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W V r J,/ ^ #•* .'^V - ; .••/• • r\ )1 "v \f/l .'•a-v'o.•*-.:' i VA8 9L¥KE, CdUor mt MM*. ILLINOIS. HAPPY is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon hJs^caaacience. should enloy more peaee It *e did not busy ourselves with the words and deed&of other men, which ap­ pertain not to out'charge. Fob tying a hangman's knot an ex­ pert charges $2.50. This piece of noose may be of interest to those Who contemplate being hanged. • Sl§§l .y! l*, £•^33^*7*^, i\°v " m * ] ' f,,, "/,< ' yic - ' V Td^ .1* a man must be a millionaire he •cannot atone for it In any better way than Mr. Ivcckefellefr has followed in giving $JU 000,000 to the University of Chicago. * j IN his gratitude for Tais restoration to health Russell Sage is likely at any woment to give as much as 50 cents to some instituibil«^«f teaming public chanty. f AM* the knowledge that we mor­ tals can acquire is not knowledge positive, byt knowledge Comparative, iinrl stjhiAflf, ftn th*» £!TOr3 and TXIS- sions of humanity. , TITE report that oystera»are subject to consumption will -cause no alarm <mt this way. The belief that tha^t is what the oyster was made for pre­ vails generally in th^se parts. GEN. BUTLER makes every man who buys a copy of his book agree to neither sell it nor give it away.. This is rough on the purchaser, but a mighty good thing for his friends. ^",4 AUSTRALIA wants 1,000,000 feet of space at the Columbian Exposition. Most of the eminent Australians now traveling in this country are amply satisfied with a twenty-four foot ring when oH exhibition, but any reasona­ ble number of square feet that spa­ cious country wants in order to show the superiority of its other products should be granted ungrudgingly. ?$• • t •- ? • <- - *C- WARREN SPRINGER indicted for manslaughter! The whisky trust magnates arrested upon indictments for having violated the anti-trust law! Can it be possible that a blow Is really tft be struck at the well- established doctrine that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for justice to be done xspen the person of a rich man? The outcome will be looked for with some interest. . • WHERE men so enlightened and studious of their own good as'to act by the dictates of 'their reason and reflection, and not the opinion of others, conscience would be the steady ruler of human life, and the words truth, law, reason, equity and re­ ligion could be but synonymous terms for that only guide which makes us pass our days in our own favor and approbation EXERCISE, to be beneficial in the highest sense, should be for itself alone; it must not be work in any sense; it should pursue its own ob­ jects,* and no other; it £hould be made a pleasure, and not a labor, it should be utterly divorced from ul­ terior notions of economizing ex­ pended powers; and this should never more firmly be insisted on than in the case of those abnormal creatures who say they take pleasure except in useful work. THE New York World has protested against the proposal to make of the Postmaster General an arbitrary cen­ sor of the press. Several correspond­ ents have written calling our atten- tibn'to highly.immoral" personal ad­ vertisements which are printed in cer­ tain newspapers, and urging their publication i|s a conclusive reason for giving this' Extraordinary power to the Postmaster General. The argu­ ment is not sound. This is a govern­ ment of laws, not of( men. There are laws forbidding the publication of indecent and immtfta! matters. If those laws are riot strotag enough or definite enough it is for legislatures to make them so. If they are not enforced the remedy lies in securing more faithful police and prosecuting officers. The protest of the World is not against prouer laws or their im­ partial enforcement, but against the granting of extraordinary and very dangerous powers to xi single man. Its plea is for the liberty of the press, not for license of indecency. It is perfectly jight to stop indecent pub­ lications by law. It would be in the highest degree wrong and even out­ rageous to give the Postmaster General power to suppress any news­ paper, so far as its small circulation is concerned, of his own arbitrary and unrestrained will. To do that would lie to empower him to punish men without trial, to confiscate their property without due process of law apd to interfere in intolerable ways -with that freedom of the press guar­ anteed by the Constitution and with­ out which popular government would be as impossible as life without air. The law is the only proper * press censor. The law must be admin­ istered by courts and luries, not by the arbitrary will of any man. f-' r 11 THIS season of almost unpteoedent storms in Western Europe has rather forcibly called public attention to the imperfections of the safeguards against shipwreck around the British •coasts. The London, Times, which <is rather slow Xo Admit defects an things English, i» yery frank on the subject Writing on the shortcom­ ings of coast communication, the *'Thunderer" says: ••It is a' scandal and disgrace to the first marti (tie power in the world that the systetn should remain as it is. The expense of establishing telegraph lines would soon be repaid a hundred thousand times by the number of ships saved from <i< hii Hcr,ion through the of lines." There was an abnormally low ebb tide recently, which exposed the skeletons of six wrecked vessels on the *eefs near the Atherileid Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight, where the Ger­ man steamship Eider came to grief a short time ago. After every one of those wrecks there was a public out­ cry and a demand for the removal of the reefs or the 'improvement of the lighthouse. When the sensation died out the subject died with it. After the Eider disaster Prof. Tyndall, who is admittedly the greatest authority on ligbt the world has ever seen, sug­ gested an improvement in the Ather- fleld light which all seafarring men Conceded would considerably lessen the danger of shipwreck. A few newspapers wrote learned articles on Tyndall's proposition and the subject d ropped. The lighthouse officials dis­ like Tyndall because he threw up th« position of scientific adviser to the Board on the ground that his advice was thrown away. They are "per­ fect" gentlemen who resent advice and answer it with statistics' about the comparative number of ship­ wrecks from year to year. British sailors are among the best in the world, but both sailors and officials have a lofty contempt for "theorists" and "scientific seamen who get their nautical knowledge in books rather than on the sea." The practical knowledge and daring and the blind faith in luck that make them suc­ cessful sailors giye them a reckless disregard of precautions that would save hundreds of lives every year. It will require a man of the stamp of Plimsoil fcp effect the necfted reforms in the lighthouse and life-saving ser­ vice in the British islands. FACTS THAT ALL PEOPLE SHOULb UNDERSTAND. Thmrm to Aim la the Sumy's Daaaoeratle Wall Ortr a Demeeratle Caagr«H-rrM V°°l n. ProtaeUd Wool--Practical Illastratloaa -- Prate* team a Xabla rot. •U mum milt AalWun. Don Me tariff finer tnutumd ACCORDING to the San Bernardino (Cal.) Herald a woman has just been i<ried and acquitted, in that city for causing death by Christian Science medication. The victim or patient was a mail carrier, some thirty years of age, and the accused woman was called in to act as a nurse a few days before he died of acute meningitis. During her charge as nurse she not only refused to permit the attendance of any physician, but slie would not even let the sick man be seen by his family, and merely told them that he was getting better and needed only rest. For several reasons the trial was of unusual interest. A statement was made by one of the Witnesses showing briefly and definitely the singularly unscientific and dangerous principles Of this new system of heal­ ing. "If I were called upon," she said, "as a Christian Science healer to attend a man who was delirious and who had a swollen eye, and the eye began to protrude from its socket, and was of gradual growth for six days, with Christian Science I would not think it necessary or proper to call in a surgeon. Christian Science claims to heal as the Master healed; it is the same truth that the Master taught, to go out into the world and preach the Gospel and heal the sick; it is upon that platform that true Christrian Science works and no other." If this means anything, it means obviously that this so-called science is founded absolutely on miracle^nd rejects wholly the re­ lations of cause and effect, which alone are recognized by either science; or common sense. The influence of mind upon matter, hypnotic sug­ gestion, the personality- of the phy­ sician, and even careful dietary, are ail equally rejected by the Christian Scentists as essential or operative, al­ though deemed by modern physicians to be in many cases no less efficacious than the druars which used to be their sole reliance; and although it is only by the accidental existence of one or other of these agencies that any cure claimed to be due Christian Science is,rationally explicable. In the light, then, of this declaration, Christian Science must be regarded as out of all relation to the facts of experience, and quite as ineffectual for good as the administration of bread pills, less useful, indeed, than bread pills, when, as in the San Bernardino case, the patient is insensible and incapable of faith or hope. Chief Juntiee roller a Maine Boy. The name of Chief Justice Fuller having been spoken of in connection with the presidential nominations-- % .ne has Blaine and Reed besides-- puolic attention has been again di­ rected to him rind stories regarding his bovhood are nowinorder. "Mell," as he is called by the people of Old- town, lived in that city as a school- boy ten years. Hewas a terror in spelling schools ariaMn the lyceum where debates were field. "Mell" took part often against grown folks, and out of one of these discissions there grew a quarrel between a man now an ex-Judge and the present Chief Justice that has never healed. The ex-Judge was a young school­ teacher then and "Mell" was in the second class in school. In tbe iyceum one night the boy defeated the teacher in debate and got some applause. Full of wrath the teacher sneering- ly alluded to his opponent as a "tow- headed stripling of a boy." Fuller retorted by saying if his only fault consisted in being a boy he thought "some time he should be as big a man as the teacher thought himself to be, and that would ladptL' -- Lewiston Journal. ,r, . 122 QoMtton No. & nomipoliJX t It does not. The tendency of the age is for men to combine where they see their profit. The Standard Oil Trust is »% gigantic aggregation of capital. Yet what lias that to do with the tariff? The Western Union Telegratih monopoly, the insurance combination, the trust lately formed by the express com­ panies--how are they influenced bv protection? The tariff, far from creat­ ing the conditions favorable to the or- Eanimation of trusts, has been the means y which many of them have been de- eiiuyuu, and this will be clearer when we consider tbe circumstances nnder which it is most likely that a trust will be formed. Under free trade the trnst would be suprerafc. For then we would be com­ pletely at the mercy of Great Britain for our Bupplv of many articles, and this condition would be realized: Be­ fore a large supply of a commodity could reach us, it would have to be col­ lected in a few seaports, there to pass through the hands of a few exporters, who find a trust the moat convenient means of raising the exDort price to foreign consumers. And this" is just what has actually taken place again and •gain, so that there is no country in the world that contains more trusts, more obnoxiops monopolies, than Great Britain,, the home of the economic heresy of free trade. The country is really plastered over with trusts. Protection offers no inducement to trustB, but if they are formed we can control them. Free trade offers every inducement to trusts, and when tbey are formed, puts them beyond our reach. Which system will the people prefer? / Question No 6. How docs nrotertinn benefit tee farm erf Would he be better off under free trade! Protection was adopted by tbe found­ ers of the government for the special purpose of beiiemiug farmers. Tbe members of the first Congresi were nearly all either farmers themselves or represented farming «*onf»titn«iw,ies. Agriculture was practically the only in­ dustry of the people, and they saw their produce rot on their hands year after year for want of a market for it. To create a market for this produce was the ¥rime object of the early legislators. here was not a robber baron among them. Their policy was a farmer's pol­ icy, pure and simple. Later statesmen down to Blaine and McKinlev based their advocacy of protection on "the be­ lief that it benefited the farmer mos< of all. To-day, eleven taillion acres of 1 he best farm land in the world is ly ug waste in England, 200,000 persons i in- nually leave the agricultural distrii ts, and the condition of agriculture is simply deplorable. Free trade has all but ruined the English farmer. 8c it has dealt with agriculture in India, ta fact, our own experience and that! of the whole world is that a revenue tajriff means death to the farmer's prospei^tv. I For some years American agriculture has been depressed, though in less [de­ gree than agriculture in foreign coun­ tries, because of over-production. The free trad# demagogue took advantage of the situation to urge his pet theofries upon farmers, who. more steadfastly than any other class of citizens bjave turned a deaf ear to the free tifade siren, and formed the main bulwark of American protection from the time of Washington down. The demagogue as­ sures them that the remedy for their ills is to be sought in foreign mariets for their produce. It is exactly jthe argument used to persuade them to consent to a revenue tariff in 1646. But when that tanfi had been voted they discovered how they had bden fooled. We are approaching very close to the line where, under normal conditions, our own people will consume all our farmers produce. There are no more such vast tracts of unoccupied wheat lands as were brought under cultivation during tbe last twenty years, and the diversification of industry resulting from consistent protection for a few years more will place our farmers in a position where prices of their produce will be regulated independently of Liverpool, Russia and India. When that time comes, and it is close at nand, farmers will be more than ever inter­ ested in protection. These are the teachings* of common sense and ex­ perience. The only evidence that c; be produced against them is the insi cere, partisan vaporings of the fr trade demagogue. Question Na 7. If foreign workmen are . ployed here in our facloriex and machine shopt, ol what advantat/e i* protection to tfie American citi- wmf This is' a novej question, one that in­ volves not merely a discussion of the tariff, but also of the ethics of restrict­ ing immigration. "Is it desirable," the most cowardly and in American politics, have bin hogging the absurd hope that IM ftw tfcwle Democracy, with Grow CtevelMd as its figure-head, might gkin the next election without revealing its teal purposes in regard to the currency. All the sbrewder Demo­ cratic organs In tbe Eastern states were desperately anxioos to avert a party vote om the Bland bill. Like tbe Mug­ wumps, they were conscious that unlem c«uW «a»«t iimlrf false luio Mil a could nut win. The Republicans have stripped the Democratic ««r»y of these false pre­ tenses. Here is some Democratic testi­ mony as to the effect their action will have on the approaching campaign. The leading Democratic organ of this city declares that the certainty ot a vote on the Bland bill seriously "imperils" Democratic success; that "it unfavor­ ably offects Democratic prospects in those Eastern states whose electoriaf votes are necessary to the election of a Democratic President," and that the de­ cision to bring on the silver discussion is an "unfortunate mistake." The J^ug- wnmn Vnrlr 'Pimps snvg* In two weeks from today the House will have the Bhtmi hill before it, and the fate of that measure, with the fate of the Dem­ ocratic party, will nave to be decided. In­ credible as it may seem, these men have deliberately put their success with their own constituents a*x»ve the success of their party. They are prepared to save their own seats, though the party be thrown into a hopeless minority and be burred ae'eess to the White House for another quarter of a century. It now remains to be seen whether the party can save itself. The Evening Post uses even plainer language: Let it be borne !n ssiss! that the anti- Bland sentiment in the North will take no chances on this question. «f that bill passes the House and goes to the Senate the game is lost to the Democrats in the coining campaign. They will not carry one Northern state. They will lose even Colorado and Nevada. It is a noteworthy fact that none of the extracts we have quoted consider the question from the standpoint of public honesty. Each of the three pa­ pers assumes as a matter of course that it was the right of the Democratic lead­ ers to "Dunco" the people. Now that Republican congressmen have shown what tbe Democracy is, and what it means, these journals virtually admit that tbe chances of Democratic success are lost. . A a Dcmovatis Congress. Three months of the present Congress gone and nothing done! This is not the growl of fauli-iiumhu, hypercritical Re­ publicans, but the plaintive wail of all tbe Mugwump and a large number of tbe old-line, hard-shell, copper-bot­ tomed Democratic newspapers through­ out tbe country. So far as Republicans are concerned there is no great dissatis­ faction with this condition of things. Indeed, they are so well convinced that this Congress has neither disposition nor capacity to do anything wise or pat­ riotic that they view its inactivity with much more of resignation than regret. The small squabbles among the leaders and fussy puttering over trifles which have occupied their attention for three months to the exclusion of other im­ portant matters seem so fitting and proper, so well adapted to the mental caliber Of the majority, and any attempt to take up larger affairs would be attend­ ed with such great risks that Republicans generally are disposed to accept the sit­ uation as on the nlioie the oest that could be hoped for under the circum­ stances. As long as the majority in the House are contented to pass the time in harmless wordy contentions among themselves, or tbe innocuous delights ot dawdling, Republicans are quite satis­ fied, and not at all disposed to spur them into pernicious activity. They" might do a great deal worse. But the Mugwump and Democratic newspapers, which bailed the election of their 150 majority at the beginning of the millenium, feel differently. A great many of them, and they the'most confident and hopeful, have had noth­ ing but disappointment ever since tbe House was organized by the election of Speaker Crisp. It has been raining dis­ appointments for them for three months. Very few had provided themselves with umbrellas, and those who had soon found them turned wrong side out. They are wet, sick and sore. Here, for in­ stance, is the Boston Herald, which usually manages to take a cheerful view of the political situation, complaining tbat Congress has been in session over three months, and up to the present week not only has nothing been done, but "not one speech of importance on any subject haa been made in either house by a member of either party." For this, it says, there has been no precedent "for fifty years, if there has indeed for a hundred, or in any Con-, gress since the organisation of the gov- no occasion for dis­ part of our Boston its article ap- in, of Tennessee, test effort of his wool contained in our normal importa­ tion of manufactures, $43,000,000 worth last rear, and we have 129,000,000 ponnda more, or nearly 500,000,000 pounds all told, which would come in from abroad to supply the American demand lor wool, Bince we consume at a liberal estimate only 600,000,00) pounds of wool annually, there would be left a demand for not much more than 100,000,000 pounds of American * „ _ s * ; < « ! , ^ n r m d a ^ H t h a t - < a l - Imost two-thirds of our entire product would have to go begging for a market. •Such an enormous surplus would send prices so low that destruction of our flocks would be commenced at once. That is what the Democracy has to offer the former in the way of "tariff reform." BLAND'S BILL IS DEAR THE MEASURE WAS KILLED BY * ADJOURNMENT. stion. And that is but the beginnflfof floods of eloquence waiting to be poured out. Tons oi white paper are waiting to be covered with "speeches of importance" on the tariff, which will go into the Record to in- asks our correspondent in effect, "to TtvTttifn feflIhTnutfeflrAT&tl crease the prosperity of our own psjL « pie if foreigners immediately come and share in that prosperity ?" Andf111^ can only be answered by dividing it in|yer" two separate questions: 1. Is it desif1'"3"" able to" increase the prosperity of oipts; country? 2. Should we allow foreign©!80*1 to come in and Bhare it ? food The first question must be answertpts; in the affirmative. Of course we snoulilar do everything to make our own countai in prosperous, and we have done so. lltnta, only reacon foreigners have for eomiqfour to the United States is to better theioes, condition, and statistics show ttu{^a]e whenever under free trade oO i<o workingmen lacked employment an» we our farmers were poor, then immigr&new tion declined. Now, shall we, in orde^^ to give these foreigners no inducemer^ to come to this country, degrade ou^ people to their level ? That would b. as foolish as the action of the man wh"" in order to rid his house of Hies burn: it down. No, if immigration is not dt* . sirable, surely the way to stop it is no® °J by making ourselves poor. The arguj* OI ment is, like most free trade content1™6 tions, absurd. _ ™ But should we allow foreigners t eome to this country and share our pros­ perity ? This is an entirely differed ., question, one which has nothing to d .jf with the tariff, which cannot be tram w1in formed into an argument for or again/*®'®* protection. This much we will say^A nowever. Desirable immigrants, thof|ater whom we can assimilate, who will n«'and lower our standard of living, should n»nse. be excluded. They consume oirved clothes, our shoes and our agriculturrpets products, and thns create a correspon. din­ ing demand for labor to supply thetove, articles, while not in any way loweri^oks, our wages. All others--paupers. co«too victs, degraded people from other landb, who cannot and will not enter into the spirit of our institutions, but exert a corrupting influence on our civilization --should be excluded. 4 There U Alarm in tbe Knemjr'a Camp. Speaking of the dismay of the Mug­ wumps and some of the Democrats over the vdte on the silver bill, the New York Press says: The immense importance of the vote by which the House of Representatives fixed a date for the consideration of the Bland bill is best shown by the Mug­ wump and Democratic dismay over the went. The Mugwumps, whose ostenta­ tious pretense of political saintlinese lowed to enter it again after voting. ' You will not be allowed to vote f ballot except the one you receive ff the judge, nor to take a ballot from! p o l l i n g p l a o e b e f o r e t h e ' c l o s i n g o f t election. jf If you spoil a ballot or deface it in * way in preparing it, return it to t judge and get another in its place, e If a voter declares upon oath ths cannot read English, or he is physi unable to mark his ballot, two o ~ election officers will mark it for him 1 * directs. You will receive no assistance if in1» cated. * There are hear j penalties for elec 1 eering within 100 feet of the polls, hindering a voter while going to votl. inducing him to tell how he intends vote; for showing your ballot after m/ ing it; and for making a false stateni as to your inability to mark your bal The polls will be opened at 7 A. M., closed at 5 p. M. Employes will be i tied to leave of absence of two h< without IOBS of time, for the purpos voting; but they must ask leave of sence before election day, and emplo; may specify the hours during which t men may be absent. LABOX9TBEER BBEW'KYIIT THE WO] Comparative Bales 1891. " P A UST-- -- . . ' " W b O P ' W I i the Iree list, and scaling down duties on woolens and worsteds, as proposed in his bill now before Congress, would re­ duce the revenues of tbe government about f30,000,000. To make up this de­ ficiency would require an additional im­ portation ot wool manufactures to the value of $85,000,000. They would con­ tain from 200,000,000 to 250,000,000 pounds of raw wool, which would nar­ row the American farmer's market by that amount. If importations of raw wool were maintained at last year's flcure--and under free wool they probably would increase -- 119,000,000 pounds would come in unmanu&ctared. 4dd the Free Wool <r>. Protected Wool, Renewing the line of attack begun on the tariff by Cleveland four years ago, the Democratic ways and moans com­ mittee has brought in a bill taking every particle of protection off wool and pro­ viding for absolute free trade in that, product. Th» issue is thus squarely made be­ tween free trade on one side and pro­ tection on the other. As if to make plain beyond all ques­ tion the nature of the free trade assault, it is trained on one of the greatest in­ terests of this country, extending, as the wool industry does, from Vermont to to Texas and "Oregon. As the issue between free trade and protection is thus made to turn on the wool duties, the people fortunately have before them the practical working of the two systems during the last twenty- five years, the United States having had protection for wool during that time, wKlloi •Ko <vn -• ••••v ^uivp<jau W U M K I V O uavo uiou the free-wool, doctrine. Here is the re- 8U,t: V IN XUBOra, WITH WOOL IK UNITED STATES. WITH FKEB, - WOOL FBOTECTKIX Production increased in United states from 8O.OOO.COO to over 300,- 000,000 pounds. Decreased Importa­ tions unui United States now grows so per cent, of wool it una Falling off of 25 per cent, in production of wool In free-wool coun­ tries. Increased Importa­ tions, until they now amount in England to twice tne, borne prod­ uct. Price® have fallen to the level of cheap wool countries plus transpor­ tation charges. Increased use of wool in manufacturing, (7 per cent, Price* have been from 20 to 80 per cent, above Iree wool coun­ tries. Increased use of wool in manufacturing, S7& per cent. It need only be added that^j woolen goods have b«6u steadily cheapened to consumers until the kinds in common use are as low in price here as in Ea- rope. With the tremendous contrast .be­ tween the growth of the wool interest in this country under protection, and its decline in hurope under Iree trade, how does it come that any party can have the brazen audacity to propose the free listing of tbe farmer's wool? The dangerous and destructive ten­ dencies of the Democratic party were never more clearly displayed than in the effort to take protection away from this great American interest, and bring in down to the level of free trade Eu­ rope. Always a party of violence, tear­ ing down, and never building up, the Democratic organization appears before the people again in its true colors. l*reeeat aad Former Foreign Tta-Plate Prlccs. A correspondent asked the American Economist what changes had taken Slace in tbe price of tin plate since the IcKinley tariff law ^ent into effect. July 1, 1891. It answers by givingsomo comparisons in parallel columns for tbe six months immediately preceding and .for tbe six months immediately suc­ ceeding that date: NEW YOBE PRICKS OF IC COKE Tlx PLATES IN 18VL Per box. Per boa. January...-. ..K 40 July ff> B> February- 5 45 August 6 S6 March.......... 6 8S September.....-- .... 6 45 April...- 5 2b October .6 85 May 6 2U November..;. A SO June.....-- 6 3d Decemoer. & WO It will be observed that the price in July, the first month after the new duty was levied, shows no advance over the quotation from the month before, not­ withstanding the advance of $1.29 a box in the tariff. Who paid tne increase? The following comparison of prices of tin piates in Liverpool during the same months answer tbe question: Highest price paid »cr box of IC Bessemer steel' coke tin plates delivered at Liverpool lor each, month of 1891, according to Ryland's Iron* Trade Circular: January 3 -...S4 14 July 4 .......S3 71' Fetmiary 7. 4 82 August 1 8 '12 March 7 4 42 September 4 8 XI April 8 '4 S2 October 8 8 22 May 28 8 77 November 7. 8 £1 June C S 71 December 5 8 'A That is, the price to the foreigner was 1 forced down after the increased duty I was levied. Last December he was! selling for (3.22 a box, plates upon^ which the duty was $2.37, whereas in in April he had sold similar plates, up- i on tniich the duty was $1.08, for $4.22 a. box. In other words, when tbe duty was raised to $1.29 a box the price dropped to $1.10-^a way foreigners have of paying our tariffs. It was the Welsh tin-plate trust which Bent prices up months before there was any change in the tin-plate tariff. Its members met in council and deter­ mined, according to the published re­ ports of the proceedings, to make a box of tin piates "a rather costly commodi­ ty" to Americans. This determination was forthwith carried out, and we had to submit to the extortion. Practical Illustration*. Great Britain's silk industry and its allied branches formerly gave employ uientandlivelihootH^^^^^l^OOOjOOO pemuSrflnlferl^^^nSFtne^SuSr has steadily shrank till now there are not more than ^^^^^20(X000 persons living by the sa^ffSPSBSf The president of the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland attributes their present sad plight to a lack of pro­ tection. The year before last we bought for­ eign woolen cloths to tbe value of $14,695,955. Last year under the McKinley tariff we bought of these goods onlv Recently present tariff had in one year put about $9,000,000 in the pockets of American producers of wool and woolens in the matter of women's and children's dress goods. It has made an additional home market for over $3,000,000 worth of American woolen cloths in the lame time. ' Praise from a Noble Foe. That eminent Democratic statesman, ex-Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has this to say about President Harrison's administration: ( Since Secretary of State James G. Blaine has so positively declined the pre­ ferred honor, I see no way for your party but to renominate President Harrison. And why not? Hasn't he given you a most eminently clean administration? llasn't he had less political and administrative scandals than any administration for years? lie is a thoroughly clean man; a descendant of pure ancestry, and one in whom no one can find the least taint, whether personal, political, or official. is "A primrose by the river's brim A wallow primrose was to him, '-"1 i ' * Add it was nothing more." "J ~ But, ob! it made his heart grow Ma, When !n the winter time he had Kv To buy it in a store. • - '£ , v --AVu> York J£eralii±;/ THE only way to win in an argument with a woman is to walk. off when yon Speaker Crisp and Western Demoersts Gave tbe Measure a Llf<, baf p V«te Wfa, Mot Reached, aad SUver CpppMa lU¥lnal lleieat. ; "i n u tlii? TtHt, According to a Washington dispatch the free silver bill is defeated, the House having adjourned without a v6t<* on the bill. Thls-ended the legislative day for which the special order was made, and the Bland bill now has no more rights in the House than any other moasurei In all probability it will not be taken up again in this session of Congress.' Mr. Bland hopes to get another spe-i cial order from the Committee on Rules, but the chances are decidedly against him. Gen. Warner, the chief lobbyist for tbe bill, admitted 'that the bill was defeated. This is without much ques­ tion the end of the great- campaign* of the silverites in this v'epgress. The closing of the contest was maik?d by great excitement and bitterness. Frequently the House was in such con­ fusion as tO require the assistance of sergeants-at-arms to clear the floor, and the great mace, which is used only on rare occasions, was paraded up and down the -ii:isles as a warning.to turbulent members. On the morning of the last day of the discussion the anti-silver forces were willing to concede their de­ feat. At midnight they were confident of ultimate victory, Three times during the night they routed the enemy, but t\A/>h time the free silver forces r&!!isd and left the final rosult in doubt. Speaker Crisp was once compelled to vote in order to save the bill from defeat, an effort which availed nothing in the face of the determined opposition of the Northern and Northwestern Democrats. The silver battle in the House began in earnest at 5 o'clock in the evening. All afternoon the orators had been making speeches. This was simply the cannonading, but from 5 o'clock on the opposing forces met in a bitter hand-to- hand conflict. No such fierce and bitter struggle has been seen in the House for many a year. On tne side was Bland, calm and confident, anticipating an easy victory. On the floor was General Warner, the chief of the Silver lobbyists, radiantly Looking forward a triumph over the hated gold-bugs.% Behind th« silver leaders was a strong and de-' termined force of Democrats, chiefly from the South and West, but with a scattering of votes in Ohio, Indiana, Southern Illinois, Michigan, and Iowa. They were joined by a handful of Re­ publicans from the far West. In all they were about one hundred and fifty strong. Arrayed against them were eighty Democrats from New England and the Northern and Northwestern States and seventy Republicans. These anti-silver forces were led by Tracy and Cochran of Now York, Harter and Outhwalte of Ohio, for the Democrats, and Tom Reed, Burrows, and Abner Taylor for the Republicans. At different times dtTrlng the night's battle 300 members voted. Of these 80 were Republicans, 212 Democrats, and 8 Farmers' Alliance. Of the 80 Republi­ cans all but seven voted to lay the Bland Kill nru~ ciivA* Dili on vuu UlUiO. 4. IIC OOTCII piv-attv v» Republicans were Bow«r« of Clark of Wyoming, Vincent Taylor of Ohio, Lalley of South Dakota, Piekler of North Dakota, Townsend of Color rado, and Bartine of Nevada. Of the 212 Democrats, seventy-eight voted against Bland. All the Demo­ crats from New England, all those from New York, excepting Rockwell, who voted on the advice of Senator Hill; all thosfe from New Jersey, excepting Fow­ ler; all from Pennsylvania, excepting Rellly, were against the bill. Maryland -was solid against Bland, with the ex­ ception of Mr. Compton, who voted on one roll-call and then disappeared. Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, was the only member from that State to vote against Bland. Ohio Democrats gave 9 votes for Bland*and 3 against, with Donovan dodging and Tom Johnson voting both ways. The three anti-Silver men were Outhwaite, Harter and Pattlson. All the Democrats from Indiana Voted with Bland, two or three of them re­ luctantly. Of the Michigan Democrats, Chip- man, Stout and Wheeler rated against Bland. Mr. Babbitt was'the, only pian* in the Wisconsin . delegation - to vote with the Blandites. The Illinois Democrat* voted,as fol­ lows: t With Bland--Williams, Wike, .Stew­ ard; Fithlan and Lane. Against Bland--dewberryr ^cQsgdn and Cable. , - Busey voted twice wlth- Bland, and then arranged a pair with 3tfr. Kpringer. On the first roll-call Snow and. Scott voted with Bland, but afterward paired, Mr. Snow desiring to change his vote, Mr. Durborow was paired, but reached the hall just before midnight, with his grfpsack in his haira, eager for an op­ portunity to go on iVcord against tree silver. All the Illinois Republicans voted against Bland, including General Post, who is a free coinage man. The Iowa Democrats divided, Hayes, Seerley, and Bowman voting against Bland. Kansas and Nebraska were solidly for the bill, Mr. Funston's vote being a surprise. Tom Reed attempted to whip the Kansan into line, but was unable to do so. Only one Missourian, Mr. Cobb, voted against Bland. Only two Democrats from the extreme South­ ern States, Brawley, of South Carolina, and Meyer, of Louisiana, voted against Bjand. All the Farmers' Alliance mem­ bers voted for free silver. The New York Democrats are very indignant at Tim Campbell and Stahl- necker, both of whom were absent and not paired. Had they been in their places the bill could have been beaten. Campbell arrived at midnight, tpo i*te to be of any service. AROUNPAGKgUfi .or' njm*. HOIS M8W8. mW Gould Want* tbe Earth. JAT Gould wants the castle of Cha- pultepec and would give about $7,000,- 000, about what it cost the American Government to take it in the Mexican war.--Minneapolis Times. PBOBABLY the story that Jay Gould has offered the Mexican Government $7,000,000 for the castle of Chapultepeo is a hoax. Tne fancy of the wizard does not lie in the direction of relics--unless they be relics of railroads he has suc­ ceeded in wrecking.--Baltimore Ameri­ can. JAT GOULD is said to have offered $7,000,000 for the castle of Chapultepeo, Mexico. This is- probably a canard. Gould will not buy an institution which cannot be stocked and bonded for more than it is worth. Castles are not in his line, and the Mexicans can rest easy.-- Omaha Bee. sign* of gprin? is coming, spring £s near}* tbe is whispered in the air. : • ' Soon tbe biythe nymph will be !:V:v mis .... . . .A r% / Shaking uiossuuis from her haib •-James Buckham, in Harper's Baft*, Likewise colds and ague chills v Liver-pads and liver-pills. Tar elixir, syrup squliis. t Quinine straight and doctors' btUa Sprig is cubbing, sprig Is dear; ! She is whispered id the air. ~ food the blithe nybph will be Sfcakij bU>a»oi)v4cobitef to1** > T' •-Detroit Free Press. " vt* .r,i -I * r""' * " -v V " v- !UJe4te« * ftsfcde JPwtau/edU--Wliea* fp.. • Dancer--Military MatfemH-Weegwi WUmm.?'. : Iters' Certificates for Team--A worn Fwr Near. THE-remains .of James K. Bishop were interred at Quim y. - He hadfw* cently* lived at- ? Omaha, Imt waa <**• Mayor of Quiney. A* Chicago, KKlfWinkwpr Frank Poledna was sefitPtWwWo be hanged tof the murdtr of Dominick Gibbons Christmas evening. He took the tehee stolfdiy. L t; ^-•} ; \ Adjutant Gskbba^ Rescs acc the resignations of Theodore Bell, ond Lieutenant of Company E, Infantry, and Clarence Hi Lefler, Fint Lieutenant of Company L, Fifth lafr.. fan try. ,, - r AT Efflnghanw an election for lio# officers of the Fourth infantry Regi^ ¥ ment, I. N. G., resulted in the choice o® t Captain Washburn, of Yandalia, fo# ; Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain Ben­ nett, of Greenville, for Major. AT Sparta, the temperature fell aboofc" 5 degrees below freezing, an<jf «*»*»?•? fear are felt for the growing wheat Th# mild weather during February started "i; the wheat growing nicely, and a fe*r|g days of thawing and freezing at nighs^gj will do irreparable injury. Undoubted] damage has been done. AT Salem, the Coroner's jury f< that James Morton came to his deal from arsenical poisoning, whieh ihe_ believed from the evidence was the work of Fell Parkinson, a man who was for­ merly engaged to one of Morton's daughters, but who recently broke the engagement. Parkinson was arrested by Coroner J. H. Lakin and lodged i& jail, where he will remain till the meel» ing of the Grand Jury next July. MRS. FRANCES CABTEB is an old AI too colored woman who rejoices in one of these sudden strokes of good fortune which sometimes come unexpectedly A® the needy and deserving. She receive# notice of a bequest of $150,000 by Dr. Wilson, of Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Carta# was in ante-bellum days owned by Urn family of Dr. Wilson in New Orleans* she being his slave "mammy." Wil&oo Hfc HavnafofAtl K/vmn S?tCr *JjA of his parents left him alone, and loca* „ ted in Pennsylvania, and accumulated ft fortune by a life of industry and thrift. , He lived a bachelor, and having no nea»«» relatives when the end approached, th* love for his old slave "mammy" cam« back, and h% bequeathed his entire es­ tate to her. last Legislature passed a law ta * prevent animals of the species ot horsed ;:c mule, ass, cattle, sheep, goat, or swine from running' at large. Nobody, e£ course, attached a vast degree of im­ portance to the measure. In the north* em part of the State the act cut very little figure, but down in Egypt, where- the cows are turned out to .grass to roam at will through the towns and vi|«» luges for sovoral months in the ye«r, the law was regarded as an infringement on the rights of an ;Am*Hc*>i> citWiK When Mr. Soronwlsj got home to Whice County he beard team his con­ stituents. He denied haying voted far the bill, but. an investigation showed that he was: recorded-among the yeae. Last September Mr. Norsworthy wrote tot Wi.; H. Hiurichsen, (Clerk of the House, fysking him if it. .was not possi­ ble to have nis name recorded in the negative on the "CoW bill." This, ot course, was out of the question, but Mr. Norsworthy, came to Springfield to investigate for himself. Later, when the State Printer reported that the House journals were ready for delivery, an$ they began to arrive at the State-House by the cart-load, a startling discovery was made. The roll-Call on the "co^jr, law' occurs on page 1343 of the hottae journal. Pages 1343- a^d 1344 fors^ one leaf in the volume. An inspection of this leaf shows that it is made at paper of a different quality from the rest. of the book; it is a shade darker and £ trifle poorer quality, of paper. A dosfe inspection also shows that the leaf, in­ stead of being a part of . several leaves, is simply pasted in. It is an easy irafe** ter to remove it from "the" book without tearing it.- The logical inference, off* course, is that the leaf originally print** ed in tbe book , containing tbe correct roll-call has been cut out, and the leaf containing the change pasted in. Ait inspection of the revised proof of thai page on file in the office of the printed expert shows that the leaf originally printed contained the 'name of Mr. Norsworthy. All this explains why thar' Secretary, Of State refuses to accept about a car-load of public documents. . % THE Illinois winter wheat bulletins says the area seeded last fall, 1,895.14ft acres, was 4 per cent, larger than thaifc of 18J1. Very little damage has been done by cold weather in noithi rn and central counties; but in the southern part of the State the crop will not he more than 50 per cent, of that of 1891. ^ . The Governor issued a proclamation designating Friday, April 8, as Arbctr Day, and requesting the people to oWt serve it by planting trees, shrubs amt^ viues. Teachers and pupiis in pubiie schools are especially enjoined to prop­ erly observe • the day, and the State Superintendent of Public Ius| has issued the following: DEPARTMENT or PUBLIC IKSTRCCI CHICAGO, III, March To the County Superintendents, and pupils of tbe State, greeting:' in conformity with the Governor's proc­ lamation I take this opportunity of calUnpt attention to the observance of Arbor Dar' by appropriate exercises in connection wttlt the planting of trees, .shrubs, and tiowerta|t plants on the school premises, thus adding to tbe beauty and attraction of the school*! The teachers will perform a patriotic aqfc by implanting in growing minds a love «£- the beautiful and by teaching the youtii'ot; tbe State lessons of humanity to plant* ,ae well as to animals. To protect whatever^ we have of forest and shade trees in prairie State is no less a duty than a pleaa* ure to add to their number annually. Verj^, respectfully yours. UKNRY RAAB, Superintendent ot Public Instruction. JENNIE BOOKER, colored, committed suicide at Springfield, shooting heraetfu through the heart, the tesult of a lorfi' affair. CoxsrosBABijE excitement and indigo nation exists at Clayton over the atr tempt to poison two families iianie<|'; Miller and Richardson. Dr. and Mrst Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Biehardsott were dangerously ill for some days fron| the effects of poison which was piai-od lit the, milk used by them. A woman of tht^. ; town furnished the milk, but furaishe«|; nine other families the same day. Dr^ •; Miller has his suspicions of the scoun­ drel, but will say nothing. A CALi has been issued for a diocesan' . i synod of the Episcopal Church to be ^ held in Springfield! III., May. 17s, the ob~ ject of which is the election of an assist-#^ ant bishpp for the d^eseof Springfield*,, : Bo v. Mr. Davenport, of ifemphis, Tenn.^w formerly of Cairo, III., will probably chosen. THE funeral of Rev. Father Michael Ryan, late rector of 5t. Luke's Bomaii Catholic Church at Virginia. Cass t'oun-» ty, took place at Springfield, from Church of the Immaculate Conception*!;? Vicar General Hickey acted as eelewrent.""! Twenty-aix priests were present and tke Catholic societies in the city teelS^: part in the cawoiaes. which wept laayefr' attended. « » "to V I Ciki.yv