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VM SLYKI, THE BUD! AMD THE BLOSSOM. igj^mood. 5'iTonng Coprd, In a Mm % - f . t h a t p< -- •*A IWrturt Mnafelng fragrant nMT-- • • ..t»M CspM-".V. «r cut few mad* rwaotor. Mvim, mry maiUt MbooOx; knows V';„ nil what'a oomplet* eaa't I* oampWUff. '^ftofiiiJess smEol-- «,sittiteoflight-* * . (V«BU-> more often SIATM than aoouL , Awl from beneath her maatl* bright -; *: Drew forth a xoMtnul tightlytaSf^v : A little bud all eloaaly aheathad. As blossom juat the Mat, tn« toke% ' Of all tl:e iweetnen* that should be ' Vbtt Time should bid Its seals be bfOfaJB. stooped and with extender care .v?.' 1 UboB ttexoae'B stem securoly 6bfti«d the bad, did Venus lair, ' * "M "9m eyed her pouting son demnrrtfi . i throw his arrows detrti, - •>, „ jrf;T,; Jt«ut had won, BO rons the story,, i;;, ../• ' And ever einoe the folded bud 7.0 Adda grace auto thu Maesam's &ormn *V ' Vyonng rose of mothers take my rtiVnie, ^ . ' And take my -wishes warm and loving, k f ?l TThat. as thy hurt unfolds In time :7 • , Hope hei bright promxso aver proving. *5'%- ' i ' A mother's joy thou mayeat feel, 7 Whose maaly sons «l«d homage renflaf !?, In reverent hmirts that often kneel ; v. ; i To ask he*. blessings, pure and tendtt. 2 .<N<. 7. • • " " * ' " ' . ' < CBy sunny breezes may your leaves v \ Sf.f , * . Be gently stirred, yonr Autumn bltiabn -,>. „,*18bow glad and warm aa those yon wore v ' Is life's bright Juno amidst the thrushes. ^-Househo.d Companion. £*f$ k?:i THE SQUIRE S LAST SHOT : "From the day you are that man's yea oosse to bs iny d&u^atcr/' fctid fastening on his hunting belt, •Irith a quick "good morning," 'Squire Kavanagh left the room. For one moment only Dorothy fingered, then she darted after him. just as he reached the end of the , long corridor, and was about to de­ scend the steps, she caught up with Ber father, "Papa, will you not klw me tbis ^iiCTEilcg? It- is the first tide In my life that I can remember your having forgotten your little girl." She did not tell him that all his threats had ;t»ot for a moment succeeded in mak­ ing her falter in her determination of rl^eing true to her love. And even as she put up her mouth to be kissed, and, with her arms around his neck, drew her father's face down to here, she knew it was for the last time--that this would be her farewell kiss. And if Dorothy Stood on the steps watching her father till he was out of sitrht, it was be­ cause she feared she would not see - that loved form again on earth--and *»ii8toe was right. ' As Dorothy turned back into the bail the old house-keeper met her. f'Miss Dorothy," said she, "I came from the yard a moment since, and in the kennels the dogs were howling fearful like. James says as they have not been fed this morning, and if you Were ill or unable to come, he'd feed *em himself, Miss?" « Poor Dorothy. In her distraction •he had completely forgotten her pets. % was an unheard-of occurrence for 7 any one else to feed the dogs when the young mistress was at home. >' "All right, sttid tbank you, Jane. 3t will go at,.$ nee." The strange man- : »er of her mistress did nou pass un­ noticed by the faithful servant, and #hen a few moments later she had Occasion to go down stairs she re- ( flaarked to one of the maids that •'queer things" were "going on to .«pset the little mistress," for this morning she had "forgotten her dogs." Dorothy walked out to the kennels, fed the dogs, played with, < tfaem for a bit, and then went into ' the stables. It was her custom to \ ins it the horses every morning, and '/.fjjIf this time she stayed longer in the stalls, especially in that of her little |jjony, MacDuff, no one noticed it She put her arms about the faith­ ful animal's neck and kissed him, but < BO one save the dumb beast saw the tears in the big blue eyes, or heard Dorothy's whispered "Good-bye, my ' 4ear old Mac!" Presently the sound of wheels on the j ivenue in front of the house told Do­ rothy that the hour when she must part from her childhood's home had Come. She instructed Jane to bring her bag, and then it dawned on the food housekeeper what was going to appen. Jane had been nurse to the young mistress when the latter was a ••/J. «hild, and it was only natural that l|fter she had brought the bag down­ stairs she should fold Dorothy to her V,Som and between her sobs beg God's i in their work. Infant money left by her|$idNi*ftfHtf«&ttily a few months, and tfeaa, llM» B©*othy saw that it waft iieocinry do something for •apport By taking in what plain sewing she could obtain she struggled on for a while, hardly keeping body and soul together. The hard work and priva­ tion soon threw this delicately nurt­ ured woman into consumption. At this juncture Dorothy begged the doctor to tell her the truth concern­ ing herself. It was of her baby's fu­ ture she was thinking. The doctor understood it was no kindness to con­ ceal the truth from this poor woman, and as best he could be told Dorothy that it would not be many months before she would have to confide her child to another's care. After hearing thisoecisionDorothy determined to sell her few belgnglngs and return to her father. For her­ self alone she never would have ap­ pealed to him, but for this baby, so dear beyond measure to her, there was nothing else to do. Thus it WAS, after a long journev in a third-class railway carriage, that Dorothy found herself again at the familiar station of H It was about 5 o'clock on a chilly November afternoon; and before she could reach the outskirts of the park a long four miles laid before her. After a moment's reflection she de­ cided to make a short cut through the wood to the keeper's cottage. If it was late when she arrived there she would stay through the night, in­ stead of going on to the Hall, which was another mile beyond. ^ The wife of the head keeper, Therese, had been Dorothy's maid, and Dorothy was always sure of a welcome in Therese's home. Cheered somewhat by the knowl­ edge of the greeting she would be sure to receive from this kind woman, Dorothy started out on her long walk. She had eaten nothing since early morning, but little Kenneth's bright eyes and red cheeks gave evidence that he had been well provided for. After the flrst, niile, walking be­ came very difficult to Dorothy, and she found it necessary to rest every now and then. At the end of the second mile she could go no farther. It was dark, her thin clothing had al­ lowed her to become chilled to the bone, and she was mortally faint. Sinking down upon the ground she leaned her head against a tree, in­ tending to rest there but a short time. After making little Kenneth as comfortable as possible she laid him down beside her that he might sleep a little. They were very near the edge of the wobi, and in the dis­ tance the poor girl mother could see the big light in the Hall Tower. As she sat there thinking a great drowsi­ ness came over her and soon mother and child were fast asleep. * * # * * * • With about ten men the 'Squire had started that evening to discover who the poachers were and to deal out to them just punishment. From about 7 o'clock, with his men, he had been hiding behind a clump ot trees near the entrance to the wood. They had waited for almost an hour, and not a sound had broken the stillness of the night. Presently, however, the experienced keeper with his ear* to the ground, heard a sound that gave evidence that poachers were not far away. Making bis way carefully through the bushes, on his hands and knees, he had not gone far when he discov­ ered two of the gang talking in a low tone. From their conversation he learned that the rest of the party, three in number, were waiting by the road that ran through the center of the wood. With the utmost care he made his way back to the 'Squire and explained the situation. The'Squire at once gave orders that Ave men headed by the keeper, should'crawl through the tail grass that grew on the outskirts of the road. Once there, the men were to sepa­ rate, keeping about ten feet apart. In this manner they were * to come bacK through the wood. The poach­ ers would then bs surrounded on both sides, and if they should leave the wood and take to the open field they were lost. No shooting was to be done by any one'but himself. Such were the 'Squire's orders. He did not consider it necessary to shed any blood. However, he told them be would fire one shot. Hearing this, the poachers would fall back in the wood, when it would be time for the keeper and his men to come forward and put IIUST SHOW Til EIR HAND DEMOCRATS CAN NO LONGER DODGE RESPONSIBILITY. blessing on her, Jane had been the Only mother Dorothy had ever known, ^ and, next to her tather, it was harder - for her to leave this faithful nurse % , than any one at the Hall. V; At the foot of the steps, impafcient- '• ~r ly waiting for Dorothy, stood a tall, ^handsome young fellow. His looks V ; |>elied him if he was not fuily worthy V'^r 'Of the young girl, who was to intrust v^Jher life to him. 4 His only fault was poverty, and if 'f'fj * "Dorothy chose to marry him, rather r -7 than to enjoy riches in her father's c-;^*.4bomet she should not be too much . blamed. r Keither must she he called weak if, f'h -After her goodbyes were said and they ; » , had driven away, Dorothy no longer ; 1 found it possible to restrain ner tears. Let us hope that she found more ; f- than compensation for the joys, of tier girlhood in the married life that ihe so soon entered on with Kenneth Ward. About two years later 'Squire Kave- .^^pagh was in his library one morning, * going through his mail and the day's v -|)ap»rs. when the butler announced that the head keeper desired to speak > . to him, i Show him up, Donald," said the I W 'Squire, and a few moment's later the |iead keeper entered. After a few '•£ ^liioments' conversation he imparted i to his master the information that K» .for several nights past the woods had t>een visited by poachers. He feared that they were too many for himself ,|md the underkeepers to cope with, * and Legged to be allowed to employ 1 . men to nelp catch the fellows. Only S,; . |he night before, in Sir John Arran's * wood, two of the gang had been feEvcaught, and the sooner the country t^as rid of the remainder the better, i The Squire^ave the necessary per­ il'| fnission, and promised to be on hand tiimself that night. ' ri, I Dorothy, after one brief, happy ;V' year of married life, had found her- . . .. „ * r ~ * ' • t ' - a A * 3 . 1 The men separated, the keeper and his gang going to the other side of the road, while the 'Squire and his men remained where they were. Shortly after the 'Squire's shot broke the stillness of that cold No­ vember night, followed immediately by awful curses from the poachers, who one and«all took to their heels, only to fall into the hands of the keeper and his men. But above All the ncy^,^nd strange for that time and place, could be heard distinctly a baby's voice crying pitifully. The 'Squire immediately ordered the lanterns lit, and kept two men with him to search the wood for the child, whiie the others were sent to join the keepers and help bring the offenders to the halL A few moments brought one of the searchers to tfie child; but, before reaching it, he stumblea over a dark object lying next the baby on the ground. ' The 'Squire and his other man soon arrived with the lanterns. They dis­ covered a man holding a baby in his arms, while at his feet they saw the aark object, which he had not dared to move. Slowly the 'Squire raised the head of the black-draped figure; and there, with a dark, ugly hole in the fore­ head, he gazed on the face of his daughter, Dorothy. * '*r * * # » 'Squire Kavanagh still lives at the Hall, but he is a white-haired old man now. Age and sorrow have left marks upon the stalwart figure of old. He seldem smiles, and people about the Hall say the sad look only leaves his face when he is with his grandson--his heir--the child of Dorothy and Kenneth Ward.--New York Sunday Advertiser. THAT which is often accepted as si­ lent respect, is often silent eontempt* VtMarKMr Hsw fh« Powsr ft* las ths Ssttoa iswHUsg to nilr Ova Ideas, Bat the Party WU1 bm SUM to Ae- wnt. Fall Demiieratlo Control. On March 4, 1893, for the first time since the earlier half of Buchanan's administration, the Democrats will find themselves in power simulta­ neously in both the Legislative and Executive branches of the Govern­ ment. The Congress which entered into power |vith President Buchanan on March 4,1857, Was the Thirty-fifth Congress. In the preceding Congress the Democrats lost control of the House ot Representatives, the foes of slavery extension, who .^ultimately adopted the name of Republicans, getting into power and electing Na­ thaniel P. Banks Speaker. The Democrats regained control in the House in the Thirty-fifth Congress, which lasted from 1857 to 1859, but they lost that body in the Thirty- sixth Congress, which extended from 1859 to I86i, when Lincoln entered the Presidency, The Republicans held t:.e House until the end of the* FoYty-third Congress, on March 4, f 1875. Throughout the whole of Buchanan's administration, and for many years before, the Democrats dominated the Senate. The power which the Democrats lost in the House in 1859 they regained in 1875, in the Forty-fourth Congress, and that which they lost in the Sen­ ate in 1861 they resumed in 1879 in the Forty-sixth Congress. The latter body in both branches was Demo­ cratic, but the Republicans under Hayes had the Presidency, the two years comprising the life of the Forty- sixth Congress being the latter half of his term. The Democrats never had a majority in the Senate since then. That body was a tie in the Forty-seventh Corgress, in the first half of the Garfield-Arthur adminis- but the R IPUMICMQU really controlled it. In Cleveland's term, from 1885 to 1889, the House was I with him but the Senate was against him. • Thus the Democrats when they «tep into power next March will have a stfay in the Government such as they have not enjoyed since 1859. Thirty-four years will have passed since they tasted the sweets of abso­ lute control of Federal affairs. It is a great privilege which is accorded to the Democracy, but it also carries the greatest responsibilities. During Cleveland's other term the party was enabled to lay some of the blame for the errors in the management of governmental affairs on the Senate, which was in Republican hands, but that recourse will not be open to the Democrats now. They have been commissioned by the people to run the nation according to their own ideas of propriety and expe­ diency, and they will be tield to a rigid accountability for their conduct. No shirking of responsibility will be possible for them this time. The opportunity for them to assert them­ selves is as g" md as ever was pre­ sented to any party in the country's entire history. The policy of the opposing organization has been con­ demned by the people^ for the time being at least, and tbey have been told to bring forward their own pol­ icy and refer it to the test of actual operation. Upon the use which they make of their opportunities their fate will depend. The policy which they bring forward will be submitted to the popular judgment, and on this verdict they will either rise or fall in the public favor.--Globe Democrat. Stand by Tour Guns. At the battle of Stone River, when the right wing of the Union army had been crushed and the center had been attacked with fury, and there was confusion and dismay along the line, an artillery officer rode up to the commanding General, reported that all his horses were killed or dis­ abled, that half his men were dead or wounded, and that he was being pressed hard by the enemy. He asked simply, "What shall I do?" and the answer was, "Stand by your guns." The next day, when the tide turned and the Union troops rushed forward in a mighty sweep of victory, the same officer smiled, as he said to bis men, "Stand by your guns." At the very crisis in the battle of Gettysburg, Gen. Meade rode to one of the points held by a famous bat­ tery, and, looking out upon the shock of battle, turned to the officer and said: "You must hold this point at all hazarda" The officer replied: "My ammunition is nearly exhausted, half of my men are disabled; what shall I do?" "Stand by your guns!" And gathering up the shot and unex- ploded shells that had been hurled at them by the Confederate batteries, the artillery men kept up the fire, and when the rebel army retreated, they were glad that they "stood by their guns." In the mystery and confusion at Chickamauga, a division in command of an Illinois general was almost doubled on itself. The enemy seemed to pour in on either flank, to attack both front and rear, but the men said to one another, as they grimly touched elbows, "Stand by your guns." Out of that confusion, out of that wilderness, came a blood-stained, dis­ appointed, dispirited army, but a few weeks later, the same columns were storming Missionary Ridge, were climbing Lookout Motintain, and driving the army that bad triumphed over them at Chickamauga before them like sheep. The Republican party has been de­ feated. It has come out of one of the greatest political battles in our history, beaten and sore. Will it stand by its guns? If so, there will be a Missionary Rid?e to its Chicka­ mauga, an Appomattox to its Bull Run.--Inter Ocean. ion, of of Mr. n acd of tlfe ltitinMiean lead ere wifehoot exception. It is simply an expreiskm of their conviction of the soundness of their party's posi­ tion and of their firm faith that the test of experience will justify all their ante-election predictions as to the disastrous effects which must follow the inauguration of the Democratic policy. So universal and deep-seated has the conviction become among the people that the country will be ben­ efited by proposed Democratic legis­ lation that the only way to convince them of their delusion is to give them a few years' experience of Demo­ cratic rule. When workingmen in the East walk the streets for a sea­ son, vainly looking for employment, and farmers in the West find their markets curtailed, with no apprecia­ ble reduction in their living expenses, they will speedily learn how woefully they have been deceived by those who promised them unnumbered benefits as a result Qf Cleveland's election. This lesson may. cost the country dear. Few may escape their share in the loss it will entail. Nevertheless the lesson now nbt only seems necessary for the future secur­ ity of American industry against the attacks of demagogy, but it is also inevitable. After it has been learned we snaii hear no more about free trade in this country for at least one generation. That has been the coun* try's experience twice in the past, and we believe it will be so again.**. New iTork Press. The LOH of the Senate. Instead of adding t-* their disap­ pointment, the lo*s of the Senate is viewed by Republicans generally as a fortunate accompaniment of the elec­ tion of Mr. Cleveland. It places the Democratic party in a position to make a fair test of its proposed policy and throws the responsibility of legis­ lation wholly upon it. That the re­ sult will be to convince the country of its error is the view of President A Lesson of History. Those people who always see in the defeat of a party its end are either ignorant of political history or have failed to note its signicance. For hundreds of years there have been two parties in Great Britain They have divided upon many questions, but each has retained its character­ istics. Each, in turn, has had its ups and its down. Only a few years ago Gladstone was so crushed that the end of the Liberal party wus de­ clared. To-day the Gladstone party is in power again. The Democratic party has been several times declared to be in permanent control of the government, and yet four years later it was overwhelmed. In 1836 Van Buren had nearly double the votes of Gen. Harrison, but in 1840, following a loag period of financial disaster, Harrison swept the country, receiv­ ing the votes of 234 Presidential electors, to 60 for Van Buren. Four years later the Democratic can­ didate was elected President^ to be followed by a Whig in 1848. In 1852 the Democratic candidate received the votes of all but forty-two electors. In 1864 Abraham Lincoln received 212 electoral votes to 21 for the Democratic candidate. Neverthe­ less, twelve years later there was but one majority in the electoral college for the Republican candidate. Here, as in Great Britain and elsewhere where any portion of the government is based upon the popular will, there will be two parties, the progressive and the retrogressive. In this coun­ try the Democratic is the retrogres­ sive party. With slight interrup­ tions it dominated this country for fifty years, yet during that period it did not put upon the na­ tional statute - book a sin­ gle progressive measure. Its aim was to denationalize. It was re­ sponsible for the fugitive slave law; it abrogated the Missouri Compromise; the Dred Scott decision is a mile­ stone showing its retrogression, and secession and rebellion the outcome of its heresies. It has resisted all progressive measures like the home* stead act, the constitutional amend­ ments putting national authority on a more enduring basis, the transcon­ tinental railway systems, a national paper currency, the widening of the postal service, the policy of internal improvements and every other pro­ gressive measure for which the Whig and the Republican parties have con­ tended. Again it is in power, and its inherent tendency to retrogression asserts itself. The Republican party is cast down, but it is as much a necessity as it was in 1856,1860,1864. Such, at. least, is the teaching of history.--Indianapolis Journal. ( Positions Reversed. Republicans may contemplate with perfect serenity the accession of the Democratic party to power.. It re­ lieves them of all responsibility for the administration of the government for the next four years. The Demo­ cratic party has enjoyed all the ad­ vantages which have attached to its negative attitude as a critical and censorious opposition. The Repub­ lican party, on the other hand, has had to be constantly on the defensive against\he incessant attacks of this watchful foe. The positions of the parties are now reversed. It is the Democratic party which is charged with the responsibility of doing the public Jjusiness; of framing, passing, and executing the laws. Tiuy must put themselves on record in positive acts of legislation and administra­ tion. It is the Republicans who hold the lash of public criticism. They have become the attacking party. To them revert all the advantages o! a vigilant and merciless opposition, quick to take the benefit of all the faults of their adversaries and to point out and ridicule their failures. And If, before the next session ol congress, they don't raise old Cain with th's hybrid party of negation and destruction, split as it is intc irreconcilable factions upon every practical issue which presents itself we shall be greatly mistaken. Its in­ herent weakness and divisions, its fatal organic disease of blundering i ncompetency, its utter incapacity tc leal with great public questions, will have been so thoroughly demonstrated before the end of one-half of Cleve­ land's administration, that it is saf< to predict that the succeeding con­ gress will be overwhelmingly Repub­ lican, preparatory to a sweeping vic­ tory for the Republican party in 1896. We make that prediction now with perfect confidence in the logic of the situation.--Pioneer Press. A MEMBER of the German legatior and a member of JJie Spanish lega­ tion have fought with pistols at the Hague, the Spaniard being wounded. The affair haa been termed a diplo­ matic duel, but this is not correct lii the truly diplomatic duel there is no one hurt. A Pennsylvania correspondent of the New York Sun relates all amus­ ing bear story. The wood-flutters of Pocono Mountain, it appears, had broken the handle of a beetle the previpus winter. A rope was tied about the beetle-head, and it had been left hanging to the low limb of a treo. The correspondent happened to be in the vicinity one summer day, and remembering the beetle, started after it to carry it home. As I came near the place I per­ ceived a black bear slowly circling around the hangirtg beetle at a dis­ tance of a few feet He was too much occupied to notice me, and I stopped to see what he was about. The bear acted as if he thought the beetle were some kind of a trap. .He would approach within a few feet and sniff at it. Then he would back off a little way, squat on bis haunches aud give a low snorts eying the tool all the time. While he was thus engaged a sud­ den breeze sprung up, and sent the beetle to swinging lightly. The ani­ mal snorted again, and backed off a step or two. Soon another uust struck the beetle, and swayed it still more. -Xfcie bear responded by a louder snort --a sort of challenge. * As soon as the beetle stopped swing­ ing Bruin got up and circled about it several times. At lenRth he wear, near--then nearer. He reached out his paw and touched it gently. As it swung toward him, he hit it again, more forcibly. The beetle-head was a round one of hickory, with heavy iron rings on each end. As it rebounded from the second blow ol the creature's paw it hit him fairly in the nose! Angry at this, he rushed at the beetle again; and gave it a sounding How. As it came toward him he dodged a little, just enough to save his nose and re­ ceive the blow in his left eye! He hit it again, and his nose got apothcr blow. That hurt so much that he growled angrily and rooted viciously in the leaves. He was furious by this time, and went at the beetle as if he meant, to annihilate it. He gave it tremendous I:low with his right paw, and the tool swung clear over the limb, came down on the other side, and struck him on top of the head.- He uttered a roar that made the woods ring! I stood still and shook with sup­ pressed laughter to see the brute go on. Finally he caught the beetle in his paws, pulled upon it until he broke the rope, and then went to cufflug and biting the tool. When he found that it did not fight back any more, he let it roll to the ground. Then he shook himself and walked off into the woods, and I let him go. Moileratlon. M. de Garncrau was a French mag­ istrate of great integrity and learn­ ing, and many fine qualities. No one appreciated better than he the beauty and value of patience, but his naturally quick temper and irritable disposition sometimes betrayed him into droll inconsistencies. M. de Flesselles, president of the superior council at Lyons at a time when the Chancellor Maupeou was making great changes in the govern­ ment, was instructed to suppress the parliament of Trevoux, of which M. de Garnerau was president. M. de Flesselles visited Trevoux, assembled the magistrates, and gave his orders. De Garnerau replied with dignity that it was his duty to obey his sovereign, left his place, and followed by his associates, prepared to inarch out of the court-room. But unfortunately his valet opened the doors. Instantly M. de Garnerau, in a passion, threw his cap and robe on the rioor, and cried, "Hero, Antoine, take those things: they are only for the use of valets now!" At a public meeting of the Lyons Academy, or which he was a mem­ ber, he read a paper on"Moderation." The discourse was fine, bub the effect was somewhat marred by an incident at its commencement. The speaker began: "Gentlem?n, moderation--Please shut that door. "Gentlemen, moderation is a-- Will you be so kind as to shut that door? "Gentlemen, moderation is a vir­ tue--Confouna you, shut that door, or I leave this hall!" COMPLEX! IfFS EBTimUB. Chinese Ponoh and Judy. It would surprise a good many per­ sons. probably, to hear that "Punch and Judy" is a Chinese institution, but there seems to te good ground for the supposition, according to a correspondent of a London paper, who says: "A few years ago I wit­ nessed at a garden party given by the General then commanding the troops in Hongkong the exhibition of a Chinese 'Punch and Judy,' which had been brpught down from Canton. The general arrangements were pre­ cisely the same as those of an English 'Punch and Judy,' the only difference being that instead of the dog Toby there was a wooden figure with clap­ ping jaws. supposed to represent a dragon. The costumes were Chinese, and the piece varied in some re-pects from that which we see in England, but all the characteristic features were the same. The lesser mandarins were duly knocked over by the big mandarin, with just the same satis­ factory whack as that with which Punch disposes of Judy and Jack Ketch and all the accessories of voices, pipes, and scenery correspond to those of the English performance." The correspondent asks*. Prof. Max Mueller and the Congress of Oriental­ ists to decide the nice question whether the Chinese or the Europeans are the plagiarists. A Chop-Houso Idea. Cheap chop-houses in Boston have a new wrinkle for attracting cus­ tomers which will not be slow to find favor elsewhere. They arrange all the large supply of chops and steaks in their show windows and place a card with a number on each. You takes your choice, so to speak, and when you enter you tell the waiter you will have "No. 13," "No. 1," or "No. 40," according to the at­ tractiveness of the viands and the state of your pocket-book and appe­ tite. ' THE dollar you cheateda man out of will be bidden behtiHI tbe nickle you once put ip a church basket, when your epitaph is written Smnl-OttkAtJ Tote in Ersrr CMatytn Ettl- nols OhnMB in Tabsriatod Warm. fiemi-offleia! returns from Hardin and Popo Counties show a deciease by sev­ eral hundred in Cleveland's and Alt- getd's pluralities. Following is a table made from the semi-official returns re­ ceive* from every county in Illinois: ^-PRISID'KT--. /--0OV*KO8I--\ Hsr- ^ ' risen, Gout** * , . Rep. 6.1M Alexander Bond Boone...... Brown Bureau Cslhonn.... Carroll Cskss Champaign Christian. Clark...... Clay Clinton. Coles Cook Crawford Cumberland...... De Kalb De Witt Donslas Dn Pac« Edgar Edwards KffUurbam... Fayette*, A Ford Franklin Fulton Gallatin Greene Gtnndy...^^^. Hamilton ........ Hancock ......... Hardin HendewKUw^.* Irocwoia Jackson , Jasper Jufferson. Jorsey ,....iy Jo Daviesa....... Johnson. Kane Kankakee .....l.. Kendall...,.....!. Knox Lake La Salle.......... T.awrAnnA Lee Livingston....... Logan Macon Macoupin Madison...., Marion........... Marshall I... Mason .: Massac 1,661 ,06» 1,694 8,VM 663 2.456 1,631 ,390 2.931 2,171 1.774 1,356 3,663 ...110,901 1,760 1,470 3,789 2,033 2,951 9,481 3,187 1,330 1,479 1,939 3,927 1,621 4,648 1,909 1,967 9,139 1,804 8.384 6S9 1,353 8.936 8;08! 1,519 1.M9 1,314 9,678 1,716 7,984 3,577 1,691 6,800 2,919 7,770 1,533 3,510 3,967 2.C19 4,668 3,865 6.385 2,211 1,561 1,614 McDonough...... 3,301 Mo Henry ..... .... 3,905 McLean.,....,... 7,310 Menard...,......'. 1,278 Mercer ........ 2,460 Monroe 1,149 Montgomery 9.V3S Morgan 3,474 Monltrie.......... 1,987 0«cle 4,063 Peoria 7,940 Perry 1,839 Piatt 9,138 Pike. 9,751 Pope 1,629 Pulaski..... 1,657 Putnam...- 557 Randolph......... 2,416 Richlauii. l.roo Rock Island 5,052 Saline 2,171 Sangamon........ 5,985 Schuyler 1,558 Scott 1,006 Shelby 2,304 Stark 1,240 St. Clsir 6,276 Stephenson...... 3,567 Tacewell 3,096 Union.... 1,496 Vermillion. 6,892 Wabash 1,112 Warren... .... 2,715 Washington. 1,966 Wayne..... 2,341 White 2.909 Whiteside........ 3,819 Will 5,780 Williamson 3,504 Winnebago. 6,816 Woodford 1,738 Totals 306,881 Pluralities Cleve­ land, Dem. 7,665 1,688 1,321 613 1,567 3,668 840 1,444 2,190 4.603 3,639 2,236 1.604 2.3T3 3,592 141,977 1,868 1,785 1,997 2,083 1,993 2,133 3,150 677 2,738 3,423 1,319 1,779 5,353 1,673 3,146 1,874 2.065 ̂918 M48 3,938 2.217 2,333 2,011 2,763 884 5,769 2,763 648 3,073 1,941 9,186 1,573 2,732 3,948 3,150 4,390 6,035 6,6 # Q.ru 1.837 2,211 799 3.218 2,311 6,487 1,748 1,970 1,607 3,707 3,975 1,670 2.284 8,026 1,979 1,896 3,494 816 693 •14 2,699 1,543 4,034 1.838 7,637 1.877 1,383 3,648 818 7,197 3,713 8,635 3,659 5,001 1,438 2,382 1,868 3,364 2,947 2,779 5,434 2.118 3,633 3,690 Fifer, Rep. 6,468 2,080 1,663 1,997 891 3,949 668 2,507 1,569 6,333 3,993 3,180 1,781 1,345 3,666 110,377 1.7S8 1,463 3,770 3,064 2,945 3,668 3.189 1.343 1,502 1,996 2,303 1,643 5,045 1,310 3,006 3,175 1,513 3,399 659 1.362 4.351 2,904 3,023 3,513 1,973 1,335 £,680 LF 731 8,068 3,580 1,701 6,801 3,069 7,897 1,598 3,541 4,019 2,640 4,615 3,874 5,293 2,261 1,894 1,620 1,638 3,316 3,C01 7,565 1,324 3,481 1,119 2,964 3,518 1,996 3,916 7,456 1,873 3,154 2,790 1,636 1,646 651 3,356 2,168 6,097 1,586 1,630 2,128 1,243 6,301 3,590 3,060 1,404 6,928 1,123 2.738 1,933 2,370 2,215 3,865 6,673 2,474 6,856 1,786 399,506 Alt- Dem. 7,769 1.668 1,333 1.PI 3,564 836 1,403 3,196 4.511 3,647 2,250 1,693 2,419 3,630 140,736 1,876 1,802 1,897 3,079 3,006 2.109 3,157 682 3,739 2,453 1,362 1,784 6,309 1.673 8,163 1,666 2,046 4,150 3,330 3,833 mi 2*44 2,023 2,739 889 6i7U6 3,772 840 3,067 1,936 9,107 1,578 2,723 3,941 3,146 4,'278 6,046 6,717 3.663 1,838 2,201 841 3,309 3,313 6,406 1,737 1,966 1.664 9,710 4,074 1.674 3,354 7,865 1,990 1.896 3,505 84T 906 621 2,779 1,537 3,964 1,840 7,608 1,883 1,394 3,410 868 7.3C4 3,701 3,646 2,696 4.973 1,433 3,373 1,933 3,40FT 3,961 3.728 5,418 3,166 3,633 3,583 430,600 21,183 BRIEF COMPILATION "I NOIS NftWS. or IU4# •fti Told In a Few Lines. SOUTHEBN ILLINOIS and IndJ«na was visited by a heavy fall of snow. ItEi!el and government troops in Hayti have had the first skirmish. THE King Brick Company's plant at Columbia Falls, Me., burned. Loss, $15,000. .T. W. DUBYEE, A New York lumber dealer, has assigned. Creditors will be paid in full. JCDGE JOHN T. CBAVENS, a leading jurist of Kansas City, Mo., is dead, aged 54 years. THE steamer Marchioness, ten days overdue, has arrived at New York from Port of Hpain.' AT Oxford, Ohio, Joseph Sllnger shot himself through the head because he was jilted by Sophie Frey. THE Hawaiian newspapers that at­ tacked United States Minister Stevens w«re forced to make an apology. MESSENGEB boys in the Western Union office at Detroit struck to compel the discharge of an obnoxious clerk. THE boarding house of Mrs. Morley at Sharj sburg, Pa., was blown up with dynamite. She boarded non-union workmen. THE President has recognized Hubert Krebs as British Vice Consul at Pasca- goula, for Ship Island, in the State of Mississippi. Miss EMMA MOBSMAN, who stands 6 feet 2 inches in height, and Col. James Gilbert, 6 feet 11 inehes, were married at Sauk Center, Minn. J. H. MUBPHY, general agent of the United States School Furniture Com­ pany, Of Chicago, was found dead in his room at Des Moines, la. JAMES PABVIN was bitten by a tropi­ cal ennke concealed in a bunch of "ba­ nanas at Quincy, 111. His life was saved by prompt medical attendance. COL. W, S. HOKTON, of the Sixteenth Regiment, National Guards of Penn­ sylvania, died from malarial fever con­ tracted while at Homestead with his regiment. FOVB murderers will be hanged In Louisville, Ky., December 9 or 16. They are Nelson Lewis, colored; Grant Thomas, colored; Denuis McCarthy and Stephen Hite. WILLIAM RIPPLE and Barney Whalen, soldiers at Fort Brown, Tex., fought over a woman. Whalen was shot dead by Blpple, who, to avoid arrest, then killed himself. THE bodies of Mrs. J. <L Johnson and her 15-year-old son were found in San Francisco. The mother had evidently killed her child, then herself. She was deserted by her husband a year ago. SIS buildings burned at Berry, Ky. The loss is $7,000. ROUTE AGENT SMITH found a dyna­ mite cariridge in the east-bound Chica­ go and Alton train. There was no ad­ dress on the package, and how it got there was a mystery. The cartridge was about the siza of a giant fire­ cracker. THE robbers who attempted to secure the treasure from the express car on a Santa Fe train at Wharton, Ok., failed to open the safe after working an hour. Several shots were exchanged between the express messenger and the robbers, but no one was injured. DB. ROLAND P. FAULKNEB, of the Wharton School University of Pennsyl­ vania, will accept the position of Secre­ tary to the United Slates Commissioners at the International Monetary Confer­ ence. THE Northern Pacific steamer Zam­ besi will probably hpve to take back to China thirty Chinese who were refused passports at Port Townsend because their certificates did not have photo­ graphs a'tached. THE Minnesota Women's Auxiliary of the World's Fair will call on pupils of public schools for donations, not ro ex­ ceed 5 cents each to cover the expense Ommth 4* *. ML Am* sg« to Booles gtaU H«----Ttaxl «• tsftrlng-Foiil Msiin. . JVom-Wiar sad Ihir. PKTEB GLEASEB, a merchant of Mas-> eoutab for twenty-five years, commitiStf suicide. He was afflicted with an tat- , curable throat disease. -1 FBAHK WILLESBEBO, a figsr •*!»* of Effingham, was struck by a Hfj$t en- gine on the Illinoll Central crossing and t;' killed. He was 5® years of age. 1 , 'J THE Governor Issued a requisition os the Governor of Nebraska for the •&» / ^ tradition of Edward F. Hedrtch, under ; ̂ arrest at Omaha and wanted at Chicago , for larceny. THE Auditor of Public Accounts has licensed the London Guarantee and Ae- 'A cident Company (limited) of London, *>] England, to do an acetdent and employ- , ers' liability insurance business In thla / State. ' '• -;&- MILHEIM BITBOSS, an Arabian pack : peddler, was held up two miles south of " | Newton and robbed of a goW watch, $5'\ and a large amount of notions. i Bitross has only been iu America four . : months. HKNIIY H. NASH, Vice President off the Chicago Natisnal Bank, died ia New /f York City. Mr. Nash was one of best-knowa men in the banking bast- «o$s in Chicago, having been identified , -, with the banking interests of the city '"j since lb?2. He was a native of Yet- - ^ mont, and was about 72 years old. Re came to Chicago in 185'}'. He was twice elected president of the clearing house,, and at the time of his death wa~» Tre*»- • j urer ot the Chicago Historical Society. ^ He was a member of the Sous of V«« mont and the Sons of the Revolution. AT Miner's Crystal Spring factory, fiat . ^ Greenwood, McHenry county, John Del- . ^ ehanty shot and instantly killed William ,t ,sj Love. The trouble grew out of Love's hogs getting into Delehanty's corn field J|§ and destroying several bushels of corn. Delehanfy demanded reparation for his ^ loss and it was agreed that two men should estimate the damage aid Love would pay 4t. The appraisers decided » j that about ton 1 ushels of corn were losfc A but Love thought that too moch, so he and a neighbor entered Delehanty's L field t> make a personal investigation^ ' p when they ran upon Delehanty, who was husking COPK, guard'ng himself with a.ahotgun. He ordered the visitors out and'told them tllat if they did not go he r would use the jpm. They left, but / fci Love's ire was aroused, so he walked to "v rii the Crystal Spring factory and waited ^ for Delehanty to arrive. Delehanty waa f ̂ the first patio a of the factory to arrho • - with milk. Love immediately pulled off ' his overcoat and got into Delehanty's wagon and the two jumped from there to \ J. the ground. Delehanty then fired two * < shots, the first missing its mark, but the *•% seoond striking Love just above the pi right nipple and lodging to the left of the back fcoae. Love died instantly and his murderer was arrested. , •* THE apple crop is almost a complete ; .^\ failure in the great fruit-growing see* tion of Illinois. The distilleries of Washlngton County have closed down, o\^ing to the scarcity of fruit. k- M. BACHMAN, claiming to be from Cit Joliet, went to Quincy and leased a building for the purpose of starting a dry goods and millinery store. He at­ tempted to get money from the First National Bank by drawing a. bogus check for $1,000 on a Joliet bank. The cashier notified the latter, which tele­ graphed that Bachman was a fraud. Meanwhile Bachman was working off bogus chocks, paying for the lease of the building, buying expensive fixtures, hiring clerks and all without either money or credit. It is thought he went to St. Lou!s. | THE coal miners of the Springfield subdistrict met tho other day and form­ ulated a 8?ale of 45 cents per ton gross weight and $2.25 per keg for powder, coupled with a demand for weekly pay, and threaten that if this scale is not ac­ cepted by the operators a general strike will be ordered. At present there is no regular scale of prices in the mines of that district, and the men are paid in some half a dozen different ways. At one shaft four systems of paying tbe miners are in vogue. The men claim that this should be reformed, and hence the demand for a uniform schedule. The men at Riverton, Beard's shaft and the Weet End shaft went out some time since to secure compliance with the gross weight and weekly pay laws. AT Beard's shaft the men returned, the operators having acceded to tbeir de­ mands. I . •#S 4 ^ AT Rushville, several cases of diph­ theria have occurred, and the puollo schools were dismissed on. account of it. John H. Knowles has lost a child by the disease, and three houses are now fin­ der surveillance. THE Grand Lodge of Odd Fsllowa met in Springfield. Attendance was large. The Grand Master recommended liberal appropriation for the World's Fair demonstration; also that the Grand Master's salary be increased. The Sec­ retary's report shows that March 31 the number of subordinate lodges had in­ creased from 733 to 760 and the mem­ bership from 38,858 to 46,241. The total revenue of the lodges was $426,065 and the total relief paid was $141,DM. The Rebekah degree lodges Dec. 31, 1891, numbeied 245, with a membership of 14,228, there being 6,1148 bio.hers and 7,280 sisters. Their receipts duiing the fear were $16,474, and the expenses 15,242. Elections, in part, resulted: Grand Master, E. 8. Conway, of Chi­ cago; Deputy Grand Master, Henry A. Stone, of Yandalia; Grand Warden. Henry Phileps, of Virginia. The Grand Lodge received from Rebecca Lodge the Orphans' Home, at Lincoln, and from this date will oontrol the manage­ ment The office of Grand Secretary is moved to Lincoln and permanently located. THE Adjutant General issued an order authorizing Col. Louis 8. Judd, Second Infantry, to inspect his regiment by battalions on such dates in December, 1892, as he may select, provided sueh inspection Is mad a without expense te the State. A ROCK ISLAND CorNTY branch of the Illinois Women's World's Fair Board was organized with a member­ ship of thirty. Mrs. J. B. Kimball waa elected President; M'ss Huber, Vice Piesident; Mrs. C. C. Carter, Secre­ tary, and Mrs. M. Rosenfield, Treas­ urer. Plans were adopted to enlist tea women of the county in the work. _ SOME time ago it was discovered that the basement of the State House waa infested by white ants. Prof. Martin finds tive rooms in the basement so bad­ ly infested by the pests as to render them unsafe for the storing of books and records, for which purpose they have been used, and great damage h*» already bean done. The auts, it eeena, have a rendezvous somewhere In State House yard, and they have their way through the massive i foundation into t?;e basement. {Secretary of State will refer the i)N|*ter to the General Assembly, and it will probably be necessary to make aa tJK of a statue of Hiawatha to be plaoed is propriation to replace the *»o*iea villi the Mhu etota deoarttm nt ' metal racks, shelving, and eases. 7. V *'^5 "I: ¥'Ii •" i s - * V - j M .