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If For you as much as--mother's * gry fCi K8R*\ ' '\T'w - , a • In all tha world--though you itsati •*• pleasure for another, t Sou can give none a joy BO GREEN - % AB you can give to--mother. Jpn all the world--although a v May you in goodness smothefc I'PThere'B none who'll sacrifice a fob .' .'ff* ; For you aa quick as--mother; In all th® world--where you in bliss soon forget another, herp is no one whom you will tnlsa, When alio Is gone, like-- mother. ,, ipi-t ••H'iv tr- yv %, ***• • - . w **. V V f? 'j • fe'A ft'5 av THE TEMPTER FOILED. A Story of Ireland of To-X)ay. BTXaSFENCEB. A chilly November evening on the Western ooast of Ireland--a remote, desolate, and cheerless spot, inhabited by some of the most rack-rented im­ poverished people of that down-trtfdden nation, the restless ocean blazed with •onset light; a white, ghostly vapor tolled inland. A pink glow fell over Kathleen •O'Hara's graceful figure as she paused •on her way from the town a mile dia- <taat, and stood on the overhanging cliff, which reached above the white-crested waves below. Nothing could have been more ex­ quisite than the pure curves of her faoe, nothing more perfect than the glossy black of her clustering hair. "It is three years ago to-day that he went away," she murmured, "and I have not heard from him since; but I cannot think he is dead." She stood alone in the raw wind, haunted by memory of her handsome young lover. How many times they had stood on this cliff together J How many tender things he had said to her here! She should never forget them. Had he forgotten her ? In that distant Hand where he had gone to seek his fortune, had he found some one else who had taken her place in his heart ? Was he--so true, so brave, so noble-- false to hej? No--a thousand times, no--she could not believe it. A heavy step crushed some fragments of rock behind her. She turned and faoed the intruder. He was a tall, middle-aged man, with a handsome, though evil-looking face. "I have come to join you in your even­ ing walk, Kathleen," he said, with meaning in his dark eyes, as he watched her narrowly. "You need not have come; I prefer to be alone," she answered, drawing herself up haughtly. "But it is growing late, and you need a protector." A look of disgust passed over her face as he spoke the word protector. As if comprehending the expression, he said, hurriedly: "Have you considered what I said to vou? Have you not had enough of this life of poverty and starvation, and are you ready to come with me ?" "No. never! I would rather fling my­ self into the sea down there than be your mistress, Lord Kildare." An angry gleam shot from Lord Kil- •dare's eyes. "You think Hugh Moore will return * rich man, and take you back to Amer­ ica with him," said he. "A very pretty and romantic idea, surely; but such things rarely happen in real life. I tell you he is dead, or he would have writ­ ten. You have not heard from him since he left Ireland." "His letters may have been inter- cepted," said Kathleen, significantly. "Nonsense!" said Lord Kildare, un­ easily, and glancing suspiciously at Kathleen. "I toll you he is dead. 1 will give you a' week to decide in. If you accept my offer, your parents shall be cared for as long as they live, and your every wish shall be gratified; re­ fuse me, and I will turn you all out of your cabin, and you will either have to perish miserably in the bogs or go to the work-house." "I will not listen to your insulting proposition Lord Kildare," cried Kath­ leen, indignantly. "My parents would accept nothing at such a price. Better death than a life of shame." And, without another word or even a backward glance, she hastened to her father's cabin, a few rods distance, leav­ ing Lord Kildare standing on the cliff, glaring angrily after her. an' an' goin\ A week had elapsed since the meeting ^ of Xiord Kildare and Kathleen on the cliff. It was a dark and stormy even- • ing. The gale swept along the shore, ' lashing the water of the sea over the •• rocks with a sharp, hissing sound, dig­ nified at times by the sullen roar of the large waves. Dark clouds scudded over- ' head, and rain fell at intervals. It was oold. Mud was everywhere. Along the rough road that followed the_ shore, a young man struggled ^ against the wind. He was tall, and : commanding in bearing, and walked with a quick, firm tread. A perfect ; head rose in leonine grandeur above his square, burly shoulders; his figure was heavy, witn muscles like iron; and his ugly good-natured face was lit by a pair of blue-gray eyes, which gave token at ^ once of intellectual power, strength of • will, and sympathetic feeling. Presently he paused before a little thatch-roofed hut--scarce six feet high, as many broad, and perhaps a dozen feet in length. It was far too poor and ' rude a structure for a sheep-hovel in , America. % The young man knocked at the door, a voice inside bade him enter, and : bending almost double, he pushed his way into the cabin. The only occupants were an aged couple who were hovering ? over a small, peat fire. "It is so dark that I fear I »H»ll lose «ny way if I try to reach the town to­ night," said ha "May I stay here till morning?" " Av coosa ye may, an' it'a welcome ye . are," came the ready response from the ^ : old man, in the suave voice of the Irish r?T" peasantry. **1 would not turn a wolf ' > from me dure on such a night. Git th' : bit av box there be th' bed, and sit here an' dry yerself be th' fire. How wet y' fe; are, sure! Nora, take his overcoat an' hang it up somewheres." "Kathleen, me daughter, will soon be home, an' thin ye shall hare a bit av •ngner wi' us," sail the old wife, aaahe towtttweeat. "She has gone to see Mike Nolan's siok ahild." The young man sealed himself by himself by the fire, and spread oat the pajms of Ms hands to the blase. '"J hear yon are to be turned out Mr. O Hara," he said. are ~an' to-morra, too." . Have you anywhere to go?* • "The bog, that's all. Our naybors are as poor as ourselves. Is there no justice in the worl" ? Phat have we done to be so punished? When the land was so bad that ould Lord Kildare--th' priftiut Lord Kildare's father--could do nothin' wid it, I asked fur a plot or ground. He tould me I could settle here, an' that he'd have no tint, th'. Ian* bein' so bad. Three years later ould Lord Kildare died. I worrucked worruoked for eight .years, whin I got th' little form sure, phat happened? I toirtd by th' young Lord Kildare to pay five years' back rint. Twas th' day before I an' Nora was married, an' full well he knew th' money her fadder was givin' her on her widdin' day would ]ist pay th' rint. So we gave all we had t' Lord Kildare on our widdin' day, an' begun life widout a panny. Fur more than twenty years we toiled an' toiled--«»Tic' ss* sc.rapia* an' Rtarvin5, but, wid all our work, jist managin' to pay our rint an' kape alive. Lord Kil­ dare has been married fifteen years, but he pretends that he loves our Kathleen; an because she refuses to be his mis­ tress, he is goin' to turn us out av our home that we have worked so hard for. Curs® him! May his children rise against him. May his soul go witherm' down to " In his grief and indignation, the old man had failed to notice that the stranger had addressed him by name; but the old wife, who had been nar­ rowly gazing at the young man's face ever since, now exclaimed: "Faith, I think I've heard yer voice before, but I do not recognize ver features!" ^ Before the young man could replv, Kathleen entered the cabin. For a mo­ ment she gazed at the stranger, who had risen to his feet at her entrance, and then springing forward, she fell upon his bosom. "Och, Hugh, Hugh!" she cried, she threw her arms around his neck. "They told me you were dead. Why did you not write to me?" The young man clasped her in his arms, and pressed more than one kiss on her willing lips, as he cried, in a glad voice: "My blessings oh you, Kathleen. And so you are true to me? I did write, but received no answer to my letters. I have heard how Lord Kil­ dare lias persecuted yon and your par­ ents ; but your troubles are now at an end. I have made a nice little home for you, darling, in America; and your paronts shall share it with us." TWO MEAN DEMOCRATS. » two mean Democrats--no, we not the only mean Dsmoorats-- : but, as we were saying when interrupted, | thsare ue two mean Democrat̂ who aion't I know how to give np the postoffiees and [ accept defeat gracefully. One of those | assoa men lives in Indian*, and after his I smocessor had been appointed he tried to steal his business away from him. He put a letter-box on his shop door, and tried to make the idea of every-mMi-his- own-postm aster popular with his neigh­ bors. That was mean--real Demooratic me >nness. He would even gather up the letters of the community and lug them off to the train and mail them for nothing, inst to prevent his Republican successor from getting credit for canceling the stamps. He hoped in time that he cotild make cut rates on stamps, or furnish au­ tomatic letter-writers, or in some way divert trade from his rival and drive him out of business. How thoroughly mean that was! How much like a Democrat! Instead of considering at how great sacrifice his Republican friend was serv­ ing the public, he wanted to make life still more miserable for htm. He seemed to think Uncle Samuel was like any dealer in smoked hams, sugar, eggs, and mow* ing machines, open to competition. Not much. The American eagle doesn't scream for that kind of an uncle. When this linTftrnmAnt won* into the posioSJeo b'tniution, it- decided to run the business alone, and if the public didn't like the rates at which the goods were furnished, the public could go lo some other country where the rates were higher. That mean Ho osier Democrat who had the postoihee all by himself, but wouldn't let his suc­ cessor have it all by himself, has been suppressed. He was even worse than the Ordinary brtnd of Indiana Democrats. The other real mean postoffice Democrat lives in New York State. A republican was appointed to succeed him, bat some­ how or other he was unable to get his oommission. After much delay it was discovered that this mean Democrat had been holding beck his mail. Several weeks ago the Republican appointee had executed his bond and mailed it, but it never left the office. He wrt)te other let­ ters inquiring about the matter. But they never left the office. He waited patient­ ly, like that distressed young soul in the ehestnut-flavored song, for the letter that never came, and it didn't come. That mead Democrat was suppressing Ms mail, •nd drawing the extra salary all these weeks. Finally by means of decov letters the fraud was exposed, and then the Dem- i ooratic postmaster owned up and «$©n- fessed all. Uncle Samuel, through the United States District Court, is now en­ gaged in sitting down upon him. Huch is life. There are mean Demo­ crat# and Democrats who are menn, but the Democrats who try to cheat their poor Republican successors out of their post- offices seem to be tho meanest of all whose names have recently been sent to this office.--Iowa State Register, ngth ss of solid Why Mot Be Kind to the Living; This from Harper's Weekly may not be in the bible, but it ought to be: It is an odd thing that no sooner has death claimed our friends for his own than we begin to say and do a multitude of things of little use at all then in com­ parison to that which they might have been had they come in advance of death. Then out of hand we flock to the house with offers of assistance and proffers of friendship; we rob our gardens and our hot-houses and send cut flowers in pro­ fusion, and funeral wreaths and crosses and pillows and anchors and stars to encumbrance, and do all we can, though late, to hide aud disguise and sweeten fate. But if we had flocked to the house while the dead could have been aware of it how much pleasure and excitement and relief from monotonous or lonesome hours our sick friends might have en­ joyed when all was a tiresome round of day and night and medicino and solitude, when a bunch of flowers brought in would have brought a light to the dull eyes of joy both over the gift and giver, joy which no broken columns of tube­ roses and ivies, costing small fortunes can bring to the eyes of the dead! Even could we not have been admitted to the sick-room itself, we could have brought there the murmur of the outside world by the mere knowledge given to the patient that we were within the gates, some break, some cheer, some good. Then, too, how profuse we are with our good words after the ears are stop­ ped with dust. We do not hesitate to say all that is true or even more than is true in praise of the departed. It is as if we had suddenly discovered in the sand a jewel fit for kings to wear; we make an outcry and hold it up to the light and turn it this way and that, and exclaim and marvel and admire and call on others to do likewise. There is noth­ ing to say about this person now that the place once filled is vacant. But if we had said a tenth part of it all when it might have been heard by the living person, of how much more worth it had been! What joy and satisfaction it might have given! The subject of it all might have felt as if satisfied to leave life with such appreciation. But it was not spoken, and life went on without it; and itow we regret it, and do the same thing over with the next friend. Frankness. . The "tforid clamors perp^tuaffy for truth, but is it not after all the last thing it ooidially embraces? A per­ fectly frank man is invarably unpopular, and usually unsuccessful. Yet what is frankness but truth-speaking ? A frank man is one whose sense of right and wrong is ever at the surface asserting itself. No matter what subject comes up, be expresses the thought that his judgment and conscience approve. The polite course is abhorrent to him. He would like to be what the world calls prudent; he would like to bite his tongue when it would utter unpopular truth, but a sense of innate manliness makes him stand up for his convictions. With him the word honesty has a defi­ nite meaning. If he sees a corrupt man sitting close to the church altar and conciliating its membership with rich gifts, he points it out, and is re­ warded by the opposition of that organ­ ization. If his party commits a cor­ rupt act, he denounoes it, and suffers ostracism as a traitor and disorganizes Yet the man occupies the highest at­ tainable ground. Perfect frankness seems to be incompatible with worldly success. The man who seeks honestly for truth and proclaims it without fear must look beyond this life for appreciar tk» and reward.--Texas Siftintfi. For Diphtheria. Tar smoke .is- recommended for a diphtheria cure. The treatment is to put a few drops of tar, like that used in shipyards, on a warm stove lid and to require the patient to inhale and swal­ low the smoke ten times a day for five minutes each time. Tax habit of taking ether is said to be extremely prevalent in tho Norths! Ireland. / The Decline of the Solid South. ; The New York Herald reads the Demo­ crats a good lecture on the Solid South question. It supports its sentiments by some figures that are quite effective. While Democratic politicians have been insisting that the South must be kept sol­ id their party has been steadily losing ground in the South and falling behind in the North. Look at these figures which the Herald gives: Maryland in 1860 gave 15,191 Democrat­ ic majority; in. 1884, i 1,23a, and in 1888, after four years of a Democratic Federal administration, only 6,182. Virginia cast in 1880,44,566 Democratic majority; in 1884, 6,141, and in 1888 dwin­ dled down to 1,541. North Carolina was Democratic in 1884 by 17,884 majority, but in 1888, after four years of Democratic administration; the Democratic majority fell to 13,118. West Virginia gave the Democrats a majority of 11,148 in 1880, which fell to 4,222 in 1884 and to 839 in 1888. Kentucky in 1880 cast a Democratic ma­ jority of 42,752; in 1884 this fell to 34,- 779, and in 1888 to 28,666. in spite of the efforts of Messrs. Carlisle, Breckinridge and Watterson. Missouri had in 1880 a Democratic ma­ jority of 56,044; in 1884 this fell to 33,059, and rose slightly in 1888 to 35,701. Tennessee was Democratic in 1880 by 20,514; in 1884 by only 9,180, which in 1888 rose to 19,900. Little Delaware was Democratic in 1884 by 4,003, and in 1888 by 3,564. The showing in the matter of Congres­ sional elections is quite as significant. The Democrats had 71 majority in the House of Representatives elected in 1882. They had but 41 majority iu the House elected in 1884. In 1886 their majority drouped to 11, and in 1888 it dropped out of sight entirely, leaving them in a mi­ nority in the approaching Congress. The lesson the Herald would urge is that Democrats can never succeed so long as they raise the sectional issue and the race question, and keep up the prejudice Of the whites against the blacks. A solid South means a BOlid North, and there is a good deal more North than there is South, particularly when the border States of the South are beginning to lean over to the Republican side of the fence. The lesson which patriotism should teach from these figures is that it is bad politics as veil as bad morals to let prejudice supplant statesmanship. Whether the Democrats could succeed any better in the North by giving to every voter in the South the full enjoy­ ment of his political rights and privi­ leges remains to be seen. It has already been demonstrated that they can not suc­ ceed by taking the opposite course. Every suppressed vote in the South helps to swell Republican majorities in the North. Let the South divide as the North has done on questions of public concern, on economic issues, and public morals would be improved. The urinci- Eles of constitutional government would S held more s.icred, and the nation would put on the splendid proportions of unity and harmony, under the stimulat­ ing ambition of a common pride in a common conntry. Democratic Defection in Donbtftd States. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware. North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee may all be classed as doubtful States. It is probable that the votes of all of them will be counted for the next Democratic nominee, Out it is possible that some, indeed most, of them may cast Republican majorities too large for suppression: In all of them the Democratic vote has been in diminu­ tion since 1880. Maryland had a Demo- i eratic majority of more than 15,000 in I 1880, of barely 11,000 in 1884, of scarcely j 6,000 in 1888. Virginia gave a majority of 44,556 for Hancock, of 6.141 for Cleve­ land in his first campaign, and only of 1.541 at the last Presidential election. West Virginia was Democratic by more than 11,000 in 1880, by less than 5,000 in 1884, and by less than 1,000 in 1888. There » a decrease of 20,000 between Missouri's Democratic majority of 1880 and that of 1888. Delaware already has elected a Republican Senator. There are cracks in the Southern solidity; and the cracks must widen as the years roll by. The defection of all the States under notice would leave the remainder of the Southern tier--the still solid South--with only eighty-three electoral votes. It would be utterly impossible for the Dem­ ocrats t© make gains in th© North suffi­ cient to balance the loss of seventy elec­ toral votes in its ancient stronghold. Even should Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, States in which with a full and free vote and a fair count, Republican success would seem certain, renounce their old and ruinous Democrat­ ic alliance, the 153 votes of the "solid South" would be reduced to 124; the elec­ toral votes of the whole country, includ­ ing the Dskotas, Montana and Washing­ ton, being 413. - This, counting the North- the Demo- is evi North- orse- > * <> v. -> - ' New JTsrsey Comfoettobi Theto aia two in compilations of igw dent that, despite of ti era Republicans to th tions of their bxothre tier, the ghost of ne been made to srik the Southern oligarchs; it m The economies are workii less way in the South can not endure for any great length of time. And, second, it is the liqandw duty of the Republican party i to hasten this desirable disrui South should be flooded wit literature; its farmers ism home markets, its labor.'in competition upon the prk storekeepers the beneficial wages upon 'retail trade. time to teach is while pai calm. A campaign of edr be in constant progress. the North The Opposed to Honest Elections. Gov. Hill vetoed the Saxton electoral reform bill that had passed the New York Legislature by a strict party vote. His veto was not unexpected. His interest is the Democratic party compelled him to do it. v cry bill that proposes to do away with frauds in elections is a bill against the Democratic party, and may expect solid Democratic opposition. This Saxton bill contained the essen­ tial principles of what is known as the Australian system of voting, a system whose usefulness in securing fair elec­ tions has everywhere been acknowledged. The bill was the result of a progressive public spirit that demanded some reform u election methods. Similar bills have been passed by many Republican Legis­ latures during the last six months. But the one State of the North that mr.re than any other needs surh a bill is reiused it by the action of this Democratic ^Gov­ ernor. When the bill was oi» its passage every Republican voted for it, and every Demo­ crat against it, so that it went to the Gov­ ernor by a strict party vote. Why should every Democrat oppose a bill for*fair and honest elections? If only a few members had voted against the measure, their op­ position would have attracted no special attention. But when it became a party measure, receiving the opposition of every Democrat In the Legislature, it is fair to conclude that tho Democratic party for Eolitieal reasons dare not help a bill for onest electoral reform, to become a law. Gov. Hill's objections are of the most specious kind. He hA made a great effort to find some justification for bis veto. But he can give no good and honest reason why that bill should not have become law, save his fear of the harm it would do the Democratic party. An electoral reform bill of this kind, that honestly intended to reform, would cost the Democratic party thousands of votes in New York City alone. What chance would the Dem­ ocracy ever have of carrying New York, if the opportunity to cheat and steal and make ;nlse returns were taken away? The Democratic party of New York ought to be profoundly ashamed of itself, and it deserves the public indignation which it will receive for having prevented this excellent and much-needed measure from becoming a law. The more unhappy reflection is that the Demoorniir- party ail over the country is as bad as the Demo­ cratic party of Now York.--Dee Moines Register. Disfranchising Republicans. The Florida Legislature, Democratic, of conrse, is considering a biU drawn osten­ sibly in the interest of honest elections. It is only neeebsary to say it is modeled on the lines of the South Carolina bill for color disfranchisement, with a few modern improvements, to make it ap­ parent at once that it is drawn in the in­ terest or dishonest elections.. It provides that national and State elections shall be held on the same day, but the boxes for national tickets are to be separate from those for State candidates. If this were all the bill would not be seriously ob­ jectionable. It goes farther, however, and provides that there shall be separate and distinct ballots for Governor, ad­ ministrative offices of the Executive Department, State Senator, Repre­ sentatives in the Legislature, Justices of the Supreme Court, countj- officers, Congressmen, and Presiden­ tial Eleotors. In other words, there are to be eight separate boxes, and of course eight sets of Democratic election judges and clerks. Every elector will hove to cast eight ballots, and to make confu­ sion worse confounded the bill also pro­ vides that tickets shall be printed in the English, German, and Spanish languages. The bill assumes to be in the interest of honest elections. It really proceeds upon the assumption that the voters of Florida can cast correctly eight different tickets in eight different boxes, and presupposes ev­ ery voter is intelligent enough to select tbe correet tickets, boxes and language, which is manifestly absur.d. As every vote incorrectly cast* will be thrown out. it follows that thousands of electors will be disfranchised, and it is evident the voter will receive no help from the judges or clerks in depositing his votes correctly. The bill is simply a scheme for whole­ sale Republican disfranchisement--a fraud and swindle upon the electors.-- Chicago Tribune. Inciting Negro Riots. How negro riots are worked up in the South is told in a dispatch from Bruns­ wick, Ga,, to the Atlanta Constitution. Tuesday last a negro excursion train left Brunswick for Albany. It is said by the correspondent that the negroes were .filled up with bad liquor and were in an ugly humor. Notwithstanding their reprehen­ sible condition, however, they were peace­ fully inclined, though several white men who had no business on the train got aboard and tried hard to raise a row. The negroes though drunk and ugly (?) de­ clined the invitation to quarrel, and, as the correspondent is forced to admit, be­ haved themselves until they ha I reached j Willacoochee, when one of the whites i drew a pistol and fired into the crowd, wounding one of the ne­ groes in the wrist. The remain del | thereupon sprang to their feet, as ! was natural, when the whites began firing | at them indiscriminately, killing one ana { wounding half a dozen more. At last they rushed at the whites and threw them ! off the train, and the riot was over. This ' is conspicuously paraded as "a riot of j drunken negro desperadoes," though the I negroes were entirely without fault and ! behaved themselves in every way until the j white miscreants who had been unable to j provoke them into a quarrel began firing ! at them, when they defended themselves > as any men of courage would have done. | Had they killed every one of the whites ! they would not have been to blame. Had i the case been reversed and a gang of ne- i groes had invaded a white excuision train j and acted as these white miscreants did j no one would have centured the whites j had they defended themselves b.y every j means in their power. The incident is | significant as showing the way in which j negro riots are manufactured in that region.--Chicago Tribune. j v0CK BASE-BAIL LETTER. •wmw FOR THK UAOOK |^ *HMOK8HlP KOHOKS. |- •»od tMrt and Ts Playing Great BUl-'KM. ***" Tfcw«*h Slightly nUflffUMKl. Hnjm «• u SUU l» the Other CluiM. [CHICAGO rOBR»8PdK P*yCK^ "With the exception of tho which Chicago will play >° Ov, an<* June 14,15 and 17, tho team will pl\v unbroken series of a month's duration t^" on the Chicago grounds, beginning with Cleveland this week and ending with Washington on July 6. Anson's men are just now pretty well down the list among the candidates for league honors, but the close of this long series upon familiar soil, and fair umpiring, will be very apt to find them a gooa deal nearer the front than they are at present. The Eastern trip just completed was a sad disappointment to Adrian C. Anson. He felt full of confidence that Chicago would take at least half of the games played, and when the trip ended up by the Blacks dropping four straight to Boston, "The Old Man" was decidedly warm under the collar--not at the team, b"t the TT.Tr.TV.1iiijtipAiiiiK, wliiiiSI as mainly responsible for Chicago's poor showing on the trip. Chicago was, with­ out doubt, outbatted and outfielded in the fifteen games it played with Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, but it played good ball despite that, and would with little question, have won, at the least calculation, fully two-thirds of its games but for the incompetency of Umpires McQuade and B&mum. Speak­ ing of the trip, Anson said to me the night we left Boston: We've done poorly on the trip, and it takes no figures to convince me of it. If we'd hit the ball as hard as we usually do we'd have taken two games from Bos­ ton, and possibly three; we'd have taken three from New York and at least two from Philadelphia, which, together with the two at Washington, would have given us a pretty good record. We didn t hit the ball, however, particularly at Boston. You know, and so does everybody else who saw the games, ^rhy we didn't. Of all the outrageous decisions ever given by an umpire those of Barnum were the worst! understand, though, I'm not of­ fering any excuses or making any ' kick.' Chicago isn't where it would be in the race if I'd been able to get my men to­ gether last spring aud put 'em through thea course of training, which I mean to let/nothing on earth interfere with here­ after. I know what my team's capable of, and the fact that we've not won more fames on this trip doesn't worry me anv. f we'd had anything like a fair deal in the umpiring we'd have won a majority of the games, and my team wasn't playing up to its speed at that." When asked what he really thought of Boston's chances in the race--if he, like m«ny others, thought it would win, he said: "No, I don't think they will win it. The Bostons have been playing in the biggest kind of luck. I think it hafc but one pitcher, and that is Clarkson. I am sure he is the only one that will last. The Boston team is strong behind the bat, but it is, I think, a weak fielding combination. They have been getting all the best of tha umpiring--something they won't relish when they come Went, if they have to face the same luck that Chi­ cago has so flu*. I consider Chicago just as strong as any team in the League. I have not weakened. I think Boston will get one of the first four positions, but which one I cannot say, as New York, Philadelphia and Chicago are in the race." "What do you think of Boston as a bat­ ting combination?" " - "Very good, but I'll bet a suit of clotl es that Chicago has a hotter average -at the end of the season than Boston." "Why do you think Chicago is going to beat out Boston?" "In the first place, Chicago has the best pitchers. You may pick out one man in several clubs that can outpitch my men, but for a crowd of good, sound pit hers that are going to last through the season, I tell you I have the men. This is a very young season yet, and the Chiciiffo club has been away from home in all but four games, winning three of them from our Johahs, the Pittsburgs. You know we never allow any one to come to Chicago and take away games without a hard light. I am not boasting when I tell you that Chicago, with Nea Williamson in his old position, is a stronger team than ever represented the Windy City, and you will all have to ad­ mit it before the season is DIAMOND KOTES. --1 / Williamson is at Hot Spring!* Chicago has a Class A oatoher in Som- mers. Clarkson is pitching great ball this season. Anson is still frilling to back Chicago in the race. Ad Gumbert is a remarkably hard-hit­ ting pitcher. Big Dan Brouthers leads Anson by thir­ teen hits in the batting race between the two. Ganzell is doing fully as good work be­ hind the bat for Boston as Bennett is, and is hitting the ball as well. Wouldn't it be funny if Chioago were to turn the tables on ~ Boston for four straight when the latter got here this month? Darling is keeping himself in condi­ tion, and is catching good ball in practice. For some reason, however, Anson is not playing him. Chicago now has a clean stretch before it, and should do something toward re­ gaining public confidence before it makes its next trip East. Bastian's arm is troubling him and Ry­ an will, consequently, play short, with Farrell in center and Van in left, for some time to come. This puts a good batting team in the field for Chicago. It is said that Jimmy Ryan has become anxious to make a record as an infielder. Anson has every confidence in his abili­ ty to play as good a game at short as he plays in center. It was in the morning game. Decoration' Day, in Boston, that Dicky Johnston stepped to bat, with Kadbournon first and one man out. Dick? had not been hitting the ball up to this time dnring the series, and a fair spectator silting back of the press box expressed the hope that "Mr. Johnston would hit it this time, anyway." "Hit it!" sniffed the young woman's es­ cort, in jnst such atone us a man with "five on Boston" would naturally assume, "he wouldn't hit his mother-in-law!" The young woman's exclamation of horror at the lewark and the sound of Dicky's bat as it smote the ball were heard simul­ taneously in the grand stand, and the ball sailed off over the left field fence for a home run. A great deal of rivalry exists among the members of the Chicago team in the try for batting honors, and the following statement of the stick-work done by the team on the last Easi era trip will show what the boys are doing: A. B. A BEAR'S YISIX. for Eatables Ja m KwrtCMky School-House. . V Miss Sarah Jams teaches the Mount Welcome school in the northeastern part of the county, twelve miles from taere, says a letter from Barboursville, M J region is mountainous •*nla and the school building is pitched at the foot of a high hill covered with * dense forest. The old-fashioned spell- still fashionable in this part of the State and it is also a practice at the school on Friday evening to divide the pupils into two classes and allow them to spell against each other. Mass Jkv 718 had adhered religiously to thin custfO1* Last Friday evening there was th# Jisnal spelling match at Mian Jarvis' sehv'°l. The building in which she teaches Is of logs, with several win­ dows coming dojvn within two feet of the ground. The match had been of more than usual interest, the strength of the two sides being prettr nearly equal. One of the pupils bad just spelled such a lone and difficult word that the others had applauded. As the noise ceased there was a scratching sound at one of the windows in the rear of the house. "Go and drive that rW away," said Miss Jar vis to one of the boys. The boy walked back to the win­ dow, shoved up the sash, aud leaned out to strike at the animal. When he thrust his head out he gave a yell and rushed back to the middle of the room. Startled by the bov's action Miss Jar- vis herself rau toward the window to see what was the matter. Before she reached it a black, hairy head was thrust into the aperture,aud she plainly recognized a black bear. The pupils, too, saw the animal. There was a stam­ pede at once. All rushed for the door pud in a moment were out of the room and the school-house. Miss Jarvis is a cool woman and she retained her cool­ ness. She took care of the young chil­ dren and kept the crowd together. When she saw that they were not fol­ lowed by the bear the alarm subsided. Jake Woodson, a farmer, lives about a mile from the Mount Welcome school building, and Miss Jarvis informed him of the raid of the bear. Jake shoul­ dered his rifle and followed by his 19- year-old son Henry, who had a double- barreled shot-gun, went to the school- house. He found the door open and the bear on his haunches in the middle- of the room placidly chewing several spelling books and first readers. A sin­ gle shot from Jake's rifle dispatched him. The bear was not a large one and was also very thin, evidently having been on short rations for some time. Woodson, who is an old woodsman, says that the bear had been forced by hunger to come down from the thick forests on the hill. AFFAIRS IN ILL!! RE STIWG ITKlifi OA1„, * ,'iWROM VARIOUS SOCBCJEST Wl*»t Omr K«ightoi» Am Doias- of G«neraf s»n«f JKoeal Int«ir««t - Hages ana i| riitilaai. -- , --The eleventh mumal compendium < the statistics of coal production ; noie, for the year ending Jmm has just been issued by the* • Labor Statistics at Spriagfi«ld. lowing condensed summaty of tike; will b# found'laterestin?: Rfty counties report the number of sfnev and (^rafsgl df *11 klndo as 333; wrimbw oftftna lamp ooaloniiMMi, U,aS5,l£S; \ tha same at the ta&Us, I Vilne per ton at ther minaa, aUtinda, AttBbar al unlaws i 23.648; number of ntttf emplarom i fcoya),' «,7Ba ; -TiaTn hrr at nspioiw pndtr ground^ #8-, average priea naid] hand ntining. jfQ.Tin; nomtMr of jcm number of new. mines, ft Thfit I an ottrmt greater by iMtWta _ _ •w b*for* been attained" At tittm. gta&Hl better average price ftr the aanar. i inereaae in working ftrnm with the greater Amount of wo has been a marked tendency «fu. enlarge the owrntiona of veloppsent of such *eatns #w» are at JOratitm nuii character. SoiiieilfMr of ebS'.-rvwble in the northern field* a recent!}- ncqnired territory of the ^oropmiy. In this tield the CtaieaM, wa» TOO & YermfJian Coaipun v has ° tfiUPlI' hold for opei-attons auxiliary to their < " •oterprises Streator and Braid new company from a, ?u«ehi«irfng" M Whitebresnt Fuel Couiponv. has tm i property here and has eneoantwrad m come great olwtacleB in ninkir:s to ttta lo-rer warn of this region. Still greataB _ In original enterprises has characterised points in the central and southefti portkXiK i the State. Shafts have been stink fa"XcXiM County at Coftmx. Savbrook. Mara* -frff ton, and with notable success at CoVax, whair " # a coal of good quality is found. Ik*tttfiKaMiS' and excellence of the seam at Pana, in, OtatS- - tian Oountv. has especially stimulated owsi^ M tlons at that point and in'that vfebdty. TSJ#', new companies have been organisM and -- KT •vancing their works at Fana, and oth«» si»-;;..>JI sinking or prospecting at, the neighborinc town* vl of Taylornlle, Oconee, Ramsay, OoffanvMbw*- aqua and Assumption. The ooal in tUa Mats- • probably from SOD to MM feet bctow tha and Is seven or eight feet in thickneea. tions are predicated upon its being rabsti uniform and persistent throughout tksfcTC0toi£. though it has not been found in jriaos atAa- sumption. Iu Marion County, some Aftraffi* or more south of this, there haw been sawMtK deep shafts sank to eoal rsoeattyi--via.; «S Odin, Salem, and Kinmundy, and theft " of these enterprises axe now ready to in the market with the older aoOL Centralia and Sandoval, mm fmrthsr mutt Perry and Jackson Counties, notably vicinity Of Elkville, deshwblTtraote of ooal hiSf have dnring th* year bean takan up for tha toar~ pose of immediate development. MadiadfcaosM point to a material Inoreass in th* oat nut at coal from that field. 9h* averaga rale w ton paid for hand mining is 71 7-10 onta, •ftMpW-? ^ of about one cent fron* last year. Msehtaa» ,% mining is rapidly on the incraasA ^ y --A young man namsd Horvill > Js m k Remarkable Ocean Voyage. Five days, twenty-three hours, seven minutes is now the top record across the Atlantic, the City of' Paris making it on her last trip this way--u remark­ able trip, not only bedause it beats by two hours forty-eight minutes the best previous record, to-wit, that made by the Etruria last June, but because she is a new ship, and, at least for a small portion of the voyage--crossing the Banks--was slowed down. Thus it is not unreasonable to expect still more of this ship, when her engines shall have become more smooth by attrition and her commander more familiar with her characteristics. To many the mere tact of Record beat­ ing will not compare in importance with the fact of using double engines audi twin screws on so big a ship. With these and the re-arrangement of bulk- • . , u .. heads which they oermit, the safetv of I no er a rat-trap, a dig, a ship is belived to be increased. Here- ' tha Staf" "Tw1 i4 ddentally shot arid killed by a panion while hunting near Alma, County. :\' --One bill was passed at the late see- sk>n of tho Legislature for the pi ntnaMjMK'fr of women. It makes it a penitontJaf^r; offense to keep or detain any female der tho age of 18 in a disreputable house. The present provisions of the law oic the subject are deplorably iniu ihmngfcr ' Another bill which gc4 through requiring that the evil effects of aleolot ; ^ and narcotics on tbe human system bef'^-- made a part of the instruction in hygiener given in the public schools, "i 1 --The commission appointed by the last ; Legislature to examine the 'OoWno*-^ mansion at Springfield, has made a thor­ ough examination and found that the roof.,,:-^ loaks so badly that pans have to" twptsfte# on the marble mantels iu tho parloia t# - ',1 catch the rain which runs. tkmi|h toAs, first floor of the building. Tho commie- ^ siou privately considers the building to; j MONTANA Democrats are a long way from being out of the woods notwith­ standing their lusty yells. At the eleotion for constitutional delegates, in whioh they secured one majority in the conven­ tion, only forty per cent, of the vote of the Territory was brought out.--St. Paul jP»- neer Presa. f THIS generous Republic doles out to each of 31,722 pensioners the enormous sum of 6| cents per day. Th® present Commissioner Pensions has asked that the amount be doubled, and .tho proposK tion has been received . Ttixk horror aj^ along the Democratic lino. 5,-.;*j322 Duffy Ryan Van Haltren.... Gumbert ! Pfeffer Jlurns I Anson................ Farrell.^ j Dwycr Hastian „ Tenor.. 10 , 1?, f'aoo fcomuiors.. SI *: • j Hutchinson ll J *Su t .Flint .13 J las, Krofk 13 J' i jqOQ * Little Duffy, it will be see»V^£s <he lot, while the " old man " is pretty well down. Ryan and Pfetfer are batting at about the usual speed--perhaps a triflo below it--snd Van Haltreu, Gumbert and Burns are all doing well. ^ > HABBT PALIOCB. " * "vS?* * • tofore a steamer parting her shaft laiy helpless on the broad ooean. her sole reliance the ooming of another ship to her rescue. There is another and perhaps it might be called a still more important facto? j of safety in the twin engine arrange? J ment--it permits the subdivision of that i longitudinal section of compartment i whioh heretofore has made the most { modern ship vulnerable abaft the main- j mast. This contained the engines an<j ' the. boilers, and the gross weight of sea wafer it would contain was suflicienf to more than counterbalance the ship's buoyancy. With the sister ships City of New York and City of Paris, this com* i partment is divided into two parts, a separate engine aud boilers being placed in each. Should one of these be torn open by collision and flooded, it would not swamp the ship or Oven destroy her : power of locomotion. She would heel over a few degrees in the direction of her hurt, a condition that, to a certain j extent, could be rectified by a slight shifting of the upper cargo, if the sea wft| fairly smooth. In any event, the second engine would go on driving its propeller as though nothing had hap- j pened, save for the diminution of speed. : It ought to be added that though the safety of passengers is still further as­ sured by the new type of steamer, ( vessels that may be in or crossing the steam lanes have additional dangers to j fear, not for the greater speed now ob­ taining, for thay have not anything to fear from that during clear weather, but ' for the desire for quick passages which it induces and the resultant haphazard running in thick weather to insure them. --Scientific American. They Cau't Get Rid of This Nickel. About a year ago some wag polished off a nickel till it only resembled the coin of the realm in size ana color. After it had been dropped into the bot­ tom of the bobtail* car box the driver eyed it suspiciously, and, evidently thinking the other side of the coin might be all right, he gave the decisive pull and let it pass. From that time to this the company has been endeavoring to get that nickel back on the rascally public. But, strange to say, every man who tears open the little envelope con­ taining it and its companion piece al­ ways chucks the smooth nickel baok into the box. Of course no driver can now complain, because the coin always comes out of the company's package. During its first year of service it has taken about 2,190 trips, and, as it is getting thinner and smoother all the time, there is now no hope of its ever escaping street car service, except through the romantic charity of some kind deliverer or through the flnal dis­ solution of the company corporation.-- Baltimore American. A Tired Skeleton. Living Skeleton (only one in Amer- , ica, at dime museum)--These folks make me tired. Sympathetic Visitor--In what way? ' Here I am earning $500 a week as the greatest living skeleton, yet hour after hour, day in an' day out, one old woman after another stops an' chins an* • chins at me about the things I ought to eat to get fat.--New York Weekly. • THE hen may get the garden sood by a scratch, bnt she gets it all the • -v*V.: the State, and uuiit for tbe habitation of a person of respectability, and ji that it ought to be torn down. Commie- ' sloner Merritt holds that $5Q,0Q0 will b* required td mak fe necessary repaint. Ik rained during the last public reosytiant' held in the mansion, and after the guests \ S were gone plaster fell from tho ceiling- a Commissioner Wiggins says there is not $300 .werth, of , furniture in the house. The Governor and family will go to 'l Bloomington for the summer shortly. --The State Live Stock CommisslQii » Hj has sent to all railroads operating in tMsF.- '^1 State, apd t0, a .large number outside <|t< $ the State, a eireular and copies of th* • | late aet. of the 'Legislature defining t|» : duties of transportation companies ship«V- ping cattle into Illinois from regions in»- i 1 facted with Texas or splenic fever. The-* bill has been signed by the Governor, and; '/It having an emergency clause, is already in force. It is applicable only to cattfcn : ,%,- from regions included in a quarantine •- proclamation of the Governor, and mediately haa reference to tho territory > described in Governor Oglesby's procla­ mation of Aug. 22 last. Under this net J no cattle will be permitted to be ship,**-^ into this State anywhere between Mwtsli ' 1 and Nov. 1 unless certain pieaerihoAT conditions are complied with. --Chicago Inter Ocean: "Tha newpdh, mary election law is the hardest bty*f % leveled at the political boss that waa giv> en by the Thirty-sixth General Assembly. . ,/VJ It disqualifies the committeemen and tho ^ election judges SB delegates or alternate* , ^ ~ to conventions. The machine mtpli*^ main in the background where it belongs, A ^ and furnish the means for making eanr*' ̂ paigns after nominations are made.* 'J | --Gov. Fifar has vetoed the bill paf§a& > 1 ! by the State Legislature authorising horse and dummy railways to change their motive power without the consent !1 f of abutting property holders or city coun- . 'j cils. The Governor declares the princi­ ple of the measure to be vtofonn Mdu* wise. " X \ ! --Two old residents of McLean County have just died. John Kellogg passed sway at McLean, aged 86. He was Post­ master for twelve years and Justice <>f the Peace since 1851. B. P. Carpenter, ' 2 who had lived at Normal twenty-fivo , ii|j years and was a prominent citizen, died - , J the same day. ' --Among the bills passed by last Leg- - islature was one allowing the Soldiece* Home to construct a memorial baidiug to , J'% oecupy the north quarter of the block known as Dearborn Park, in Chicago. ^ --The largest class of applicants fit* Government positions ever examined nn> der the civil-service ruies, outside of tip . r *naia .=al capital, waa examined at | ington last week. There were them, hailing from this and adjacent States. Among them were ten Nearly all of the men were and some as old as 00 years. Ination was conducted by E. B. the Civil Service Commission. t«n wanted to be postal inspectors^ ty-ftve pension examiner*, tweffitv^ti poitanent olerks, and the Mat posit tha railway mall service. - i <>4; ..A&*