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• JlAf V "sV «•"* f§c|gtafg glamdffllrt I. VAN SLYKI, Ei Iter mi Publisher. UcHENRT, ILLINOIS. ^ GERMANY'S army is still inferior, to that of France by 40,000 men. Ger- .tufcny possesses 2,184 field gana, where­ in France has 3,880 ready for war. THERF. M y m courts ia the United States «tirajpd in granting divorces, And one manage ia every twenty-eight _ i8 thus annulled. ~ 7- \.j THREE years Ago David Boys bought =a section of labd near Salt Lake City •for $64,000. Last week he refund an m-~"*afier of $448,000 cash for it. while the necks and sleeves have pUin linen collars and cuff*. % A GERMAN has invented an apparatus jfor forcing sidewiae the swell in front ( <Of fast-going ships by means of steam I Priva*© secretary is kept constantly OKN. SHERMAN, it is said, has taken for his special quarters the front base­ ment of his new house. In the wall he has built a great fire-proof safe, in which he has stored every document of value connected with his long and brilliant career in the army-- his com­ missions, orders from the War Depart­ ment, diaries, correspondence, every note he has jotted down, everything that has a value as part of the record of his soldiering. On the walls of the room hang maps of the fields of battle whareon he led his men from victory to victory. On the floor aro his camp- chests--stored as they ever have been with his uniforms and the clothes he wore beneath them, with his swords and belts and all the accoutrements of a general's trappings and camp outfit. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. IXTBRESTING ITKM8 GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. j«ts from a nozzle under tlie water at the bow. ' • A MAN recently went to the city hos­ pital at Hamilton, Ont., suffering from busy replying to letters Of inquiry from all parts of the world. CORPORAL TANNER relates this in his lecture: One day as he was tossing fe- sft .diseased kidney, the,other being per-; verishly about in his cot in the trmy fectly scund. The doctor in attendance j hospital, a lady of uncertain age en- removed the sound kidney by mistake, «nd the man died shortly after. A LADY in Americus, Ga., is using a lamp chimney she has had and used daily for the past eight years, and she expects to use it for many years vet. She says that she boiled it in salt and •water when it was bought in 1882, and mo matter how large a flame >runs through it, it won't break. ANY law firm in New York with a • really profitable business expends from #10,000 to $25,000 a year for rent, light, fuel, stenographing and the like. Some of the older lawyers still. refuse to em- - ploy typewriters, and William Albert 3utler astonished some of his younger brethren at Albany the other day by presenting a voluminous brief written «.ipttt in his own hand. v" THERE is said to be a pl&nt in Arabia •With flowers of bright yellow and with tered the ward with a basket and a bundle. Old soldiers will understand with what avidity the wounded men eyed that basket, and, as she stopped at the bedside of Tanner, his mouth watered in anticipation of the delicious treat. "Young man," said the woman, .solemnly, "are you ready for the great change awaiting you?" He hoped he was. "Well, young man," continued she in that same sepulchral tone, "take this, and when you get well, if you ever do, it may do you good." And she took from the bundle a--tract, and laid it tenderly on the bed. "Thank you, madam, thank yon," said Tanner, with I sudden vigor, as he noticed the title, "On the evils of Dancing," and calling back the old maid, he swore a solemn I oath never to dance as loug afc lie lived, The gallant corporal had just had both legs amputated. ATLAS, of Libya, is said to have dis- • , , . , , 1 1 , 1 , i c o v e r e d t h e u s e o f g l o b e s , a n d G r e e . ' v seeds which are like black beans, and , . •- , ,, , , , j , . , and Roman writers made several allu-these dried and powdered and taken ia small doses, cause a person to dance about and behave like a lunatic, till he :l)ecomes exhausted and falls' asleep. When he awakes he has not the small­ est remembrance of his ridiculous be sions to them. The celestial preceded the terrestrial globe by many centu­ ries. The oldest globe in existence; dating from 1070, is now at Florence, and, though less than eight inches in Five me 11 1 II Decoration Bay in XcXenry. Cost. SL17.5&0.00J 1!>,778,101 | 20.3iH),SJ0 31,5111,000 - • r n i t - n j « i i d i a m e t e r , g i v e s 1 . 0 1 5 s t a r s . r iiavior. The plant is called a laugh-' ... , , , . .. . ,. . - 1 tallic globes made-by the Arabian as- 1 • " ' tronomers in the thirteenth century are r. AT Durham, N. C., since the city has still preserved, one belonging to the , llad electric illumination, the ravages i British Hoyal Astronomical Society. The terrestrial globe appears to date from 1492. The first map on which America appears was found among the papers of Leonardo de Vinci at Wind­ sor castle, and, as it (is drawn in eight gores, it seems to have been intended as | a globe. The new terrestrial globe of ! interest was that completed by Merca- tor in 1541, having a diameter of six­ teen inches. Various others succeeded, until in 1692 Molvneux constructed several enlarged and improved globes twenty-six inches in diameter, differing little from modem globes except in geography. One of these still remaius ir the library of the Middle temple, London. About the time Mollyneux's work was done, Hues' "Treatise on the Globes" was published, in Latin, and quickly went through many editions and translations. It has been reprinted in English. of the tabacco worm have been greatly f reduced, the insects having been killed "; Jby the lights. It "is suggested that a ?T ^powerful electric) light in the center of •one of the sea islands growin g the famous long staple cotton might save all the , plantations surrounding it from the de­ traction so frequently wrought by the '• ootton army-worm. •V --.v JUDGE WILLIS SWEET, in the District XJourfc of Mount Idaho, Idaho, has de- ' gilded that Chinese have no right what­ ever on mining lands in the United fitate?, and that a lease of mining * ;i,Jttround to them is invalid, and amounts .' 'tb an abandonment of a claim. Measures "will now be taken, if au appeal is not «llowe/l, to oust all Chinese miners in , the territory. The decision is far- feachiDg, and will lead to the abandon­ ment of much ground bv the Chinese. THE horses in Norway have a very • sensible way of taking their food; ' "They have a bucket of water put down . Reside their allowance of hay. It is in- ^cresting to see with what relish they take a sip of one and a mouthful of the ' * tyther alternately, sometimes only moist- filming their mouths, just as a rational ; being would do while eating a dinner of ; ! iiich dry food. A broken-winded horse 4» scarcely ever seen in Norway, and the •question is if the mode of feeding has Saved by Swimming. By the Australian mail we have for the first time full particulars of the Quetta disaster, and the narratives of the survivors, says an English journal. We subjoin the principal paints in the graphic statement of Miss Lacy, un­ doubtedly the most interesting figure iu the events of that calamitous night in Torres straits. Miss Lacy says she was sitting in the saloon writing a letter, the other ladies being practicing for a concert, when, without a moment's warning, they heard a loud grating Hot something to do with the preserva- j t.lie ship rocked violently, and a !1 tion of the animal's respiratory organs. CHINESE doctors are very particular about the distinction being very strictly Jtept up between physicians and sur­ geons, and would not trespass on one another's ground for the world; but this delicacy of feeling has a rather dis­ astrous effect on the j>atient's pocket •sometimes. A Chinese gentleman was ..Struck by an arrow, which remained >st in his body. A surgeon was sent for, and, modestly requesting his fee Should bo paid in advance, he broke off | *• |£jbe protruding bit of arrow, leaving the I •point imbedded in the" wretched man's $ody. ' He re I used to extract it, because, lie Raid, medical etiquette forbids it; the case is clearly one for a physician, v-*ince the arrow is inside the body! (A No more unfortunate man ever lived than Jonas Tramblie, who committed £ 4raicide last Christmas at Wichita, Kan. Jlr. Tramblie killed himself to escape fbreach of promise suit brought ' tagainst him by a lady to whom he had • l>een paying court. His death did not j»rrest the legal process, and the fair ,J>laintift has just been awarded the damages for which she prayed. Here- „ ! *fter breach of promise cases will be V' , ^ counted among the things that can lay % ; iiold of one after death. The outlook lor festive love-making batclielors and % ) ^idowers is anything but promising. . t -- -- -- -- -- -- -- THE Countess Waldersee was a Miss liea, of New York, and she has a num- P \l>er of relatives in Kentucky, She is | iow the first lady at the German court. .'f.Jler husbaud is nearly related to the feigning Emperor, and he and his ' joung wife are devoted to her. She . lives like a queen in the palace adjoin­ ing Von Moltke's. Though everything about her is royal she herself follows • ilhe most severe simplicity. From her •fine forehead her soft silver hair is 'Sbrushed smoothly back. Her com­ plexion is fresh as a girl's, her face, with ^§ts beautifully chiseled features, is full a®f expression, and her figura and car­ riage are regaL At home she wears " llark cashmeres of finest $9ality, but %tade absolutely without trimming. f • . VCW '."i'.-'• a m Y4- chorus of confused noises broke out on deck. Miss Lacy rushed on deck, and already the ship was sinking. "Going aft," she sayw, "was like walking up a hill. The part to which I was making my way was high above the water." But hardly had she reached the aft part of the vessel than it, too, rapid­ ly sank, and in a moment 200 human beings and a large number of sheep "were all in the water in a heap, the people struggling and shrieking ter­ ribly." Miss Lacy, with great difficulty, managed to extricate herself from the confused mass, and, being a practiced swimmer, succeed in getting clear of the whirpool caused by the sinking ship. She then relieved herself of all superfluous clothing, and swam about for two hours, in the hope of coming across some of the survivors. At mid­ night she heard a cry from a distance,and swimming toward it, found that it came from a raft, rudely and hastily con­ structed by the chief officer. She availed herself of this temporary refuge, and remained oh the raft until noon next day, when, finding that it was making no progress, and fancying that she saw an island on the verge of the horizon, Miss Lacy determined to trust once more to her swimming powers, and, in spite of the strong remon­ strances of the chief officer she dived into the ocean and struck out in the direc­ tion she had marked out for lierselfT But she had grievously miscalculated the distance of the island. All that afternoou and far into the night she was in the water without lifebelt or support of any description, relieving herself by swimming alternately on'her face, back and sides. She said she felt no fear of the sharks that abound in these tropical waters, but the fearfully hot sun scorched her terribly, and every now and then she had to thrust her head under water to save herself from sun­ stroke. She i3 under the impression that for a part of the time she was asleep in the water. At length, after being twenty hours altogether alone in Torres straits, she was picked up in an almost exhausted condition by a boat belong­ ing to the search steamer Albatross. For some hours after her timely rescue she was delirious, and fancied herself living in a submarine hotel. GENIU8 without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace. It may serve to cast a gleans of light on those that are without, while the inhab­ itants sit in darkness. What Oar Neighbors Aro Doing;--Matter* of General and Local Interest -- Mar- riage» umi Death*--Accidents utid Crimes --Personal Pointers. --Chicago Inter Ocean:, In 1882 Chi­ cago entered upon a new ah 1 vastly in­ creased prosperity, new buildings lieing erected in that year to the number ot 3,118, at a cost of $15,842,800, and since that time there hat been a steady annual increase, as follows: Buildings. 1893 .4,093 1884............... 4,168 1685 4.&W 1886......... 4.A64 1887 4,883 1888... .4,958 1889 7,530 In thirteen years, 1877-89, Chicago has put up 44,632 buildings, representing a cost of $207,!»7<i,779, occupying a lront- age of 1,090,473 feet, worth $31,500,0 K). Chicago has, therefore, about §2*8,000,000 in buildings. --The Secretary of the Treasary h*s asked the Committee on Appropriations to allow the following sums for the care and preservation of the pnbliabuildings in Illinois during the next fiscal year: Chicago custom iiouse.... ..$39,S2J Cairo custom house ,;i,W4 j Gttlor.a custyin nauao.870 Pooria court house aud postofflcc.. Quincy court house and poatofflce. v2,i»lu bpriugficld courc house aud post ... 3,'2W --The Governor has appointed Valen­ tine Jobst, of Peoria, Trustee of the Illi­ nois State Reform School, vice Edward Spelman, resigned. --James Wright, a 15-year-old lad, was thrown from his horse at Greenville and instantly killed, his neck being broken. --The Auditor of Public Accounts at Springfield has granted permission for the organization of the Bank of Tennes­ see, at Tennessee, McDonough County, with capital stock of $25,000. Final cer­ tificate was issued the Bank of Arthnr, at Arthur, to commence business, the cap­ ital stock of $25,000 having been paid in. --Supervising Architect Windom has recommended to Congress an appropria­ tion of $200,000 for a government build­ ing at Rock Island.. --A jury in the Probate Court at Chi­ cago, declared E. J. Lehmann, of the Fair, a distracted person, and Mrs! Augusta Lehmann, his wife, was ap­ pointed conservator of his $2,500,000 estate. Mr. Lehmana is now in Bloom- ingdale Asylum, New York. His insanity has covered a period of about three months. His trouble resulted from too much mental work consequent on the management of a business of great mag­ nitude. Mrs. Lehman gave bond as con­ servator in $5,000,000, with John B. Walsh and Otto Young as sureties. Mr. Lehmann's business will run on just as it has (n the past, Mr. Young managing It for Mrs. Lehmann. --The following Illinois patents have been issued: W. H. Bennett, Chicago, saBh holder; J. T, Briggs, Decatur, ven­ tilating hood for dust collector; V. £. Cerveny and J. Nowak, Chicago, trousers; W. J. Coolahan and W. G. Fleeman, Dunning, step-ladder; P. H. • Day, Springfield, gate for swinging bridges; J. L. Gage, Chicago, wood-cutting ma­ chine; A. J. Glick, Millersville, two- wheeled vehicle; W. J. Gohn, Oakwood, cultivator; L. G. Hague and W. P. Bolles, Bloomington, horse-spreading device; J. Haish, DeKalb, nail; B. E. Hurley, Chicago, track-laying apparatus; E. H. Johnson, Chicago, steam engine; M. Kennedy, Chicago, die for coupling links; R. F. Levy, Chicago, mitten; J. A. Linden, Sterling, portable bath tub; C. J. Olson, Chicago, feed mechanism for wood-working machine; C. L. Page, Chicago, fire-place; E. J. Pennington, Mount Carmel, split pulley; E. A. C. Peterson, Chicago, baker's oven; W. H. Randall, Chicago, heater; J. F. Shannon, Macomb, car coupling; E. R. Steinhilber, Galesbnrg, coal car; S. Strahan, Chicago, car or other dome; T. R. Troendle, Ba- tavin, striping attachment for paper bag machines; E. P. Warner, Chicago, three- wire multiple switch board system; J. B. Warren, Chicago, extensible stove-pipe joint. --Dr. J. H. Lawrence, of Springfield, has sued Dr. C. Stoddard Smith, of Chi­ cago, for $10,000 damages'. Dr. Smith is Secretary of the State Board of Dental Examiners. He formerly resided at Springfield and owns a house which Dr. Lawrence rented. The latter claims that Dr. Smith would not repair the house, and that in-conse^uence of the poor sani­ tary coiraitiOn Of "the premises both his wife and daughter were taken ill and died. For this he wants damages. --The twenty-second annual conven­ tion of the Illinois State Eclectic Medical Association met at Springfield last week. Governor Fifer made an address of wel­ come, which was responded to by Presip dent Finley Ellingwood, of Chicagb. The following otlicers were elected : Finley Ellingwood, President; C. H. Doss, First Vice President; H. J. Wayl, Second Vice President; W. E. Kinnett, Recording Set- retary; George R. Shafer, Corresponding Secretary; S. C. Hewitt, Treasurer. --The 1,200 members of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, through dele­ gates at Clinton, engaged to buy binding twine of the State. --Gov. Fifer has pardoned Frank Wat- son, who is doing a four-year sentence at Joliet for forgery, the pardon being issued because Watson was but 18 years old when sentenced and his.conduct previ­ ously had been good. --Ed Spelman, the chisf of Camp. No. 20, Clan-na Gael, who was convicted' by the Grand Jury at Peoria for securing illegal votes to foist himself on the City Council, gave himself up last week. He was placed under bonds of $4,000 on two counts and released. • --The Secretary of State has issued articles of incorporation td the New York, St. Louis & Kansas City Railway Company, which will construct a railroad from a connection with the New York, Wheeling, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Company of Indiana, at a point on the boundary between Indiana and Illinois in Sullivan and Crawford Counties, to East bt. Louis. The office is to be at East St. Louis and the oapital stock $4,000,000 --A Henderson County farmer has .dis­ covered metal on his farm which he thinks i8 lead ore. era } Arrangements to observe Decoration Slftpay in an appropriate manner, in this ^tillage, have been made, and all are in- ^Brited to meet at G. A. R. Hall, at 1:30 p. >M. sharp, on Friday, May 30, from which bl£pla<*> the line of march will'be taktn up o'clock. The order of march, will be cot*£ follows: yi 1--Ring wood Cornetliajid. - 2--Mollenry Post andfex-soldieiik audj 3--Young Ladies «Sl^bJ|'lower8. 1KT] 4--Choir. 5--Melleury School. ; j lik« 0--Citizens. , , rt'cti'ioo \ arriving at the Ceitiiiery the G. A* 21,324.40.) • the Post will conduct their sjtecial service the conclusion of which the young dies will proceed to decorate thegravee t he departed heroes, under direction of ne member of the 1'ost. • \fter the Decoration ceremonies are r the programme will be as follows : Ringing by the C.hyi' - shipment ui tattle.*1 The f armers ance was represented by i dent, A. E. Brunsoa, an retary, S. A. Kirkpatree; G. A. Griggs of Normal, of Auburn,' and J. H. Peoria; and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association by its chief State officer, C. J. Lindly of Greenville. H. H. Hayt was also present. The railroads sent no rep­ resentatives. The farming interest in attendance agreed to appoint a committee to confer with commissioners, and the subject was taken under advisement. There seems to be a general disposition to adjust the matter satisfactorily without trouble or litigation. The farmer ship- perj claim that as the rate now stmds the charges are against them to the extent of $3 or more on each carload. --The Democrats of the Southern Grand Judicial District of Illinois, com­ prising thirty-four counties, met at Du- quoin last week, and nominated the Hon. John W. Burton, of Jefferson County, for CJerk of the Appellate Court and Frank Haville, editor of the Mt. Car­ mel Register, for Supreme Court Clerk. --An insect called the saw fly is reported to be ruining the wheat in various parts of Central Illinois, notably in Logan County, where the area of wheat planted is unusually large. --Chief Justice Shope of the Supreme Court has rendered a decision confirm­ ing the vialidity of the act of the Legis­ lature creating the short-cause calendar. Defendant appealed from a judgment on the ground that it was tried on the shovt- eause calendar, and that tha act creating it was unconstitutional because in con­ flict with the general-practice act, and Was a local or spec! 1 law. The Supreme Court says that the act providing for taking a case out of its regular order nnd trying it in advance of other caBes began before it might be in conflict with the practice act requiring the clerks of court to keep a docket of suits to be tried in the order docketed, were it not that Another clause of the practice act per­ mitted exceptions to that rule where good cause appears to the Jud?e to exist. The short-cause calendar act furnishes such a cause and the jractice act allowed for a law making such provision for speedy trials, by directing such Exceptions as might appeal to ihe discretion of the court It is also decided that the act is not a special or local one. as'it applies to all the courts in the State. The court also expresses the opinion that the short-cause calendar is a good thing. --The trustees for the Institution for the Blind at Jacksonville have elected Frank H. Hall, of Aurora, 111., to suc­ ceed W. S. Phillips as superintendent. A Jacksonville dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocedn says that Mr. Phillips is re­ moved for causes entirely other thai* any connected with the affair of last winter, and are summed tip in the word •incompetency." The trustees claim that they h4ve a bill of particulars to back up their action whenever the time comes for it to be made public. But they say they do not prefer to do so, and will not unless they are driven to it, and that they feel absolutely positive that they are working for the best good of the State institution placed in their charge. Mr. Phillips takes the matter very coolly. He simply says that he feels deeply wronged in the matter, and that he has faithfully done his duty in every respeot. --Chicago papers chronicle the death of Wirt Dexter, the acknowledged leader of the Chicago bar. Wirt Dexter, says 'ie Herald, came from a stock of lawyers and statesmen. He was born a lawyer, and that he possessed all the requisites that make one great in his profession all the leading members of the b ir attest, and his long and successful practice offers further proof. His father was Judge Samuel Dexter, a pioneer jurist of Michi­ gan,after whom was named the little town of Dexter, in that State. It was there that Wirt Dexter was born in 1833. His grandfather, Samuel Dexter, of Boston, was Secretary of the Treasury under President John Adams, and won equal distinction as a lawyer and statesman. Young Wirt was graduated early from Ann Arbor, and for a time engaged in the lumber business in Upper Michigan, but all his inclinations were for the law, jwid in or about 1853 he came to Chicago to engage in its practice. --James R. McClure, assist wt ticket agent of the Illinois Central 4k Cairo, at­ tempted to commit suicide the day by cutting his wrist with a pocket-knife. He was suffering from a fever.and was'much worried ""over a note of $150 that had fallen due that day. --Gertie Pusie, 11 years old fell into the bay at Quincy and was drowned. --Congressman Frank Lawler has an­ nounced himself in the race for the Dem- orcatic nomination for Sheriff of Cook County. --Chicago dispatch: Three hundred members of Typographical Union, No. 16, gathered at Rose Hill Cemetery Sun­ day afternoon and assisted in the dedi­ cation of a monument to the deceased members of the Union buried at Rose Hill. The new monument is of Vermont granite, and is a square shaft eleven feet two incheB in height, with an ornamental capstone on which rests an urn. v --The State convention of veterans of the Mexican war has been ealled for Jnne 23, and 24, at Greenville. There are 600 veterans and widows in the State, so far as known. ^TIONAL elections. [From the Philalelphia Kress.] principal obje 'tion the opponents ^national election law bring against Hai measure is the claim th*t it cannot tojfforeed. Those people whose mem- Vxtends back thiity years will recall ~^the same objection was brought , Ttf st Abraham Lincoln's policy of con- ; --ing the slaveholders' rebellion. If lenaral Government cannot enforce ^ kn laws, and h is to confess that it |iOf stand impotent before the red- i ;jed ritie clubs of South Carolina and I^xilidozers of Mississippi, it presents • 'tiable spectacle to the world. No •respecting American will listen to in objection. If the necessity for a onal election law can be shown the ^jrument either tins or will be given bower to enforce it. „he r.>al question is as to the need of '••p a law, and thut is nnswered by the °*wful suppression of votes in a num- jof the Southern St ites. The fact of lj suppression is too evident to need tjimenr. It is acknowledged by the Ituern Democratic papers, and no one _.J> is worth listeoiuq to denies it. The 'ot of this suppression ot' legal voters e the Democr tic party on enor- else. What is it? Is it not time t9 begin a well-organized and self-sacri­ ficing system of missionary work in these strongholds of Jeffersonian De­ mocracy and try to reform them?-- Chicago Tribune. , , • Sheep Without a Shepherd. Tfcere was^never a dearer case of sheep without a shepherd than the Democracy of the House of Representatives. There are 164 of them. With either liandall or Carlisle to gnide their footsteps they could get on wbll ebouph. E <ch had the heart for leadership. But the death of one and the election of the other to the Senate have conspired to make a vacancy which cannot be nlled. Mills, of Texas, is the Yanking Con­ gressman. He was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the last Hou^e. That made him Speaker Car- , lisle's first lieutenant in the Fiftieth Con- I gress. But he i* singularly lacking in j the necessary qualifications for a parlia- I mentmy leader. Ihe nearest approach i to a natural leader for the present minor- j itv of the House is Springer, of Illinois. I He understands parliamentary tactics and ! is quick ot thought. Not always judicious, he might lead his forces into taking un- la, Alabama, Mississippi, and The following table shows unl Democratic methods have diminishing the Republican vote se States: Kep; vote 1870-6. (18721 90,272 ....... . (1870* 63,822 (1872) 71,634 .... (1872) 82,405 (1876) 91,870 Alabama Geoi^ia Louisiana Mississippi....... South Carolina... Rep. vote 1888. 56.197 3J.496 30,663 30.0SI3 13,736 Totals... * 406,004 171,188 Dem. vote Dem. vote 1872-6. (18721 79,-iZl (1872> 76,278 (1872) 57,1129 (1872) 47,087 (1876) 'J0,90tS 1888. 117,320 100.499 85,132 a5.471 65,825 360,729 454,147 k>w r tenable ground sometimes, but he has dvaut«geoverthe Republican party ! good deal of skill in debate. Illinois will ntial and Congressional elec- | not 'insist on ussuming this responsibil- frauds are perpetrated priu- 1 'tji but has an eye to the honor. Bynum, e live States of South Caro- Indians, seems to think the censure administered to him by the House Satur­ day ought to recommend him to tho favor of his political associates as the mnn most entitled to honor. He is Bomewhat glib of tongue, but far from equal to the intellectual strain of the position to which he aspires. Crisp, of Georgia, is a man of considerable ability, but not to be pressed to the front The paucity of the 7ight material for leadership is re­ markable. Are the brains of the Democ­ racy otherwise engaged or oozing eut? There is something wrong somewhere. It may well bo doubted if either party was ever before in so sorry a plight, in­ tellectually, as the Democrats of the House find themselves, now that Mr. Carlisle has been raised to the Senate. The Honse of Representatives ia so large a body that there must be organiza­ tion and discipline or there would be confusion nnd stultification. There is no such need in the Senate. In the lat­ ter body ever}' member can be a law unto himself, nor is there any absolute leader. Men like Sherman and Edmunds are looked up to, but not followed as leaders, in the sense in which some one must be on both sides of the House. Perhaps under the new rules such leadership will not be qnite as important ss formerly. The technicalities ot parliamentary forms will not pl»y anything like as prominent part in the proceedings of this House as they did in the proceedings of former Houses. Skill in filibustering is no longer accounted statesmanship. The questions before Congress must be met squarely «nd decided on their intrinsic merits. It is to be hoped there will be no return of the time when to be a lender in Congress one must be an expert in ringing the changes on merely dilatory motions.--Inter Occan. Alabama... Georgia Louisiana......... Mississippi Soutu Carolina.... Totals The Eepublican vote has not gone over to the Democracy in these States, for the Democratic poll shows only the natural increase that comes from growth of population. But it has been suppressed, iutimidated, counted out, until it is about t>0 per cent less than it was fourteen years ago. The result of this suppression of Republican votes on national politics can be readily shown. In the five States mentioned the census of 1880 showed a colored majority in twenty-six Congressional districts as follows: Negro Alabama-- majority. First district R. H. Clarke 1st term.. 2,K>8 8»oond district. .H. A. Herbert.. ,7tli term. 24'.) Third district.. .Wm. C. Oates.. .5th term. 8,149 Fourth district. .I.. \V. Turpin... 1st term.26,612 Cit'orsia-- Recond district..H. G. Turner... .5th term. 3.76.1 Third district Cli&s. F. Crisp. .4th term. 2,431 Fourth district. .T. M. Grimes.. .2d term.. 2,947 Sixth district Jos. H. Blount. .9th term. 8,22J Eighth district..H. H. Carlton.. .2d term.. 4,180 Tenth district.. .O. T. Barne 3d term.. 6,145 Louisiana.. Fourth district..N. C- Blancb'd..5th term. 5,752 Fifth district C. J. Boatner . ..1st tirm..22,l>l £i vtli district.. S. M. ltolierts n.2d term.. 4,545 Mississippi- Second district..J. B. Morgan....3d term.. 2,468 Third district I. C. CatchiiiRs.Su term.. 14,720 Fourth district. .Clarke I<owis.. .1st term. 5.773 Fifth district C. L. Anderson.2d term.. 1,570 Sixth district. ...T. K. 8tockdale.2d term.. 1,327 Sev'nth district..C. E. Hooker... .OtU term. 6,440 South Carolina-- First district Samuel Dibble.4th term. 2,236 Seeoul district..<». D. Tillman, ,4th term. 6,643 Ihiid district, J. D. Cothran.. .2.1 term.. 1,210- Fourth (iistrict.. W. H. l'errv 3d term.. 1,590 Fifth district J.J. Hemphill. .4th term.. 2,610 Bixth district ii.W. I>argan.. .Jtli term.. 3,2'J6 Bev'nthdistrict..Win. Elliott 2d term..24,899 There is no question that with a full vote and an honest count every one of these districts would have elected a Re­ publican to the present Congress without the aid of the white Republican vote, which in some of these districts is large. How did the Congress onat elections of WS3 result in these Jive States? The official returns give the following results: --Vot'.-- Cdng'm'n. Sooth Carolina Georgia A l a b a m % . . . . . . . . Mississippi........... Louisiana . R'jp. 10,031 Si.476 54,351 2.5,600 'JO,827 Dem. 65,015 96,045 117,583 89.814 86,432 151,285 454,817 1 38 Every district in these five States, with one exception only, was returned as elect- in? a Democratic Congressman. With such results upon national politics, and which are evidently brought about by fraud, cm any intelligent, fair-mindel Free Sugar. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, who through several Congresses has been very earnest in behalf of the reduction of the rate on sugar, explained forcibly to-day the ar­ guments in favor of placing srgar on the free list. The following are some of the points: "The proposition to put sugar upon the free list is in harmony with the platiorm of the Republii-an party and the principles of piotection. Sug.tr is not produced in the United States insufficient quantities either to supply the home market or any considerable portion of it, or to regulate the pric^ of sugar in the markets of the woild. Last year the im­ portations of sugar into the United States amounted in value tci $y:!,000,000. Of this amount $12,000,000 was imported from the Sandwich Isl­ ands duty free. The amount of duty received from sugar was $56,000,000 The production of sugar in the United States amounted to only one-eighth of the consumption, yet the crop last year was better in this country than the average. For 100 years sugar has been protected. In that time we have collected in revenue $15,- 500,0011,000 from that Rrticle. Yet to-day, while the product is only a a eighth of the amount consumed, the cry comes up for more protection. There i? less sugar produced in this country now than there was thirty years ago. The attempt of the advocates of the retention of the sugar duty to make it appear that there is an exact parallel between wool and sugar is a failure. This will be seen by the man doubt the necessity of a national j figures. The production last year of election law? And with the need of the " J law admitted will any self-respecting American confess that this Government canuot enforce the law after it has been passed? • Democratic State Treasurers Within a comparatively short period ten Treasurers'of ten Democratic States --Louisiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Vir­ ginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Maryland, Arkansas end Alabama-- States which are the backbone of the Na­ tional Democracy, have proved untrue to the trust reposed in them by the people, and have stolen from their respective treasuries over four and a half million of dollars. The smallest sum stolen by any one Democrat was $32,7G8, taken by No- land of Missouri; the largest was #703,600, taken by Burke of Louisiana. The aver­ age of the others has been about f 350,Oco. The following table shows the aggregate: Ijouisiatxa $ 703,600 Georj? ia 1)0,000 Kentucky 200,000 Virginia 150,000 T<MineHse® 400,000 Missouri (several thieve*) 1,857,000 Mississippi 315,612 Maryland (estimated) 500,0U0 Arkansas; 80,000 Alubama 200, CO) Total .$4,580,212 Upon what principle of natural selec­ tion does it happen that in these States, whose Democracy cannot bo questioned, the people so often elect State Treasurers who will steal? The temptation is cer­ tainly no greater than that which con­ fronts the treasurers of Republican States. The temptation in Illinois, for instance, is just as great as it is in Mis­ sissippi or Maryland, and yet Illinois has had an unbroken succession, of Repub­ lican State Treasurers since 185G, and not a dollar of the public money has been stolen. Is it something in tho party itselt? Is there a mysterious quality in the prin­ ciples of that organization that indnces kleptomania on the part of men intrusted with public money, not only in State but in county, city, and town treasurers? In these ten States Republicanism has no control. In some of them it has no area of activity at all. It is not contaminated by any other party. It presents itself as the simon-pure, unadulterated Jef­ fersonian Democracy, nurtured and developed to the very highest standard of which Democracy is capable. It has been the custom of Democratic organs all over the country to call attention to the Democracy of these ten States as the original and genuine article, un­ tainted by admixture with any other form of politics, and "to point with pride" to the happy results which ob­ tain where such Democracy has unre­ stricted sway. The people have a wide field to el the men money, it happet before called in his oomes the inc except oount« the inc r u l e i t ; an tl when they select handle the State be times out of five select a man who, out, creates what is |lauguage"a shortage „ other wo: ds, be- makes off with all it. If these were only they might be ac- tsome moral defect in it since they are the to try to explain them It must be something wool in the United States, under the present insufficient tariff, was 50,000,000 pounds, whereas the importa­ tions of wool were 120,000,000 pounds last year. There was twice as much produced at home as was., imported, and tbe home production was sufficient to control the price at home and to regulate the price of wool in the world's market. The parallel between wool and sugar, therefore, cannot be drawn." Mr. Can­ non made this statement: "This sugar schedule by intontion, so far as the wishes of those interested are concerned, as it now is in the law, as it would have stood uuder the Mills bill, and as it would be under the amendment proposed by Mr. McKenna, of California, was so far arranged as to charge every cent of the duty upon sugar to the consumer and BO as to yield a profit of 1 cent a pound to the refiner, as every dollar of expense, eveu including the cost ot' packing, was provided for in the interest of the refiner." -- Washington dispatch. Doesn't Scare Anybody. The threat of the British manufactur­ ers to stay nt home with their goods, and so make the World's Fair a failure, in case the McKinley tariff bill shall become a law, doesn't scare anybody, Even the free traders in Congress laugh at it, thoU2h there is an occasional squeak of afiprehens on in the Democratic papers in Chicago.--Dayton Journal. AT Somerville, Tenn., some time sinoe, certain judges and clerks of election-- Democratic, of course--were convicted in the United States Court of swindling at the ballot-box and falsifying the returns. Last month the Democratic County Court appropriated money out of the public funds to pay the fines arid costs imposed on the defendants in the Federal Court, aud also to pay the fees of the attorneys for defendiug them. Nothing more vicious or demoralizing than this has yet been found in the long record of Southern election villainy. It practically nullifies the action of a Federal Court, condones the offense of the swindlers and ballot- box stuffers, and offers inducements for a repetition of the offense. Perhaps it might be as well for the Federal Courts to send these scoundrels to the penitenti­ ary, and then see if the State, courts will take the responsibility of releasing them. Democratic courts in the South have got about as low dowu as they can get when they uphold crimed against the ballot- box. IF the Prohibitionists don't like the "original-package decision," they have only themselves to blame. The Repub­ lican Justices of the Supreme Court were equally divided, and the decisive vote was given by the Democratic Justices, two of them being Cleveland appointees. A Prohibition bolt in New York elected Cleveland and gave him the power to ap­ point Judges of the Supreme Court. The Prohibitionists well knew this when thsy bolted the Republican ticket aud helped to elect Cleveland. The original-pack­ age decision is not the bad thing they try to make it out, but if the Prohibition­ ists dislike it they must charge the dis­ appointment to their own action.--Ex­ change. C-ESAK had his Brutus and Charles I. hiss Cromwell, bnt neither of thorn ever ehcountered his carpet-bag. • s CMWren. _ What would the world do vithoafe ' "I them? It would grow sour and nglji ̂ and crabbed and dismal and grouty, J and finally die of old age and hypochott- dria. Take the children all out of the world f v and what wonld become of the smile* . and shouts and grins and giggles thai i , do so much toward making life enjojF •' able? S mil us would blacken in frown% shouts into groans, grins into sobs, an* giggles into snivels. Banish youngsters from our midst ant 'f the rosy-cheoked apples would rot the bin, the pop-corn grow soiled and M repulsive, the candy crumble to pieces and its gaudy colors fade away, the pear nuts wither in their shells,' and thi#:/s^,.^ft? raspberry jam sleep on in moldy forget^ ,r fulness of its surroundings, while that c o o k i e s a n d a n g e l c a k e w o u l d g r o w d r y • " v > ^ 2 and leathery, and become fodd for that, rats and sparrows. :P With no children on whom to exef* * cise their powers what would become ot ' < ^ the measles, whooping-cough, chicken- ^ ' | pox, mumps, hives, and shingles that . ' : now do eo mnch to enliven the world , and make existence bearable? Thejr would struggle on for a time, trying to ? get in their work on the thick-skinned, tobacco, coffee, and whisky soaked sys­ tems of the adult population until, dis­ couraged and disheartened, they would, like the legion of unclean spirits when cast out of the demoniac Gadarene, take refuge in a drove of swine and use them as a means of suicide by running them off into the sea and perishing with them in a watery grave. * . Without children our school-houseft would be turned into jalts, and oor - ,ii * churches iuto insane asylums, wicked- ness would stalk like a giant through the land, aud rum flow in torrents every- ~ , \ where. . A ; Hurrah for the children! They are "l the fire that thaws' out the heart of the cold and selfish world, and sends its warm blood coursing through its veins. They are Ihe leaven which * being de­ posited in the world's great flour barrel keeps the whole batch stirred up from center to circumference. They are as salt in the potatoes, as a mouse in a sewing society, as a spark in a magazine of powder, as oil on the troubled waters, as tears to the overwrought heart, as a benediction after prayer, as a poultice on a carbuncle, or roast beef and mashed potatoes to a hungry man.--Dansvill'9 Breeze. Habits. Habit makes the man, but man makas the habit. It is here where we want to get in a word. A habit seems a little thing in itself, but it is the most terri­ ble tyrant that rules the world. And it does rule it, say what we will. Now, it is essential in this life of ours to start right if we are going to come out right. And the best thiug to start with is a good habit. It is just as easy when a young man is forming his habits, to form good ones as bad ones. Good habits are not expensive. A virtue does not cost a quarter as much to support as does a vice. We sometimes wonder how it is that p being with brains, with intelligence, with reason, could ever have become a slave to habit. It does not seem possi­ ble that a man cannot order his con­ duct. But we must recognize facts. Men are victims of habits. They do not perceive that they are bound until they try to get free, and then the strong power of habit asserts itself. Hoar does this terrible despot conquer ihe mind, the will, the man? What is this invisible force that drives the strongest and brightest with a whip of iron ? It is only an act repeated again and again, bat it becomes a second nature, a part of the man, and it has conquered by the power of reinforcement by repetition. The only way to Jbe superior to bad habits is never to acquire them. Do not do the first bad act. Stop before you begin to go wrong. The time when a man is eaved is when he is young. The time to plant or sow is in the spring. The harvest depends on the seed. We cannot pick figs from this­ tles. A bad habit will end in a bad life. Watch the feet of the boy, and <^1 the man's wiil not need watching. We •'}, must begin with the young, and .see that right habits are acquired in early life. It is only a foot from a bad habit to a good one, but it is a mile back again. We may loose in an hour all we have made in a year. We can undo in a day what we have done in a lifetime. A. habit is a plant of which an act is the seed. It will bear fruit if it be a good act, but ashes if it be a bad act. It is the first step that starts the race. To start right is the best way to go right and to end right.' Never let a bad habit fasten to your life. -- The Boston Inves­ tigator. y "K ^ ^ ?• 1 '£ -i y;' > J ; I R F R , A • '-i Honesty Rewarded. '* 'Jj "I'd like to get trusted fur abont dollars' wuth of stuff/' said a colored man to a grocer on Beaubieu street the other day. ^5 "You! Why, I dont know you*" i the reply. "But my nrtne is Thompson." ' « "Yes, but being Thompson isi^MB enough." ' "flu! Den I'll fotch ye ober fo'teen people to prove dat I'ze gwine to move away to Saginaw next week!" The, grocer gave him a pound of ood.- fish for his honesty.--Detroit Free Press. Their Occupation (lone. Mrs. Brown was called down^taioKtil to see an elderly woman of genteel ap­ pearance who had some hand-made trimming to sell. Mrs. B. declined purchasing, when witli great earnest­ ness she said: "My dear madam, do buy some of it. the times are so hard and there is so little employment now. My young men did u*ed to make a liv­ ing, but since the iaw passed to sap- press gambling they have nothing to but stand on the stieet corners."' * Might Claim Her Privilege. Mr. Eloper--Darling. I tiud that there is no minister in town just at present except a lady Universalis!. Shall we have the ceremony performed by her? Miss Eloper--Precious! I would rather not. • • "But why not, sweet? Tail xne year . reason--come. , V x "Because--because, love. I am afraid she would insist on kissing the groom!" --Burling to n JYee Press. , ^ -- i ------ i fru i ;» • Too Previoaa. J Caller--Is Mr. Jone* in ? ^ Mrs. Jones--What do you want to ait ' i him for? Caller--I have a bill here that-- Mrs. Jones--He ain't in. he ' Caller (continuing)-- That I wished to pay him, but as I require his own signature to the receipt 1 will call som* " • other time.--New York Press . ? # LANDLORD--You say you don't gat any heat from that furnace? Tenant-- I didn't sav that. On the contrary my wife and I have had a good many hcatad discussions over it. - • *!.i' • 1 • • . - • j •' iM 9