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«tx ?BRICE AS CHAIRMAN. Certainly Republicans have no cstise r *°r Potest against iho re-eliKstikm of :i*' f Mr. Calvin Stewart Brice to theChair- 'j . ^manship of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Briee's manage Acnt of the Democratic cam* *ign of 1888 ny: was eminently satisfactory to the Re- jtet 'jjwiblican party. His. management of ^} ;the Democratic campaign of 1892 can- - „ .not fail of being equally satisfactory. are »°tof those who ridicule the !* *' '--executive ability of Mr. Brice. We M;. believe that he did all that man could PI *. ,bave done, and far more than most of Democratic critics could have done, |- 'to insure the success of Mr. Cleveland, g'jr He failed in 1888 because success was •• impossible to a free-trade campaign, « „ »ud he will fail in 1892 for the same ,'t w .reason. Mr. Brice is Mr. Cleveland's „representative on the committee. His ^re-election makes Mr. Cleveland's re- |^' 'f nomination more probable. His re- j£« „ election is a victory for the Calhounist E - > .section of the Democratic party. His * •' re-election is a notice to the Raiulallite I'1 - . ^section that it exists only by suffer- , jgance of the majority. His re-election Sir./; yis a guarantee that the Mills bill is g|¥.: | to remain a canonical authority as to •it . TLese conditions are amply Jg'- , sufficient to insure a Democ.actic de- /I ,, feat. Mr. Brice may be expected to I ^give largely to the campaign fund, he jmay be expected to lead other pluto H^.'-J.crats and monopolists to contribute ' * Jargely, he may be expected to secure , the enthusiastic support of the old .^fashioned South, he may be expected g|" - to place every dollar of the vast fund , " intrusted to his charge "where it will ,.ylo the most good," and he may fulfill ^ - j^«very one of these expectations. But if .-V.if.the more closely he meets them the |; * more certain is the defeat of his party •v.~ v<Xhis country does not love a coalition •&<>f money kings and demagogues. Mr. Jirice -was elected, and has been re- V " e^ected, because he could bring certain > \ money kings into coalition with certain \ \ *'demagogues. The Democratic cam •" paign of 1888 was one in which pluto *i -crats furnished the money ehest, and \ 'demagogues drew from it to pay them- *, t solves for preaching a gospel "of anti jf'. j)liitooraey. The Democratic cam- tV*"- °*. *892 is to be like unto it, . /"Surely in vain the net is spread I'::of any bird," said Solomon the |i* 1 'Xing. The Democrats have engaged • Mr. Brice to spread their net, and the iiwhole nation is watching him. Hi« f«\, ?abor wil11)0 ^ vain.--Chicago Inter \i Ocean. ^7:' •' I Democratic Tariff Plank of 1884, f The Brooklyn Eagle joins the New ^York Suti heartily in the suggestion '.that the Democrats solve theirvroubles £ the tariff by going back to the jplank of 1884, oh which Cleveland was ""elected, arid lia\Vriothing more to do k v with the platform of 1888, on which he « > defeated. The Eagle insists tha "*he platform pf 1884 was made by Dem , - jeure "unity in things essential and the J "widest liberty of opinion in things non inessential." This is a euphemistic vj; f saying the platform builders of 1884 Considered the spoils and offices the v^-main thing and aimed accordingly to : -%ecure as many votes as possible, both tfree trade and protectionist. The plat Vlform they made was a Astraddle on the tariff question, with one clause de­ voted to Southerfi free trade and an • •Mother to Northern protectionist doc Jirine, but according to any fair rule of interpretation the latter had the greater force. If the Democrats should now Return to the tariff plank of 1884 they Should only be regarded as abandoning extreme free-trade notions and adopt- §ng instead the doctrine of moderate ariff reduction and the preservation «bf the protective principle. For not­ withstanding its ambiguity that wan • what the "straddle" platform of 1884 meant. ; ; It'is a settled legal rule of interpre­ tation that a saving clause repugnant to the body of a statute is void. If this doctrine be applied to the Demo­ cratic platform of 1884 if will weaken the free-trade clause and leave the pro- )ectionist declaration to stand in full urce. The body of the tariff plank of 884 was devoted to protection and de­ clared that "the necessary reduction |n taxation can and must be effected Without depriving American labor of fhe ability to compete successfully with foreign labor, and without im jioaing lower rates of duty than will be 4mple to cover any increased cost of production which may exist in conse­ quence of the higher rate of wages Prevailing in this country." But to this portion of the platform, which •clearly favors only a moderate reduc­ tion of the tariff and a careful preser­ vation of the protective principle, was Ijacked the following:,. J'We demand tskat Federal taxation shall be ex­ clusively for public purposes, and 4jhall not exceed the needs of the Gov­ ernment economically administered." ?his is free-trade doctrine, but when f>ut in the form of a saving clause Jo a protectionist declaration, la it binding? At first Mr.. Cleveland seemed to apply the legal rule of interpretation and to hold that the free-trade declaration fiu the platform on which he was elected, jjeing in the nature of a saving clause repugnant to the body of the plank, Was nugatory. In his celebrated tariff message Mr. Cleveland urged revenue reform for the purpose of reducing the •urplus in the Treasury and distinctly declared against lowering duties below the point of adequate protection. His position then was that of a modarate Avenue reformer rather than free­ trader. He seemed to stand on the Northern part of the tariff plank of 1884 and to ignore the Southern part. But when the Southern Bourbons in Congress came to prepare actual legis­ lation they got both legs on the free- trade side of the 1884 platform, and in order to act as their leader last year Mr. Cleveland had to come out as a free-trader and advocate redaction of duties not merely to get rid of the Treasury surplus but because protec­ tion was wrong in itself, and, as he claimed, certainly and inevitable made the citizen pay more than his just ahare of taxation for tile support of tile Government. Under the Democratic tariff plank of 1884 Mr. Cleveland has at one time taken Ms position as a moderate reve­ nue reformer and again as a free-trader. A plonk that will permit such gyra­ tions has a peculiar value to a party which wants the votes of both protec­ tionists and free-traders in order to? capture the spoils, and it is not unlike­ ly the Democrats may adopt it again. Still, Mr. Cleveland was most plaus­ ible when, true to his lawyer-like in- atincts, he interpreted the 1884 plank on the principle that the saving clause Was void and held that the Democratic party waa committed only to modaata ' revenue reduction and not hostile to ' the protective principle. But after­ ward the Southern Bourbons forced Mr. Cleveland to repudiate the body of .the plank, take instead the saving clause, and plant himself on free-trade gTMind. May not the Democrats well nnd further use for a plank so service; able and flexible as that of ̂ 1884?-- Chi­ cago Tribune. Basest Majorities Hast Bale. Asserting that the Republican lead­ ers in the Lower House of Congress are intent on such a change in the rules as will give them complete arbitrary control of that body," the New York World says: .This purpose is particularly impudent In view ot the tuctthat they have a majority ot barely three members. «nd tbut ther repr< s -nt a minority of nea Iv lOO.OJOin ihe totai vot j of thw country. It would natural­ ly seom thut these co iside ations might make th« Ite, ubiicaa landers a little mod­ est, even it they have no appreciation of the tieuerous recogni ion of the rights of th« minority shown by the Democrats Aurinir the last three Congress s. • The World is not a stupid, thor- onghly bigoted Bourbon journal, and, as probably half ir-s readers are Re­ publicans, if cannot, iu justice to its constituency any more than to its own sense of right, afford to make such claims a5? the above. It certainly knows that the pretended minority of the Republicans in the popular vote of the country is the result of outrageous election fraud in the South and the criminal nullification of the laws and the Constitution. ,The apparent Dem­ ocratic popular majority represents successful villainy in intimidating le­ gal voters, stuffing ballot-l>oxes, and forging returns. With a free ballot and honest ctount the Republican partv would have a majority of hundreds o*f thousands, and it is unworthy a re­ putable journal to allude to the fraud­ ulently won popular majority of the Democracy* as though it were honest and entitled to the respect of honest men. Nor is it fair to say the Republicans have proposed any change in the rules of the House that will give them ar­ bitrary control. No alteration has been suggested in respect to any rule guard­ ing the just ^ rights of the minority. The minority is to remain secure in its right to debate, to protest, to propose amendments and have them voted on, and cause the record to show the exadt action taken. The minority is to be so» curely protected in these juat rights, but it is not to be permitted to usurp control and assume the functions right- folly belonging to the majority. It is to have the right to debate, vote, proj» pose amendments, etc., but not to par­ alyze the House and shackle the ma* jority. Legislation is to depend on tha will of the responsible majority, and not on the consent of filibusters and obstructionists. At the last session on§ obstinate demagogue defied the entire House and kept the body for days in a deadlock, and finally coerced it into granting his personal deuiauds before legislation could proceed. Rules that permit suvJi usurpation and abuse of privilege cannot be tolerated. Minority members have their rights, but power to browbeat and dominate the entire; House should never be allowed them; The principle of majority rule must be re-established in Congress. The Republican majority of three t<> which the World alludes mav become a majority of ten by. the time the House meets, and certainly would be one of Six or eight but for false and fraudulent Southern certificates of election. But it makes no difference so far as the right to control the House is concerned whether the Republicans have a ma» jority of three or thirty or one hundred. Except in cases where a larger preponf ] derance is expressly required by the,. Constitution a majority of one is as good as any greater number, and car­ ries with it the right to organize the House, adopt rules, and enact legisla­ tion. The New York World cannot afford to misstate the purpose of the Republicans in changing the rules, or the necessity of such action, any more than it can uphold filibustering and minority rule, or indorse election frauds and vote suppression in the cotton States. Its sense of justice and of the right of the majority to rule must give it pause.--Chicago Tribune. *% no siavft vtruwir l high, ring low, [big guns blow) WjjH OPT p*tri ot anthi iHS--tuns 'auK -Jprith wtnh wrass band "' »yWWMghout the land; A«4 shout «E Phiribus Qmrff; yaar, you see, Jubilee-- Jywittwot «Kteaim »«artai r»y of hope in the general •were fighJng for liberty, and counted too mr«kt in that saci »l CAD When hoattlttfcf Wwe am] t mutual interact tost had h«-M th, (tether through wm ferv ven.rs sign fo peril .Not being merel With bombs and <L In triumph couieg. And loudly screams the tbe little boy ec~ «clares our joy v • In manner most emphatts; »nd eloquence 2 rows too intense For throats eiitbuaiasmatic. INDEPENDENCE A BRIKF BJBTBOSnCCTIYlC VCKW. TIk* NKIIM m It Was--Sow tks «r Kttional Liberty Was Dcvoioped-btw- •IUD| Facta In Early History. HUNDKED AND thirteon years have been added to the past Bince a confederation o f struggling colonies d f c l a r e d t h e m ­ selves free and in­ dependent States and demanded a place among the kini^ioins of the earth. Apparently they were illy able to enforce their impudent de­ mand. Fate, how­ ever, had decreed yyX hat the least ^ s h o u l d b e c o m e greatest. At the beginning of 1775 thirteen colonies.separated . . br customs and beliefs as wt'll as by distance, were scattered along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida. They embraced a total ar«>a of 80J,000 sqtiare miles, with a population of :!,00'l.00 >. From this nucleus lias develojied the present United States, with an area of 3.000,000 square miles and a population of 60,000,000 people. The heroes who took part in the battle of Lex­ ington had no idea of lighting for liberty aa a nation. They only knew that a long series of oppression had culminated in the destruction of a valuable lot of their scanty supplies, and thay fought to avenge ihe outrage. England then, as now, was a manufacturing nation, and she sought by arbitrary and tyran- new States. The articles of confederate faulty, and owing to the local jealousies „ different colonies and the Itoiitatiou of the ers of Congress, the Union **« threatened dissolution--» contingmmr that must proved fatal. It required Hie best skill or that generation of statesmen to obviate ibis dancer "The country for neren years had been trav-' ersed and wasted bv OOBWDding armies ahno»t. from end to end. OitfeS and vilWes h" laid in ashes. Habitations had been and left to decay. Farms, stripped fences and deserted by their owners years produce^only weeds. Camp fev< the hardships and privations of destroyed more than the aword; and had been subtracted from the mos< and valuable part cf a population uJ yet, quite inadequate, cripples and melancholy mementos of the yet reo gle abounded la every village and and habits of industry had been una destroyed by the anxieties anduncei war." When the first census was taken in population of the entire nation was four millions. That of th® North' tory, from which tfce States of Oh Illinois. Michigan, and Wisconsin been formed, was so small that no u made, l iie population south of the I numbered 37,000. Philadelphia, with tion of 48,535, was the larfsst cit, in trv- ^"oottonJcro? amounted to ?»ounds. In IWft > <ukt nij^ggn pounds. * » Commerc®. like alHiranclfea of industry! was just struggling for a footbojd. In 1790 the total exports from a'J ports of the United States amountwl to r.ut twenty million dollars, and tho imports somewhat less- Newspapers were small, rude affairs. &nd few in numlier. buring the colonial per iod literature gained no promi­ nence except in the department of theology Irving's Works were the first to make American literature popular abroad. In fact, the veal development of sctencs and art and the material progress of the nation have only begun within one hundred years. So swift and far-reaching has that development been that the mind can ssoaroelv conceive of it. Whether the next hundred years"shows as great advancement depends upon whether the spirit of Belf-sacrifieing patriotism that actuated the heroes and statesmen of the revolution is kept alive or is permitted to be overwhelmed in greed and selfishness. t than foreign foes' threat SkSSiSf *** AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS George was soon embarked on the full tide of * ^ v 1 ^>qucaice and was frequently interrupted by ""beers. When he loudly demanded, "Who gave * the Fourth of July?" there was a perfect i pader of applause. ' iwer thet queshion," said Deaoon Snug- rising to his feet and pointing a long lei A FOURTH OFJULY PICNIC. BT KB8. K. Ik aaTKK. IRI/9," called Mrs. Weath- erby, "your father is at the door with the carrv-all. Hurry up, now. Where's George Washington V' "He's lean ing his piece, ma; he's just been saving it over, and it's splendid. He's most ready." " Well, we can't wait, 'cause Jim has gone on with the provisions for the whole lot; he's taken the „ croquat set and the bean pitch-board, and is going to find a place where >r at five or six small boys who ware on the grass open-moatheq atid open- There was a loug sileiio ̂VtfUk WPaU (^ed: •Benry Clay." called another. "Daniel Webster." • #£5""" "Gen. Grant." ; > "IMam." "George WashingtoB.* ' Shm cheers ana a stave orator was very and much flushed. took up his interrupt- theme, and when he bed the peroration, bird of freedom 1 above in the em- rean of the new world id proudly " he fell backward out of the •gon seat, and turned somersault, not down n the programme. The . treacherous wagon-seat OH-8Alr' Dn> TOO 8KXt had slipped and unbased him. But the cheers he received were a salve to his woun<led pride #*nd barked shins, and the speech waa voted A peat- success. Then a small bov was dragged forward and desired to recite hoinething patri­ otic and couldn't think of anything for some time. Then, while all eyes were upon him, he scraped a foot. *"*»de p. lurch foTws*,Td. and, cr,n sciuMfe of tiie maternai jT^acr cc, fccg.au : "WliRtisthisgloriousflaglBea ItihtiieilaROf liberty Its hues ailwai'mandbright* ly blue ItiBthebr.uneroftbetrue Andoii thi sday wecelebrate-- wecelebrat« -- weoele* br&te-- Fortuiiatoly for that boy there was an interruption which almost amounted to a panic. Jim came galloping into the campus on the farm THE DAY WE cKLE-horse, gasping, "Wha-whar-- BRATE. wha!" "Are the Indians coming?" shrieked Mrs. WeatherUy. "B-b-be calm !* suggested the Deaoon; "sp-eak --out--man!" "Wha-what did you come here fur?" gasped Jim, when he gut his breath; "didn't ye see all them signs I made to show ye where I wuit. Didn't I bark like a dog for one straight hour? I just thiuk it sail-fired mean to treat a feUow like thet an' the tables all sot with the vittlea, too!" When it dawned upon them what Jim meant they sat up a shout that could have been heard for a mile and began to get their things in order for an exodus frotn their present quarters. They followed Jim back and found the green glade laid >- out like a park, with a vast 'JJfj diniug-hall in the center. The simple fellow had never once thought that hie "signs" which he had gotten up with so much care INDEPENDENCE DAY. might cause a stampede. As it was they had a glorious Fourth. IVTIBESTlNfi ITEMS OATHERED FROM VARIOl * SOVRCKS. "Ml Oar Neighbors Are l)sle| Btallwr i of General ami Local Interest--Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes •--Personal Pointers. • --Tlia Postoffice Department at Wash­ ington has completed the work of ad­ justing the salaries of the Presidential Postmasters for the fiscal yelar beginning Jwly 1, 1889. The changes in Illinois are shown in the following list: Fiscal year; , fiscal year 1H88. 18*). I88rt. 18S3. ..®aaoo £'23,0 LakeForast.$14/•) giso ' 2S00 La Sail® 2JOO 19.*) 180.) Lincoln 210) 17(X) Ijockp, rt l&M 2300 Msrcieiliee.... 1-tO ) 1400'Mason Oily., 12 U 11D0 X! a tt<wn 2)0 ) 1100 ay wood 14'W 28 )0 Met rop.disCv 11J>) 2XX) MunUcrilo... IS)) iiiM) Nokomij Iloo ltiOJ l'aua !#•» 180) PeJkiu «400 1501 Peoria. 3800 llOOPeru .150 J 13J0; l»u Ui n ail 2.0) 3500!Quiucv.... 30)) Ravii aivood . m;iltock Falls....lnw 1500 Kock Island. 1500 S'th Chicago. .'Al.M 140) Sparta 1500 150i) Spr'g \'altey..i:i00 i300:8ierling SJ400 18uO'Taylor\ill© ...l&W 10U0 Watseka...... H00 27001 Wheaton 1200 1100 Wright's O've.lSjO 2500 170J 1600 2100 130) 1000 1000 2700 'im 1400 l&H) 13i)0 21'X) 1100 i:!:X) 14 X) 12 JO 17.W 23W X)M\ 1C>)0 VJOO 31W 19A) 1:*K) 2300 '.BJ0 1400 14*1 •i:vx) 15J0 1-50U 13J0 law £ 31 i & ® •t pV. • 1: S K • Obio Politics. A canvass of prominent Repnblioans in Ohio by the Columbus State Jour nal places General R. P. Kennedy, ot Bellefontaine, in the lead for Gover­ nor, with Governor Foraker standing next, Speaker Lampson of the lasi General Assembly, General Neal, Gen eral Asa Bushnell, General W. H, Gibson, Judge Nash, General .Keifer, and others having many friends who would like to see them nominated. Every indication from the Democratic camp*in Ohio indicates that, while Sen­ ator Payne will not be a candidate be­ fore the next General Assembly, it will be another big boodle campaign, with such men as Calvin Brice using money to secure the honor. With such a cam­ paign before them the Ohio Republi­ cans should put good men who are fighters on their ticket, and no Buck­ eye has in recent years exhibited more nerve than Fighting Bob Kennedy, who presided over the Ohio Senate four years ago and brought the Demo­ cratic filibusters to time. It is an en­ couraging sign to see the Republicans of Ohio pushing the name of General Kennedy to the top of the ticket.--Ex' change. Ir the Samoan conference had failed, how the Bourbon and Mugwump organs would have gone for "Jim Blaine." But having proved a success, they are as quiet as mic&, and seem fearful lest some one should mention such wise diplomacy. The contrast between Secretary Blaine and his pre- . decessor is great, but if he should ac­ complish the grandest results for the nation, not one of all that large aclass of statesmen who bowed so obsequi­ ously to the Delaware Chief would ever mention the matter, except to sneer. IT is no more impndent in young Thurman to want the Democratic nom­ ination for Governor of Ohio than it was for youiSg Brice to want the Chair­ manship of the Democratic National Committee, except that Brice is a "plutocrat" and Thurman is not. THE Democratic tariff-wreckers are beginning their malignant work early, considering that the Presidential elec­ tion is three years and a half distant, but the protectionists are also on the alert and active.--Chicago Journal. Meal laws to make the colonies a perpetual market for her goods. For this purpose Parlia­ ment had passed uo less than twenty-nine laws restricting or prohibiting labor. They forbade the erection of machinery, the use of water­ falls, or the manufacture of articles of any kind. The coasting trade in lumber, fish, mo­ lasses and sugar was interdicted, and the ves­ sels engaged in it, with their cargoes, were con­ fiscated. The revolution was begun for the pur­ pose of releasing labor from these arbitrary restrictions. In those days, before a postal Bystem had even been dreamed of. it required twenty days battle of Lexington to ryich The eff -ot there as elsewhere A REPUBLICAN newspaper in Ohio says "there are no good Democrats." Oh, yes, there are; with the "good Indians." Jackson is one of them.-- Chicago Journal. A. l?JL Mi &. rJxl .JJU.* i * ^ I f K. I* ^ it fornewH of tho battle South Carolina. was electrical. In common with her sist colonies, South Carolina sent assurances of sympathy and assistance. The colonies wore a unit iu resolving to fleht. The heroes who led hi the unequal struggle were young then, and added the ardor of youth to an inborn love of freedom. Tiiiie proved the superiority of such a combination over professional soldiery. Washington was 43 when he assumed com­ mand of the Continental army. Jefferson was but 33 when he wroto the Declaration of Inde­ pendence. Of the members of the Constitu­ tional Convention of 1787, Jonathan Dayton was not yet '27; William Jackson was 28; and Alex­ ander Hamilton Mas but a few months past 30. The average age of the whole number was a little less than 45 years. When the battle of Bunker Hil was fought, the supply of ammunition in the continental army consisted of twenty-seven half-barrels of pow­ der. This was soon after augmented by thirty- six half-barrels from Connecticut. There were but fifty bayonets in the patriot army during that battle. But they knew not what fear was, and after their ammunition was exhausted, fought with clubbed guns or with stones. Public sentiment underwent a rapid change as the struggle progressed. It very soon became evident that the only hope for the colonists lay m renouncing allegiance to the British crown. People began to talk of freedom ; freedom was preached from the pulpits, and pamphlets advo­ cating freedom were lavishly circulated. On March 20, 1776, South Carolina adopted a Constitution and provided for self-government. Rhode Island proclaimed her absolute inde­ pendence of Great Britain on May 4, and on the : 10th of the same month the Massachusetts House of Representatives requested the people to assemble and decide whether they should Pjodge their lives and fortunes to the support °* Congress in case independence should be de­ clared.5 During the next six weeks the oolonies, with the exception of New York, determined to unite In renounciug allegiance to Great Britain. The New York Assembly was deterred from joining the colonies in this movement by a doubt as to the power- of Congress to dissolve the existing relations. They thought best to first submit the question to the people. On the 13th of May, the Virginia convention that had taken the place of the Provincial As­ sembly passed a resolution urging Congress to mimediate action. Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and New Jersey passed similar resqlutions, and were soon followed by Penn­ sylvania and Maryland. In reajxmse to these requests, Richard Henry Ijee of Virginia, offered the following resolu­ tions on June 7th, which were seconded by John Holmes: "That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegianoe to the British crown, and that all political connection between theui and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, dissolved. "That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. "That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective colonies for their conRideration and approbation." This was the first direct and open declaration or national independence. No action was taken upon those resolutions, however, until July 1st, when Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benja­ min Franklin, Roger Sherman and R. R. Living­ ston were appointed a committee to embody the resolutions in a formal declaration. After two days of earnest debate the declaration was adopted by twelve of the colonies without a dis­ senting voice, New York being still unable to vote. • July 8th a member of the Committee of' Pub­ lic Safety read the Declaration to a vast as­ sembly in the State House vard, and at the same tune the famous Liberty feell was set to ring­ ing to proclaim the joyous tidings. On the fol­ lowing day the brigades were formed in a bol- ?t?uare ou tlie parade ground ac New York. Washington tat on horseback within the square while one of his aids read the momen(>ou8 docu­ ment. The soldiers receivod the announcement with cheers; there was general rejoicing throughout the city, and debtors wers released from prison to join in the festivities. Thus, in the face of over whelming dit lonrage- ments, was the decisive step taken. The Cana­ dian expedition, from which much bad been ex- HadmaltedteadiaactnnraMlara. tin our folks can have it all to themselves." By this time the girls had >me down, dressed in white cross-barred muslin , because, as one of them economically remarked, "White will wash and colors run." George Washington's voice could still be haard up-Stairs reciting the pa- 3':; J triotic speech which was to delight the souls ot #;.i the Pumpkinvllle folks, t .j at the picnic. His mother waited as long as she could, Mien she called him in a voice that admitted of no fur­ ther delay, and he came down stairs habited in plaid trousers and a long linen duster, through which a pair of blue sus­ penders--embroidered for him by Sadie Sunglittle -- were plainly discern­ i b l e . H e c a r r i e d t n e _ manuscript of his FKIEND8 AND FKIXOW- Fourth of July .oration CITIZENS I in one of the deep pock­ ets of the duster. ( ;i "Pile in," said Mr. Weatherly, cheerfully, aa he held the horse, that wouldn't have run away at a dynamite explosion, not beinx that kind of an annual; "it's t;oing to be real Fourth of July weather. I reckon Jim's tired waiiiu', and the rest of the folks'il think we ain't a comin'." They piled in, George and the girls on the back seat, while Mrs. Weatherly sat- with 'futh- and heljitod drive. George gave them si>ecimcn of what he could do in the way of j oratiug, and they had< soon covered the flvei miles at the eud of which they were to find the picnic grounds. Jim, the hired man. who €5? THE FOURTH AT MULDOON'S. MCTLDOON, JB.--"Rooney'Sonld billvgoat dobs afther aitlu' up me bunch of doynamoit crack* ers!" « THIS GALOHIOU8 DAT. was a genius In his way, was to provide a code know where tl» of signals by which they would general camping grounds were situated. "This is the right turn. I'll bet a cookey." said Mr. Weatherby, reiuing in his carry-all steed, "but what's tlieui notices stuck up there? I ain't never seen any of t h e m i n t h e s e p a r t s afore." " I '11 bet 'Squire Ford put them up to prevent fedks from coming here," said George; "if it, ain't mean of him." 'I'm a goin' in, all the same," said Mr. Weath­ erby. "Tl lere's anotner. What's that, girls? I can't see quite clear." "Oh, mercy," cried the girls in concert, "Uiere's a dog barking. Just listen!" Sure enough, a dee}), hoarse barking could be heard far in on the road they had turned on. "It's 'Squire Ford'B white bull dog, I'll bet," said George. "I wish I had my rifle; I'd pepper him." "Here's the Snuirlittle team," said Pet W<.;ith- erby; "and there's Sadie and the rest. (Mi, girls, we're lost. We daren't go up thiB road. Isnt it a shame?" ••WAKE, THE woo "Bow-wow-ow-w," came in deep chest tones from the green iglade up the leafy retreat, and Mrs. Weatherby at once seized the reins and be­ gan to turn old Sorrel around. "I ain't agoin to furnish meat for 'Squire Ford's dog," she said, and the otherB seemed quite as willing to go. Another party was wait­ ing for them on the main road, and there they took counsel and decided that Jim must be some miles farther ou. where another campus wi known to be among the trees. So they rode three miles further look­ ing for Jim. But no Jim was to be seen. They found the large grass plat, and picketed their horse* about the inclosure, hop­ ing that since they could not coaie to Jim that Jim would come to them. It was rather a serious mat­ ter, for the six families who had now joined them bad sent their provisions over to the Weatherby'i for safe transportation by Jim, >-.ho had the commissary stores forth# day. No one doubted the integrity of Jim. bgt all wondered without avail what had become of him--and the lemonade and the pies and cakes and substantial. "Mr. George Weatherby, called Deacon Snuglittle. y/'r. speech, speech," "You have taken me by surprise, Deaoon," said George in an off-haud manner, feeling for hte speech in his coat tail pocket. Then he took aafciotts lUwi sntisnkfc • MTTLDOON, SR.--"Badeess till the bast#; iftrffe' suppose George Washington was afther sheddin' j his hairt's blow! that the loikes of him moight I feast on foirerack'ws ? Oi'll jest howld the hea</ ] ot the thafe, Phelan, while you do be luigtitt' &b& van shtickin' from his thavin' jaw, aa'--&», ..,,i 4t\ , M"e-. ,. < L-if'L'hiLj. T' Alton.... Anwt... Belvidere.. Bushnell... Canton .... Chester Cfcillicothe Cobden .... Decatur.... De Kalb 1900 Dixon 21(X) Dwight 1500 EastSt. Louis 1700 Edwards villa 1400 JElinhurst 1200 El Paso 1290 Englewood 2400 Evan scon 23U i Parmer City.. 1300 Fulton 1400 Gr d Crossiug.1600 Harvard 1300 Havana . .1400 Highland., 1100 HC!sl>on>.... ..1400 Jersey ville... .1700 Joliet .2000 Kensington.. .1000 liacon ,1300 --Judge Andrew D. Duff, Register of the United States Land Office at Tucson, Ari., is dead. Deceased was from Car- bondale, in this State, and \ras for twelve years, up to 1876, Circuit Judge of the Springfield district. --Joe Mackin will have to serve his sentence out, Gov. Fifer having refused to grant a pardon. --Gov. Fifer has decidad that members of the last Legislature ere not eligible as members of the new Court of Claims'. --Miss Nina Van Zandt, the Chicago young woman who was so anxious to mar­ ry August Spies, the anarchist bomb- thrower, before the gallows put an end to hia life, is etage-stmck, and will proba­ bly be Been behind the footlights next season. Joseph Haworth, who owns "Paul Kauvar," has made an offer to the young lady, and she will probably lead the ̂ an­ archist mob in that play when it is pro­ duced in the fall. ---Walter Hnmp, of Lancaster, Pa., whose wife deserted him a year ngo and fled with Henry Doerr, of the samo city, found the guilty pair at Springfta'd, (11., living ns man and wife. He shot and in­ stantly killed tha woman and then com­ mitted suicide. 1 --The Statd Board of Agriculture esti­ mates tbat there will be 12"/HV3,0 0 b :sh- els of oats harve ted in Illinois this yaar, and 4,072,000 bushels of rye. The grow­ ing crops were injured by drought ia April and Mnv to an extent which could not be overcome by the subsequent rains, and the condition is only within 93 par cent, of an average for the State. An average yield of oats is estimated at thirty-three bushels to ihe acre on an area of 3,850,000 acres. A Springfield dispatch says: Crop reports rrc jived fro n several counties of the State by the htate Board ot Agriculture make no mention of the new wheat p at, with the exception of White County, *h<>r« i! is stated considerable damage is lieinu done to oats b»a bug or green louse; and Vormilli'Mi Cocnty, where it is sta od the he.uls of the wheat fairly swarm with them and great damage is being doile. Tho bug is of a greenish hue, occasion­ ally oue being found of a pinkish oast. Thev have a proboscis one-fourtu their length, ancl the manner of attack is to suck the sap from the grain of the wheat bv drilling a hole through the covering or sheath of the grain, --A Springfield paper says that Mrs. Gov. Fifer and children will spend most of the summer ia Bloomington. The Executive Mansion will be closed for re­ pairs during that time. The Governor when in the city will take up his abode at the Leland Hotel. --Senator Garrlty and Bepresentative Miller, of Chicago, were in Springfield last week on business with the Gove nor. These gentlemen had rather a sad expe­ rience on the trip down fipm Chicago. While asleep in the chair tsar they were robbed of their money, passes, and gold watches, so that they arrived in the Cap­ ital City in a penniless condition. --The Illinois State Eoord of Agricult­ ure has reports from correspondents in ninety out of the 102 counties of the State, from which the following esti­ mates are made of the wheat crop which is be ng harvested at this time.i From the estimates made by 600 crop corre­ spondents of the Department of Agri­ culture of the area seeded last fall to winter wheat as compared with the area seeded in 1887, and returned by the as-, aessors in 1888, there are 2,051,490 acres of wheat to be harvested during the next twenty days. The exceedingly dry weather during the most of April, and lasting up to the middle of May, hns depreciated the condition of the growing crop about 10 per cent, from the reported condition of May 1 last, when the eondition was repotted at 102 per cent, for the State. Taking the average for the past twenty- nine years as a bas s, the present wheat crop will not yield to exceed thirteen bushels to the acre, and the total yield of the crop will be about 26,669,370 bushels. The quality of the berry fully up to the* average, taking the State as a whole, although in the counties of Adams, Brown, Clark, and Edgar many fields of wheat have been damaged to a considerable extent by both the Hessian fly and the drouth during the early spiing. --In the case of the People vs. Blue Mountain Joe, the Supreme Court holds section 11 of the medical practice act, which prohibits itinerant venders of med­ icines, nostrums, etc., from operating in the State, to be valid. The point w ti raised in the present case that this sec tioa was not cohered by; the title of the act, and was, therefore* invalid. The last General Assembly attempted to repeal the aot, it being thought it was invalid, but this decision sustains the act in evety particular. -- Chicago has seven murder mysteries. Amelia Olsen was strangled to death OQ the prairies, Millionaire Snell was assas­ sinated in his own house, young Schuue- mann was killed in the Btreet, Eva Mitchell was murdered on a boulevard. Druggist Clark was shot dead in his store, and Dr. Cronin was butchered by conspirators. ' The mystery about all these murders is that the assassins have never been caught. --By the c^wiiing of a boat «a the Despfoines. TRiver, near Chicago, two young girls were precipitated into the | water and drowned --Bey. William Henry Beeeher died »§ M* home in Chicago last week at the •meed age of 87 years. Mr. Beeeher waa one of seven brother#, all of whom be­ came preachers, and ail more or less funjois. The brothers are Dr. Edward Beeeher, now living in Brooklyn; Henry Ward, George, and James C. Beeeher, deceased; Charles Beech >r of Wilcox, Pa.; and Thomas K. Beeeher, of Elmir% N. X. Of the sisters, Mrs. Thomas C. Perkins, the mother of Mrs. Edward Everett Hale, now lives in Boston, and Mrs. John Hooker and Mrs. Harriet Beeeher. Stowe live in Hartford. Barely has one family included so many famous nnmes. William Henry Beeeher had been a resident of Chicago since 1870. j --Judge Frendergast, of Chicago, inllM case of Dora Willard, who petitioned for release from the Co<)k Couuty Insane Asylum, promptly decided in her favor, on the ground that that institution is an nnfit place for her detention. The delu­ sion is accompanied by an exhaustive pre­ sentation of the condition of the asyl the character of the mauugemenr.j I! ' >1 j | abuses and their, causes, and, in brief, m thorough expose of one of the moat abominable atrocities of the age. No­ where in civilization is there focsd to exist an asylum for the insane which ii as scandalous in its details as that fv- nished by Cook County. Judge Fren­ dergast discovered overcrowding tooM vitiated with filth and fcul air. Ha found the patients neglected by the medi­ cal staff and starved, beaten, murdered by the attendants. He found that imbe­ cile female inmates had given birth to offspring in the asylum, the victims ef brutal assaults by paid servants. He learned ihat the inmates were frozen, roasted on steampipes, were afflicted with scurvy, were covered^ with vermin, that the atmosphere was pervaded bf an unbearable stench, and the air ear vitiated and loaded with the germs of disease as to generate erysipelas and other complications. "Carried on under the guise of benevolence," gay* Judge PrendergasJ, "this institution is in fact a monument of inhuman neglect. * * * The fact is, there is no insane asy­ lum or hospital in Cook County. There is a place of imprisonment that we call aa asylum, and to this place we have com­ mitted one thousand unfortunate inaiUM as to a tomb for the living, little lad dreadful than a tomb for the dead ia its worst estate." Judge Prendergafet ree- ommends a special session of the Legis- l tnre to devise relief by the erection ot a praper asylum at ihe^eost of the State or count-. . . ' , "I --J. Sidney Walters, the adventured wU^se picturesque su cile 14 a dress suit at the Rioheli?u Hotel fo me.l a few dava* sensation in Chicago, had a \ assion for good d nuers, and the pussioa was strong even in death. Tbis is his last dinner, which is still unpaid: Green turtle, 40 cent*; Spanish fries, 75 cents;*new poia- toer, 30 cents; libs of beef, 50 cents; let* tuce salad, 30 .cent-<; German asparagus; with vine^arette, fl? one quart Dvlbtfck champagne, $4. Total, $r.25. Two hours after the solitary meal Walters was a coipse, with 10 cents monetary assets. -•"I.e Caron, the British spy. has just been tried by his comrades in the G. A. K. Post, to which he belonged virile liv- ^ ing in Chicago, and summari'y dismiS^I from the order. The charges against hiaa were that he was unworthy, according fo his testimony given in the Darnell cas* Added to tbis is the fact that Le Caton not only spent his time in Americs in acting as a spy against the Irish revolu­ tionists, but also joiced the United States ~ Army and the G. A. B. for the purpose s^1* giving information to the British Govern­ ment. " --Aitides of incorporation of the In* dianapolis, Beardstown A Quhicy Bail- way Company have been filed in the*bfllca of the Secretary of State, with principal offices at Quincv. The road is to be eo&» utiSeted fflora Beardstown, where it is" proposed to make oonnection with the as.- - tension of the Indianapolis, Decatur and Western Railway, through the counties ef Brown and Adams to Quiney, to connect with the 8t. Louis, Quiney, Omaha Sioux City Railway, making a new through line east and northeast from these and intermediate points. The capi­ tal stock is placed at #2,000.000. --Judge J. J. Phillips of ths Circa ft Court made an -order at Hillsboro laat , week on the petition of the Hon. E. Southwoith. placing the Jacksonville Southeastern Railwav in the hands of * ' ."f reoeiver. The petition was based upon "J: the grounds that the company refused to Tyfl pay a judgment which Mr. Soathworifc',"' :."?i obtained against it in November, 18S8, for personal injuries sustained in a wreok on defendant's roa:l in Marjh, 1887., Shortly before the judgment was rendered ths Jacksonville Southeastern Company sold - 'i - its entire road to the Louisville and SU- > ^ Louis Railroad Comp my, which convey- ' ' ance was hel I by the court to be frauds^' * p lent so far as Mr. Southworth's rights are concerned. Ths Hon. R. D. Lawrence^ " of Springfield, was appointed receiver. . i «• --Alexander Gray, one of the early tiers of Montgomery County, has passed away at the ripe age of 84 yean. *' j --At Chicago. Jimmy Feenv, aged 9 years, was struck in the forehead by % ,';% batted base ball and almost instantly killed. " : '••••••' - '-'"fv, --The interest felt all over thsesastip ^ 5| 2? i in the Cronin case is shown by the fa«* r that the register of visitors in the Cfcjfo%>> go cottage where the murder was rnmrait*. ted contains the names of persons fro«tt« Iowa, Michigan, Texas aad other Statscr^ --Chicago papers chronicle the dealli of Father John Carroll, the oldest Cath«»- lie priest in the United States. He was M 93 years old. Father Carroll was- a dftf~ scendant of Charles Carroll, of Cam»\fe ton, and possessed manv relics of that Bturdy patriot. . ; .J. ... _ HARDCHEES--I had a queer expert W ence down-stairs, Havtlhead. A momen^ after I had alighted from the cab mjK; ? old cabman fell over dead. JBardhea# --Ah! Paid your till without wr*ngk ling, I suppose. -- m KETCRNED TRAVELER--Mr. Bichmaafc^ J eould draw his check for s million vhatl^ -f I left. How much nuxiev has lie this time ? Citizen--He hadn't any^ Eh? Wha l>id he faiir hedied;* ; - THE origiMl^iniikman mut w ;