atchison, Kan., a few months ago, is a handsome young woman with blonde • hair, dark, flashing eyes,?and an intel­ lectual countenance. She visits the Capitol every day for news pointers, and the newspaper boys have invited her to a seat in the press gallery. COL. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL said to a visitor in bis office the other day: "I hate work, but I find there is such close competition in the business of larceny that a good many men are forced to work." At a later hour the visitor was in the Colonel's house. '"What a grand house you live iu!" the visitor said. "I wish," the Colonel re­ plied, "that I lived in the poorest house in New York. "What do you mean by saying that?" the visitor asked. "I mean that I wish every man in New York had a better house than I have!" SYLVIA DUBOIS, the famous negress of the Sour Land Mountain, .in New Jersey, is dead. ,She was 122 years eld beyond doubt. She waa born in the valley below Sour Land, and was the slave of a man named Dubois for years. Then she was sold to a man who kept * hotel at Great Bend, Pa. There she became famed for her feats of strength, and for the prize-fights in which she engaged. She boasted that she was never beaten, and had knocked out scores of the strongest men. One day ahe got angry at her mistress and nearly killed her. She picked up her child and fled across the Susquehanna and tramped all the way to Sour Land Mountain, where she lived the rest of her life. Her fondness for fighting, lor liquor, and her profanity soon made her notorious. FOB thirteen years Mr. H. H. Wil- «on, of Pittsburgh, courted Miss Louisa E. Wilson. He was rich; she was beautiful; and, although their names were similar, they were not related. It was a long period for a courtship, but where love is time never drags. The hours flit by like minutes; days go like hours, and yoars slip away like months. For thirteen years Mr. Wilson eluded marriage. He was ready in promises but unwilling to take part in a cere­ mony that binds until death or divorce cuts the bonds. Courtship was pleas­ ant enough for him, and although Miss Wilson grew tired of waiting he did not. For thirteen years Miss Wilsen aaved the various messages, the dear, loving letters, and the sugar-coated ex­ pressions of endearment that the mail brought, to her. And, now, after her devoted admirer has refused a last ap­ peal for a wedding, Miss Wilson goes into court and asks $30,000 damage for breach of promise. Is thirteen an un­ lucky number ? If any one wants to know let him write to H. H. Wilson, of Pittsburgh. THE Emperor died like a soldier dreaming of battles, says the New York Tribune. Born during the Napoleonic wars he might be said to have been cradled in camp; and his last broken sentences were premonitions of impend­ ing campaigns in Europe. MI am a man of peace," he is reported to have ex­ claimed a few hours before he died; "but if Russia forces me to war I shall faithfully side with my ally Austria!" In similar spirit he referred to the Czar's assurances to him at their last meeting respecting a conflict between Busaia and Germany, and expressed approval to Prince Bismarck of the military bill recently passed and of the general policy of coalitions and arma­ ments. He took leave of Germany al­ most as a General bids farewell to an army. The Fatherland, as it faded from his eyes, was a vast camp, in which a summons of war might be expected before many months. As the burden of his thanksgiving for victories won in war time had been, "Not unto us, but unto Thy name give the praise," so he may reverently be said in his last hours to have committed his beloved oountry to the God of battles. * THE Rensselaer (Ind.) Republican ' * of a recent date, says: We are now in • gNMioa' to singe and at the same time unique educational institution fs to belooated at Rensselaer. This is nothing more nor less than an Indian school under the oontrol of the National Bureau of Catholio Indian Missions. The bureau has purchased from Bishop Dwenger the west half of the seotion of land just southwest of town, formerly at­ tached to the Catholic Orphan Asylum, and also another eighty acres, making 400 acres in alL All the stock, grain, etc., on the farm has also been pur­ chased, $10,000 in cash having been paid for the land and other property conveyed. The institution will be un­ der the direct supervision of the Rev. George L. Willard, formerly of Wash­ ington. The school will have con­ stantly in its care about fifty Indian boys, of from 15 to 18 years old, and selected from among the most promis­ ing pupils of the Catholic Indian schools of the whole west. The boys will be trained with the special view of making them good formers, capable of leading and instructing the other mem­ bers of their respective tribes in ways of peace and civilization. Ten or twelve young white students will also be edu­ cated at the institution, and assist in the training of the Indian boys. THE low-down meanness of the post­ mortem attack Upon - General Grant, writes George W. Childs in the Phila­ delphia Ledger, is almost beyond im­ agination as coming from a man who was, for more than twenty years, the beneficiary of his unmerited favcr. All the world knew that General Grant was an industrious writ#r--as General and as President--of all manner of public papers, from those of slight im­ portance to those of the utmost public consequence. The people of his own country especially were well acquainted with the style of his writing, its plain­ ness, its directness, its clearness, its foroe. While, as he says himself, there was no pretention to literary style about it, it was a style possessing peculiar merit and attractiveness. He wrote with great facility and freedom, too; his manuscript, when intended for official use or publication, having as few corrections in it as any known to us as coming from a public man. While writing these lines We have on the editorial table before us the original copy of the memorable ad­ dress delivered at the opening of the great Centennial Exhibition, which he wrote off hand in the library of Mr. Childs, here in Philadel­ phia There are but four corrections in the whole of its four long pages. If there are other writers of official pa­ pers, or for publication, who make so few corrections, they are very rare in­ deed. Wore a Wooden Collar. The Director General in China sug­ gested that tfee officers in charge of the Yellow River works who showed remissness in not taking precautionary measures to prevent the recent floods be degraded, but that was deemed too light a punishment, and they were ordered to be exposed in the cangue along the river banks. The sub-Perfect and Mayor of Shang-an, the assistant department magistrate of Cheng-Chou aud the lieutenant and second sergeant of the station, below Cheng-Chou were thus punished. The cangue, or wooden col­ lar, which these unfortunate officials are condemned to wear, is a large, heavy square of wood, opening so as to allow the prisoner's neck to enter. From the time it is put on it is not re­ moved till the term of sentence has ex­ pired--a time varying from a fortnight to three months. During the whole time the prisoner cannot lie down or rest with comfort, and during the day is placed in a conspicuous place, with his name and offense written in large characters on the great wooden collar, that all passers-by may read. The compassionate people occasionally feed the victim, as it is impossible for him toreaoh his head with bis hand; but the gamins tickle him with straws and otherwise annoy him. The Argnmentnm Ad Homhtem. "You have been a cotton speculator, I believe," said a solid looking man en­ tering a Galveston, Texas, broker's of­ fice, and sitting down somewhat indig­ nantly in % chair. "Yes, sir, I have speculated in cot­ ton, but I gave up the businoss. It was entirely too risky to suit me. It is very hazardous, sir, very hazardous, indeed." "From what you say I infor that you do not believe in a young man dealing in futures." "No, sir, I do not; most emphatically I do not It is a very reprehensible practice, very reprehensible indeed." "What would you do if you had a son who, persisted in dealing in fu­ tures?" "Why, sir, if my son--and I've got one--should deal in futures, I should reason with him, and if he didn't stop I'd fire him into the street" "I'm glad to hear you talk that way. Your son comes to see my daughter al­ most every night in the week, and last night I overheard them talking about how much they thought I was worth. If that isn't dealing in futures, I'd like to know what it is. I just believe I'll take your advice and fire him 6ut into the street"--Texan Sifting a. Origin of the Spaders. Arscline was a maiden who had at* tained to such expertness in weaving and embroidering that even the Nymphs, leaving their groves and foun­ tains, would gather to admire her work. They whispered to each other that Minerva herself must have taught her; but Arachue had grown vain as she grew dextrous, and, overhearing them, denied the application with high disdain. She would not acknowledge herself inferior even to a goddess, and and finally challenged Minerva to a trial of skill, saying: "If beaten, 1 will bear the penalty." Minerva ac­ cepted the challenge,and the webs were woven. Arachne's was of wonderful beauty, but when she aaw that of Min erva she knew that she was defeated and in despair went and hanged herself Minerva, moved by pity for her vait but skillful opponent, transformed bet into a spider, and she and her descend­ ants still retain a portion of her mar* velous gifts of spinning and weaving.-- Swiss Cross. THE PROTECTIVE PRINCIPLE. A ST. LOUIS man wants a divoree be­ cause his wife snores, whistles, smokes, and swears. Able Qpeedi fcy Senator Wilson, of Iowa, in Keply to the Pras- - v. Mont's Meows* :u [Washington ttlecNan.1 Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, addressing the Senate w the subject of the President's message, quoted the figures contained in the last annual report of the Secretary ef the Treasury, showing the reoeipta sad ex­ penditures of (he Government for the last three years, the aggregate of reoeipts over expenditure* being $178,1100,000, or an av­ erage of $59,000,000 a year. The result thus disclosed, he said, presented the limit within which Congress should move In the matter of reducing the revenue. However much Senators might differ as to the meth­ ods of redaction, all would doubtless agree that the revenue should be rednoed. It was not wise or just to collect more revenue than was needed for the proper purposes of the Government He alluded to the great achievements of the Republican party, and spoke particularly of the praotioal capacity which could evolve a boundless credit for a Government that was bankrupt when it took charge of its affairs. He referred to the railroad land-grant policy as something in which the Republican party without due consideration followed the precedents of the Democratic party. The Republican party, he said, should be excused for not at onoe detecting the dangerous possibilities of the Democratic land-grant policy. It was not responsible for the war, but it was responsible for the maintenance of Ameri­ can institutions, the enforcement of the laws, and the unity of the Republic. This responsibility it had met ana discharged faithfully and fully. Referring to the growth and prosperity of the oountry, he contrasted the figures of 1860 ana 1880 as to agriculture and manufactures, and said that the true policy was the one which would plant manufac­ turing establishments in every part of every agricultural State. If a reduction of prices for manufactured articles was what was wanted tht re was no surer road to its realization than the one which would lead to the distribution of manufacturing plants in all the localities where agricul­ ture produoed cheap food and where the forests and mines and quarries supplied the raw materials needed. There should be an end of the policy which tended to oentralise manufacturing plants in the gnat cities and a policy should be adopted which would distribute them in all parts of the country. If, however, they were to follow the President's suggestion they would not multiply and distribute manufacturing plants, hut they would embarrass those now in operation and repress the. tendency to intfest capital in them. As to the annual surplus of about $60,000,000 be asked what was tbe right thing to do about it. Could that right thing be found in any of the schemes urged upon our attention by the President and other opponents of protec­ tion. Was there anything in those schemes that could produce such happy results as had happened in the cotton manufacturing industries of the Southern States within the last seven years? To these various Suestions he said no. The country bad one well and was doing well under the policy which the President assailed. What­ ever of a danger was now menacing the oountry camc irom sources other than those enacted in the protective policy. That policy had given the country strength and prosperity. Proceeding to the discussion of the question of the doty on sugar and molas­ ses he quoted figures to show that in spite of the tariff the prices of tbe articles had fallen considerably for several years past, and he suggested the removal of the duty on sugar and molasses, amounting to about $58,000,000, as a means of guarding against the surplus of $60,000,000. He quoted some sentences from the Presi­ dent's message, and asked whether any better response could be given to them than by placing sugar and molasses on the free lift. But, as to himself, he thought that was a subject on whioh they should make haste slowly. He would admit free all sugar and molasses coming lrom coun­ tries which did not impose import duties on those commodities, aud which recip­ rocated by admitting American products free of duty into their ports. And then, he asked, why not adopt the practical business plan whjch had worked so well in European countries, and provide for paying a reasonable bounty to the produc­ ers of sugar in the United States? Under this plan he suggested the impetus that would be gfven to the production of sorghum sug<ir in the Western States. Re criticised the President's suggestions on the subject of wool, and said that no one would infer from them that under tariff tinkering the wool product of the country had fallen off 0,000 pounds in three veers. The President, he said, was not a skillful artist; his conception was not bold, his hand not cunning; his presentation was pale and dull and fiat. After discussing the wool and flax question as affecting farmers, Mr. Wilson said that farmers should demand that all articles produced by them should be taken from the free list, and that at least a moderate rate of duty should be imposed upon them. Coming baek again to the question of an annual surplus revenue, he asked whether there was no way of getting rid of it without dis­ turbing the true industrial interests of the country. It seemed that there was a way both short and clear, and that was in con­ nection with the tax on intoxicating liquors. That was where he would make the reduction. The trno interests of the people demanded that the revenue system should be so adjusted as to prevent the tax on intoxicating liquors from becoming a fixed and necessary part of it. lie might not have liis way of treating the subject approved by others. He should deeply regret the passage of any bill looking to the reduction of revenue which did not make a pronounced start toward the ulti­ mate elimination of the liquor taalcew the law. CIvIl-Servlee Reform. June 11, 1887, the record of Cleveland in civil-service reform stood as follows: whishsMMt shspettMkri a the people." And as a contemporary justly -An* the office oTchiet J«Uoe of the United States isJMng dangled before the poUMtmŝ Mhlwlate their support of this same Cleveland for a second term; and George Willhun Curtis and the test of the poets and sentimentalists are still ideal, ixing and oelebrating the peisonifier of nullification, falsehood, and fraud, and groveling ip syoophancy before his pudgy footsteps.Ckioog o Tribune. The Tariff and the Worker. Tbe first and final proposition for seri­ ous publie discussion is not what may be of partisan advantage. Democratic or Re­ publican, hot what is for the good. What policy is an American polioy? A publie policy that narrows the opportu­ nities, diminishes the chance, lessens the fair compensation of the worker, restricts the power of earning, closes the avenue of common oomfort, and pauperizes, or tends to pauperise, the masses, is a policy that is un-American. While all are moved by the latent or active stimulus of selfishness, the greateet good to the greatest number in. the end is the wisest and only perma­ nent rule. The measure of a nation's prosperity is the capacity of national con­ sumption. The people who buy the most sugar, wear the largest amount of clothing, oonsume per person the largest amount of meet and breads tuffs, show the ability of earning before purchase. When Ameri­ can wages by European competi­ tion brings our workers to European prices, the general prosperity will, be proportionately narrowed. The man who earns fifty cents per day cannot spend a dollar, and the necessary European modes of living (meatless soups, cheap clothing, and scant fare) will follow the narrow Eu­ ropean compensation. While unrestricted immigration is not an unqualified good, and while a congestion of the foreign ele ment in oar greet cities supplies the me jority of our criminals for punishment and paupers to be fed. the only limited benefit that could come of free trade and lowering of wages is that, bringing on both sides or the sea the daily earning to one oommon level of townees, tbe temptation of Euro­ pean exodus would be wanting. The influx of foreign capital has been for the better­ ing of its investment. The influx of foreign labor has beei stimulated only by its ex­ pectance of increased compensation. An eminent English statesman once cynically said: "The only servioe the Irish raoc ever rendered England was to emigrate to the United States and vote with the Democratic party in favor of British free trade."--Ex. Senator Arkell, in Judge, - DEAD-LOCK. Offloes. Number. Changes. 40,000 2,060 33 15 100 All All SI 11 All SI • All IS All 190 8 Fourtlfr-etoBS Postmasters. ®,0o9 Presidential Postmasters 2,379 Foreign Ministers 33 Secretaries of Legations U Collectors of Customs Ill Surveyorsd easterns... S3 Naval Officers. • Appraisers SS Mint and Assay Offloe Baperla- tendents IS Assistant Appraisers 0 Internal Be venue Colleetocs.... 95 Steamboat Inspectors.......... 11 District Attorneys 70 Territorial Judges 90 Territorial Governors. 8 Pension Agents 18 Surveyors General 18 Local Liand Officers 8M Indian Inspectors and Special Agents 10 Indian Agents St Land Office Special Agents. 8S Since June 11 last--ten months ago--the changes have steadily and rapidly gone on until new there is scarcely a Union Kepub­ lican holding any Federal office, no matter bow small, except perhaps a few old clerks in the Washington bureaus. And this de­ capitation business has been carried on by the President in the teeth of the following declaration in his letter accepting the nom­ ination for the Presidency, which was the fly bait glittering on his trolling-line that caught the mugwumps by the gills, which elected him: "Of the means to this end not one would, in my opinion, be more effective than an amendment to the Constitution disquali- ing the President from re-election, hen we consider tbe patronage of this great office, the allurements of power, the temptation to retain place once gained, and, more than all, the availability a party finds in an incumbent whom a horde of offloe-holders, with a seal bora of benefits and fostered by the hope of favors yet to eons, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service, we reoognise in * the eligibility ef the President for re­ election a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate, and intelligent political aotioa Bob Ingersoll en the TarlC If the people who really prefer the Re­ publican to the Desaoeratte party vote to­ gether there is no dotfbt as to the sucoess of the Republican party. The majority in this country do net believe in free trade. A large majority think it of the utmost im­ portance to diversity and protect, when necessary, the industries of tho people. A large majority, in my judgment, think the tariff ought, in many particulars, to be re­ formed. Tbey know that every tariff bill that has ever been passed has been more or less deformed by compromise. They know that all the interests asking for pro­ tection combined, and that some interests that ought not to be protected secured it by threats and intimidation. That is, they said: "If yon do not proteot us, we will vote not to proteot you."' So that the deserving industries have been compiled to include many that were undeserving. Eveiy success has its parasite. Some people are willing to de­ stroy the success for the sake of killing the parisites, but the great majority do not feel like injuring themselves--do'not feel like sacrificing a preat good for the sake of destroying a small evii. So much money has been invested, so many people find employment, so many interests are inter­ woven with and depend upon the indus­ tries that are protected, that anything like free trade will bring, for a time at least, a ruin that would never be repaired ex­ cept by reeorting again to protection. The campaign will, in my judgment, be fought mainly upon the tariff issue. Of course, the character of each party will be can­ vassed and the history of each will be re­ pealed thousands of times. The records will be read. Bygones will not be allowed to remain bygones. The attitude of the Democratic party toward slavery, its hatred of freedom, its sympathy with rebellion and its ntter failure to* understand and grasp the financial and economical ones- tions of our time will be retold and dwelt upon.--From a recent interview. Beform Inconsistency. The illustrated organ of mugwumpe?y in this city has at last opened its eyes to a realization of the fact" that the President has thrown off his civil-service reform mask and come out in the toga of a machine pol­ itician. President Arthur, who honestly lived up to the requirements of every feat­ ure of the law governing appointments in the civil service, never received a word of praise from the organs now bunting around for excuses for Cleveland's betrayal of the reformers. If Mr. Dorman B. Eaton were put on the stand he would give evidenoe to the hearty co-operation whiohthe Commis­ sion of which ha was the Chairman received from President Arthur and his department ohiefs. No attempt was made to evade the law. Now that Cleveland has abandoned civil service reform as advocated by Mr. Curtis and his followers, what may be expected of them? Are any of them opposing his re- nomination as they opposed Arthur's nom­ ination, on the ground that he does not truly represent their views? Not one of them/ They all concede his nomination, and, so far as we have seen, advocate it. The Bepnblican party was the author of the civil servioe law. Its President faith­ fully executed the law, bat the reformers deserted Arthur and the Bepnblican party. The Democratic party was never in favor of the law, and its President has given up all pretense of favoring reform, and yet the reformers are seeking excuses for Cleve­ land, and by so doing are encouraging to the extent of their ability tbe Democratic party, which is, and always has been, little less than an organized grab for anything in sight in the shape of publie plunder. The average reformer's consistency is paste jewelry.--New York Prets. The Man for 1888. There are still in, the field five or six gentlemen, either one of whom wonld make a good candidate and an admirable President when elected. Indeed, when one counts the number that have declined peremptorily already, and adds to the list those who are still in the field, he begins to appreciate the fact that the grand old party has not exhausted its resources. "Many be called, but few are chosen," and it must not be forgotten that only one will be nominated by the convention. No one can make anything but s wild guess in regard to our standard-bearer. If the convention had been held two months ago, Mr. Blaine would undoubtedly have been nominated; if the nomination was to be made to- morrow, the choice might fall on John St.erman or Allison, with little Phil Sheridan a gfiod third in tbe race, notwithstanding his decided declination. When the convention meets on tbe 19th day of next June, it is to be earnestly hoped public opinion will be pointing so unmistakably to tbe right man that no mis­ take will be possible. It will not be a convention to consider the "claims" of any candidate upon the party, but an assemblage of earnest men called to select the person who is best qualified to serve the people in a great , emergency.--Milwaukee Wisconsin. 1 , DAKOTA lady (to bride of a year)--"I understand, Mrs. Pullquick, that your husband has refortned somewhat since his marriage." Mrs. Pullquick---"Oh, my, yes; John drinks about as hard as ever, but he doesn't shoot as many peo­ ple as he used to."--The Epoch. j • CA&KLKSS compositor resembles a sea oook inasmuch as they both make . pfs in the galley. ' Speaker Carlisle's Responsibility the Obstruction of filibustering Against the Passage the Direct-Tax Bill--Tbe Point SB ' at Issue. ?->>•*•> ef special to The whole of last week was watted in the House of Representatives, and it looks as if the ooming week would also be thrown away. An attempt was made at the Demo­ cratic caucus last night to reconcile the Northern and Southern wings of the De­ mocracy, but the feeling is very bitter, and the filibusters gave notice that any attempt to crack the party whip over them would be resisted and resented. Tnere have been a good many such deadlocks in the House, but none more determined or desperate than this. Twenty-eight men, unaer the skillful leadership of Mr. Gates, of Ala­ bama, are holding nearly three hundred at bay and blocking business entirely. It is, as Mr. Reed said yesterday, much mere important for the House to determine whether a small minority shall be allowed to rule than it is to pass the direct-tax bill, over which the struggle is now going on. If it shall be demded that 10 per oent. of the members of the House may determine tohat bills shall be passed and what bills shall not be passed, it is about time that the rules were revised. By adopting these tactics the Republicans may at any time stop the wheels of legislation and nullify the will of the majority. There is no great point at issue in this contest. Less than two-score of men who were engaged in the rebellion and represent the Jltates that tried to seoede are simply attempting, by creating legislative anarchy, to prevent the passage of a bill to refund to the Northern States the $17,000,000 that was eollected from those States in 1861 to carnr on the war. As the Southern States paid nothing they will get nothing. Mid these filibusters do not propose to have 917,000,000 paid out of the treasury of which tbe South can have no share. They demand that tbe ootton tax, which amount­ ed to over $60,000,000, be refunded to the South if the direct tax is repaid to the North. Speaker Carlisle might stop the filibustering if he would, but I think he is in sympathy with the anarchists. He is not compelled to reoognise Mr. Oates every time that gentleman yells "Mr. Speaker, and when Mr. Breckinridge rises to make a dilatory motion tbe Chair is under no obligations to give him the floor, but Car­ lisle has no sand and no nerve, and permits time to be watted and legislation delayed for fear of hurting the feelings of some Southern friend. Representative Oates said, to-night that the opponents of the direct tax bill would continue their obstruction tactics indefinite­ ly, and would not give up until the major­ ity had withdrawn the bill from considera­ tion. No compromise was possible. He says that he has personal pledges from fifty members that they will stand by him in the filibustering movement, and that-he will have seventy-fiye votes before to-mor­ row night. In the last days of the XLIYth Congress, when Springer and others were trying to prevent the count of the electoral vote by the use of similar tactics, Mr. Randall, then Speaker, taught the House a lesson. The filibusters yelled snd shouted; they denounced and maligned him; they climbed to the top of tbe clerk's desk and stood where the Chaplain stands when be prays, demanding recognition. But Mr. Ran­ dall was unable to see any one but Fernando Wood of New York, then the leader of the Democracy. Mr. Wood, with his tall, slender, and stately figure, his ruddy face and white hair and mustache, always a oonspieoeus figure and a cool-headed leader, stood in the center of the Democratic side, near where Cox sits now, and made his mo­ tions, one after the other, nlver leaving that spot for more than forty-eight hours, and during all this time Randall was in the Chair. Their meals were brought to them, and they had no sleep. An examination of the record for that date will show that no man but Fernando Wood made a mo­ tion, and the reader would infer that he was the only member present at the ses­ sion. It was arbitrary, but it was just. Two days only remained of the session, and if the hour of 1*2 o'clock came on the 4th of Maroh without the electoral vote having been counted and tbe result de­ clared there would have been no Presi­ dent-elect, tbe White House would have been empty, and Gen. Grant would have been dictator of the United States. The exigency is of course not so serious now as it was then, but Carlisle might stop the filibustering if he wanted to. The leader of the filibusterers is Representative Oates of Alabama, a tall, heavily built man of dignified and distinguished pits- ence. He was a Colonel in the Confeder­ ate service, and the empty sleeve upon his right side tells of the arm that he left on the field in front of Richmond in his twenty-seventh battle. His large, finely formed head is oovered with silvery white hair, and he looks older than the 53 years with which he is credited. His face is full and smooth except for a gray moustache. He is a deliberate talker, but does not pos- sess the gifts of an orator. He is skilled, however, in parliamentary tactics and rather enjoys a skirmish, whether it be on the battle-field or on the floor of the House. He is assisted in this struggle by Representatives Breckinridge of Ar­ kansas and McMillin of Tennessee. The former is small of stature, with a pale. OT0R0S8 or CHlLWttof : (Pram Babyhood.] declined for two or three nights to say her prayers. One night her papa covered her face with his hands, said: "It makes papa feel sick to think Margaret won't say her prayers." "Papa feel sick?" "Yes, dear." "Papa better take cassor (castor) oiL" The sub­ ject of prsyer was no longer dinmnnod that night j r WE so often forget that we have very critical critics around us when we an­ swer the many questions. Bob ask me some "puzzler" when I was worrying about the baking of my cake, and rather impatiently, I oonfess, I an­ swered, "No! no! no?" Alice, 4 years old, instructed him, and I heard her saying: "Robbie, when mamma says, *No, no, no,' she doesn't mean 'no,' die only means 'Don't bother me - now!'" PAPA had brought home a package of "broken candy," and Alice had been teasing for some for herself and Rob, years old. "You may have some," I said, "but only take one apiece." Presently I heard Bob's voice savin: "Oo dot two of 'em." "No, Robbie, I have not," Alice's voice replied; "this is one and that is onlv a piece." AFTER I had told him the miracle of the loaves and fishes the other day he inquired: "What did they do wif all de skwaps (scraps)? Give dera to de kitties?" The same boy has sometimes be on told, when critioising a garment, "It will do for now; perhaps some time you can have another." He very inuoh amused his neighbors, when traveling on th* cars lately, by scrutinizing his hands very carefullv. and then solilo­ quizing audibly: "Well, me fingers are pwetty winkled, but I guess dey'lldo for now." Some one ask him a day or two ago what the first meal of the day was. He promptly replied: "OatmeaL" "SRE, mamma," said little Elizabeth, bringing a picture of an enraged cat with a very much arched back, "the kitty has got a pain!" ^ SARAH B, age 4 years, was very fond of cucumbers. Her mother endeav­ ored to dissuade her from eating them by telling her that they would make her sick, and she might die and be like a little boy who waa buried in the ceine tery with a lamb over him. The lamb (carved on the tombstone) was men­ tioned to make the fate seem real; Sarah had often seen it Shortly af terward her father was eating freely of the forbidden dainty, and her mother said to him: "I am afraid you are eat­ ing too many of those,""Yes," said Sarah, "and you'd better look out ot you'll die and be buried; and you'll have an .old sheep on top of you." I HAVE read lately in "Babyhood" ot several youthful punners. My brother, when still within baby limits, made a pun that we thought very good. We were living in Philadelphia, and one day at table, talk turned on the new wing that was being added to the Penn­ sylvania Hospital, which those who have seen it will remember has a large statue of William Penn in front of it An older brother said: "If they build another wing to the hospital it will fly away, because it will have two." "No, said the little one, "it won't--don't yon know it's Penned down ?" THIS small child of 3 years is> being trained in religious matters by the auntie, and the teacher has had some trouble in getting tho young one to un­ derstand the Deity. She gathered some faint idea of the facts in the matter ol the creation of Adam and Eve. She related them in this simple fashion: "Onoe there was a man named -God, and he made Adam, and then Adam was lonesome, and God made a lady.-- San Francisco Chronicle. Hour Sir Walter Scott Wr t̂h;/' Thackeray says: "Could we know the man's feelings as well as the Author's thoughts, how interesting most books would be!--more interest­ ing than merry." The mood in whioh Walter Scott wrote "The bride of Lam- mermoor" was one of heroic resolution combating against acute physical suffer­ ing, which seemed so seriouB as to threaten life itself, while it was so se­ vere and painful that but few would have had determination enough to carry on through it imaginative literary work. He was compelled to employ the services of amanuenses, and Wm. Laidlaw and John Ballantyne wrote to Scott's dictation. Ballantyne was the better amanuensis, because Laidlaw was too strongly stirred with admiration and delight, and exclaimed assomo fine passage was dictated to him: "Gude keep us a' !--the likeo' that! eh, sirs! oh, sirs!" Scott's disease was called cramp, though later and bet­ ter physicians might have given the complaint another name. The date ol the "Bride" was April 1819. Three novels--"The Bride of Lam mermoor," "The Legend of Montrose," and "Ivanr hoe"--were thus dictated, but when health returned Scott resumed his prac­ tice of writing with his own hand, Goethe, on the other hand, early em ployed the assistance of an amanuensis, .. ... , - ... .. ^ andoontinued.the practice until the end. i* rtad.nt.Uk. .p. LlidlJw 8cott •. . ̂ Specta nfnrt whilA tho nnnt'i ftiulilila snffarino cles. He is a quiet little man, pleasant and genial in his manner, and possessing, to use sporting parlance, "good staying qualities." Representative MoMillin is a man of about 43 years .of age, active in movement, noisy in debate, and id ways in the foreground, no matter what is going on. When MoMillin eame to Congress origin­ ally he was about the greenest man in the House, but he has learned a great deal sinee, and, having the faculty of pushing himself forward, has obtained a rather prominent position and a place upon the Committee of Ways and Means. The leader of tee majority in this oon- test, as the representative of the Judiciary Committee which reported the bill, is Mr. Ezra B. Taylor, of Ohio, the suocessor of Garfield. He is one of the oldest men in the House, being over 70, but bears his ears well, and looks twenty years younger. e is tall and erect in figure, snd wears a Prince Albert coat closely buttoned around his spare form. His beard is long, pointed, and always neatly trimmed. In color it is sandy gray, and his hair is but slightly streaked with white. There are some deep furrows in his face, however, due to afflic­ tion rather than age. Although being in ebatge of the bill gives Mr. Taylor prominence in the fight, the man who stands beside him and guides his movements is Mr. Reed, of Maine, who is recognised by every one as the leader on the Republican side, and his orders are promptly obeyed. Seeking Surcease of Sorrow. "I m feelin' awful cross," said old Mrs. Burdock, as she appeared at her new neighbor's door, "an* so I come around without my bunnit--I'm just that down, an' dismal, an' worrited. A critter gets dretful lonesome livin' the way I do. You see, my sons is aU growed up and gone West, my old man's dead, my eldest darter's para­ lyzed an' bed-rid, an' no more good to me, you might say, 'n if she wa'n't; there, an' my youngest darter's up to i her gram'ther's, keeping house f the old j lady, am' I kinder get all riled up with i lonesomeness, an' I eome around jest to j see if you wouldn't lend me one of your stop while the poet's audible suffering filled every pause. "Nay, Willie," said the afflicted author from his sofa of pain; "only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves; but as to giving over work, that can only be done when I am in woolen." Scott often turned upon the pillow with a groan of anguish, but usually continued the sentence in the same breath. When dialogue of peculiar animation was be­ ing dictated, he sometimes got up and walked up and down the raopa, as it were, acting the parts. Such were the feelings and the pains of the man while the heroic author composed "The Bride of Lam mermoorand Scott assured Ballantyne that when the book was first out of his hands in a complete shape he did not recollect one single incident* characteAor conversation that it oon- " --Gentleman's Magazine. The Value of Time. "One to-day," remarked a wise man, "is worth two to-morrows." Oh, is it then? You go into the market with to­ day and Bee how many to-morrow's you get for it You can't get one. Not a solitary one; you can't even get to­ morrow morning for it. But if you have a to-morrow that you want to put on the market, you might get a whple week of to-days for it. The only man who wouldn't offer to-day for it is the man who is going to be hanged to-nior- . row, and has consequently no use for it What he wants to trade for is about two months of yesterdays and a couple of weeks before last. -- Burdette. A Terrier's Intelligence. A black and tan terrier with a brwieh leg forced itself on the attention of the house surgeon in the infimary at Bol­ ton, England, recently, and made him at last understand what was the matter. While the surgeon was setting the leg the dog licked his hand and afterward would not leave, and is installed as one of the patients.--New York Sun, --Mr. and Mrs. rJ^iSs«* Alton, celebrated their few days ago. --A ease ef glanders is Mpeete4 ste*<: isttng atDeeetur. The and tour that wese quarantined. -Governor Oglssby has ajpotated E. G., Rostter, of Kewanee,. s member of State Board of Education, vise Pref. A. fL Atwood, resigned. --The aqntvenaiy .ef fieftnlfaf «C' 046 Republic wm, celebrated en the 5th inst. at Disetiu,: where the first post was organised. --In a recent fight in the County Aha*-: house at Argyle, Daniel Campbell kffleif John O'Leaty by striking on '*** hsndi with a wooden bs& Beth own wsra im-1 --William Steele has been arrested at' $ Paducah, Ind., for the murder of Mcs..^ Barnes at Vienna, in this State. He oont- feseed the killing, but claimed sslf-de.. . fonse. i --In a quarrel at Latham a few days qgo J over a debt of fifty cents, W. B. Broun shot snd killed Thomas S. Tssaway, Ofew; • ty-five years ef sge, a farmer and a man of' family. • ' : --The Riverton Coal Company and the < Chicago Diamond-Drill Company began , boring for coal at Montioello. A gyndieatat . has the mining right of 890 acres of land close,to the town. , ^ --George Maxon, from Oswego, reoently, attempted to board an east-bound Chi- cago, Burlington and Quincy freight train near Eola, but was thrown beneath the wheels and instantly killed. --All the way Irom Parte COSMS a pretty. Frenchwoman, the Countess ds Yeulle, tor get the benefit of the Chicsgo courts. Thor lady owns real estate in the latter city, and! has required a residsnos sufficient for the purposes of the law. Her case is stnmgt against a dissipated and unfaithful bus-' hand, and a decree was granted. --The Illinois Central Railroad has filadf s deed trust with the Secretary of State •» the Central Trust Company, of New YoakJ: pledging $16,350,000 first mortgage bonds' of its branch lines as security for $15,- 000,000, borrowed to oomplete and equip tbe branches now operated by the com­ pany. New bonds bearing 5 per cent for sixty years represent the indebtedness. --Two sea birds, fine specimens of the "black cormorant, were seen on the San­ gamon River near Montioello, and were shot by Will am Hassler. They belong to the same species of fish-eating cormorants that the Chinese train to dive for fish for" f ^ them, keeping the birds from swallowing 1 t h e i r p r e y b y p u t t i n g r i n g s a r o u n d t h e i r ' " 4 1 necks, and they art> veiy rarely seen so> -/HK far inland. --The family of James Merry, living near GVeenville, and into whioh small-pox > I was introduced by a daughter lately re- i' turned from Kansas, has been quarantined i i by order of Dr. Ranch, member of the; State Board of Health, who went Ihsie - i frem Spingfield to look after the matter. ;§f Owing, the Doctor says, to ths wise pie*. ,' *?| <•- cautionary measures already taken by the .^1 ; local authorities, there is little probability ^|r| ef the general spreading of the disease. --Frank Crane, alias F. M. Ash burton, aged 20, has been held to bail at Cham- jl *, peign in $1,000 for forging the nasM tf '"p 'i; his employer, F. M. Peel, of Whiteheath, ' 1 to a note of $100, which he offered to ' St? Schweizer &, Woody, of that city, in pay- • ( „•% ment for a suit of clothes. His parents re- side at Stone Bluff. Ind. It is alleged > that he forged his father's name to a note, ^ f-'S and received considerable money oo it, aft, Covington, Ind. '/J|. --The murder of Police Officer Bhasd- iey in Chicago is recalled to mind by the release of Joe Crawford, a noted Cincin­ nati burglar, from the Joliet Penitentiary. Crawford's pals. Sherry and Connelly, were hanged for the crime, and Joe es- J oaped with a fifteen-year term it Joliet, J| which was reduced seven years by good conduct. He took the first train for Cin- - cinnati, saying he had no use for Chicsgo ' since the passage of the habitual criminals Vri set * --William Bony, of Chicago, in attempt- ing to board a train on the Rook Islsnd . Railway near Jeliet, missed his footing * r and the wheels cut off his left leg above " § the knee. The doctors consider his in- ^ juries fatal. Mr. Berry was formerly a '%$ resident of Joliet, where he owns con- » siderable property. The accident is rather a coincidence, as Mr. Berry lost his right arm at the same crossing while trying to "'.j get onboard a Rock Island train aboat * twenty years ago. --Joliet is again making preparations to fight Chicago on tbe sewsge matter. Or. Curtiss, the Health Commissioner, made , 1 a report to tbe City Council reoently on the " ivl subject. Alderman Haley made a motion. which was unanimously passed, that the ^ city employ counsel and spend a certain >; sum in obtaining an injunction againsft Chicago and its sswsge. The impression here is that the bill now before Congress is ' only a scheme to aid Chicago in still for- - ther polluting the Deeplaines Vallsy with its sewage, and that the proposed cut hom Lake Michigan will be of no relief to Jo- , liet. ^ *. --The fanners in the southern part ef ' tbe Lake Fork special drainage district bsve been holding meetings at Tolono to Aljss* protest Rgainst the piling up of assessments * ,' v^ against their property. This is the distriet ' made famous by being the first to employ * <r*g s t eam dredges in cons t ruc t ing d i tehos . - <, J Much of the work has proved worthless, r It is now proposed to bond the district on ' " ;)J May 1 to raise additional funds, but the , j§ land-owners are kicking vigorously against » it They declare that the assessments al- , ;.|i ready made are exorbitant, and that to add . ' M to the burden will compel many to sacrifice ^ t^eir farms and move sway. --William Cone, of Chicago, coenmitted - - a'dastardly «ot while drunk in Decatur. He visited the home of his tenant William : \4t§ Herring, and so badly frightened lbs. ' ̂ Herring that she fled from ths hojse with • :*"k| her dead ohild in her arms, the infant hav- ing died during the day. Cone had visited the dwelling twice before, making threats : :'"fl of violence, and, believing that he would • Yf| carry them into efievt, Mrs. Herring tan to a neighbor's house with the body of her child. Cone is in jail, and will be fined heavily on several oharges. The people regret that he cannot be seat te Jott* er given ape Wis joM*»« ' III »iHlI