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fRT, 1LYKE, Editor swi Publish*. JfYPIlUS IN DETROIT. m LOATHSOME DTSEA&B IS REACHING WEST. AMuMklhtl Tnlam a Debtof »T5- A Tngedjr at Canton. Ohio, ' Cauwil by Jealonajr---Mardereus Polish Aaarchlitii At Wkihlnftoa. Mr. McCreary In tlie House, the 8th. ln- roduced for Mr. Fprineer a bill to author­ ise the holding of an International mone­ tary congrc^s In Chicago, AUK. 8. 1808. <|jwent*-one (lelegHtc-; uro to represent the pelted 5tati s. seven to be chosen by the g>£evident; seven by the I'reside it o.* the «. ,nHlr>. and seven by the Speaker of the use The l'rcs'dent's appointees are to citizens not holding oitico; tho others a?®, to bo Senators and representatives. Ilw appolntmcntH are to be divided as equally as possible iwtw-^n the political parties. The Secretary of State and tho Director ct the Mint are vt he additional delegates The "resident i< author feed to invite foreign governments to Mod representatives. j»ach government, t® determine the numbor of Its ttpt-tscntatlves. but. tS be entitled to only one vote. The Secretory cf i-'tate 1< to call the Conirress lo order.-and is to preside un­ til a permanent officer {< elected. In the Senate, an appropriation out of the Treas­ ury of tho United States of 8100.000 for the subsistence and quarters of the visiting old soldiers attending tho National Encamp­ ment was agree4 to--yeas. 41; nays, 10. •<. .Tmllce Dc'ivcd tlie Mailt. I . AT Pueblo, Colo, m tho United States Court H. C. Blevins, a'•Justice of the Peace in Eads, Colo., was found guilty of delaying the mails. Blevins and the Missouri Pacific Railway were not on friendly terms. On the night of July 19 last a constable named Babeock, armed with a writ of attachment issued from Blevins' court, levied upon a Mis­ souri Pacific locomotive which was drawing the east-bound mail train as it stopped for a moment at the station. The amount of the money demanded was only $75 arid costs. After the train was delayed four hours the money was paid and the train released. I P;»st«rer MeCurcty'n Crime. JOIIN MOCUBDT, a Canton (Ohio) plasterer, shot and killed L. T. Walten- baugh. a contractor and his employer. llcOurdy then shot twice at his wife, in company with whom Waltenbaiyzh had been found. Her wounds are not thought to be fatal. MeCurdv then/shot himself, dying a short time afterward. McCurdy had previously warned Walten- baugh to cease paying attentions to his wife. Waltenbaugh was married, and had a most estimable wife and family. B&UitMtf. C<mtt*<rtor M«- Friday night shipped fifty-one men from Buffalo to the wilderness in a special car. Fearing interference at Utlca he planned to pass through in the night time. Most of the men are Poles who cannot speak a word of English. AT Rochester, X. Y., the west span of Clarissa street bridge across the Gene­ see River, fell, precipitating six persons into tho river, which is now at flood height. There were five men and one woman. Tho work of rescue was ac­ complished, with remarkable prompt­ ness. The uufortunates, clinging to pieces of board, had reached a point in the river opposite Adams street, and the roar of the waters rushing over the big dam was already ringing in their ears before the last man was taken out of the water and safely landed in the boat. The men were conveyed to the City Hospital, and the woman, Mrs. Quigley, was cared for by a family on Edinburg street. She had apparently only suffered a slight bruise on the back of her right hand. Four persons were taken to the City Hospital. Of these only one man was injured. He had a wound in his left hand and his fingers were cut. | siHF'Mtotilfcefce irom the JuiigS -#gf, i several days, aitd in addition is said to | have symptoms of Bright's disease family is greatly worried at his condi­ tion. The recurrence of the hem-j- | otrhages precludes sleep, and this great-} ( ly aggravates his trouble. mm. EXPERIENCED STATESMEN GIVE POLITICAL. WESTER!* Detroit Ran a Case of Typhus Fever. DETROIT, Mich., has a CAS^ of typhus fever or ship fe\ er, such as nearly de­ populated Quebec several years ago. The victim is 9-year-old Joseph C. Schappa, a son of a Polish family. The house is being guarded night and day by the police to prevent the disease from spreading. How tho disease reached Ike city Is not yet known. BREVITIES. THE negroes of Clark County, Arkan­ sas, are said to be planning an exodus to Africa. THE Bank of England has reduced its rate of discount from 3 per cent, to 2$ per cent. FOURTEEN lives are now discovered to have been lost by tho sinking of the Hansa at Hamburg. IT IS estimated that but one-quartei of an average crop of maple sugar has been produced in Vermont. Dix & PHYFE, bankers, of 45 Wall street, New York, have been robbed of $70 ,000 by three trusted employes. Wooi. is advancing in the London market, and American dealers expect a similar movement in domestic wool. CHARLES WHALEN, an actor of small parts, has confessed to the murder of Gerald Spaulding at Portage, Wis. FIRE in a dock shed at Bremen de­ stroy cd a large part of the cargoes of the steamers Intrepid and Bengore Head. REPORTS from a majority of the Mex­ ican states show Mexico's exhibit at the World's Fair will b® the finest she has ever made. * IT 13 said that President Harrison will nominate J. Hay Brown, of Lancaster. to succeed Justice Bradley on the Supreme bench. DANIEL MODAXIELS, 40 years of age, proposed to Minnie Hayes, aged 18, at Hanging Bock, Ohio, and crushed her flkull with a hatchet because she refused him. AMONG the unpublished manuscript? left by Walt Whitman is a poem on the landing of Columbus, Which will be of­ fered to the managers of the World's fair. b f I-- • W- ¥ m EAST OIEAK, N. Y., was struck by a cyclone Tuesday evening. A number of buildings were wrecked and two women, Mrs. Otto Schroeder and Mrs. Burnside killed. THE people of Iowa have contributed 3,500 tons of produce to aid the starving peasantry of Bussia. The cash contri­ butions in the United States amount to 100,000. DB. PONINSKY, a Polish ecclesiastic, While traveling through Prussia, was waylaid and shot by four men. Vil­ lagers pursued the assassins and shot two; the other two committed suicide to •void capture. On their bodies were found tickets bearing the words: "Exe­ cution Committee of tho Polish An­ archists." ALBERT H. WATSON, of Unadilla, Mich., died on a railway train in Ken­ tucky, while on his way to Florida for his health. A SALOONKEEPER in New York started to put a tramp out of his place; in the Altercation which ensued he discovered that they were both married to the same Wife. AN employe in the Worthington Pump Works at Elizabethport wae caught by a swiftly revolving shaft; tfeough the clothes were completely torn 1 from his body, he escaped death. EASTERN; ^ P*. P ARKHTTRBT,the New York preach- ' has received eleven letters threaten­ ing his life if he does not desist in his crusade against crime in that city. THE foreman of the March Grand •\**ry of New York, has made the state- - ment. that at least $7,000,000 is paid yearly by the keepers of gambling dens, concert halls and dives for immunity from police molestation. DESPITE the revelations which have ieen printed of brutal treatment of the -Adirondack qiid-fit. THE second span of the new bridge that is being built over the Des Moines River at Ottumwa was carried away by high water Wednesday, and about a hun­ dred people who were upon it watching the flood were precipitated into the water. All v ere rescued. A DisASTRors collision occurred on the Chicago and Northwestern Road near Walos Station, Wis. The Madison express collided with a westbound freight. Railroad officials rtfustd to give particulars, but a telephone mes­ sage from Waukesha says that four pcr- Bons were killed. AT Leadville, Col., a fire Attended with fatal results Occurred. Sunday morning. The immense loarding house owned by Mrs. Fitzgerald took fire shortly before daylight and was entirely consumed. James Noble, one of the last to leave the burning building, re­ turned to the house to awaken his part­ ner, who was still sleeping. He was forced to retreat, however, and was terribly burned. John Kearney, his partner, was fa'ally burned. Miss BETTIE FLEISCHMAXN'S en­ gagement to Count Logothetti, of Hun­ gary, heir to great estates, has long been announced at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the wedding day was set for the coming autumn. But Miss Fleisch- mann has broken the engagement. Her father, when asked concerning the mat­ ter, said the only reason was that the Count resolutely refused to relinquish his allegiance to his ruler and become an American citizen, and Miss Fleisch- mann as persistently declined to become the bride of a man who would not be an American. AiPiqua, Ohio, one of Cronkill & Co.'s furniture factories was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. All the lumber in the adjacent yards were destroyed. The factory was a three-story brick building, 50x150 feet in dimensions, with two two- story frame buildings in which the work was finished. The fire originated in an annex and was soon spread by high winds over the entire establishment In less than thirty minutes ail the build­ ings and seven tenement houses were destroyed. It was the worst fire that Pinna has ever experienced. The loss Is $150,000; insurance, $60,000. Sidney, St. Paris, and Covington sent steam en­ gines. TUESDAY evening an expedition of armed men passed through Cheyenne, Wyo., bound for Northern Wyoming. The party consisted of from fifty to sixty men, with arms, ammunition, and saddle horses, and the object is the ex­ termination of the class known as "rust­ lers" or cattle thieves living in Johnson County. The party went on from Denver by rail. Two carloads of saddle horses and equipments and a baggage-car were on the train. John- j son County contains a number of large i herds of cattle, the owners of which I have suffered severely by the depreda- I lions of "rustlers" for a number of years. | Serious trouble commenced in Decem­ ber last, when John Tisdale and Ranger : Jones, two of the "rustlers," were assassinated by unknown persons. The crime was charged by friends of the murdered men to the big cattle-owners, and they were warned to leave the country. Few of them have remained on their ranches, and have only visited them when accompanied by guards. SOUTHERN. A FREIGHT train on the Chesapeake and Ohio was derailed in West Virginia by a bowlder; the engine was thrown into the river, and the engineer, fireman and a brakeman killed. BUD Price, of Rockfield, Ky., killed a negro named Bud Malone. The deputy sheriff who tried to arrest the murderer was attacked by Price and his brother- in-law, and shot them both dead. JCLIPS D. MILLER, a revenue officer, was killed in Wilkes County, North Car­ olina, on Sunday, iL attempting the ar­ rest of a horsethief named Marshall, who, at the time, was attending church. The murderer escaped. THE largest fires that have afflicted New Orleans in half a century started Sunday forenoon and raged until mil­ lions of dollars' worth of property had been destroyed. The first consumed four cotton presses, occupying five squares, while the second devastated Bix squares of residences between First and Third and Magazine and Laurel Btreets. The loss will reach $3,600,000. Is Moorehouse Parish, Louisiana, a white man named E. P. Norsworthy rode up to James Baker's house and ac­ cused him of stealing some geese. Baker walked out of the house with a shotgun in his hand. In a short time men at work near by heard a discharge from a gun. Norsworthy was seen to fall in his tracks and Baker turn to walk off when he also fell. The workmen rushed to the spot, but before they ar­ rived both men were dead. AT Baltimore, Md., Gen. James W. Singleton died Monday evening at the residence of his son-in-law, Francis W. Thomas, on North Calvert street. He had been spending the winter with his daughter and her husband, and Was in fairly good health, considering his advanced years, until about six weeks ago, when he took a severe cold which developed into the grip. He rallied from the attack, but never regained his strength, and during the last week had been slowly sinking. con8c'OU8 to within a few hours of his death, and passed away as quiet­ ly and peacefully as though going to •leep. MARKET REPORTS, <3 90 3.50 4.00 .7» d .39 .98 & M & .1 .13 & .43 <c$ 8.2? 3.00 8.U0 .81} .80 fc® 8.10 8.90 .87 .85 .38 .Oil 8.CQ 8.00 4.0 J WASHINGTON. THE House of Representatives passed the Chinese exclusion bill, 179 to 42. CAPT. CHRIS BATH, who hanged Mrs. Surratt and the other Lincoln conspira­ tors in M ashington, has become insane. AT Washington, D. C.. the condition of Justice Lamar of the Supreme Court Is much more serious than the publie tcnorally is aware of. He has suffered CHICAGO. CATfx-x--Common to Prime.. HOG --Shipping Gradeg..... BUKKP - Fair to Choice WHKAT--Ho. 2 Red CORN--No.'t, OAIS--No. U H*B-NO. 2 BuITKII--t hoice Creamery < HhKSE-Full Cream, flats Eor.e--Fresh 1*OTAT E I--Car-load*, per bo.... INDIANA rOLIS. CATTLB--Shipping HOGS --Choice Light SHKKI>--Common to Prime WHEAT-NO. 2 lied CohN --No. 1 White OA 8--No. avshite ST. LOUiB. Curat Hoos...... WHEAT--No. 2Hed COBK--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 B ABLET--Minnesota CINCINNATI. CATTLI Hues. HHKHP WUEV,-- No. 2 Bed COBK--No. SB OATS--No. 2 Mixed. DETKOIT. CATTMC. HOGS BHKEP ] WHEAT--No. 2 Red " CORN--No. S Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WH*AT--NO. 2 « oa*--No. 2 Yellow OAT»--No. 2 Wutte Bra BUFFALO. BIKF Cattlb 4.00 LIVE HOOK $.75 WHEAT--NO. I HARD .92 CORK--NO. 2 MILWAUKEE. WHKAT-- NO. 2 SPRING JB2 Coin-No. 8.„ 0*w-5o. 2 V\hite RY E--No. 1 BARLEY-No. 2 PORK--Mess NEW YORK. CATTL* Hoos '**' SHKKP WH E A T--No. 2 Bed.].".'.".11""* CORN--No. I "** OATS--Mix Western BcTTfeit--Creamery Po*x--New Mass 0 5 45 & 4.75 «* 175 .81 .40 .29 .75% .25 .IS* .14 .5J A 4.75 @ 6 tO <0> 6.50 .87 .31* & *. 00 & 4.7 J 0 .89 & .as 0 .V® 0 .S3 & 4.00 «* 4.75 & 15.00 .80^0 .M£ .40 «# .41 .80 & M S.00 & 4.75 8.00 & 4.75 8.00 " 5.50 .81 J 87*4 .43ft .8a .80 .so .78 .91 .40 .81 .81 .31 <$iaM >9 4.75 & e.75 (at 1.00 «11.50 TH* Indiana Bcpublican State Con­ vention is to meet at Fort Wayne, June 28. AN unverified statement comes from "Washington that the French Mission, just vacated by Whltelaw lieid, will be tendered to Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune. FROM all tho States holding elections under the Australian ballot system comes commendation of the new law. Voters generally tihderstood its pro­ visions, and liked it. In Chicago its benefits were most noticeable. The ringsters were totally unable to destroy the secrecy of the ballot or to control the voters, and as a consequence a lot of boodlers are now out of an alder* manic job. v Ix the election in Bhode Island, Wednesday, the Republicans secured the Legislature by a small majority on joint ballot. The Democratic candidate for Governor polled a plurality, but, as a majority is required, the election will be thrown into the Legislature. The same condition prevails as to ail other State officers, and to Senator Aldrich's re-election. ADVERSE reports have been made to the Senate upon Mr, Peffer's bill for paying pensions, setting idle laborers to work and preventing crime among the poor aftd vice among the rich, and the undue j influence of alien labor by a graduated J system of income tax; Mr. Kyle's bill to j repeal the power of the Secretary of the j Treasury to anticipate the payment of t interest on the public debt, and Mr. J Call's bill to prohibit national banks | from receiving or paying interests on depooita made by national banss. FOREIGNT" THE Turkish Envoy bearing the Sul­ tan's firman of investure for the new Khedive has arrived in Cairo. Ax overloaded steamer in the Blaok Sea is s aid to have gone down with all of the '200 pa ssengers on board. A REVOLT among convicts in a prison at Granada, Spain, was quelled by a volley from the police which killed two mtn and mortally wounded two others. DUKE LUDWIG of Bavaria, a brother of the Empi ess of Austria, is to marry an actress, Frl. Clara Heese, in' June, just six months after the death of his wife. SERIOUS effects are imminent on ac­ count of the coal miners' strike in Dur­ ham, England. The large factories aret, out of fuel, and a number of heavy fail­ ures are cxpected. SIR HENRY ISAACS, former Lord Mayor of London, is among a number of men indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Hasard Publishing Union, which recent­ ly failed for £30,000. MRS. MONTAGUE, on trial at the Dub­ lin assizes for inflicting a punishment on her child which resulted in its death, has been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to one y* ar at hard labor. FIVE tons of gun-cotton exploded Monday night in St. Petersburg in the state smokeless-powder factory. The building and the nine workmen in it were blown to atoms, and the whole city was shaken. ROBINSON, the Hong Kong merchant whom Lieutenant Hetherington, U. S. N., shot because of his undue intimacy with Mrs. Hetherington, before his death had a will drawn up leaving all his property to his business partner, who was instructed to transfer it to Mrs. Hetherington. IN GENERAL iTle the intention of the Dominion Government to increase the rate of in­ terest on postoffice savings bank depos­ its to 4 per cent, per annum. THE price of hard coal was advanced in Chicago Friday from $6 to $6.50 a ton, and indications are that it will go much higher in a short time. The cause of the advance was an order issued by President McLeod of the recently formed combination of railroad and mine interests in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, known as the Reading trust, to the Chicago agents of the com­ bine to advance prices to retail dealers from $5.25 to $5.50, and to positively re­ fuse in future to shade prices in any degree to any dealer, large or small. THE Montreal, Quebec, police have succeeded in breaking up a clever gang of criminals who have been defying the liquor law for some time. The police have long suspected that liquor was being sold at a private house kept by a French Canadian named Penaud. The place was raided a number of times, but no liquor could be found. Monday the mys­ tery was solved when the police got upon the roof and found a regular bar with all kinds of liquors. By the aid of small pipes liquor was conducted from the bar through the walls into a certain little room, where it was let out by a small concealed tap. SliouM fim ' Yorrth tif- taiiiJ Scrtr "to 8*rve Their Conn try ftj an Official Way?-- Acquire a Competence Ilcforo Entering ttifiJt tSht ror ' - A|l -Don't." '••• XX 7*A8 HlSTOTOHr V / \ / l e t t e r : V V appearance The of the young man in politics is one of the novelties of the last few political sea- sous, and it has been accompanied by an inclination to credit him with being a ?i factor not to be omit­ ted in atiycalcula­ tions for the future. 2, Many young men wswmimiH1* are growing up with _ the determination to III adopt politics as a i 11» career. Public men > are asked dally: What advice would you give a young man who proposed to choose politic* for a profession? On one of his trips to Washington, since tlie famous suits were settled in his favor, Senator Matt Quay said: . "I give any young man with such inten­ tions Punch's advico to a couple about to get married: 'Don't.' " There would be no mistaking the Senator's don't for do. "But if he persisted in' deciding that a political career was the only one that would satisfy him I should advise him to get a liberal education, one out­ side universities, and, above all, to study human nature, the only book that can thwart any man's plans." Representative Cogswell, of Massa­ chusetts, says: "Any young mw might just as well tie a millstone about his neck and jump overboard as to adopt politics for a career, if he chooses it for office only, but if it is for its own sake alone, then politics," and the Congress­ man waxes enthusiastic, "is as great and glorious a science as mathematics." Senator Proctor of. Vermont would ex­ ercise his New En- land caution and would want to know what sort of a fellow he was, but as to advising any young man to adopt politics for a business, with cold-blooded cal­ culation, the Sena­ tor says: "In our republican govern­ ment political life should be an acci­ dent, not a career. But experience is a n indispensable SENATOR PROCTOIU qualification to success in politics." Senator Dawes, one of the original patriarchs of Massachusetts, says: "Every man should know something of politics, but not for office seeking. No young man, unless in possession of an assured income, can afford to lay every­ thing else aside to devote his life to politics. And even then he should ac­ quire a profession for his own develop­ ment." Senator Stewart, out of his long ex­ perience, says: "I'd tell any young man to get a profession, to wait till he was 40 and find what he is worth in ability and in pocket-book. In fhe meantime secure a general education by close study of the newspapers in their criti­ cisms and reports of public events. Also to study elementary law, for everything in that line would be of use. The best thing any man could do is to keep out cf politics altogether. And especially a young man." Representative McMillin says: "No young man can afford to go into politics for what he expects to get out of it; A public man who accepts office should be thoroughly equipped for other profes­ sions. It gives him freedom and inde­ pendence of action, for he realizes that if his course is not satisfactory to his constituents and he is not returned year after year when he leaves Con­ gress he has something to fall back upon. A young man can never be thor­ oughly independent in his course unless he has the knowledge to back him up. Politics should be the dessert and not the menu of a young man's life." Senato." Gallinger says: "If he is bright I should say yes ty all means, for there are a great many prizes to be drawn in political life, but he must not depend en­ tirely on politics. If ho does he is likely to fail. For a young man to adopt a political career is a misfortune, if he is unsuccessful, and it Is well known how very few men ever attain any SENATOR GAbiiH-pogiUon near the goal GEA they set for themselves when starting out. It is a rough road to travel, eince, as the lame man said on a slippery morning, there are a good many ups and downs. Every man who enters politios as a profession fth >uld have something else to depend on, some pro­ fession or trade which he can fall back upon when politics no longer smiles upon him." Representative Belden of New York, who is credited with having millions sufficient for half a dozen substantial fortunes, says: "I'd tell any young man who asked my advice to go and do any­ thing else undei the sun, but never go into politics while he is young, particu­ larly if he wants to make any money." O'Neill, of Philadelphia, who now ranks as the grandfather of the House, says: "I shouldn't advise any young mah to give up his life to politics. I state this as the result of my own ex- Eerienee. He had much better devote imself to business until he has acquired a solid position and can have no thought' for his sustenance. With mature years his value to any party will be increased. I don't think that really there are many more young men now in politics in pro­ portion to the great number of publio men than there have been at any pre­ vious time. But I always tell a young 1 man the best advico I can give him is to let politics for office alone." The veteran Senator Morrill of Ver­ mont, who was well along In years be­ fore he entered public life, and who, up to the time he came to the Senate, had been guiltless of any con­ nection with polities s nor even held a vil­ lage office of any son, W/M says: "If ho is golnxY/mk into politics for office, ho had better go hoi no and hoe potatoes for $10 a month.' If he persists, I should want to know all about his KBVATOR MOUHICU capabilities before deciding, and I should advise him never to engage in a political life until he bad a compe­ tency." Holman, who poses as the father of the House and Chancellor of the Ex­ chequer, tays: "I should first ask any young man who wanted my advice about you 8 Itt le best tim Ihlm is to keep out of it altogether On just what grounds Senator Stan­ ford would give h:s advice he does not state, but he is frequently callcd on bT young men who want his counsel about devoting their llvea to politics, and 11 they all get this advico they get might? small encouragement to dedicate thefa energies to tho dxigencios of govern- ment. This nian of many millions says: Of course, I couldn't give any advice to such a young man until I knew all about him. But I'd probibly tell him, evt n then, that he'd better bo able to earn his broad and butter in some other way so he can get married before he goes into politics." Senator Felton, the California man of money, from the standpoint of a wealthy " man, says: "It is my o p i n i o n t h a t m e n should have a knowl­ edge of the politics of the country. At the same time they should pursue some trade or profession, until they have secured a cer­ tain income, end that experience that the business of governing the people demands. SENATOR FKCTOX. There may bo excep­ tional cases where a young man can follow politics with credit to himself and with benefit to the country, but they ar i rare. And men of maturity are most desired in public life." Congressman Stepheneon of Michigan Is called one of the richest men in the House, ranking anywhere from $p,000,- 000 to $7,000,000, owing to the veracity of the man who furnishes the descrip­ tion. Stephenson says: "If I had a young friend who was crying to go into politics for a living as he would adopt any other profession, Td tell him to stay at horns and' saw 'Wood. I've seen a good many young fellows who started to make politics a business, and I never saw one of them who in the end didn't turn out a pretty bad wreck." Representative Bynum, of Indiana, says: "I Fay den't. Most all young men. or many of them, feel as I did. 1 thought that if I could only come to Congress I'd be tho happiest man in In­ diana, and I was, too, when I found my­ self really hero, but"--and the full stop is more,expressive than a dictionary--"1 recovered pretty soon, and I couldn't advise any young man to get too deep into politics befoie ho has something to live on." Senator Dubois, of Idaho, the young­ est Senator, eays: "I should advise all young men to be­ come politicians to the extent of working at primaries and hav­ ing a thorough knowl­ edge of national gov­ ernmental affairs. As to whether any younu man should be ad­ vised to follow a' political career, it wouldn't make any difference if he were advised not to. If h > SiN*TOU nunoir. did have the political sp'.rit he would bf a politician anyhow. I have been a politician ever since I was a boy. All through Yale I was deep in politics and knew no other life and couldn't be kept out of it. We want young men in poli­ tics, b ut for national purposes it is abso­ lutely essential that they should have a settled income." &TRAW8 FROM THE RECENT SPRING ELECTIONS. Clilcag)'* indlctct HooUler*. IF justice is done there may b9 n quorum left, but it is doubtful.--Minne­ apolis Tribune. BooDiiiNG is not an uncommon th'ng, but the punishment of the boodie.'s is somewhat rare.--Detroit Tribune. CORRUPTION in our cities has assured immense pioportions, and it is high time that a reform was wrought.--Elgin News. • THUS between the boodle bag and the sandbag the cat Is being slowly let out of tha bag regarding that city.--Phila­ delphia Times. INDICTMENTS are easily obtained where the evidence is forthcoming. Conviction and punishment are not quite •so easy.--St. Paul Dispatch. IF Chicago must have her boodling Aldermen, it is an excellent plan to get them indicted, tried, and out of the way before exhibition time.--Boston ^rlobe. SEVERAL Chicago Aldermen have been indicted "for feloniously conspiring tc commit bribery." Pshaw! is that a crime in Chicago?--Rochester Post-Ex­ press. IT really looks as if ,ithe Chicago peo­ ple are going to take an interest in their municipal affairs, so long surrendered to the rumsellers and bunco steerers.-- Minneapolis Times. IT may be necessary to transfer the seat of Chicago government to Joliet, a suburb In which many a Chicago poli­ tician has sojourned in times past--gone by.--St. Paul Globe. THEjcase is certainly a dark-looking one for the indicted aldermen. More indictments are to follow. The chancer are that when the matter terminates a quorum of the present Council will be at Joliet working.for the dear public, and getting only their board for their valu­ able services.--Milwaukee News. CHICAGO seems to be just on the eve of a great public wash of municipal dirly linen, similar to that which attend­ ed the Broadway railroad exposure in ;this city. Its blood is up and it seems likely that the m n who have long held in the city hall a carnival of crime will soon begin to wish they had behaved themselves.--New York Tribune. THE evidence of the big boodle pay­ ments to Chicago aldermen will make some mouths water in our city hall., Yet, there as here, tho greater part of tho boodle always sticks to the lingers of the outside bosses who arrange the "strike combine" and distribute the "pro­ visions." Sometimes those outside get all "the stuff" by simply agreeing to disorganize and hold oT their boodlers. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Hla Term About Out* FERDINAND WARD will bo released from Sin? Sing on April 30. Perhaps Wall stieet's deferred boom is waiting for that dato.--New York Telegram. FERDINAND WARD comes out of tho Eenltentiary next month. The "Grant oys" will not celebrate the event with a banquet.--St. Louis Post-Dispatch. WHAT the ex-Napoleon of finance will set about doing for a living when he Is free is a question of interest. During his confinement he has become an ex­ pert and artistic job printer, but he will hardly devote himself to that calling.-- Savannah News. FERDINAND WARD, the original jToung Napoleon of flnauce, will leave Sing Sing prison on the 30th of April, and has or­ dered an elaborate wardrobe prior to his reappearance. But no matter how mucn of a "swell" he may be as to clothes, he can never be rehabilitated in public esteem.--Troy Times. MANY people have Imagined that on his restoration to liberty ho would be In possession of vast amounts of money which have b?en shved from the wre^k- agi and the creditors, and have been put away to make Mr. Ward comfort­ able, but this the deposed Napoleon de- adopting a political career what he had ! nies, and claims that he will leave hie In his pocketbook. If there wasn't I prison a poor if net an honest man, and much I should tell him to fill it before going into politics for office. And any­ way he had better ke&p out till h? is old enough to bring a ripe , experience to the will have to dig around to make a living in that world of which he was onoe a gilt-edged ornament.--Philadelphia Tlmw. --SuoovMfui Working of the Australian Ballot IUMI --rrnnt 'n SCaajp Www. £>1^. . Chang* for the Q^tt*r. The first experience of Illinois with the Australian ballot system was emi­ nently satisfactory. It resulted in a complete transformation of the polling places. The old familiar scenes were lacking. Ticket peddlers found their occupation gone, the crowds were ab­ sent, and the whole proceedings were most prosaic. Party lines were not strongly drawn, local considerations prevailing. At Salem, Newton, Mt, Vernon, Ben­ ton, Lincoln, Alton and Ramsey, the Democrats were completely successful. At Clay City, Auburn and Quincy the result was about evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. Spring- fl ;Id Republicans secured five of seven Aldermen, and the Democrat® secured their town ticket. The Board of Super­ visors is still Democratic. At Moline, Rock Island. Chatham, Illiopolis, Sum- no;* and Vandalia the Republicans made Ciean sweeps, while at Whitehall and Carlyle the tickets were non-partisan. At no places were very heavy votes polled, and from nearly all places came reports of defective ballots. There is need of further study, by voters^ of the provisions' of tho law. At Chicago there appeared to be pretty close partisan strife; but the ap­ pearances were deceptive, for the elec­ tion was a struggle by the best element to rid the Council of the gang of boodlers that have been plundering the public right and left. The attempt was successful, to a degree, at least; for those who had learned the ropes and could steal with facility were retired, and their places fillea by men who must learn the art before any crooked opera­ tions can work very great mischief. In Wisconsin. Milwaukee Democrats electo-l P. J. Somers Mayor, and the Council is a tie. The Labor ticket received a very light vote. At Sheboygan Falls the Citizens' can­ didates for Mayor and Treasurer were successful, and the Democrats captured all the rest. Eau Claire has a new Democratic set of officers, exc:pi Clerk and four Alder­ men. Medford has a new lot about evenly divided. At Ashland William R. Durfee, Re­ publican, was elected Mayor, and A. A. McDonnell, Democrat, City Treasurer. The Republicans secured four out of the six Ccuncilmen. A large vote was polled at Appleton. The Democratic ticket was elected as follows: Rush Winslow, Mayor; Charles Hillfert, City Treasurer; Henry Ryan, City Attorney; George Schuldes, As­ sessor. At West Superior, J. W. Scott, Repub­ lican, was elected Mayor over William Noonan, Democrat. The entire Repub­ lican ticket is electcd. At Hudson the city election resulted in the election of the People's ticket. The Aldermen stand two Democrats and one Republican. The licenso people carried the city by ov,r 100 majority, and the vote for electric lighting was practically unanimous. John M. Kohler, Republican, was elected Mayor of Sheboygan. All Re­ publican aldermen were elected. Gov­ ernor Peck's majority there in 1890 was 1,100. At Black River Fails no special effort has been made by the license people. Tho Republicans have carried every­ thing except Treasurer and one Aider-, man. Chippewa Falls Republicans elect their city ticket by about 250 majority. The Council will stand eleven Demo­ crats to nine Republicans, a Republican gain of three. At Marinette the straight Democratic ticket was elected. With tho Wolverine*. At Iron Mountain, in the new County cf Dickinson, local issues stirred up much strife, bitter feeling, and a big vote. Party lines were not drawn. The Citizens' ticket dofeated the City's and People's nominees. At Port Huron the Republicans elect­ ed six out of ten aldermen, and five out of eight supervisors. John M. Gleason, Democrat, Is elected Assistant Police Justice, having had no opposition. Lansing cast the largest vote in her history, and chose A. O. Bement, Re­ publican, Mayor. The Common Council is a tie, and the township offices evenly divided. Alpena's election resulted in a com- ?lete victory for the Democratic ticket, 'he Common Council will be Demo­ cratic. Bay City Democrats secure their Mayor, and the Council is a tie. In West Bay City the Republicans took everything. Saginaw has a new set of Republican officials throughout. Cheboygan also returned the entire .Republican ticket. At St. Ignace, also, the Democrats were completely successful. Benzonnia Republicans cast 79 votes of a total of 117. Pentwater Democrats get everything but clerk. In Crawford County, Grayling elects a Republican supervisor by 5 majority. Blaine elects the entire Democratic ticket for the first time. Grove elects a Republican supervisor by ajnajority of 2. Every township in Schoolcraft County went Republican except Seney. Menominee Democrats scored a vic­ tory, electing all but one supervisor, twfo aldermen, and two constables. The Council will stand eight Democrats, two Republicans. Jn the Hawlcejre State. At Des Moines the majority for C. C. Lane, Republican Mayor, is 794; for Brennan, City Collector, 1,107; for Eg- gleston, police judge, 1,477. The Dem­ ocrats elected city engineer and market master. The Republicans elected their alderman at largo and their candidates for aldermen in every ward, thus secur­ ing a majority of eight in the City Coun­ cil. The Republican park commission­ ers have majorities ranging from 587 to 941. At Davenport the election resulted in a Democratic victory at all points with the exception that the Republicans elected one Alderman out of six and his election is rather doubtful and may bo contested. John C. Bills, a well-known lawyer, headed the democratic ticket as candidate for Mayor and the entire ticket went through. Keokuk Democrats carried the city by nearly 400 majority. An Assessor and Aldermen were elected. The new coun­ cil will be a tie, but a Democratic Mayor will cast the deciding vote. Democrats made a clean sweep in Du­ buque, electing every man on their tickct except the candidate for assessor. The election was for Mayor, assessor, audit­ or, and five aldermen. Weta Win In Nebraska. Elections for city officers were held throughout Nebraska. As a rule party j | lines were not drawn, the chief issue be- ! ; ing v hether prohibition or license should provail. The wets carried nearly every- ' thing. 80NATB AND HOUSE OP SENTATiVES. Oar National Lawmaker* and WliatTlie|*r Are Doing tor the Good of the Coun'ry--<•" >V Various Measure* rroynst^ 1M«IHH>IVI •md Acted Upon. . Dolngs«t>f Congresflb .; Y- On the 4th. at his first appearance lo tbR, House since hi* tevere Illness, Wm. Eprlnger of Illinois was greeted liy uproari* ous applause, when he entered with hfii"; wife. He came to listen the closing de­ bate upon his free wool bill, and bis i-losin j['» speech was rend by Mr. Bryan of Nebraska*. The bill was then taken up by paragraph!) for amendments and discussion under tlife flve-mlnute rule. The house passed thfif bill excluding from this country everjp Chinaman except diplomatic consular offi*i; cers and servants. Tho vote was 179 to 43*,, ID the Senate the silver debate has com# tnenced. The time of the Senate was consumed on the 5th by consideration of the bill pro­ posing lo assign to army officers the d.utiel^ of Indian aeents. It was rjvealed thai* one of the causes of Indian turbulence* is that different lots of bacon. 186.00#«; pounds In all, have been unfit for foodtt when distributed. The House Chinese bilfe . was referred to the proper committee. Iqj'; the House, the time was passed over th#?? free wool bill, and nothing was accom*> pllshed. In the House, the 6th. the time allotedl, Mr. Breckinridge', of Kentucky, to speaK' upon the tariff, waa three times extended*" Mr. Breckinridge was accorded an uvatloa t when he closed, and for fully five minutelkj ^ tho House suspended business while mem^" bers from both sides of the chamber crowd* ; . ed about him to congratulate him on th|K; r eloquence and force of his spcecb. Befor^i^V; the Senate, the Russian Minister, Struvcj^.- sa3d that the Ktuslan Government wculsjt?;;; ever hold the people of the United State#;*' and this Government in grateful remem^,, brance for the magnificent manuer in whicl^ : they hal come to the Iront in thili^ , distressful moment fcr tlie peasant* wh(£»-••- were sufterln? from a loss of cropjjw-- that the Russian Goi'rrnment lvid al­ ready cont lbuted ?110,000.000 for the alle­ viation of her peasants, and that the char­ ity directed by our people toward them was being cared for personally bv the (Jz»r and Czarina. He said ihe suffer n? had not- teen half described to ibis country, and that our contributions were never more ad­ vantageously made. In the House the 7th, after tha transac­ tion of routine business, the lree wool bill was called up, and after a short debate the' bill passed. Ayes, 112; noss, 0). The H^use then went Into committee of the- whole (Mr. Bl< unt, of Gaorgla, in the chiir) on the Turner cot.on baiging toll'. After a short debate the committee r ser and the House adjourned. In the Senate, a resolution was offered by Mr. Teller and agreed to, calling 0:1 the- Secretary of the Treasury for a statement as to the amount of silvor offered to the- Government each month, since the passage^ of tho act of July id, 1893. by whom and at- what prices, the amount ot silver- bullion purchased each month of that- time, from whom and at what prices, and numter of days given 'the sellers- in which to deliver the silver. During the discussion of the District appropriation bill, the bill to place wool on the free list and to reduce the duty on woolen goods was re­ ceived from the House, and after the Dis­ trict bill was laid aside the wool bill was laid before the Senate by the Vice Presi­ dent and was referred to the Finance Com­ mittee. Walt Whitman. SINCE the publication of his chief work, "Leaves of Grass," in 1855, he has been regarded as one of the brightest stars in our poetical firmament.--Min­ neapolis Times. HE was an American of Americans. He was the friend of Lincoln, and, liko Lincoln, he came close to the plain peo- ' pie from whom he and Lincoln sprung. --New York Recorder. THE dilettante prettiness of most modern poems was not to his taste. He struck his lyre with his fist at times, in­ stead of his finger tips, but th^ music* was resonant and will reach posterity.-- New York Herald. WALT WHITMAN'S was a homely yet lovable character. Within his heart there dwelt a sturdy nobility that was ever asserting itself in his peculiar rhymes. His poetry was a flexible Index to his soul.--Grand Baplds Herald. UTTERING his message, convinced of his vocation, aware and awake to his power, he has never faltered. In ob­ scurity and neglect, in poverty and per­ secution, he has continued true to his own ideals, and held steadily to his own conception of his duty as the chosen priest and poet of democracy.--Phila­ delphia Pross. OUTSPOKENNESS and love for his fel­ low-beings were the twin propellers of his published thoughts. He was in all essentials a man, and the world is the poorer for the loss of such. But his days of greatest usefulness were passed, his works will long outlive him, and he has obtained the rest he longed for.--Pittsburg Dispatch. IN his writings he was hampered by no poetic forms of rhythm or meter, but embodied his spontaneous thoughts in the language they suggested to him. Many fine sentiments were embodied even in his "Leaves of Grass," though it transgressed the sterner proprieties and approached a forbidden realism.-- Detroit Free Press. No POET ever wrote more individual­ ity into verse. It was native Yankee- ism of a decidedly Whitmanesque species that sprang from his pen. But the inspiration, aside from tho revolu­ tionary individuality of the form, touched universal intuitions which found echo in many tongues and climes- --Minneapolis Tribune. Brother Jasper. "DE sun do move" with Brudder Jas­ per now, sure enough, for he has just been married at the age of 80 to a bride verging on 60.--New York Pross. REV. JOHN JASPER, who declared that "the sun do move," has just been mar­ ried at the age of 80. In Rev. Mr. Jas-, per's individual caso the sun of love- never sets.--New York Advertiser. REV. JOHN JASPER, 80 yea*s old, of Richmond, Va., he of "the sun do mov3"- theory, was married recently to the Widow Cary, aged 59 years. It is a con­ dition, not a theory, that now confronts the old man.--Philadelphia Record. EIGHTY years old, Rev. John Jasper, famous for his theory that "the sun do move," has taken his fourth wife. The old man wanted someone to "keer" for him in his old age, and Richmond col­ ored society is talking of tho bride of sixty summers.--Buffalo Times. THE marriage of Rev. John Jasper,, the noted astronomical colored preacher of Richmond, Va., has caused an estrangement between, himself and his daughter's husband, who had betn liv­ ing- with Kim, and the son-in-law do> move. "Dr." Jasper insisted on that.-- Philadelphia Ledger. HAVING satisfied himself that "de sun do move," Brother Jasper, of Richmond, has taken unto himself a wife--a fourth wife, to speak more accurately. The fact that the lady is the fourth to share Brother Jasper's lot would seem t<v prove that the wives do move, whether the sun is stationary or not.--Philadel­ phia Call. The World'# Happening*. THERE are 9 per cent, more men is Greece than women. THE unexplored area of Canada is 1,000,000 square miles. A BEE does not weigh the one-hun­ dredth part of an ounce. THBRE is not a native-born whit# grandmother in all Colorado, T&, F C : . . . ^ , . V V Y S I T _ mm- IS j.&fs*, * . > *?„ , Haw-**." „