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J. VAN SLYKE, rV- v:: ,V-v. McHENBT, TT.T.TVFRM pt. PBSSBSENTIAL names will be well rep­ resented in the Fiftieth Congress. There will be a Washington, an Adams, a Taylor, and a Hayes. Washington, who is from Tennessee, will be the first of the name to sit in Congress. For many years the letter T has been unrep­ resented in Congress, bnt it can now boast the two names Yoder and Yost. EDWARD C. SCBCOGS, of Nashville, Tenn., has made in the last four months $60,000 by real-estate investments in his neighborhood. Mr. Scruggs is to­ tally blind from the effects of a gun­ shot wound received about fifteen years ago. His constant companion is a clever negro boy, who gives him occa­ sional pointers about land, people, etc. A SINGULAR feature is reported as ex­ isting in a well on the premises of John Roberta, near Lafayette, Ind. The well is sixty-seven feet deep. At a depth of thirty-seven feet it is frozen - over every winter. It is claimed that at the depth named there is a current of cold air, while above or below the thirty-seven feet the temperature is the same as in ordinary wells. ALTHOUGH the best of the pnblio lands have gone, it is encouraging to note that there still remain unsurveyed about 9,000,000 acres in Colorado, 12,- 000,000 in Arizona, nearly 30,000,000 in California, 49,000,000 in Dakota, 7,000,000 in Florida, 44,000,000 in Idaho, 7,000,000 in Minnesota, 39,000,- 000 in Nevada, 74,000,000 in Montana, 41,000,000 in Utah, and more than 20,000,000 in Washington Territory. A. P. WINCHESTER, a West Virginia land-owner, V.as given about 60,000 acres in Randolph County, West Vir­ ginia, as a hunting and fishing preserve for the use of a sportsmen's association which includes Pittsburghers, Virgin­ ians, New Yorkers, and Ohio men. It will be the greatest hunting-park east of the Yellowstone, and the member­ ship fees of the association has been placed at $1,000. As A railroad train rounded a curve near Bristol, Conn., the other morning, the engineer saw a large black New­ foundland dog standing by the side of the track. He waited until the engine - was within a few yards of him, and then deliberately stepped upon the track, and, trembling all over, with tpil be- - tween liis legs, head turned away, waited for the death stroke from the pilot The engineer says that if ever anyone committed suicide, that dog did. THE executors of the late Henry Ward Beeeher have decided to dispose of his library, paintings, etchings, rugs, and bric-a-brac at the rooms of the Amer­ ican Art Association in November next. The library contains 10,000 volumes and the paintings represent such artists as Rubens, Rembrandt, Durer, and other notables. Among his other property is comprised a collection of jewels valued1 fat $2,000. The farm at Peekslcill, con­ taining thirty-six acres and valued at $100,000, is also offered for sale. COL. HOOTOX, of West Chester, Pa., said in a recent speech: "I recollect shortly after Gen. Grant was called East I asked Gen. McCall if he knew him. You may imagine my surprise when I learned from him that Gen. Grant had been his Lieutenant in the Mexican war. I recollect when the war broke out and Gen. Twiggs surrendered the regulars in Texas, Gen. McCall, then called Col. McCall, said to me: /If Col. Lea doesn't hang Twiggs or jshoot him half an hour after he lays hands on him then Col. Lee is not the man I take him to be.'" ' v GEN. ROBERT C. SCHEWCK is living . quietly in Washington. He is 77 years of age. To a correspondent he recently - said: "I have not felt so well in years. For one of my age I may say I feel bet- ; ter than when worn down with public 'cares. I had what the doctors call Bright's disease, and put myself on the ... milk diet. For more than a month I lived solely on milk, averaging about five pints a day. Not even a crust of bread in it. Then I had added to it some finely-chopped onions. For a < month more the diet was onions and milk. I ate no beef food whatever. •" When I found myself slipping back the . onion accompaniment was abandoned, ^and back to milk alone I went again. ( Eventually I overcame the trouble, wholly recovered, and have had no re­ currence of the malady since." THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat tells the following story of a smart, but up 2 usually lazy puss: Mrs. T. J. Ham­ mond, of Brunswick, Ma, owns what jshe is pleased to term a very knowing •cat and the feline certainly exhibits very rare intelligence. It is a large and beautiful Maltese, less than a year old, and has been taught to perform a num­ ber of tricks very unusual for a cat, one of which is to ring a chestnut-bell, and it frequently turns the laugh on Mrs. Hammond by making the bell 'tinkle when she is recounting gome •jfreek of its intelligence. When the :i'^cat feels that a mouse would be an ad­ dition to its bill of fare it bringB the " <trap to Mrs. Hammond to be Bet and then goes frequently to see if the de­ sired mouse has been caught When *3ueh is the case the trap is again taken - ^o some one by puss, who will remove the moitse from it It makes no effort to catch mice in the ordinary way, pre­ ferring, apparently, the invention of nan as an easier way to obtain a sweet - "fnoraeL CAPT. CLABENCE E. DLTTON, chief of 1 the buroau of volcanic geology of th« '*geological survey, will read a paper at . • the next meeting of the National Acad­ emy of Sciences embodying the results of the study of an immense mass of data Km the Charleston earthquake. He does not purpose going beyond well- proved facts as to the nature, origin, and influence of seismic phenomena, but he believes that the material in hand, when fully worked up, will add miich to the mass of human knowledge regarding the rate of motion of earth waves and kindred points of scientific interest, and that it will be especially valuable in suggestions for the observa­ tion and study of future phenomena. The advance made latterly in respect to a knowledge of earthquake phenom­ ena may be illustrated by a single point. The recorded rate of motion of the earthquakes of history varies from 300 to 900 meters per second. The data upon the Charleston disasters prove conclusively that its earth waves trav­ eled between 4,000 and 5,000 meters per second, while French journals at hand containing observations upon the Riviera shocks gave rates almost as high. It is not supposed that modern earthquakes are more energetic than their predecessors, but it is certain that modern methods and opportunities give safer results. WHEN Oscar S. Straus, now Minister to Turkey, was being urged for that of­ fice by his friends Henry Ward Beeeher, a warm friend of Mr. Straus, wrote the following letter; It is a pe­ culiar letter. It tells more definitely than any words than its own can de­ scribe the broad statesmanship and ad­ vanced position of Brooklyn's famous pastor: BEOOKLYN, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1887.--Qrover Cleveland--DBAB MB. PRESIDENT: Some of our best citizens are solicitous for tbe appoint­ ment of Oscar Straus as Minister to Turkey. Of his fitness" there is a general consent that he is personally, and in attainments, eminently excellent But I am interested in another quality--the fact that he his a Hebrew. The bitter prejudice against Jews, which obtains in many parts in Europe, ought not to receive any countenance in America: Is it because he is a Jew that I would urge his appointment as a fit recognition of this remarkable people, who are becoming largo contributors to American prosperity, and whose intelligence, morality, and large liberality in all public measures for the welfare of society deserve and should re­ ceive from the hands of our Government some such recognition. It is not also a duty to set forth in this quiet but effectual method the genius of American Government, which has under its fostering care people of all civilized nations, and which treats them without regard to civil, religious or race peculiarities as com­ mon citizens? We send Danes to Denmark, Germans to Germany; we rqject no man be­ cause he is a Frenchman; why should we not make a crowning testimony to the genius of our people by sending a Hebrew to Turkoy? The ignorance and superstition of medieval Europe may account for the prejudice of that dark ago. But how a Christian in our day can turn from a Jew I cannot imagine. Christiau- ity itself suckled at the bosom of Judaism; our roots are in the Old Testament. We are Jews ourselves gone to blossem and fruit Christian­ ity is Judaism in evolution, and it would seam strange for the seed to turn against the stock on Which it was grown. HENEY WARD BSECHEB. 1 - . THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. ONE foolish act may undo a man, and a timely one make his fortune. REGARD not dreams, for they are but the images of our hopes and fears. GREAT hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. NEVEB think that you can make yourself great by making another less. No DISGUISE can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not SPEAK little, and speak well, if you would be looked upon as a man of merit. MEN'S years and their faults are always more than they are willing to own. ANT fool can begin to talk, but it is a wise man who knows just where to stop. THE effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads. WE ought either to be silent, or to speak things that are better than silence. IT is no shame for a man to learn what he knows not, whatever age he may be. IF we do not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others will not be able to in­ jure us. WHATEVER thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value upon it. WHEN the forenoons of life are wasted there is not much hope of a peaceful evening. IT'S good to put a bother away over night. It all straightens out in the morning. IF we had no faults ourselves, we should not be ready to note the faults of others. A MISF.B grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor bv seeming rich. MANY people mistake stubborness for bravery, meanness for economy, and vileness for wit PERSEVERANCE, by its daily gains, en­ riches a man more than fits and starts of fortune and speculation. MAN must work. He may work grudgingly or gratefully. He may work as a man or as a machine. EVERY man has three characters-- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. They Knew the Flag. I once saw a young soldier who be­ longed to a battery of artillery, engaged in patching the holes in his guidon (a marker's flag) with cloth from the lining of his uniform. When I asked him why he spent so much time to mend that old flag, his answer was, that as we are so far from the base of supplies he could not get a new one, and that when the battery went into action with thirty- six horses and six guns, he always stuck the pike of the guidon into the ground where the battery was to form, and even if the man who rode the leading horse was killed or disabled, and the noise of the battle was so great that the bugle call could not be heard, the horses would wheel around the flag and execute the maneuver known as "By left into line," and bring the muzzles of the six guns on a line with the flaj», and then, as soon as the guns were un- limbered, he would again place it aboat two hundred paces in the rear, and the horses would gallop to the rear with the caissons and haltagain on a line with it--Chicago Journal. THE employe.* of a "tied-up" street railway are frequently to be seen upon the street in knots. A WOMAN'S heart, like the moon, should have but one man in it OF RICH was. H«W «W (Harbored MIIUOBUM Themselves. , ̂ [New York World.) , It is by no means easy to tell what will amuse a millionaire. I knew one little chap who inherited a vast fortune one Monday and developed a hot- blooded lust for variegated waistcoats within the week. He would wander about his accustomed haunts with a dis­ traught and expectant look for days at a time. We knew by that that some­ thing new in waistcoats was impending, and when it was finally produced its owner's face glowed with a mellow ra­ diance that was infantile and touching. There was, just before the holidays, a period of gloom, despondency, and sor­ row so lengthened and austere that great apprehension was felt but it was cleared away by the appearance on Fifth avenue, one bright December d»y, of about the most amazing things in waistcoats that the century has ever seen. It consisted in the main of bril­ liant yellow, with a dashing superstruc­ ture of purple and gold stars. Scat­ tered about were fac-similes of the owner's coat-of-arms in silver and mimic representations of his crack race-hors© taking a hurdle bedecked with his col­ ors. It was bound in white cord and the buttons were works of art in bronze and gold. At present the youth re­ joices in tbe possession of 170 waist­ coats. I speak by the card, for I've seen them. I saw nearly $100,000,000 in a state of rapt and intense excitement at a chicken show one night in the Madison Square Garden. Three great millionaires sat around a patent incubator with their watches in their hands betting on the eggs that lay under the glass plate. Every few seconds an egg would break and a chicken would crawl out with an air of pained reluctance. Then the other chicks would pounce upon it hos­ pitably and try to take away its new­ found life. One of the three men would pick out a likely egg and the others would wager their money for and against the chance of the chicken being born and surviving the attack of its fel­ lows. There is among the frequenters of Delmonico's a small, pudgy, and blase gentleman who recently inherited, through the death of his sturdy old father, means of discouraging ampli­ tude. Prior to this acquisition of wealth he was a timid and inoffensive young peraon, distinguished by nothing more remarkable than weak eyes and the aroma of cheap cigarettes, but when he grew rich he developed a fondness --indeed a passion--for sitting in the cafe, snugly ensconed behind a huge collar and staring hotly at his reflection in the mirror. He pursues this pastime with ' undeviation devotion day after day, only pausing at times to raise his chin, fix a waiter with his autocratic eye, and drawl: "Heah, fellow! S'm absinthe." He isu't very popular. In many instances, the richer the man the simpler his idea of amusement. It is no unusual sight to see one of New York's rich men driving a Fifth avenue stage up or down-town, with the regu­ lar driver sitting calmly at his side, and I have often seen the son of the late President of the Eighth Avenue Rail­ road Company drive the big sixteen- horse sweeper down-town after a heavy fall of snow. As everybody knows, two millionaires drove a daily coach from the Hotel Brunswick to Pelham every day last season just for amusement's sake, while two other affluent members of the Knickerbocker Club manned a Third avenue car during the hottest days of the strike and made the trip to the City Hall and back in safety. But the amusements of rjrxllionaires are not all so innocent as these. One of the most brutal and savage prize-fights I ever saw was in the stables of a man who owns a magnificent country place on the Hudson. The men had fought to a standstill and were clinging to one another feebly to keep from falling, while the blood dripped from a dozen wounds and their faces were battered out of all human semblance, but the crowd of pallid and nervous moneyed men urged them pittilessly on. There are three well-known New York club men of great wealth who have no higher ambition than this. Gifted with vast fortunes and in command of limitless possibilities, they have no interests out­ side the doings of pugilists, pluguglies, and bruisers, and are happiest when watching two fellows struggling to see which can inflict the most injury on the other. A whimsical man of wealth amused himself during the long qiglits last summer by dining in his library, and feeding an army of cats that prowled about the yard. He would eat a little and then hang out of the window with a bit of bird in his hand and converse at great length with the cats while they struggled and fought below. After tantalizing them sufficiently he would toss the morsel to them and then hug himself delightedly while the cats clawed each other in their eflorts to get at the food. The millionaire was al­ ways attended on such occasions by a smug-faced and reticent butler, who re­ garded his vagaries with the most austere disapproval. After every esca­ pade with .the cats the millionaire would chuck the morose butler under the chin roguishly, and, resuming his *3at, pep­ per the unhappy servitor with bread- ernmbs during the rest of the dinner. It's a great thing to be a millionaire. A Group of Socialists. One of their favorite theories was that no man should be required or al lowed to work more than two hours a day. When I asked them how this would suit the farmer in harvest time, they used to reply that if the farmer were educated up to their point they had no doubt that it would work very well. I used to labor to show them that the majority of the American people had an interest in the soil that they would not surrender without a struggle--so that it was hopeless of them to think that here, of all countries, they could revolutionize society in the face of the obstacles opposed to them. They seemed not to realize this, nor any difficulty, but mooned away in dreamy, impractical speculations on the natural claim of society to the soil as well as anything else. A favorite statement of theirs was that the streets of Phila­ delphia would shortly be red with blood, and they seemed to enjoy the contemplation of painting the city car­ mine in this way. Clergymen especially were the objects of their abhorrence. Every one was to be massacred. I remember asking them, on one occasion when this was brought up, "Well, noW, how about the Irish? There are probably as many Irish Catholics as there are Socialists in Philadelphia. These men will not stand quietly by to' see their priests Btrung up to the lamp­ posts. They will rise to a man in their defense; and Irishmen are as Good for a street fight as Germans. How are ou going to arrange with them ?* The idea seemed to be that the Irish could be talked over--educated up--to seeing their own interest; falling this, they must simply bo disposed of. How the "disposing" process was to be accom­ plished they were not quite so clear about On one occasion a number of slips of printed paper were lying about the workshop. I picked one up, and found it to be a sort socialistic creed or confession of faith, consisting, if I ro- m ember aright, of five articles. The first was the abolition of all personal property. Evert thing belongs to the State. No man has a claim to anything --not even to what he has made with his own hands. Another was the abolition of all personal freedom. Every man was at the disposal of the State and must do exactly what it directs him. It decides what he shall work at, and when. The result of his labors goes into the com­ mon stock, from which every one is supplied with all that he requires. Of course there is no longer any need for wages, or indeed for money in any shape. Abolition of the family was a prominent doctrine. The marriage re­ lation is to be unknown in this heaven on earth; the children will be the property of the State; not of the parents. "He is a smart child that knows his own father," Ravs the proverb; in the new order of things he will be a clever father that knows his own child. The last point I can recall was the abolition of all religion and the suppression of the priestly class. There was, I think, one ertipte iuor*.-- Lippincotfs Magazine, '5. The Century's Rise of Wages. Discussing wages, in one of his lectures before the students of Harvard University, Prof. Thompson gives many facts of curious interest. In 1793 the Schuylkill and Susque­ hanna Canal Company advertised for workmen, offering $5 a month for the winter months, and $6 for summer, with bourd and lodging. The next year there was a debate in the House of Representatives which brought out the fact that soldiers got but $3 a month. A Vermont member, discussing the proposal to raise it to $4, said that in his State men were hired for £18 a year, or $4 a month, with board and clothing. Mr. Wadsworth, of Pennsyl­ vania, said: "In the States north of Pennsylvania the wages of the com­ mon laborer are not, upon the whole, superior to those of the common sol­ dier." . « ' In 1797 a Rhode Island farmer hired a good farm hand at $3 a month; and $5 a month was paid to those who got employment for the eight busy months of the farmer's year. A strong boy could be had at that time in Connecti­ cut at $1 a month, through those months, and he earned it by working from daybreak until 8 or 9 o'clock at night. He could buy a coarse cotton shirt with the earnings of three such months. Thb farmers could pay no better, for the price they got for produce was wretched. Butter sold at 8 cents a pound, and when it rose sud­ denly to 10 cents, several farmers' wives and daughters went out of their minds with the excitement. Women picked the wool off the bushes and briars, where the sheep had left it, and spun and knit it into mittens, to earn fl a year by this toilsome busi­ ness. They hired out as help for 25 cents a month and their board. By a day's hard work at the spinning-wheel a woman and girl together could earn 12 cents. As late as 1S21 the l>est> farm hands could be had fo* 2ffif*ents a day, or twice as much in mowing time. ' Matthew Carey, in his "Letters on the Charities of Philadelsliia" (1829), gives a painful picture of the working classes at that time. Every avenue to employment was choked with appli­ cants. • Men left the cities to find work on the canals at from GO to 75 cents a day, and to encounter the malaria which laid them low in numbers. The highest wages paid to women was 25 cents a day, and even the women who made clothes for the arsenal were paid by the Government at no higher rates. When the ladies of the city begged for an improvement of this rate the Secre­ tary hesitated, lest it should disarrange the relations of capital and labor throughout the. city! Poor people died of cold and want every winter in the city, and the fact seems to have made an impression only on benevolently- disposed persons like Mr. Carey. " Reconstructed HFU. S. Cleston Pogworth, an Englishman who came to Arkansaw several months ago, threw aside his national prejudice to such a degree that he looked with favor upon a well-known institution of this country--the firmly established institution of the carmine-colored cock­ tail. Several days ago, Mr. Pogworth came up from a lower section of country where he has established him­ self as a pineland proprietor, glanced many times at different cocktails, and, true to the impnlse of such indulgence, became involved in a physical contest with a German. The Englishman was arrested, and was, as soon as he became sober, taken before the proper tribunal of justice. Mr. Pogworth, when the announcement that he would be com­ pelled to pay a fine of $10 was made, expressed great surprise. "Your honor." said he, "I must confess that I expected more courtesy than this. I, sir, belong to the aristocracy of my country, and can trace my ancestry back to the conquest My people have ever been loyal to the crown, and--r" "That has nothing to do with case," the judge responded. "Yes, it has, your honor. It has much to do with the courtesy of this case. , I will illustrate: During the war between the crown and the parliament, the South--this glorious country--re­ mained faithful to the royal cause. The ancestors of the people who are now muking this State a great common­ wealth were cavaliers in thought and action. The people of the North, especially the inhabitants of New En­ gland, embraced the cause of the par­ liament, and, during the existence of the protectorate, were servile worship­ ers of Oliver. Now, sir, can you, a citizen of a country which upheld roy­ alty, fine me, a man whose people fought for royalty?" "Reokon I'd better consider this case," said the judge. "You say that the Southern colonies remained true to the royal cause?" Yes, your honor." And that New England took sides with the parliament?" ."Yes." "And yOn urge that these historical facts should exert an influence in this case ?" 4 "Yes, sir." "All right I will make yonr fine $2Q instead of $10." * "My dear sir, you do not catch the drift of my argument!" Oh, yes, I do, but you see Fm from New England. Glad I have an oppor­ tunity of reconstructing^yott; "~Ar/can- saw "Traveler. HOW ttfKt WRITE. W«U-Raowr» Peculiarities of 801 Authors. [Prom the Philadelphia Press.] Authors and actors have a time-hon­ ored right to be eccentric, and in no iway does an author display his or her eccentricity more markedly than in the preparation of the manuscript Of late years the type-writer Is doing much to destroy the individuality of an author's copy, but even here the man\w»U show himself. For instance, Robert Grant's stories are fastened at the corner with a legal rivet, his name and address with his profession (lawyer) neatly printed In the corner, and the title, in true con­ veyancer's style, is double underscored with red ink, while the names of people in the dialogue have a single red ink line drawn under them. The whole affair is neat and in perfect oondition for publication. Hjalmar H. Boyesen, on the contrary, writes his articles on the green, pink, or blue rosters of Columbia College, where he is professor. His work, as he sends it to the press, is evidently a first draught scratched and changed no end of times. Prof. Sophocles, the late Erofessor of Greek at Harvard, wrote is entire Byzantine Dictionary on rib­ bon paper. . ;. . Dr. S. Weir Mitchell uses the type­ writer and ties the unruled legal-cap on which he writes with red tape. May Agnes Tincker writes a neat small hand, and, although her pages are un­ ruled, the number of words will aver­ age 125 to the page with almost unfail­ ing^ exactness. Joaquin Miller writes a diminutive hand, spells badly, has a noble disregard for punctuation, and so separates his syllables that it gives his manuscript the effeot of writing in a foreign language. Frank Dempster Sherman's work is as neat and careful as bis verse. Written on small and highly-glazed note paper, the writing is so done that it gives the effect of print, and the blue ink which he useB enhances the dainty appearance of his written page. To turn to another popular poet and look at Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems before they appear in print you will find an unformed hand, scrawled over a foolscap page, and when the poem does not reach a full two pages the second page is properly reduced to the requi­ site size with commendable attention to economy. Edith M. Thompson uses linen note, and in a delicate hand writes her verses, never crowding, and yet always giving the impression of condensation. John Habberton, whom every one knows as the "Helen's Babies" man, uses large yellow paper with green lines; the first page or so is exquisitely neat, but soon the corrections become more frequent until they reach a per­ fect fortissimo of scratches. Brander Matthews writes a flowing, easy hand, and if he has to erase no human being can tell what it was that he changed, for he draws a square around the unfortunate intruder and lines it over and over until it is literally blotted out of existence. < Sidney Luska (Harry Harland) does not need to resort to any device to cover up his mistakes. From end to end his curious, forcible, jet-black and heavy ink lines run without a correc­ tion. He uses common white paper with rough and ragged edges. Henry Greville is just the opposite. One has to pick out the part that is to be printed from the maze of alterations. Julian Hawthorne writes a small, legible hand, and with commercial care marks on the outside of his MS. the number of words it contains. George Alfred Towttsend utilizes the typewriter. The matter is copied in 1 lump and afterwards properly punctu ated and paragraphed by the author in lead-pencil. Edgar Fawcett writes on journalist's paper in lead-pencil. An occasional smear indicates that the rubber has been used, and on the outside of his copy he usually places the price of his work. Marchioness Clara Lanza uaes large green paper with no lines. Her hand­ writing is neat and her work is but lit­ tle corrected. George MacDonald writes on thin, crossed French paper, a fine, almost feminine hand, and if he needs to change a passage simply draws his pen through it and writes on. , Sidney Lanier wrote on a highly- glazed note-paper in blue ink, and cor­ rected his copy in a curious ink of a brown hue. His work is very legible. Louise Chandler Moulton, as the aman­ uensis of Philip Bourke Marston, writes an almost masculine hand. It is nat­ urally, being dictated, not a little cor­ rected. Wanted--A Boy with Ten Points. 1. Honest 2. Pure. 3. Intelligent 4. Active. 5. Industrious. 6. Obedi­ ent. 7. Steady. 8, Obliging. 9. Po­ lite. 10. Neat One thousand firstrate places are open for one thousand boys who come up to the standard. Each l>oy can suit his taste as to the kind of business he would prefer. The places are ready in every kind of occupation. Many of them are already filled with boys who lack some of the most import­ ant points, but they will soon be vacant One is an office not far from where we write. The* lad who has the situation is losing his first point. He likes to attend the circus and the theater. This costs more money than he can afford, but somehow he manages to be there frequently. His employers are quietly watching to learn how he gets so much extra spending money; they will soon discover a leak in the money-drawer, detect the dishonest boy, and his place will be ready for some one who .is now getting ready for it by observing point No. 1, and being truthful in all his ways. Some situations will soon be vacant, because the boys have been poisoned by reading bad books, such as they would not dare to show their fathers, and would be ashamed to have their mothers see. The impure thoughts suggested by these books will lead to vicious acts; the boys will be ruined and their places must be filled. Who will be ready for one of these va­ cancies? Distinguished lawyers, use­ ful mechanics, skillful physicians, successful merchants, must all soon leave their places for somebody else to fill. One by one they are removed by death. Mind your ton points, boys; they will prepare you to step into va­ cancies in the front rank. Every who is waiting to employ a boy is look­ ing for you, if yoa have the points. Do not fear that you will be overlooked. A young person having these qualities will shine as plainly as a star at night. We have named ten points that go to­ ward making up the character of a suc­ cessful boy, so that they can be easily remembered. You can imagine one on each finger, and keep them in mind; they will be worth more than diamond rings, and you will then never be ashamed to show your hand.--Ex­ change. LACK of desire is the greatest xiohea. --Senoca. GOOD ADVICE. Senator John Sherman to the Phila­ delphia Youn? Men's Re­ publican Club. All Urged to Take Up the Work of the Old Leaders with ~ newed Energy. V, % [Philadelphia special.] The sixth annual banquet of fee Yottna Republicans of Philadelphia was given at St George's Hall, in this city, and was largely attended. The following letter from Senator John Sherman was read, and its sentiments received with applause: "WASHINGTON-, Aprils. 'EdwinS. Stuart, Esq., 1 resident Young Re­ publicans, Philadelphia: "MY DEAB SIB--While I am compelled to deny myself the pleasure of dining with the Young Republican Club of Phila­ delphia, on April 11, 1 take the occasion to express my high appreciation of the value of their services to the cause of good gov­ ernment, in which we all are, or ought to be, enliBted. As one of the seniors of the Republican party, I may be allowed to give words of encouragement and advice to the young men who have assumed, or will soon assume, the control of onr political organi­ zation. We certainly should feel pr:de in the great measures that have been success­ fully executed by the Republican party; and, although you may not bare to conduct a gigantic war for the preservation of the I'nion, and will probably have no such difficult tasks as reconstruction to deal with, yet the work of the Republican party is but fairly begun. That which is past is honorable; that which is to come will de­ pend chiefly upon the vigor, integrity and patriotism of the yonng liepublicans, who, like .yourselves, are LOW organizing to con­ tinue the work of the past. "What you have to do is still further to develop and diversify American industry.- It should be our aim to pioduc6 every­ thing for which the god 01 nature has given us the raw mateiials or which are suited to our soil and climate. Every measure should be supported that will tend to foster, defend and protect home industries. We should not be content until every channel of communication capable of improvement, and which will yield benefits equal to their cost, shall be improved. The education of the rising generation, with­ out respect to race, color or previous condition, ought to be a constant object of desire. The equal enjoyment of every civil and political right given by the Constitution should be se­ cured by every legal and constitutional means. The shadows and prejudices of the past should be lifted by the lights of modern civilization. The workingman in every condition and employment of life should be encouraged, protected, and as­ sisted by every reasonable means to advance his condition, and to open up to himself by honest labor and enterprise all the ave­ nues of wealth and honor. Our adversa­ ries may brood over tbe dead past, and mourn the decay of Confederate ideas, but Republicans hail with unbounded satisfac­ tion every advance of our country in strength and power at home and abroad, conscious that this is consistent with the full powers of State, county, and local gov­ ernments reaching to every family and homestead in the land. "With the sincere hope that your society and kindred societies throughout the United States may take up the work of the Repub­ lican party and carry it to its loeical re­ sults, I am, as ever, very truly yours, "JOHN SHERMAN." SOUTHERN BEPL'BLICANS. Ex-Governor John S. Wise, of Virginia, was the gueBt of the evening. In respond­ ing to a toast he made a vigorous attack upon tbe Demo ratic party. In overhaul­ ing its record he said the Democratic party had failed to oatry out its pledges to repeal the internal revenue laws; had defeated the Blair educational measure after pledging itself to its passage, and had won power by its assault on the surplus, yet had piled op a larger surplus than ever. It has passed a law of interstate commerce so bad that its own commission is forced to suspend its operation to avoid panic and business stampede. "The Republican party if it would win," he said, " must cease staking its all on New York. Vir­ ginia is Republican; eleven counties, with 120,000 whites and but 15,000 blacks, give on an aggregate vote of 30,000 a Republi­ can majority of over 2,000. Indiana no more has Hendricks and McDonald to lead; the one is dead, the other snubbed. West Virginia is Republican. Tennessee and North Carolina are ready to come. Let us devote one-tenth the energy and means on them that has gone to New York in the past and the victory is ours." How the Appropriations Grow. The following is an itemized statement of the appropriations made by the late Congress tor the Federal fiscal year com­ mencing July 1, 1887, as compared with the year commencing July 1, 1886. It will be seen that the increase is about $13,000,000: 1886-7. 1867-'8. Pensions $ 76,075 200.00 $89,152 500.00 Postollioe 54,:*;>,863.i5 55,694,680.15 Navy IB, 489,907.20 25,767,348.19 Army 5B,7.'»H,037.2l 23,721,718.69 Sundry Civil 22,012,310.38 22,386,640.96 Leg., Ex. and Ju... 80,0 >4,340.37 9U,6iti 143.67 Indian 5,546,262.81 District Columbia. 3,721,050,99 4,279,23j.titS Diplomatic 1,304,01)5.00 »1,4-29,94 . 44 Agricultural 054,715.00 1,028,730.00 Military Academy. 297,805.00 419,933.93 Printing deficiency 107,00.1.00 Miscellaneous 9,989,410.19 4,701,991.49 Total bills pass'a.$235,573,993.63 f248,56033.84 A part of this increase is owing to the Mexican pension bill, which appropriates $(>,000,000. But included in last year's appropriations were the amounts of $5,- 7t)i>,015.28 for Alabama claims, and $1,- 050,000 for the new library building at Washington. The increase of over $1,- 300,000 in the postoflice appropriation is in part due to the creation of a large number of new offices, especially in Virginia and other Southern States, by which convenient places have been made for working Demo­ crats. The increase of half a million dol­ lars in appropriations for the District of Columbia is also significant in view of the operations of the real-estate ring there. In commenting on these facts the New York Tribune says that when the appropri­ ations for 1886 were made, Democratic journals denounced the proposed expend­ iture, as aside from the pensions, greater than any authorized by the very worst lie- publican Congress that had ever assembled. At fhe last session closing the term of the Forty-riinth Congress, this increase "beyond the worst Republican Congress," was still further increased, while appropri­ ations for rivers and harbors, to pay defi­ ciencies and for fortifications were defeated. The amount would have been further in­ creased by $J0,000,000 if these bills had " --Chicago Journal. Firmly Imbedded. "Dear me! What a lovely pattern!" ex­ claimed Mjre. Deacon Wideback on enter­ ing the nenir minister's house and observing the newly laid carpet on the parlor floor. "It is a perfect beauty; the colors blend go nicely and " "A-a-a-a-a-t-ch! Great ginger!" yelled her husband, as he. suddenly arose from the easy chair in which he had ensconced himself; then he grew purple in the lace, and his eyes protruded like billiard balls as he vainlv endeavored to reach his arm around his two-hundrett-and-§fty-pound form to the seal of his agony. "Why, Jason Wideback!" exclaimed his better half, "what ails you?" " Are you in pain? What is the trouble?" inquired the parson, politely. "Er--nothing much--excuse me, bnt if you have a claw-hammer handy, will you kindly pull this blamed thing out?" asked the deacon, as he s- read his coat-tails and exposed a number tea broa l-heaJ tack im­ bedded in the to om of Lis trousers. IT certainly wasn't a temperance which Hood wrote when he said: Was it not pititut? Near a wbol* citr fallt ILLINOIS SK.ATOB •FMAAR'. bia Wall sent of tbe State to tiw HUM *«M mm' "4* quire jwofierty fa Lake County toe a mB&(MR- post, paaeed the Senate <m the ttfe : >. - Senator Ganrtty'a bill to provide a for fireman. TBA Merritt BOOM TEFLL insoraae* eorapwriM to aev the tea* policies was read a firrt Una*. Sea„. ley's bill, providing for two addttl--t a* auaal sprtaf •l«ittin»s. -jm m ing the Sapervtsor and kmSSmat ant Moderators, was read a Tbe bill of Senator Adams to seams tionof flab ia atttae watetfS of the 8 hibltiag Mining from the 1st of Manh touM of July was read a second time aad seal ward on the calendar. The Ooraznor seiitto tike Senate the nominations of Jobn X Btaafcer, F. B. Hirih, end JmaoM Boeen. tebe fiatbOMiaM Warehouse Commissions Tbe SeMtepraayS ly confirmed the nominations. A gset deal of business was trarfaactsd in ftt.Vlhia. Tbe joint resolution for tbe . Commissioner to tbe Ohio Vi was concurred in, and the follow passed: To prevent the giving of dulent pedigrees of cattle; approprtaHaa jl toJohn A. Lyle, of Whiteside Conatp, W!M»<. both arms blown off by the r*irrnstffl charge of a defective cannon: ranU'i w permit the payment in Installments of special assessments far local improvements; Coaler's bill legalising barbed-wire fen^r«»bfflrtO authorize tbe Jefferson Park ComxniMdosen tO set apart ground for the Logan monnmeat; gtv- /jfSj ing Judgea 0f courts of record power i#/. fix the bonds of plaintiffs in civil eases: r e q u i r i n g j u d g e s o f t h e A p p e l l a t e C o a s t , w b e » M causes taken from Circuit Courts are reversed • by them, to give opinions of law, which shall be S authority to their trial of oases. Mr. Falls?* ' ̂ bill to license itinerant storekeepers was . dered engrossed -n-1s thin! rssdiilig ss alss Mr. Camnell's measure punishing "* com- ' pounders of liqnors. The Senate bUl KIMIM the powers of the Live Stock Commissions** 3 was ordered to a third reading. Mr. Clark call- ' ed up the Senate police and .firemen's bUL X which was advanced to a third reading. Mr. , ; Cole called up the anti-boycott bill, which was ; read a second Time and amended by including a 0 - 'I "black-list" as well as "boycott," and Hmf i A was sent to a third reading. The 8enate MB J amending the law for th'i election of county ' .f'J boards, etc., was advanced to a third reeding. .,-'0 ONLY a bare quorum of the Senate was prea- t, '}] ent when that body convened on the Mb last. The bill providing for additional judges ak -'j •spring elections was taken up, and after alight * amendment was advanced to third readn ̂V Senator Darnell had advanced to third reading \ his bill changing the weight of a legal Hitihsj of sweet potatoes from fifty-six to fifty pouncfee Q- Senator Hadley's bill amending the law in lation to assignments sad declaring void aft' deeds made three months prior to the assign­ ment was ordered to third reading. A. like ns- ' S position was made of the bill giving Park COBS* ' missioners power to condemn laad to make >% boulevards a uniform width of 100 faet. 8evscat other bills of minor importance were also vaneed. There were exactly twenty* members of the House in their seats when Speaker's gavel fell, and tbe attendance wonderfully light all through the day's wosk. The order was second reading c! bills, and sew eral of them of minor importance were mm: and passed np one step on tbe Among them was Mr. making the procuring women to enter a house of iH-renute a f< and Mr. Merritt's "Non-Forfeiture Lite lsnar;;.» ance Policy* bill. Mr. Clark's bill to provide tbe city of Chicago with forty-eight Aldenaea. -i and additional ones for new territory annexed ̂ was also sent to athtrd reading, and with some trilling amendments Mr. Collins' bill pnUMt* Ing the manufacture of explosives to destroy I life or property was placed on that order. After a long wrangle over minor amendaMnts tbe bill amending the medical practice act was landed at the order Of third reading. It is now drawn so that the faith-healers will eome under the •'> control and restrictions of tbe State Board oC Health. The hill appropriating t&B5,000 for the National Guard was sent to a third reeding. THE Senate held a brief and unfnterestinC session on the llth inst. The deficiency making an appropriation of $60,000 for the eae> , ̂ ployeB of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly-, ' V" was read a second time and advanced. , Crabtree introduced two b lis. One prohiblte the taking a change of venue later than the , • J third day of the cram at which tbe case ii - set for trial; the other provides that la ease# "• of attachment the Judge may order thai the plaiatifi's right to attachment and the Inmss a* * % to merit be tried at the same time and by the • • same jory. The House $ad a session of en boor preesnt, with nearly a quorum preesnt, taking up thn order of bills on second reading. Mr. Brokoskfi Mil authorising recorders of deeds to keen ab­ stract books, and fixing the fees and salaries " t h e r e f o r , w a s a d v a n c e d t o a t h i r d i s s i l l i n . T M V - t , bill introduced by Mr. Dwyar, to secure . a preferred mechanic's lien for labor, wa# ' Vhi opposed and ridiculed by Mr. Msttitt, anS - / -; was committed to the Judiolary Committee,' ̂ The bill to repeal the act organising tbe .Chi- (:,3 oago Board of Trade, introduced by Sr. Bssnr# , was referred to tbe Committee on JaditltlM> < u M partment and Practtoe. Mr. Pepoon introdaeed ̂ > THE IH11 restricting the rights of allSM «T , A acquire real and personal estate was ssa*t» ' third reading in the Senate on the ltthtasfc, . < 4 The following bills nasssd the genets: Arfvane* ' . itif the wages of a servant or laborer fa eaaoa* of administration Of estates from the seventh to » the sixth class; the S6&000 deficiency bill to pay the employes of the Thirty-fifth General Ait ' sembly ; to establish a general bask* ' v j ing law; making minor changes in law in relation to associations or societies. organized for the purpose of life indemnity ji 1 pecuniary benefits to widows, ste; aUowia# >;'f teachers pay for attendance upcm teachers' in. stitutes; to increase the fees of the Probate Court of Cook County; requiring the debtor fea J cases of attachment or distress for Mat t? schedule within ten days after notice ot exeea* . tion; allowing any number of persons not lose . • than nine to organize a company to make insory V- ance upon tbe life of persons; aatsoding the ': *-v ^ title to the sot appropriating >50,000 far the erao* ̂ tion of a monument to 3ohn A. tjpi, adding an emergency olause thereto TbeHoose of Representatives passed Mr. Chase's bill pee* venting pool-selling in Illinois, as well as Oka Curtis bill giving additional supervisors la towns of 4,000 or over outside at Cook County, Mr. Ward, of Green County, introduced a ieso»: lution. whioh was adopted, stating tbe fact that the bridge company at St Louis was shaqgac 35 cents fare "for" each, passeneer, upon the Commissioner of Railroads aad Ware-: _ Ware-': r- bouses to Investigate tbe matter and file Slaint against the company with the Interstate ommeroe Commission. THE location of the State Fair gave rise to at lively discussion in the 8enato on the 13th insV 'II The lobbies and galleries of that chamber wster - thronged with people, listening to the discus-' slon on the State fair location bill. Chicago^? :$ii Peoria, Centralia, and other cities had Igrgsr"^/ ̂ delegations present. Senator 8hutt of Spriaa-i' field opened the discussion in a short spsson . „ < favoring the bill, and Senator Crawford Imme- • " » diately moved to substitute the name of. ' Chicago for Springfield. The" motion failed' by a vote of 22 to '.9. Senator :«* Pearson followed with a motion to amend by to- eating the fair at three places, Peoria in lflSfc; •'•vt and every third year thereafter, Chicane in 189i.», and every third year thereafter, Centralia in 1880 and every third year thereafter. made & long speech in favor of this The motion for a triple location wa yeas, 24; utiye, 25. Senator Johnson mated t«K strike out the enacting clause in the bill, claim­ ing the General Assembly had no power to di- ̂ reet the Board of Agriculture to make a perma- nent location at any j;oiut. and cited authorities to sustain his position. Upon a call at the roll, ' the motion was lost by a vote of SS to 88. Sena-." tor Pearson next offered an amendment to lo­ cate the fair at four places--Chicago, Peoria, De-> catur and Centralia, This was adopted Sena keep i v yeas, 25; navs. 24--and the bill was ordered tea third reading by a vote of 98 to 33. No other business was transacted by the Senate. In tbe House of Representatives, Torranoe's joint resolution to reconstruct the State Judicial sys­ tem by abolishing the County end Ctxeait Courts, and substituting therefor Superior Courts in the several counties of the 8tate, wee defeated bv a vote of 04 yeas to 50 nays. Kr. f Mahoney'e bill extending the time for closing the polls under the new election law from 4 to 7 o'clock was also killed. Judge Tokum's propo­ sition for a constitutional amendment to reviee ' the judiciary of the State occasioned a long dis­ cussion, and finally failed to pass. BENATOB CCRTISS' bill, requiring all hangings r to take place in the county jails or la eae at the ̂ penitentiaries, passed the Senate on the lMh p Inst. The Senate passed Senator Higgins' bill, requiring railrua i companies to maintain as4e> ' ty gates and signals at ail dengerous erssstapsi ute bill of Senator Adams, changing the fish and game laws so that it shall be unlawful to catch fish save with a hook and Mae be­ tween the dates of March 1 and July 1; aad ator Campbell's bill, requiring guardians to p their wards' money invested la Gaitsd States bonds or bonds of a couaty or city wbsre the laws do not permit a ' inaebtedaese in ex­ cess of a per cent of the assessed value ci the property for taxation. Bills were intaoduoed as follows: By Senator Streeter, to prohibit the selling or giving away of papers with iauassal illustrations; by ben ator Wheeler, changing Kankakee County from the Sevcn h to tfca Third Supreme Court District; by Senator Humphrey, amending the law in relation to kidnaping, and requiring that when per­ sons are arrested they mustbeconfinedmthe regular way. £he House had its eostomeary squabble ooniAning the disposition of Mr. Streecer's bill, prohibiting the sals ct Itqeer within two miles <4 any incorporated city or town. The measure was seat beck to tbe com­ mitted. A Mil rd&peettac the holding at leads by aliens was read a third time and nasssd. II permits aliens to hold titles to landsh]r deessaft or devise for only three years without declare tion to become citizens at the United State a. It only differs from tbe Sea ste MB on the same aubjeot in a few miner partis uiars. The Senate bill increasing the peesss mt the Live Stock Commissioners was peessC The bill for tbe establishment of eboevdet arbitration to settle disputes tibns see. ployers and employes was reed a maad tt MM ItM olftttl# |nn§| tioas at employers was \aoeaed eat. *1 walking delegate* else same to grief, aai proposition tor a e|erk weat to the well. bill was seat jfeJIUrirvwUaC, ^ v'.' ' ' -• ' : .. : i* * ' V .?JS