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HON. WM. B. ALLIBON. lit Iowa Senator Presents a Masterly Discussion of National ' Politic* v Beport of Sis Speech Delivered at est Union, Iowa, on the Opening of the Campaign. i the Des Moines Re#(«t#r.f Mr. Allison called attention to the fact that this administration baa been in power two years and seven months, and that we now have the opportunity of comparing the results with the like period of Kepublican administration. That in order to secure power they had charged the Republican party with wastefulness and extravagance in public expenditures, with the establishment of useless offices to provide for favorites ; that the Democratic party had prom­ ised to introduce economy and reform in our -administration, whereby useless offices should be abandoned and rigid economy instituted in expenditures of the public money. That in­ stead of abolishing useless offices they have created new ones. That they have increased the compensation of many persons in office. That instead of diminishing employes in the departments they have been Increased. That in all the departments of the government ex­ penditures have been increased. That the estimates of the departments and appropria­ tions have been increased. That the ordinary expenditures for the fiscal year ending on the lsfof July last have been greater than for any other fiscal year since 1880. Leaving out of the account necessary increased expenditures on account of pension laws, and leaving out of the account the reduction of expenditures for interest because of the continued payment of the national debt, the expenditures for the ordinary purposes of the Government have been §4,000,0U) greater than for any year since 1880. That the expenditures for the current year will not be less than they were last year --probably will be greuter--although by fail- ore of the river and" harbor bill, and by fail­ ure of the deficiency bill, the appropriations for the current year are not so great as last year. Mr. Allison then discussed at some length the Surplus in the Treasury, and called attention to the fact that for many years in this State that had been the chief charge of our opponents against the Kepublican party. The Kepublican party had conservatively administered the fin­ ances, so as to provide for the ordinary current expenditures and for the maintenance at par, in coin, of our paper-money circulation; and Whatever surplus thero was beyond this was, from time to time, at frequent recurring peri­ ods, applied to the payment of the principal of the public debt. In" order to do this a reserve •was maintained, varying from $100,000,000 to $190 ,000,000. Our opponents promised to greatly reduce this surplus if they should bo permitted to control the Government. We find now, after two years and seven months of experiment, that the surplus in the Treasury on the 1st day of September was 536,000,OOu greater than when President Cleveland was inaugurated, as shown by Secretary Manning's report of 1885 and the Tfreasury statement for August last--that the total sum of the money gathered.in the lYeas- ury is in still greater excess ; that the national bank depositories are now more largely used than then ; that vastly greater sums are kept in the hands of disbursing officers so as to keep the apparent suplus down; that the fund held as a special fund in the Treasury for redemption of national back notes is $52,000,000 greater than It was on the 4th of March, 1885. So that the policy of with­ drawal of money from circulation and hoarding in the Treasury has greatly increased instead of diminished during all the months of this present administration. That notwithstanding the constant cry for the repeal of the silver coinage act as necessary for the mainte­ nance of the public credit, gold has been steadily and constantly accumulating, so that the Government has now in its vaults two hun­ dred and oighty-two million dollars of gold, or a surplus ot gold belonging to the Government beyond what was in the Treasury on the 4th of March, lS>so, of seventy-one millions of dol­ lars, yet those who vrere most active in the de­ nunciation of the Kepublican policy seem now to be lost in admirat on of the financial policy of President Cleveland. He also alluded to the fact that this enormous surplus now in the Treasury would be added to from month to mouth by excessive receipts over expenditures unless unmatured bonds shall be purchased, resulting from the fact that there had been no reduction of taxation. That the Democi^its had promised this reduction ever since they came into power in the House of KepreBentative in 1875. That al­ though they held a majority then for six years continuously to 1881, not a single bill passed the House looking to a reduction of taxation. That the Republicans secured a majority of the House in 1881, and revised the tax laws so as to reduce annual taxes between thirty and forty millions of dollars. That a greater re­ duction should have been made, but this was the best that could be done under the circum­ stances. Then oame the campaign of 1884, the Democrats still insisting that "further reduction should be made, and that if they secured the House of Representatives and the President a reduction would follow without delay. The Congress elected in that year has passed into history, and with it two fiscal y ^ars of this ad­ ministration, and no bill has passed tne House for the reduction of taxes, although it is evi­ dent that our receipts are constantly and largely increasing over our expenditures. Jt must be borne in mind that tax laws can only originate in the House of Representatives, and that the Senate has no powor under the Consti­ tution until the House acts ; so that the whole responsibility of this failure to reduce taxes rests upon the House of Representatives, or did so rest until the 4th of March, 1H87. From that time until now the President shares this respon­ sibility, because it was his duty, the last House having failed, to immediately assemble Con­ gress in extra session for the purpose of reduc­ ing taxes to relieve the people from the exces­ sive burdens of taxation. This the President did not do, and by his non-action, nine months of the present Congress had passed away with­ out opportunity being given for the considera­ tion ot this question. He then said that the dif­ ficulty in the way has been that the Democratic Sarcy, as constituted in its majority, in its in-uenccs and its control, is in favor of the prin­ ciple of free trade, or a "tariff for revenue only." That majority insists that no revision of the tariff Bhall take place except upon this princi- Sle, and because of this insistence the House uring the last Goneress failed to act. The body of the people of this country, including a minor­ ity of the Democratic party itself, favors such re- Vision of our tariif laws as will secure to our own laborers fair wages and an opportunity of com­ peting successfully with the cheaper paid labor of Europe ; and they believe, as do the Repub­ lican party, that it is our duty to legislate in the interest of ;our own producers and labor­ ers rather than the producers and laborers ot other countries. Yet the power that controlled the House of Representatives was not willing that a revision should be mode upon those well settled convictions of the American people. He said that this winter the fame contest will open up again, and the necessities of the situa­ tion are likely to be such that the "tariff for nnnue only" reformers will be obliged to yield to that public opinion which, while favoring a revision of the tariff and a reduction of the revenue, still insists that it shall be done so as to promote American labor and American in­ dustry. But it still remains as a fact that whatever of depression now exists as respects oar labor, our industries, and our business, be­ cause of excessive taxation and because of a withdrawal by taxation of laree sums of money not needed, is directly chargeable to the failures, the indisposition and imjoiiipetency of the Democratic party in control in the House of Representatives, and in the Administration of our Government to deal with \his question. Mr. Allison then went into thavquestion of the power that controls the Demo? States had thirty-four Chairmanships, and that all the other StateB had but twenty-one. That Of the leading committees the South had nine­ teen and all the rest of the country three. That in the present Congress in nine Southern States there is not a single Republican mem­ ber. That in seven of the remaining States of tile South there are only sixteen Republican members, of which Virginia, by a sudden revo­ lution, elected six. That there are in the pres­ ent House from the South 101 Democrats, and from oil tho other States 04, giving the South a majority of 40 in the Democratic caucus. That in all the other states the Republicans have 13i> members. That in the South the Republicans have onlv sixteen, so that with a total member- Ship of 120 in the South the Democrats have 104, and total membership in ail other States of 64. The South, by its 101 Democratic votes, will control a majority in a Democratic caucus, and through that caucus will choose the Speaker,and through him elect all the committees of the House, and thus throw the legislation of the country, aB respects public policies and public interests, into the hands of the South, although they have only a little over one-third of the total number of lRepre- sentatives. I need onlv illustrate how these Representatives in tho South are selected by calling your attention to the fact that the total vote in Iowa in l&8<i for members of Con­ gress was 3;i5,511, an average of 35,500 for each member elected, whilst in the State of Georgia, a representative Southern State, having ten members of tlie House, as against eleven for Iowa, the total vote cast in that State was 27,- > 430, or less than were cast in anv one district in Iowa, and on average of 2.74 "> votes to each member elected. Now, can it be that there is a free and full discussion of public questions in a State with an average vote of 2,745 to each memebrt It is worth while for us in this connec­ tion to note the relative importance of these six­ teen States as compared with the rest of the •Onion, according to tbe census of 1880. Total valuation of prox erty in the I'nited States was in round numb ers, $43,500,000,000 ; in these sixteen States, S8,500,000,00 ; leaving to all the rest of tbe Union $36,00u,000,000; so that these States have less than one-fifth of the property of the United States. Now, turning for a moment to our industries, wo find that the whole product of manufactures under the census of 1880 was So,36£>,U0ii,0001 and the product of these Sixteen States S«22 0 0,000, leaving *4,377,- 000,0U0 of n anufaotured products for the re- ma ning States of the Union, or more than ® Seven-eighths of the whole. So, if you turn to wages paid to laborers in producing these pro­ ducts, you will find of the total Sfl4st,O0O,OJO •ftt)1;' one buna red million five hundred thoo- >. «tpMl dollars wars pMd by these sixteen States, tic party In tlie House of Representatives, and showed _ that during the last Congress sixteen Southern. .4ullV providing for such forfeiture, that but or loss than one-ninth or the wnoio amount of wages paid to persons engaged in manufact­ ures. And of this one hundred million Ave hundred thousand dollars Maryland, Ken­ tucky, and Missouri paia fifty-three million dollars, leaving only forty-seven million five hundred thousand dollars for the remaining thirteen Southern States. Now, if we look at the population tables, we. find that out of the total population of fifty millions the Soutu has but eighteen million nve huudred thousand, as against thirty-one million live huudred thou­ sand in all the other status, and of these eighteen million five hnnared thousand, one- third, or six million five hundred thousuud, are colored, and are iu a minority in numbers, and exert no influence in the selection of liepreaen- tatives. The reason why I will not now dis­ cuss. It will be seen tnat twelve millions of whito population in the South dominate and control thirty-one millions of white populatun in all the other states of the Union. With this relative population, and valuation, and manu­ factured product, and payment of wages to la­ borers engaged in manufacturing industries, is it strange that this section of our country dominating and controlling the taritt policy of the country, should feel indifferent to our great industries, especially when we know that for the last nfty years this section of our country, has been steadily and constantly taught by their public men and political leaders that its interests lie in the direction of free trade V The revolution in Virginia last year, whereby six Republican members were elected and with the rapid development of the natural resources of the Southern States, there is certain to >ome, in the near future, an abandonment of these old Democratic theories and doctrines and the establishment there of sounder views of the true policy of the country as respects protec­ tion of American labor and industry; ani which before many years, will result in a divi­ sion of what is culled the "Solid South," and the establishment there of a Republican party upon an enduring basis. Mr. Allison then discussed at considerable length the public-land policy of the United States, calling attention to the fact that it is claimed in the Democratic platform sliat Presi­ dent Cleveland has inaugurated a new land policy by restoring unearned land grants to the extent of millions of acres to the public do­ main and reserving them for actual settlers only. That the attempts of cattle syndicates to close tracts of public lands to their own use have been uefeated ; and tuat the continuance of the Democratic administration is a guaranty that not another acre shall be granted to spec­ ulators or corporations. Mr. Allison stated that no new land policy had been adopted by this administration. He said unearned land grants to the extent of about 50,CKJU,OJO of acres have been restored to the public domain by acts of Congress. That this is not the policy of President Cleveland, but is the policy of Congress, and was inaugu­ rated before President Cleveland took the oath of office; so that in restoring these unearned lands the President is only discharging his duty in carrying out the will of Congress as ex­ pressed in our national laws. So witn reference to his action as respects the appropriation of large tracts of public lauds by cattie syndicates for pasti.rage purposes. Tnis inclosure or fencing of public lands for the purpose ot pasturage, was absolutely pro­ hibited and made unlawful by act of Congress passed Feb. 25, 1880, and agreed to by a Demo­ cratic House and Republican Senate, and sign­ ed by President Arthur. That this law made it the duty of the District Attorney of the United States, for the proper district, to institute pro­ ceedings for the removal of such unlawful in­ closure or fencing, and jurisdiction is conferred upon United States courts for th'it purpose ; and to insure speedy action, it is especially provid­ ed that precedence for hearing and trial shall be given to this class of cases over all other cases on the docket; and section 5 makes it the duty ot the President to take such measures as shall be necessary to remove and destroy any unlawful inclosure of any of the public lands, and to employ civil and military force as may be necessary for that purpose ; so that whatever the President has done in this regard he has done in pursuance ot law and by posi­ tive direction of law, and had no other alternative but to enforce the law, which he has done with reasonable fidelity. So much in reference to this for­ feiture of lands. And when the platform speaks of tho public land policy of the President it speaks of a thing which has no existence as dis­ tinct from the pol'cy of Congress. An effort is made to create the impression that President Cleveland has restored to the public domain large quantities of public lands which had been withheld by Republican administrations prior to his inauguration, and which could have been promptly restored without inter­ vention of Congress. Mr. Allison said he was not aware of a single instance where this has been done. He said it must be remembered that the policy of granting lands to railroads was inaugurated by the Democratic party, and continued for eleven years before tho Republi­ cans came into power, and that in money value the lands thus granted were largely in excess of those made by Republican Congresses and ad­ ministrations from 1861 to 1871, although less, if measured in acres. The great bnlk of the lands granted after 1801 by the Republican party was made to railroads intended to be construct­ ed east and west, through a practically unin­ habited couutry, being projected to connect the Missouri River and the great lakes with the Pa- cifiic Ocean. These grants, although large in area, were made through a country of sparee population, stretching over a long extent of arid plains and through practically inaccessi­ ble and uninhabited mountain regions. These lauds had, when granted, little value in a X»ractical or money sense, as all mineral lands were excluded from tho grants." He stated the object and aim of these grants was three-fold : first, to secure a transcontinental iron path­ way to the Pacific Ocean, with a view of closely identifying the Pacific coast States with the remainder of the country ; secondly, to enable the Government to transport its supplies for the support of the army in subduing the hostile tribes of Indians ; and thirdly, for the purpose of developing tho mineral resources of that mountainous region. He said he 'did not argue the wisdom or unwisdom of these crants, but that it ought to be remembered that Democrats and Republicans alike sup­ ported tbem in Congress, and that both politi­ cal platforms in 1800 requested tbem to be made, and that there was no public criti­ cism adverse to them at tho time they were made, or more of them were made. He called attention to the fact that since 1872 and up to the present time, no public man or leading statesman of any party, had proposed to make further grants of the public doniafn iu aid of railways or other corporations, and that since that timo no such grants have boeu niado. So that after the lapse of fifteen years it is hardly necessary to oppose in a, platform the policy of making grants of public lands in aid of corpora­ tions. He said it should not be forgotten that the Republican party, in 1802, established the policy of the homestead law, whereby liHj acres of land could be acquired by settlement, for a period of five years. He also called attention to the fact that at the last session of Congress, in obedience to public opinion. Congress passed a stringent law against the acquisition of public lands, or large bodies of lands, in the Territo­ ries, by persons not citizens of tbe United States, or by foreign corporations or syndicates. This law also provides that no corporation except railroads shall acquire or own more than 5/00 acres of land in the Territo­ ries of the United States; and that no rail­ road corporation shall hereafter acquire, own, or hold land in any Territory other than may be necessary for the proper operation of its railroad; and provided that all property ac­ quired, owned, or held in violation of the pro­ visions of the act should be forfeited to the United States ; and that it is made the duty of the Attorney General to proceed in the courts for such forfeiture.^ He said, as respects the forfeiture or reclamation of unearned land grants, that the Republican party originated this policy. That in the Forty-seventh Con­ gress (both houses being Republican; tbe lead­ ing committees of the two houses--tho Judi­ ciary Committees--made reports iu favor of the forfeiture of all unearned land grants in all cases where the railroads were not actually in good faith constructing their roads, and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate made a unanimous report through Mr. Garland, now Attorney General, accompanied by a bill care- for lack of time would have passed the Sen ate at that session. That at the next ses­ sion the Democratic House and the Repub­ lican Senate alike took up this question and passed several bills of forfeiture which re­ ceived the signature of President Arthur. That during the Forty-ninth Congress several other bills "of forfeiture were passed and by both houses, and received the signature of the Pres­ ident. That every laud grant forfeiture bill which passed the House also passed the Senate That the Senate passed a bill to forfeit a por­ tion of tbe unearned lands of the Northern Pa­ cific Railroad. That tbe House amended this bill by pronosinc the forfeiture of earned as well as unearned lands ; and that because of differences of detail between the two houses, this bill originating <n the Senate, failed to become a law. That the Senate passed a law forfeiting 8i,0)0 acres of land in Northwestern Iowa, which, although in the House for a year, was not permitted to pass the House during the last two sessions of Congress. So that with respect to this forfeiture ol unearned lands, no bills passed the House that did not also pass the Re­ publican Senate, and the Democratic party can make no claim in this direction that cannot also be made by the Republican Senate. To facilitate the restoration of railroad lands to the wublic domain. Congress at the last session passed a law requiring the Secretary of the In­ terior to make an adjustment of all land grants so as to restore lands withheld in excess or actual grants. Under this law it is the duty of the Interior Department to re-examine these land grants, and to make restoration to the public domain of all lands not actually due to the railroads. From this ,you st?© that th© ad- iustment they are now making in the Land Department with reference to these land grants are going on under the direction of the law, and in pursuance of law. And that indemnity lands stated to have been restored by simple volition of the President are being restored be­ cause the law requires them to be restored; in case of forfeiture the indemnity lands reserved must be restored with the forfeiture lands And in case of examination under the laws of March. 1S87, indemnity lands not required to execute tho grange must be restored to the market. So, I repeat the land policy of to­ day is the land policy of Congress estab­ lished first by a Republican Congress and continued by a Democratic House and a Repub­ lican Senate, and that the Republican party is entitled to share at least equally with the Dem­ ocratic party whatever merit there is in the present policy respecting our public lands, save only that, I think, the Republican party does not care to share that past of the land j.olicy which withholds from honest and actual settlers tbe title which they ought to reoeire for the lands taken up under tne homestead laws ct the country. As far as I know, Republicans are willing that that part of our public land polioy shall be enjoyea by the Democracy. He said in making this statement he wanted also to call attention to the fact that before Mr, Cleveland's inauguration, and during the ad­ ministration of Secretaries Kirk wood and Tel­ ler, Congress authorised a thorough examina­ tion of fraudulent entries of public lands, and appropriated ample funds to make these exam­ inations which examination had been going on for more than two years before March, 1885. Mr. Allison, speaking of the civil servlae, said that notwithstanding the promise of an improved civil service, the most faithful and efficient employes in the departments have been removed and their places filled, in many instances, by men incompetent for the work; that the general business of the Government was not as efficiently and promptly conducted ns under the Republican administration ; and that our civil service, instead of being im­ proved as promised, was now in a much worse condition than when President Cleveland as­ sumed control of the Government. Mr. Allison, in conclusion and in summing up, said: You naturally, after this review, ask what lias tho Democratic partv accomplished in povter? It elected a President who, before election, and after election, and before inaugu­ ration, and repeatedly since, in messages and public utterances, professed the greatest solici­ tude for a pure and non-partisan civil service. But in his conduct he has wholly failed to pro­ vide such a service, and has prostituted the Bervice wholly to party purposes and uses ; first Btealthily, but recently without disguise, as witness its prostitution in Maryland, Penn­ sylvania, and New York, controlling cau­ cuses and conventions, notably in New York, where the Chairman of the Examining Board in New York City actively sought to con­ trol delegations to the State convention, and now the establishment of political associations of clerks and employes in the department to control caucuses and elections, in violation of the letter and spirit of tho civil-service law, without protest from tho heads of departments or the executive, so far as is known. In its for- eigu policy it has been irresolute and weak In its financial policy it has urged the destruction of greenbacks and the repeal of the silver coin- ape acts so that by force of these two m6as- i:res there would be a destruction of our paper circulation and tho establishment of tbe single standard of gold. Promising to re­ duce the surplus, it lias increased that sur­ plus to the extent of f74,000,000, withdraw­ ing large sums from jiroduction, labar. and business. Promising to reduce taxes, it has aosolutely and conspicuously failed to do so, whereby from month to month large sums un­ necessary for the operation of the Government are drawn from the people into the Treasury, thus continuing to depress the labor industries and business of the country. We have Been the Democratic party demonstrate its sectional­ ism in its power, in its policies, and in its lead­ ers, holding that control in one section united now by a sentiment as it was formerly by a single interest. This sectional control domi­ nates at home and abroad, in the departments, in the country, and in the House of Representa­ tives. as I have shown. This first is seen in vetoes of numerous mer­ itorious private pension bills, and more con­ spicuously in the veto of the dependent pen­ sion bill, so-called, intended to provide for the prematurely old soldiers of the Republic who, from no fault of their own, are unable to earn a living, whilst at tho same time signing a bill identical in principle applied to the sol­ diers serving in the Mexican war. We have seen this spirit in the proposal to return to the " Confederate States " the most cherished tro­ phies of the war; and finally we have seen ev­ ery promise of the party to secure power practi­ cally disregarded in the exercise of power ac­ quired. Worry, Not Work, Kills. "The great man," says Emerson, "is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." "How many of the troubles of life," asks Sir John Lubbock, "are insignificant in themselves and easily avoidable?" It is not so much, in most cases, great sorrows, diseases or death, but rather the little daily doings which cloud over the sunshine of life. We most of us give ourselves an immense amount of trouble, incumber ourselves, as it were, on the journey of life with a dead weight of unnecessary baggage. In that most delightful fairy tale, "Alice in Wonderland," the White Knight is described as having provided himself on starting for a journey with a variety of odds and ends, including a mouse­ trap, in case he was troubled with mice at night, and a beehive, in case he came across a swarm of bees. To save ourselves from imaginary, or at any rate problematical evils, we often incur real suffering. "The man," said Epi­ curus, "who is not content with little is content with nothing." There is an amusing passage in Hearne's "Journey to the Mouth of the Coppermine River." A few days after starting he met a party of Indians who annexed a deal of his property, and all Hoarne says is, "The weight of our baggage being so much lightened, our next day's journey was much pleasanter. I ought, however, to add that tbe Indians broke up our philosophical instruments, which, no doubt, were rather an in­ cumbrance. " Do then your best and await calmly the result. It is anxiety, not work, which kills; it is work, not anxiety, which commands success. There is a Hindoo saying that the for­ tune of a man who sits sits also; sleeps when he sleeps, moves when he moves, and rises when he rises. Anxiety, on the contrary, does more harm than good. Many seem to think that, in these days of competition and struggle for existence, life is more difficult and anxious than it used to be. On the contrary, I believe there never was a time when modest merit and patient industry were more sure to win reward. --New York Home Journal. A Fair Retort. Tbe worm will turn. So will the Englishman. We have been laughing at some of the sons of Britain for two centuries for their disregard of the natural rights of the letter h, and boast­ ing of our own scrupulous and univer­ sal conception of the same. No Ameri­ can, learned or ignorant, calls the obi est of beasts "an 'orse," or speaks of the "hox" as a useful "hanimal." But now an English writer, while frankly admitting the infirmity of his countrymen in the matter of the aspi­ rate, charges us with worse faults. He says, that go where you will in the United States, you hear, even in the {•lay grounds of grammar schools, such expressions as "Was you there?" Them strawberries," "A little ways down the street," "I have looked evory- wheres for it," "There's no apples in my desk," and "I haven't got none." T hese expressions, he contends, de* note real ignorance, not a mere in­ firmity of the vocal organs. Teachers who have attempted to break English boys of the misuse of the h have dis­ covered that the lads cannot at first de­ tect any difference in sound between hog and og. The aspirate seems to be an acquired taste, like olives and toma­ toes. Bad grammar, such as our English critic adduces against us, often denotes something worse than ignorance. Our boys know better but don't care. They have ungrammatical principles. Let us have a reform next term.--Youth's Companion. IT is a critical moment in life when middle age awakens a man from the illusions that iiave been crowning the earlier years with inward glory. Some are willing to let the vision and the dream pass into easy oblivion, whilo they hasten to make up for lost time in close pursuit for the main chance. Others can forgive anything sooner than their own exploded ideal, and the ghost of their dead enthusiasm haunts them with an embittering presence. A MAN, to be successful in lore, should think only of his sweetheart and himself. An old author observes that lovers are never tired of each other's company, because they are always talk­ ing of themselves. HE that follows nature is nerer out of his waj. Nature is sometimes sub­ dued, but seldom extinguished. BAILWAY BUTCHERY, Evidence that the Slaughter at Ind., Was Due to - Carelessness. The Freight Engineer Hashing Ahead in a Fog After a Warning. Twenty-five Miles an Hour Down Grade and Unprovided with Sand. k eftrMsspOlident who has been watching the Coroner's inquiry into the deadly wreck at Kouts, Ind., telegraphs as follows: The responsibility for the disaster is becom­ ing fixed upon the crew of tlie freight train which crashed into the disabled passenger. All the evidence to he had comes from the em­ ployes of tho railroad, but there is no goo i rea­ son for believing they have uot told the truth concerning tho movements of the two trains that eventful night. First of all, the estab­ lished facts against the engineer were that he knew the passenger engino was disabled, and that tho passenger train was not a great way ahead of him. But two stations back he had raoelrtd distinct orders to look out for the train HAH.ROAD STATION AT KOUTS VHKBE THK DEAD WERE TAKEN. at a certain station. It is true he did not find the train thero, but it is also true he had re­ ceived no information aa to its locality. He only knew the passenger was ahead of him somf where on the line with a disable 1 engine. Notwithstanding this knowledge he rushed ahead in a dense fog, according to tho testi­ mony, at twentj^five miles an hour, or even a greater rate. He ran on to a grade wnieh made a stop within a half mile out of tho question, af this rate of speed. He acknowledged he was uneasy, and under a spasm of temporary fear at the thought that the passenger might be be­ fore him, he whistled for brakes. Then the thought of recovering lost time overcame his caution, and he whistled "Off brakes!" When directly under the semaphore he SP.W the dan­ ger signal, and again called for brakes and did all in his power to stop the train. This is hit own story, but why he should not have seen the red light of the semaphore before that time is not clear. It wns apparent to the trainmen of the passenger train who stood by the side of the track 2.500 feet away, but he says he oould not see it Tho most probable BASE-BAIL, The Season Closes with Detroit the Winner of the Letga* f j- Pennant. The Shooting Season--What It Promises -Duck, Squirrel, and Chicken 7 ,< f Titty Plentiful. ""TV. •.' [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCB.] The last frames of the Base-Ball League championship season of 1887 have come and gone, and the questions that have been asked again and again by loTers of the national game in eveiy city and hamlet iu the country have been finally and irrevoca­ bly decided. Detroit now looks with pride gratification at tho silken champion­ ship emblem which will wave from the top of the tali flagstaff upon its League grounds, while the plucky and determined team which Harry Wright has commanded through the season's campaign is fairlv swelled with satisfaction and gratified pride as its players glauoe back over the season's record, which gives them such honorable mention, and places them in so enviable a position in the race at the finish. In Pittsburgh's nine the Chicago team has met its stumbling- block this year, and in the record of the last week of the season, which shows Chi­ cago's portion to have been four defeats and one tie game at the hands of the Smoky City lads, rests the secret of Chicago's dis­ placement from second position in the pen- naut race. However, Chica^oans are sat­ isfied with the record of their team. Witk nines composed almost wholly of new talent, the White Stockings have given the oldest and most thoroughly organized teams in the race a great battle, and only retired to th rd place after it had fought a long, hard and determined fight against each and every one of the teams pitted against it. THE WINTER 8EA80N. Now that the race of 1887 » over and the question of club standing sottled, the ap­ proaching winter season of base-ball will, doubtless, open up with legislation) of a character so important as to make the com­ ing fall a memorable one in the history oi the game. The troubles between the league aud the Ball-players' Brotherhood, which have been seething and boiling ever since Johnny Ward started the ball with the or­ ganization of the Brotherhood, will doubt­ less be at once brought forward,, and if the players who form tbe backbone of the new organization adhere firmly to the policy they have so distinctly outlined, it is diffi­ cult to see how a bitter fight between clubs and players can be averted. HOW THEY STAND. The following table will show the com­ plete record of all championship games won and lost by League clubs for the sea­ son of 18N7. their standing iu thi> race be­ ing determined by the percentages of games each club has won to the number of games played: j THE LEAGUE. Detroit ID 8 10.11113 l:*;i4'74 8| . lIBjloj »!l!t13ll7 10'p'l..(11; 91 5,11 jlH Bi 7i CI. IKU'11015 Philadelphia Chicago... New York... IklBtOtl. Pittsburgh Washington. l! 5 3l 7 Indianapolis Games lost *5 4 ^150155 00 09 WOBK1NO AT TOE explanation is that he was not looking down the track at that critical moment. On both the rate of running and his outlook he -was taking frightful chances, and the throw ot tho die was against him Another fact but lightly touehcri^npon in the evidence is full nf significance. The engine was without any protection againet a slippery track, Tho snnil-box was oxhausted It is the en­ gineer's duty to see that hi» engine is supplied with that safeguard against slipping wheels. Had sand been in the sand-box that night the wheels would have held to the track, and while the shock might not have been entirely avoided, its severity would beyond a doubt have been greatly lessono.l. The engineer's efforts to stop his train on that down grade into the passenger were almost useless, on this account, and from all the facts at hand at this time it does not ap­ pear that the heavy freight was slacked up at all in its descent ot half a mile. While any one of these facts may not render BKHA1NS OF THK FREIGHT BNSIKB. the engineer liable to prosecution for criminal negligence, together they ought to be oonsid- ered unfit lor a service where human life de­ pends upon carefulness of employe*. From an extended talk with the Coroner it was apparent that this view was substantially the one ha had taken from his investigations. While the blame of the wreck primarily at­ taches itself to the freight engineer, the ignor­ ance of the past enger conductor regarding the movement oif trains is surprising. He was two hours late. According to the printed schedule of trains, which he carried in his pocket, the "meat train." No. 48, should have passed him an hour before. Without knowing a thing about the location of that train, he testi­ fied that ho had no idea that any train was be­ hind him. Whether he supposed the meat train had dropped into tho earth or had passed on the barb-wire fence alon i the roadway is not plain. His innocence regarding the move­ ment of trains on bis road is trnly marvelous. WHEITE THE WRECK OCCUKHED. Ho fulfilled, however, the rules of the oetnpaay in tnrowing up the warning semaphore, and the fact that a flagman did not go back of his train until the rear brakeman saw the sparks of the freight locomotive probably cut no flgnre ia the subsequent events. Under any circum­ stances the flagman would not have gone be­ yond the half-mile which the semaphore marked, and the freight train could not have •topped in that limit. The absence of sand from tbe sand-box of the locomotive seems to be expressed, in slang par­ lance, the absence of "3and* from the entire management of both tbe passenger and the it- ight trains It resembled amateur railroad­ ing more than aught else. On visiting the wreck, although the company bad made the greatest efforts to remove all traces of the calamity, the wreckage still re­ maining tells too-plainly the story of the fear­ ful impetus with wh ch the freight engine struck the ill-fatad pabsenser train. About five hundred foet of the track hotl been re laid with new sleepers and rails, the twisted and useless rails and debris of the pasBenger coaches being thrown into tli« ditch on one side of the track, and the wreckage of six freieht oars having been thrown into the ditch on the other side of the track The name of Mrs. John Wensinger, of Can­ ary, Ohio, is on every tongue, ijhe is the lady that knocked a window throug^with a cluo, and rescued two unknown womerh-and- Dr. Welch, of Spencervi!le, Ind., who were impris­ oned by timbers, and they ad say they would have surely perished had it not been for the timely assistance of Mrs. Wonsiuger.' The conductor claims there were but twenty- seven passengers aboard. J. A. 1-ridrick, a re­ liable citizen of Kouts, says there were fifty if not sixty aboard when they passed Hammond, as he was on the platform and noticed that the two day ooacbes were pretty well filled, and he is borne out by othera who noticed the train pass. Mr. McCool, of Boston, who receiv- # slight injuries, insists that there were fort/ not fifty aboard. He is intelligent, wad his ii£iia*te-is entitled to w*4#ht., . HEBE AND THERE IN SPOUTING CIRCLES GENEKALIA-. The season of duck-shooting favwhich so many sportsmen in all sections of the country have looked forward for some weeks past, has now fairly arrived, and huntsmen only await the advent of a bit of cold weather to follow the generally rainy season that has prevailed throughout the country to enter upon a season that prom­ ises to be prolitic of much line Bport. Ducks are reported in unusually largo numbers in the far northern wa­ ters, and two- or at least three weeks more mast bring them southward to the feeding grounds in the marsh and lake districts of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan. Squirrel are rep irt?d in greater numbers this year than ever before, and fortunntelv for the bushy- tails, the fancy of the squirrel-hunter has this season turned to the small caliber rifle as a means of brhiging down their game, instead of the shot-gun. "I don't want any better fun," said a squirrel shooter the other day, "than to spend an afternoon in a good squirrel district with a 32-caliber rifle and plenty of ammunition. I tried a smaller bore for a while--22-oaliber--but prefer the 32. The bigger gun generally makes two holes in your squirrel--one where it enters and one where it comes out --bat your game drops every time he is hit It beats shot-gun practice alLto pieces." Mr. Charles Willard, a prominent member of two or three of Chicago's oldest shooting clubs, prediots an un­ usually good season for ail kinds of game. "Ducks will be plenty," he says, "while cJPicken. geese, and squirrel-- judg­ ing from th.3 advices I have reoeived dur­ ing the past week--are wry numerous throughout Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. The demand tor guns and sportsmen's wear is heavier than I have known it to be at this time for five years past. Our company baa just mailed its fall catalogue of firearms and sportsmen's goods, embracing about two car-loads of printed matter. If each oae of these cata­ logues should supply ome spovtsman for a day's hunt for ducks, and these sportsmen shpuld bag the usual quantity of gnme, the supply of duoks would be just about ex­ hausted." CON CUEGAN. AGAINST THE ANARCHISTS.* A Resolution of Sympathy for the Reds> Produces a Lively Time in the Knight* of Labor Congrews. In the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor at Minneapolis, James It. Quinu. of New York, the famous "kicker" and Home Club mun, presented tbe followiaj? resolution under a suspension of the rules: WHKHEAB. Considering that the development of the human mind in tho nineteenth century has reached a point expreB9ed almost univers­ ally agiiinst capital punishment or taking of human life by judicial process as a relic of bar* barism, therefore be it Hixotve-I, That this convention express scar- row that the men in Chicago were doomed to deatli, and that it use every endeavor to secure the commutation of the sentence of death passed upon them. The convention was at once thiown into the wildest excitement, scores of delegates trying at the same time to obtain the floor. General Master Workman Powderly de­ cided the r solution out ot order. Joseph Evans, of Pittsburg, appealed from the decision. The appeal waB lost by a vote of 151 to 5'2. Before the appeal was taken, Mr. Pow­ derly called General Worthy Foreman Grif­ fiths, of Chicago, to the obair, and in a short but vehement speech eulled upon the convention to defeat the resolution. He said no true knight could be an anarchist Ho appealed to tbe delegates in impassioned words not to pervert the purposes of the order by the passage of any such resolu­ tions. It was tbe hottest speech Powderly was ever known to make. AN old grandma with a small boy boarded a Gratiot avenue car tho other day, and the collector rang the register twice. "What's that for?" sho asked. "That's two o'clock," answered the boy. In a minute or two another pas­ senger got on, and again the register rang. "Three o'clock 1" exclaimed the old lady as she bobbed around on her seat." "My stars! but how the time » city 1"--Detroit Free Fress. Take Care of the Hair. So careful observer fails to notice, >3 he looks over assemblies of men past 30 years of age that a very large pro­ portion is bald, or in a stage of partial baldness, which indicates the speedy loss of the hirsute appendage. The percentage of men of all ages who show signs of baldness has been put at 30 per cent., and by some observers as high even as 40 per cent. From care­ ful observations in churches, theaters, lecture-rooms, and political assemblies, we are satisfied that these estimates are too high, and that 23 or 24 per cent, is a more exact estimate. This exhibit is alarming, as it indi­ cates that the tiuie is near when we shall be a nation of bald-heads, and that alopecia as a disease will afHict the you thin our schools, as through heredity physical deformities and illness are mult iplied and extended to an enormous extent. What is the cause of this early loss of hair ? It is not due to the hats or caps we wear, not to the clipping of the hair close, not to living in hot rooms; it is not due to the forms of foods we consume, but, in our view, it is largely due to modern methods of treatment of the hair and scalp. The erroneous views prevails that the skin which holds the hair follicles and the delicate secre­ tory organs of the scalp must be kept as "clean," ®o to speak, as the face or hands; consequently young men pat­ ronize barbers or hairdressers, and once or twice a week they have what is called a ^shampoo" operation performed; and this consists in a thorough scouring of the hair and scalp with dilute ammonia water and soap, so that a heavy "lather" is produced, and the glandular secre­ tions, which are the natural protection of the hairr and promotive of its growth, are saponified and removed. No act could be more directly destructive of a healthy growth of hair than this, and no one is more common. The practice of frequently washing the head in warm or cold weather, at home, with or without the adjuncts of soap, alcohol, ammonia, or perfumery,, is deleterious and promotive of eaxly t loss of the hair. Men ' in active' indoor J business--clerks, bankers, shop-keep­ ers in cities--are continually washing the head. Many do this night and. morning, under the false notion' that it is necessary to cleanliness, and pro* motive of a vigorous^ growth of haixt, and when alarmed at its rapid disap­ pearance'in early life they are at a loss to understand the reason. The secre­ tion of wax in the ear passages is nature's method of protecting the deli­ cate machinery upon which hearing de­ pends. It closes the organ bo the en­ trance of insects aud dust; and fortun­ ately the secretion is, to a considerable ex tent,, placed beyond easy interference, and thus the sense of hearing is pno* tected from injurious "washouts." The waxy secretion which is poured out from the glandular organs which are found in connection with1 the follicles of tho hair is nature's product, aud is designed to preserve and protect the wonderful and beautiful head- covering. If we persist in removing it altogether we must march with the bald-pates before the frosts of ag,o come along to change its color. W o- meu do not shampoo or wash the luur as often as the other sex, and conse­ quently they are in a large degree ex­ empt from baldness in middle life. It is true; however, that many women in. cities make frequent visits to the hair* dressers, and. subject their tresses to the "scouring" process. If this be­ comes common, it will not be Long be­ fore baldness will overtake the young mothers as well as the fathers, and the time will be hastened, when children, even will have no hair to' destroy with ammonia or other'caustic cosmetics. The advice we have to offer to young men and maidens is, let your hair alone; keep at a safe distance from: liairdressing rooms and drug-shops, where, aro sold, oils, alkaline sub- stainres, alcoholic mixtures, etc., for use upon tho hair. They are all peu- nicious, and will do you harm* The head and hair may be washed occaisionr ally with soft, tiepid water, without soap of any kind. As a rule, the- only appliances needed in tho care of the hair are goodi combs and brushes*; and they should not be used harshly, so as to wound the scalp. Avoid all "eleetric"' aud wire-made brushes. No electricity can be stored in a hair-brush ; if it could be, it is< not needed. The hair is a beautiful gift of. nature, and. it mnstt not be destroyed*--Popular Sciest*# News. . Insuring Hate Glass* "Our business, is- not so risky a» fire insurance, " said ik member of a com­ pany that insnsest plate glass, "because we can bettex protect ourselves against overvaluation and our losses awlesaened by salvage Plate-glass windows, as a general thing, meet with damage from three different causes. Fire destroys the' most, many are broken by accident or through malice, while a few aro blown ia by wind-storms. It is very seldom that a window is so badly shat­ tered that w» ean't save some portion of it, and as wo make it a rule to re­ place all panes that are broken, instead of paying out the value iu cosh, you cam readily seo that our losses* aro not so> heavy, unless a very lavg» pane gets, shivered into atoms. We buy the glass, at a good diaeount and have our own. men to put it in. All the glass you seo in the outside olHce is salvage, and it is only in exceptionable eases that we aro unable to replace a pane from our stock on hand. Even the scraps aro of value. They are put to many uses, especially for shelves in front of the cashiers' windows in banks and other offices. "Plate glass is one of tho most pe­ culiar things in the world. At tiiaes it will stand any amount of hard mage, aud then attain tlie least thing will break it. I could toll yew matiy queer stories in this relation. I have dropped a heavy hammer on a piece without in­ juring it, and when I have tried to show a friend how hard a blow it would stand I have had it grind into powder." --New York livening Sun. Mammon Serving Two Master*. "Money,'* remarked the President, as he deposited a roll, the fruits of ju­ dicious combination--"money is pov.'er in the concrete." "And also in the abstract," added the treasurer a few hours later, as he con­ veyed the same roll to where the Ot­ tawa hears no sound save its own O's and A's.--liurdette. THE veteran Russian anatomist, Wenzel Gruber, who recently cele­ brated the fortieth anniversary of his appointment in the medical school at St. Petersburg, has superintended tho dissection of 30,000 bodies and has written 540 memoirs and pamphlets on anatomical subjects. EVEN reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to mako reckonings oven is to make theni often.--South. LIFE is half spent before one knows what life ia. ILLINOIS STATE NEWSL --Stock amounting to $3,000 has subscribed toward starting a fair at G villa. --In Blown. County is the kens of JgjL man who is in his 86th year and has nevw ,̂ seen a piano, never been within ten milee of a railway, never Wore a collar or neck­ tie, and never had on a pair of *eeks "infc l he can remember. --C. H. Moore, of Clinton, has presented to the Presbyterian Church of that city a $2,000 pipe organ, and publicly to recog­ nize this gift a recital was held under the supervision of Professor I. V. Flagler, of New York. Mr. Moore made a similar gift ' to the Methodist Church of Clinton soqpe years ago. --At a special meeting the Clinton Ci^f Council let the contract for equipping tlie water works with hydrants, pipes, specisl castings, gates and pumps for $15,000. The contract for furnishing the remainder of the apparatus required will be Mt ia few days. When complete the system will •est about $30,000. --An incendiary fire ia Rankin, TniieB- " ion County, recently, burned two stoMf " buildings, one belonging to Peter Ander­ son, ef Paxton, containing a drug otcpe and photograph gallery, and th» other owned by J. L. MeCauley, containing tbe postoffice and a general store. Part of the goods were saved. The lose is $2r500, ."' --The presence- ol a virulent fena W'f diphtheria in one ot the Decatur pabtle * schools is causing much alarm in that poT- tion of the city. Four children in one room have died within a few days,, and abevt twenty-five children hare been taken oat of the school. The Board of Health wBl meet to investigate the cause if it e«a be traced. --In Decatur recently Judge- Sa issued a writ of habeas corpus en the petition of W. B. Corbin, a prisoner in the Sullivan Jail, who shot and killed Charles T. Harris, the druggist, in, Sullivan Sept. *i3. Corbin was held by the Coroner's jury without bail, and he desires to be ad­ mitted to baih. The shooting is- claimed to have been done-in self-defense^ - . --The annual reunion of the soldiers tif Henry County was held at Qalva by thou­ sands of soldiers- and citizens. Patriotio speeches were made by Gen. Hendecsoa, Maj. Morderwell, Capt. Milchrist, and others. The old army songa were euag and all had a good timet The Ladies" Be­ lief Corps served a dinner and snpp>er. • camp-fire was held in the evening. --While Dr. J. H. Leach, of Cairo, wae walking the floor of his office a few dUtyre ago, a sudden and very severe pain darted into the right eye, which seemed to jump out of his head. The pain was-intense- Aa examination showed that the eye had burst, and that its immediate removal was neces­ sary. Any attempt to reduce- the mflaiH~ mation in the ball of the eye would eadalt>» gerthe other through sympathy. Dr. Lealll was taken back to his own office, where the operation was performed. Hia eye has been giving him great trouble siaee 186i» when ite first symptoms of weakness ap­ peared in. sudden dimness of vision. --The Illinois River Improvement con­ vention met in Peoria with 400 delegates la attendance, mostly from this State, bqfc there were also good delegations from Ioaa and St. Louis,, and Kansas, Wisconsin, California, Oregon, and Tennessee wen also represented. Colonel Isaac Taylor, Chairman of Looal Committee of Arrange­ ments,. called the convention to order, aud it was opened with prayer by the Right. Rev. John Lanoaster Spalding, the Catho­ lic Bishop of Peoria. Governor Richard J. Oglesbv was chosen Chairman, and made an extended, forcible, and interesting speech. General Add H. Sanders, Daven­ port, Iowa;. E» F. Sun, at Cook Coontgg . E- J- Ward,, of LaSalle; and George Stone, of Cook, were appointed Secretaries. --The Geneseo Business-Men's Associa» tion is- the name of an organization started in that city. Its objects are to offer in­ ducements ia property or money, or both, to manufacturers to settle in Geneseo and to induae some one to place the water from the artesian well there on the market. An analysis ef the water, it is claimed, shows it to* be a specific for dyspepsia, rheuma* tism. neuralgia, and kidney troubles. Many cures <xf these diseases have been ef­ fected there in the last few weeks, and hundreds of gallons of water are carried from the well daily by persons living near Geneseot. The citizens are determined to boom the well and city and aro prepared to give proper bonuses to such enterprises as Willi settle there. ^ --In the Circuit Court in Belleville, A*»" gust Gahr, Joseph Franz, and William Ward were recently arraigned on an indiat- raent charging them with displacing a rail en tbe Illinois and St. Louis Railroad daft, ing the strike in April a year ago. Thii • place where the rail was d splaeed was in% curve a short distance from West Bell^ ville, and the Belleville accommodatiait train would have been ditched and probe* *' Mv a number of lives lost had not plans for wrecking it been discovered % short while before the train came along. The perpetrators of the outrage remained unknown until about three weeks ago, when the authorities arrested the three men. Gahr and Franz pleaded guilty and threw themselves on the mercy of the couit when tbe case was broucht up. They said they had displaced the rail when half cnpqr, with liquor, and did not consider what a terrible catastrophe was likely to result, Jpdge Wall reserved sentence. --Quite a laughable incident occurred while President Cleveland's train waspasl^; ing through Joliet. After the train pulledl out from the Joliet depot it approached tt#. little station near the penitentiary arouad which stood fifteen ex-csnvictB who had just been turned loose from terms of wk ous lengths and who were waiting to toka the Chicago train. As the President"* train passed they gave a "hurrah" and salute with their hats off th?t brought an acknowledgment from the travelers in the shape of bows and smilae* As the train moved slowly past the greeH prison the President and his wife stood the car-platform to get a good look at it; • Near the we^t gate of the prison and along the track a large gang of convicts weie at work loading cars with stone. When t%e guard, who is an afdeut Cleveland waft saw the President's train ooming, he quickly marshaled his striped company it' line and said to them: "Now, boys, hotty * like h--1." They responded witb Musing the! end bow to them.