The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

• '» ji ?v. f̂ icntn |?UmdMlct L V AM SLYKE, Editor and Puklislwr. BfcHENRT, • - - r~" ILLINOIS. -4 r ', Tn® «ntcrprisingr youna^ nica of /Canada come 10 this country to <4f«>w up. ' IT appears that In som# <3® 3the numerous "gold cures" which now dot the country thick as freckles on an Indiana girl's nose the proprietors get • all the gold and the patient gets .precious little cure. ENGLAND and France are doing •considerable blood-letting in Africa. If\there must be war it is not a bad plan to carry it into Africa, but what -objection have the two strong Euro­ pean powers to some country of their •own size- ... : • _ • ^ , TIIE farmers LA the Wosteannot <get into the fields, to plow on account of the water, so they are sitting on <lheir fences with guns in their hands hoping that some of the rain-producers •of last season wilLj£ome along with proposals. DR. BUCKLEY introduced two new words to the attention of his? Meth­ odist brethren in conference at Otuafea. They were "episcomania" and 4'*episcophobia." It's a great &hing to know Greek when you need B big word. Asr adjustable head rest for attach­ ment to the ba>k of a church pew has been patented. It will be re­ membered that something of the sort •was the inception of the sleeping-car, and the hope for comfortable ber ths in church may now spring eternal in the human breast. THEKE are so few buffaloes left in America as to make it interesting to learn that Queen Victoria has sent one from her farm at Frogmoor to the grounds of the Zoological society in London. This buffalo is the sur­ vivor of a pair sent by the Marquis of Lome from Canada as a present to her majesty a few years ago. An intrepid courage is at best but a holiday-kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised, and never but in cases of necessity. Affability, mildness, ten­ derness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original sig­ nification of virtue--I mean good­ nature--are of daily use; they are the bredit of mankind and staff of life. A FEW days ago a switchman in Denver snatched a little child from before an advancing locomotive. lie failed in his heroic purpose. He was killed. Already the Denver News has raised over $700 for the widow and child of this unknown man of the people, Lee Dunham, and about $100 for a monument. New York has not done as well for the Nation's G-rant. THEKE is perhaps no country that now offers so many advantages for Immigration as Australia. Any man with a few hundred dollars may re- receive a grant of 180 acres of land; wheat can be produced at the rate of 100 bushels to an acre; the climate is admirable, the scenery full of beauty and charm, the government' able. The Southern Continent has every reason to look forward to a magnifi­ cent futuro. A FRENCH wife has slain her hus­ band's paramour, whom she discov­ ered under circumstances akin to those which led Deacon to kill Abeille. It will be interesting to note whether the French courts will regard this murder as leniently as that in which the husband was the aggrieved one and the avenger. In affairs of this nature the gallant Gaul is prone to discover a wide dif­ ference between tweedledum and tweed led ce. Sin JAMES CRICIITON BI:OWNE, an eminent Enelish physician, expresses dire forebodings as to the future stand­ ard of English beauty if the craze for the higher education of women persists in that county. Of the uni­ versity girls he says: "Many of them have a stooping gait and withered ap­ pearance, shrunk shanks and spec­ tacles on nose." One hardly knows whether to admire the more the curi­ ous extent and accuracy of the Bar­ onet's observations or the Rudyard Kipling vigor with which he an­ nounces his conclusions. his wife's successful dancing at Wal- ton-on-Thames, where site recently Appeared in a charitable entertain, ment, and, while he is gratified by the graceful and blameless manner in which the performance was conduct­ ed, he would prefer not to have Countess Russell appear in any more public exhibitions." This offers a hint to the writer of farces. To have the wife appear as a skirt-dancer in a public charity entertainment. is a means of reuniting his separated hero and heroine which has probably never occurred to the fancy of tt»° wildest dramatist. THE Canaaian'volunteers who or­ dered the American flag taken down from the store of a Grand Army vet­ eran in Montreal have a mistaken idea of the requirements of loyalty to the queen. The veteran was right in his explanation that he had hoisted it in honor of the day. The relations existing between America and Eng­ land are of the most friendly nature and are not likely to suffer change. In this country we show our patriotism by raising the flags of all nation* by side with the stars and stripes. The incident is interesting in one re­ spect; it shows how widely scattered are the veterans of the late civil war, The Montreal shopkeeper was proba­ bly one of the numerous pensioners who are living abroad and therefore could not let an opportunity pass for showing his colors. If the surmise is correct, he could have covered him­ self with great glory by doing the Barbara Frietchie act. He should have appeared in an upper window and defied the entire British Govern, menu A TRAGEDY of an unprecedented character lately took place near Paris. Some time ago a house was tenanted by three sisters, and the landlord was riot long in discovering that these ladies were verv undesir­ able. Their habits were most cccen* trie, and they showed a marked un­ willingness to pay rent. They lived a life of deep seclusion, and no one was admitted within their precincts. At length matters ciCihe to such a pass that the landlord's agent was compelled to take proceedings, and this brought the trouhles of the hap­ less spinsters to a culmination. One morning last month it was discov­ ered that their house was on fire. The door was forced, and the ladies were all found dead, and the last survivor had evidently fired the house. Having utterly come to the end of their resoures, the sisters had resolved to put an end to themselves. They had first killed their horse, dog. and cat, to which they were devoted. What a subject this extraordinary family would have offered to the pen of Balzac! The sisters were found to belong to a lamily once affluent, which had fallen on very evil days. THE PARTY MACHINERY. ACCORDING to a writer in Good Roads the new Michigan law provide ing that the man who uses on his wagon wheels tires of a certain width shall have a rebate of one-half in his road-tax works a great advantage not only to the owner of the vehicle but to the roads. It is estimated that with broad tires on wagons, carriages, and buggies all public highways can be kept in very much better condition than is now possible at one-fourth the cost of the present system. In the matter of road reform the first es­ sential seems to be the widening of the tires of the vehicles. The general adoption of this would be a long step of itself in the direction of perfect roads. Without it perfect roads are practically impossible. THERE should be no mistake made as to the position of the, Methodist Church on the subject of dancing. It wruild be unfair to say that the OmSha conference took the subject under advisement. Such a state­ ment would indicate some relaxation in severity toward King David's fayorite amusement. The facts of the matter are that certain young ladies of the East exercised such an influence over the Troy conference that a petition was sent to Omaha asking that dancing be delarod an innocent and wholesome recreation. A perfect storm of protests arose from all over the country, and the Omaha assembly was relieved from all responsibility of coming to a decision. The church declared itself una voce. It is hard for the worldly minded person, or even the devout member of almost any other religious denomi­ nation to understand -the Methodists' horror of dancing. The Methodist Church is one of the brainiest, most progressive, most influential and most earnest societies of any kind, secular or religious, on earth, and it preaches a joyful religion. But the antipathy to dancing is inherited among its an­ cient traditions, and will probably never become a thing of the f>ast. And pray why should any Methodist girl wish to dance? Her desire to do so is merely the result of human long­ ings after forbidden pleasures! Terps­ ichore has no joys to offer that com­ pare with the country sleigh ride, Copenhagen, going to Rome, the needle's eye that doth supply, and snap an' ketch 'em. Compared with such festivities dancing is a selfish amusement, for in them bishop and boy, matron and maid are equally at home. Ir they were not «o farcical the the English aristocracy would bo in­ valuable for comedy, as witness the fact that it is announced that the abandonment of the claim for costs in the Russell divorce suit indicates a prospect for reconciliation. "The Earl," the authorities go on to inform a waiting and eaeer world, "is said to hav* been considerably affected'by Rubber Shoes, There is comfort, undoubtedly in "rubbers," when the snow, or still worse the slush, is ankle deep. Judi­ ciously worn, where the only alterna­ tive is thin shoes, they are beyond question highly useful in preserving health, and preventing colds, influ­ enza, grip, pneumonia and the whole procession of evils which keeps step with the sloppy tread of wet feet. But indiscriminately and constantly worn rubber shoes do quite as much harm as good, and bring on the very troubles they are intended to pre­ vent. Ihey keep the foot soaked in its own perspiration, cause it to be­ come tender and make it more than ever susceptible to the cold when the rubber shoe happens to be left off. The change from rubbers to no rub­ bers, even in dry cold weather, is al­ ways more or less hazardous. A stout shoe with a thick sole is after all the preferable tlUng, both as a measure of safety and as a source of solid comfort A HUNDRED times more trouble is caused by men who can get. work, than by the man who wants work; but cannot get it. , THE GREAT WORK DONE BY THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE. CltnURil'i Star Pallas--It Mv«t B* !>•- taction Mit It Will n« Victory--Bow Kreo Tr»H« Rmlnert Kxport*--Price of Cotton* Under Fro* Trade. Bow tho IUirablicKu National Committee MOM Ita Work. Isabel Warrell Ball writes an interest­ ing article for the Washington Post ott the party machinery at the head- quarters of the Republican Rational; Committee in Washington. It is well worth reading, as it gives much informa­ tion concerning the magnificent scope and pi an of the work being done for the enlightenment of the voters. The per­ manent headquarters of the .National Republican Committee ar<f feUated on the eighth floor of the great granite* building at the corner of Ninth and J®, streets. The general headquarters are at the Plaza l.otel in New York City, and branch offices are located in- Philadelphia and Chicaso, but the main business of the committee is trans­ acted in. Washington. The iocuiioa of the purnMneikt headquarters of the committee in Washington shows the clear foresight ot Gen. Clarkson, the chairman of the committuM, Mr. i <t*rkson has been an active member of the National Republican Committee for sixteen years, though now seiving for the first time as its chairman. The committee occupies a suite of eight rooms perfectly equipped for the Work in hand. The "machinery" m mv'n as will be found in any first-class news­ paper ofiic«-^exceptingr of wane, the type and presses. .Many hundreds of papers reach the committee rooms daily. Every polit­ ical editorial, every comment and criti­ cism in whatever form, and every men­ tion of prominent politicians, socially, politically or otherwise, is clipped and tiled m a novel scrap-tiling case, the in­ vention ot' Capt. T. H. McKee. who is acting assistant secretary in full charge of the Washington office, in the illness of Gen. Clarkson. After the dipping is done, the papers are tied in bundles and stacked away, while the metropoli­ tan journal* from B?-!i£Or Is&E Fran­ cisco are kept in regular newspaper tiles. In the adjoining room are four sten­ ographers, four typewriting machines and two phonographs. From morning till night those machines are kept hot making copies for the printer, arranging lists of names, inditing letters and ad­ dressing them. The "library occupies one room. The books, which line the wall ftom floor to eeilinvr form one of the most complete political reference libraries in existence. In the next room about a dozen people are at work addressing wrappers and envelopes, which -are to enclose political literature to the voters of every section of the United States. As there are something over half a million names of voters in the hands of the committee, and a fairly rap­ id penman can get rid of S(X) addresses a day, it will be seen that the con­ sumption of postage is something enor­ mous. This room iB arranged with cases for each state. At a glance the chief of the department can probably give the names of two-thirds of the voters in a given state, can tell the countv, town, congressional district, whether he casts his maiden vote this year, whether be is a Democrat, Republican, Third- party, Mugwump, or doubtful. Of the literature that is being prepared for dis­ tribution, there are twenty-two docu­ ments, of which o,000,000 copies have been printed for distribution as sam­ ples. Three rooms of the suite are packed with these documents. They cover all questions at issue between the two parties. ' The principal document of the list is a famphlet, in five parts, termed "The arilF Riddle," and is the work of Wel- ker Given. The National Committee has exclusive control of one large edi­ tion of this work. It is an incomparably tine bit of literature, and exasperating- ly convincing. During the recent round-up in Congress,,when Jerry Simp­ son committed the Democrat* and Third-party to absolute free trade by reading Henry George's book, "Protection or " Free Trade," in­ to the Congressional Record, the Re­ publicans submitted gracelully, and sending to the ' National Republican Committee for campaign literature be- Sn to read it into the Record. The miocrats stood a good dose of "from Plymouth Rock to McKinley," but when the "tariff" riddle" was produced the Democrats got right up and howled, and forthwith proceeded to cut off all leave to print in the Record. Thev couldn't stand that bit of diamond- pointed satire. Among the other documents is Bob Ingersoll's "Why Am I a Republican?" and the great orator never gave utter­ ance to more beautiful sentiments. "Bab," that piquant, saucy little butter­ fly, has contributed a serio-comic study on going to England to buy a wardrobe in a irge trade country, and how she paid her passage both ways and saved money at last by buying in America. Other pamphletB are "American Ideas Conquered, "Abraham Lincoln," "Tariff Catechism," "Farm Implements Abroad," "Free Traders Unveiled," "Farm Mortgages Not an Evidenoe of Distress," and a dozen pthers. Cleveland's Star Pitting. Until the eloquent and fascinating Henry Watterson dashed into the arena as an organizer of opposition to Cleve­ land's candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, the chances of the heavy man whom the silver-tongued Vilas refers to as "Democracy's almost divinely-appointed leader" seemed to be very bright. Though obscured from time to time, as for instance, while Senator Hill was making his Johnson­ ian progress through the South, they were merely subjected to par­ tial occultation, not diminished in intrinsic luster. Hill represents an element in politics so gross and vulgar in its methods and aims as to repel the sympathy of honest men. While anti-CIevelandism meant pro- Hillism it was not respectable. It wa-i considered utterly disreputable by some of the most rock-rooted Democrats in the country. It was the purely selfish and unscrupulous defection of a clique of political I'ree-booters. Watterson's opposition to Cleveland is something adherent. It is the product of an honest belief that Cleveland cannot win and Hill should not win, and that some other man should be nominated at Chi­ cago to insure the consolidation of the Democratic vote. Watterson will be the most conspicuous figure in the Dem­ ocratic convention at Chicago.--Ecenin<j Wisconsin. It Mast Bo Protection nod It Will Be Victory. It is plain to everybody who can see beyond the end of his nose that the campaign which will open with the nomination of a Republican candidate for the presidency, at Minneapolis, must be fought by the Republican party on the line of protection to American industry. There will be skirmishing ab^ut the silver question, but the su­ preme issue of the contending parties will be protection and tree trade. These issues are beyond the power of the press or the politicians to avoid or to prevent. If the Democrats should nominate Hill the Democratic issue would be lree trade, ts surely as if Cleveland were the nominee, though in such case the timorous and tricky Boulanger of Tammany would try to mask the real intent ot his candidacy by the pretcr.se of "tariff reform. ' iany friends o! Prof. J. H. Burger j, formerly ol this village, now of gill., will be pained to read the clipped from the Leland Ex- At her home in Leland, Thnrs- ie 2, little Ada, only daughter of id Airs. J. H. Burger, of diph- iged nearly two years. The fun- J» held at the family residence, jricson conducting the services. • laid to rest, in the Iceland Ceme- >*iil such time as it may be possible hor n If ant touri iu a A. K are corili.i S'Sf- .. ' V'"- -W *' TI0N, NOT A THEORY/ 4, 4 ' * ' • ^ P. Eng the city.. ing a IIWI GKOYER--"Dave, I have misgivings. It looks like ahard pull. Hadn't yon better get out and push ?" Bnt he would be unable to make his feint successful. The temper of his lieutenants and troops is too impetuous to brook such strategy. From Hurd's Ohio brigade, from Patterson's Ken­ tucky corps, from the legions of Missis­ sippi, and from the tirm though scanty ranks of Florida and fck>dth Carolina there will rise a yell of "down with the infamous tariff" as soon aa the first gun is fired. "Tarifl re­ form" is far too weak a phrase to ex­ press the Democratic hatred of the pro­ tective principle. And in like manner, were it possible lor a Republican con­ vention to select a timorous or a tricky person for its candidate, the mass of the Repablican party is resolute un accom­ plishing a victory for protection. It will peal the battle cry of protection, whether its commanding general will Oi* no. "Reciprocity" cannot be sub- eiiiutau ioi protection. For witbout protection there could be no reciproci­ ty. The latter is an incident of the for­ mer. We shall have to fight to the bat­ tle cry of Harrison and protection, or McKinley and protection, or Sherman and protection, or Blaine and protec­ tion. We shall not fight to the cry of Blaine and reciprocity--not at all. If Mr. Blaine goeB before the country at all it will be as a protectionist, not as a reciprocityist. For. as we have said, if there were no protection there could be no reciprocity. The instinct, of the people isshrewder than the acquired skill of the politician. It would be folly, were it practicable, as most surely it is not, to strive to .make the incident of reciprocity a more prom­ inent issue than protection, which is the cause of the incident. For while reciprocity has added something to the area of our markets and done something to increase the volume of our commerce, its results are insigniticant when com­ pared to those of protection. Of the nearly $170.000,OUO which represents the increase of our exports dnringthe first year of full operation ot the old taritf, comparatively little, certainly not more than *10,000,600, are attributable to reci­ procity. Reciprocity has added its millions, but protection has added its hundreds of millions to the national wealth. We can go to the people with a state­ ment of Bometning like $l7,000,u00 vested in new mills and factories, or in the enlargement ot old ones, since the passage of the McKinley bill, with proof of thousands of men employed in n»w industries, wita lists of firms and corporations that have increased the wages of their employes, and with evi­ dence of lower "prices on account of the tariff." The battle-cry must be Protection, and the watchwords Protection and Victory. The Democrat* Kndnralng Henry Oeorue'a Land Tax Theory. The course of the Democrats in in­ corporating into the Congressional Rec­ ord Henry George's book, on "Protec­ tion or Free Trade," and circulating that work throughout the country at the ex­ pense of the government, is a matter of special significance to farmers and other land-owners, baying nothing of the abuse of the Record, and of the copy­ right privileges in circulating private works at public expense, it should be understood that in thiB work, as in his other semi-communistic treatises, Hen­ ry George really argues for his single tax on land and the exemption of Btocks, bonds, mortgages and all other property from taxation. He wants iree-trade--the abolition of all taxes on imported articles--not for itself alone, but in order to compel the government to raise all its revenues by greatly in­ creased taxes on land. In order that these levies mav be heavy enough to crush out and destroy all the capital value of land, George wants to cut the government off from the power of tax­ ing anything else but land. His plan is to take taxes oft personal property and all kinds of imported articles, in order tha. they may be put on the land. He wants free trade in order to a low the government no choice, but compel it to raise all its revenues by taxing land. And this is the doctrine which the Democratic party is trying to inculcate by circulating George's book at public expcPse; How Free Trade Reduce* Experts. Those who have been led to believe that free trade and open markets stimu­ late exports, will find a valuable lesson in the experience of England. There was a time, under the protective sys­ tem, when the English farmer was "famed throughout the world." But that time has passed. Free trade has ruined the British tarmer. If you want to see how agriculture is getting swamped in England, take, for instance, the article of butter, and you will see how rapidly the exports from England have declined. KXPORTS OK BUTTKlt FROM THE UNITED KIXODOM. Years. C'wts. V*lue. IHi'O 125,:S.V-' iH»:.i ...„ i>i..S31 aw.vj-.i8 1870 r 81A.H.6 1STA 3'J,J .G l!-iO,*J81 1H!S0 S1.40S 201,"til 18S;. 'J8.S9SI n-VUti 1SK7 156.771 Jft,7li> i-i.'sow; lhX!> *'.191 14 >,4.1'J 18K0 alo l;:y,ti>7 Now, then, note how the imports of butter into the United Kingdom have increased: 1MPOB73CF BUTTKR AND MARr.ARXXX INTO THE I'MTEU K1NUDOJI. Yosrs. Cwts. Vftlue. o 810.112 £ 4 07K.nl- lMjft 1,083.717 tuSofM ....1.1.SU.210 6.7>jS,>77 1>.75 !.1<;7,S70 S.50^0-4 18S0 ' ..' l.Si'6.:0'» J88.S 2,401,371 U.&&S.JW j,sn<j vsy.'/ri II.8BO.7OI IMS"" 2.811.176 1A1U1.K58 ]*j<y S,ll-.it,fiSJ 18.8'jy.ti97 JSS0. .1.1...." S. 107,573 18.6SJ.08U It is no wonder that Lord Salisbury protests against British tree trade. A Democratlc-M liewump Paper on Sher­ man's »|if»eh. The two days' speech of Senator Sher­ man on the Stewart silver bill is un­ doubtedly the greatest speech he has ever matte. More tnan that, it is prob­ ably the greatest speech that was ever made in the Senate on any financial question. It is interesting to note that Mr. Sherman, after speaking two hours and a hall on Tuesday, said that he was not at all tired and was rrsov to go on and finish then. This e taid in reply to a suggestion that the Senate should adjourn. For one who has passed his titHh year this is surely a remarkable ex­ hibition of mental and physical powers. Such a speech, covering not only the Bilver question, but the whole range of national financc, can not be reviewed in detail within the hmits of a news­ paper article. All that can be said about details Is that Mr. Sherman has not merely a well famished mind on the whole range of topics embraced in his discourse, but so well furnished that there ie no point too small to have escaped hi* attention or bis memory. Consequently i>e can not be tripped at any stage ot nis journey. Anybody can see that ii he makes concessions here and there to the silver folly, they are only such as he considers necessary in a political 6ense. Give him a clear field, such as tlis statesmen and financier* have, wheie there are no wrong-headed and befooled constituencies to be reckoned with, and he would he facile pnnceps among them all.--New York Evening Pout* ^ Prices of Cottons I'niter free Trad* ssd I'nder Protection. The difference between theory nod fact in regard to free trade can be seen in the lollowing comparative prices of cottons during fourteeen j'ears of rev­ enue taritf. which is practically free trade, and during fourteen years of pro­ tection. The figures are taken from the market reports: Prices of cottons for fourteen yean under a free trade taritf, compared with prices for fourteen years under protec­ tion: StsBdRrtk print* per yard. Cents. 184 7 184 8 184 9 18.*) 1S.M . 18jl! 18.SX 18-S4 1>.V\ 18.^6 18.-.7 I8i>8 1k:.'J Ifb'J 11.83 10.17 lar.-i 1UM lu.£p lo.?o 10 6 ( y.so V .-o 10. M Aftt ».VI yttf Average.. IS 13 1878. I87l» IS!>1 188*1. lKhS I8W....~--.... 1W»% I88n 1JW7 IcS*. I88y. 18tf0 181*1 U.2.S 7.41 7. OS ft. 50 tt.t.0 «L00 ft. 00 P.00 SO0 6.00 6.00 64XIM print­ ing cloths p«r yard. Cents. ton 4.86 I 4..VS M#| 4.6 J 4.70 I f>.l5| Fourteen 5 81 yenrs «>f Rflv- 5.11 f enue Tarifl'. C.S6 j ft. ys • 8. nO | 5.67 | 6.44 I 6.44 j R.44) s.ys | 4.51 I «.»I 8.76 8.60 s.»; 8.12 j S.U | Fourteen yean i-ot Protection. *.81 | 8.81 a. *4 2.96 8.69 Average... Itt Cbeeper in period of protection 8.83 1.78 j Ever}' woman who buys » yard of cot­ ton cloth can testify that the McKinley bill has not made her pay more for it. A Short sermon ou Protection and Agri­ culture. Our American policy of protection was inaugurated by farmers for the special benefit of farmers. TUe First Congress, wnich framed the first taritf, was composed for the most part of farmurs, ana it was signed by a tanner President--(jeorge Washington. These men felt the need of Protection in order to create a home market for their products. Ihey had all tne farmers they wanted, but were Buttering lor a non-agricultural population to buy what they raiaed. Ihey could not sell their wheat «nd vegetables to one another. From the first our tariff system has depended for its maintenance in every ebiction on farmers' votes. They re­ membered how wretched they were when all were agriculturists, and bow protection brought them relief exactly as the framera of the first tarifl had piedicted. So nothing hus ever been able to wean the American farmer from hiy love for Washington's and Hamil­ ton's,and Jefferson'sand Madison's pro- tfct:tive policy. And the free-trade "re- fc/raer is unable to do so to-dav. Farmers see the land of Virginia, which has few factories, selling on the average at about $11 an acre, while the poorer land of Pennsylvania, with many factories, brings $41) an acre. In Mississippi, devoted exclusively to agriculture, land sells for less than & an acre, but brings $42 in sterile, but manufacturing, Massachusetts. The average in tieorgia, where mills are almost unknown, is between $4 and $o per acre; but in New Jersey, with all its swamps and clay beds, the average value of land is f(>5. So the farmers continue, and will con­ tinue, to vote for protection and against free ttade, because they do not want to vote away one-half the value of theif farms. And who can blame them for it? A Surprised Policeman. The other day/in alligator, about flv«| feet long, got loose from a museum iu New York. A policeman who happened to see the alligator thought it was dead and boldly rapped it over the head wita his club, when, much to his surprise), the animal opened its mouth and grabbed the club Irom the policeman'a hand. The otticer retreated, and tt.u alligator, still holding the stick in bis mouth, sprang at him. The watchman in the museum then made his appear­ ance, recovered the club for the otlicar and put the alligator back in its cage, A New 1'lea for Divorce. Wives who are wont to fondle r.-et dogs should take warning from the ex­ perience of a young woman in Fort Dodgfi, Iowa. She has brought suit for a divorce from her husband, one of the counts in her plea being that he de­ clined to kiss her. His defense to this is that she had made a habit of raptur­ ously kissing her cat, and he waB afraid her bveath was unwholesome. "Not Transferable." The value of the words "not transfer­ able," usually printed upon season tickets, has been tested in an English court, and it has been decided to be unimpeachable. A lady loaned two ol her servants a couple ot' season tickets to the Crystal Palace. They were sus­ pected and questioned, and the fine imposed by the court amounted in all to about $ 15. l TAKING T O AMERICAN SLANG, ParlKtan Newspaper* and P««pte Rapid!} Abwrblng Cloatlantlc fitpmafsm. The U3C" of French words ami phrases"by English writers Is rapidly ®oing out cf fashion. It is now con­ sidered in bad taste to employ French for anything which can be equally well expressed in our own language. Fashion has turned the tables. We discard French. The Parisians adopt English. One can hardly pick up a French novel or newspaper, says the Argonaut, which is not plentifully Sprinkled with English--sometimes pure English, sometimes intentional­ ly modified English, sometimes En­ glish curiously transformed through Ignorance. "Le Sport"' is the regu­ lar headi ng to the sporting column of a famous French daily in which may lie found statements about "jockeys," •^trotters," "yachts/' and even occa­ sional mention of those forms of amusement known as '*le cricket" and "bascbnl." Upon the same page a reporter sent to "interviewer" a distinguished foreigner declares him to be "un parfait gentleman," and goes on to describe-'his personal ap­ pearance and dress, including such garments as an "ulster," -a "Derby." and a "Gladstone-collar." The political news include* men­ tion of "le grand boss," a '"dark horse" and a "ring," although these phrases are used only In speaking of American politics. Among the sen­ sational items near by is one de­ scribing the doings of "Le Juge Lynch en Texas" and expressing hor­ ror at the escape of "les lynclieurs" after hanging k»le lynche" tt> the bough of a tree and piercing him with bullets. We turn from this rec­ ord of barbarism to the society col­ umn, and discover that our French friends are not ashamed to import from America new forms of enter­ tainment. At a soiree of the mar­ quise de X we are informed that a game, long popular in the best so­ ciety in the United States, was in­ troduced with great success--the game of "pokere." We learn also that an unusually large number nf ".">-o*elockards" (young men fond of afternoon tea) were present at the "5 o'clock tea" of Mme. de Z . Looking a little Jurther, we find that "dudes" and "mashers" unfortunate­ ly exist in Paris, and that young wo- meivwho "flirte" are not unknown, although they are warned In a serious paragraph, evidently without the least intention to employ slang, that this amusement is not a safe one, and they are likely to "get left." In. deed, of all the phrases which the French now borrow, American slang seems to be the most popular. Tlie Man with the Wax Fuc-o. A French medical journal tells of a remarkable surgical operation, per­ formed upon a certain Joseph Moreau, a soldier in the army of the North, whose eyes, nose, teeth, and lower jaw and, indeed, his whole face was shot away by a shell In the battle of Bapaume, January, 1871. Although he was left on the field for dead, ho managed to stagger to a neighboring village, where he was cared for by tho doctors. Later on one of the most distinguished surgeons of the day ap­ plied to the head, which was left al­ most without human semblance, a wax mask so cleverly adapted to the healthy portion of the skin as to ap­ pear quite continuous with it. This mask, as the years have passed, has become firmly attached to the head, the skin having grown around the edges, and has permitted the unfor­ tunate wearer to appear less an ob­ ject of repulsion to his fellow men. Moreau has now got quite used to breathing through the false nostrils, and by the help of an artificial jaw worked by a portion of the original bone, he is able to eat comfortably and masticato the toughest kind of food. His voice has regained its natural quality and the sense of smell has come back to him with even more than natural acuteness. Of course, h<J sees nothing through the false eyes which look out from his waxen features with a glassy stare, but it is long since he has ac quired the pcacc of mind with which blind men are £o often blessed, and in all the canton of Landredies, where he lives there is not a happier man or one more fond of telling and listening to a good story than he who is known as the "Man with the Wax Face." He lives modestly on his pension, and adds to his resources by the sale of a little pamphlet giving a scientific account of his wonderful cure. AHQIJXIUGBEAT STATE. ILL!- } \V| BRIEP COMPILATION OP NOIS N&WS. Dr. B*a£»n of th«r Ilonrd oT8« General Vaccination--Flooded IM»triet« Want Foot! and Eartjr Maturing Hctd Com--Two Drownlaj*. Mlxtine of Diamond*. "The thing which struck me most about the American women who come abroad," said an Englishwoman re­ cently visiting here, "isthe profusion of diamonds which they possess and often wear, when, according to our ideas, the gems would l)e better out of sight. And in this country, too, I have noticed the same thing. It seems to be an American character­ istic, not to say weakness. Now with us it is considered vulgar to wear a profusion of diamonds on the street ever, or to wear them anywhere in the morning. With afternoon toilets thev are of course permissible, and no one will blame a woman for deck­ ing herself out as georgeously as pos­ sible for full dress, but they should not be worn to any extent, even in the evening, at places of amusement They should never be worn bv people who are in mourning, nor especially by. people while engaged in charitable work.--New York Mail and Express. Boiler-Plate Thlcknemi. I have heard of a man who was so straight that he leaned over back, wards. You have done that in order­ ing that boiler. You have got the plates too thick, where they receive the direct action of the fire. There are places in the water-leg where there arc four thicknesses of plate right where the llames play on them: the distance between the outside sur­ face of the outer plate and the.inside surface of the inner one is too great for the water inside to carry away the heat as fast as the outer plate ab­ sorbs it: the rivets have unduly long shanks, and are in even greater dan­ ger of burning than the plates which they join. With two-thirds or even one-half the plate thickness your boiler would have been safer. WE are all cut out by the same, pat* tern; the.only difference is in the trimming. ^ " • From far and Xmt. ROBEUT F. PACE has purchased tlie interest of J. W. Green in the News or Mount Vernon. Mr. Green has owned the News for live years, and is the first person to establish a daily paper there, having begun the publication of the same eighteen months ago. The News will continue Democratic. AT Peotone, the St. Louie Diamond Special ran Into an open switch, slightly injuring the engineer, badly demolish­ ing the engine, and completely wreck­ ing a freight car, besides tearing up and breaking the rails and plunging the en­ gine into the depths of Illinois mod, where it now stands stuck fast. THE first of the Cairo public school eommeneemente was held Friday night. It was the graduation of three pupils from the Sumner School, And is notable from the fa«.t thst tfcey arc the first col­ ored puptis to graduate from their High School. The yountr ladies acquitted themselves we-lk. Th" Douglas High School for white pupils held commence­ ment exercises at the Cairo Opera House with." twenty graduates, FRED Kmsr, an anmarried man of Belleville, aged 22 years, was drowned in Queen's Lake. He had been drink­ ing and fell out of a skiff. The drown­ ing occurred in fwli view of 1,000 St. Louis people who were picnicking at Queen's Lake. The boat was some dis­ tance from the shore, and it was Impos­ sible to get help to the man in time to save his life. The body was found. Jefferson Brown, a bachelor, aged 44), was drowned at Ashley while bathing in a pond. Dk. Wm. A. H\SKT.iiLr President of the State Board of Health and deposi­ tary by appointment by Gov. Fifer for supplies for the Hood sufferers, has made the following statement: "Please say t<. contributors that I have all the clothing necessary, having already received two car-loads, and more is on the way. The great need of the inundated farmers at present is food, seed corn, and potatoes --thpse varieties that are of rapid growth especially. What is wanted is seed corn that will mature In ninety days, which can therefore be planted with advantage after the subsidence of the flood. White pearl is one sueh va­ riety." Dr. Haskell says the need is very great, mentioning Alexander Coun­ ty as one locality where the distress extreme. The water stit! remains high, the decline being only from an inch to two inches iii twenty-four hours. SECRETARY KEILLY, of the State Board of Health, issued a circular to the public, in which he says: "Seven cases of smallpox in one Iowa town, upward of eighty eases in twelve Ohio and West Virginia towus, and recent cases in Michigan and other neighbor­ ing States, as well as two recent cases in Chicago, clearly indicate that this troublesome disease again threatens Il­ linois after ten years of almost com­ plete freedom from its ravages." The last epidemic resulted in a panic and quarantine, interrupted travel and busi­ ness, closed schools, churches, and courts, caused 8,85G cases and 2,978 deaths, and involved money losses of $750,000. Illinois cannot afford another smallpox epidemic, still less ean Chica­ go, with the World's Fair on her hands. Secretary Keilly declares that vaccina­ tion is the only silre method of preven­ tion, and says: "To this end tho board enjoins upon municipal authorities and upon local boards of health the urgent necessity of steps to secure the vaccination or re-vaeination of all over whom they have the authority. Or­ dinances should be passed enforcing this measure upon all school children, public, private and parochial, as well as upon teacher.*, janitors and others; upon all public employes and officials and generally upon all citizens who may be reached in this manner. Employers ot labor, skilled or unskilled, should exact this protection as a condition of further employment, and superintendents of public institutions should cause every inmate, eimdoye and official to be vac­ cinated. The board will use its re­ sources to secure tbe end in view. It will furnish carefully selected, reliable vaccine at actual wholesale cost, ac­ companying each package with plain, practical instructions for the operation. To communities unable to purchase vaccine, if any such there be, it will be furnished gratis on proper presentation of the facts and an agreement to report results on the blanks furnished by the board. £ TUESDAY morning a south-bound freight ran into train No. 62 on the Illi­ nois Central a few miles south of Du- quoin. Brakeman James Boan was killed and Fireman W. A. Clarke badly injured. LATE Tuesday night Ambrose Gallup, a young farmer living near Carroliton, took his own life after making an un­ successful attempt to murder Miss Fan­ nie Docus, of Carrvdlton, and Thomas W. Greers, a barber from Jerseyviile. Young Gallup made the acquaintance of Miss Docus last winter while she taught the Mount Hone school near his place, and had fallen in love with her. He went to the city Sunday* and took din­ ner with Miss Docus at her mother's house. He told her he would shoot her if he ever found her in company with Greers. In the evening Greers called, and he and Miss Docus went walking. They met Gallup, who spoke and passed on. They resumed their walk, and met Gallup again. He asked Miss Docus if she remembered what he had saiu, and fired at her, the ball passing near her face. She fainted and fell to the side­ walk. Greers fled, and Gallup fired three shots at him, none of them taking effect. He turned the revolver on him­ self, believing that Miss Docus, who was lying on the walk, was dead, and put tbree bullets in his own breast, from the effects of which he died. EDWARD HOFF, son of a fanner liv­ ing near Slascoutah, was killed while hunting by the acciden'al discharge ot his gun. ' GEO. E. KIRKRATRICK. a stranger who has been at Vandalia several weeks taking medical tr atmenf, was missing at his boarding-place Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, his clothes were found near the river bank. The supposition is that he committed sui­ cide. His mother and one brother re­ side in Hamilton County, Ohio. He was about 40 years of age, of sandy complexion, and near-sighted. He has $700 in the Bank of Vandalia. A DISTRICT ' convention of the Peo­ ple's party is called to meet in Shaw- neetown oa July 27. The purpose is to nominate a candidate for the Legisla­ ture in the Forty-ninth Senatorial Dis­ trict. Although the district has always elected two iiepublieans, it is close, and the Democrats have nominated two men. AT JacksonvP'e solemn high mass In- token of the t!t iith of the noud Father Brady, who died a month ago, wa-» cele­ brated Tuesday. Many illustrious prel­ ates were present. The question of a successor to Father Brady came up and a vote was taken, but the congregation will have to wait a week or two befON they know who is to be their pastor. m-'A ' ' '**>.* i •4* ^ 1 - J $ & j ^ A k' ^ ,-t > r-1 ' * ! > il . - ft.* .. J - > ki-- * ^ Sj I .. - rn. y * : 1 # - v '-41 & A ?, .j • "fJ V* • 'j - # I -I , M A i- . ^