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|gc§|rutg f£l<iindealer J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and MMMfc. McHENBY, ILLINOIS. fc". I A SECT is said to have been discovered in Bostov, South Bussia, who poison children with narcotics. It was found­ ed by a woman who murdered her child­ ren in order to relieve them from earth­ ly suffering and procure for thamoelea- tial happiness. THE Sunday-school, as we now know it, is little over 103 years old. Yet how it has grown! How mighty is the tree and bow wide-spread are the branches! Accordingto a recent and carefully prepared estimate, the' number of chil­ dren and teachers in the Christian Sun­ day-schools throughout the world is 15,000,000. •I ' • f PHILADELPHIA Call: -'X. < politician whose name has been prominently mentioned in connection with the Presi­ dency was recently asked: "Are you a candidate?" "No," was the prompt response). "Thank yon," replied the questioner. MI am a delegate to the Chicago Convention, and I do not be­ lieve in wasting time voting for men who will not accept the nomination. Good morn " "Ah, stop a moment,' •aid the prominent politician. HEr--ah '--perhaps we might discuss the matter a little further. Will you--or--join me in a glass of something ?" S? THREE Scotchman--Dr. Watson, Mr. John Maclnren, and Mr. Robert Mac­ kenzie--were walking over the Reichs bridge, which spans the Danube at Vienna, at a hight of seventy feet, re­ cently, when the two younger men teased Dr. Watson, saying, that his courage would fail him had he to jump from the bridge into the river. All at once Dr. Watson mounted the parapet, and, before bis fr.'ends oould hinder him, jumped into the river, which ran at seventy feet below. Despite the •coldness of the water and the current Dr. Watson swam to the shore, where he was taken into custody by the police. MONCUKH D. CONWAY, who, after twenty years' residence abroad, is oom- ing from London to Washington to live, «ays to a correspondent of the New York World: "A man with brains, ideas, and ability for effective work can •do more real good by naing his talents -in the United States than he can ac •complish anywhere else. The Ameri -cans can be influenced in favor of right changes. They are disposed to know what they are shown is right. They have no prejudices in favor of existing wrong ..•systems. They are the salt of the mod­ ern world. It is almost impossible for :any person who well knows America iand the Americans to be contented with life anywhere outside of the United '.State** " . : • WESTER* doctors say that some of their medical colleges are so greatly in want of students that the so-ealled pre­ liminary examinations are a farce. It «eems that last autumn a young man, after paying his advance fees to a medi­ cal institution, desired to attend anoth­ er college, and requested that his mon­ key be returned. This being refused, the youth determined to display great ignorance at the preliminary examina­ tion, and, out of the twenty-five ques­ tions put to him, answered but three correctly. Certain of his rejection, he called upon the Dean next day for his, "money. He was informed, however, - with great affability, that his examina­ tion hnd been entirely satisfactory. The college cashed the claim only after a lawsuit threatened. : IF there was one thing in this eountry needed more than another it was a non- scratching chicken, and at no season of the year is the necessity for that kind tit a chicken so much felt as in the spring when the suburban resident is engaged in laying out his 8x10 vegetable garden. How long the inventive facul­ ty of the American citizen has been en­ gaged in the evolution of a chicken that is guaranteed not to scratch nobody knows. The want was oae of those long-felt ones. A Mr. Howard, of Long Island, is the owner of the chicken, and the peculiarity of its construction con­ sists in having one leg shorter than the other. This abbreviation of one leg not only curtails the power of the chicken to scratch, it absolutely prevents it. It only remains now to devise an incubator that will turn out whole broods of this istvle of chicken. Those who supposed that no good thing oould come out of Xiong Island were mistaken. !r-: OAKLAXD (Cal.) Tribune: Gov Stoneman has pardoned a young con- it vict in the State prison Who is a son of a distinguished but deceased ex-Gov­ ernor of the State from which the son came several years ago. The father has been dead a few years, but the mother is still living and has been beg­ ging her son to return, unconscious of his incarceration in the penitentiary. He was to proud to allow the family name to be disgraced and was con­ victed under a fictitious name, and man­ aged to keep his mother in ignorance of his trouble. When in San Francisco he fell into the hands of designing vil­ lains, older that himself, and, while dissipated, was led into the commission of the crime. He was bnt a boy, and it was regarded as bad policy to ruin , his life by further imprisonment when he had bitterly repented his course and was anxious to return to his home and lead the life his mother expected THE Blair eduoatioual bill passed by the U. S. Senate appropriates $77,000,- 000 to be distributed through the vari­ ous States according to the illiteracy, the ability of persons above the age of 10 years to write being made the stand* ard of distribution, and the last census the means of arriving at the estimate. According to this authority there were 6.239.958 persons abnrrs the asm of 10 years in the country in the year 1880 unable to write. This would distribute the $77,000,000 as follows: ^ Alabama fC,201,i«X) Arltona do.oco A r k a n s a s , 3 ,<2I,000 California.... 60*,000 Colorado...... 120,000 Connecticut.. 340,00* Dakota........ (SO,0)0 Delaware..... 952,000 Florida....... 9*0,003 O orgia...... 6,240,000 mino'A....... 1,740,000 Indiana....... 1,320,000 Iowa WW. ooo Ka •!#*«,....... 479,000 Kentucky..... 4,189,009 Louisiana..... 91320,000 Maine......... 3C4.001 Maryland 1,680,030 Masuchnsetts 1,1U,000 Michigan. 7G4.00A Minnesota..... 400,000 Mlaslsippt...,. 4,500,000 Mt»*ourl.... a.il,49%<m Nebraska...,. 132,000 Nevada 48>uot N. Hampshire 160,0 • New Jersey... 630,001 New Mexloo.. 680,001 New York..... 2,*15,000 N. Carolina... 6,5S6,oo« Ohio... 1,58?, 004 Oregon 85,006 Pennsylvania. 1,736,006 Rhode Island. 297,006 B. Carolina... 2,428,006 Tennessee.... 4,950,006 Texas 3,800,0.6 Utah.......... 100,006 Vermont..,.. 190,006 Virginia 0,100,ooc Wash. Ter.... 40,000 W. Virginia.. 1,000,00c Wlseoasta,.. 660,606 CHICAGO Current: The latest Freneh records of crime reveal the suggestive fact that crime has increased in the direct ratio of intelligence, the illiter­ ate classes furnishing five criminals; those who can read furnishing six and the beneficiaries of the higher grade of instruction furnishing fifteen crimnals in an equal number of persons. These figures have been carefully compiled. What is true of France is true in a less degree of England, Germany and our country, where eduoation is widely dif­ fused. The crimes of the highly educat­ ed are Dot so often in the line of mur­ der ; the tendency is to robbery under the euphemism of "embezzlement," "vio­ lation of trust," "short," etc.; although the intelligent operator is as guilty as any illiterate highway robber or mid­ night burglar. Unfortunately for the promulgators of the dogma that eduoa­ tion purges a country of crime, our own beloved country has vastly increased her criminal lists with the increase of educational facilities. Of the forty thousand convicts in our penitentiaries, between 60 and 70 per cent, of them can read or write. h THE story of the boy #ho took the broken wheelborrow home and asked that it be mended, as his father wanted to borrow it again, is generally sup­ posed to be a fiction, invented to im­ press upon dull intellects the sublime impudence of some people who borrow. But as sure as truth is stranger than fiction here we have an instance of it that goes the wheelborrow story sever­ al points better. A Chicago man, Mo- Farland by name, having a little job of painting, as many people have at this season of the year, borrowed a step- ladder from his neighbor, James Burns. While he was using it the step-ladder gave way and McFarland fell, breaking one of his ribs. Instead of being grate­ ful for the loan of the ladder he brings suit against Burns, charging him with causing the accident by lending an un­ reliable article, and placing the damage done to his rib at $2,500. This suit, if it proceeds, ought to put the whole question of borrowing on a better un­ derstood ground. If Burns kept that kind of a ladder on purpose to lentl during house-cleaning time is he legally responsible for limbs broken on it? Will the plea that he wanted to keep on the right side of a disagreeable neigh­ bor with a penchant for borrowing stand law, or will he have to lie about it and adopt the didn't-know-it-was- loaded line of defense in order to escape legal responsibility. In short, is a man bound to keep the best there is in the market for lending purposes or else shut up his bowels of compassion against the people who have nothing but what they borrow ? The Stery of u Spider Web. To me, the web of a spider is truly a study, and I learn many things from it. First, I note the patienee of the little spider in ginning his delieate threads. What a mo<lell of this virtue he is? He is far from being pretty, "but his work and his virtue of patience are beautiful, surely. Then I think of the skill the fellow lias. Andhnother thing I learn from ugly Mr. Spider is that patience wins. I never saw a spider (and I've been ac­ quainted with a good many of them, and like to watch the morose looking speci­ mens), who don't catch something nice in his trap before he gives up. "Go to the ant, th.u sluggard," and "Go to the spider, thou impatient," ought to go band in hand, as proverbs. And another thing. Tou may say what you please, but gentleness tells. Who ever saw a rough, burly spider ? Spiders know that they can, catch mere flies with soft, delicate meshes than in rough ways. A spider might spit at the flies and chase them, and get all his family at work shouting after them, and never oatch a fly in the world. But he is gen­ tle, and seems to know the old proverb, that you can catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar. Bnt see the way he sits at the center of his web-work, and feels out, as it were all along the wires, to the very extremity of his meshes, that sparkle in the sunshine. Every thread is like one of his own norves. I think all this is like the hu­ man heart. The threads are like our affections. Tonclionr feelings, and the heart at the center feels it in a mo­ ment. Let us try and keep our feelings soft and tender. L$t conscience respond to the slightest touch. We sit, as it were, in the midst of a delicate network of thought and affection. Let us be ten­ der of the feelings of each other. The heart feels the slightest touch that is laid even on the most distant part of the vast and intricate network of which it is the center. THERE is no period in a fond mother^ life when she is happier than immedi­ ately after the baby has successfully oat his 1st 2th. S. & PREYTIS8. Reminiscences of ths Moat Boqwat MM Who Ever Addraaaad tU UIWMOt Bsp- Ks«nlati*e«. Sargent S. Prentiss was undoubtedly the most eloquent man who ever ad­ dressed the United States House of Representatives. A carpet - bagger from Maine, he went to Mississippi poor friendless, and not only became foremost among her sons, but acquired a national reputation. Edward Everett, after having listened to one of his im­ passion ate bursts of eloquence in Faneuil hall, turned to Daniel Webster, who sat next to him, and asked: "Did you ever hear any tiling like it?" "Never," said Webster, "except from Mr. Prentiss himself f** He was indeed a remarkable orator, his intellectual endowments presenting a remarkable example in which great logical powers and the most vivid imagination were most happily blendtd. As Dry den said of Halifax, he was a man Of pi"r?inif wit and frequent thonght, Kndowe<l by nature and by learning taught Te move asaenibiies. The great secret of his oratorical suc­ cess was his readiness--he seemed never at a loss for an epigram or a re­ tort, and his impromptu speeches were the best. Prentiss used to tell a good story about his second canvass of tho State of Mississippi. He had arranged a route, and one of his friends had gone ahead to make arrangements for a hall in each successive town, and to adver­ tise the meeting there. The proprietor of a traveling menagerie took advantage of these congregations, and followed, exhibiting at each place on the day that Prentiss spoke. The first intimation that the orator had of this rivalry was at a small town in the northern part of the State, near the Alabama line. After Prentiss had been speaking for an hour, holding the attention of his audience, he observed the attention of some of the outsiders looking over their shoulders, and this movement was gradually fol­ lowed by more of his audience. He began to think he was growing dull, and endeavored to rouse himself up to more animation; but it was all in vain. He at length looked in the popular di­ rection, and there, to his horror, just coming over the hill, was the elephant dressed in his scarlet trappings and Oriental splendor. A foolish feeling of vanity, not to be outdone by the ele­ phant, came over him, and he continued to talk. * * * He found it was no use. So he said: "Well, ladies and gentleman, I am beaten. But I have the consolation of knowing that it was not by my competitor. I will not knock under to any two-legged beast, but I yield to the elephant." Prentiss afterwards made an arrange­ ment with the proprietor of the menag­ erie to divide time with the monkey and the clown, the first hour being given to politics. One of the cages was used as a rostrum. Soon lie heard a low sound, which represented a growl, and learned that the hyena was his nearest listener. There were large auger-holes in the top of the box for the admission of air. Prentiss commenced speaking, and when he reached the blood-and-thunder portion of his* speech he ran his cane into the case, and called forth a most horrible yell from the enraged animal, at the same time gesticulating violently with the other hand. "Why, fellow- citizens," he would exclaim, "the very wild beasts are shocked at the political baseness and corruption of the times. See how this worthy fellow just below me is scandalized. Hear his yell of patriotic shame and indignation!" The effect was electric; he called down the house in a perfect tempest of enthusi­ asm. He hurled his anathemas at his foes, and enforced them by the yells of his neighbors. The people of Missis­ sippi worshipped Mr. Prentiss, his habits, which would have been con­ demned in other sections of the coun­ try, only endeared him the more to them. Generous to his foes, faithful to his friends, he won the contidencc and affection of all who knew him. Bailey Peyton used to illustrate his readiness at an impromptu speech by narrating an incident which occurred ia 1844, when Prentiss joined a hunting party, tvith which he. spent a week or two tinder a tent in tiie forests of the Sun­ flower, a small river tributary to the Mississippi, in the vicinity of Vicks- burg. Towering above the tent stood one of the most remarkable elevations, evidently the work of art, which abound in the Mississippi Valley, and are com­ monly called Indian mounds. One day Mr. Prentiss, with the aid of the vines and the overhanging boughs, made his way to the top of the mound, when his friends, who were collected around the tent, discovering him, united in a call for a speech--a speech from Prentiss. "Upon what subject?" "Upon the sub ject upon which you now stand." He at once set off in a playful sally for the amusement of himself and friends, but, warming in the subject as he proceeded, his creative imagination now people the forest with that lost tribe, that rayster ions race, who, ages past, inhabited the country before the birth of the aborig­ inal trees that abound upon these huge piles. He introduced every variety of character, fairies, princes, courtiers, warriors; marshaled armies and fought battles, going on thus for more than an hou% in a vein of philosophical reflec­ tion and poetical invention, which im­ parted a thrilling, almost a real, inter­ est to the imaginary scene. The gen­ tleman from whom I had this incident was a man of cultivated tastes, had often heard Mr. Prentiss at the bar and on the hustings, and he considered this one of his happiest efforts. The later years of Mr. Prentiss was passed in New Orleans, where he prac­ ticed almost up to the hour of his death, with an emaciated countenance and a frame exhausted from the cruel ravages of disease, but with a spirit undaunted, a mind ever luminous and exhibiting in every effort its almost superhuman energy.--Ben: Perley Poore. How He Lost His Free Pass. Some time ago Judge Q., of Nash­ ville, was pressing a suit before a Stew­ art County jury against the railroad in an action for damages for killing his client's cow. "What is that thing, gen­ tlemen of the jury, what is the name of that instrument of death fastened on in front of the engine ?" asked the Judge, with well-feigned ignorance. "It's the cow-catcher," replied one of the jurors. Ah! I thought sp." And yet Judge Lurton, with more cheek than any young man I ever knew, tells you that the railroads do not intend to destroy your stock, even while they carry a cow-cateher, put there to run your cows down and catch 'em and kill 'em, as the name of the fearful implement of de­ struction implies--even while the roads fasten this cow-catcher on in front of the train--yes, gentlemen, it is fastened on to chase your cows around and catch the poor things and crush the very life out ©f them." The Judge got his $75 verdict for a $15 cow; and what's more, he got his free pass "tuck up" on the way home, and has been paying the usual per mile- em ever since.--Nashville Worid. Some of Lincoln's Jokes. President Linooln has been made re­ sponsible for so many jokes that he re­ minds one of a noted Irish wit, who, having been ruined by indorsing the notes of his friends, used to curse the day when he learned to write his name, as he had obtained 6ueh a reputation for willingness to oblige that be could not refuse. Mr. Linooln might well have regretted having made a joke, for he was expected to say something funny on all occasions, and has been made an­ swerable for all manner of jests, stories and repartees, as if he had combined si} the elements of humor, commonplace heartleseness, and coarseness, mingled with a passion for reviving the jokes of Joe Miller and the circus clowns. Yet, he did say many excellent things. On one occasion when Senator Wade came to him and said: "I tell you, Mr. President, that unless a proposition for emancipation is adopted by the government, we will t'l go to the devil; at this very moment we are not over one mile from hell." "Perhaps not," said Mr. Lincoln, as I believe that is just about the distance from here~ to the Capitol, where you gentlemen are in session." On one occasion, at a recption, when the crowd of citizens and soldiers were surging through the salons of the White House, evidently controlled by the somewhat brusque western element, a gentleman said to him: "Mr. President, you must diminish the number of your friends, or Congress must enlarge this edifice." "Well," promptly replied Mr. Lin­ coln, "I have no idea of diminishing the number at my friends; but the only question with me now is whether it will be best to have the building stretched or split." At one of these receptions, when a paymaster in ful<l major's uniform was introduced, he said : "Being here, Mr. Linooln, I thought I would call and pay my respects." "From the complaints made by the soldiers," responded the President, "1 guess that is all any of you do pay." Ward Layman, when Lincoln had ap­ pointed him Marshal of the District ol Columbia, accidentally found himseU in a street fight, and, in restoring peace, he struck one of the belligerants with his fist, a weapon with which he was notoriously familiar. The blow was a harder one than Lamon intended, for the fellow was knocked senseless, taken up unconscious, and lay for come hours on the border of life and death. Lamon was alarmed, and the next morning re­ ported the affair to the President. "I am astonished at you, Ward," said Mr. Lincon; "you ought to have known better. Hereafter, when you have to hit a man, use a club and not yonr fist." --Ben: Perley Poore, in Bos ton Bud­ get Banking Oat West. A Baltimore man who started a bank at Custer City a year or so ago and failed within a week, simply because he didn't know Western hnman nature. His place had not been open an hour when a man in buckskin slouched came in and presented a note of $100 run­ ning for sixty days, and asked to have it discounted. "I don't know you," replied the banker, who was his own cashier. "Stranger, that's icy name thar at the bottom--Bill Biggs." "I see." •*- , "And that note is backed by Jim Madden." » "I see, but I don't care to discount it." The man picked up the paper and walked out, and in the course of ten minutes a chap with a pistol in either hand danced into the bank and cheerily called out: "Here's Jim Madden, and he wants to set eyes on the galloot who won't discount a note when he backs it." He popped the banker in the shoulder, a clerk in the hip, and then fired away at the pictures until some one called him out to drink. The next morning the banker was missing and when he afterward turned up in Denver, he ac­ knowledged that the banking business had some painful features that no one but the cowboy was able to wrestle mi^ur-Wall Street News. Legal Intelligence* A rather onte sort of a follow came to an Austin lawyer, to engage him to un­ dertake the defence of a suit for debt, when the follcfwing conversation took place: "You say you owe thisKman that money?" "O, yos; I owe him the money." "And yon have given him a note for it?" "Certainly." "And yon have property un which he can levy?" "Plenty of It." "Then, in the nume of heaven, how do you expect to gain the suit?" "Colonel," said the client, impressive­ ly. "you have been a Texas lawyer for a good many years?" "Certainly." "Well, did you ever ktiow a Texas jury to bring in a verdict according to the law and the facts in the case ?' "Right you are," exclaimed the law­ yer; "I'll take your case."--Texas Sift- i rgs. What is Evolution! This word is in constant use in all the literatures of the world. Indeed with some writer it is as important a word as law, force, nature, and even God. Herbert Spencer has helped to make it fashionable, and this is the defi­ nition of it: "Evolution is an integration of mat­ ter and concomitant dissipation of mo­ tion, during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homo­ geneity to a definite, coherent hetero­ geneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transfor­ mation." To the average reader this is about as clear as mud; but its meaning seems to be that there is a process in nature which unfolds or develops higher from lower types of existence. It corres­ ponds to the word progress as applied to the course of history in hufgan af­ fairs.--Demorest's Monthly. vT. Hadn't Lost Her Cod. "Ma," said a five-year-old philosopher after the concert. "What is it, darling ?" "Ma, what was that woman doing when she opened her mouth so big?" •She was singing, darling." "Had she lost her cud^* "Lost her cud!" "Yes, ma, hadn't she lost her cud?" "Why, child, what do you mean ? The lady had no cud! Why^do you ask ?" 'Well, she looked just like onr old cow did when she lost her cud."-- Through Mail A BRILLIANT SPEECH. Remarks of Congressman John A. les­ sen, Upon Accepting the Chairman* ship of the Iowa Republican Convention. Ton meet to-day, gentlemen of thesoa- rention, for the inauguration iu Iowa of the Republican campaign of 1884. Let your *urrow be deep as you put the Republican plow of Iowa into the national soil, and let your lines be straight, as they always are, ind I can promiso you a rich and abundant crop this full in the Republican harvest. Day after day at Washington they are forming the issues of the campaign, and these are now so far formed and presented to the people that we can already anticipate what the verdict is to be. The people of the United States have learned to trust the Republican party with their m^s't important business interests. They have witnessed the growth of unparalleled prosperity under Republican management. They still look to that party as earnestly as ever before. Nowhere else does the nation look with con­ fidence. We have some issues presented to us ly­ ing very near the hearts of the people. One of them is now under debate in Congress. There is, underlying the prosperity of this country, the great principle of foster­ ing the interests of home industry as against the interests of foreign nations. We know throughout this country that the great activity and enterprise of the United States owe their Wonderful development to our steady adhesion to the principle of pro­ tection. That principle gave the promise and secured the fruits of a prosperity un­ exampled. Here at home is the greatest competition in the manufacture of fabrics used by the people. Everywhere in the United States, under the fostering cure of the system of protection to home industry inaugurated by Washington and continued ever since, except during certain intervals of free trade, the country and its wealth have advanced as no nation has done be­ fore. Bnt now the fear of an abandonment of this principle is causing our great indus­ tries to tremble for their future. A year ago the tariff was revised and reductions made--much larger than free traders al­ low . Industry and trade then hoped for a period of rest without further immediate agitation. No sooner had the Democratic House of Representatives assembled, than, in obedience to party dictation, they began to agitate both the capital and the labor of the country with fears of further losses to the investments of the one and the wages of the other. At this moment the chief cause of depression in business in the United State# arises from the alarm and insecurity atteuding the introduction of this bill now pending in Congress. Yet the Democracy declare that this is on­ ly their first step in their assault upon the industries of the country. They are to fol­ low it with successive blows toward the es­ tablishment of free trade. In a word, they are attempting to again iuaugumte the poli­ cy so fatally adopted in 1833. Many men who are now before me remember well the consequences of that experience. In 1S37 the evil culminated in a crisis, and every business interest in the country went tum­ bling into bankruptcy and ruin. Can you wonder that we now stand shoulder to shoul­ der against such a system, and that we would arouse the people in the presence of this peril which threatens their prosperity? Dut the Democracy is not only reckless of the business interests of the country. They are equally reckless of the duties of patriot­ ism. In their devotion to the most violent principles of parties and politics our adver­ saries have forgotten the very principle it­ self of American patriotism. They have lost the habit of regarding the right and left arms of our national security and defense. They hardly regard them worthy of recog­ nition. They have refused, year after year, the proper support due to the array and na­ vy. What a change from the past! I see scarcely a man before me who cannot re­ member the time when no national celebra­ tion by either party was complete without a toast to the honor of the army and navy of the United States. Your Democratic and free trade clubs now meet year after year without a word of gratitude to the army and without a syllable of regard to the navy. We stand to-day powerless before the guns of the other nations of the world. We have not a ship that can resist the power of even Chili and Peru. We have rights to main­ tain and wrongs to redress with the Govern­ ments of South America as well as those of Europe. Both native and naturalized citi­ zens of ours have been outraged. Our rec­ ords show it. Apd yet the Democracy re­ fuse the means demnnded by the executive Government to maintain our rights and re­ dress our wrongs. There was a time in the history of this country when our statesmen were ready to speak in terms of praise of our navy. That magnificent orator and statesman, Daniel Webster, said, not so many years ago aa to be forgotten: "We have a commerce that leaves no uea unex­ plored, a navy 'that takes no law from super­ ior forces." The Republican party to-day demands the restoration of that condition for our country. The Republican party has also demanded legislation for the benefit of our agricultural interests, for defense against cattle diseases, and for the protection of our export trade in meat products against the efforts of foreign governments for their exclusion; and for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, all for the benefit of our farming interests. We advocate it. The Democracy raises against us the cry of State rights and the doctrine of the resolutions of 171)8, and by a large majority of their party attempt to thwart our efforts. Bnt we continue the fight. But, gentlemen, there is not time now for me to speak of all the measures before Con­ gress and the country. There are other questions we have to consider to-day. Using a figure of speech, Iowa is one of the fairest daughters . of the Union. Are you surprised that there are several suitors for her hand this year? The boys are gathering about her and looking upon her fair face. She is hard to suit; she likes them all pretty well. James seems to have caught her eye more'than any of the others. But I notice that the fair and honest girl looks a little liugeringly into some of the other faces. She looks up to Chester, and says; "You are a noble fellow. I remember the diffi­ culties under which you came iuto the place which you now occupy, when all was dis­ cord and confusion. You have reunited the Republican party, closed the mouths of its opponents, and given us a pure and suc­ cessful administration, and you have made Republican success possible this year. I have a prior attachment, eight years old." I have a little weakness for the under dog in the Iowa fight, and I can't help telling you here, Where it won't do a bit of good, that Gen. Arthur has wonderfully met the demands of the Republican party and re­ deemed all of his promises. I will take the liberty to say this much to you, although Iowa has an earlier attachment. Justice demands it. Then there is Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, whom I have known for many years. His ability and eminent judgment can safely be trusted. There is also that darling of many of Iowa's soldiers, John A. Logan, and if Iowa can, Iowa will give him :i hearty vote. Then, if all these more lights and geniuses get into cou- ict and cannot agree, I see this lovely Miss Iowa Iboking out of the northwest corner of her eye at the son of one Abraham Lincoln, whom her mother loved all over. And so I think, while I will honestly declare the choice of Iowa when I get hack to Washing­ ton, that I may also say that Iowa Repub- i licans love principles more than men, and vill figflt for the nominees of the llepub- .icau contention by a great majority. TH* grVat opportunity of the Re­ publican party lies in winning the sup- ] port of/this reform and independent j elemetlt. With that support, success is ' ^Ksured. Without it, success is not merely uncertain, it is altogether im­ probable, aud nothing but fatuous ; blundering on the port of tho Demo- i cratio party will make it possible.! This aspect of the situation ought to bej thoroughly impressed upon the minds' of the delegates who 'are to gather at Chicago within a month. Some of them may not like to recognize it, but it is a stubborn fact which must be taken into their calculations if they propose to act with a view to party success. Neither of the two men who will go into the convention with the largest number of delegates favorable to their nomination epn bring to the party tho support of this element which is so essential to success. To nominate either of them would be to invite defeat. :--New York Times. The Democratic Tariff Ftm' Probably no great political party, controlling by an enormous majority the popular branoh of the National Assembly, on the eve of contesting the possession of the Government, ever made so humiliating a confession of imbecility as the Democratic party has made in striking out the enacting clause of the Morrison tariff bill and aban­ doning the whole project of war-tax reduction. * This action would have been start­ ling enough if it had been taken early in the session, thus frankly acknowl­ edging the irrepressible dissension in the party. But the revenue reformers made a struggle to keep faith with the country. They won a victory at the outset by electing Carlisle as Speaker.' Morrison and his associates in the Ways and Means Committee have been steadfast to the cause of tariff reduc­ tion, and they have acted with modera­ tion. The proposed legislation has bejen discussed elaborately. It received the .approval of the revenue reformers as a step in the right direction. The protectionists could not have expected a more reasonable bill if any measure of tariff redaction were to be proposed. The taxes are abstracting from the people HO millions a year more than Congress knows what to do with. To continue ideeding the people in this way id aduiitt d to be sheer robbery, and wholly inexcusable. The Democrats the day tho vote waa taken had a clear party majority of eighty over the Republicans in the House. The latter opposed the bill for partisan reasons, just as the Democrats opposed the Republican revision bill of the previous session. But the Republi­ cans, with a very narrow majority, acted together and passed their bill, which has resulted in material relief. The Democrats with their enormous major­ ity have gone to pieces. They have confessed to the country that they are incapable of agreeing among them­ selves, and that no legislation whatever is to be expected from them on ques­ tions of the utmost financial importance to the people. The Democratic fiasco is not to be at­ tributed to any differences as to details. The party has split upon the principle involved -- upon the simple question of any reduction. The bill was not de­ feated because a reduction was pro­ posed on the horizontal plan; any other scheme of reduction would have been similarly defeated by the protection Dem­ ocrats. Proof of this is to be found in the fact that six years ago, when the Dem- crats were in control of the House by an immense majority. Col. Morrison, then as now Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, proposed a bill to reduce the tariff by means of a gen­ eral revision, taking more off some arti­ cles and less off others, and that meas ure met the same fate as his "horizon­ tal" measure at this session. The pro­ tection Democrats denounced his bill then for exactly the opposite objections raised against his present bill. It was said six years ngo that his bill favored some commodities more than others; that it took too much tax off one article and not enough off another; and that the fair and equitable policy was to treat all interests alike. This winter he brought in a bill on that very plan, and it met the severest Democratic re­ sistance for the very reason that it was framed on the lines of equity and treat­ ing all alike. The fact is that the Democratic party, with an overwhelming majority in Con­ gress, is not prepared to reduce tariff taxes bv a horizontal cut of the tariff, nor by any revision thereof, nor by any other method of reducing the war tar­ iff. It has made an open confession that its pretenses have been false, and that it has no policy upon which the country acn plaoe its trust.--Chicago Tribune. Tickets to the Republican Convention. [Washington Telegram.] A great number of letters are re­ ceived daily by Senator Sabin, Chair­ man of the Republican National Com­ mittee, making inquiries regarding the manner of securing tickets of admis­ sion to the convention. He has pre­ pared the following circular of in­ formation upon the subject: Tickets have been prepared under the supervision of the sub-committee of the National Committee. They will be en­ graved, and with coupons for each proba­ ble session of the convention. The tickets will be numbered and allotted to particulai seats, as is done in theaters and opera- houses. The owner will retain his check, and as the coupon will be for successive sessions of the convention this will prevent more than one person obtaining admit­ tance at any one session on the same ticket. A limited number of tickets have been set apart for those who subscribe to the fund for defraying the expense incident to holding the convention. These tickets will be distributed by the local committees at Chicago only. Owing to the vast numbej of weekly newspapers it has not been found possible to make any provision for them. Ample arrangements will be made for th several press associations, and also for iu large a number of the daily newspapers a> may be possible with proper regard for th? business of the convention and the con­ venience of the delegates. It has been suggested by several news­ paper-men that such daily papers as desire to make special reports should make early application for the number of seats they re­ quire, so that when the sub-coqimittee lueet again they will have a correct idea of th< wants of the press, and they can determin- what is best to be done.1 Such applicitions as are sent the Hon. John C. New, Chair­ man of the sub-committee, he will list anil present to that committee at the proper tim. for consideration. All other tickets, beinf those for delegates, alternates, and for gen- enil admission to the convention, will bt- carefully arranged and turned over by the sub-committee to the full National Commit­ tee at the next session at Chicago the 3.1st of May. The members of the National Com­ mittee from each Stite Stnd Territory wit: have charge of the tickets for th ir States or Territories, and will at that time distribute tho samo to the delegates according to liuin ber and iu just proportion. Thus the dele­ gates from each State and Territory will have the distribution of the tickets assigned thereto, and they are therefore the proper and only persons to whom application should be mads. D. M. SUII.N, Chairman ILLINOIS STATE NEW& TH* village of Tsmpico, Whiteside Goofed ty, has voted "no license" for nine eon. secuttve years. TH* Mssonie fraternity of Knot ha^f < subscribed $16,000for the purpose of builds ' ing a hall in that town. "W. M. BANDY, a prominent BUSINESSMAN and real estate agent of Danville, died from tiie effects of an overdose of morphine which was taken for the purpose of guning some rest THE people of Will County will celebrate the next Fourth of July in an imposing manner, by laying the corner stone of tfe* fine new County Court House, which is to be erected at Joliet. The Masons will have charge of the ceremonies. JAMBS W. LABISON, of Lincoln, veoentjfl , "took up" a pony. A singular instance ^ connection with the case is the fact that large black dog was with the pony and pelt sists in staying with it. He guards hit- equine friend zealously, and will not per­ mit any one to approach but those witik whom he is acquainted. The attachment hi a singular one, but strong, and seems to BE guided with a good deal of intelligence. AT Shelbyville, after a hotly-contested legal battle of three days, John Brewstef, William Price, John Grigg, and Charles Bivens were bound over to court on a charge of kidnaping a witness. Bre wster is under indictment for alleged burglary*' and, it is charged, assisted by the othell . named, took William Shaw, the chief witk , ness against him, from his bed before day« light and forcibly marched him to Tow^l , Hill, where it was proposed to put him on^ train and send him out of the country. ^ THE State Association of survivors of the, . Mexican war will hold its next annual meet» ing in Yandalia, June 18 and 19 next. Oea W. T. Sherman and ex-Gov. Oglesby hal|^ expressed their intention to be present, anil it is expected the number of veterans in at­ tendance will be larger than usual. Thf* ]ocal committee have made arrangement! with Gov. Hamilton for the loan of a nun|> ber of tents, and it is expected the veteiaiil will go into camp. During the meeting <lt the association an enjoyable occasion is an­ ticipated, and ample arrangements are be» ing made for the entertainment of thete silver-haired veterans while here. AD D. NOBIIECK, an employe of the Franz Falk Brewing Company, is havingfc hat made by Martin Losby, a Chicago ha|* . ter, which it is believed would fit few mstl in the United States, the size being eight and a one-half. In constructing it a special block had to be made, and the machine used in pressing ordinary hats into shape could not be used. Mr. Losby said that Mr. Noeleck's head had been growing, and that he had made two hats for him before* one being seven and seven-eighths and tha other eight. "I believe he has the largeft head in the United States," said Mr. Loebjf. A journeyman at work said: "Yes, it's the biggest I ever saw, and I've worked steady at the trade for thirty-five years. The next, largest I ever saw belonged to a man Iowa, who wore an eight and one-quarter hat." The hat is a black Derby. A SINGULAR case of alleged perjury WM heard by Justice Lyon in Chicago, the de­ fendant being Mrs. Annie Peters, whose home is in that city. The woman waa arrested at the instigation of Patrick Burkg|| a laborer, because his son James married the defendant's daughter, Mary Peteia. The mother of the girl favored the marriagpii but the young man's father objected to %; The woman, however, outgeneraled t|a man by going to the County Clerk's office* getting a license for the young lovers, ai|A having them married without the old manS|f consent. He said she had committed per­ jury by swearing that the young man was eC age, and accordingly had her arrested. When it came to the examination the defense proved that the age of the groom had been put down in the license as only 20 year% but the prosecution wanted to show the® that Mrs. Peters had committed perjury by signing herself in the application for %• license as the mother of young Burke. She, admitted having done this, but claimed and so proved by the license clerk, that she had represented herself not as the mother ijt fact, but as having been a mother to the youth in the way of care and kindness. 8he was discharged. THBBB was s gathering of the medical fraternity at the Cook County Hospital one evening recently. On a bed in one of th|t"~ wards lay a man apparently about fortp years of age. Not a muscle moved, and tha unnatural quietude of death slemed to have given the limbs their tense rigidity. Giavp faces bent over the prostrate form, and th4|> " the case was one that puzzled the phvsiciane s was evident from the earnestness of the$r consultation. "An electric battery is ajt that can save him," was the decision. That settled it. The supposed dying man sat up. "There ain't nothin' the matter with me. What ye givin' us?" Had a bomb explode^ in the' room it would have created but littlpi; more consternation. The man had been brought in by the Central patrol wagon. Hia went into the rooms of the Young Menla Christian Association about 1 o'clock in thp afternoon. Stepping up to a paper rack, he struck a "dizzy" attitude--his left hand" over his eyes, right arm behind hia back, one leg carelessly athwart ita mate. At first he attracted no attentioqtx but when he had posed for an hour or f without a perceptible movement an attend* ' ant tapped him on the shoulder and spoke to him. No response was vouchsafed. The action was repeated with the dme result The fellow stood as rigid as a statue of brass, and not a word could be drawn from him. Fearing that the man was either dead or dying the patrol wagon was called and he nas taken to the hospital. He acted his part well for several hours, and it was not until the suggestion in regard to the electrie battery was made that he gave any evidence of life beyond the beating of his heart anil regular breathing. In his pocket was foun<| a memorandum book, in which was writteil the name of W ill Beck, and that was the only article about his person that afforded any clue to his identity. Beck declined to give an explanation of his masquerading. " Oh, wait a little while; I'll tell you later," was all he would say. A few hours later, , physician again essayed to find out what Beck was about, but the fellow put him o®*" with another evasive reply. He waa promptly discharged from the hospital. . J PETBBSBUBO has fixed saloon licenses $800.