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nsnr o am 0« * A etions of' justice rvwMNtt BmnUon s 9*mm*k* m* the Fourth of Jnly Celebr»tlofi la •toek, Com Chairman and fellow . or two things that I _ , I may as well say them sayaiiMof Daaloanrle JS!b5 w£n it conssto maltoioualyiagl am going to ¥«*terday "»**»« I *•* » por­ tion «taa interview printedin » Chicago psperthat it ie Mid some reporter had with me. Bete is the extract," and the Cfeminissioifewr produced the following, which he read to several in the zoom, the I" referriiif to th* Oosissisios!?' "For years I have advocated on the aUcinp end at Grand Army enaap-llree the tttmagO' by Congress of a service pension Dill, giving every soldier and sailor a pension. I am thoroughly committed to this policy, and I don't see how I can go back on it, though now that I have be­ come Pension Examiner and hare looked the whole thing up, I find the service pension bill would bankrupt the Treas- ®f- I'd rather resign than face the old soldiers after go'ng back on the service pension bill, and if, as Pension Commis- eiomw, I iscutomsnd that bill to Congress I'll iraka myself ridiculous. How am I . to get ont of it? "How am I to get out ©Lit? That al­ leged inierviewt is a malicious lie. It is a Democratic phot from the party that has been making me the Republican butt •ever since the inauguration, and I protest against it. Not only is it a lie on its face, but any one who knows me* knows it is a lie. Don't hundreds of people know that as a member of the G. A. E. Pension Committee I made a decided •peeeh against the proposed service bill in February of last year at Springfield. •Dldu 11?" addressing sope of his hearers. "You did timt," responded two or three. • "And why Was it I was opposed so bit­ terly by the G. A. R. posls of New York? "Wholly because of my opposition to the service pension bill. To make a thing work beth ways against a m <n is pretty tough." "I wish also," said the Commissioner, f pay my respects to those who are try­ ing to erect a bulwnrk between Gener.il Black and myself. General Black was a f allant soldier, who suffered the most orrible wounds, and whose administra­ tion of the Pension Office was under the tnost disadvantageous (ircumstauces. He did not hnve control of thut which he hid to-conduct, for he was made subordinate te Mr. Lamar, and yet daring all that time Lamar never signed a pension granted. He did take enough interest in the office, though, to put six of his rela­ tive < in it. General Black isa tood friend of mine, and newspaper gossip eannot snake ns other.". . "It is not Ir e, then, thit yon found •ceit a in j ol tical letters of his on assum­ ing routrol of the office?" "No letter of General Black's ever came into my hands, and if it had I should have done the only thing for any gentleman to do--sent it to him directly. Mr. Tanner said there had been so luUuli fruit found with bim and h s de- Srtment by various papers and people at lie went to see the President about jt &.few uny» ngo. ""Go right ahead," was General Harri­ son's suggestion; "you are doing all xigM." "The President's view of the pension matter can be stated in a few words," said the Commissioner. "He believes in • pension few every so'.dier or sailor who needs one." „ While in Chicago, Commissioner Tan­ gier was tendered a reception by the con­ solidated G. A. R. posts, and delivered a short speech. - "We don't want the earth," he said, re­ ferring to the soldiers, "but we will never fee satisfied with $2.50 a month. When I say this I say it ns a cold and real fact. The second day I was in the Pension De­ partment over 100 pensions, valued at #2 a month, were brought to me for my sig­ nature. I am too valuable a man" to be oigning pensions at 50 cents a week. Sine* that day there has never been a pension sent ont from our department calling for less than $4 a month, and none shall while I occupy the chief posi­ tion. Some of our observing fri nds are fearful that I am going to reduce the surplus bv this extravagant J>ractice. But they need have no ears. I am go'ng to keep within the lew. £ach of these men who nre drawing $4 a month must go before the board and be examined, and if that board does not adjadfe him injured to the extent of $4 a month his name goes off our rolls. We don't want any $2 m month pensioners. I realize that circumstances have driven me into many of the situations that are so severely criticised. There are some who think I am right, and I at least have the support of General Harrison and many of the heads of departments, who •ay, 'Go on as you are.' And I shall do it, with the assistance of General BEarri- son and the Jaw. I can not claim to rep­ resent the views of any one gentleman, but yon will find a wonderful unanimity among the government officials on these pension matters, and I know I at least express their views when I say they are ail decided on a pension for every deserving man." The Commissioner then spoke of some •f the many touching appeal* thatoameto him each day, but which he could not al­ ways grant. You must remember the mighty bur­ den carried by the department, When I assumed control of the Pension Depart­ ment, I found over a quarter of a million onadjudical ed pensions on hand that had never been touched. In almost every case some home of poverty and misery was involved. I know I am not educated; tny gifts are poor enough; I have no sci­ entific knowledge, b it in these latter days of my career I thank God for some things. It has been given to me to some •extent to transmute the idle wealth of the country into the golden coin that shall gladden and brighten many a dark and poverty-stricken home, from which went •out the patriotism and the courage that maintained the glory of a nation. Yon know what this means when I say that any mail averages 1,200 letters >t day. "Another thing I will say is that, aside from the gratitude we owe the ranks of gallant men who marched to carnage, is a great moral principle. We want to recognize this gratitude as a principle, that it shall stind before the young men who are growing up. Is it not better thus, than to let them see the defenders of their country, broken in health and maimed in bo.ly, go uncared for and un­ protected by the country they saved, to and their days in that asylum of poverty, 4pp^poor 'hoase?" •£ f + * , , ' - ~~ I I T*_ , - A Jut ledft. > , • AJudfe in Tennessee gave recently the race-hat#rs of that Stele a most whole­ some lesson in the law. J. O. Lawrence, a negro elected to the Knoxville Board of Education, was refused recognition by the four white members, and thereupon brought BU.I to establish his rights under the law. In its decision the Court, Chan­ cellor Gibson, said: "Our laws are now blind to the color of a man's skin. In Tennessee a man mist show other titles to pre-eminence than that which results from a comparison of cuticles. The higher law upon which the defendants rely in th^ir answer may be appealed to on the hustings, but the courts are bound by the law of the land, which is the high- art law." Tn accord mce with the decis­ ion the court issued its deem perpetu­ ally enjoining the defendants from inter­ fering with Lawrence. The decision puts the whole case as between the races in a . __ citizens, it is not w pnrwe to make an address ¥*'"^?Ynotkno# until this morn­ ing that the programme woald contain any mention of tty nftme at all, bat it JwalAJbo altogether nacivil if I did not, this opportunity being offered me, ex- P*oM my thanks to those of Ton the m* gathered here this morning and to him upon whose hospitable iayitatton yon have gathered, for the friendly ana cordial greeting which you have given me, not only here to-day, but in my progress hither vestBrdsy. YOST patriotism **•« been put to the test by weather conditions as unfavorable as are possible in the sum­ mer season, but you will not, I am sure, hold me responsible for the fact that the bureau having these conditions in charge has failed to secure to you snch weather as we could have desired to­ day. It is very gratifying to knew that your love of country and your interest in the perpetuation and right observance of this pleasant eelcbraiion at Wocdctock have so perfectly triumphed over every impediment. I am sure I look into the faces this morning of a body of citizens filled with honest pride in the story of their country and full of serious pujroose to maintain those institutions from all taint of corruption or decay. We stand to-day as a nation exempt from all fears of foreign hurt. It is not in the power Of any peqpla upon earth much to harm us, except onr own people. We do not say this in any spirit of boastfulness, bat rather in one of thankfulness, for that Divine Providence which has given ns such location and assignment among the nations of the earth that no people of a great power touches us on any side. Our thoughts ought to turn to dangers which are internal and from which alone we can have serious barm. All the more should every thoughtful citizen consider how he may promote the public weal, how he may hold up our institutions in honor among ourselves, securing and pro­ moting both in State and na­ tional legislation those measures which have best promoted, not indivjd- als. not the special, but the general good of all the people. I think such meetings as these, the old-fashioned Fourth of July celebrations, have in them very instructive and elevating power. I thiijk you should be, as doubtless you are, very appreciative and grateful to him who inaugurated these gatherings. I am glad to be here with you to-day. I am glad on this anniversary of that declaration which, afterward established by arms, made ns a nation, serious as in the pres­ ence of him whose guidance has been conspicuously present in all our affairs, to unite with you in fresh consecration to dUiy and to the true weal and happiness of all our people. I desire to thank these comrades of the Grind Army of the Union for their escort and attendance here to-day. Surely those who in peril, on the red edge of battle, have shown their love to the flag will not fail to be good citizens, now th t they have re- tuiutju io abodes or peace and civil pur­ suits. Tb all of yon who have gathered from these Connecticut homos I desire to express my thanks for your kind and pleas • ant reception. It seems to be exceedingly •ppropiiate that One like Mr. Bo wen, here on these Connecticut hill -tops, drawing in his youth the vigor and strength which equipped him for the sharp contests of business life in our great city, should re­ turn hi tie.-, bringing back'to the old hills and to the old State a tribute of that wealth which he h;.e accumulated to beautify and benefit a county to which he himself is so largely indebted. It is pleasant to know' that this example in this respect is spreading among those sons of New England who have gone not only to the ereat cities and marts of trade upon our Atlantic seaboard but even to the far West--that they are coming back and repossessing themselves bf old New England homes and giving their influence and their means to preserve and per- Eetu <te here that nigh type of simple vjt strong citizenship which was the pride of these States in early veara. There are behind me several gentiemen with manuscripts in their pockets who are burning for utterance, and I will do again to-day that which I have so much formed the habit of doing at W ashington --give way to Senators and members of Congress. BOURBONS AFTER THE NEW STATES The Democratic National Committee Plan* nhig to Make m Vigorous Aloay the Iila*. It can be stated on unquestioned au­ thority that the Democratic National Committee does not intend to let the election in the four new Northwest States go by default. The Democratic National Committee has decided to make » vigor­ ous fight in all four of the new States. All factions of the party are united on that point. 'The election comes off in October. When the Democratic National Com­ mittee met last month the campaign in the Northwest was discussed informally. Since then Col. Brice has been in com­ munication with the leading members of the committee. For obvious reasons, the Democrats do not propose to use any brass bands in the contest. The battle -will assume more the I'haraeter of a still hunt oit their side. The Democratic Committee will have a trusted repre­ sentative in each of the States, and eveiy inch of the ground will be contested. A special agent of th? committee will go to Montana some time this month, and take a preliminary suivev'of the field. He will also go to Washington and through the two Dakotas. About the 1st of September special representatives of the National Committee will be sent to each State, and remain uutil the election has been decided. ,The only difference of opinion that is said to have existed among the members of the Democratic committee was as to whether they should make a tight in al. four States or concen­ trate then* efforts to carrying Montana and Washington. Col. Brice favored making a fight all along the line.--New York speciul. The Political Prohibitionists. Tfc«Te is strong evidence that the tide has set in against the political Prohibi* ' tionists. In nearly every important Northern State the vote for Fisk in 1888 was much below that given the candi­ dates of the party in the most recent pre­ ceding State election. Not only was there a falling off in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, Connecti­ cut and other States, but in some States the vote was smaller in 1S88 than it was in 1884. The aggiegate vote east for the Prohibition candidates in the various States in 1886 was 294,863, or 45,000 in excess of that given the nominee for President in 1888. There was a shrink­ age in the volume of Prohibition strength not only relatively but absolutely. To maintain existence at all small partioc must grow in geometrical proportion. This is a law of the!* being, and can neither be ignored nor evaded. The mo­ ment growth ceases, or even becomes slow, decay sets in and extinction is close at hand. The chances are that in the future the managers of neither of the great parties, when making their esti­ mates of the* probabilities in Presiden- J tial canvasses, will need to take the Pro- ! hibition organization into their calcula­ tions.--St. Louia Qlobe-Democrat. It doesn't always follow that a jottf-1 nal makes a thundering report because . it Is printed on a lightning press. j m •m Id ^ *• •s4~t< ' • --Ittliptd to the clash in tba Illinois and Indiana State Pair dates, It trans­ pires that onr Hooaier friends have them­ selves to blame solely. Secretary Gar- of the Illinois State Board of Agri- enltnrc, was interviewed at Springfield the other day about the matter. He an­ swered as follows: The Indiana Board at* alone responsible for the position in which they find themselves of i HFT*£UF •HEIR State Fair fixed for the MOM week j as Illinois: Instead of adhering to the agree- ! Mit made by the delegates in attendance at ; tMlaeattnfof the Istsjsitioisl Asscslstion ot Veto, thac UMttana should hoid the same weak as lor the lest three rears, they have arranged for it a week later, which was the time decided on by the Association for the Illinois exhibit. This la the week the Illinois exhibit has been held *inoe 1886. Mr. Mitehell, of Princeton. was Indiana's representative at the meeting of the International Association, and it was on his motion that the date for the exhibit for the Indiana Board was settled, and it was accepted by them in January last. Why they changed to same m-jek as that arrangwl for onr fair I cannot tell. UolLiiag v.as iearrf. of any proposition *o change our dates until the last week in June, when Secretarv Heron wrote me asking that out dates be changed to fche first week in October. This proposition co.ild not be considered, as we had already had our premium lists printed and gone to sin expenditure of •1,000 more in other advertising matter. So far as strained .relations are concerned, I know of none, and if any exist they are entirely with the Indiana board. Onr correspondence has been of the pleasanteat nature, and I am sur­ prised at the statement Mr. Heron makes about the bitterness and gall contained therein. I think the real trouble with the Indiana folks is that Illinois Is ottering twice the amount in premiums that they are, and in consequence are taking all the large exhibitors from them. We have not room for the cshibitera -who wish to show. --A Springfield psper states that the Secretary of State has contracted for the laying, with six-inch stone, of two twen­ ty-foot walks to the east approach to the Capitol and one twenty-foot walk from the west front. These walks hare been needed for a long ti me, and will materi­ ally improve the appearance ;. ®f:j|he grounds. Thoy wili oosi £6,500., . --One of the latest Chicago enterprises is a big shipyard for the constructio t. of steel Bhips. It is to be located at South Chicago. ' •^filliam Farrell, proprietor of the Bock Island Fertilizing Company, was thrown from his buggy and killed. --A thief entered a Chicago jewelry store and asked to be shown some rings. The jeweler took several, one by one, from the case, bnt none of them exaotly suited the inquirer. He naked that a tray full of rings be placed before him. The jeweler complied, bnt, getting a l.t- tle suspicious of his customer, held the tray with oue hand after placing It on the ease. The wonld-be purchaser seised the case, and, drawing a revolver, said to the jeweler, "Let go, of I'll pnt a hole through you!" The jeweler did let go, and the robber put it nnder his arm,, and as he reached the door pointed his re- vover at the jeweler, and invited bim to follow if he dared. When the jeweler reached the sidewalk the robber turned into an alley and rah away. While run­ ning through the alley the thief stumbled and fell, and the rings were seattered about. Sixty-four of them were found and returned lo the owner. " " --John Atchinson, aged 17» and Edith Keatly, aged 14, living in Chicago, eloped the other day. --In the United States Cireuit Court at Springfiell, last week, Judge Allen rendered decisions in several cases aris ing upon claims on railroad bonds issued by the county of Alexander and the city of Cairo (o assist the Cairo and Vin- cennes and the Cairo and St. Louis Bail- roads. The questions involved were mainly the validity Of the bonds and whether municipal coupons, after they become due,'bear interest. The Conit held both issues of bonds to be valid, but denied interest on the coupons after due. The couits in both Northern and South­ ern Illinois have heretofore uniformly held that coupons after due draw interest. This renders the decision important, and it is understood the matter will be carried to the Supreme Court. --Chicago papers announce the en­ gagement of Emmons Blaine, son of the Secretary of State, and Miss Anita Me- Corihiok, second daughter of the late Cyrus H. McCormick, the great reaper manufacturer. Miss McCormick, who is twenty-three years of age, is an accom­ plished young woman and a great favorite in Chicago society. The future Mrs. Emmons Blaine has, or will have, a fortune of aboot two million dollars. --About 400 representatives of the local Brotherhood of Engineers of the State assembled at the capital last week, and held a secret meeting at the State House. A Springfield correspondent says: Little'could be learned UB to the object of the niretinjr, but i" is thought preliminary steps were taken f<r the amalgamation of the Broth' r- hood with other railroad organizations. Chief Arthur Mas present and sdiirt-saed the men, but he i<i understood to be ojipoKt'd to amalgama­ tion. What decision v an reached by the dele­ gates cannot be ascertained. A well-known rail­ road official says, however, that it has been known in railroai circlt-8 for some time that tlie enginoero are dissa'inliod with rhe outcome of thv! atrike on the Burlington system, aud it has been understood that this meeting was to con­ sider the best plan of retrieving their firmer power. To do tins it in thought a general strike of the engiueero and firemen on every Western road VM proposed. This, of course, was stren- wo ;h1V defied by the officers of the Brotherhood, but there Beema to bejjood grounds for believing this move was dl'scu-ecl. ltepresentatives ot the Brotherhood as far East as Ohio and from thj Western t?tatts w era present. --The wife of Dr. Keeder, of Ch'cogo. neat!y captnied » thief the other day. The rascal got into the house unobserved » nd entered Mrs. Reeder's bed-zoom. He WHS looking ior her jewelry -when he heard her coming, and slipped into a clo et. He was not quite quick enough. Mre. Seeder saw him as he stepped in­ side the door and sbe dammed it to and locked it, holding him a piisoner until the police authorities weie notified, and three burly policemen escorted the fel­ low from the closet to the city jail. --The National Farmers' Alliance, with headquarters at Filley, Neb., has adlresKed a circular to the farmers of Tl.iuois to i-end delegates to a meeting to be held for the purpose of organizing the in iividual farmers' alliances, so that a State alliunce for Illinois m.iy be estab­ lished. Local organizations willing to ve in delegates are requested to communi­ cate with Secretary Tost, at Moahon, lowh.. - --AV Mofine, Henry Hugger was jellied and rai oibe s were injured by the f:tliugyp£ a building which they were rni t - ̂ r# West Liberty, Jasper while bathing in Ah Bing, a Chinese laundryman who died in Chicago of consumption the other day, was bniled in Christian style, having for more than a year been a devout ™*>m- ber of the Congregational Chunk. the interment eight of Bing's relatives were present, SMA one of them oflhn€ i prayer in the Chinese tongue, --A noted character of Southern Hli- doii, in the atd«»4|r«, »as John Grain- mar, of who* the foilowiag interesting anecdote is x*t*to&; With e«ch a name ««s naturally associates ! education, culture^aad some degree of refine- DMnt, bnt John ftttmar. whose long period of servioe in the Mtotrts Legislature terminated more than halt * cantor?.ago, could neither read nor write, while his manners corresponded with bis roach, ipiaaeer sniTOundingg. fit settled state Of the oountry, this honor found him with ont a Suit of clothes fit for a lawmak­ er-elect to appear in. Bnt whatever may have been lacking In John Grammar's makeup, he was eertalnly not deficient, in a peculiar lcina of energy, and to orSrooiae the one obstacle stood between him and his cntranoe upon public life te. with the aid of his stalwart boys, gathered a large quantity of haselnutc, and took them on a long journey to the Ohio saline, where they were exchanged'for a kind of blue eloth. called "stroudine that was rhieflf nsed by the Indians for breech-clouts. Imme­ diately upon Grammar's return with his hard, earned purchase the neighbor women, were • called upon to assist in making the new gar- ' menfcs, but, to th* disappointment of all con-. 1 cerned, the discovery was made that the pat-' tern was provokimgly scant. The amataur ; tailoresses measured the cloth first lengt hv.iso, ! then crosswise, and finally cornervrise, l>ut in mi 1 way could enough be found for a coat and I pantaloons. Ttera was no time to resale t.W i mischief, so the womesi, presumably at the suggestion of Grammar, whose aubso- ' quent history proved him to be full 1 of expedients, finally decided to maka what in ita day was called a "bub-tailed" coat to1 be worn over a long pair of "leg^ins," the latter made also from the strouding. Accordingly, 1 with coat shortened below and leggins, which \ corresponded to paateloons. shortened above. SBd undergarments tnade from the skins of; ' wild ani uials, Grammar first appeared at Kas- I kaakia, the original oajrftal of Illinois. What­ ever the relative hnvoctanoe of Illinois'capital ! city in 1818, It* h<%l aeoommodatione must. : have been extremely ttmited, as the honorable' members of the Legislature werv all compelled to sleep in one room. True, both branches of tho l.t>xiRiatueat the period referred to con­ tained but & total Off bat twolv, members; nev­ ertheless twelve persons in one sleeping-room must have made a night's test anything bnt refreshing. ; --The Springfield jlron Company has just put in operation a new twelve-inch guide mill for the manufacture of the smaller sizes of merchant iron. This mill, which is a duplication of the one heretofore in operation, will turn out about 800 tons of merehant iron a month, and give employment to about 800 addi­ tional men. --A Springfield dispntoh states that preparations have already begun at the office of the State Auditor for the first session of the new Claims Commission, which will meet the first Mondsy in August. The act permits the Commis­ sion to sit ninety days if the business re­ quires it. It is evident that the session this year will have to ran to the maxi­ mum limit of time. There are a number of old claims lying back for ten years, or thereabout, not disposed of by the pre­ vious uommission, and those with all the new claims are being framed into a docket for the use of the court. They number altogether upward of seventy. The busi­ ness of the oourt is to determine nil un­ adjusted claims founded on any law of the State or contract with the State, and not barred by the statute of the law of limitations. Information received indi­ cates that a considerable number of claims that have failed' time and again before the Legislature will be on the docket, and the court will evidently have all it can accomplish in tire time assigned for its first session. --The offioial ctop leport issued by the State Board of. Agriculture last week states that-- Tho condition of meadows has not Improved since the previous report, and the present indi­ cations are that there will be less than 90 per cent, of an average yield per acre. The condi­ tion of pastures is nearly up to an average the State over, and in the northern portion better than usual at this time. The area devoted to Irish potatoes this year is a fraction less than 1888. The condition of tho crop is excellent, and should nothing occur to injure the plants a full average yield per acre may be expected. The correspondents in but eleven counties of the State make a report in flax. The average area of these eleven counties is 104 per cent, as com< pared with the area of these counties in 1888. The only county reporting an inert ased area is-, Cook, being nearly double that of last year. Tho general condition of the crop is good, and • more than an average crop is expected. The area devoted to broom corn is 7 per cent, less this season than last. Tho average conditio!! of the crop is 87 per cent. Not quite BO large an area was planted to sorghum as in 1888, though there is an increase reported from a few oftne northern counties. In the thirty counties from which reports on tobacco were received the area is 11 per cent, smaller than in 1888. The out­ look is not promising for more tlxau an average yield per acre. The area in Hungarian and millet for the State is but 96 per cent, as com­ pared with a year ago. The wool clip of 1888 was only 97 per cent, of that of 1888. The condi­ tion of young live stock throughout the State is encouraging. The number of pigs in the State as compared with last year Is 98 per cent, and the geneial condition is good. The number of la tubs has decreased 7 per cent. There are more calves, but their condition is not as good as other young live stock. The number of colts foaled is a trifle less than for 1888. souci VIISE WSiK over Tli®; f«*r wliim float ovot> the track from Barren white, sweet crystailisattna *&&& daily . use upon their {Digest fore, doteWwined td htffiia tfeft JWipi H*v* ot Very p#Bi A WmWogton diSMiteh says: Tim civil service commission node public its second report in 0» imiW|s1tee poStoffice case. The commissioners .to? that Postmaster Paul was given every opportunity to ex­ plain the charges against him. and that his declaration that he was condemned without a hearing and without being in­ formed of the charges against him is a groes misstatement. The report then recites the examinations made by Secre­ tary Doyle and Chief Examiner "Webster, whose reports showed snch gross violations of the law that the three commissioners deemed the accusations of such importance as to warrant an investigation by the full board. The report continues: "Except in two important cases we did not try to get at any new facts; we simply examined Mr. Paul to see whether he, could disprove the statements or give any satisfactory explanation of the charges mads in the two preliminary reports. He entirely failed to do so. That there has been crooked wot k in the office is admitl«d by all. : The only question is where the re- sposibility lies. We examined the secre­ tary of the local examining board, Hamil­ ton Shidy, and the chairman, J B. John­ son. Bhidy is admitted by all to have done the wo;rk of the board, the other members doing little save assisting in marking the papers and attending occasional formal meetings. Shldy testifies that he was compelled by the postmaster to aive the latter free access to the list of eligibles, although such access was at that time strictly forbidden; and he further testifies that the postmaster, knowing those who were eligible, as well as their standing, appointed whomsoever he chose, and then forced him (Shidyi to torture the lists and certification books so as to produce a certi­ fication which should bear the appointees' names The report further cites the evidence of Bhidy and Johnson to show that they were forced against their own judgment to re­ mark the papers of an applicant, and also the statement of Mr. Paul tu«t he had not forced them to alter tho mark, but that they had been altered because he expressed great dissatisfaction at the marking. Shidy, in the presence of both Mr. John­ son and Mr. Paul, as well as of the three commissioners, stated that the reason for their changing the grade of the unfort­ unate applicant was to get him out of the way of another man whom the postmaster desired to appoint. Continuing the report says: "In short, the official records show be­ yond possibility of dispute that the lists of eligibles were twisted and garbled in al­ most every conceivable manner in order to produce swindling certifications whereby certain men could be rejected, although entitled to appointment, and other men appointed, although having no rightful claim to the chance. For Mr. Paul to plead innocence is equivalent to his plead­ ing imbecility, for no sane man could have made appointments from a succession of such certifications without ner<>»ivI »»•*.!>«!? character, and it is quite incredible that he could by mere chance have picked out from each csitiucatiott the very individual to favor whose choice it was designed. Mr. Paul alone benefited by the crookedness of these certifications, for he alone had the appointing power; there could be no possi­ ble object in Shidy's conduct unless it was fear of thwarting the wishes of his supe­ rior officer." --The sentence of Daniel W. Kimbro, sent to Chester Penitentiary in 1887 for eight years for manslaughter, has been commuted by Governor Fifer because Kimbro was in the lastwtagea of consump­ tion and without hope of recovery. --The St. Louis and Chicago Railroad wi'l be sold* ht Master's gale in Spring­ field on the 5th of September under a de­ cree df the United States Court. The mortgage bondholders are the American Loan and Trust Company of New York, $1,100,000, and the Mercantile Trust Company of New York, $500,000. --The Burlington *toad is about to build extensive switch yards, with a ca­ pacity of 2,000 cars, at Galesburg, the City Council having vaeatsd certain streets for that purpose. --A certificate has been filed in the of­ fice of the Secretary of State for the con- t o idatioa of the Peoria, Springfield and tit. Lo'i;is Railway Compauy with the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railway Company. The capital stock of the con­ solidated line is $2,500,000, and the di­ rectors are Icaac L. Morrison. William S. Hook, Marcus Hook, and Francis Hook, of Jacksonville, and William T. Buron, of Lafayette, Ind. --Seymour Dinely, a young farmer, was drowned near Vandalia, while bathing; DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS. Interesting Papers Read llefore the Na­ tional Educational Association. HASHVILLB, Tenn., July J9.--The ques­ tion of denominational schools occasioned a brisk debate in to-day's session of the National Educational association. Bishop John J. Keane opened the discussion by reading a paper prepared by Cardinal Gibbons upon the question: "Should Americans Educate Their Children in De­ nominational Schools."" Bishop Keane afterward read a paper of his own on the same subject, taking the position that Christianity was the basis of all true gov­ ernment and should be inculcated during the period when children were attending school. If the influence of the church was beneficial in the family it was also in the school. Ml*. Edwin D. Mead or Boston followed in a paper in which he said that the argu­ ments advanced by Cardinal Gibbons in the magazines in favor of the non-interference of the state with the fam ly in the matter of education was only a device to damage the State's authority in public opinion to the end that the Roman Catholic church especially should take charge when possi­ ble. He said the plea of the Romanist church was to compel all Catholics ts withdraw their children from the public schools to parochial schools where they would be taught the doctrines of the church. v Bishop Keane replied and denied Mr. Mead's assertion that the Pope or the Roman Catholic church was seeking tem­ poral power and the control of the govern­ ment. Both addresses were forcible and were heartily applauded. OVER SMART CORRESPONDENTS. Their Stories Regarding the Cronin Mur­ der Were Pure Fabrications. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., July 19.--Care­ ful investigation shows beyond any doubt that the stories concerning the letters re­ cently picked up here and at Stamford, Ont, endeavoring to create a mystery in connection with the body found in the whirlpool rapids and to associate it with the Cronin murder in Chicago, were pure inventions of special correspon dents. The' story of the attempt to steal the body ot an unknown man buried at Welland. Ont, was also absolutely false, as no such at­ tempt ever occurred. or four, hm. a like packmule3, pans and shotgunf apA The fartiierjm^larapia«i'. better you will enjoy yoonetf. ... every party that goes camping starts off in one of sthe Eastern-bound steamers, and lmries itself somewhere • in tlie State of Maine. To be sure there are good woods and other essentials for camn life only a few miles from kpoie, bnt it is an essential point to get as far off as possible. You have taken your gun along, and some day you succeed in shooting a couple of chipmunks, and ft. ojWfTrtW, perhaps. You don't know how to dresa them, though, and about one-quarter of the flesh is wasted in the process. It is easy enough to cook them. Put them into a pot of water, throw in some salt and let them boil. By and by the flesh boils off the bones, and then yoti regret not having studied up on this matter of cooking. If one is really hungry the chances are that he will have to walk two or three miles to procure a pint of milk and a few eggs from some farmer's wife. Eggs are a food pecuciarly fit for the camper-out, in that everybody knows how to cook them. But the best way is to beat them all up together and scramble them. You proceed to break them one by one, in a tin dipper, daub* ing your hands and clothing liberally in the operation. The last one is stale, and you suddenly decide that you do not care for eggs that day. With aver­ age camping luck there will be a smart shower every day, clearing off soon enough for your traps to dry before the nest one comes along to wet them again. Here is an extraot from a letter writ­ ten in camp, which will illustrate some of the beauties of the life: "Howard and Dick have gone oft gunning, or tiy- ing to gun; Joe is outside the tent, busy about something, and I have the "**»* JVWVV*V1. 1UVU.VH 1/ M. U«U since we came here. This is real fun. We are having an immense 'time. Bain for four days, but it is lovely this morn­ ing. I wish you could see the bushes about here just now, every one presents such a picturesque appearance, covered as they are with overcoats, rubber and woolen blankets, drying in the sun. I am barefooted, waiting for one of my three pairs of shoes to dry." Harold. *0 • <: about bones and wept vas, to. The chance ea'jtfjro " ' ^ mhicu he met down ffijjjjj|'i who had formerly been, forei bone hm̂ hdmrnm. OIS; " C J She Wanted to Die. It is sometimes hard for old people to conform to the customs of the younger generation. The following character described by the New York Sufi was an incorrigible conservative: "It's wonderful what Aim flam noshina they do git up nowadays," said the old lady in the next seat nhead. "When I was fust married as cx e&ri was coiioid- ered good 'nuff fur anybody to ride in, bnt now they bev to he? palace kyars and sich or folks is kicking. "It's got to be jist as bad nor wnss in church," she continued, as she felt for her pipe and tobacco. "I shefc my eyes to it for awhile, but I had to git um open when folks began to make fun of me fur wearing a bonnet which was seven years old. Some of 'em git a new bonnet every year, and the ex­ travagance in dress goods, hamlker- , . „ . ,, ... . chiefs, collars, and sich is perfectly* , * 18 °*- awful. I shbnld think it would bust 5°e'n t mm "The bost bones," said the ant "are the frejfb one*. fta?£7 houses and botcher shofNfc. boilers make a special erffe** : such. The best quality Jjp shins, thighs and forelegs, 1 rendered out to free themi flesh and sold for mannfa poses. Shines', properly * bring $40 a ton, while thigft»-flM|^ $80 a ton. Forelegs sire dtusdq a ton. The make™ of kcife, and parasol handles, cblleslr toothbrushes, hairbrushes, butt all kinds of things in which bone i used buy all of fchewe that they > Toothbrushes are mostly made thigh bones, while the bones ui«$^ buttons and parasol handles are ' general thing shipped to Europe made up. Sheep bones make fancy parasol handles, and ivory which society belles languidly were one® more intimately col with mutton than one would fact the leg bone of a sheep wiu ttf finer polish and is less brittle than ' of a cow or steer." "What bones are used for making i mal char?" "The odds and ends that are less for other purposes, such bones, knuckles, skulls and the < joints of the animals. Nearly bone black made from these is the sugar refineries, and through calcined remains the syrup is filter "Where do you get bones?" "As I have said, wu oaks a of collecting from local but the amount thus obtained keep us going very long, ad*||j; them sent in from all over the c ' The western slaughter houses the greatest quantity, a« M> Bk* cattle killing of the country isi out there. Bones for in open kettles, but ttase tor baArl are pnt in air tight tanks Mgt M nnder pressure, for by^this prrtpsai l nitrogen, is eliminated* and carbon, part wanted, is left." "Do yon get anything fs**52> bones besides bone blaok and for manufacture?" "Oh, yes; seat's foot oil from the shins and hoofs of "ntHls;. the liquor which ia left ovar-jKjj ing makes good sizing glue lor ttoT per manufitotorcrs, The bestir grease, too, is made from the ma fresh bones." "Do the rag-pickers sapply you many bones?* "Of coarse we tako. alii Great Strike of Misers la Gerauutju BERLIN, July 19. --The strikes In the Voitsberg district have become general and every miner is now out. The strikers from the Loeben district are flocking to Voitsberg, and serve to aggravate the dis­ content.. The military are kept in readi­ ness to quell and disturbances and rein­ forcements are on the way from Graz. The mine owners offer an advance of 20 per cent in wages, but the men hold out for 50 per cent. Troops are occupying the glass works and paper mills in Voita- berg, but in the mines it is feared that the men will set the pit on fire. Seven arrest| of violent strikers were made to-day. The International Labor Congress. PARIS, July 19. --The labor congress, which is in session here, to-dSy completed its organization. AUemane of France and Brown of America were elected joint presidents. Mr. Bo wen, on behalf of the Knights of Labor of America, urged the necessity of severely punishing emigration agents guilty of dishonest misrepresenta- The chief ditl.culty which the labor t tions. --The Secretary of State has discov- | organizations of America encountered arose, he said, from the endless influx of ered that an error was made in the print­ ing of the amended road law, as pub­ lished in tiie session laws of 1889, page 233, third line, on account of an over- s'ght of the reader of the proof, bywhioh the word "not" was omitted between the words "Las" and "paid." The error would make a material difference in the execu­ tion of tiie law, and the Secretary of j State has notified the county clerks of the various counties to idstru^t road pom- j saissioners tfee exoestion of the law to , construe as though no omission had been msde. immigrants. All Qniet in Hajrtl. Nsw YOBK, July *19. --The steamer Car­ oline Miller arrived here to-day from Haytian ports. Her commander, Capt. O'Brien, said that all was quiet in north­ ern Haytian ports when kks vessel left. He denies the story that Legitime had found it necessary to enlist female troops. p * Disastrous Storm in Switzerland. Ju\y 19.--During a severe Harm yesterday in the canton of Glares aa fcma bridge and a portion of the nilnUiwc* destroyed, (hie man was killed. L up all the men folks. "And everything has got to rnnning to grammar," she went on, as she filled her pipe and hunted in her satchel for a match. "In my day nobody didn't keer nothing about nouns and* verbs and poverbs, but everybody in this aige is dead stuck on'em. I can't tell one o' my gals to bring up 'latere fur dinner or drive the goslin's out o' the garden patch but what she flies up at me about my grammar." r She found a match and lighted her pipe, to the amusement of the oilier passengers, and she was puffing away and taking lots of oomfort when the conductor came along. No smoking in this ear, uaa'attt," he curtlv announced. ^ "What!" "No smoking hero." "Do you mean to sajr it's agin the rules to smoke aa X ride along and hanker fur It?" * "1 do. You will h*v# to stop at once." "Humph! Well, that does put the cap sheaf on the whole bizness, though I've been expecting it fur some time. The last time I went to meeting they objected to my smoking in one of the back pews, and now I start on a journey to my daughter Hanner's to be told to shet off smoking afore I've drawn six whiffs, bebause the railroad don't like it! I'll stop, of course, but when I git to Hanner's I'll just gin right up and tell 'em I want to die. It's no use fur an ole woman like me to expect to get any more comfort in this fiim-ilam aige, and the sooner I kin git to Heaven the better." ' Mrs. Chase's Good Fortune. It would seem at last as if fortune was once more returning to Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague. Mrs. Chase, as she now calls herself, had perhaps the greatest social career in Washington that any woman ever had, except Mrs. Dolly Madison. When Chief-Justice Chase died his estate was not supposed to be worth $&0,tH)0, and Mrs, Chase who inherited the bad head f«»r managing her own monev affairs which distinguished her father, managed to get rid of her share of it long ag », except the Chief-Justice's place, Edgewood, near Washington. Lately an e'.ectrio street railway hsu been extended out there, the suburban farm has reached the neighborhood and Mrs. Chase finds lier.-eif the owner of one of the most valuable properties in the District. Her son, Willie Sprague, who went'-with his father in the Sprague domestic troubles and afterwards mar­ ried a sister of the woman his father married, has separated from his wife and returned tg lis mother. He is a young fellow, not much over twenty- one, and there is hope for him.--Albany Timets. , The Danger Slgual t)ut. Editor--What does the. man outside look like? " Office boy--He looks mad. Guess he wants to stop his paper. Editor--What makes you think so? Office boy--Well, he took off his coat and ve3t and rolled up his shirt sleeve** and asked if you were in. Editor--Yon go down and attend to his wants, and I'll go down the back way and try to find a new subscriber.-- Judge. : • • - LET US road with method, and pro­ pose to ourselves an end to which all our studies may point. MASY a man's word gets a week be­ hind by his having a woak baok. rnpam-i .stock. Will Lhavasmnatjwag1 Don't raind if I do. About : tirt» ̂ of pizen will abottt fix my I guess. Wall, here'j my regards! Starring the Teeth. Teeth are just as easily sta death as the stomach, says the can Analyst. In one way it is St­ ing to have been bom of poor; What food the poor give their c| is of the variety that goes strong bones and teeth. It is the, side of all the grains, of all the < foods, that contains the carbon^ta phosphate <of 'lime and t«adii^t «^|^ earthly salts which nourish the tissues aud build the frame up. If we do not furnish to the teeth the young that pabulum they reinirt, they cannot possibly be 1mi!€ tip,'TKllk the outside of corn, oats, --hsat. t " and the like, or the braa, ae< that we sift away and feod |o thai that the teeth actually esquire fortiifi proper nourishment. The srisMK- -at* man has proved his fol)y, sl^»4» every succeeding generation ot.;mtflfc; which become more fragile aaft vMjjL , v ;• These fiouring-inilk are workiag.' "wpf struction upon the teeth of fvwv woman, and child who partakes of fine bolted flour. They sift ont flMrl carbonates and the phosphates Of tupfe in order that they may provide that ftia white flour which is proving a whitened sepulcher to teeth. Oatmeal is one of the best foods for supplying the teeth with nonrishiaset. It makes the dentine cementyu ~aM& ( enamel strong, flint-like, and ahlaiB ' resist all forms of decay. If you baya children never allow any white fafyMft npon the table. Bread made of Tyfiolj wheat ground, not bolted, so tbatpii bran which contains the mimitn_-pnfilH ties of lime is present, is best a good, wholesome, nourishing take two bowls of wheat meal and bowl of white or bolted flonr and by the usual process. Nothing m afe» perior to brown bread for boa* aaiS tooth building. This is made oat«i: rye meal and corn meal. too, have a considerable snpply ottha** lime salts and should be on your iMfap hot or cold, three times a week. '15- bmshing the teeth always. and down from the gnnts across. Brush away from the fan aaA" on the grinding surface of theteettk Andrew Jackson's IHnaer. , * When Gen. Andrew Jaekaon - vh&bM Concord, N. H., after his prenjgitirf term had expired he was entaitaiaaift a& Cass' Hotel, at that time tike ipafttag hotel of the State. Tfiny |sn|»i iiilOf_ wishing to do honor to his gnesf, provided a banquet aod arranged to serve it with considerable styls* With the first course the general sue? prised the waiter by oideriug cniofcaO and milk, and refused all other diahaag • much to the disgust of the Cass' Hotel was the great xasorih stage drivers, and it was at, this ! Vice-President Morton boarded young man aud engaged as a 0I4.... tile dry goods business. One of, ||*! leading merchants of Concord* active business, was a boarder ai^.. at that time and occupied a seat i table.--Boston Trawler. Withoat a .•ii To EVERY creature nature fittle violence of direction path, a shove to pnt it oa every instance, a slight drop too muck bigot and eflkuen iM ififr ...