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- ?! ifr J" « • THE REV. JOSEPH COOK. »£' "" •* SCORES THK SOTTH FOR 1*8 §?I. * ' *KEAT«BXT OF THK NF.QftO, f # « - , 0:" C" II, k r.;f* :*e » & ' y: • >„• «<K It • " £ V •>•: .- •T/;,.*/•"•• j & •.. •}?'$ 11 ?}fll Ml ik" And Alio Glm tile North a Bay Ihr It* Indifference to the Violation » r the Con­ stitution--The Latter Han Control of the 'Government, and W111 Be Bold Kespon- islbl*. ""Race Riots. in the South" was the "subject of a lecture recently delivered .by Rev. Joseph Cook i>i Tremont Tem­ ple, Boston. The eminent and elo­ quent divine spoke as follows: The supreme crime of the Sout'i is nullifica­ tion; the chief crime of th« North is politi- •cal indifference to this Sonttaoru crime. The paity in power does not fulfill its pledges to the nation in r< ga-d to the execution of the two Sreat amen<lmoiit< to our Constitution written in the blood of the North. There is one un&l- tei able element in the Southern problem, i. e., the climate. All around the world you find onr race Betting up at the Tropic cf Canctr the •ability to live without labor. The white races do not labor -within the belt in »• hich New Or­ leans lies; the bronze races da lab>r there. In .sub-tropical regions the whites will contend for the privileges of caste; it is the fate of such •regionf- to have a race problem and an industrial problem. The blacks are the beat laborers that •can be had for such fields as thev occupy. Ihe white race wants to officer these "blacks, and so there is a contest. Nearly every branch of this t-outhern problem proc:?etia from oiimatic con­ ditions. The present state of things ia also to a large extent the result of slavery. The white population in the south has dot learned that industrial toil with the hands is ihouorabl':. But aside from this it is a phys­ ical impossibility for the white man to be as active along the lino of the Gulf as he is in New iiugiand bud along the line of the great •«tkee. SIJ ;vwy divided tha land into separate planta­ tions; schools were far apart; the same was true of churches; and this institution has left its legacy, eo tbirt the conditions of positive barbarism exist in the rural regions of the South, in the abBenco of the means o! educa­ tion and the absence of churches. Caste, there­ fore, endures, though the institution that helped to give rise to it has been abolished for a quar­ ter of a century. Slavery is gone, but clima ic conditions will endure, and us long as the Tropio o! Cancer is in sight of the Gulf of Mexico yon .will find caste. Taking tho problem at large, there are sev­ eral elements to bo mentioned, You have first the constitutional problem, bhall the amend­ ments be executed? lot have, secondly, a .party problem. Shall tha Democrats of the South place their feet on the neck of the negro and from the elevation l< ap into the r.a ioual saddleV You have, tbiruly. the educational problem. How devise a system or education f)t- , ted to produce a society capable of self-govern­ ment i' You have, fourthlv, a ruffian problem. ! How is the scounorelismof tho M>utli to be mode to respect law and ordor? W! at used to bo the ; £>ro-slavery mob iB at tin bottom of the negro riots. Fiithly, you have tha race problem, • Thus all these five fingers may go in the palm •of tho climatic probl.au. and ihi wnolj thfjg is one. AB to the color of a man's skin, it is no more to me than the color o his eyes. Men are right- Jv estimated by character, not by complexion. "We ourselves are not as white as the Nor- | wrgiana and Swedes, and therefore we are soipe- "wh»t inferior, presumably. After extensive foreign travel among i>eo])le of all shades, 1 tame back with all my prejudice against color dissipated t.o the tbirtt-tv.-o winlB. When JSouthern Congressinrn say this whole questfen is one of color, 1 believe they are spea.iiug for their constituents and not for themselves, a? they are too well educated. Human nature is •the tame everywhere, but the old slave code gavo liberty to the abuses of ha man nature, and much of this liberty is still allowedin the South to-ciav. To this hour there cling to f-outhem society, arrangements that are' unreport ible .'before a mixed audience. Vvhen in a certain quarter of the South it was brought to the at­ tention of the court that most of the young men were bupporting bla >k mistressos, the decision •of the Judge was thut it was not the business •of the court to interfere in matters of a private and d >mestic nature. I muy shock this audience this morning, bat I mean to do it by giving von the truth. At •other times 1 will lath the Norlh for its many short-con.ings, but the Houth is tolerating a system of daily life upon which we can look "Oiily intOMuC ntv>or tu^ncfa being equal, a man ia a man whether he be bronze or red, black or whi;e. I am moved to •steak with entire candor on this topic. If there come at last an explosion among the negroes of the Southern States, one of the things most likely to hdve produced it will be the dishonor placed upon black women in that section. It is high time to exci riate the North on ae:couut of iis divorce laws. But 1 wish liere and now to exjjress my horror at the light­ ness with which female honor is discussed in .many a quarter in the South that pretends to lead in civilization. There must be a reform in these matters else there will to a terrible ex­ plosion. _ What now are some of the remedies for these mi^it hieis ? 1. Education of both v hi ten and blacks. There should be given national aid for •education wherever it isue dsd. The South is •eloing something honorable for education, bnt not enough. We are not doing enough in the North. Wc ard yot in danger in our great cities from a grov.th cf iltiteiney. One-third of the population in the houth have no cppoitut.ities lor education. The treed men nave Hbown as . iuueh appreciation of education as tho poor whites or the mountain whites have done. I want adequate safeguards in connection with '» national aid fur education; with these 1 am in its* lavor of national aid tor a limited time. % We must have the execution of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments after waiting the fifth part of a century to seo.them made powerful. Thcso amendments Europe is study­ ing, and she points to us a finger of shame, say­ ing ihat in our Constitution there are amend­ ments that we have obtained at tho cost of a •civil war, for tne execution of which we have waited until now. This is a stupendous prob­ lem, but th ) Republican party pledges itself to execute those anu ndme ms. Since the* addition of the four new States the party has the power to do w hat justice requires. 1 supi ose that tha Government of tho na ion may now be said to have passed permanently into the hands of the North ; and ii you i o not execute those amend­ ments you of tho North are responsible. A great hinge turned in 1870 when we withdrew military aid from tho»e who were executing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. We hoped for better results. The North was kind and forbearing. It was hopoel that tho new- South would secure substantial justice for the negro. But wc have seen 7,000.000 deprived of their rights. Wo have 8.000,000 of negroes with UB to-day, and at the close of the present cen­ tury these will have become 15,000,000, while some of you will live to see j'J.OXMKX) of colored people in the United States. Will the North lie down permanently und.>r the disfranchise­ ment of such a population'.' There are two races in conflict in the Fouth, •but they are both citizen racee. You are ruled In large degree by frand if you elo not weed ont of Congress ihe fraudulent Kupresenta ives there. AJe you to allow millions of this repub­ lic to be fleeced of their civil and political rights to your disadvantage as well as theirsv Some fear that ihe renowned patience of the negro will not last forever. I tear tha; before the close of this century there will be bloody epi­ sodes unless justice be done. 3. We must have a Constitutional Federal election law honestly administered by both par­ ties. Itring in the Australian system of seeret ballot if you like, but something" must be done. Who believes that millions of negroes are likely to emigrate? The masses will not go; schemes for their deporiatiou 1 regard as visionary. Sen- -ators from South Carolina and Alabama have been defending a sisheine in the h'enaie to get rid of eight millions of our most productive la­ borers, while immigrants are pouring in from •every quarter of tho globe. We need laborers, but the scheme of these Senators is to assist emigration to Africa. I am willmg there should be a dispersiem or redistribution of the colored population among the States where they are less abused than along the Gulf. But if the ne­ groes are great ly In the majority in any State, why not tho whites emigrate? It is folly for the Southern leaders to expert, that the Constitution can be vacated of meaning to please a section. Let there be one rule for North and South. Other ih.ngs being equal, a fret'dman has just as good a light to have his vote counted a<* a white. Democratic shotgun supremacy will not be endure*! forever by the nation. The other things that ought not to be forgotten are: 4. I.ocal defense co-operation. 5. Federal apnointments at home and abroad made by men who are not in sympathy with ex-slavenolders. 6. Continual and immediate elimination of fraudulent Representatives In Congress. Check to tierrjrmauders. In the first Congfess, in August, 1789, Mr. Burke, of South Caiolina, •offered tlie following amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall not alter, modify, or , interfere in the times, places, or man- .' Her of holding elections of Senators or 5Representatives, except when any State shall refuse oi; neglect, or be un- . able by invasion or rebellion to make such elections." _ This -was an assertion of States' rights. Nearly half the members of this House of Representatives were members of tho convention that framed the Constitution. In the debate on the »,l>roP°Bed amendment Mr. Ames, of Massachusetts, said it was "essential to a body representing the whole com- f munity that it should have power to 'y regulate its own elections, in order ^to secure representation from - . «very part a*d prevent improper " k,regulations, calculated to answer party Jv purposes only;"" that "the amendment Would vest the supreme authority in place* it *ca« never contemplated." Mr. Madison said the proposed amend­ ment would "tend to destro v the prin­ ciples and efficacy of the Constitution." Mr. Sherman, of Connecticut, re­ marked that the constitutional conven­ tion had oeen "very unanimous" in conferring the powers ifc was proposed to abrogate, and "if abandoned it would tend to subvert the Government." Mr. Goodhue anticipated State action to oppose and thwart the General Gov­ ernment, and favored the existing pj o- vision, as he wished "the Federal Gov­ ernment to possess every power neces­ sary to its existence." The amendment was rejected by a decided majority, and no subsequent attempt was ever made to resfciict the control of Congress over Congressional elections. From these considerations it is rea­ sonably certain that Congress has the constitutional right and power to enact a law that shall prohibit and prevent in any and all States the practice known as gerrymandering. If the pro­ posed measure aimed at this result it would be entitled to hearty approval. But it does not. It stands on much narrower grounds, and is not suscepti­ ble of defense , as a measure designed to put an end to Congressional gerry­ mandering. ^ In its application and operation »t is partial and temporary only, and is open to the charge of be­ ing designed for partisan advantage. Instead of a bill to meet a present and passing emergency, and which is obvi­ ously aimed at certain proposed Demo­ cratic gerrymanders. Congress should enact a law of comprehensive scope and nniform application which would put a stop at once and forever in all the States to Congressional gerry­ manders.--Indianapolis Journal. BEATEN BY SOUTHERNERS. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. INTERESTING ITEMS oAiiflaua FH03I VARIOUS SOURCES. Henry J. Fans Tells of , the Gross Outrage at Aberdeen," Miss. Henry J. Fanz, the victim of the re­ cent outrage at Aberdeen, Miss., ar­ rived in Washington last week, in com­ pany with a Postoffice Inspector. GPiiief Inspector Kathbone was requested some days ago by the Department of Justice to find Fanz, and. if he was willing, to bring him to Washington. In an interview he told the following story of the outrage: "1 am a tinner and fcornice-maker by trade, and on the 10th of December last I was employed ou a building in Abeideen, Miss. About 7 o'clock on the morning of the 10th I went up on the roof of the building to remove the canvas and rubbish preparatory to be­ ginning work for the dav, and in doing so I untied a lope which was attached to the sheathing, not knowing that it was strung across the street and sup­ ported an effigy of Secretary Proctor. About 11 o'clock that morning a man who had been employed laying floor on the second floor came up the ladder to the scuttle-hole, and, calling a fellow- •workmau named Miller and myself, explair ed that we had unfastened a rope to which was hung an effigy of Secretary Proctor, and it was his ad­ vice that we should leave town l«foro that night. "As I was passing out of the build­ ing at noon a man named Will McDon­ ald stepped up, and, calling me to one side, inquired whether I had ma<le the remark which had been attributed to me that no one could hang an effigy in that town while I remained there. I answered in the negative and he there­ upon said to me, 'You can't bulldoze us Southern people in that way,' and struck me a hard blow in the face with a buggy whip which, he had ia his hand, cutting my nose and almoit clos­ ing my eye, I tlre^v up my hands to protect my face, and he then struck me several blows on the back and shoulders. While this was taking place a large crowd had gathered and shout­ ed :> 'Lay it on to him!' I was in my ehirt-sleeves at the time, and, th8 crowd gathering around me, I was Un­ able to get away, and it was unsafe to try and defend myself. When he had become tire i he told me that I must leave town right away. I asked to be permitted to get my clothes and what wages were due me. To this he con­ sented and walked with me down to our shop. As we were passing along a man came up behind us, and, with a I ^ ^ 1 ^, 0n• ®?U®vl,le< What Onr XMffUbora Are Doing--Matters of General and Lowl Interest -- Mar- riafires and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointer*. --The following Illinois pensions have been granted: Original Invalid -- Wii;iara T. H*ll, Stone Tort; Oliver L. Lindsey, Chicago; Oliver P. lioomis, T'rbana: Morris Mullins, Biggsvlle; Michael Bouphtem, Chicago: H» nry C. Todd, Quincy; Stephen West, u aukegan ; Jatnes H. Neeley, Lake Fork ; Jesse Hazel 1, Galissbnrg; James T. Ellis, Castor; Geo. F. Law. Chicago; James Mark. Murphvsboro; Win. E. Dunn, Pickneyville; Win. A. White. Oakwood; Chris­ topher Helley, Cairo; Geo. W. Wallace, Grand View; Dradeu Storks, Olmstead; ilurty Con­ nor, Coal Valley. Increase--Hiram L. Evans. Chicago; James M. Braden, Henning; Wm. Williams, Palmyra ; Abraham Hinckle, Clinton; Krastus Douglas, Lidell; Robert W. Boyd, Carmi; Jackson I.y- man, Millord : Kol»ert Cauld«ell; Morris; John W. Jones, Danville ; Gee rge 11. Dunn, Vienna; Henry G. Raymond, Chicgai; Thomas B. Lynn, Pellonia; David B. Smith, Champaign ; Gottlieb Miller, Cliremont; Otho li. Kii arger. Polo; Fr.»dcrick Schilling, Centrali a ; Oliver B.Nor­ ton. De^catur; John Craig. Hanover; James Bibler, Urbana; Isaac Clark, < arpe-ntersvill •; Andrew F. Frasure, Mount \"<u lion; Joseph Yates, Indianola; f-auiuel Hazard, Pincknev- ville; William M.Dunn, llarrisourg; Isaa: T. Robertson, Albion; Jo^n W. Gentrv. Be»ards- town ;"Hiraiu T. Fite. L weeeter; Elhmau C. Winters, Sterling: He,av Hals)v. Daifville; John M. Thornton, Paris; f-ainn-i linox. Chi­ cago ; James P. Maun. Kobinson; Dr. F. Duckworth, Ihompsi nviilu; John E. Murphy, Canton; Henry t'chlciviug, Ven- edy; B. Belcher, Fiiiyville; C. Beck, Belleville; Egl>ert B. Kitchen, Ha^el Dell; Patrick 'Gordon. Quincy; James W. Smith. Nittntic ; Peyton Alvey, Monticello; Wm. Ste­ phenson, Avon; Win. l'crrine. Je>hnsonville; Kichr.rd Smith, Tampico; Oliver Perry Hyde, liantoul; Cbesteir H. Eastman, Oregon; Henry Mnllin&x, Allendale ; Jt el W, Mourning, Basco; Thomas Bemelou, Monticello; John W. McCor- ntack, Sparta ; ,iOhn W. Per.y, Maiden; S<lv lnnu A. Dean, Se>aton; Emanuel Long, Redmon; Wm. B. Drake, Aid ; Michat 1 Coken- nower. Heirick ; Solomon L'pton, Springerton ; Alfred M. Shaw. Metromedia City; Samuel Brown, LaHarpe; James M. Valontine, < ar- linville ; Edwin Philbrook, Decalur ; Saumel 1'. Ballam, Wencna; John H. IJig^s, Wesf Liberty; Moses T. Adam son. Oltiey; Wm. S. Grautsvn'n. Chica -o ; Robert Spires. Cottage Home ; Fred­ erick E. Price, Nokoiv.is ; Hugh Monroe. Clilton ; Wm. H. Richmond. Marseilles ; John G. John­ ston, A von ; J. C. lvobinson, L af llivcr; Robert M. Lackey, Oak I'ark ; Jno. Shock,Clay; Solomon Yewell, Charleston; Samuel Colnai, DCIM van; J. A. 1 arson, Nekoma; C. W, Kinuer, De Land. Original \\ idows--Fanny, wielow e>f Harrison Rieg. Albion; Eliza J., wieiow e>( Joel Clavwell, Winchester; William L., ta'.her of Charles A. Shurtleff, Keithsbnrg : Eliza, widow, of Georga W. Anderson. Golconda; (olil war) Caroline, widow of Daviel Edwards, Springfield; Margaret M., widow of Stephen W. Allen, Tonica; Belle, widow of John Flinn, Carmi; n.inors oi Jatnes Brandis, Springerton; Delphia A., widow of Henry W'eiise?, St. Francisville ; Barbara Mill­ ion, former widow of William Riffle, Effingham. Mexican Survivor--William N. Wildt, Grafton Mexican Widow--Ellen, widow oi Michael Clark, Chicago. --The Secretary of State ha« filed articles of incoiporation o( the Chicago. Harvey & State Line Railway Ccmpauy, which proposes to constract a railway from a point on the line dividing the States of Indiana anl Illinois, northerly to and into the city of Chicago. Articles of incorporation have also been tiled of the Ch caco, Blue Island <fc State Line Railway Company,which proposes to con­ struct a railway to begin at a point on a line dividing Illinois and Indiana in Cook county, running northerly throogh said County to the city of Chicago. The in­ corporators are the same as for the Chi­ cago, Harvey £ State Line Company. --At a special election held in Qnincy, the proposition to refund municipal bonds coming due in July to the amonnt of $225,000 was earned by a majority of 104. The rate of interest oa the new bonds is fixed at 4& per cent. --The State Auditor has issned a state­ ment of the financial condition of the banks doing lusiness under the general banking law of Illinois. It 6hows forty- one such banks now doing business, with a total paid-ap capital of $9.316,TOO. Of these, fifteen are in Chicago. The total loan 4 md d scounts to the date of the re­ port are $37,6G8,393; the resources, $64,- 966,783; individual deposit * subject to chetk, $2t),43C>,653. The largest savings deposit in any oie institution is in the Illinois Trust aud Savings linuk of Chi­ cago--$5,303,151. The largest amount of individual deposits subject to checks is carried by the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company of Chicago--$(>,242,195. The largest of these institutions outside of large hickory stick which he carried, repeatedly thrust it toward me, at the same time shouting, 'Get up faster; make him run out of town.' McDonald interfered and told this man to stop, that I was hurt enough, and should be permitted to get my clothes. I got my things and went to my room on the opposite side of the street. The crowd followed us to the shop, where my things were, and the police soon after Elaced McDonald under arrest. Later e was fined $10, I was told. "A policeman and two or three gen­ tlemen called at my room and said that the Mayor of the town had told them that if I wanted to stay I could, and he would protect "me. The policeman, however, advised me to leave town, which I did. going to Memphis. I un­ derstand that McDonald'.* fine was paid by the people of, the town. The day following my arrival iu Memphis there was a funeral processiod in honor of Jefferson Davis, and fearing bodily harm I purchased a pair of goggles, which I wore to disguise myself." Mr. Fanz is 24 years of age, was born in Allen County, Indiana, and is a Democrat. DtBMtcratic Ra«ra ity. Wherever Democracy is in_ the ascendant it is always safe to assume there is fraud. Last fall it was sus­ pected there were frauds in New Jer­ sey, and an investigation is now being made by a special committee of the Legislature. Thus far they have made an examination of the ballot-boxes in three stiong Democratic precincts ol Jersey City and have found them fairly stuffed to repletion with bogus votes. Several hundred "jokers," or tickets shorter than the. regular ones, so that they can be easily folded in, were 'found, and the worst precincts have yet to be investigated. It is said that the frauds were so enormous as tc astound even Democrats themselves. In view of these shameful manifesta­ tions of Democratic rascality the plea of the Governor of that State for bal­ lot reform is not remarkable, but in his case, as in that of the Governor ol West Virginia, it would have come with a better grace had not -both these [ discovere 1 and raided last night a juv. gentlemen been the beneficiaries of the nile gambling-room in the b isement rascality.--Chicago Tribune. • ' j the brick hou e at 735 Girard street. * j this basement boys i nd girls from 7 to HEAD of firm--Mr. Travers, while I rears ot age have held n'ghtl.v game: you were-at lunch your tailor called to , an(j wjtii „n old ireasv imek of card Fast St. Louis, Galesburg, Pullman, Blooming!on, and Springfield. There was a tig horse sale by Dillon Brotheis at Norm <1 last week, nnd many fine draught animals were disposed of. The sales over $500 were: Black Dia­ mond, Norman stallion, 9 years, owned by M. D. Burner, Abingdon, III., to J. F. Dustin, Syracuse, N. Y., $(8J; Amateur, Percheron stallion, imported, 9 years old, Degan Bros.. Ottawa, to Eli Sheldon of Kansas, $j00; Simon Pnre, French draught stallion, 4 years, Sharp Bros., Cooksville, 111., to A. H.Waldon, Charles­ ton, 111., $870; Chatilac, Fiench draught stallion, 8 years, F. Basting. Yuton, Hi., to W. T. .Dudley, Hill City, Knn., $605; Reuben, French dr.tnght stallion, 2 years, F. Basting, Yuton, 111., to W. T. Dudley, Hill City, Kan., $500. The grand total of the three days' sale was 110 horses at $25,625; average, $215. --At Peoria, Tom C»nton defeated Bert Schtller, of Kansas City, in k hotly contested wrestling match, lasting one hour and twenty minutes. Canncn won the the first fall, catch-as-catch-caa, in 22 minutes. Sche'ler the seconi, Gruco-Roman, in 25 minutes, and Cai- non the last in 40 miunlei, c; tch-ag- catch-can. A wild y excited crowd of 1,000 peop'e witnessed the match, anc{ a great deal of money changed hands, j --A new opera house is to be built »n the Odd Fellows'lot at Alton. -- Springfield correspondence Chicago Neva: When asked about his candidly for State Tieasnr r, Mr. Tanner replidl: "I have never to'd anybody I was a can­ didate for that office, nnd as a matter >f fact I am not now and never have beena candidate for that or any other offije since my election as State Tieasurer fotr years ago, all rumors to t£e*e)Ontrary nd- withsti.nding. It has b«.en my hatit j when a candidate to let my friends kacn- the fact and go in and win, but I haHe never said I was a candidate this time. * --Chicago New*: Officar Fitzgerali --6 en, Robert N. Pearson, the newly appointed Appraiser ot Merchandise at the port of Chicago, wss chief clerk in the Adjutant General's office at Spring­ field soon after the war, and aided largely in th# preparation of tbe Adjutant Gen­ eral'a- eport of the part taken by Illinois in the war. He was City Comptroller of Springfield for six years, during five of which the Mayor and Conncil were Dem­ ocratic. He organized the inquiry divis­ ion of the Chicago Postotfice in 1882. Previous to that time the New York post­ office WHS tho only on* in the country having such a division. " --The Democratic Central Committee of the Sixteenth District of Illinois has called a convention to meet at Olnejr April 15 to nominate a candidate for Con­ gress. --At Peoria Robert M. Hanna, a 6-year- old boy, nephew of Marsh Hanna, editor of the Transcript, was instantly killed by an electric street ear. --The State convention of the Pro­ hibitionists ot Illinois will be held in Bloomington during the last week in May, and will place a State ticket in the field. There will be 741 delegates. --The annual report of the Chicago k. Alton Railroad Company shows the com­ pany to be in much better condition financially than was expecte 1. The gross earnings from all sources for 1889 were $7,516,(116, against $7,511,465 in 1888, an increase qf $5,151; operating expenses for 1889 were $4,571,73.1 against $4,668,- 084 in 1888, a decrease of $96,348; net' earnings for 1889 were $2,944,880 against $2,843,380 in 1888, ai increase of $101,- 499. An impressioa has heretofore pre­ vailed that the Alton's report would show a decrease in net earnings. The total mileage of the company's lines at the end of the year was 1,132.75 miles. --People holding fre6 parses on rail- ro ids will be intereste i in the' suit of Senator Sonthworth of Litchtield against the Jacksonville Southeastern Railway Company, which has just been decided by the Appellate Court iat Springfield in favor of the plaintiff. As n member it the Legislature Senator Southworth was supplied with a pass over the railway in question. This pass stipulated in the usual form that the company should not be liable for damages in case of injury to the holder through any accident occur­ ring to him on its trains. The Senator agreed to th s stipulation in writing. Bnt it to happened that the Senator was in­ jured while riding on the railway by vir­ tue of the pass which he held. He promptly brought suit against the com­ pany. As the evidence at the trial tended to show that not only .did tha company give passes to legislator*, but also that its engineer, with equal indifference to publ'c sa ety, was racing with a rival train when the accid^at occurrod, the jury awarded Senator Southworth $2,000 damages, ibis leraict has now b$en affirmed by the Appellate Court. --The directors of the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Com­ pany have filed a reso'ution with the Sec­ retary of State authorizing the cancella­ tion of a mortgage which WHS issued to sccurj the 6 per cent. fo:t.v-year gold bonds of the Knickerbocker Trust Com­ pany, and trsnsfcrriug it to the Northern Trust Company of ^ Chicago for the amount of $7,500,of0 in a per cent, gold bonds, to. apply as first mortgage indebt­ edness on the franchise, stock, nnd equip­ ments of the compnny, and to 1)* used In the construction and opcrat on of the proposed elevated railroad in Chicago, commencing at a point on the north side of Van Buren street, to run iu a southerly direction, to cross Thirty-ninth street, thence to Sixtv-seventh street, aud in a southeasterly direction to the Indiana State line. --The following school statistics for the year 1889 have leen compiled from returns received at the office of the Su­ perintendent of Public Schools: Number of males in the State under 21 years 85.1,789 837,221 Number of males Total K amber of females in the ittate betweea 10 and 21 yearn o( age......... Number of females ...1,881,020 875, 558,590 and won and lost tho f ennies earned ami given them by their p v ents» j --At Chicago, Jeremiah O'Donnell, th^ collect a bill. I am surprised pained, sir, to learn that you are in ar­ rears. Isn't it possible for you to live on your salary ? Travers--Certainly it , is, air; but you don't expect aae jury-briber, was found guilty of ccn-j port my creditors, too ? 'j r-i;-, spiracy in the manner and form act charged in the indictment, and was sen­ tenced to three yifttb' tao>f$iM*meat in the penitentiary. LAUGHTER may b« the poor roan** plaster, imt it is not very adhesive. Total 1,183,807 The number of graded schools is 1,501, and of ungraded 10,723--a total of 12,224 schools. There are 191,885 males and 195,951 female pupils enrolled in the graded scLools, and 108,234 mile and 177,341 female pupils enrolled in the un­ graded scLools--a total of 763,411 pupils enrolled. Superintendent Edwards esti­ mates the number of pupils enrolled in Roman Catholic and private schools at ! 100,0( 0, leaving about 270,000 persons of school age that were attending no schools last year. The number of male teachers in graded schools was 1,380, nnd female 6,658; of male teachers in ungraded schoo's 5.600, and females 9,451--a total of 23,089 teachers. * --A meeting was held at Springfield last week j||i organize an eight-hour league. Afi f$p§utive committee of one from each local uuion was appointed. The object of the organisation is to cir­ culate literature and keep op the agita­ tion of the eight-hour movement in the towns between Chicago and St. Louis. Tbe cities named have strong organiza­ tions of a similar character, and this new one will undertake to aid the movement in the intervening territo y. . --The Executive Board of the Illinois State Horticultural Society held a busi­ ness meeting at Alton last week. Annual reports were received. --Expeits examining the books of Law­ rence County have made their report to tbe Board of Supervisors. The accounts of ex-Sheriff Ward Ryan were found short $2,65S; County Clerk Pittman, $10,801; ex-Treasurer Mi Cleave, $59,500. The examination covers a period of eight years, and some of the officers have re­ moved from the county. --Last fall the Gr nd Lodge of Illinois Odd Fellows decided to bu Id an asylum foil orphans of members of the order. A committee of fifteen from all parts of tbe State was appointed and met at Bloom­ ington to arrange rules and by-!aws for tbe government of the institution. It de­ cided to receive offers of land and money from cities desiring the location of the home. Bloomington, Rockford, Lincoln and other cities will make bids. The home will accommodate 200. --Joel Cosad, one of the oldest" citizens of La Fayette County, died at Vandalia list week, aged iinetv-one. KEPI'ltLICAN LEAG111 ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF ILLINOIS CLUBS*. . r • ft»p Triumph -- A Haraioiiloua Gathering -- K evolution* Adopted -- Old Offleera K«<elect»il -- Stirring Speoeliei. [Springfield (111.) special.] One* more the hopes of the Democracy oi Illinois are blasta<l. Th*>y predicted viththc greatest assurance and fi.Mltv to details how the Illinois bta.e liepithlii-^n league Mould hi torn by dissensions, an-l how its c< nvent.ion. which met In to on Ti o ulay, would exhibit a condition of chaos in tne party that must surt Iv lead (he Republicans t> derea. in 1«)2 if not thii present year, 'rhe Democratic pa|>ers hau the kiuduoss to eive this convention a large amount of frre aJveitising, thus producing a large attendance. There were 1,171 delegates anu rrooablv 1.0 HI more persons, al.emaios oi friends of the UolrgatoH, making in all one o' 5he largest yatherinas of Republicans ever held in iLinutv. An understanding wag reached so4n after the leaders came to^etber for c-onsuhation, whict spread to almost every delegate. thacitw<ul« I OL do to quarrel, that the interests o. thepartt were alnn e those of any Individuals, and thai t»ie complaints of a few disappoint el politiciajH ought not to aff ct the policy of (he parlv The convention was call.d to order in tht Etate House by 1 r-sklent Tracv, who made a brief, busiuess-l'ke address. Gov- Hfer made tbe Address of wclcoine. con* gratulating tbe league upou the great work it had done auring the first two years of its exist­ ence. He ri.iiculed the Democrats who hai persisted in claiming Illinois overy campai.n lor twenty years. 'The Democrats," said Oov tifer, "believe they can el -ct Cleveland in 1892 because they couldn't in li*W. Just so they now think they can succeed with mv f iend Gen Palmer, l^causa they failed with him in the last campaign. Dtsino^rats are like mice. Iheycau be caught in the same trap twice. Alveady liave these men named the mightv aud immaculate statesman who is to lead tht m to victory in Illinois as a Senatorial can- didate. Unlike 1 he Republicans they seem to have but one man larye t'neugh to lie mentioned 2or tho Senatorthip. aud hp deuouiiuateB the whole Democratic held like a giant oak amonc the dog-fennel. If bheridan had not generously succored the stricken and homeless people of Chicago when the Haines had licked up tluii habitations Gen. l'almer might not have got mad, and if he had not got mad he might to-day have been plodding along undistinguished in the Republican party anion* a vast throne oi great big statesmen and patriots just like him­ self. -I And the Democratic candidate so well de­ scribed in the Book of .Tob that I am satisfied it the Domocra.ic editors should read the Bible they would claim the description as a prophecy of the first coming of l almer: 'The glorv of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength ; he goeili on to mett the armed men. He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted; neither turneth he buck from the sword. The quiver rattleth again at him the glittering spear aud the shield. He awal- loweth tho ground witli fierceness and rage. He saith among tho trumpets, "Ha, ha!"'and ha siiielleth the battle aiar off. the thunder of the captains and the shouting.' "And wh»n »o consider the facility with which this Democratic candidate in the past lias bro­ ken ovsr the party fencts when the grass looked higher on the ither side, another verse from Job seems to fit him with the perfect adaptation of positive prophecy : Tho range of the mountains iB h s pasture, and he searchcth after every (treen thing.' " ' All the officers were re-elected by acclama­ tion, the delegates rising from their seats cheering and waving their hats. Tho officers are: President, W. W. Tracv, of Sprincfh Id ; Secretary. James W. Patterson, of Jo lie t As- s siaiu ssecretaries, Richard Yates, of Jackson­ ville, and Andrew J. Lester, of i-pringtield • Tr< usurer, Charles H. Deere, of Moline ' >orty-t\\o delegates to the National Repub­ lican League Convention at Naslivillj were chosen, and an Executive Committed was se­ lected, consisting of a member from each dis­ trict and each county iu the district. Ju< g i .1. B. Messick, of East St. Louis, pre­ senter the report of the Committee on Resolu­ tions, which was adopted unanimously. Fol­ lowing is the text: Whiukah 'ihecampaign of 1890 approaches, and it is highly appropriate that the Republican lieagne of Illinois should meet in convention for the purpose of aligning tho party for the contest and WnrnEAS. It inthn functionof'(ho League of this State and Nation, not to lav down platforms or dictate policies or politics, "but to consolidate and inthuse all elements ot tho party for the active work of the campaign, and for occtpliug and carrying to \ictory the nomi­ nations matie by the National and State conven­ tions ; therefore, he it llcsolcrt:, That this convention express iU ad­ miration for the achievement of tha Republican rarly and its abiding faith in its triumphs In the future; Ihmhvd, That we fully appreciate the gran! work that the Republican Club-of tnis State did in th1 triumphs of the campaign of 1S8H, which fully justifies the continunnce aud perHction cf this on animation, and we confidently expect that work iu the future to bo cvtn inoie active and effective than heretofore; limolrc.). That we heartily Indorse tho Na­ tional and State Administrations and the work of our Senators and Representatives in Con­ gress on behalf of tho whole people ; Jtmoli'fii, That we lnartily indorse tho action of the Republican members of the present House of Representatives for breaking down that hoarv falsehood which enabled memliers to be absent for legislation and present for mischief, and iu adopting a code of rules which gives tile ma­ jority constitutional power to legislate, and robs the Doinpcratic members of their ch'.oi luuciiou -- that of obstiTctionists. ]{ivoU'i-il, That the Republican party has here­ tofore met boldly and squart ly ail economics questions, and that we commend to the careful consideration of thu api roaching t»iato conven­ tion ull questions vdating to labor, capital, apiculture, nianula?turiug, taxation, and suffrage, a;:d we express our nnwav, ring faith in its wisdom an.l ability to meet fairly all iliese living and important issues. President John M. Thurston, of tho National Republicuu lieague, addressed the meeting at some length. H) congratulate! the convention on tho "act that it had brought together such a body of men to carry tho banner of the party and in the interest of no man. It was an in­ spiration and a promise-an inspiration to every Republican in America, and a promise that we should never again be cursed by the plague of a Democratic administration. Tha Democratic paj»ers had said that every delegate would be here with a club. H? believed (hat van true. Every delegate hero had a club, but a club not to use in creating domestic broils, but to beat back the Democratic party--not a Democratic club of brutali.y, but an intellec­ tual weapon of American liberty. He spoke of tha Republican League as the army of the Re­ publican party, as the organizod force which should lie behind th \ Republican macVine to push it to success. The Dtniocrals vrero facing the Republicans vi-h the same issue aud the same candidates th: y had in 18V3, and the party should meet the issue and the man iu the same determined spirit in 1»« that thev did • btfore. Republicans bad several things to congratulate themselves upon now that they had not had before for years. 'lhtfy had a Republican Congress, working under business rulfs, presided over by a man who could not bo intimidated, and we should have Republican legislation ui.on Republican ideas, 'lhose opposing the Republicans Mere nicking the same charges that were made be­ fore, that the Republicans did not revise the tariff. But this had been impossible with the Demccrats in control of the only branch of Con­ gress wheie such legislation could originate. There might be cuusn and necessity for revision' 'of tho tai-iff, and the Republican Congress would rtvise it, but there would be no change made except such as would protect American labor and American industry without laying a burden upon any man. America, said J udgo Thurston, had been made w hit it was by the R.-pub^ican party. That party took charge of the government in 1861, when it was almost bankrupt, when its imports fxceeded its ex]>orts by nearly !>50,(XX),(H)0, when tbe country was rent bv- dissent ion: when the flag was trampled in" the dust. It took charge of the government then aud gave the country peace and plenty, j ro*perity, lib­ erty, and "loyalty. The intelligence of the country made it Republican. 'Ihe great North, with its enterprise, its intelligence and pros­ perity, was Republican. Wherever school- houses were scarce and churches far between, there might be found Democracy. That party had never been successful in' the State of Lincoln, Grant, and Logan. It based its hope of success in the future upon a turn-coat. That party always has loved traitors hotter than loyal men. Mr. ihurston's peroratloh was a description of bow an American was saved in Havana when about to bo put to death by the Spanish Gov­ ernment, when the consul wrapped the flag about the condemned man, and, in the na >le of the greatest nation on the globe, demanded a reprieve until ho could have a fair trial. It saved him, because l incoln kept that flag in tha sky, and because Grant was behind it to make it respected; because the Democrats bad not succeeded in destroying it. • .;•%• R I O T I N G I X K A N S A S . Crtf2aEH» OF RIVAL TOWNS is CON- l--. . v:;. y FLICT. The Bliml) Scene* of a Tear Ag« ll«- -po *tecl--Xev-i« Men Woumli'il in a Pierre Rattle--Several Arrests--Mor» Bloodshed Expected. Wichita (Kan.) dispatch: The old feud between Cimarron and Ingalla, two rival towns in Gray county, has broxrn out afresh and the bloody scenes of a year aso are being repeated. Seven men were wounded by bullets during tho skirmish at Iniralls, and further bloodshca is expected. Some davs ago a proposition to issue 'botrds for a sugar plant carried in dray County, and' when it became known that the plant would be located ai Ingalls the people of Cimarron caused an injunction to be is­ sued. The leader was Charles l». Greg­ ory, who. fearing to appear in Ingall*, sent by mail bonds for costs to the clerk of-the District Court. , . . - The postmaster at Ingalls received the letter, but would not deliver It. Charles Gregory went oyer to Ingalls to look after some business when he was set upon by a motf led by Billy Allinsworth, Peter Harding and George Bold, who demand­ ed that he withdraw the suit under penalty of death. He did so, and was forced to go to the postoffice^ where the «*erk of the court was given the letter, and reaching it to the crowd, it was torn up. - Gregory was then turned loose, and next day he went over to Ingalls with tifty armed men. The desperadoes who led the mob the previous day. finding t hat they were wanted by the Ingalls crowd, tried to get out of town, "when Allins- wortli "vas shot' twice in the legs and c^nco In the neck and is supposed to be fatally in­ jured. The other two got away on fast horses, but It is thought Bold was wounded. There was some shooting around town, and it was feared a gen- oral battle would ensue. Three other Ingalls men were marked with bullets, while four horses and two men of the Cimarron crowd were wounded beforo they left town. The postmaster will be called upon to answer for holding the letter containing the bond for costs of snit. and th^ coun­ ty authorities, who are Ingalls men, will he asked to look after the matter of forcing Cimarron parties to withdraw the suit. Great excitement prevails and there will doubtless be more conflicts be­ fore the matter is ended. WHO'^ GUILTY? TIi* Senate Trying to Find Ont Who Lets the Cat Ont of the llait. Washington dispatch: The Dolph committee appointed to investigate the method by which news of tlje Senate's executive sessions become public has resumed its sittings. Frank Ilatton. editor of the Washington Post, and Messrs. Hahnum and McGill, reporters on thesjime paper, "appeared before tho comniittee. The committee is beginning to discover that the newspaper corres­ pondents are not the only ones who are aware of what takes place In execntivo nowise connected with the Senate or the press who are pretty well informed of what transpires respecting them. ' One of the witnesses ; who testitied said that it was a frequent custom for prominent men whose nomi­ nations wore being contested to estab­ lish thorn??!ve? !u exirii't'eo r?o*ns n?ar at haail in order to racciva information from time to time of how the light was progressing behind the closed doors. The day the Morgan nomination was up he had seen the present commissioner of Indian affairs around the Senate, and lie had no doubt Morgah knew of what was going on. The query now Is, how do these men receive their information,and if they should bo kept posted why not the public also? The reporters who testified did not give much information as to how execu­ tive business news leaked out, stating that what they published they got from newspaper sources. Frank Ilatton was asked what his instructions to his re­ porters were, and he replied, "To get everything that was going on, and if they are very successful they get thejr salaries raised." STATUS OF ML WOOLSEY. Prof. John' F. Weir Has <fu*t Completed the Ilronze Model. New Haven (Conn.) dispatch: Prof. John F. Weir of the Yale art school lias completed a model for the bronze statue of Dr. Woolsey. The statue is to be six­ teen feet high, including a granito pedestal, the figure being of heroic size. President Woolsey is represented as seated in a Greek chair, symbolical of the professorship of Greek which he tilled h:re previous to his clcct-!on to the place of president in 184*i. He is clothed in his presidential robes, symbolizing his presidency of fifteen years over the university. One hand holds a book, while the other rests in his lap. The face was sculptured from life and was verified by a facial cast, also taken from life. The pose of the head is erect and the eyes look- straight forward. The inscriptions for four sides of the pedestal have not yet been decided upon, nor is it known ex­ actly where the statue, when completed, will be put. Prof. Weir has been over two years de­ signing this model and it will probably be about the same length of time before the bronze statue will be finished. ' SI yi .gfc A Commercial's Experience. Many are the stories still tohl by . commercial travelers about Georga Moore the celebrated English drum­ mer's determination to get orders, fie woukl not be denied, siys Samuel Smiles. If refused at first, lie reaortad to all sorts of expedients until he suc­ ceeded. On one occasion he sold the clothes off hi* back to get an order. A tena­ cious dinner in h Lancashire f8thd re­ fused to deal with Jiim. The draper was quite satisfied with the firm that supplied him, and he would make no change. This became known amongst the commercial travelers at the hotel, and one of them made a bet of five: pound* with Ge rge Moor® that he' wofild not obtain an order. George set out again. The draper saw him entering the shop, and cried out, "All full! all full, Mr. Moore! 1; told you ei before!" " . ; "Never mind," said George,' won't olyect to a crack." y "Oh, no!" said the draper. They cracked akmt many things, and v ;l then Geerge Moore, calling the drap­ er's attention to a new o^at which he .wore, asked, "What lie thought of it?" , "It's a capital coat,"- ' said the draper. "Ye% first-rate; made in the best style by a first-rate London tailor." The draper looked at it again, and again admired it. > "Why," said George, "you are ex- actlv my size: its quite new, HI sell it ; to you." » "What's the price 1f j "Twenty-five shilliajp." } ̂ ^'«< \ "What? that's very cheap.™ . - vw..' *Yes, it's a great bargain." v "Then I'll buy it,".-aid the draptir. • George went back to his hotel, donned another snit, and sent the "great bargain" to the draper. George calling again, the draper offered to pay him. "No, no," said George. "111 book it; you've opened an account." Mr. Moore had sold the coat at a loss, but he was recouped by the five-pound bet which he won, and he obtained an| ordet beside. The draj er afterwards! became one of his best customers. ^ * •' | On another occasion a draper at';-.J ': "' Newcastle-upon-Tyne was called upon 'V many times without any result. He, , was always "full." In fact, he had no •' -'l intention of opening an account with. the new firm. Mr. Moore got to know # - that he was fond < I a particular kind j f; \ of snuff--rappee, with a touch of beg- " gar's brown in it. l V 4 1 He provided himself with a box ia "C ^ 1 London, and had it filled with snuff. • ^ When at Newcastle he called upon the | draper, but was met as usual with the - Si remark-- - *" ' M I "Quite full; quite full, sir." "Well," said Mr. Moore, "I scarcely expected an order, bi}t I called upon yon for-a reference." •&%..•;<••. ' . "OIH by all means." . j In the course of coftf^IHjfittoii Gorge pulled ont his snuff-box, tjok a piucb, and returned it to his pocket. After a short interval he took it out again, took another pinch and said, "I suo)>ose you are not guilty of this bad habit!" "Sometimes," said the draper. George handed him the box. He; © took a pinch with zest, and said, through the snuff, "Well, that's very floe!" George had him now. He said. *Let me present you with the box; I have plenty more." The draper accepted the box. No order was asked; but the next time George called upon him he got his ' first order, and the di a; er^ tinned to be one of his oust" . aS--' **>£. - ; RUN DOWN AT LAST. A Beginning. Applicant--I should like to engager in journalistic work, sir." tditor--Any expeiience? Applicant--No, sir. Editor--Have to begin at the bottom, then. Alight assign yotf to some police oourt, outside district. Applicant--All light, sir. But why not let me try my hand on the prize fight this afternoon ? Editor--Prize fight! Great Scott! You must be crazy. If you work up to the prize fight iu teu years you'll do well. Here, though, you might try your hands on this 'swell reception' for this evening. Here's a French dic­ tionary and a dictionary of musical terms over there. That's all you need Get copy in by twelve fifteen, sir. Arrest ia South Dakota of Ml Thief and Elopers < Blunt (S. D.) dispatch: Frank B. Triebe, who, it is alleged, eloped from Tioga Center, N. Y.. in June. 1488, with a neighbor's wife, taking with him 810.- 000 of his wife's personal fortune, has been arrested here with his paramour by an oflicer. who has been following them for a year. Last October Triebe and th'e woman came here from Maple Park, III., and in­ troduced themselves as Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris, of Chicago. They made many friends, and Triebe, alias Harris, sectirCrt a number of remunerative con­ tracts. When the Sioux reservation was opened to settlement Triebe pur­ chased some shares in the new town of Midland, and was on the eve of remov­ ing there. After being arrested they de­ cided to return with the officer to Tioga Center and face the consequences of their misdeeds. PROF. DKUHY DEAD. The Well-Known Weather . Prophet of Ohio Passes Away at the Ajte of 80. Springfield (Ohio) dispatch: Prc>f. James Drury, HO years of age, and widely known throughout central Ohio, as a weather prophet, has just died «»f la grippe. Ever since Prpf. Drury pre-«> dieted to the cxact day a destructive tornado which swept over central Ohio a few years ago his predictions have been regularly reported by prominent papers in Ohio and neighboring States. Prof. Drurv kept records of weather for twenty-live years, and invented several j queer instruments for state of atmosphere, etc. Amazed. The natives of tropical co seldom so much astonished as they are when first introduced to snow and iee. The congealing of water is a phenome­ non they are slow to comprehend. A few months ago Sir William McGregor enticed several New Guinea natives to the hitherto unsealed summit of Mount Owen Stanley, the loftiest peak in British Australasia. On its barren summit, nearly a thou- f ind fe^t above the zone of vegetation, big icic'e* were fonnd, and the native?.! when they touched them, declared that their tinge 's had ':cei bv.raed. I A year c.^o, whe:i Mr. Ehlers aa-j ,, cended Mount Kilimanjaro, in Africa. ' u, bis native porters, who had lived all V their, lives near the base of the great <# > mountain, pulled off the boots witii which they had been provided, and. plunged merily into the snow iu their bare feet They lost no tima in plung- ; ing out again, and lay writhing on tbe , • ground, insisting that their leet bad been severely barred. ' " Some Central African natives who «- had been introduced into Germany mis-. took the first snow-storm they saw for a flight of white butterflies, and Lieut Von Francois says the mistake was a , very natural one. One day when he ~ was ascending a tributary of the Congo, ' he saw for the first time tbe air filied • 4= with a great swarm of white butterflies, ; 1 ft and the spectacle closely resembled a - gentle fall of snow. '•*-% He Couldn't Afford to Take Chances, Rosenthal (who is abont to submit to an operation)--Doctor, vhas id needccs- .'$0 sary for you to make dot hole mein •*' stomach in? Doctor--Yes, Mr. Rosenthal, it will be necessary for me to use tbe knife, , i but you can be placed under the infiu- ence of ether and will suffer no pain': ^ Rosenthal---Yaw, doctor, I know dot, und dot vhas der reason uf mein worry- " •#-;, ments. Der obberation vhas haf to be <'tl- berformed, und oonless I dake me dot lt=|| ether I vill suffer; but, doctor, I dink I - vill stand der pain und keep mein eye on vou. .ki' Doctor--Why, Mr. Rosenthal, what " do you mean? . ^ Rosenthal--Veil, doctor, I tole you, -N • You see, doctor, ven I vhas apoud four years old 1 swallowed a live-dollar gold y ,'• s piece, und--und--veil, doctor, bustnesa is business, und a mau dou't know who to trust ' '-'J% . --________ b'j&m How She Knew it Was the Shortest Day ' A new example of the readiness of ^1" some minds to apfkly iilustratious to f plienomeua came recently uuder the r.Vj writer's notice. An Irish servant girl, ^ newly admitted to service in a lady's ^ house, was told by her mistress that the :'W. current day was the shortest of the year. Bridget replied: "In it indade, mum? •Sure, and now Oi 0 mie to think of it. - Oi had no sooner taken down tbe is dhinner than it was t ime to bring the t-ay." ... - .. Why There Has a Relap«. Easter man (iu Kan^-a)--The town ' 'M has greatly changed siwe I was last ^ here. Then it was u bustling, booming ^ T, place, and now it is deserted, gloomy , - >1 and half dead. What i* he matter * " Have the moneyed men got c. further west? Native (aorrowfut.y)--No; the baae -a ascertaining tho | ball club has g ne over tc tho MKi i county.--Lawntmeo America/%. r< • 1 .V • +>j' J, ~ ( f 14S***.•