caig flntttdcnlrt * L mi S YKE' ^ Pablisler. •IcHKNRY, - ILLINOIS. ] " • 1 --' ' - i i II m'r '• * HAERISON AND R.EID rH'vrv ;-t: BENJAMIN •\>' ! • . • HARRISON, > OP INDIANA. v j -T*;v . • : ' Tor Vloe President, . jfelTELAW OP NEW XOBK. Tins days. is a Republican year of 366 HILL met the Mugwumps, and be is theirs. . SWHAT they mean is a ^RI^LEI British revenue only. >/:• THE campaign will be a combat between education and adipose tissue. ' "GENERAL" STEVENSON'S war rec ord has been withdrawn for repairs. ' THE Democratic campaign rallying Cr^j "Death to American industries." WE have Gov; Flower's word for it that Cleveland cannot carry one side of New York State. _ ; PUBLIC office is a public trust, and the Democracy is a public distrust. It is well to keep these differenced clearly in mind. -t TH6 Minneapolis Tribune suggests that "grandfather's chair fits Ben as well as his hat," and he will keep It four years longer. THE section of the Democratic platform declaring the party's undy ing love for the Union soldier bears the "hoodoo" No. 13. • t '• . IN 1888 Illinois gave a plurality of 22,000 to the Republican Presiden tial ticket. The chances are that the margin in 1892 will be at least as broad. ... "j" , . „ „ stamped fllihofo tn l k, uedOtlAclng the efforts of the loyal soldiers as a" failure and advocating a cessation of hostilities. " THE free-trade plank in the Demo cratic platform this year will do the same thing for the party that was done for it by the peace-at-any-price plank in its platform of 1864. OK the question of the practical advantages of the McKinley tariff law, as against the pratical disadvan tages of the various Democratic tariff reform projects, the Republican party is entirely willing to make the . "*,.Y CLEVELAND LEADER: In *1884 Cleveland broke into the White House by the aid of an Indiana can didate for Vice President. In 1888 he tried a man from the State just east of Indiana and was defeated. Now he is given a mate from the State which bounds Indiana on the west, and the fate which befell him four years ago threatens iiun again. FIGHT-FOK MFE. WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MUST DO THIS FALL. NEW YORK Press: The spectacle of a robust and roaring spoilsman like Candidate Stevenson posing on a platform which seriously declares its devotion to the sacred cause of civil- service reform is enough to make even the Tammany tiger forget his many wounds and split his lonesome ribs with laughter. As a serio-comic act in politics it beats anything the country has ever seen. THE Democratic boomers loudly proclaim that Arkansas will give Cleveland 30,000 majority. This is Just as important as the assertion that "Vermont will go for Harrison. GENTLEMEN who love Grover Cleve land for the enemies he has made should go among the old soldiers. There they will find abundant reason for loving the fat fisherman of Gray Gables. THE stuffed prophet has evidently been successfully stuffed down the throat of your Uncle Charles A. Dana, of the esteemed New York Sun, and the dose is accepted as gracefully as possible. MR. STEVENSON should hayft re signed the presidency of that non union co^ll mine before he became a candidate. It ipakes the Democratic editors who have been piping a shrill discord against Mr. lleid look foolish. OVER 500 Confederate war claims have been placed on the calendar of the present House for favorable con sideration, and only ninety bills have been reported in behalf of Union sol diers. This contrast tells a// story that needs no comment. THE National Republican League has issued a statement which is of in terest to all Republicans, now that the national campaign has begun. *It reads as follows: "The hope <jf the party lies in the expansion of a stal wart Republican press. The Repub lican who reads, or otherwise beips to support a Democratic journal, to the exclusion of one of his own party newspapers, is untrue to the Republic can cause." THE St. .Paul Globe states editori ally that General Harrison has a bet ter show of carrying New York thtfn Indiana. But ex-Senator Yoorhees, the Democratic sycamore of the Wabash, says that Cleveland is not in it with Harrison in Indiana, and ex-Gov. Gray, who so narrowly missed the Democratic nomination for Vice President, says that Cleveland will drop 10,000 votes to thej-ear of Har rison in the Hoosier State. On the Globe's theory, therefore, Harrison's victoryv in New York will surpass even the 14,000 plurality of 1888. The Globe's view is undoubtedly cor rect. It is corroborated, moreover, by the testimony of the entire New York Democratic delegation, by ed itors Dana and Watterson, by Brice and Springer, and by the sentiments of New York laborers and veterans. J Democrats Once In Power Will Be m for midable Foe--The Iitnue Welcomed l»y All lt«public»nj-Tlie i*< dpwHslty." Important of the Democrats are fond of pointing to tho Cleveland administration as proof thata member of their party may be put in the president.al chair without Mexican- izing the country and raising general sheol. That is true when there is a Republican senate 1o hold him level. Cleveland was (in this wayt so com pletely handicapned during his term that he could d > comparatively little harm. His administration threatened and fumed, and d such tjiiiigs as the complete stoppage of silver coin age, the retirement and eancelIat:on of the greenbacks and the destruction of the gold and silver certificates, together with a reduction of the tariff that would have cut Northern labor to the lone. But fortunately a Republican senate stood between the Cleveland adminis tration and the accomplishments of its des.res. It was virtually without power to do anything but divide the spoils. The celerity and enthusiasm displayed in ousting Union nun and iissg ex-reb(f»l men to office showed how the Cleveland administration worked in the one field where it? hands were free. But if the Democracy should carry the election this fall no such period of "in nocuous desuetude" as prevailed from 1$85 to 1889 could be expected. A vic tory this fall would give the Democracy both branches of Congress as well as the Presidency. They could proceed without let or hindrance to carry out all their policies. Once armed with com plete power there would bo a dropping of masks and such a display of Demo cratic purposes as has not been seen in twenty-five years. If Cleveland goes into the White House next March he will not be hampered as he was before, when his term was as powerless to en- dent shall bo President, if sueh number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have such majority, then from the per sons having the highest number not esf ceedlng three, on the list of those voted for, as President, the House of Repre sentatives shall choose immediately by ballot the President." In an election by the House each State has one Vote. If at the close of the campaign it shall be found that there has been no choice, the electors from the Democratic States might cast a certain number of votes for Hill, for illustration, thu» giving him a chance to be voted for In the House, when that body proceeded to select a President from one of the three persons having the largest number of votes. Suppose, for example, that the Repub licans should have 200 votes, the Demo crats 18", and the third party 64. x The Democratic vote could be cast equally for ClrVoiiuiu miu Hill in ine electoral college and thus bring them both before the House as two of the persons out of the three, leaving the highest number of votes from whom a selection is to be made. It has come to be an unwritten law that electors shall cast their vote for . their party's candidate, but there is no j victory compulsion about it and with Hill to manipulate them under such circum stances there la no telling where the election would go. _ Tho point to emphasize, however, is ihai every vote Oaoi iur a third candi date In the corning campaign is an indi rect but no less effective vote for the Democratic party. The only hope of a third par^ is to defeat Harrison. It can make no pre tense to the hope of succeeding itself. It can assist in electing a Democrat by throwing the election into the House and this it will proceed to do under the guise of hating both parties so bad that it will support neither. Of course in this great and glorious country every man has the right to vote for anybody or for nobody as he pleases. But when a person comes forward under the pretense of doing a work for reform and advises his neigh bora to vote for the Alliance party, or the Labor party, or the Temperance party, or the People's party, on the plea ^NN {• MyQL vitrei^ iWRe. AlCf* 1WWW« Mwmir I IN PERFEC HARMON" V. PIONEER PRESS: The candidate is more than the platfqrm, say some of . the Democrats. It is noticed that the proportion of sense to magnitude is well maintained in both-, Between the man and thing there is a great superfluity of material. CLEVELAND LEADER; The Repub licans of New York have decided to contest in the courts the right of the Democrats to redtetrict the Empire State under the bill passed by the Hill Legislature./ Every decent man „ hopes that the contest will prov\p clutch" a shining copper in his pocket; successful. i|io is deeply interested in his town, but v_i J 4- oi.nrrl a (nrthinir fnr ita 1 The fact that INDJAXAPOLIS JOURNALJK_.^TIE Stevenson incident shows that the men who served their States in the late war are in danger of being crowded by the names of men who did not serve their country during thatiperiod. It is a period when a man who accepts a nomination is styled "colonel" or "general," but rare ly anything lower in rank. It is supposed to help a man with the peo ple to have been a soldier. If the names of men who have never en listed are thrust into the record as "brave soldiers" while nearly half of the veterans of the late war are liv ing, what may not be expected later on? The honor of war is a distinctive property, and for all time it wilj have value. At the present tijne it is al most impossible to tell from the incomplete rosters whether a man who may claim or have it claimed for him that he was in the Union army is entitled to the honor or not, since few States have published alphabeti cal lists of the names of the men who served in their organizations. Would it not be well for States at this late day to publish alphabetical lists of their volunteers, as a few States have flone? } Tns Chicago Herald congratulates subsides wiw-r«rvv«»yr»-<nnrife, wno -* jss as a christian, but when a little •e is required his soul quakes with an- eh; who condemns the rapacity of iers while his hand instinctively seeks GLOBE-DEMOCRAT: the Democrats aire trying to sj^ft the political storm center from Indiana to Illinois will please the Republicans of the latter State. They will have a little more fun in the campaign than usual, and will roll up as big a majority for their ticket. Oar the great questions of the hour the Democrats have not dared to ppeak the truth. They mean what 'ithey do not dare to say. It is a free- trade platform, with an attempt to Jhide free trade behind the phrase [ "tariff for revenue only." It is a ' free-silver platform, with a trickery .. In the form of utterance which Mr. v Cleveland ought to resent .and repel • fts an utterance. ^ MAIL AND EXPRESS: The Dems' ticket nominated at Chicago is a ••copperhead" ticket fore and aft Cleveland never uttered a loyal scnti- Juricg the war, nod Stevenson ' \ ̂ /<"" \ . * '*v «»' »* ^ jft. ... * act Democratic laws as he was to repeal Republican ones. Mighty different will be the situation of the Democrat elected this tall if that calamity is to happen. Having full power he and his party will be compelled to use it to the full limit in effecting the spoliation of Northern labor and industries in the supposed in terest of the cotton South. Protection will then be attacked as wolves atta k lambs. The destruction of manhood suffrage will be made more complete, and the violation of the laws and the Constitution made more systematic and more thorough. The election laws will be so changed that the Republican party cannot socure power again in a quarter of a century. No matter what majori ties the Republican party may get, and no matter h<rw the people may rally to its support In the effort to stop the spoliation of their labor and their in dustries, it will bo defeated in conse quence of Democratic legislation en acted to facilitate corruption of the suf frage, false counting and the making of false returns. If the Republican party is evler to make a fight for its life, it will be this fall. • We Welcome the In«ue. • The first section, first paragraph, of the Democratic national platform "re affirms the pr;ncip!es of the party as formulated by Jefierson and exemplified by the long and illustrious line of his successors in Democratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland." And then it proceeds in its tarifr plank to repudiate the cardinal principles of the great statesmen whose names it invokes. To be honest the pla'form should have de clare!: "While we cherish the memory and honor the succe-soPthe great Dem ocrats, Jefferson, Madison, ami Jackson, to whose careers we point with pride, we nevertheless deplore their steadfast ad vocacy of protection to American labor and industry, that pernicious and unjust America i system which wo promise to repeal as scon as we are intiusted with power." The Democratic tariff plank declaring unconditionally for th > abolition of the entire protective system is not only in pri n,aBar.* byt in language ktio.i of Buren raid not spend a farthing for its pros- ity; who easily detects the faults of ters but never his own; whose soul umed and jammed into a mustard 1 would have as rau^i room as a frog &e ocean." ' - 1 £onou Lake Assembly. Chicago & North-Western R'y Co. ^ from July 18th to inclusive, ^excursion tickets to Madison and re- «n at very low rates, on account of the toona Lake Assembly. For tickets rl fall information, apply to agents C. 4 W. Ry w NJ V ^BOATS FOR SALE,; ^have six good new Row Boats, which 'Ml sell at less than the cost of mater- °' Prices from $3 upward. Call and r«them. JOHN P. SMIDH. ilcHemy, July 11,1892. Lftke Bluff Camp XMtlnff On account of the Camp Meeting at *ke Bluff, the Chicago & North-Western 'y Co. will sell excursion tickets at idltly reduced rates from July 1st to jjrjbember 1st, inclusive. For tickets y fall information, apply to agents C. iden the had ^ia <^iMolkv^*iipipPHPi^OjrAti0 cfirtitee traae» «g«n broug!Flr<IeSnt upon is party in 1818. From 1810 to 18!)2 paidhe party has invented no new platform durijxeeptwhen hard times under free trade j£»f the Democratic kind or good times t indei protection of the Republican kind nocTnade it expedient to adopt a meaning- Tless platform and straddle the question, ics was done in 1876 and in 1884. jjg „ This year the Democratic party has *jhe courage of the convictions derived •tftalf a century ago from the slave oli- dayinrchy of the South, whieh, employing anyCH1 th^ajjeyt slave Jabor in agricultural fa "'suits, wished to buy the manufact- that tho \wo national, parties are not worthy of his support, just mark him down as a brevet Democrat. He will be doing more for the success of that party then if he stood square up on his hind legs and voted the straight ticket, and no disguise should De allowed to conceal his real attitude or purpose if he proceeds to do this when the consequen ces are placed plainly before him.-- Minneapolis Tribune. ••The Deadly Policy of Reciprocity." When the McKinley law was enacted in 1890 the reciprocity clauses were ap plauded by Democrats as a "concession to free trade." In time, however, as it appeared that the administration would make that policy successful and a popu lar element in the canvass, these same Democrats have changed their tune, and now they denounce the "deadly policy of reciprocity." Recent foreign trade returns show how "deadly" the policy has been. The agreement with Germany did not go into effect until February 1, 1892. Among the articles which have been ad mitted into that country from the United States at reduced rates of duty, since that date, are breadstuffs. Note the result: From Feb. 1 to April 30, 1892, the value of corn, wheat, and wheat flour sent to Germany from this coun try was $5,750,4%., During the corres ponding months of the year 1891 the value of corn, wheat, and wheat flour sent from the United States to Germany was $304,278--an increase, in three months, under reciprocr procity, of $5,446,188, or about 1,?£ per cent.! During the whole §rear of 1891 the valuer breadstuffs shipped to Germany from this country was $2,771,- 000 less than it was during three months under reciprocity. If the deadly policy continues at the same ratio for the year, the increased demand of Germany alone for corn amLwiieat will be more than I $2-5,000,000. The American farmer will view this variety of the "d« adly" with equanimity. The reduction of duties on breadstuffs imported into Cuba from tha United States went into effect Jan. 1, 1832, four months after the reduction on corn and corn-meal. During the four months which ended April 30, 1892, the value of corn and wheat flour imported by Cuba help elect him now. He has beaten them in a fair, manly fight, and they, as t true Republicans, should now unite i with him to beat the common enemy, ! the Bourbon Democracy.--Cleveland , Leader. * I IF any impeachment could have been ! made of the personal eft political integ- i rity of the President, if there could have been any arraignment of his public "utterances or of his official a ts, this re- nomination would have been impossible, in view of the aggressive, determined and in some respects vicious efforts to prevent it.--Philadelphia North Amerl- , can. I BENJAMIX HARBISON of Indiana has ! been weighed in the balance and. not j been found wanting. He has been I sifted as wheat, and the only product ! was the pure golden grain. Even his , political enemies recognize his integrity j and patriotism, and willingly yield him j their rcspcct. lie will be ie-eleciwi in November amid the acclaim of the peo- l pie and the approval of the world.--Ohio State Journal. TO-BA* the Republican party stands as firmly united in his support as it Was in lt88, when it marched to „ over .the strongest man the Democratic party could put" in the field against It. He (Harrison) is fur ther strengthened by an administra tive record that has been singularly successful in all its important measures and "policies.--- Chicago Journal. THIS is the judgment pronounced by the plain people who have been ill- pleased during tha« past weeik at the machination and maneuverings they saw on foot In Minneapolis to defeat the President. Fortunately a majority of the delegates proved to be entirely of this mind, an;l only one ballot was needed to place Benjamin Harrison in nomination for a second term as Presi dent of the United States.--Philadelphia Press. HAD the delegates at Minneapolis been in close touch with the thousands whom they represented they could not more perfectly have expressed the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the Republican party., There has never been a time when President Harrison's splendid administration and exalted position as a statesman have not been a source honest pride to his country men.--Rochester Democrat and Chron^, icle. ' • • Adltl E. StevensOn i 1 v Here is an-epitome of ttfe Career ot the Democratic oandidate for Vice Pres* id$nt: Born In Kentucky Oct. 23, 1835, Removed to Bloomington, ill.* ih 185& Graduated from Center College, Pan* ville, 1855. Admittod to the bar 1858. I Rendered no service in war. • Opposed Lincoln on stump. Elected District Attorney 1861-8. Was also Presidential Elector (for MeClellan) in 1864. Elected to Congress as a Greenbacker in 1874. Renominated and defeated by Repub licans in 1876. Nominated next time 'by Labor and Greenback parties and elected, 1878. Renominated by Democrats and again defeated by Republicans in 1880. Renominated by Democrats aud again deTeatel, 1882. Delegate to national convention of 1884. Appointed by Mr. Cleveland First As sistant Postmaster General in 1886. Cut of the heads of 48,000 Republican fourth-class postmasters in next two years. Retired to private life with Mr. Cl$ve« land in 1889. • Grandfathers Bat Fits Ben. A JUDICIAL KINDERGARTEN. JBOteettae VM or the «iga I.an*A»*» t4 fien&Bcliig a l*rlnoner. "Once upon a time," says Gcorgo II. b, Hayes, "there was a judge named Redman^ who presided over a bit? territory which kept him tracing from Santa Cruz to Salinas ami &"an Luis Obisixi. The Spanish popula tion was the chief race to be found in that district, and Redman knew hut Cwo words in the language, which were 'No tiende,' and was put to the necessity Of employing a court inter preter, who attended him in his rapid tour ot the big circuit. It happened- that a murderer was to be sentenced in Monterey and that an important trial must £e attended miles away, on the same day, Red man's interpreter had gone to a fan dango in the wilds somewhere and couldn't be found when court was opened, and Redman was in a fury of impatience. At last, when he could endure the delay no longer, he said to the man below in the dock: "Prisoner at the bar^-Stand up!" 4'Jfo tiende." said the man, shak ing his head stupidly. "You don't savev, do you?" ex- elaik«t-M tiK- judge sharply, **well, do you understand this?" and he pro ceeded to gesticulate vigorously with hi£ hands, and indicate the motion of rising. The man Anally comprehended and arose stiffly in his seat. "Prisoner at the bar--It is the sen tence of thi§ court that yc.u be taken from the place whence you came on Friday, the 27th day of June next, be hanged by the neck until you arc dead, and may God have mercy on your soul. Now, do you savey that?" The poor prisoner shook his head in a bewildered fashion, and could Only cry, "No tiende, no tiende." "Is there anybody present in this court who can translate that awful sentence to this prisoner?" demanded the Judge of the half a dozen officials and spectators in the room. They were all in same boat as the pris oner and cfluld only shake their heads | mournfully: "Well," exclaimed the Judge, a bright thought striking him, "I'll Just show vou, then, this way!" i IC'J "J? iiJilNdfS I N C I D E j % ,<> j •: "• it • 1 »4.'--.--k-- 90BJEER OR STARTLING, FAIT! FULLY RECORDED. I f * 1 ' , 7 ~< • -••'j- •; ,,I.. Crwokeil w«ri A1l#g*d ln the VMttr «C . tir. Taylor** 'Pena«<Mr~tt*ttetf *r a THMI While Orunic--Damn^e* Agalaet « JHq&A wnlc Benevolent J^uia^aUoii. " 'I i ^ und i flOBa the l;n)ted States was ^Ol^-ifo" ' .. I while during the corresponding four j months of lfcyi the value was only $160,- | 282, an increase of $843,U73, or 530 per j cent., to be credited to the "deadly poli cy of reciprocity." . The total export of sixteen articles to Cuba during the four months, exclusive of corn and Hour, was $3,281,297, an increase of $1,513,303, compared with the value of the corres ponding four months of 1891. The American farmer, in view of such re sults, will say, "Let the deadly policy of reciprocity go on."--Indianapolis Journal. . JUI'I ^ sc %es of the cheapest pyuper labor of dun urope. A protective tariff meant, then, shot * it means now, diversified industries, g, gh wages, and free labor. Whenever e Democratic party has fearlessly s00' renciated its faith in Tree trade it has inte on badly beaten at the polls. When- tan( er has evaded the issue it has some- ne3 succeeded. It has made victory com rer for the Republican jn by de- Juljirirg its true faith, and Republicans negl ^rywhere will welcome the issue.-- iw York Press. i When Ravages threatened tho land And roamed w i t h ilio torch anil the knife. Ah. few could their fury withstand. And panic and terror were rife. But out In the west there appeared A leader ri^ht royal and true. And Tecumseh went broke when he felt the bold stroke Of gallant old Tippecanoe. i CHORUS. _ And grandfather's bat fltadten; It may be a trifle tight. For Benjamin stands about seventeen feaads The loftiest statesman in sight. Yes, grandfather's hat fits Ben; He wears It with dignified grace: So rally "agen" and put Uncle Ben Right back in his grandfather'* placet They took up that Harrison then To run a political race, That grandad of our little Bon -- Went round at terrible pace. The fires of our fathers lit up The dome of the heavens so blue. Nobody was in not e'eu for a mlnuttt Bcslde'our old Tippecanoe. cnoKcg. And grandfather's hat fits Ben, etc. A chip of the same old block Is brave little Ben of to-day. lie come* from the genuine stock, As none will deny or gainsay. -- To God and his country and home Ever faithful and loyal and true. He wears the old hat aud It fits bin right pat-- The hat of old Tippecanoe. cnoRcs. And grandfather's hat fito Ben, eta --Philadelphia Press. The Only Danger, _iere is one danger that menaces the ublican ticket, and that is the third ,y vote. In no other way can Har- b and Beid be defeated. The in thejwd Democrats are already advised is and are encouraging a fusion of , Democratic and third party tickets £° jory Republican State. The hope Gordkhrow the election into the Demo- pectins House, which would of -course Schools democrat, though not neees- ent, I am, yeland. . ititution, article 12, provides , person having the greatest (%lc*V>raU votes for Presi- T * What Tliey Think. ; I^AitBisox, the soldier, the scholar, I the jurist and the Christian statesman, ! is a type of true American manhood, I and there is no American, Democrat or 1 Bepublican, who would not be honored | by casting a vote lor him for the highest! office in the gift ot the American people, i ---Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. j THE candidates are both good, clean j men, fully qualitied by experience and otherwise for the positions for whieh they have been selected. If the Bepub lican party cannot win with them it could not have won with anybody. The ticket is, to sum it up briefly, a model one, and it will be irresistible--Kansas City Journal. PBESIDEXT HARBISON is a far stronger candidate to-day than he was four years ago. Let Republicans mark this prediction: He 'will be a far stronger candidate in November than he is to-day. His record, and the record of his administration, will make friends for him straight through the canvass.-- Buffalo Commercial. TH£ American people owe him a sec ond term. The men who opposed him A Bis Mouthful, x "Cleveland and Stephenson" is not a combination that can be called euphoni ous. It does not move trippingly on the tongue, like "Harrison and Beid," for instance, or like "Cleveland and Hen dricks," or "Cleveland and Gray." What a mouthful it will make for Democrats who in the heat of the campaign, full of enthusiasm and whisky, try to shout it and wake the echoes! Some of them will make it "Clevenland and Steveson;" others will yell for "Clevenson and Steveland;" still others will not be able get uny nearer to it than "Steveland and Clevenson," or "Stevenlon and \31eve- sand." „ A three-syllable name for Vice-Presi dent makes a lame and impotent con clusion for a campaign war-cry. The Republicans have never tried it. The last time tho Democrats tried It was befo' de wah. when they ran Bu chanan and Breckinridge, and that time the unwieldiness of the polysyllables was to some extent compensated for by the alliteration contributed by- the two B's. / f ^ A Tariff Picture. In thirteen Southern States the num ber of cotton mills in active operation increased irom 161 WHEREU^UA FEE UDREELED I VIIID OF R tape that lay on the desk, Sndtwistii.„ it hurriedly about his own necjc held the two ends high over his left oar, at the same time rolling his eyes and wtf£g*tg his tongiie down against his chin. A dreadful groan went up froni K'0 prisoner and from the others in ine court-room. They understood the grim judicial kindergarten completely. --San Francisco Examiner. They Uorroweil BepchrrS l!«okn< Any one who. knew Henry Ward Bcechcr at all knew of his love of booKs and the varied libraries which he succeeded in gathering. He was, however, most prodigal in lending his books and forgetting the toirowers. Then when he wanted a certain book from his library he would tind it gone. He would, of course, have for gotten the borrower, but his method of tracing a borrowed book was unique. One evening the great preacher suddenly appeared at a friend's house and walking quietly in the drawing- room, without removing his overcoat, and up to his friend said: "W why don't you hring back that Ruskln of mine that I lent you?" The man colored to the roots of his hair. "Why, Mr. Ueecher," he said, "I'll take it to your house to-morrow morning. I would not have kept it so long if you had not told mc I might" At this Beecher burst into a fit of merry laughter. "Found! Found!" he shouted, as he took otf his over coat and tihrcw himself exhausted into a chair. Some one asked him what lie uieant^* When he could stop laugh ing he said;. "I.am always ready to lend my books to any one Who will make good use of them and bring them back, but 1 always forget that have done it. It happened in this case that I wanted that volume of Ku*kin, i)ut when I went to the shelf for it it was gone. I knew I must have lent it, but to whom I could not remember. During the past week I began to demand the book of every friend I met to whom I might have lent it. I have been to six houses to-night; a dozen at least have pro tested innocence, but at last I've struck the guilty man. I shall know in future how to And missing books. The plan works beautifully."--- Indianapolis Journal. Men of Great Height.J Turner,. the naturalist, declared that he once saw, upon the coast of Brazil, a race of gigantic savages, one of whom was twelve feet in height. M. The vet, of France, in his decrip- tion of America, published in Paris in 1>75, asserted that he saw and measured the skeleton of a South American which was eleven feel two inches in length. The Chinese are said to claim that in the last century there were m?n in their country who measured fifteen feet in height Jo seph us mentioned the case of a Jew who was ten feet two inches in height. Pliny tells of an Arabian giant, Ga- bara, nine feet nine inches, tho tallest man in the days of Claudius. John Middleton, born at Ilale, in Lan cashire, in the time of James l.,\was njne feet three inches in height, his hand was .seventeen inches long and eight and a half inches broad, says Dr. Piatt in his "History of Stafford shire." The Irish giant Murphy, contemporary with O'Brien, was eight feet ten inches. A skeleton in the museum of Trinity College, Dtiblin, is eight feet six inches in height and that of CharlesBvrne, in the museum of the College of Surgeons, London, is eight feet four inches. The tall- est living niaii is Chang-tU-Sing, the Chinese giant. His height is seven feet three inches.--Tid-Bits. From F*r an<t Ik the Sangamon C'ireuit Court JudgH^' E. Creighton oidered the St. Louis, Alton anti Springfield t Kiilroid to Iw' " •"! sold July 9, under foreclosure proceed- ings. ^ THE Railroad and Warehouse Com* mission has issued a permit to the t hi- dago and Eastern Illinois Railroad t# V- use an interlocking device at the draw* i'C bridge across the Calumet River. . THE UUUJ ui a vulortii man was roozuK on the Cairo Short Line track at th« depot, in Marion. Tho arms and headl - were cut off and the feet crushed. It 1* •• - supposed he was killed by a train in th® frti night, but was not discovered until morning train passed over lnm. Th*.;;,' body was identilled by a relative as ! of William May boy, of Nashville, Tena. < * * C H A R L E S S A Y I D G F . , 2 3 y e a r s o l d , s o f t - * 4 , of Judge Savldge, of Olmsteaft, had visited Mound City when he broame In* toxicated. Starting to drive horat La • 4- toi&sy» he lefi ii two miies irom towst and vroiit to sleep on tho Big Four , ^ tracks. A ^freight ran over Wlna, ' y.< \ cutting off one arm, breaking one 1 g, '2>i and several ribs. He died before could be removed to the hospital. - % SOME time ago Mrs. Rachel 8. LY* '? man, of Council Bluffs, Iowa,' brought ,i suit in the United States Couri at 1 ••'j Springfield against the Masonic Benev* " . -; olent Association of Mattoon, 111., t# 'Xfi'. recover a,policy lor $10,000 held by her deceased husband, the Hon. John S. . ^ Lyman. The association resisted pay- X'P ment on the ground that LynA,n had farted to pay the last two assessment#, praeediug his death. On the trial ifc was shown that at the time the twii assessments were made Lyman was in» Sane, and was Incapable 6f making pay*, ment. The Court awarded Mrs. Lymai .41* a judgment against the association fof' .-<* $2,577. • t DB. JOHX S. TAYLOR, who was a sur*y* \ geon in the Twenty-third Illinois Toi- JJS': unteer Infantry, was committed to th« / Insane asylum at Jacksonville ks a pau- ' " T per. May, 1869, and has remained Lffi' various asylums ev§r *UHQC a5 ^ pjfoitff- V charge. All tfceSe yeara fcU wife, Mrs. .>/ * Alice L. T&vlor, 0I Mouitf. .Pleasant, ft>wa4 uaS llecn drawing $72 a montlt froii the government as pension jfiopef allowed her husband, und from which, Is alleged, he received no bene&h Oofe* plaint was made to Gen. John $tft>!gfc pension examiner, several months and he, with the assistance of Clstrlot 4ttorney Milchrist, ha* succeeded in in ducing the wife to turn over $8,000,: which will now be used for the benefit of the insane man. Taylor made ap|til- oattou lor a pension just bffprs he Feat insane. Arte. sent to Jacksont^vAr { ville he was transferred to the asylum* it Dunning, where he remained as ail j ̂ insane pauper for. years. It was not until five years after h:s incarceration^ v{ •hat the pension, was allowed. Mrs. Taylor is still residing In Mount Pleas* - ant, Iowa. Sha known a as temperane^t octurer and leader in the prohibition - movement. She also has considerably reputation as a writer, having produced 1 great deal of literature which obtained - wide circulation. . » THOMAS PHEMIST^B, a farmer, 59 years, was fouhd dfad'riear his home, i sight miles south of Carterville. Tho , ^4 light before he picked "P fcllfff" itarted out, wit*' rf- r shelves are overloaded with all, A }of flue ehoes fV InfaniP, boyi. " • men and women, 'f.lTe alvayfc " „ ! the beet goods and our prices arfc IS i;v? 'fv Islngly low tbisteasoa. ^ « •" \< '"4-- ii ouso, •:? K AND FENCA| iith none but the best Paint®. 3ftrry the celebrated "Moil- 1" and •• Warren " Mixed lii. Both are warranted to -Ain oiily strictlv pure white .and zinc, and pure boiled ,«d oil. and will outwear and better thau any strictly pure lead now made. Our trade flese paints is gradually in king, as the merits ot them, aime known, and we carry tile {jest stuck in the county.--- jsa desiring any paints a on us *and get prices. t -- ur grocery stock is replenish- wery week and we keep wjp*-; in this line fresh. * > JVe shall hereafter keep fresh npressed yeast, and in th«if <son berries and other fruit|^ E • '-.'v v Yours very trnly, * ' h ,:Perry & Owen, ̂ General Merchant .̂ dHENSY, sm PERRY A OWEN. loHENRY, • • This Bank receive* d*po$Us nd setla Foreign <md \ange, and doe* a Bankers, :-;; ILLINOIS. in 1880 to 339 in 1890. Yet the Democratic tariff plank, modeled after the tariff section of th© Confederate Constitution denounces as illegal the system of protection under which this Southern industrial develop ment has occurred.--New York Press. THE Democrats are disappointed be cause the Bepublicans, without regard ---- to previous preferences, are now all at Minneapolis, Quay, Piatt, Clarkson, united |ar Wolcott and the rest of them, should Beid. r So DiubreUas. The habits of a lifetime on shore are not easily shaken off when one goes to sea. Mr. and Mrs. Perkinson were on their lirst ocean journey, and were in their state-room one day when Mr. Perkinson remarked to his wife: *'I think it must be raining." Mrs. Perkinson rose, peej ed out of the porthole upon the hroad ocean, and said: "I guess 'taint rainin' much. 1 don't set anybody out with an utt* brella:" V * ieneral Banking Buiinei«t We endeavor to do all 1bummrn «•- luted to our care in a manner and sy tern* ftnHreJy satisfactory to our CHAKLFS SI-EXCKR, 20 vears^oiS.^r- ing ut Auburn, hangamoa County, was drowned in Lick Creek, near Ch ithaiB, while driving across the swollen stream. An unknown man was drowned in tht 'Sangamon liiver, Springfield. Xeithei of the bodies has been recovered. Ai-ors* LIOHTNEK and Miss Xetti* Eddy were marrlei at Baldwin Park. Quiucy, tn the presence of 12.0tK) peo* p!e. As so jn as the ct remony was per- tormed they stepped into the car of a balloon, the rope W.M cut, *nd they started on a bridal tour above th* clouds. Ivy Baldwin was the aeronaut. Th? balloon landed about ten cud*f south of the city, having Mwadel to m a l t i t u d e o f 8 , f t e . , * " - 2 .i.4-.. 4,_'\ ..j*. . * J