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Huntington paid $10,000,- y - 000, in dowry and settlement of debts, t ? to Prince Hatzfeldt, who wedded his <<>/ ^daughter. "A fool and his money are • coon parted." -... .. "v ' ' F " Vice President Morton, according 4" - ° io a Washington letter, has determined v ' " -to locate permanently in that city. He ^ lias invested $500,000 in his new hotel f ' there and has bought a lot of other 01- "property. He enjoys society, and he finds all that he wants in the capital, j |t is possible that he will retain a legal /' ^ residence in New York for political pur- ^ * . t>oses. ^ - Probably the largest returns, every- thing considered, that come to writers '< **ure those which are received in royalties f' for text-books for schools, The late ' Prof. Elias Loomia, of Yale, was sup- i *•"*•, Jx>sed to be a comparatively poor man, >• yet 1 Instate, on probate the other day, ,-f ,revealed wealth that is pretty near $500,000. This represents the returns fie received in royalties for his text- ^ ' books, which have always been popular. | £ ' • ^ The color of the coming new two- jr ' cent postage stamp isn't likely to escape ; criticism any more than that of those >iow in use. Bright carmine is a rather * . light hue for a stamp in general use, =Q though, as the new design i3 to be r, ' ,* yuuch smaller than the present one, ,• this fault will be in a measure offset. ' * ;It is doubtful if the new stamp will be j.;; " kny great improvement on the brown Bach, bait brewery in the village Beer, 3 cents a quart," They both laughed over it long and hard. The credits accorded for the building of the colossal "Palace of Machines* at the Paris Exposition amounted to 7,513,- 894 francs at the time of the first esti­ mate, and they were exceeded by 1,216,- 955 francs. IT will be interesting to note the division of expense in the crea­ tion of the largest iron structure in the world: Excavations and masonry, 392,- 425 francs; metallic construction, 3,398,- 307 francs; woodwork, 193,700 francs; roofing, lead and zinc work, 296,682 francs; flooring, 78,000 francs; cabinet work, 34,345 francs; glass work, 182,- 242 francs; ornamentation, 256,141 francs; painting, 158,547 francs; contin­ gent expenses, 190,127 francs, and then the extra appropriation mentioned. This certainly does not seem very much for such a vast palace, and one intended to be permanent. The total weight of the metallic part is about fifteen and a half million pounds. The central nave, a quarter of a mile long, has its equal nowhere on the globe. * Captain John Qcincy Adams,' who uied recently at North Vanceboro, Me., saved his leg during the war in an original way. After the battle of Cedar Mountain, Captain Adams was wounded by a rebel ballet, which produced a compound comminuted fracture of a thigh bone. pitol, and, when the surgeon came around, he was "chalked" for amputa­ tion. After the surgeon had passed, Adams rubbed out the chalk mark and thus gained a day. When the surgeons came around again they decided that his was a case for amputation, but Adams thought otherwise, and rubbed out their markings as before. That night Dr. Garcelon -arrived on tha scene, having been sent out by Gov­ ernor Washburn to look after Maine wounded, and to him Adams appealed in behalf of his shattered femur. im­ putation was deferred, and the result was that Adams saved his leg, which served him fairly well during the re­ mainder of his life. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. IWTBHKst ing i t ems ga thbxusd tBOX VARIOUS &OCBCES. sone that antedated the sickly green thing. "v lijy '• _'• When a young Greek determines to .take a wife to himself he does not go a 1^7? ' ^courting, but he takes his oldest female ^ trelative into his confidence, and they at s <once go hunting for a suitable mate for ^ t him. Marriageable maidens are visited ' <and silently appraised. They receive i'f the old dames courteously, answer all ' . their questions and never venture to ask " " \tho nature of their errand. As soon as the visitors have made a choice, the f,. " /wooer dispatches them again to the 1} •; maiden's home, with instructions to ask It- V ^ ,-lher hand in marriage. • V A New York letter to the Boston Lu.:: Transcript, speaking of Mrs. James G. |jV Blaine, jr., and her infant son, sayB: p; "This 20-month-old baby, by the way, is |p*' f v~a living image of his grandfather. His «- «yes are now as keen in their expres- ptf"fe:;sion, and his speech is so precocious £* that those who hear him stand amazed. »V;- „ James G. Blaine III, does not talk pf 'baby talk.' He speaks as distinctly as ' la child of 6, and with much more knowlr """*edge of the world than some childferf of that age. The story that young. Mrs. Blaina is very ill is no newspaper sensa- tion. I doubt if she ever will be well «nough to go upon the stage." In the wonderful wine-eellar under the Hotel de Yille in Bremen, there are -"twelve cases of holy wine, each case in­ scribed with the name of one of the . ' .apostles. This ancient wine was de- * posited in its present restiug-place 265 .years ago. One case of this wine, con- ,, y" listing of five oxhofts of 204 bottles, ^cost five hundred rix-dollars in 1624. ^Including the expense of keeping up f' ^thercellar, interests on the original out- - lay and interests upon interests, one of '.•-fthose exhofts would to-day cost 555,657,- <540 rix-dollars; three single bottles, ;1,278,812 rix-dollars; a glass, or the eighth part of a bottle, is worth 349,476 rix-dollars, or $272,380, or at the rate of * 540 rix-dollars, or $272 per drop: Why dosen't some one invent a cheap jand easy method of utilizing sawdust? ,In Canada, a mill owner was recently * ; fined for allowing the sawdust from his mills to be deposited in the river, thus 'violating the laws regulating such i matters. In rendering judgment, the jj^ / magistrat<v"®aid that the evidence '/showed that largo quantities of sawdust ® "' escaped from the defendant's mill into - the river, which contained valuable fish |4V ®m<l was navigable tor steamers. It j.*;1 ' was well known, he said, that the mill . ;• refuse for the past forty years has been ..freely emptied into the river, and that fr ; . for twenty miles below the town the ll^ijbanks were lined with accumulations of ^sawdust, and that at the detrenchment ., / ^le labo the mouth was almost en- .V. '* tirely closed. It is understood that the t. government has instructed its inspectors to rigidly enforce the sawdust regula­ tion in future. Wh»t Oar Xeiiphbor* Arm Doint--Mattm of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and I>o»th9--Accident* and Crimea --Porsonal Pointers. --A dispatch from Clinton, DeWitt County, to the Chicago Herald, s#ys: Tb« Farmers' Mutual 1'rot-pctive AsRociatlcn is the title of a fast-iisicg onier in \Iiis pari of the State, rnniors of vbogo a ivatico norihward have fram time to liino rraclied this county. The propaganda, for ench it jr.av be styled, spread's, as baa lately. fire in dry stubble. The farmers in thia great vorn country have felt as few others the hard heel of the trin,ta--flour, au^ar, twino. brick, etc.--and welcon.e any pro­ cedure, ragardless of party affiliations, thai, will put an obstacle in their \vfty. The purpose of the association is to wage only a retaliatory war against all trnstB and combines. The people •without the lodges are divided in sentiment. 1 The order in some neighlKtrhoods undertakes to freeze out the local merchants by the estab­ lishment of ujjion stores, warehonseB, etc., anrt in other places is content to ort/aiiizo as a body and discuss and put into operation methods to secure ihe great articles of consumption at reasonable prices without undertaking the co­ operative plan of merchandising. There are eight lodges in DeWitt Coi ntv. and most of these, however, have undertake!! to arrange for the disposition of their stock and farm \ roil- uct# without the aid of middlemen. At 0119 town with a lod^e of less than four wteka of age they havo begun a large -warehouse for grain, erecting scales, and have contracted with a couple of merchants to furnish their goods, the membership being 120 strong. At the village of Weldon, on the Chicago and Havana Hail»ay, the opposition on the part of business men u) the new guild is very strong. Monday evening the new lodgo took in fifty fanners. It- was compelled to find a school- house two miles distant, and on that occasion initiated seventeen members, and \oied on thirty-four new* applicants. These are in­ stances of the order's development. The prin­ ciples of the guild are to some extent secret. The members know each other by tokens, and none but farmers are aomittfd. A strenuous He was taken to the hos- effort is made to oppose the admisgion of any but repiitable and industrious uion. -- Chicago Tribune: A ballad vender went into Bob Maguire's saloon on Forty seventh street singing, to the air of "Baby Mine:" There are three or four in fail; Clan-no-Gael, Clan-na-Qael; And a couple out on bail, Clan-na-Gael, Clan-na-Gael. Before he could get any farther with his song he was jumped on by a dozen in­ furiated adherents of the triangle and badly whipped. He escaped destruction by flight. --Chipj|go Herald: "John Walsh, a man who has spent ten years of his life at the Joliet Penitentiary, claics to have been discharged from (hat institution without being given the $10 to which, he says, each convict is entitled on his dis charge. Walsh is the man who escaped from Joliet in January, 188S, and was caught in March of this year at Lowell, Mass. His arrest and return to Joliet cost the State about $500. Walsh claims that Jt was on this account that Warden Berggren turned him out with, nothing more than railroad transportation. Walsh hadn't a cent to his name wben he reached Chicago and was afraid to go to a police station to apply fcr lodging. As he had no friends to receive him, he was com­ pelled to 6pend the lirst night of his free­ dom in walking the streets." --The Illinois Steel Company, of South Chicago, is making an addition to its already extensive plants, which, Vhen completed, will make it the largest r! eel- rail mill in the world. Four new blast furnaces are being constructed, making a total of eight in the plant. The new furnaces will be abont a third larger than those now in operation, and will have a larger capacity than even the Pittsburg blast furnaces, which are considered the largest in the conntry. --A prominent Chicago Board of Trade man lost $34,000 at faro in aa hour's play. --Chicago Glob?.: When CofiUaly and Mike Costello leaped upon the back of Martin Qualey the other night at the cor­ ner of Thirty-fifth and Laurel avenue they did not know that he was an officer of the law. After knocking him down they found that be was a tough customer to keep on his back. During the scuffle which ensued Officer Qua'ey's star was revealed. The highwaymen then took to their heels pursued by Qualey. After a long chase he captured both fellows and yesterday had the satisfaction of seeing his assailants held to the Criminal}Court in bonds of $2,001) each. --The mortality report of- the city of Chicago for October, just prepared, shows 1,583 deaths in the city, as com­ pared with 1,601 in September. Of the whole, 656 were under 5 years of age. During the month there were 139 deaths from consumption, 132 from diphtheria, 93 from pneumonia, 68 from typhoid fever, 67 from croup, 59 from bronchitis, 95 from accidents, four murders, and 16 suicides, 6 being by hanging and 5 by shooting. --We clip the following from the rail­ road column of the Chicago Herald: The Illinois Central officials have not yet made public what they intend to do in the nut­ ter of a General Manager to succeed E. T. Jeffery. One thing is said to be certain, how­ ever. and that, is that General John McNulta •will not be appointed, and, indeed, it is doubt­ ful if he cares for the position. President Fish, of thelUinois Central, ia very conservative, and prefers to enforce practical civil service reform rules in operating the road. It :h not in­ tended to make any changes at present, and it is possible that C. A. Beck may wear the title of Acting General Manager for many months, and finally be made General Manager, in which case his office would be re­ lieved of all duties pertaining to traffic, and he •would, as in the case of the Chicago and North­ western and other large line3. bo simply re­ sponsible for such matters as are in the juris­ diction of the operating department. At pres­ ent Vice President E. H. Harriman is the man who is really "riinnirg1' the road in every de­ partment, and in this capacity he lias sur­ prised a great many people. He has shown a remarkable familiaritv with traffic matters of the most complicated nature. At the same time, Mr. Harrfman has secured the con­ fidence and unbounded respect of aU his sub­ ordinates. C , . During the recent milifc^rv •i > ^ Vers in Hanover, the German Emperor L^T .-was highly delighted with the honors v, ehowered upon him. While driving small through a small village in the course of his journey, to his surprise, he sud­ denly came upon a magnificent trium­ phal arch across the broadest street in the peasant town. Upon the sides fac­ ing him, as he entered were the words: *'Welcome to His Imperial Majesty." He was so charmed with the evidence '?©f loyalty that, after passing under the "»rch he turned about to admire its " beauty again with his Majesty of Sax­ ony. But what was his surprise to read ,oa the reverse side the words: "Johann Out West foreigners are largely occu­ pying the Ian1 as well as the cities. Soive things about them we can learn to advantage. We Americans are de­ cidedly fast and should some times consider the fable of tiie hare and tor­ toise. If a German especially "sits down" on a piece of land, you can al­ most insure his success. He is nearly always plucky, economical and indus-' trious. They are also very hardy, as a rule. Two Germans, now better off than myself, worked for me by the day twenty years "ago. A few days since I met two young Germans toiling along under heavy packs in the hot sun. On returning I passed them climbing a high mountain. One of them Boon called at my house, aud he said that their goods weighed about 125 pounds at the start. Think of this load, toil­ ing farmers! These young merchants soon open clothing stores, while their co-laborers on the farm, a little more slowly, mount up to competence in ru­ ral life--all done by indomitable pluck, strict economy and tireless industry. Too much can not be said of the grand results that wait on honest toil, steadily aiming at some worthy result and per­ severed in, no matter how often we fail, or how discouraging may be the pros­ pect. Didn't Think of English. A good story is told of two jOOBg Americans traveling in Europe. They bad never thoroughly mastered any one of the languages commonly spoken on the continent and were particularly weak in their French, knowing that language well enough by sight, but not having a speaking acquaintance with it. Finding themselves in a small French town one evening, they were desirous of obtaining a good cup of coffee. Know­ ing that cafe was coffee and that laft was milk, they endeavored to call for a ju­ dicious mixture of the two, but their ortheope was of so remarkable an order that they succeeded only in getting the coffee. "Cafe au late" they tried without success. Then "du lay-it" was attempted unavailingly. The suggestion that lait might be pronounced light was adopted, equally in vain. Finally, in despair, one of the strug­ gling youths exclaimed: "Well, it's mighty queer we don't know enough to get a little bit of milk!" "Do you want milk ?" asked the wait- tress, opening her mouth for the first time. "Y-yes!" stammered the travelers, overwhelmed with surprise. "Then why didn't you say so in the first place?" queried the girl as she flounced off. And again the young men didn't know.--Harper's Magazine, A Kew Term for It. Francis Wilson, the comedian, who is now at the Graud Theater in "The Oolah," is a great base-ball urank. In this regard he is about on a par with Digby Bell and De Wolf Hopper. One da}' recently Bell met Wilson on Broad­ way, in New York, and the two stopped to talk about the city's chances for the pennant and Chicago's sure thing on the world's fair. As they chatted, along came a friend of Bell Who was also a ball crank, but he was afflicted with a hare­ lip, and it was extremely difficult to un­ derstand" his conversation about the na­ tional game. Bell knew this, and when he had introduced 1m friend to Wilson, he hastened to excuse himself on the plea of an engagement. "Frank," he said, as he left, "my friend is going your way and will walk along with you." Then he escaped. When he met Wilson &uaT or two later he expected to be taken to task for introduciug him to such an un­ intelligible companion, but Wilson said not a word. Finally, Digby's curiosity got the better of him, and he asked, " What did you think of my harelipped friend the other day ?" Wilson calmly replied that he had found him an exceed- ingly pleasant gentleman. "But," said Digby, nonplussed, "I didn't suppose you could understand a» word he said." The volatile Wilson smiled and replied; boy, I was on to his curves."-- Chicago tier aid. Occasionally you see a rery rich man who is so economical that 'he : would enjoy being poor.--Atchinson Globe. : " .. --Governor Fifer has appointed Hamil­ ton Connors, of Peoria, a game warden, •ice N. Hotchkisn, deceased. --The Town Council of Enfield, White County, has passed an ordinance making it necessary for dealers to pay $1,000 li­ cense before selling cider of any kind. --EichanJ Pagel, a farmer living near Glencoe, a suburb of Chicago, shot and severely wounded his wife. Thinking he had killed her. he placed the pistol to his own head and shot himself, inflicting a fatal wound. --The City Council of Edwardsville has adopted the following: "Resolved, By the City Council of Edwardsville, 111., that we heartily indorse the location of the proposed World's Fair in the city of Chicago, und urge our Bepresentative in Congress to exert his influence to this end." .--Twenty-one convicts in one batch were received at Joliet from Chicago, one day last week. --A strike has begun among the miners at Chatham, Sangamon County, over a disagreement as to the quantity of pow­ der to be furnished by the operators. --A fat man with a decollete shirt- front had a terrible experienoe in a Chi- eago hashery, according to the Times: IjRgt night a fat man, -wearing a low-neckeS shirt with a turn-down collar three sizes too large for him, sat down to a table in a Ciark street restaurant and called for a plate of raw ovsters. He got thein cold and juicy, right off the ice, and harpooning a fat one with his fork he lifted it toward his mouth. But the slippery, slimv, chillv bivalve dropjieil off tbe fork before reaching its destination, cfcrroinea on the fat man s chin, aud then slid down inside of his shirt and nestled on his breast. No one saw the incident. " The obese gent him­ self didn't ee© it, but he felt that something had happened aud tuat he had arrived at a crisis in his life. A pained, startled expression rested for a moment on his face; then with a low, plaintive wail of heart-breaking agony ho half rose from his chair and clapped his hand on his stomach. He struck the oyst-ei but that coy creaturo was one of the most alort and agile of it« species. It at once changed its base on feeliag the pressure, and shied upward and across the fat man's •wide expanse of palpitat­ ing bosom, leaving a trail of arctic frigidity in its wake, and took up new quarters in his left arm-pit. With Ite wild howl of anguish the unhappy pro­ prietor of the oyster leaped two feet _ i n the air, uttered another yell like a wild West Indian, and commenced to work his arm nfter the man­ ner of a lsagpipe musician. The oyster got ex­ cited and started again cn its travels, but was apparently unable to select a permanent loca­ tion. After making several l)lind rushes it halted for a moment under it-short rib near tile spine to catch its second wind. The unfortunate fat man was now in a state of mind bordering on insanity. He kicked over his chair, yelled and swore, grabbed lnmself in front and behind and on l>oth sides, roiled up his eyes, frothed at the mouth, and spun round like a*top. But the slippery bivalve was now thor­ oughly rattled and scotited here ami there like a streak of greased lightning, taking great pains not to travel over the tame ground twice. "He's got a fit!" screamed a wild-eyed man, making a rush for the door with "a napkin tucked under hie chin. "it's either that or he's afire inside of his clothes," said ah other pale-faced diner edging awav from the sufferer. "lor God's sake, take him off, somebody; I'm dying!" bailed the Stricken man as he threw up both hands and sat down heavily on the floor. When the victim of misplaced victuals struck the floor the oyster shot out of the back of his neck like a bullet, hit the ceiling with a squashy plunk, and then fell back and hung limp aua lifeless from the chandelier. The fat. man's physician says the patient will recover from Ids attack of nervous prostration in a few days. •--We print below the text of Governor Fifer's first Thanksgiving preclamstion: As a people of a prosperous commonwealth it becomes our solemn duty to acknowledge the many blessings bestowed "upon us hv Almighty God. Pming the year that has passed He has preserved ui from plague and pestilence, and our State has been free from ii;mgerc?«Vi dis­ turbances. The fields have brought forth an abundant harvest and peace and prosperity have prevailed within onr borders. We have en­ joyed mercies innumerable, for which we should bo truly grateful. Wherefore, I, Joseph W. Fifer, Governor of the State of Illinois, in accordance with the proclamation of the President, do hereby desig­ nate Thursday, the '28th day of November, A. 1>. IS®), as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. Let us properly observe tho day by ceasing from our usual avocations and lot us in our respective placos of worship and in our homes devoutly praise lliui who has crowned the year with His infinite goodness. Ijot us. when we as­ semble to return thanks, generously remember the poor and needy and humbly implore the God of our fathers to continue unto us His pro­ tection and guidance. . --Judge Prendergast, of Chicago, fined William Kent $500 and sentenced him to thirty days in jail for violating the Craw­ ford primary-ellction law, which, as a member of ths Legislature, the prisoner helped to place on the statute book. The Chicago XevB, commenting on this con­ viction, remarks: This wholesome lesson will be of great value to the people of Chicago. Tbe Judge has done well in showing leniency in this first case and yet in making the punishment severe enough to save the violated law from ooutempl. The new era of honest elections and honest, primaries which lias come U> Chicago so recently gives promise of better government in all tho city's departments. ' Now that politicians are no longer free to manipulate piimaiies at will, the class of candidates presented to the voters by thi» two parties cannot fail to be greatly im­ proved. With a fearless and vigilant County Judge to see that the election laws are enforced, the people have little to foar from the machina­ tions ot fine-workers, whosa trade has nearly become obsolete in this community. --Secretary Wines, of the State Board of Charities, and Secretary Baucb, of the State Board of Health, have returned to Springfield from Chester, where they had a conference with' the Penitentiary -Commissioners relative to the erection of an addition to that institution for the custody of the criminal insane of the State. The last Legislature appropriated $45,000 for this purpose, but it was not to be drawn unless it sbonld appear that it would be sufficient for the erection of a building that would accommodate fifty inmates. It is found that it will not do this, hence nothing will be done in the matter until additional legislation shall havo been had. Drs. Wines and Baucb also met the legislative committee ap> pointed to visit penal institutions of other States and devise some system of profit­ able employment of convicts that will not conflict with the anti-contract clause lately made a part • of the constitution. The committee arranged for an itinerary that contemplates a start from Chicago in January next and a trip as far east as Boston. A good many institutions will be visited, and the result of their com­ mittee investigations, with recommenda­ tions, will be reported to the Legislature of 1891. --Some time in October complaints were filed with Postmaster Stoae, of Peoria, that letters 1 ddressed to Peoria wholesale firms were missing, and an in. vestigation was commenced. All the missing letters contained money, and they were finally traced to Thomas A. Vaughn, an extra mail airent, running between Sandusky and Peoria, oh the Lake Erie and Western. Inspectors were notified, and last week they went out on the Lake Erie and Western Boad, and mailed eight decoy letters, which were taken up by Vaughn on his trip in. Of these he stole seven, and when arrested the marked bills were found in h's pock­ et. He confessed the crime, and said he had stolen as high as twenty letters on a single trip, some containing checks and remittances ranging from $5 to $2,000. The checks he had destroyed, as he could not use them. Vaughn is only twenty years old, and his brother is assistant postmaster at Lafayette, Ind. He was placed in jail. * --Mrs. Louise Bector, wife of Charles E. Bector, the well-known Chicago res­ taurateur, died in that city a few days ago. To Mrs. Sector's life a very valua­ ble historical incident is attached. It was in her room and in her own bed that President Lincoln breathed his last. She was the last to occupy the bed before the wounded martyr was- placed in it, and she was the £rst to use it after the great emancipator's death. One of the inter-!, eating relics owned by Mrs. Bector was the pillow upon which he died. --A report comes from East St. Lous that some sixty-eight head of cattle have died at Hunter's Station, six miles east of the National Stock Yards, or between that station and the yards, within three weeks, of I'exas fever. It is also said that some of the deceased cattle have been sent to the National Stock Yards, and there is apprehension that the dis­ ease may spread. --Mrs. Louise Cloutier, perhaps the oldest woman in Chicago-, and one of the oldest in the State, died last 'Week at the age of 1C0 yean. Sfee was 4 native of Canada. THE CATHOLIC POSITION. TEMPEKAN CE WOMEN. STANDING Or THE CHURCH UKGARD- nio national afaibs.:;; EXCITING SCENIC AT THE ClOSX W THE W. C. T. V. CONVENTION. Important Questions the gul^Ml af • Series of Resolutions Adopted by the Convention of Lsy Delegates at Balti­ more--Where the Church Stands. [Baltimore telegram.] The congress of Catholic laymen in Baltimore was a ^iy enthusiastic gath­ ering. the net Tesult of which was the adoption, with enthusiastic unanimity, of a platform embodying the following features: Werejoioeat the marvelous development of our country, and regard with just pride the part taken by Catholics in such development. In the words of the paatoial issued by t he Archbishops and Mshops of the United States, assembjtd in tho third plenary council of Baltimore;' "We claim to be acquainted boili with the laws, in­ stitutions, and spii it of the Catholic Church, aud with tho laws, institutions, and the spirit oi our country? and we emphatically declare tnat thtro is no antagonism btt.veen them." \Ve repudiate with equal earnestness the assertion that we need to lay aside any of our devotednoes to our church to be true Americans ; the insinu­ ation that we need to abate any of our love for our country's principles Rnd institutions to be faithful Catholics. We believe that our coun­ try's heroes were the instruments of (he God of 'nations in establishing this home of freedom; to be th the Almighty and His instruments in the work we 1/ok v'iih g-.ateful reverence, and to maintain the inheritance of freedom which they have left us, should it ever--which God forbid--be imperiled, onr Catholic citizens will l>e found to stand forward as one man, ready to pledtje anew their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. We cannot, however, shut our eves to the many danpers that threaten the destruction of that social fabric upon wliich depends our peace, our liberty, aud our free inatitutione, Although our wealth has increased and pros­ perity abounds, our cities have multiplied, and our States increased, we tlnd under the shallow of this system incipient pauperism, dicoutented men, women, and children without the benefits .of education, without the advantages of relig­ ion, deprived of auy share in that abundance or participation in tho blessings wliiih. through our free institutions. God Almighty has de­ signed for the people of our land. Kemembering the distinction between Pagan and Christian civilization as to the heed to be paid to the right of the individual, we favor those means, measures, and systems by which tlsese are to be secured. We recognize next in importance to religion itself education as one of tho chief factors in forming tho character of the indi\idual, the vir­ tue of the citizen, and promoting the advance of a true civilization. Therefore, we are com­ mitted to a sound popular education, w hich de­ mands not only physical and intellectual, but also the moral and religious training of onr youth. As in the State schools no provision is made for teaching religion we must continue to sup­ port our own schools, colleges, and universities already established and multiply and perfoct others, BO that the benefits of a Christian educa­ tion may be brought within tho reach of every Catholic child within the United States. We also recognize among the three great educational agencies, besides the church and school, the Christian home. The root of tho common­ wealth is in the homes of the people. There­ fore wo denounce the existence aud develop- ment of Mormonism and the tendency to mul­ tiply causes of divorce a vinculo as plague-spots on our civilization, a, discredit to our Govern­ ment, a degradation of the female sex, and a nSanding menace to the sanctity of themarriage bond. We likewise hold that it is not sufficient for individual Catholics to shun bad or dangerous societies, but they ought to take part In good and useful ones. The importance of Catholic societies, tho necessity of union and concert of action to accomplish aught, are manifest. These societies should be organized on a religious and not on a race or national basis. National societies, as such, havo no plaoe in the church in this country, but like this uongress itself they should be Ca'liolic and American. Another danger which monaces our Republic is tho constant, conflict between capital and la­ bor. We therefore at all times must view with feelings of regret and alarm any antagonism existing between them, because thereby society itself is imperiled. Wilh the church we con­ demn Nihlism, Socialism and Communism, and we equally condemn the heartless greed of capi­ tal. The remedy must be sought in the media­ tion of the church through her action on the in­ dividual conscience and thereby on society, teaching each its respective duties as well as rights, and in Buch civil enactments as have been rendered necessary by these altered coa- dltions. The amelioration and promotion of the physi­ cal and moral culture of the negro race is a subject of the utmost concern, aud we pledge ourselves to assist our clergy in all ways tend­ ing to effect any improvement ill their condition. We are in favor of Catholics taking greater part than they have hitherto iu general philan­ thropic and reformatory movements. The obli­ gation to help tho needy aud to instruct the ignorant is not limited to tho needy and ig­ norant of our communion: but we are con­ cerned, both as Catholics and as Americans, in the reformation of all the criminals and the support of all the poor in tho country. There are many Christian issues in which Catholics could * come together with non- Catholics and shape civil legislation for the publio weal. In spite of rebuff aud injustice, and overlooking zealotry, we should seek al­ liance with non-Catholics for proper Kuuday observance. Without going over to tho Judaic Sabbath we can. bring the masses over to the moderation of tbe Christian Sunday. To effect this we must set our faces stern­ ly against the sale of intoxicating beverages on Sunday. The corrupting In­ fluence of saloons in politics, the crime and pauperism resulting irom excessive drink- ing, jrpqufre legislative restriction, which we can aid in procuring by joining our inlluence with that of the other enemies of intemper­ ance. Let us resolve that drunkenness shall be made odious and give practical encourage­ ment and support to Catholic temjjerance so­ cieties. We favor tho passage aud enforcement of laws rigidly closing saloons fcuudny and for­ bidding the sale of liquors to minors and intox­ icated persons. It is our duty to support liberally good Catho­ lic journals and books and acquaint ourselves with Catholic doctrine and opinion on the im­ portant questions constantly coming to the front and demanding right answers and just, practical solutions. There are comparatively few Catholics who cannot efford the cost of a Catholic journal or who do not spend more for a story paper or novel than the price of one. We not only recommend Catholics to subscribe more generally for Catholic periodicals, quar­ terly. monthly, or weekly, but look with eager­ ness for the establishment of daily CatholKs newspapers in our large cities, and a Catholic associated press agency. We cannot conclude without recording our solemn conviction that the absolute freedom of the Hcly See is equally indispensiblo to the peace of the church and the welfare of mankind. We demand in the natne of humanity and jus­ tice that this freedom be scrupulously respect­ ed by nil seci*lar governments. Wo protest agaiiist the assumption by any such government of a right to affect the lutsrests or control the action of our Holy Father by auv form of legis­ lation or other public act to which his full ap­ probation has not b^en previously given. Birds Seen from an Ocean Steamier. Sir Edwin Arnold, in an account of hi3 voyage to America, says: Every day we see, playing round the ship and skimming up and down the wave hollows, companies of lovely little terns and sea swallows, the latter no larger than thrushes. These fearless people of the waste have not by any means followed us from the land, living, as gulls ofi en will, on tnfe^waste thrown from the vessel. They are vague and casual roamers of the ocean, who, spy­ ing the great steamship from afar, have sailed close up to see if we are a rock or an inland, and will then skim away again on their own free and boundless business. Yonder tiny bird, with pur­ ple and green plumage, his little breast and neck laced with silver, is distant 1,000 miles at thi* moment from a drop of fresh water, and vet cares no more for that fact than did the Irish squire who "lived twelve miles from a lemon." If his wings ever grow weary it is but to settle quietly 011 the bosom of a great billow and suffer it for a time to lock and roll him amid the hissing spindrift, the milky flying foam and the broken sea lace, which forms and gleams and disappears again upon the dark slopes. When he pleases, a stroke of ihe small red foot and a beat of the wonderful wing launch him off from the jagged edge of his billow, and he flits past us at 100 knots an hoar, laughing steam and canvas to scorn, and steering for some nameless crag in Labrador or Fundy, or bound, it may­ be, homeward for some island or marsh of the far-away Irish coast. Marvel- ously expressive >t power as is our untiring engine, which all day and all night throbs and pants and pulses in noisy rhythm under the deck, what a clumsy, imperfect affair it is compared to the dainty plumes and delieate mus­ cles which* will carry that pretty, fear­ less sea swallow back to his rooat. The Iowa Delegation Withdraws from the Hall, Feeling tha Resolutions Adopted Vci« fiot Worthy of Support--l*roceed- Ing of the Sessions In Detail. Chicago dispatch: The sixteenth annual convention of the W. C. T. U. came to m close after a day of most exciting debate and action. The breeze was started by the iatrtodhM* tion of the following resolution: "Its object shall be to institute a unity of Christian women of this nation in non- sectarian ana non-partisan temperance work for the reformation of the intemper­ ate and the education of tha public senti­ ment in behalf of tctal abstinence and the prohibition of alcoholic liquor, the devel­ opment of social purity, the suppression of vice, and the education of the masses in tho duties and responsibiliti<»$ of citi­ zenship." Tbe discussion was hot and was led by Airs. J. Ellen Foster and Mrs. Aldrich of Iowa, who urged tho adoption of the pro­ posed amendment, while a score spoke against it. The proposed amendment was finally voted flown With a view to ascerta.n what sort of women were present in the convention Miss Willard asked a!l that had been school teachers at any time to rise. Of the 467 delegates present o79 rose. All who had beeu Sabbath school teachers wera asked to rise. Every delegate in the convention roSe. Gen. Clinton B. Ftsk was invited to the platform and made a few remarks. . Mrs. T. R Carse read a report con­ cerning the National Tomperance tem­ ple, which is to be erected in Chi .-ago at a cost of $1,100,000. Stock amount­ ing to $342,000 has already been sub­ scribed for. Mrs, L. D. Carhart, of Iowa, read the report on "Ethical Culture" and Til iss Mary Allen West on 1 'The School of Methods." J. B. Hobbs wos introduced. He form­ ally presented the Woman's Christian Temperance Union tbe lot at Lake Bluff on which the Palmetto cottage stanks. A resolution of thanks was adopted. Mrs. Caroline B. Buell, of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union, wished to deny the statement that the total membership ot the organization has de­ creased in a year. She said that on the contrary it had increased about 5,000 members during the last twelve months. This she learned by consulting the treas­ urer's report and reckoning from the amount received on dues. At the evening session of the convention the report of the executive committee's afternoon meeting was received. The executive committee considered the charges preferred against the national oHicers by Dr. Weeks Burnett, of the temperance hospital, and returned a resolution declaring that the national officers were altogether withont blame in tbe matter. The Iowa delegation bolted from the convention as the session was about to close. Mrs. J. Ellen Eoster, chairman of the delegation, rose and read a very long protest in which she reviewed the fight the Iowa delegation ha* washed against the body of the convention on the non-parti­ san issue. She stated that the Iowa dele­ gation had been met by rebuffs and in- . suits until forebearance was no longer a virtue. The other members of the delega­ tion, with the exception of Mrs. Carhart, rose and went out of the hall with Mrs, Foster. On motion of Mrs. Lathrop of Michigan, the convention authorized the executive committee to immediately take steps to reorganize the union in Iowa. At Miss Willard's suggestion Mrs. Carhart and Other Iowa ladies in sympathy with the sentiments of the convention stepped for­ ward and occupied the seats that had been vacated by Mrs. Foster and her friends. The convention adopted a resolution censuring Vice-President Morton for al­ lowing liquor to be sold in his ttatel, the Shoreham house, in Washington. Tbe convention adopted a resolution dis­ countenancing the union of church and state, recommending the establishment, of an educational test for citizenship, declar­ ing in favor of full franchise for women and rejoicing in the efforts that are being made for the enforcement of the Sunday law. . ,» . BLOWN TO ETERNITY. Fatality and Havoc Wrought by an Ex­ plosion of FIrbH Powder. By an explosion of flash powder at tbe chemical manufacturing establish- ment of Wiley & Wallace, at Philadel­ phia, three men were instantly killed and one fatally and another seriously injured. A large bottle of flash powder had been standing on a shelf for a long time and Joseph Wiley, a member of the firm, determined to get rid ot it on account of its dangerous nature. He took the bottle to a sink iu the rear of the basement, and filling to his assistance Charles R. Bhinedoller, a chemist, and Rudolph Lippmann, an employe, pro^ ceeded to pour the stuff down the sink. Rhinedoller held a hose and poured water on the compound as it ran from the bottle, and Lippman assisted Mr. Wiley. Will­ iam Kidd, another emolpye, stood by and watched the proceedings. Jnst exact­ ly how the explosion occurred is not known, but it is believed that the powder, on account of its age, was slow in running from the bottle, and that Mr. Wiley must have struck it against the sink to loosen it. Immediately there was a terrific ex­ plosion, accompanied by a deafening re­ port, the force of which shook the houses injthe neighborhood. Wiley, Lipcmanand Rhinedoller were instantly killed, their bodies being dashed against tbe walls of the basement and literally torn to pieces. Kidd was frightfully injured and can not live. Alfred Moflett, the engineer, is very badly hurt, but his injuries are not be­ lieved to be fatal. Thirteen girls and a number of men were employed on the up­ per floors, and they were panic-stricken by the shock. The girls attempted to jump from the windows, and some of them fainted, thus adding to the excite­ ment. The buliding and stock were badly damaged, all the windows and bottles being smashed, the lower floors torn up, and tbe walls damaged. Mr. Wiley, who was years old, was the senior member of the firm, and leaves a wife and several children. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Annual Report on the Ball way Mall Servico--Oosnfp. The report of the superintendent of the railway mail service shows an in crease of 0,668 miles over last year. Four thousand, nine huudred and ninety-eight clerks were employed. It recommends that the widows of clerks killed while on duty be allowed a sum equal to one year s salary of the clerk and not to exceed $1,000. During the past year there were 193 railroad accidents, in which ten clerks were killed and 1:5 injured. The total cost of the service duruigs the year »sclu- sive of salaries was ^21^, 2 71. GO, and the salaries amounted to $•),- The schedule time from San Francisco to New York has been reduced from 141 hours to 110J hours. The report recommends an assistant general superintendent at $8,000 and a chief clerk at $2,00J per year, and the grading and classification of clerks. The re port of Paymaster Ganeral Roches­ ter to the Secretary of War shows that the disbursements during the past fiscal year amounted to $14.78.(,'»-l. « net increase of $824,918 over last year. This increase is due to a large increase in tha number of discharged men, more than during the previous year. To these men on discharge are paid tbe accumulations of their re tained pay, clothing not drawn in kind, deposits with interest, and their travel allowances from platl of discharge to place of enlistment . I-HPRISOSED WOMgfL Bow Female Vanity »n<l Mf-WIB OyMRtftlr I*ehInd the Bars.' '\'i Compulsion is the woman conviet*# drop of bitterness. The complete mor­ tification of that harmless sort of vanity which fills so much of a woman's ljfa, makes her durance doubly vile. All her fine feathers are sacrificed ruthlessly. Her hair, which she has apostolic axfe* thority for regarding as an ornament^ is shorn of its last lock as soon as het cell has been allotted to her; and the face which has gazed with perfect pas- si v en ess, almost to rouse a country** admiration, and the tongue that haa been mute under the finding of jury and sentence of Judge, are raised tc» plead pathetically witu the holder <4 the scissors, while tho corridors some* times ring again to the piercing erie* for a sparing pity as the inexorabi* shearers gather their harvest of curls But, spring returns, and the hair re­ news itself, and before the next shear­ ing " day the girls grumble that a. thoughtless administration provides them with no hairpins. One woman whose hnir continued to be suspiciously resplendent, aa of macassar, after weeks of incarceration, was an object of ome wonderment, even to the chaplain,. un­ til she explained to him, in confidence, that she allowed her broth to grow cool and then skimmed off the fat to glitter in her crown of glory. Another girl certainly rougded, and rouge tells effectively on the pallor of prison confinement. Great was the envious indignation of her sisters in servitude against a frivolity so unattainable, but greater still/ perhaps, was the curioa- ity to discover how the accomplish­ ment of such a frivolity could be at­ tained. At length it was discovered that the red threads woven among the blue shirts which she had to sew would, when drawn out and chewed, yield the bloom yearned after by tha , cheek of beauty. The manner m. which nearly every woman finds it pos­ sible to disarrange and double one of her undershirts and present tbe facina- tions'cf a crinolette is so comic that has been known to wring a smile from, that gravest among men--a prison chaplain. And a woman without a looking glass! Only the austerest and severest orders of nuus renounce that. And perhaps it is the female prisoners most oppressive penance, for the rel^f of which she is eren willing to risk the imposition of extra punishment--a task the more, u meal the less. By an acci­ dent, which she dorfarea she will re­ gret for a lifetime, she has broken • window. The holo is there, sure enough; but where is the detached glass ? Days after this it is found con­ cealed in a corner of her coll, and be­ hind it a strip of dark cloth, her substi­ tute for quicksilver. There are no male hearts to break, and few male eyes to see--only those of governor, chaplain -'vi­ and doctor.--San nawL Francisco Arg o- - •'•Ms • Bustles? Iron. The rustless process, which has been until lately an experiment, has now demonstrated that great economy can be used, not only in ice-pipes but in every article where ice is used. In the past year over 2,000,000 kettles have been subjected to the process iu Pitts­ burgh. The method is very peculiar. After the article is made it is put iu a furnace about three aud a half feet high, fifteen feet long aud eight feet broad. The furnace is made in an oval shape, air tight. After the iron has been in the furnace two hours, and it has attained almost a white heat, the air that comes through the regenera­ tors and air-valves is shut securely off and the furnace is made air-tight. After the air hns beeu shut off, the super-heater, which is located in the oombustion chamber at the rear of the furnace and at right angles from the air- l valves, is opened and the furnace is filled with steam and kept in this con- 1 .^1 dition for eight hours. At short inter- -A \ vals a small vave is opened, so as to al- low au exodns of steam in the furnace, allowing fresh * team to be put into the - f furnaee. f "> t When the articles have been ieik ; hours in the furnace there has been ac­ complished the formation of magnetic oxide upon the iron surface. They are then put into an acid well, which is tl*e l a s t t r e a t m e n t . -- P i t t s b u r g h D i s p u t o k . > , n f g % A Same That Is a Safe One. V V' Iu the year 1664, on the 5th day of • ' December, the English ship Meanai was crossing tbe straits and capsized in • / J a gale. Of the eighty-one passenger on board but one was saved; his name i Hugh Williams. On the same day, in , the year 1785, a pleasure schooner was wrecked on the Isle of Man. There were sixty persons on the boat, among them one Hugh Williams and his family. Of the threescore none but old Hugh Williams survived the shock, On the 5th day of August, 1820, a picnicking party on the Thames was run down by a coal barge. There were twen y-five of the picnickers, mostly children under 12 years of age. Little Hugh Williams, a visitor from Liverpool only 5 years old, was the only one that returned to tell the tale. Now comes the most singular part of this singular story: Ob the 19th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, 1888, a Leeds coal barge, with nine men, founded; two of them, both Hugh Williams, an uncle and nephew, were rescued by some fisher­ men, and were the only men of the crew who lived to tell of the calamity. These _ are facts which can be snbstantitfayi^ j says the Leeds (England) Mercury„ " • A Bight aud a Wrong Way. " A St. Louis physician asks if men are naturally wiser than women; if they learn more readily from experience and observation. He watched one Sunday evening at a certain street corner the passengers who alighted there for three hours, and give the following as the re­ sult of his observations: Twenty-two ladies got off the cars, sixteen with their faces to the rear; three got straight off the car, and with their faces fronting the way the car was going. During thesame hours, at the same place, forty- five men got off. Thirty of these had their faces tbe way the car was going, eleven got off straight and none with t^sir faces turned backward. There ia •only one proper way to get off a vehicle --that is with the face turned toward the direction in which it is going, or if it was in motion--right foot first if getting off on the right side, left foot first if on the left bide.--Detroit i'Vee Press. ' •. 4 v; Tommy--I know you were eoawngf, Mr. Bald. Mr. Bald--How did yo* know it, Tommy? Tommy--Cause' •Clara always makes her cheeks tad when you're coming. *C; Whes tiey overtake a hnfae t&ktf ift. Texas they call a halt* and thea they a call halter. Whisky is retried &ie«%, ttmigli imbibers rarely am. • - KWt-