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f.VAMM.YKt. IfcBXNBT, ILLINOIS. ZOOMS KOSSUTH, the great Hungarian patriot, is nearing eighty-six, and bo- lievee that his life is nearly ended. For the last twenty-five years he has lived • |^ Turin engaged in completing i his biography. THE Princess of Wales on two re­ cent occasions has given an example in good manners to late comers at con­ certs. She was late on these oceasions and insisted upon standing in the cor­ ridor until the overture was finished. fe K- K: . JOHN A. SLEICHEB, editor of the Al­ bany Journal, is making a tour through the West and incidentally booming Chaunoey Depew for the Republican domination. He thinks Depew is the ©nly Republican except Blaine who can carry NewYork. THE' Toledo Commercial confirms the statement heretofore made that Chief Justice Waite died poor. Be­ sides his house in Washington, a few Unimproved lots in Toledo, valued at $5,000, and an insurance policy lor 4^5,090, there is nothing. % JAMES D. FISH, ex-Prudent* df the "Harine Bank, now serving out his sen­ tence in the Albany penitentiary, is Said to be suffering from a severe at- i'ltack of gout. Perhaps the. prison fare lor rich rascals IB not the same as that Served to the smaller thieves. A C. P. HUNTINGTON has been whining , to the San Francisco reporters that be .f f«an't get "justice" from Congress this year because Congressmen are all look- ' Ing for re-election. It is generally considered that "justice" is the thing most to be feared by Mr. Huntington. N 4 MRS. ESTHER POTTKR, of Long Ridge, : Me., when on her deathbed, prayed that her youngest ehild, an infant, f Inight go with her. * After bidding the Jrest of the family good-bye, she clung ' to the baby with all her strength. It liad been perfectly well, but after a kiss from the young mother closed its Syea and in five minutes was dead in Iter arms, . THERE are 273,800 employes engaged In the eoal industry in the United States, of whom Pennsylvania has 162,- 000, Illinois comes next with 26,000, and Ohio third with 24,000, leaving 61,- #00 for the remaining States and Ter­ ritories. T?he United States produced 4.02,148,883 tops of coal in 1885, 105,- A #48,329 in 188G, and 120,146,738 in 1887. !jThe world's product for 1886 was 409,- i|67,555 tons, of which the United States' share was one-fourth and Great • Britain's five-thirteenths. I ATTORNEY GENERAL BEWSTER was a §aan of hobbies and eccentricities and 'given to sulphurous warmth of speech. He was surprisingly vain, and spent a femarkable amount of time in frivolous correspondence. Among his idiosyn­ crasies was the belief that no laundry In Washington could do his shirts or finderwear justice, and they had to be •ent to Philadelphia ©very week. He itsed to take particular fancies to cer­ tain garments, and when sent to Phila­ delphia to be washed was in the habit Of making frantic appeals by telegraph |or their prompt return to him. THE arrest of a Greek named Rapto- jporQos at Paris for robbing the Numis­ matic museum at Athens of ancient Coins worth 30,000,000 francs brings Into publicity one of the most remarka­ ble of recent crimes. That it man could .•teal $6,000,000 worth of valuables from ' t museum in a great city seems well- jkigh incredible. Surely Raptoporilos must be well grounded in the respective Values of ancient coins. He knew how to pick out the gems. But what can t>e said of the guardians of a museum ivlio permit a thief to openly appro­ priate the best curiosities under their ' .pare ? They evidently belong to the lame variety of men from whioh so |nany banks in this , country choose their directors. JOSHUA JONES, who died a short time ago, worth $7,000,000, lived for many years at a New York hotel, and, al­ though he made large bequests to serv­ ants, as may be seen by his published Will, they were not his own servants, tbut those of his brother and sister, who Hied some time before. He kept up fheir two establishments, one of which Iras in the city and the other on Staten „ Island, as if he expected them to return, p •" And left the servants with directions to liave everything kept in as complete |rrder as if the former occupants were |n existence. Indeed, for a long time fiter the death of these two relatives lie ordered that their plates should be *7 k' laid at table, apparently believing that tjif their bodily selves did not return to Occupy these vacant seats, theii spirits, £ > Covering about, would be glad to note ^ iiib oontinued affectionate interest in - # WHEN President Grant was about to Inake his fourth and final nomination of J\ *. ik successor to Chief Justice Chase, it is iV 'told in the Norwalk Gazette, he sent for i, Senator Buckingham, formerly Gov- Tj •rnor of Connecticut, to come to the i!\ ^Vhite House and give all the informa- jk tion he could concerning Mr. Waite, as the President had learned that he had been bom in Connecticut. The Gov­ ernor with earnestness urged Gen. -Grant to select him. After he had dis­ covered that the President evidently ^ 'Was weighing Mr. Waite's fitness with - fhat of others he had in his mind, Gov. Buckingham wound up with the state- &1C--jnent of his belief that no man in the "V. s Country possessed better qualifications / >$>r more absolute fitness than Mr. !" Waite, and concluding, said: "Every- r thing can be said in favor of him, and ^ Irat one single thing against him,,and f* . that is a thing be cannot help. * "What ^ is that?" said President Grant, "fie YiK , • Is a relative of mine, said Gov. ingham with a laugh, In which the President heartily joined; Gov. Buok- inham was rejoiced that same afternoon by the name of his cousin being sent to the Senate for confirmation. Ex-GOV. GEORGE S. BOUTWEIA, Sec­ retary of the Treasury under President Grant, and who was Gen. Grant's warm personal friend for many years, has, written a signed editorial for the Bos-i ton Globe in which he discusses Grant's literary ability at some length. After reviewing the style of several writers, including Lord Macaulay and Horace Smith, he comes to Gen. Grant, of whom he says: "If Gen. Grant pos­ sessed a style as a writer it was both natural and simple. His use of quali­ fying words was moderate, and a skill­ ful writer would have more promise of success in on attempt to imitate Dr. Johnson than in an attempt to imitate Gen. Grant. A style may be good or bad in the estimation of critics, but a writer has acquired a style when he has so impressed himself upon the public that his writings are distinguishable and distinguished from the writings of others, and in this respect Gen. 'Grant did not err wheiP in his letter of May, 1885, he said 'the public has become, accustomed to my style*of writing! They know that it is ^ot an attempt to imitate either a literiry or a classical, style, that it is jua|fc what it is, and nothing else.' It was impossible fotf any person to have written the two vol| umes, or one volume, or even one-thir<f of a volume of his memoirs and deceive the public permanently as to the au* thorship. The man Gen. Grant was ix| all Gen. Grant's writings, and no other man could have stood in his place. As he thought he spoke and wrote. There was no art, no subtlety, no duplicity in the man; there was no art, no rhetoric, no sophistry in his writings. Thus constituted and thus limited, no hope, however inspired, no promise^ no threat could have led him to commit the work to another hand upon any terms thai} the open avowal of the author- shipl" • -= Tobacco sad the Eyes. It is a matter of well-merited aston­ ishment, says the North-American Revieuj, that even men of discern­ ment are so ready often to select a single one out of the endless chain of causes and attribute to it alone certain results. Surely of all sciences etiology is least entitled to respect. And no more glaring example of the .foolish facility mentioned exists than that common even among eminent ocoulists who charge upon the excessive use of tobacco a certain form of atrophy of the optic nerve. And this they persist in doing, even though that opinion is based on a mere supposition,* and al­ though competent colleagues of their own, residing in countries like Turkey, where the ordinary use of tobacco fully equals what we should term great excess, declare that this form of dis­ ease of the eye is there utterly un­ known. There are nations where the smoking of tobacco is begun by infants before they can walk, and where the habit is universal; and where these wiseacres correct in their etiology, the entire adult population ought logically to be blind. JEx uno disce omnes. Not a single charge brought against tobacco has a better basis. With great wisdom it is remarked how much better health some individual has attained sinoe ceasing to use tobacco. But any decisive change in long-continued habit--even what are termed "good habits"--iB often tem­ porarily beneficial. The great cura­ tive principle .of change is what has been successfully appealed to here-- the most powerful, and, in fact, broadly- considered, the only existing curative principle. In estimating the true influence of tobacco and its congeners, it is mani­ festly unfair to consider individual in­ stances of their use. Only by taking masses of men who for years are under control as to their diets and habits, and who, therefore, live upon equal terms, can we approximate a fair esti­ mate ex uso. THE TARIFF MuMillin, of TennsMee, Attempts to id ths President's ¥***>[•"'.; Trade Xfessage. Burrows,' of Michigan, Moves on the Work* Captures and 8pifc«l(c* Cleveland's Guns. Insect Tillage. The action of earth-worms as de­ scribed by Darwin, is not the only ani­ mal work that is being done in over­ turning and breaking up the soil. Prof, N. S. Shaler mentions that the opera­ tions of various other creatures appear to be quite important. In America, some twenty or more species mammals burrow in the forest, and overturn con- Bid erable earth, though the quantity of this is quite insignificant in comparison with that acted upon by invertebrates. In the moist forests where they abound, crayfish may bring to tho surface, over moderate areas, mateaial which may amount to a complete covering two feet deep in half a century. Over exten­ sive districts, or at least throughout Eastern North Amerioa, the ants are evidently by far the most effective ani­ mal agents in preparing soil for plant use, the part they play being much greater even than that of the earth­ worms themselves. The latter are confined chiefly to cultivated clayey fields, while the ants rapidly overturn the soil-material as well within the for­ est as in the open fields wherever that material is of a sandy nature. --Arkan- scw Traveler. The Widow Deceived Him. "Your children all turned out well, I reckon," said a man, addressing an old acquaintance he had not seen for many years. "Well, yes, all but Bill, poor feller." "Drunk lioker, I reckon ?* "O, no, never drunk no licker, but hain't amounted to nothin'. Bill wuz deceived, and it ruint him." "Love affair?" "Yes, an' a mighty bad one." She married some other feller, eh?" "Oh, nc, she married him. She wuz a widder, and let on that she was well off, but she wasn't. W'y,, she wasn't able to get Bill a decent suit o' clothes the week artel- they wuz married. Yes, the poor fellow has lost confidence." HARDLY a man, whatever his circum­ stances and situation, but if you get his confidence, will you tell that he is not happy. It is, however, certain that all men are not unhappy in the sain© de­ gree. Is not this to be accounted for by supposing that all men measure the limited happiness they possess by the happiness they desire, or think they deserve?--Greville. THERE is BtUl in force in Rhode Island a law forbidding the smoking of a cigar on the main street of any city in the State, and in Vermont the smok­ ing of a cigar on the street onSuadqr is mads a misdemeanor. The Mills Bill Exposes to Foreign Asssnlt Many of Onr Principal Industries., In theoourse of a speech in the National House of Representatives on the Mills revenue bill, Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, declared that the internal revenue system against which the gentleman from Penn­ sylvania (Kelley) inve ghed had not been inaugurated by the Democratic party. Mr. Kelley admitted that the Democratic party had not enacted the law, but declar­ ed that it l\ad made it necessary for the Republican party, which remained in Con­ gress daring the Srar. to provide the sinews for that war, and thus forced that party to resort to iternal taxes and all the hard­ ships resulting from them. Mr. McMillin replied that the gentle­ man from Pennsylvania not only inaugur­ ated the internal taxes of whicn he com­ plained, but he put a tax on railroads and 3* THE MMiam. TMtCiOTnm to pM for the protection efhia home and family--imagine suoh eondncton the part of a eommittoe of the Home of Repre­ sentatives, and there could be a faint jrurars c. BURROWS. incomes and the capital and deposits of banks. But these latter had been removed, and those which the gentleman said worked hardships hnd never been re­ moved. The gentleman had not done the very thing which he said the Democratic party was responsible for not doing. He (McMillin) remembered the gentleman coming before the House and saying that he favored the repeal of the system, but that his caucus had determined otherwise; and he had bowed his neck to the joke. [Applause on the Democratic side.] Mr. Kelley--Has not that been done now by your Democratic caucus? [Applause on the Republican side.) Mr. McMillin--Why does not the gentle­ man offer a substitute new which will re­ peal the tax? Mr. Kelley--When we come to amend­ ments you will find that I will offer one, and make you vote on it. Mr. McMillin--Does your party favor a total repeal of the internal-revenue sys­ tem? Mr. Kelley--I speak for myself. Mr. McMillin--who will speak for your party? [Laughter.] Mr. Kelley--Will you vote for sueh an amendment? Mr. McMillin--I do not propose to vote for snch an amendment. Mr. Reed, of Maine--Then what are yon talking about? Mr. McMillin stated that fl20,0U0,000 was annnally received from internal taxes. If those taxes were removed, where did the gentleman from Pennsylvania propose to get the revenue? Did he propose to re­ place the tax on tea and coffee? Mr. Kelley--No. Mr. McMillin--Yon have not the courage to do it. Mr. Kelley--Have yon and your party the courage to tax tea and coffee? Mr. McMillin--We do not propose to take off the internal tax. "There are none of us brave," was Mr. Reed's comment. Mr. Kelley--Would the revenues of the Government be endangered by repealing the tobacco tax, including the $12,000,000 derived from cheroots and cigarettes? Mr. McMillin--They would not be en­ dangered. Yesterday there was presented to the Senate a petition of seventy minis­ ters of the gospel and between three hun­ dred and four hundred teachers and 120 physicians of this city in favor of enacting laws in the District of Columbia which would prevent the sale of chcroots and cigarettes to children under 16 years* of age. Mr. Kelley--I would vote for it. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, was the next speaker. He said our tariff on imports was to-day confessedly protective, in that it was levied not for revenue only but to enoourage American industry and protect American labor. One wing of the Demo­ cratic party, under the leadership of Presi­ dent Cleveland, assailed the system, de­ nounced it as vicious and illogical, and declared it to be not only unwiso but un­ constitutional. On the contrary, the Re­ publican party believed in a protective tariff, that in levying dnties on imports revenues should not alone be considered, but that those duties should be so adjusted as to give encouragement to American capital and employment to American la­ bor. The Republican party insisted that the present protective system should not be disturbed, except BO far as might be necessary to correct its incongruities and harmonize its provisions. If Congress followed the lead of the President in bis his bold declaration and secured a reduction by such a revision of the tariff as he pro­ posed, leaving untouched, as he suggested, the internal revenue system, not only would the protective system be destroyed but the nation would be'out on the highway of free trade. As members were free traders or protectionists the bill of the committee would be approved or condemned. The pending measure stood without a parallel in the history of American legislation. Conceived in darkness, brought forth in secrecy, its parentage carefully concealed, it was at last laid at the door of the Com­ mittee of Ways and Means, where the ma­ jority took it up as tenderly as though it were a legitimate offspring, hurriedly brought it into the House to be adopted by the Democratic party, acd nursed by the harlot of free trade. But whatever its parentage, whether British free trade or Cobden Club--either of whieh was capable of the outrage--jus­ tice and fairness compelled him to state that public suspicion of its parentage did not attach to the members of the majority, and in further vindication of their high character it would be no violation of the secrets of the committee-room to state that when pressed on this point no member of the majority was so lost to all sense of personal pride as to acknowledge the parentage. Think of the majority of a great committee of the National House of Representatives, charged with the duty of considering an important message from the President, hiding away in secret places, fahi"g counsel probably of the enemies of our industries, framing a measure involv­ ing the well-frying of 60,000,000 people, re­ fusing to t ii.. i- into any consideration of its provision*. - r disclose any data on which its action > 'S based, steadily refus­ ing to answer aav ^aestions propounded by the minority, submitting to no modifica­ tions except those suggested by the major­ ity; declining to listen to any member of the House in behalf of the people he represented, refusing audience to Sena­ tors, the industries or whose State* were to be destroyed, rejecting all appeals from manufacturers, denying to the farmers a werdia behalf of ttwtr flocks and fields, caption of the Committee of Ways | Means of the Fiftieth Congress. The pending bill exposed to foreign as- i sault many of our principal industries. : The great wool-growing industry of the country, only in the infancy of its develop- | ment, was to be exposed to a ruinous for­ eign competition which would surely prove its destruction. The majority tried to delude the people into the belief that cheap wool meant cheap clothing. He ad­ mitted that wool would be cheaper while our foreign rivals were trying to destroy onr industry, but when they hnd elimin­ ated from our market the production of 300,000,000 pounds of domestic wool we would find ourselves bound hand and foot at the mercy of the foreign producer. What restraint would there be then on hia power or cupid ty? In the exuberance of the President's zeal for free trade he wanted the entire reduction secured by a revision of the tariff, but even I he free trade v ing of the Democratic party lacked the courxge to move on that line and occupy this advanced position. The President asserted that the duty on imports euhauced the price of both* the foreign and domestic articles to the con­ tainer, and that the removal of the duty would proport onately reduce the price. He (Burrows) would have thought that the insen <nent pen with whioh the President wrote that paragraph would have ret used to record the error.. Could it have spoken to him, it would have said: "The very pen with which yon write this folly is cheaper by half than before the duty on it was im­ posed. " The President's argument had necn echoed by every free-trader in the United Sta'es, and had been hailed with delight by every free-trader in England. There was a comprehensive and complete answer to the President's argument. It was not true, fie commended to the Presi­ dent his own admonition: "It is a condi­ tion which confronts us, and not a theory," and that condition was an absolute refuta­ tion of the President's theory. He chal­ lenged any man to name a product of a sihgle well-established Amer.can industry that could not be bought cheaper to-daf under the protective system than at any period under free trade. The difficulty with the President's theory was that he forgot that the price of a commodity did not depend upon the rate of duty but upon the great law of supply and demand. Tho gentleman from Texas (Mr. Mills) had stated that our taxes were higher to-day than daring the war. He spoke only of dutiable imparts, omitting those received free of duly; therefore his oalcnUtion was not only misleading but entirely valueless. The same miscalculation destroyed the force of his argument that the average rates of duty to-day were heavier than during the war. Taking our entire imports the average to­ day was 31 per cent., while daring ihe war it had been 30 per cent. That 1 per cent, increase was laigely attributable to lower prices following the inexorable law--as prices declined the percentage of the ad valorem rate increased. Efforts were be­ ing made persistently to induce the Ameri­ can farmer to believe that protective tariffs were hostile to his interests. Mr. Burrows argued that ttie farmer was directly inter­ ested in maintaining the protective system and a home market. This home market should be to him the object of the deepest solicitude, and upon it the future of the agricultural interest of the country hung. Here was a lesson to be drawn to the South from the history of the past. Protection had enhanced the value of the land in the North; it would bring it to the South. It would bring an era of unetampled pros­ perity. It would develop her mines, light the tires of her furnaces, oonstruct her rail­ roads, invite capital, employ laborers, plant cities in her waste places, and lead her people into the highway of industrial prosperity. During the last ninety days $30,000,000 capital had gone into her man­ ufacturing industries. There was not an industry in the South which he wonld not oheriah as though it +WL& industry of Michigan. He^lllved t^lK^ction, not for his State alone, but for his country. He believed in American industry, in American capital, in American l«>or, against the whole world. The Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means expresses the hope that the measure will pass. He is not atone in thin desire. There is not a member of the Cabinet or a free trader in the United States who is not in sympathy with him. More than this, free trade England stands on tip-toe of expectation, and screams with delight. Let me warn you, gentlemen of the South, that this measure bodes no good to you. It will arrest the investment of capital, and bring your industries to a standstill. There is no portion of our country where this measure should meet with a more united and determined oppo- - sition than in the South. Untoward cir­ cumstances have heretofore retarded her material progress, but the way is now open for her to march unimpeded to a splendid industrial future. The advance is already sounded. He who does not respond to its inspiring summons will soon find himself without a party and without a following. I rejoice that there is a new South, a new industrial South, bon^of the throes of war but full of hope and courage. She stands to-day with uplifted brow, facing the dawn of a mighty future. Her loins are girt for a new race. With unfettered hands she smites the earth and fountains of unmeas­ ured wealth gush forth. Beneath her feet she feels the stir of marvelous life. Her pathway is already illuminated with the light of blazing furnaces. Her heavens are aglow with the break of a new day. AU hail its oncoming. lbs CkMk of tin Bat tad the Whiz x if the Ball Are Heard At* V.. Over the Land. Auspicious Opening of the Base-Ball Seas®*--Notes and News of wswc, an - •«!*£* [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] j "Everybody play ball!" seemed to bs the ; cry that went up all over the country dur- ing the closing days of last week, and not ' before in the history of the game has that cry been so heartily responded to. From | Boston to 'Frisco, ball clubs, both great and small, have begun the race for their respective association pennants. The League and American Association season | started off with a snap and vim that augurs ; well for a great season. Chicago opened i at Indianapolis and won; Detroit at ' Pittsburg and lost; New York | at Washington and won; and Boston at: Philadelphia and won. In each city there ! was a great display of players in uniform, j gayiy plumed horses, brass bands and j street parades; and although the weather j was cool at almost every point, the attend- j ance was both large and enthusiastic. | Chicagoans will not have an opportunity to | see their League toam in a championship game until May 1, but have no fear--judg­ ing from the manner in whioh they have started in--but they will give a good ac- ! count of themselves while absent upon the ' present trip. The previous week Anson's colts and the Chicago Western Association teams played two exhibition games npon the home gronnd. Our people thus had an opportunity of seeing both teams,and although the game was an exhibition one, it may truthfully be said Chicago is pleased with the team that will represent her in the League this year. Not only with her League team is she pleased, but with her other team which will play at White Stocking Park while Anson's boys are traveling the circnit. Sam Morton has gotten a wonderfully promis­ ing young team together to represent the Garden City in the Western Association circuit, and if the balance of the teams in that organisation are as likely as the Ma­ roons have shown themselves to be, it will certainly be no fanlt of the Western Asso­ ciation if its games ate not well patron­ ised. Your correspondent met Van Haltren in the grand stand during one of these games, and remarked: "Well, Van, they tell me yon surprised Von der Ahe's boys at St. Louis.* "Yes, we made it interesting for them," was the modest reply. "Going to keep up that kind of work?" "If I can--yes, and I know of no reason why I can't." "Well, old man, Chicago Is expecting great things of yon this season, how that we have not Clarkson to take us through." "I shall do the very best that I am cap­ able of," was the Californian's reply. "All I hope is that Chioagoans will not expect more of me than I can perform. One thing they don't want to forget, however îs that I laok a good deal of being the only pitcher in the team. Baldwin will no doubt do his full share of the work before us, and if am any judge of a pitcher, this man Krock is going to fool many and many a League batsman this season." Krock happened to be pitching in the , game in question. I watched Krock's work carefully last Monday, and believe him to be possessed of the requisites of a good pitcher. He is cool-headed, has a great deal of speed, i and seemed to be able to pnt the ball pretty i nearly where he wanted it He pays . scarcely enough attention to bases, how- ever, and is not quiek enough in his action ! when he does Attempt to catch his~' * ̂ neulUrlUw mi Son* of the StnapVMI That Live at ttie Bottom of the Saa> IHsw ToiklML] • *What an odd fish!* . An old member of the Maritime Ex­ change was exhibiting in a bottle one of the queerest submarine monster that the fancy could paint. It appar­ ently had no beginning and no ending. One could hardly toll where its out­ lines left off and the alcohol in which it was preserved began. It was like jelly. "It must be remembered," explained the owner," that at the depths of 1,OOC fathoms the pressure npon a fish or any other body is equal to a ton to a square inch. These flabby-looking fishes, thai can be tied in a knot at the surface, at snch depths are firm bodied and vig­ orous. When fish, adapted by organi­ zation to these depths,, are brought tc the surface frqqueptty their bodies are ruptured, their viscera protrude, theii eyes start out, and they present the ap- Searance of having suffered a frightful eath. When the fish ascends and the pressure upon its body becomes lest and less, the gases in its body begin tc expand, and the expansion causes the demoralized appearance of the fish. Il the fish could be popped up out of the wate rin au instant it would probably ex­ plode with a bang when it roach" the surface. "Just look at its jaws," oontinued the exhibitor. "When the fish are broughl to the surface most of them appear tc be soft, pulpy masses. The bones and muscles appear to be feebly developed. The tissues seem thin, weak, and easih raptured. These conditions, implying muscular weakness, are apparently in­ consistent with the powerful shape ol the jaws and the rapacious looking teeth of some of the predacious fishes." "How do they live?" "That is hard to say. To the ab­ sence of light is due many of the mosl wonderful peculiarities of the deep-ses fish. Some of them are ' totally blind, having no eyes at all or mere rudi­ mentary eyes. Others have huge eyes, , so organized as to collect as many light rays as possible^ Sunlight, it is said, does not penetrate to a depth of 20C fathoms. If there is any light there at all it is the merest glimmer and below that depth there is absolute darkness. "Now these deep-sea fishes, being oat off altogether from the sunlight, many of them furnish their own light. They have no organized gas compa­ nies. but each furnishes his own light- carries a lantern or torch around with him. They have organs that emit i phosphorescent gleam and shed light on their path. ~ Some of them oarr^r lit tie torches in the form of tentacles that rise from the tops of the heads. Many of them have regular symmetrical rowi of luminous spots on their sides." ' . Aid its dawuiug, tongue and pea; Afd its hopes of honest .men; Aid it, paper; aid it, trpe ; Aid it, for the hour ia ripe, And crar earnest deeds mutt not slacken into play; Men of thought and women of action, dear the wav. And when the sun shall reach tho zenith of that glorious day, the North end the South, cemented in the indissoluble bonds of commercial and fraternal unity, will stand together under the banner of protec­ tion to Amerioan industries and American labor, and march to grander industrial triumphs. The Proof of the PndJing. Until ten years affo Sweden prospered under a protective tariff. Then doctrin­ aires began a free-trade agitation and final­ ly succeeded in getting their theories adopt­ ed. During the decade of free trade Swedish prosperity has declined. Manu­ facture and agriculture have suffered greatly. Popular discontent has grown, until the chief issue in the recent election was the question of a return to the princi­ ple of protection. The leading champion of the protection­ ists was Archbishop Sonnberg, whtae powerful influence and wise counsels were of the utmost service. The result of the election was an overwhelming victory for protection. There is great rejoicing in Sweden. The editor of the New York Kordstjemen, in a recent interview, said: "For the first time in a number of years Sweden seem? to have awakened from the absurdity of her internal revenue position, and has come to think that she should be­ come a manufacturer for herself and not a mere purchaser and consumer of gObds from others. I believe Sweden is entering now an era of prosperity. Protection has built the coun'ry up, and, while Sweden has neither the extent nor variety of the United States, yet the stimulus which pro­ tection must give to the grain-growing, milling and manufacturing industries can not but be fraught with good results." Sweden is acting upon the lessoa of her own experienee. Verily, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating."--Bi+ffalo Ex- press. NEW YORK Girl --SO your pa is go­ ing to move to Philadelphia, Maude? Don't you think you'll find it awfully dull there? "Of course, but th^n the ferry-boat runs over to Camden in a Y«rjr fewminntes, you knvwV--Fitok, With proper regard for this one point, and a realization of just how Important it is that he should oover his position wall, Krock will puzzle tho batters and base- runners of more than one League team. As I was watching Krock, Tom Daly joined us. He is in the pink of condition, and says he feels as though he could catch even day for a month to come. "That fellow behind the bat there is a daisy. Look at him take those balls in as though he loved them. Ain't it pretty?" Tom referred to Farrell, the colt catcher whom Anson thinks so well of, and in truth, he is a good one. He is as graceful and easy in his work behind the bat as is Paly himself, a sure thrower to bases, and a rattling good fielder--both in and out. "How does he bat, Tom?" I asked. "You will just about have a chance to see," replied our crack oateher, as Farrell picked up his stick. There was a man on first, and the score stood 3 to 1 in favor of the Maroons. "Crack" went the tip of the bat against the second ball over the plate, and away sailed the sphere straight out over center field on one of the longest home-run journeys ever recorded on the home grounds. Both Farrell and Duffy scored, tieing the game. j "That's the way he bats," said Daly, dry- < ly. "Have a cig«r?" j Taking them all through. I think Anson has got together the likeliest set of players ! Chicago has had for twoyears,and if tne "old I man" and his boys don't win the flag this 1 year, they will manage to keep the public ; and the rest of the League teams guessing 1 light up to the last week of the race. I By the way. Tommy Burns tells a good j One on "Old Silver" Flint, the veteran j oateher of the Chicago team. - j "A fiiend of mine who is traveling for a big patent medicine house in Philadel- I phia,' said Tommy, "was in town jester- I day and had with him a bundle of pocket j dictionaries, which his house was giving { away as an advertisement. One of these little very much abridged affairs, you know, with the name 'Wooster's Dictionary' printed on the cover. My friend gave me a oopy and then handed one to Silver. 'What's this?' asked Silver. '0, yes; "Wooster Directory." Tve played nail there.'" The other day a friend of Silver's gavs him a queer little gold scarf-pin, repre­ senting "Punch" in a three-cornered hat, with a pair of diminutive legs protruding from a very round belly. "Punch" is grinning until one can almost see hie little belly shake with inward mirth, and pre­ sents so funny an appearance that in nine cases out of ten Silver's friends bend closer to look at it-- and to get a slender stream of Florida water in the eye. One of these tube arrangements, you know, the pin being hollow and a slender tube running downward beneath Silver's scarf and vest to a little reservoir in his watch pocket. Silver had lots of fun with it un­ til two pretty girls came up to him in the grand stand Monday afternoon, and asked him how,soon the game would begin. The "old hosB" impulsively ran his thumb and one crooked linger into his watch pocket for his watch, when one of the young ladies ?;ave a little scream, grew very red in the ace, and applied a dainty lace handker­ chief to her cheek. "What do you mean, sir, by such an in­ sult?" she sobbed, half in anger and half in surprise. Silver tumbled in an inBtant, and was simply paralyzed. "My d--d--dear miss--" lie stammered, "so--so--help me G--God, I didn't s--pit. It's just one of these sq-- BUlArp oa Dogs, There's another d9g oome home- Balph is working down at the mine! and took a notion to send his fine dog home. That make9 four dogs right ic a bunch, and we can't stand it One if old and blind and won't die. Another 11 is Carl's, and my wife she claims the shepherd as her pet, but she got mad witn him the other day and said she wished he was away off on some farm. So while she was out visiting, I gave the dog away, but it didn't stick. 'He came back home before she missed him, and it was lucky for me that he did. Balph's dog is a pointer--an edu­ cated pointer, and will bring your hat to you. That's what he writes. Well, I den't want my hat brought to me; 1 can go after it, and now, it will take at much to feed these four dogs as tc keep a cow; and before long theii taxes will be to p&y again. When 1 was up at Anderson the dog tax was oo hand, and the marshal could hardly find anybody who owned a dog. "Haven't you got a dog?" "No, nary dog, nothing but a little pup about so high," and he put his hand nearly to the ground. He stopped at another lionse and in­ quired : "Gotany dogs?" "No; no dogs about these premises." "Why, what is thst animal slipping under the house?" "Oh, that--that little fice ; why, thai ain't mine--that's Susy's little fice-- he's no dog--and he don't belong to us, nohow."--Atlanta Constitution. •i 1 11 1 Well Equipped. Two men were sitting on the same seat in a railway train. The conversa­ tion drifted from blizzards into genera literature. "I see," said one of the rtien, "thai you do not care much for America^ novelists." "No, nor for foreign ones." "In your reading you doubtless gc deeper than the noveL " "Don't know that I do." "I mean that you doubtless resd his­ tory or books on philosophy." " "No, I don't do that." "Ah, religiously inolined, and read theology I suppose?" "No, I never read any theology.* "Lawer, eh? and confine yourself to your text-books." "No." "Well, now, HI catch you after awhile. Bead medical books, I sup­ pose?" "No, 1 don't read anything.* "What, don't read anything! Whal business are you in?" "A business that does not require reading. I am a literary critio on ar eastern magazine."--Arkansaw Trav eler. . ' d;-.--!' CsnM Stsad Another. The Senator's wife is an accom­ plished musician and a fine performer on the piano. She gave a dinner party to which she had invited, among others, a certain member of the Kentucky dele­ gation in the House. At the urgent request of some one in the company she played and sang while awaiting the summons to dinner. She.lias just fin­ ished a polonaise by Chopin, and a painful silence followed the outburst oi applause which had greeted the per­ former as she ** from the piano, when the Senator WHS heard turning to his Kentucky friend with: "Would you like asoaata before din­ ner, Colonel?" "Well, I don't mind," replied Eromptly the "Colonel," smacking his ps and bracing up. "I had two on my way here, but I reckon I oai^ stand another."--Washington letter. Armed Insects. The bumble-bees of Borneo are said to have stingers an inch long. They must be as greatly dreaded as the New sq--squirt pins I've g--got in my BO-- I Jersey mosquitoes, which carry javelins not ( scarf. I didn't mean the d--darned thing about a foot long. A man who was at u : aNew Jersey watering place last sea- • --Moses kOMfejat --Bev. D. L. Gilford, < eassisr of tho Rational Bank of i has been erdabwd a ] ary to Corea. --Mrs. Alexander, of Joliet, one et tfes leading members of the Women's Chris­ tian Tetafresanfre- Union, is dead. Bha was 62 years, oidi • ---William Yeit, a Santa Fe brakemsn*. was knocked off a' eoastraofioB train at Dahinda by a water-spout, ffciowa nadsr the wheels, and instantly killed. --I. P. Chase, one of the pioneer farsa- ecs living near Dwight, has celebrated his golden wedding. There was a grand raS(y of settlers at the Chase homestead. ---Thomas Mitten, a well-known nhsias ter of Rockford for forty yeam, was found dead in bed at the City Hotel. The Cor­ oner's jniy retained a verdict ef ksot disease. --W. D. Rudy, for years an employe at the Postoffice Department in Washington D. C., has married Miss Ida E. Worrell, a handsome and qocomplislisd yo*nglady «f ; Bloomington. --A great gas well has been opened by John Hazen, at Seymour. The flow is so powerful that it shakee the house whic&i stands near. This is the first gas wstl operated in that vicinity. --Edward O'Neil, who had been in the employ of the Santa Fe for the past two years, was murdered in a Hungarian sa­ loon row at Streator. He was hit with a blunt instrument and knocked down, hit head striking a railing In front of the bar, breaking his neck. --Several silly girls lu Decatur, who bo- long to respectable families and are old enough to know better, are making them­ selves ridiculous by showering attentions upon a condemned murderer in the county jail. One of them even tried to kiss tks wretch through the bars. --John A. McCullough, aweU-known farmer of Book Island County, aged 46, while plowing In his field eut his threat with a razor. He had been suffering oo* oasional mental derangement. --Cheers were given by the crowd in the oourt-room at Carbondale when the jury tts the case of J. C. Hundley for the killing ol W. A. Weller returned a verdict of not guilty. Hundley had reason to believe Weller to be criminally intimate with his wife, and when he surprised the ceuple together in the wife's rbom he shot and killed the destroyer of bis happiness. --General Jasper N. Beeoe effius a re­ ward of $500 for the name# of the anihess of the secret circular recently sent out al­ leging various toctuities in his career as a business man snd State official, the pur­ pose of which circular was to injure his s anding before the Bepubliean State Con­ vention. General Beece is a candidate far the nomination of Secretary of State. --A large number of delegates to tho Grand Lodge of United Workmen off Illinois attended the annual ms>llH|. at Springfield. The official reports show 336 lodges in good standing in the State, with 20,700 members. Over $310,000 wm paid out for benefits last year. Tho bene flciary fund has a balance of $9,000 and the general fund a belanee of $8,000 on. hand. --George Anderson, one of the Chicago burglars confined in the Piatt County Jail at Monticello, has made his escape. He had been very sick with pneumonia, and the doctors almost gave him up. Gongs Bowman was sitting up with him giving ^medicine. Bowman went to an adjoining cell, where there was a stove, to warm hiss- self, and fell asleep. Anderson then eaw his opportunity. He got up and put on his clothes, unlocked the doors, stole Oho Sheriff's watch which had been loaded to give him medicine by, and esesped. --Some of the elders who attended tho session of the conference of the LaitarDay Saints at Duquoin have had some queer experiences and severe trials, snsseHmss barely escaping with their lives from in­ furiated mobs. Most of their tmosUsg from place to place has been done on test. Each Elder is eent out to preaoh asiei> hortforthe period of two years, going to places assigned them from Salt Lake City. At lhe endoflwo years they em sent $50, and ordered in to the head of the church, and this is all they are allowed from tho > ohurch for their two years' labor. --"Oh, my hair! some one has cut off aqr hair," cried little Mabel Floyd, as she fsH for her long plait at one of the dime na> seums in Chicago. Mabel's hair was the pride of her young heart, and used to ho the source of envy to all her girlish frieafe. It used to hang below her waist in thiok, lustrous waves, and when braided, wiQi a bit of bright ribbon on the end, there f|s no possession of the maid thst she so gloried in. Some impecunious scoundrel had cut off the plait a few inches from the back of her head, securing twenty inrhes of the child's hair. The cutting had been done so quietly that Mabel had. not felt the operation, and it was not for minutes after that in putting her round to see if ihe ribbon waa in thst she missed her beautiful leeks. She was inconsolable, and wept bittsr teas over her loss, but the thief had made Ida escape, and she sorrowfully went hesne shorn and heavy-hearted. --At the late village eleotion in BoseviBe* Warren County, the judges wore plannf hi an embarrassing situation by four of the leading ladies of the town, who appeared st the polls and demanded the rigVi of suf­ frage, basing their claims on that elsfese of the fourteenth amendment which says "That no State shall make or enforce Ifiws abridging the privileges or immunities off any citizen." The judges were in a quan­ dary. The respect due the fair applicants would not allow them to refuse, but mod* esty required that their several votes be sworn in. The necessary blanks were sent for, but when the crisis came some heart* less miscreant maliciously brought in a xe- eent.Supreme Court decision, in which II was shown that the right of suffrage was classed tinder privileges a§d immuni- The effect was disastrous and < Fortunately for Silver, young lady num- j * whllo h7*aa aslZTn aBzing. The claims of the fair aspirants her two had seen the stream, and happily i son swear si , rririorii {» rer#imition am American citizens IM ended the mortifying condition of a*1®** i i mencaa 01 tD'wm* by bursting into a laugh, with the result that both young ladies insisted upon see­ ing the machine, and Silver had to undress to the'extent of unbuttoning his vest to show it to them. It is amusing to think ; have happened had Mrs. Flint inserted its bill through a wire soreen 1 set aside, and they retired from the field and punctured him to the depth of one j vanquished but not di*oaraged. "Xfce inch. He may exaggerate an inch or t whole affair was a trying ordeal to the eeur- tjo, but he awears, all the 9*UIO»--- teous and dignified judges. The final result Xbrnslawn BeraU. ^^willl A WISE man will be more aaxlotislo daoerre s fair nams than to possess il no regrets or in ed ridtors to retina.