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"'Ifitiiiijijl' Works* taiWc*ty fom'»w»fC--.v.': ,W. H. Hall, of Osceola, whose (Hie of the trustees of the „ lor the Feeble Minded, eeoepe Friday night from iw+asrlvate retreat for the in- lamavllle, and threw her- . . dly louorvoie. where har i found* Mrs. Hall was thought .. ,.„r ,. todjr convalescent and was al* lo^itlOlttost unlimited freedom. She overtaxed herself while attending the World's Pair fast summer and ' insane with suicidal tendencies. Quincy. M ETHODI8T8 of Urbana dedicated a handsome new church building just completed at a total coat of $25,000. If is consider*#. probable thai gov­ ernment fish oommHrioaars will estab­ lish a big hatohery at Spring like. SUNDAY was marked at Pairbury by fifty-seven converts, who were bap­ tized and admitted to the Methodist Church. BROWN'S elevator and lumber yard at Duaiap, burned. The loss will reach - -* o» which there Is oonaid- SSffKft Coi<m«M of the Crops In IlHnats. The State Board of Agriculture is- «na& a bulletin of the condition of crtypa. Since the last report. Dec-1, tha improvement ijt the oonditlcp of the crops has been great, juod they are now in splendid condition. The area of fall wheat seeded to wheat last fall was 2,(128,000 aores, 10 per cent, less than the area returned to the Asses­ sors May 1. The prospect in Decem­ ber was very discouraging, but the winter has been favorable, and the condition is all that could be desired. The condition of 59,898 acres in the northern division is W5 per cent, of the* average; the central division, where 790,444 acres were seeded, 101 per cent., and the southern division, where 997,- 0S5 acres were seeded, 101 per oent. No damage by the fly. The condition of rye is nearly as good as wheat, the area seeded being 109,076 acres. The condition of the north di­ vision Is 92, central 100, and southern 101 per cent. It is feared by growers that the present cold weather has de­ stroyed all chances for a fruit crop in Illinois this year. Exploiioa starts a Wtf,"' - •_ ^ Gilbert, a small town on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, narrowly escaped destruction by fire as a result of a terrific explosion of a boiler In the Hager brick and tile factory at that plase. Fireman August Tarnow aged _0, was in the engine-room alone when the explosion occurred. For a time the air was filled with bricks and pieces of, iron. Tarnow's body was a little later found lying against the walls, covered with debris. Immediately af­ ter the explosion a fieroe tire broke out, and fanned bv the strong wind, spread rapidly. The tile plant was a valuable property and included a two- story brick factory covering an acre or more. This was quickly consumed. People occupying the neighboring houses moved out, and only by the most heroic work and by help from neighboring towns was the whole vil­ lage saved from destruction, there be­ ing no lire protection. The loss will reach nearly $50,000, while the insur­ ance is abDut $10,000. To Re Joined by an KlMtrls U|i \ < President J. S. Ticknor and H. B. Andrews, of Hock ford; M. K. Bo wen, President of the Chicago Electric Rail­ way Company, and Clifton Wise, of the New York Electric Railway Company, held a conference with the residents of Dixon with reference to the Rock River Electric Railway, which is to run from Dixon to Rock- ford. As a result of the conference Dixon will probably have electric lines in the near future. The route decided -on for the Rock River line is nearly an «ir line from Dixon to Grand Detour, -crossing the river iust above the lower terry, following the meanderings of the stream to Oregon and thence to Rockford. The water power plants at Dixon and Oregon, each of about 300 horse power capacity, will generate the electricity. The proposed road lias evolved much interest in the river towns and there will be no difficulty in Securing the right of way at a low cost. His Flock Is Bard to Herd. Another trial in the Ly nnville church troubles was held in Jacksonville, • The Ooultas boys were brought into ['t «mrt for disturbing the meeting at the church. The defense asked that they be triei singly, which was done. Oliver, the older one, was put on trial and th e jury returned a verdict of jruilty and $10 and costs against the young man. Oliver's father declares that he is going to sue the preacher for insulting his wife. The minister, having been vindicated by the sen­ tence against Oliver, has dismissed the . other case. >:.W ( ------------ >' Beeovd of the Week. ; I f»4 j I,. . u i l . | . u u • j m L '"h' SUPERINTENDENT BOWSHEBltS won his fight with the trustees of the city schools at Champaign and will remain FIRE in the South Evanston public school caused a panic among the chil- ! «3ren and several were seriously in­ jured. DISCOVERY and development of val- [ liable coal mines have increased the [ population of Toluca from 200 to 3,000 [ in a year. IN the case at Champaign of Lena Lingrun against the Illinois Central I Railroad for the death of her husband | the plaintiff was awarded $5,000. I THAT the Champaign County coroner [ did not have three cases to attend to | the other day is due perhaps more to I chance than bad marksmanship. Two I rival iaotions of the sporting element I, of Champaign came together at a dis- f reputable house and a iree for all fight I resulted, revolvers being used with r abandon. When the smoke had cleared kv away and an inventory was taken three I voting men were found ta be badly I wounded. They are Ed Blaisdell, I, Frank Dickerson and J. Simpson. They I ' were quickly taken from the scene by I their friends. The fellows that Is haodled the revolvers have not been r swrrested. R • DAVID PRICE, who murdered Robert l ileed at Alton Junction in June laBt. ••'•--was round guiity at Ifldwardsville and I sentenoed to thirty-six years in the I penitentiary. I' A ROMANTIC marriage took place in ft'Justice Keever's office at Freeport. ft ®he contracting parties were Joseph p fieiran,.aged 75, and Mrs. Joseph De- | |$a, aged 71. They parted twenty I .' jean- ago, the husband going west, I where he was married strain. The I;' eiwflwd wife died, and he returned and I wade up with his first wife, who had K wedded, and the ceremony Was per- • formed a second time. lp- IftQBDKBlCK HKITMIKH a Carlyle • merchant was passing Kahlert's Ice K house and was struck on the head by a • ftfty-pound piece of ice which had been I thrown from the second story. Heit- | oder!s condition is serious. oomes from Rock Run Town- ritehsOn County, of a young it in the act of abusing dumb (asSsT He received white cap let- k bot paid no attention to them, ^leaving theneighborbomi in forty- |thoac»,asdireeted, a crowd called ||p home. The mob put a rope lip his neck end strung him to a £ He wn nearly strangled to .th, and upon being released mad te to depart. S8VSRAL persons were bitten by a dog at Mascoutah, supposed to be mad. The Mayor has ordered all the doge in the tHwfc to be muizxl̂ d. . HENRT HoixfcNBBCK, aged 80 years, on a of the pioneer j of Wibn?bagi? County, suffer el a fall at his home which will prove fatal. JOHN SNYDER shot and probably killed the 5-year-old son of Joel An­ derson at Untonvilie. Snyder thought his pistol was not loaded. REV. FIRTH STRINGER has resigned the pastorate of the Elgin Prospect Street Congregational Church and will go to St. Louis to be pastor of Man­ chester Road Congregational Church. SAM WILLIAMS, who killed his father at Greenville last fall, has Sleaded guilty to the charge of mur er and been given a life sentence in the penitentiary by Judge Wilder™An THREE burglars forced an entrance into the grooery store of II. B. Stimp- son at Elgin and blew the safe. The noise was so great that they fled with­ out attempting to open the inner door of the safe. MRS. LEROY KINO, living near Loo gootee, was thrown out of a wagon by a runaway team and killed instantly her neck being broken. She was sixty Jears old, and had been long a resi-ent of Fayette County. E. H. PIERSON, a bachelor, 58 years old, was found dead in his chair in a room in the rear of his broom factory. The probability is that he died from heart disease, tne Coroner's jury find­ ing a verdict to that effect. PRESIDING ELDER VANHORNE, Rock- ford. has appointed April 22 as a day of thanksgiving in the Dixon District, The reason is that there have been more than 1,600 conversions in the Methodist Churches during the winter. THE Rockford garrison of the Knights of the Globe has reconsidered its decision to disband and will remain loyal to the order, though war has been declared on Dr. W. W. Krape, of Freeport. Rev. Mr. Snyder, of River­ side, who was the backbone and sinew of the order in its early days, has re signed as president. ROCKFORD TOWNSHIP, Winnebago County, enters the claim of having the banner district of Illinois in the mat­ ter of good road building the last year The district, managed by Thomas G Levengs, has built in that time nearly ten miles of hard roads. Of this amount, six and one-quarter miles were stone road, nearly all of it dressed oif with gravel. HENRIETTA BRUCKNER, a young lady of Western Springs, Chicago suburb, has for years been afflicted with mel­ ancholia. She is talented, bright, handsome; but over her spirit has been cast a cloui. Failing to get a coveted position as musical instructor, she be­ came very much depressed While mentally irresponsible, she boarded a west-bound train, went nearly to Oma­ ha, and, entirely alone, took to the woods. Only by accident was she dis­ covered, and only by strategy was she induced to go to a human habitation. For four days and nights, during bit­ terly cold weather, she wandered alone. ED DANIELS, Senegambian, gentle­ man burglar, is wandering around loose somewhere in Chicago. Mr. Daniels was arrested upon half a dozen good charges of burglary. While thfe Grand Jury was pondering over the case Mr. Daniels very properly lav in jail. He was kept in cell 125 along with a certain Frank Vanderbilt, charged with larceny. The Grand Jury returned "no bill" against Vanderbilt, and the jail folks were instructed to turn him out. A turnkey went to cell 125 and called for Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt \fas asleep, but Daniels was not--he wae very much awake. He answered to the name. He was taken out into the office, the clerk wrote a few lines in the jail register, and the turnkey said, "Get out of here." "Yassir," said Daniels. And he got. And he has not yet come bfu:k. A CIRCULAR has been issued to the the teachers of the State by Superin­ tendent of Public Instruction liaah recommending that April 14, which has been designated as Arbor Day by the Governor, be properly observed. He says: "Referring to the proclama­ tion of the Governor, I beg to recom­ mend to you the observance of Arbor Day on the date named by the planting of trees and flowering shrubs in the school yards, with appropriate cere­ monies of declamation and singing. School grounds planted with beautiful shade trees contribute much to make children love their school, while at the same time they waken the aesthetic feeling and cause children, to refrain from damaging and mutilating all kinds of plants. Besides the planting of trees, I wish to recommend that you instill into the minds of the children a love for nature in general and teacu them to cherish the trees and shrubs which may be found on or about the school premises. Let this be your care all the year round, not only on the fixed Arbor Day. The present school generation will look in future years with pride upon the trees they planted, and thus they will perpetuate and strengthen the love of nature and the aesthetic sense of those who come after." SUITS are filed in the United States Circuit Court at Springfield by Edward D. Shepard of New York against Ham­ ilton County, Illinois, for $80,000, and against Gallatin County, Illinois, fcr #20,000; by Walter M. Jackson of New York against Johnson County, Illinois, for $40,000, and by William L. Foster of Boston, Mass., against Johnson County, Illinois, for $5,000. All the suits are to compel the payment of principal and interest t>n railroad aid bonds issued by these counties in 1872, payable in 1892. All the bonds have ' been adjudged valid in courts in suits on th© interest coupons. CROPS were damaged some, and fruit greatly, by frost, in the vicinity of Salem, Hills boro, Benton, and Quincy. AT Kane County Evangelist Confer­ ence of the Woman's Christian Tem­ perance Union,at Aurora, Mrs. Downey, State Superintendent, preached. THE State Board of Health report the following number of ca^esof small­ pox in Illinois, reported to date: Chi­ cago. 277; St Clair County, 5; Clinton, 1; Pike, 1: Sangamon, 1; Livingston, 1; Will, 6; Peoria, 2; Union, l;Madi- son fat county farm at Edwardsville\ 1% Sajb. i; Kane, 1; Harvey. Cook ood Village, l.-".;Bfet ire fatal, however. in co**% M'KINLEY HITS HARD. BODY BLOWS DEALT DEMOCRA­ CY AT MINNEAPOLIS. P. Doetrlw Is Mildewed by Free-Trad* Influences -- Protection Alnai WILT B»- Time*. • ,' Made the H»& Gove'rnor McKinley addreS&M Minnesota League of Republican Clubs at the meeting in Minneapolis, The great hall made memorable by the meeting of *the Republican Na­ tional Convention was packed to suffo­ cation, and when the great champion of American protection appeared the entire assemblage arose and greeted him with rousing cheers. The a»sem- bled multitude was thoroughly en rap­ port with the Buckeye Governor and greeted his home thrusts at Democratic tariff tinkering with round after round of applause. When Governor McKinley said, "'A revenue tariff is an enemy to the American, the American working- man, to American prosperity, and American industrial independence," he was unable to proceed for two minutes, owing to the cheers of the Minneapolis tin-pail brigade. He spoke as fol­ lows: Mr. President, gentlemen of the Repub­ lican League of Minnesota and fellow-citi­ zens, much has happened »lnoe the great Be publican National Convention of 1602 assembled In this halL The platform and candidates of that great convention, ad­ mirable as they. were, were rejected by the people at the election following; but the people had no sooner spoken than they re- allied their great mistake--a mistake which they now feel most sensibly and re­ gret most deeply. The principles enun­ ciated at that convention were true then; they are true now. They are as dear to Republicans now as then; they are botter understood and more ardently supported by the great body of the people in the year 1894 than they were in the year 1892. While the Republican party failed to carry the election, the cause for which it con­ tended did not fall. It survived the awful disaster and shines more brightly and glo­ riously than ever be for* The last year has been a loaf one--the longest since the war. It has been full of changes and experiences which hare been impressive and instructive, but expensive. All kinds of business have been seriously disturbed; investments have been sacri­ ficed; capital has been despoiled of its earnings, and labor, more than all and dearer to us than all, has succumbed to the wasting blasts of the great change by which industry has been cheated of Its Just rewards. Everything has suffered but the Republican cause. Everything has been blighted but Republican principles. They Uve escaped the mildew which has set­ tled upon everything els& Even the Demo­ cratic party has suffered--a calamity we could bear with resignation if It bad not also carried in Its train ths vast and sacred interests of the people. What were the great principle* and poli­ cies then enunciated in tbls hall? Let me enumerate them. A protective tariff, which shall serve the highest Interests of Ameri­ can labor and American development; reciprocity, which, while seeking the world's markets for our surplus products, shall not destroy American wages, nor sur­ render American markets for products which can be made at home; the use of both gold and silver with which to meas­ ure the exchanges of the people and cheat nobody; honest elections, which are the true sources of public authority; the ex­ tension of our foreign commerce; the res­ toration of our merchant marine by home- built ships; the creation of a navy for the protection of our national Interests and the honor of our flag; the maintenance of the most friendly relations with ail foreign powers and entangling alliances with none; the reaffirmation of the Monroe doctrine, and of our faith lu the achievement of the manifest destiny of the republic as the best government of earth in the broadest and truest sense. Campaign of Promises. The Democratic party won In 1SSS, as In every sontest since the war In which it has succeeded, by a campaign of profuse and glittering promise* It now stands de­ moralized on the field of performance, and has, so far. signally failed to redeem a single pledge it made to the people It has been for many years denouncing the tariff, because some men became rich under its operations and others poor. The first year of Democratic control has cured all that, and the prescription has proved quite as effective on the poor as the rich, for it has Involved them all in a common loss. What devastation and distress htrt been wrought in a single year! Let the briefest statement of the busi­ ness condition at the close of the year 1898 be contrasted with a like statement of that condition at the end of 1893. «i he year 1892," says Dun's Review of Trade,the best non-partisan authority, "has been the most prosperous ever known In business." Tbls is the business indorsement of thirty years of Republican ruin Now mark the change! Bays Dun's Review of Trade for 1893: «8tartlng with the largest trade evsr known, mills crowded with work and all business stimulated by high hopes, the year 1893 has proved. In sudden shrinkage of trade, in commercial disaster and the depression of industries, the worst for Sfty years. Whether the final results of the panic of 183? were relatively more severe the scanty records of that time do not clearly show. The year closes with prices of many products the lowest ever ki»0wn, with millions of workers seeking in vain for work, and with charity laboring to keep back suffering and starvation In ail our cities. A'l hope that the new year may bring brighter days, but the dying year leaves only a dismal record. The re­ view of different departments of trade gtvsn to-day exhibits a collapse of indus­ try and business which is almost withou t precedent" To ftdd to ths perplexities of ths situa­ tion under ths menace of free trade here described, tha Wilson bill, which recently passed ths House of Representatives at Washington and is now In ths hands of ths Senate, jropoMt ostensibly to reduce the ! revenues $78.000,000. The real decrease woald eventually, after we became more and more impoverished, oe tar greater. 1 his to at a tine when the expenses of the government far exceed its receipts and whsn by reason of such a condition the Secretary of the Treasury has been com­ pelled to sell $50,000,000 of government bonds, with the belief in many quarters that this It but the be­ ginning of bond-issuing to relieve the daily wants of the Government Tim sum of f7s.00s.000, which it Is proposed to surrender of ths revenues, is more than one-third of the entire sum received from customs In the last fiscal year. This re­ duction is made upon the theory of the Democratic free-traders that it will relieve the people of burdensome taxation. Wheth­ er it does ar not depends. But of one thing we are certain: It has relieved the people of employment, of work, of wages, of pros­ perity sod of plenty--and some of them of thetrhomss. The blessings of good wages, good prices and good times are more to be desired than the proposed relief from so- called '-burdensome taxation." Such s re­ list Is no relist Narrow, Sectional and Provincial. The Wilson bill is not like any of the early tariff measures, but is or.e in which the changed condition of tbe country and it* marvelous growth and development are utterly ignored and forgotten- Its pro­ moters forget that slavery no longer ex­ ists They do aot recognize nor appreciate the independence and dignity of labor, and cannot understand that the protective policy under which we have bad such splendid prosperity 1* not to be determ­ ined by geographical lines. The blH is a narrow, sectional and provincial measure, unworthy the great party which proposes it and wholly uqiolted to the needs of the country ' The Wilson bill turns to the past; away from the present It is for the plantation, not fori he farm and the factory. As it passed the House it had for its foundation principle free raw material. Its authors argued that with free coal, free iron ore, free lead and free wool the manufacturers of the United States would be placed on an equality with the manufacturers of free trade countries, and we therefore could not only, retain our own markets but could control "the markets of the world." Based upon this argument, which I believe to be false, they declared that with these great primary products free we would have steady employment for all the ̂ orklngmen of the country at good wages. And so In this form tbe bill passed the Democratic House of Representatives and is now the dread subject of angry contention in the Democratic Senate. An examination of the bill by the Demo­ cratic members of the Finance Committee of the Senate evidently convinces them that Mr. Wilson's bill and his argument in support of the same are alike based upon faUt principles, Bo coal goes back to the tariff list, iron ore to the tariff list, and lead to tbe tariff list* leaving free wool alone, the only product of agriculture, to support tbe false theory of the House bill Evea Mr. Cleveland is disregarded, for in his Madison 8quare Garden speech, after his nomination in 1892, he said: "We be­ lieve that the advantage of freer raw ma­ terial should be accorded to our manu­ facturers. We propose, therefore to stimu­ late our dtmestlc industrial enterprises by freeing from duty the imported raw ma­ terials which, by the employment of labor, are used in our home manufactures, thus extending the markets for tbeir sale and permitting an increased and steady pro­ duction with an allowance of abundant profit.» I have looked with some degree of care through tbe bllL I find nothing bat irrita­ tion and aggravation to the great indus­ tries of the country. No interest suffers by it more severely than agriculture, and labor of all kinds seems tj have been sin­ gled out as its foremost victim. I have examined It carefully to find some section, paragraph, clause, or line removing the •great burden of tariff taxes from the shoulders of the people," about which we have heard so much for sa many years from the Democratic orators and papers and platforms, but I have been unsuccess­ ful in finding any such provision. It Is true that sugar, an crticle of prime neces­ sity to every household, and which the law of 1890 made free to tbe people, has been tariffed at from 1 to 14-10 cents per pound, every cent of which will be raid by the consumers of the United State* But, doubtless in compensa­ tion for this added burden of upward of 150,000,003, and because of it, tbey lowered the tariff on tobacco and have extended the bondei period for the warehousing of wh sky and giving to the distillers eight years in which to pay the iax. They have restored tbe tariff on coal, but then in fairness they should bo credited with hav­ ing taken the tariff off of diamonds. They reason that the manufacturers are few, forgetting that the workmen are many. 1 hey look to tbe interests of importers, ignoring the farmer, and obvious to the fact that the agriculturist Is everywhere. Anything to Break Down Protection, 'lhe present positlou and action of tbe Democratic leaders on Internal taxes is pe­ culiarly an anomalous one. 'ihey are so determined to break down the protective system tbat they are »tiling to resort to Internal taxes, which have been opposed not only by every Democratic National administration preceding the present one from Jackson's to Buchanan's, but also, as a matter of principle, by every other ad­ ministration, Federal. Anti- Federal, Whig or Republican, in our history. The only excuse for the resort to such taxation has been the financial exigencies of actual Sir, LaWsi luiiiusiug kieiyai taxvs have always been repealed as rapidly as such exigencies disappeared, and have never before been seriously proposed in times of profound peace. Some of tbe same Demo­ cratic leaders who. during and subsequent to tbe war, stood in Congress speaking and voting against Internal taxes and an income tax, ara found to­ day heartily favoring them. They were unwilling to adopt these methods of taxa­ tion when It was necessary to preserve the government and the iiag, but tbey are willing to adopt them now as a means of breaking down the patriotic principles of protection, under which tbe North and Northwest, as well as the South, have en- Joyed such unparailele 1 prosperity and have attained such marvelous development. It would be interesting to the student of political history to examine the various acts and resolves of Congress touching in­ ternal taxes, beginning in 1861 and includ­ ing the year* during and shortly after the war and to note the position of the leaders of jtSe Democratic party thereon. I have time to refer to but one such law--the In­ ternal revenue act which was approved by President Lincoln July 1, 1864. It passed the House April 28, the vote being, yeas 110, nays 39, every Democrat present and voting resp Hiding in the negative. J'ifhasystem has been condemned by all the Democratic Presidents except Mr. Cleveland, aad has been repeatedly char­ acterised by Democratic platforms uas un­ endurable la Its offensive exactions.» Such taxes have been constantly denounced as "war taxes," and Democratic platforms have loudly aad clamorously demanded their repeal. Yet thirty years after the close of the war. in a time of peace, they now propose to re-enact, in part, this ' odious system of Internal revenue taxa­ tion, which James Madison and other Il­ lustrious statesmen pronounced to be "most grievous and un-American, and only to be justified in the presence of a great national emergency." Masses Arw In Karnest. The prevailing widespread distress em­ phasizes the necessity for enlightened pub­ lic policy and wise statesmanship^ Thsln- dlfference which ha* been too prevalent for many years has given place to a deep and absorbing interest in public affairs. The masses of tl.e people are considering economic questions more earnestly than ever before and are aroused to their Im­ portance as affecting their own individual happiness and prosperity. To wisely snide them calls for the exercise of the highest wisdom, coolest judgment and 1*1 rest patriotism No party can be safely trusted with tbe sacred Interests of the peepie or the control of the government without it possesses a fixed, honest nnd enlightened purpose. Mngioness of purpose is neces­ sary 10 every reform, indispensable to wise administration and legislation. The want of tbls quality is tbe Infirmity of the pres­ ent administration and the present Con­ gress Their victory was due to discontent of every kind. It w«^» not the result of unity of purpose, nor of lofty and united public sentiment. It was the outcome of mis­ guided judgment, pique, passion, and prej­ udice. The majority of those who voted for Mr. Cleveland and the present Demo­ cratic Congress did not agree upon any prluciple or policy. They had their sev­ eral different reasons for opposition to the Republican party, and their temporary union was not inspired by devotion to Democratic principles, purposes, or poli­ cies. Free-silver men voted the Demo­ cratic ticket; opponents to free silver, or to any sliver la our circulating medium, voted for it; the wildest inflationists, as well as those inflexibly opposed to every form of Inflation of our currency, voted it; the protectionist voted It because he did not believe the Demo­ cratic leaders would be reckless enough to disturb tbe tariff; the free-trader voted it In the belief that the Democratic lead­ ers would demolish all custom-houses and inaugurate unrestricted commerce with all the world; the single-tax men, the disci­ ples of Henry George, voted It, while thou­ sands who hate all such vagaries voted it; the silver standard, the gold standard, tbe double standard, the pa per-money advo­ cates and the advocates of State-bank money voted It; pensioners voted it, and those who were certain that tbe Democrat­ ic leaders could be counted upon to wipe out ail pensions voted it And when it was all over and the victory was won by these various antagonistic and contending elements, the realization of their hopes and the enactment of any legislation for the good of the country were, of course* found to be utterly Impossible Failure and disappointment were bound to follow an administration and congress thus chosen, and the whole country suffers as a result. The administration and con- gre-s are without compass or rudder. Be­ fore they have accomplished anything-- while they are yet wrangling about what they will do--the people have become so dissatisfied as to burn with impatience to repudiate them. A general election was never so much desired as now and never so much needed, 'lhe altogether too com­ mon idea that thero is. In fact, little differ­ ence between the two parties and that the country will prosper equally well which­ ever may be in po*or. has b*en completely exploded by one year's trial of tbe Demo­ cratic party. That difference has been shown to be so vast as to fill the country with asionlshmen'. It is a greater ques­ tion than who shall hold the offices. In fact, it has been demonstrated that the success of one party or the < ther mean* all the difference between national happiness and prosperity aad national discontent and distress What part shall yon. my fellow-conntry- men of tbe State ut Minnesota, take In the settlement of these great and pressing public questions? May we not hope that the spirit of justice and patriotism which animated yon in the critical days of tbo past when the people of the Northwest led the hosts of freedom in the great con­ test with the slave power may still inspire you to even mightier efforts In behalf of tbe fundamental principles of our Govern­ ment and of our ludustrlal independence and prosperity? Etauding before this vast assembly, I recall the words of William Q, Seward, spoken to the people at St. Paul on Sept. 18, 1800, when be said: '•The virtue which is to save this nation must reside in tbe Northwest On both sides of this stream are the people who hold in their hands the destinies of the re­ public. That some great States are to be built up in the valley of the Mississippi I know. You will no longer hear hereafter of tbe -Old Dominion' State; dominion passed away from Virginia long aga Pennsylvania is no longer the keysione of tbe American union, for tbe arch has been extended :fr<>m tbe Atlantic coast to the Pa ci Be ocean, and the center of- the arch has been moved westward. Anew keystone is to be built in that arch. New York will cease to be the Empire State and a new Empire State will grow up In the northern latitude where the lands are rich and where the people who cultivate them are all free and equaL That State which shall l.e truest to the gieat fundamental princi­ ples of the Government, that State which, shall be most faithful and most vigorous !q developing and perfecting ooui«iy on those principles--will be at once the Dominion State, the new Heystoae Vtats. the new Empire Stata" Sierthwest Can Be Relied Fnon. The question for which the great New York statesman spoke so eloquently has been settled, righteously settled, as he pleaded and prayed it might be; settled in consequence of the decrees of tho great campaign In which be spoke; settled by the great liberator for whom he spoke, tbe im­ mortal Lincoln; settled In eternal justice, for freedom and mankind. Citizenship is no longer unequal and every man is free beneath the flag. differences exist­ ing then are no longer present to impede the progress and unity of lhe republic or to stand between us in the realiza­ tion of Its highest Interests. Now all sections and all States bow at the shrine.of: freedom. All ha^e a common and glorious citizenship, all a like Interest in the per­ manency and progress of the union. The liberty for which Seward spoke has been secured and tbe union saved, stronger and better than ever. 'J he virtue which Is to advance the nation now free to its highest destiny and Klory must reside in the peo­ ple, not of tbe Northwest alone, but in the people of every part of our common coun­ try. The Northwest can te relied upon, now and in the future, as in ths past, to contribute* to tbe onward march or tbe best government on the face of ths earth. Among ft* mtcrn tr life. tltottbie to the efptilt are Ihtebif- ing of tobacco (tfciambove ilMM Cti others,) the excessive« use of wine, •pirits of beer; the indisertmiocte ad­ mission of quinine; the use of cos­ metics for heightening the lustre of the eye, and mixtures for dyeing the half and eyebrows, and there is a case on record where a diminution of vision has been traced to the wearing of an artificial wreath of flowers. Another source of failing vision mifcjr be traced to impeded circulation. The wearing of tight neckwear, such as collars which are too small, or shirt bands or neckties tightly arawn, should be avoided, as they prevent the downward column of blood re­ turning to the hearty and dilation and development of dtsease is likely to follow. The same rule holds good of constriction of other parts of the body. Another most serious source of eye strain is constant reading in railroad carriages, which is the prac­ tice of nearly all business men in going to and from their offices and stores, and the injury to the eye from this cause is incalculable Nothing gives tired eyes greater relief than a green disk or square of sufficient size, suspended on a direct line of vision at or against a wail, on which the .eyes can rest; but best of all to look upon is a trreen grass plot or green trees. The green cloth of the poker table is not trood for tbe eves at alL ii is suggested that it would be a public boon if our monthly magazines were printed on paper of neutral tint, and the drop-curtains in theaters should have scenes painted on them showing (rreat perspect.ve. It is a rest to tbe eyes, after the concen­ trated effort made in trying to watch the facial expression or eyes of an actor, to look upon such a picture. Too MANY cooks keep the Joe man ^ a melting mood. A Vegetable with a PedlgrM, Of all the plants used for food, there is none which has been so long known, or has had, so to say, so dis­ tinguished a llneasre as asparagus. Its .record, in fact, reaches back to almost the commencement of au­ thentic history, as it is mentioned by the comic poet Cratinus, who died about 425 ii C, and was a contem­ porary of, though slightly older than Aristophanes. Among the Romans, also, the tast$ vegetable was held in high esteem. Cato the elder--not the gentleman who was of opinion that Plato reas­ oned well, but his great grandfather, who insisted upon the destruction of Carthage, and who was born 234 B. C.--wrote a work, which is still ex­ tant, "De lie Rustica, " and in U he treats at length of the virtues and proper cultivation of asparagus. Pliny, also, in his "Natural History,", (about 60 A. D.,) has much to say on the subject- 'Of all the productions of your garden," he feelingly observes, "your chief care will be your aspara­ gus," and he devotes several chapters and parts of chapters to lis many beneficent qualities and the best modes of raising it. He asserts that, even in his day, the soil about Haven ua was so favor­ able to its production that three heads grown in that district had been known to weigh a Roman pound. As, however, this pound seems to have been equal to only about eleven of our ounces, it would apparently have required four of the stocks to reach a pound of our weight; but this re­ sult* considering the state of horti­ culture in those days, may be looked upon as wonderful enough, and haat in point of fact, only been equaled In oar own times --Chamber's Journal. Very few housekestsa never tiled the expwrfc all the ashes sifted coal is thrown a*«y neglected. It is realty a trttlQi bit of work to sift all the eotl ashes el a family every day If there !«* 0rGg*r apparatus on hand in tbe Wiy ef a sieve in a covered box. AtMOit tae- third of the coal burnt in an ecpftaay COOK stove may be burnt ovef to tbe form of cinders, and these cinders be- intr comparatively free from eras, like coke, make a much hotter fire than unburnt coal. In Epglish homes, where tbe coal* are carefully sifted, the housewives take the trouble to throw the eUnfeSl* in the sink and wash off the if!#* This process of dampening befSfw cleansing the ashes, gives them the proper body to make a lasting tret in­ stead of retarding their burning, as one might suppose It would Tbe question is sometimes brought up as to the average fuel capacity of an ordinary cook stove with an eight Of nine-inch hole. This depends entirely upon tbe individual who manages>be , stove, and less upon the make of stove than is generally imagined. All the standard makes cf cook stoves burn about the same amount of coal, under intelligent management. It has be«n demonstrated thaw » good standard make of cook stove or range may be kept steadily burning with ft consumption of one ton of coal for ten weeks, provided the cinders are carefully sifted. And this wiU in­ clude the extra large fires required for washing, ironing, and bakiofe. Yet it is no uncommon thing for a negligent family to oonsmae twlee this amount of coal, and sometimes more In the same time, with no ap­ preciable benefit from the additional amount of fuel used. This waste may be easily accomplished by piling; the coal up to the covers of the stave, making what kitchen servants ate apt to term the "red-hot" fire. Now, this fire, which makes the lids of tbe stove white with heat because tbe hot coals rest against them, does not heat the oven or other parts of tbe stove except the front as much as a fire of similar Intensity burning coal that reaches only to the top of tile firebrick. In the fiist casv tb* draughts of the stove are aetnally shnt off by the height or tbe ebal, and the heat fails to reach the oven and various flues, and the mass of this coal, instead eff giving heat to the stove, is turned into cinders, which in many cases are promptly dumped by tbe ignorant servant, un­ sifted, into the ash heap; Thus Ohe fatally consumes ooat enough far two. --New York Tribune. 'lllf t * I- «/ % sfei - "V'-s I ci,' >"• • 'C '}•*'. Preparing fbr the Storm. A correspondent in the North of Ireland sends the following account of an Interesting incident that came under his observation. Being on a walking tour through Inishowen, and passing along the edge of Lough Swilly--the romantic ••Lake of Shadows"--he noticed an immense gathering of crows on the sandy shore. In company with several others, the tourist was attracted by this novel spectacle, and began to wonder at the cause of it. An old man, who was working in a field near the place, offered an explanation. He said that tbe birds were picking up sand to ballast themselves in a storm, and when they did so it was a sure sign of coming. He added that on shoot­ ing crows after a gathering of the sort, he had found their crops loaded with sand. As a matter of fact the gentleman concludes, a violent gale set in early next morning. His ffatch Wouldn't Go. Customer--My watch won't ga Jeweler (examining it)--My I myl Have you been in a railroad collision? Customer (surprised)--Why, na Jeweler (solemnly)--When you un­ dress you should not throw your vest on the flour when your watch is in the pocket Customer (thoughtfully)--J never da I have been exceedingly careful with that watch. Don't know how it got hurt .„How long will It take to fix it? Jeweler (after another examina­ tion)-- *ou'd better leave it here at least a week, but if you can get along without It I would advise two weeka Custodier -- V ery well. Do it np right Good day. jeweler (to assistant)--Hans, blow that speck of dust off this wheel, and charge up t5 for repairs. --Good News. *-'V: Sffi berth Be Preferred an Upper "Why do I prefer an upper to a lower in a sleeping car?" re* peated the drummer, aB he counted out and swallowed six pellets without explaining whether they were lor his liver or lungs. "Yes, why?" queried the man wbo was felicitating himself on having se­ cured lower No. 7. ••Well, there are various reasons. When I first began to travel, fifteen years ago, the wheel of a ear en a train passing us flew off and killed a man in lower 6. Tbe chap over him never got a scratch. Later on. a fel­ low threw a rock at the car, and it entered the window of lower 4, and broke tbe sleeper's thigh. Man over him never woke up Again, a car I was on ran over a lot of dynaalite. Man in lower 7 was blown up witb the floor and killed, but the one over him didn't even know that anything had happened. Once more, a man in lower berth can be easily robbed, while one In an upper Is seldom troubled. Last but not least--" ••What?" was asked as be paused. "I always undress, same is at a hotel. There's no telling wben an accident may come. In case tbe car goes off, the upper berth is apt to close up, and you are thus secure from the gaze of tbe vulgar public until a porter can put np a tent alongside the track and get your clothes there and help you to dress. Modesty is my chief reason, but as all you fellows broke your necks to get lower berths, of coarse 1 can't expect you to understand or appreciate it-- Detroit Free Press. k Had Been There Before. 1 asked the Governor of the Not­ tingham Jail how they made sure they'd got an old band if be consist­ ently denied his identity, and stoutly refused to admit he'd been convicted before. He told me that failing other indicia, the man's demeanor and unconscious familiarity with prison ways were always, sooner or later, spotted by the wardens. But they had one case of a man they were quite unable to cat h, until one morning he inadvertently folded his blanket in a particular way. So par* ticular, that it was instantly noted by a warden as the fashion only practiced and enforced at Warwick, where, sure enough, he had not long before been incarcerated. As La Rochefoucauld observes, '•One can be sharper than tbe indi­ vidual, but not than -ail the indi­ viduals. --Hie Cornhlli Magazine. THE meaner a man is, the easier he Is Insulted. I Conldn't Corner mm: Harvey Waters the inventor and mechanical expert once distinguished himself by a particularly skillful answer to a lawyer who was croes-ex- examining him- Ross Winans had taken out a patent on a truck-car-- this is, a i assenger-car mounted on two trucks, instead of having the axles running in boxes Used to the car, as is still the custom in Europe. The validity of the patent was attacked, and Harvey Waters was called as an expert in Mr. Winan's interest Mr. William Whiting, the counsel for tbe opposite party, showed that it had been usual to transport long pieces of merchandise, as well as tree-trunks and lumber, on two small four- wheeled cars, to which the ends of the long thing were lashed, and he tr ed to make Mr. Waters acknowledge that a passenger-car on two trucks was really the same thing as a big log lashed upon two small wheeled cars. Mr. Waters cooltliit - be bought to tne admission, and,after a multitude of sharp questiea* the lawyer said: "Well you. ideate teii the court Mr. Water, wherein eoatMfta the difference betwen a log lashed to two four-wheeled cars and a passen­ ger-(ar riding on two tracks?" Tift venerable expert thought for a afc>» ment, and then, running hie lingers through his snow-white hair, he an­ swered: "Mr. Whiting, a log lashed to two trucks Is no mote a paseenger- car rid ng on two trucks than two megk carrying a log between tbemi3ML^^#S, their shoulders are a quadruped.* , " ' * "%•,*# 11 1. The Storage Battery. *•" /, $;/• It is maintained very stoutly by v expert electricians that the storage- : " : battery is, after all, a success for $ commercial work; that tbe new pro* •; cesses tor manufacturing them have I cheapened their cost aud that in train lighting they are especially e®- - clent and economical. It is estliaated that *85 per horse power is nual cost of the accumulator. 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