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fjjjp^ettrn |!la!itdealcr I. VAN SLYKE. Editor mi T " 'McHENBY, m - ILL^OlS. women (or good, and thereby to barm the influence for public men." This, conversion was brought abcut by read­ ing a description of the cradle in which Mrs. Washburn of Livermore rocked the famous seven sons. THE Queen of Italy is having a mag- " aificent fan painted for her by an Ital­ ian artist. It is painted on kid leather, ftnd represents the Queen surrounded by the Gr4ce3 and other allegorical figures, witinthe 'genus Italy in act of > Drowning her\^ 1 COLONEL MULLIGAN, whose willow has just been made Pension Agent at Chicago, was the American Regulus. When a Confederate prisoner, he was released in order that he might go to Washington and ask for an exchange of prisoners. He was unsuccessful, and was advised not to return, but he was a man of honor, and went back to take the place in the Confederate prison. i„. ON the sides of the cave recently dis- % aoveredin Calaveras County, Califor­ nia, are seen huge bowlders, which seem about to fall upon and crush the <tnvader of their grand domain. A closer observation will show, however that the bowlders,j^Mch originally were displaced from the roof, have been caught in a fissure in the wall, where they have remained in'the same threatening attitude for centuries, as is shewn by the depth of the calcar- eous deposits wlych cover them. IT came out in the trial of the Presi­ dent of the Erie County Savings Bank for defrauding the depositors that he had a private wire in a back closet in the bank, by means of which he and •the cashier dispatched their depositors' money to a Chicago speculator in sums of $100,000 at a time. They probably learned this.device from the confidence men who slide out their victims' money through a panel in the rear of their desks into a back room and make off with it. The President has had to go to the penitentiary, however, when confidence man might have escaped. EX-MINISTER WILLIAM WILLIAMS, of Warsaw, Indiana, who is just back from Montevideo, Uruguay, said the other day: "I saw in an interview with ex- Minister Osborn, „6n his return from Brazil, a statement that Americans owh all the tramways, gas-works, and simi­ lar local enterprises at Rio. This is a mistake. They are all owned by Eng­ lishmen. The English have a high ap­ preciation of South America as a profit­ able place for investment. Their yojjrig men go there as clerks, soon branch out in business, and presently are rich nabobs. It is difficult to make New Yorkers or Americans understand what a rich field of trtide lies right below them." • ' AKLO BATES, of Boston, lino ly*6n telling a story of a Woman whajK^ht to Concord, Massachusetts, and a«ked for some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's old clothes to use in a "poet's rug" made of . patchmork. "I can corroborate this story," writes George Parsons Lathrop, "because when 1 owned and lived in The Wayside, Nathaniel Hawthorne's old home at Concorn, the same woman applied there on a similar errand^ Be­ ing told that it was futile, she asked: "May I pick up something around the place to carry, away as a memento?" Permission was granted, and she finally caught a cricket in the grass of the lawn and put it into a bottle. She said she also had a cricket from Emer- iOn's front yard." V • \ •THE Colorado desert consists of be­ tween 6,000 and 7,000 acres of arid ' land, in the center of which are ex­ tensive salt and borax fields. Located in the valley of the desert are several mud springs which emit sulphurous odors, and there is here and Inhere a growth of greasewood and cactM The first European who is known tw hare crassed • this sandy tract was Capt. Battista Ainsa, Governor of Sonora, in 1774, when he opened npa trail to con­ nect the California missions with Mex­ ico. It was little traveled till the flood of Argonauts came in 1847-50, dm-hag which tinra over 00,000 people crossed at the Yuma ferry bound for the mines. The Indians living on the desert are re­ markably healthy and long-lived. Chief Cabezon died two years ago at thV ago of 140 years. WHEN Parson Newman was in Japan he was desirous of obtaining admission to the criminal court, a thing for for­ eigners difficult well nigh to impossi­ bility. The Parson assured his friends that previous failures had resulted from the stupidity of visitors in not impressing their "importance upon the officials, and so sent in his card, deco­ rated with all his titles--religious, of­ ficial, masonic, eta In a few minute the Parson was delighted to see all the officials running to him and greet­ ing him with manifestations of almost abject reverence. "I told you liow it "would be," he said triumphantly to his Mends, and then the Japanese ex­ plained that so distinguished was their visitor that there was nobody among them worthy to open the doors to admit him. THERE is a young girl in Tennessee, Miss St. Pierre, who oovorol thousand acres of mining land, and who has business enterprises in the vicinity of Chattanoogo which $1,300,000 to organize. Miss Elizabeth Garrett, Who inherited ono-third of John W. Garrett's $34,000,000, was heir father's confidential secretary while he was President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and she has advised him on many occasions. Mark Hop- kin's widow, who is building the $1,000,000 residence at Great Bar- rington, Massachusetts, is perfectly able to manage her $30,000,000, and can drive a barfain with as much tact as could her husband. She has a broad grasp of financial matters, aibd knows the value of stocks «as well as Jay Gould. GENERAL GRANT AND THE BLOODY SHIRT. IFrom the Chicago Tribune.] The Democratic papers are making a great flourish of a statement tnade by General' Grant during his dying mo­ ments ai^d jrepprted by his son as fol- MOB. CAPEL, the prelate who makes a specialty of converting women, did not have much success with Mme. da Struve, the gifted and sensible wife of the Russian Minister to this country.1 The prelate endeavored, says a Wash­ ington correspondent, to make a con­ vert of the brilliant Russian. She was /very much annoyed by his persistence in talking to her upon the subject of religion. He met her one evening at some reception, and began talking to her upon this subject. She said to him, "It is no use for you to talk to me about this matter. You are merely giving yourself unecessary trouble. You had better drop it." The patient English­ man, in his anxious angling for an aris­ tocratic soul still, persisted. He said, "Won't you at least make an engage­ ment for me and permit me to call and have a talk with you ?" Mme. de Struve looked at him, and then she said, "Yes, I \^ill make an engagement with you." "Where can I have a private talk with you?" said ho. "Yes," washer reply. "Where shall we meet?" said this so­ ciety prelate, with a deep bow. "In h--," said Mm?, de Struve, with an­ other bow equalljn^eremoniotts. KING LUDWJG, of Bavaria, is saifl to dislike women so intensely that ho will allow them to perform no service for him, even thatj>of mending his clothes i--being an impecunious monarch, he is sometimes forced td wear darned socks. Evidently his Majesty is troubled with a form of the "antipathy" wliicli afflicts the truly original hero of Oliver Wen­ dell Holmes' story now running in the Atlantic Monthly. This unfortunate young man faints and lies at the point of death at thg near approach of any blooming young woman. There are indications, however, that his cure is liVely to be affected. 011 ih<i that like cures like, by the cautious in­ troduction in to'his presence of a cer­ tain peculiarly attractive maiden. The chance that he may be killed instead of cured by the experiment lends some­ what novel interest to the tale, but there is a sufficiently comfortable as­ surance in the reader's mind that the result will not be fatal to prevent any serious anxiety. Friends of the Bava­ rian King may glean seme facts from Holmes' mothod of, treatment which will at least mitigate the severity of his disease sufficiently to allow of the mending of his socks by a member of the darn--ing sex. A PRESQUE ISLE (Maine) clergyman, who thinks that woman's sphere does not include the ballot-box and the ward caucus, tried to interview Hannibal Hamlin on this subject He described a woman who "made herself as busy in public affairs as do many ladies at the present day, absented herself from home, presiding and talking at public meetings and other public gatherings, "claiming the right to vote, hold offices, and mingle in public affairs as men do, instead of rocking the cradle," and asked Mr. Hamlin if he ever knew an eminent man whose mother was such a Woman. Mr. Hamlin said in reply that no man was ever great whose mother was not great, and added: "I vei^ much fear that the course of some ladies in seeking to be conspicuous in public and political affairs has but a tendency to impair the influenoe of Fuith-Henliiig a Fact. There can be no question that faith- healing is a fact. The brain is not simply the organ of the mind; it is also the chief center, or series of centers, of the nervous system by which the whole body is energized, and its com­ ponent parts, with their several func­ tions, are governed and regulated. There is no miracle in healing by faith; whereas, it would be a miracle if, the organism being constituted as it is, and the laws of life such as they are, faith- healing under favorable conditions did not occur. The fallacy of those who proclaim faith-healing as a religious function lies in the fact, that they mis­ understand and misinterpret their own formula. It is the faith that heals, not the hy­ pothecated source, or object, of faith outside the subject of faith. The whole process is self-contained. Noth­ ing is done for the believer; his act of believing is the motor force of his cure. We all-remember the old trick of mak­ ing a man ill by persistently telling him he is ill until he believes it. The contrary of this is making a man well by inducing him to believe himself to be so. The number of the "miracles" performed will be the precise number of persons who are capable of being thrown into a state of mind and body in which "faith" dominates the organic spates. Pathologists will limit the area of this process to the province of func­ tional disease; but. we are not sure that they are justified by scientific facts in making this limitation. It must not be forgotten that function goes before or­ ganism in development, and that there are large classes of cases in which the disabilities of a diseased organ for a fair performance of its functions are mainly due to a want of power or ir­ regularity in action And it is a fact in pathology thai if the fuucliuu of uii ojggan be maintained or restored, much of the destructive metamorphosis due to proliferation of connective tissue, fatty deposits, or even certain forms of atrophic change in which the nuclei of cell-life are rather denuded than de­ stroyed, may be at rested and to some extent repaired. The vis medicatrix nature is a very potent factor in- the amelioration of disease, if only it be allowed fair play. A'n exercise of I "faith" as a rule suspends the opera- I tion of adverse influence#, and appeals I strongly through the conscioueness to I the inner and Underlying I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there, is to be great harmony between tho i'tjdorals and tlie Confederates. 1 cannot cost 8tay to be a living witness to the correctness of the pr6pheey, Out 1 l'eel it within me that It is to be BO. Tlfe/univfcrsally kind feeling expressed lor me ft a Vfrue when it was sup­ posed that each uay /would prove my iast seems to me tho beginning of the answer to "Let us have peace. ' Assuming that Col. Fred Grant Jbas reported his father's words correctlv, it is not remarkable that Gen. Grant should have uttered them at a time when the afi'airs of this world had no further interest for him and he was anxious to be at peace himself and to leave the earth with some kindly mes­ sage of farewell. Under such circum­ stances we may well imagine that what seems a prophecy was only a wish, and that had Gen. Grant been aware, as he was when he was well, of the condition of things in the South, his lips would either have remained silent or he would have uttered indignant protest. When he was in robus^ health and in the prime of bis physical and mental pow­ ers he expressed himself on political subjects as follows: There is not a precinct in this vast Nation where a Democrat cannot cast his ballot ana have it counted as cast, no matter what the predominance of the opposite party. He can proclaim his political opinions, even if he is only one among a thousand, "'W'ittrout fear and without proscription on account of his opinions, lliere are eight States, and locali­ ties in some others, where Republicans have not this privilege. In one of hjs messages to Congress he described as follows the objects of the Soutb Carolina Bourbon Democracy: To deprive colored citi/.ens of the right to a free ballot; * * * to suppress schools in which colored children are taught, and to reduce the colored people, to a condition akin to slavery. * * * To effect these ob­ jects many murders and crimes of minor degree have been perpetrated aud have beca left unpunished." As the situation has not changed since Gen. Grant uttered these em­ phatic protests against Southern injus­ tice and intolerance and, the suppres­ sion of the Republican vote in that sec­ tion, it is absurd to suppose that his opinions had changed, or that because he hoped for^Tichange in these respects and was magnanimous in his expressions towards ex-rebel soldiers lie thereby gave his consent to outrages at the polls and to the terrorism of colored voters, as it is to deny that these out­ rages are committed because Gen. Grant gave utterance to a hope for reconciliation in his dying moments. Suppose that Gen. Grant were living now find were fully cognizant of what is going on in Virginia, what would lie be likely to say ? Supposing that he should visit Virginia and travel about the State, what would he behold? He would see the Bourbons gather together at their meetings to be addressed by Fitzhugh Lee. He would see Fitzhugh Lee, mounted upon his uncle's war sad­ dle and the horse he rode arrayed with Lee's old rebel war trappings, riding over the public highways, escorted to his meetings by a troop of rebel cav­ alry carrying their old rebel battle-flags and banners inscribed with mottoes in­ tended t6 recall the lost cause; He would hear the rebel yells and the Southern war songs sung at these Democratic meetings. He would hear speakers who had been officers in the rebel army appealing to their hearers with arguments based upon the memo­ ries of the slaveholders' secession re­ bellion and the good times of the chiv­ alry in the days of slavery, and^ trying ing in the most incendiary man­ ner to inflame them with a hatred of colored Republicans and ; their white friends, and to intensify' their hatred of the National Union .North. All about him would be flaunted the rebel bloody shirt. He would w itness a fierce and malic^j&s rebel bloody- shirt campaign, ana see the rebel bloody shirt exhibited at all Fitzliugh ^ JLee's meetings and wherever a meeting of Democrats was held. He would see more intenscj bloody-shirtism one Virginia Bourbon meeting than ti%all the Republican meetings addresseuby, John Sherman in Ohio during this campaign put together. If he should go to Mississippi--a strong Republican State--he would see a campaign without a Republican ticket in the field at all, because the colored Republicans are prevented by tho shot­ gun and ballot-box stutter from voting. And when Gen. Grant had seen these things, is there any doubt what his utterances would have been? Does any one.&oubt that he would have flamed out with honest indignation, and that some of the severest and sharpest com­ ments that have ever been spoken by him would have characterized his opin­ ion of these outrages? If to protest against them is to wave the bloody shirt, would he not have waved it ? Vindicating the Southern Issue. The returns of the Ohio election show the falsehood of the assertions made by the Democratic and mugwump journals that Senator Sherman's speeches condemning the systematic practice of fraud at the elections in some of the Southern States as a means of practically disfranchising the col­ ored vote, had produced widespread disgust among the Ohio Republicans. Those who have not read Mr. Sher­ man's speeches, and who have obtained their impressions ot them ftfom the misrepresentations of the journals re­ ferred to, may suppose~-that lie. lias bdbn "waving the bloody shirt" arid seeking to revive the animosities of the war period. But Senator Sherman is a statesman who deals with living questions, and the Ohio Republicans do not Un*lvTniuiMi iiuit lift Wait ing the gospel of hate," an the demo­ cratic papers allege, when ho coniv. plained of tho *ui>prc»iiioi) of the majority in some of rhe Mute* by fraud and force. It is a vei v vital »*MU\ uud the time lias not come wlu n the Ameri­ can people will consent tn the policy of silence on a flagrant injustice simply because the means of correcting it .are diiicult and cannot be at once applied. The existence of a great number of ignorant Voters who are easily made the dupes of corrupt politicians, is a seri­ ous evil, and the Southern people, if •ma luuo. j --- faculty of j they will sh,ow a proper spirit iu deal- vital force. There nre many intracta-1 ing with it, will have the hearty syni- bie cases in every practice which might ] pathy and support of Northern Repub- be "cured by faith." It is well that j licans. But the intimidation of voters these poor persons should be benefited and fraudulent returns are not 4he bysomemeans.it matters little what; proper methods. They demoralize and 1 •# ll. _ A/1 VtWP and if they can be "healed by faith we ought to be very glad, and thank­ ful, too, for the mistaken zeal of those who, being weak-minded themselves, make dupes of other ^^k-miiided folks to their advantage. This is a corrupt the whole body politic. The men who have learned to cheat the col­ ored voters by tissue ballots and fraud­ ulent counts will not stop at that point. They will employ the same methods to maintain themselves in power against some test of intelligence which will ap- plv eauallv to white and black, and then hold honest elections, Senator Sherman and others like him will cease to complain of the management and re­ sults of Southern elections. In the North we have large numbers of ignor- ant voters, who are as subject to the lead of corrupt men as the innocent South- Giii uco, but no dv> sot think it the proper manner of improving their political cation to teach them that, although they may Vote, their ballots shall be deprived of all influence by the falsification of "the election returns under the management of the superior and cultivated class.--MUicaukee Sen­ tinel. <3ExJi GRANT'S ADVICE TO VOTERS. Why He Waa a Republican. ^ [From Gen. Grant'# speech at >Varren, Ohio, Sep. 28, 1880.] It may be proper for me to account to you, on the first occasion of my pre­ siding at a political meeting, for the faith that is in me. I am a Republican, as the two great political parties are now divided, be­ cause the Republican party is a nation­ al party, seeking the greatest good of the greatest number of her citizens. There is not a precinct in this vast na­ tion where a Demoorat can not cast his ballot and have it counted as cast, no matter what the predominance of the opposite party. He can claim his po­ litical opinions, even if he is only one among a thousand, without fear and without proscription on account of his opinions. There are fourteen States, and localities in some others, where Republicans have not this privilege. This is one reason why I am a Repub­ lican. Ro&jJ am a Republican for many other reasons. The Republican party psures protection to life, property, public credit, and the payment of the debts of the Government, State, county, or municipality, so far as it can control.. The Democratic party does not prom­ ise this. If it does, it has broken its promise to the extent of hundreds of millions, as many Northern Democrats can testify to their sorrow. I am a Republican as between exist­ ing parties, because it fosters the pro­ ductions of the field and farm, and of manufactories, and it encourages the general education of the poor as well as the rich. The Democratic party dis­ courages all this when in absolute power. The Republican party is a party of progress and of liberality toward its opponents. It encourages the poor to strive to better their condition; the ignorant to educate their children, to enable them to compete successfully with their more fortunate associates; an(^ in fine, it secures an entire equality before the law of every citizen, no mat­ ter what his race, nationality or previ­ ous condition. It tolerates no privileged class. Every one has the opportunity to make himself all he is capable of. Ladies and gentlemen, do you believe this can be truthfully said in the greater part of vfourteen of the States of the«AJ nion to-day which the Demo­ cratic party control absolutely? The Republican party is a party of principles, the same principles prevail­ ing wherever it has a foothold. The Democratic party is united in but one thing, and that is in getting control of the government in all its branches. It is for internal improvement at the e^ense of the government in one sec­ tion, and against this iu another. It favors the repudiation of solemn ob­ ligations in one section, and honest payment of its debts in another (when public opinion will not tolerate any other view). It favors fiat money in one place and good money in another. Finally, it favors the "pooling of all issues not favored by the Republicans, to the end that it may secure the one principle upon which the party is a a most harmonious unit, namely: gain­ ing control of the Government in all its branches. I haVe been in some part of every State lately in rebellion within the last year. I xyas most hospitably received at every pihee where I stopped. My receptions were not by the Uuioii class alone, but by all classes without dis- tiMction. I had a free talk with many who were against us in the war, and who have been against the Republican party ever since. They were in all in­ stances reasonable men, judged by what they said. I believed then, and now, that they want a break-up in the "Solid South" political condition. Tbey see that it is to their pecuniary interest as well as to their happiness, that there should be harmony and con­ fidence between all sections. They want to break away from the slavery which binds them to a party name. They want a pretext that enough of them can unite upon to make it respect­ able. Once started, the Solid South will go as Ku-kluxism did before, as is so admirably told by Judge Tourgee in his "Fool's Errand." "When the break eomes those who start it will be astonished to find how many of their friends have been in favor of it for a long time, and have only been waiting to see some one take the lead. This desirable solution can only be attained by the defeat and continued defeat of the Democratio party, as now constituted. blind leading the blind in which they ! white voters who are opposed to them, do not fall into the ditch, but, by a happy combination of circumstances, actually escape danger and gain some­ thing to boot.--London Lancet and complaints of such practices are already heard in the South, especially in Louisiana. If the Southern whites will adopt ' . . r UTlie Dead Issues" in Ohio. TEhe Republican campaign in Ohio was fought on "the dead issues," or the issues of the bloody shirt, the right of the Republicans in the South to be al­ lowed to vote, and to be allowed to be Republicans without being murdered for it. All the Democrats in the land and all the mugwump papers cried in chorus that to espouse these "dead is­ sues" was to invite, deserve, and insure defeat--and even the thin voice of Mr. \V liUinnr nf Tnnra tvna Viaaw^I 4Um .. .VMM MVHtu Ui KUO general chorus piping out "don't go in­ to the dead past!" \ When the Iowa Republicans followed with a still more radical platform on "tho dead issues," the Democrats and the mugwumps got still more excited over it, and said "the Republican party is going over the dam' sure enough, and nobody can stop it now." When the Republicans of New York and Massa­ chusetts followed, running up the same ^olors, the Democrats and mugwumps; said: "Have all the Republicans, Eas't and West, gone clear crazy, or what does ail them in being so stupid?" The Democrats have chuckled over it a good deal, if we can believe what they have said. They were going to carry Ohio by reason of the, Republi­ cans taking this course. They were even going to carry Iowa. They were going to sweep New York like a cy­ clone, and they were going to make it nearly unanimous in Massachusetts. In Iowa the Democratic leaders and masses said that the "Republican party was killing itself by taking up the old and dead issues," and some tender- footed Republican was afraid it was so. Now the first jury has come in, and it js a verdict for "the bloody shirt.s It is a verdict for the right of the Re publican party to exist in the South. It is a verdict for the right of a .Republi­ can to cast his vote in Mississippi and Georgia as well as in Iowa, and to cast it without being killed for it. It is a verdict that the suppression of the Re­ publican voter in the South to enable the South to steal forty votes in Con­ gress and the electoral college shall and must stop. It is a verdict that the colored people in the South cannot be and shall not be disfranchised and de­ graded and pauperized into a servile labor, to their own ruin and to the in­ jury of free labor jeverywhere. It is a verdict that the rebel soldier in the South shall not have two votes in the affairs of the Government and the Union soldier in the North but one. The "dead issues"--the issues "that can never be called settled until they are settled right"--seem not to have ruined and defeated the Republican party. They have carried it through in Ohio, despite of almost overwhelm­ ing odds against it. It i\ the victory that always follows the Jpid Union colors, -and that always wilL It won in Ohio. Ib^will win in Iowa, and restore the old-time majority. It will win in New York and Massachu­ setts--and if the courage and devotion of mortal men can accomplish it, with right on their side to help them, it will win in Virginia. And it will w;in in the Nation in 1888. The old issues are the new. They are going to remain the uppermost issues until they are settled. The, Re­ publican party is going to settle &em.' --Des Moines liegi^ter. AUAINST THE NORTH. A. Southern Orator Warns the Hourbons that They Must Staml United. [New Orleans special.) Senator J. Z. George has.just finish­ ed a canvass of the lower tie\of coun­ ties in Mississippi in beliau~of the Democratic State ticket. In his speech at Bay St. Louis last night h^ uttered the following remarkable sentiment: Do you comprehend the issues upon which the Republicans have made their fight in Ohio, and have carried that State ? Do you imagine that they have forgotten the prejudices engendered by the war, and are willing to recognize us ais brothers and equals ? If so you have forgotten that their candidate for Gov­ ernor and John Sherman, one of their most eminent statesmen, made the can­ vas on an issue which contemplates the denying to you of your equal rights to representation in Congress. My friends, if any man thinks that we are treated and considered by the Republican party of the North* as equals in a com­ mon Government and Union he is sad­ ly- mistaken. Now, when these facts are presented to us, are we to decline to hold up President Cleveland's hands or strengthen him in the administra­ tion of the Government on a basis of equal justice and fairness to us as well as to the Northern people? I speak to you plainly. I do not appeal to your passions. This subject is too important for anything but calm and c ol consid­ eration. We are in the minority, aud we are likely to find ourselves in a still greater minority relatively. The North is being settled up by immigration from Europe. Few come to U8. Aot many years will eiapse be­ fore Dakota will be admitted into the Union. Then Montana, Idaho, Wash­ ington, and Wyoming. This will in­ crease the preponderance of wealth and power of the Northern section of the Union. The South is growing, it is true, but our growth is slower and more by natural causes. Under these circumstances, when there stands noth­ ing between us and the strong arm of a sectional majority but the Democratic party and the President, will you at­ tempt to cripple that President and party ? I ask you to think of these matters. So far as I am concerned I intend to stand by President Cleveland and the Democratic psu'ty--firstly, be­ cause I think they are/right; secondly, because I know that when, I stand by the President I stand by you and as­ sist in strengthening a barrier against sectional persecution, which will over­ run this country unless defeated by the Democratic party. O HOUR LIT A DENTISTS CHAIR. Timely Remarks About the Bloody Shirt. The Democrats, who as a party re­ belled against the Government of the United States because Abraham Lin- con was elected President, are dis­ turbed about the reappearance of an apparition which they call the "bloody shirt." The conspirators who murdered Caesar were troubled, we are told, in a similar way. No one who has done wrong since Adam ever liked to be re­ minded of his wrong-doing. The Democrats admit the facts, but enter the defense that they occurred some time ago. They plead the statute of limitations. But do all crimes cease to be crimes after two ,,decades? The Democratic rebellion was not for a few years, or for twenty years, wrong, but, as Garfield said, " everlastingly wrong." The killing of Judge Chis- olm and his children was a barbarous, beastly murder seven years ago,, and will be seventy years hence, and a very live issue is whether the vote of an un­ punished Mississippi murderer or rebel shall equal in national aflairs the votes of two New York or Ohio Unionists. So long as the ballots of the triumph­ ant friends of the republic coijnt less than the ballots of its baffled enemies, this issue will be agitated. So long as negroes' votes are counted for repre­ sentation in the Electoral College and Congress, and not counted at the polls,' just so long will a loyal press aud peo­ ple cry out against such injustice.-- New York Tribuus. THE result of the election in Cuya­ hoga County shows how the Ohio Dem­ ocrats love the negro. Tilley, a colored man, was nominated for the Legislat­ ure by, the Democrats of that county, with a great flourish of trumpets, to show how Democratic feeling had changed toward colored men. After the election it was found that the white legislative .candidates ran very closely together, and that the colored man was unmercifully cut in every ward Jn Cleveland and in every township in tie district. He ran 2,500 votes behind his ticket. It is not likely that Tilley or any other .colored man will ever take his chances again on a Democratic tick­ et in Cuyahoga, notwithstanding the change of feeling which the Democrats of that county claim to have experienced toward them.--Chicago Tribune. THE Prohibition party was but a Democratic side show--a part of the Democratic circus. Ohio is one of the Republican strongholds, and has never, since the Republican party was born, given any other than Republican victo­ ries, except upon purely local issues which shattered party lines, and drove Republicans into the opposition.^^-Phil­ adelphia Telegraph. as if he was hiding an apple dumpling behind his cheek. W»fl* • Thrown In. "Come in!" said the dentist pleas antly to a young man,whose faceiooked umpl The young man gave a glance of,ap­ prehension around the room at the va­ rious implements of torture and sank into a cane-seat chair. "Nice day," observed the dentist, with a smile. "Toothache?" The young man nodded his head af­ firmatively. y "Take a seat in the chair," remarked the dentist. "Which tooth, please?". The young man indicated as well as he could with the dentist's lingers jgi i his mouth. "Ail! yes. I see," returned the den­ tist, as if he had found a quarter in his last summer's vest. "Does this hurt?" he asked, as he took the bludgeon end of a miniature crowbar and hammered on the aching member. It seemed to. •"Keep your mouth open, please," continued the dentist, as he exchange^ the crowbar for a rake. "A little wider, please. There, that will do. Now," he added, as he plunged the teeth of the implement into the crown of the tooth and scraped off the upper part of it, "can you feel this ? Ah! Sensitive, is it? Well, I gijess that is the tooth. The pulp is congested. Now, I've got to cut away the old fill­ ing and open a vent. Then we can kill the nerve and fill the toqth as good as new." 1 While the dentist was talking he placed a foot-lathe near the chair ad­ justed a drill in it, one or two sizes smaller than an auger, and started the machinery to work. "Now," he added, as he stuffed the young man's moiith full of napkins, "opep, Ntour mouth a little wider, please. The young man dropped his chin upon his shirt boftom and breathed hard. The dentist inserted the drill into the tooth and began grinding. "Does that hurt youV" he asked, cheerfully, as he bore down on tho drill with *250 pounds of brV '« force. "Ah! I am almost down to tlm nerve. Did 1 touch it then ? No? It doewn't bleed yet. Several yearn (gouge > ago it used (dig) to be barbarous (push) the way (here the operator laid aside the drill, and took up a smull, sharp- edged hoe) dentists (scrape i treated (dig) their patients. Ah! I thought you wouldn't mind this (more scrap­ ing). I am almost (more digging) down to the (push) meat. But now (here he abandoned the lioe for a spike with a head on it like a feather duster), all this (rasp) is changed. It (dig) is a humane (scratch) profession now. We (punch i never hurt (scrape--rasp-- dig--rake--scratch--claw all in one) them now. I'm through, now; that's all right," he added pleasantly, as re­ moved the gag from the young man's mouth, and gave him an opportunity to recover. | "Now," he continued, as he got out a formidably array of bottles, and pre­ pared a mixture into which he dipped a small wad of cotton, "open your mouth, please. I will put this in,' and it will kill your neri-e. Hurt? Oh, no! It mav pain you fbr a few minutes, but it will not hurt you to speak of. Cv.iiiC JM next plc*133, ulld I will renew the application. Three dollars, please.--New York Graphic. ,,«fi New Use For a Drum. A New York landlord had a tenant who was a drummer. He was a real b&najitle musician, not one of those so- called drummers who travel over the country with grip-sacks, and who do not know how to play on anything ex­ cept the credulity of the country mer­ chant. The landlord's tenant pounded on a large bass drum. He was a shab­ bily-dressed man, who looked as if he drank more than was good for him, and who was very shy about paying his rent promptly. However, the landlord felt pretty easy in his mind, for he knew that the musician had a coffee mill, a kerosene stove, some clothing, and other bric-a-brac, and as long as the tenant did not carry them off he felt pretty sure of his rent, but, at last, he lost patience, and tackling the tenant as he came down the stairs with his drum on his back, he said: , "Look here, Mr. Musician, isn't it time for you to pay yoar rent? You promised to pay last week. I thought musicians knew how to keep time." "I'll have money enough pretty soon. You see me going out twice a day with my drum on my back, don't you?" "Yes, I've noticed that." "Well, that ought to inspire you with confidence. It shows that I am getting work, and will soon have money to lend to my friends." The landlord's suspicions were allayed for the time being, but a few days afterwards, not seeing or hearing anything of his musical tenant, he gently burst open the door and went in with his bill, and discovered, to his surprise, that the room was as empty as the head of a labor-reform orator. The kerosene Btove, the lamp, the coffee mill, and all the other collater­ als, were not there as much as they had been. As he had kept his eyes open, the landlord was at a loss to understand how the musician had managed to beat his landlord as well as his drum. The mystery was never cleared up, but there is reason to fear that when the musician went off so frequently with his instrument on his back, that instead of heavenly melody, it was jam­ med full of clothes, coffee mills, and other valuable debris which the pounder of harmony thus carried away to his new residence.-- Texa.< Sifting#. Stenography. During the past 300 years it is stated some 200 svstems of short-hand have 1 A rn 1.1 UYTJU UC*I^CU nuu UI/AUIUCU< xuo UIUOA forms were usually mere ciphers, or a representation of the ordinary methods of spelling by the use of symbols for letters, whereby no great advantage in the way of brevity was attained. Hiero­ glyphics, or picture-writing, were also classed as short-hand; also, a plan of omission of the vowels, which might be called abbreviated long-hand. The first system of short-hand which at­ tained the objects/sought for--brevity and accuracy--was that of Isaac Pit­ man, first published in 1840. This system is still very largely used, and it is not too much to say that for practi­ cal purposes it has not been surpassed by any system since invented. This mode of short-hand was the first to be known as phonography, or sound- writing, because by its plan the char­ acters stood for sounds rather than letters. Other /systems since intro­ duced have continued this plan. Cus­ tom has of late years adopted the word short-hand, which comes to us from the Greek, and means narrow or close writing, in other phrase, short-hand. We cannot Say which one of the sys­ tems of short-hand taught is the best, for any good one mastered is good enough for all requirements. The ; • »-V one, and expertness in it brings i and sure profit A fair education kra* quired for it, and it is pi (tin that thorough familiarity with the language is a most valuable prerequisite for es^dlj pertness in the work.--Inter Ocean. Elkins' Cold Night. Mr. Stephen B. Elkins, statesman and. . financier, came over to New York OMfe.«.^ day while star-route briers were bristpflfli ling in the path of his good friend Doi> • seyMown at Washington. * He was bent on missionary work, and, mindful of. the gospel injunction . not to let one " hand know what the other hand did* he avoided the publicity of hotel life by dropping into the up-town house erf a faithful friend. He had things all to himself during the evening, his host., bavins business that took him away. At midnight he was snugly tucked away in his bed, when ting-a-ling went the front door-bell with a brisk vehem? ence. Looking down upon the step# from his window, he descried a small < boy in a messenger's uniform, envelope in hand. A sharp, stinging Novembdt breeze was whirling stray flakes of snotf around outside, but Mr. Elkins didn't hesitate; down stairs he went in his, flowing night robe and opened ttiir; door. It was, as he expected, a tele­ gram for himself. A seductive street lamp faced that house, and, regardless of his habiliments, the distinguished^ ; gentleman then and there tore off the Western Union envelope end stepped for the moment an inch or itwo farther through the door. Fatal step! fatal 1 inch or two! Swift blew the breeze of;; a sudden, bang went the door, click * went the spring lock within. Then waa sadness rampant. Not a soul within to offer rescue; scarce a garment at hand to brave the brisk weather. With trepidation there was a detour toward ' the house's rear; in the alley up loomed an inquisitive cur. The door-bell of •• neighbor glistened temptingly; eries from an upper window call hysterically, , fpr the police. It is a doleful predict* " ment. The cold pavement is blistering tender feet. And the cries go on, the • dog's howls don't stop, the breezes still go play and seek through the linen garment, now all swelled out till the ., figure on the curb has the appearance of a dame in full-fledged ancient hoops. ' Through the street comes a carriage whirling. From the other way comee^ a policeman. Carriage and officer ar ­ rive at once. The policemap seem* pretty sure that he has caught apt. escaped lunatic. The shivering gentle^ ' man tries to explain; the policemaik won't have explanations. The station' house is his watchword, and away he starts valiantly with his captive in the determined, fashion becoming an officer - whose midnight nap in the doorway has been wantonly disturbed. Opelk goes the carriage door; out Btepe occupant. The man in the night-shirts uses that street lamp again, looks into tho face of the new arrival, and onoe more finds voice. "Joe!" he gasps, "Joe, for heaven's sake, look here I" Joe looks. "Steve! Well, I'll be f A crisp bill made that policeman!* dreams happy through the remainder of that night. On occasions, when on sweet confidences bent, Mr. Elkins ad­ mits that frosted feet are a trifle irritat­ ing sometimes; but, like the good maa that he is, he enjoys a joke too well to cheapen it by overproduction. Not a dozen iriends have ever neard till now this story of midnight campaigning against breeze and dog, policeman and, agitated neighbors. Mr. Elkins* testi­ mony is very emphatic. Civilisation has its drawbacks; spring-looks are » snare.-- New York Time8. -' % What a Baby Can De. It can wear out a dollar pair of kid shoOs in twenty-four hours. It can keep its® father busy advertii- ^ ing in the newspaper for a nurse. It can occupy both sides of thelargeet sized bed manufactured, simnltane- ously. It/jan make the author of its being^t wasn bills foot up to $5 a*week,and not . be feeling at all well. It can crowd to suffocation the smok- v ing car of a railroad train with indig­ nant passengers between two stations. It can cause its father to be insult€)d by every second-class boarding house­ keeper in the city, who "never take children," which in nine cases out of ten is very fortunate for the children. It can make itself like a fiend just at the moment when mamma wants to show "what a pretty baby she has." It can look its father innocently 1ST the face and five seconds later spoil tlltf •- only good coat that he has got in the ; world. - s :! It makes an old bachelor in the rooaa adjoining use language that if uttered on the street would get him in the pen*, itentiary for two years. It can go from the farthest end OCf 1 the room to the foot of the stairs in the ^ - hall adjoining quicker than its motb«ri? ~ can just step into theQ closet and oq|t; again. ^ It, can go to sleep "like a little angel,** and just as mamma and papa are starts ing for the theater it can woke up, anltWft stay awake until the beginning ef th^t^ last act -i'kvV It can in ten minutes, drive a maft frantically from his home and cause - him to seek the companionship of 4 locomotive blowing off steam in ordee ' ' ? that he may obtain the rest and quiet*. < ; ude which his weary frame demands. * ; These are some of the things that * baby can da But there *re etfcaf ' things as well. A baby can make the commonest home the brightest spot oft :* earth. It can lighten the burden of ft loving mother's life by adding to them$..f I j it can flatten its dirty little face against v i the window pane in such a way that the 1, • tired father can see it as a picture be- ' fore he rounds the corner. Yes, babies are great institutions, particularly onefc^,y own.--Ex. *x4f - k11* i 5 >^1 ..M.: r~.. >-- ... im-uiiHiuag iu HII39M. The Russians, in their anxiety to di^ minish the consumption of spirits, are^ proposing to reduce the duty on beetf| > and are vehemently opposing the re- : cent proposal of the Russian Ministej^ of i iuance to raise the import duty oft tea. The Moscow Gaze'.te ridicules thf idea that tea should be regarded as aft article de luxe in Russia, where eveft among the poorest classes tea is the only beverage that both saves the peo»~ pie from the evil efleets of drinking impure water and greatly reduces the consumption of alcoholic drinks. It ii.; pointed out that if the duty is raised smugsliug will be carried on to s muck greater extent, and public health will suffer by adulteration. In support of its statement that tea is the chief drink among all classes in Russia, the Moaco#. Gazette publishes statistics furnished- by experts engaged in the tea trad^ with China, according to which Russul - consumes 80 per cent, more tea thait ' England.--Pall Afa'l Gazette. * , "PAPA, thev don't have any stone ift Ireland, do they ?" "Yes, my boy; but why do you ask such a question?* "Because I thought «t waa all shamrock over there." • -i,-- < & '.ifSi'-i ,3 ,^'u vis . ife;-' A ^