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LIWTS IKCIBEHT8. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH- $0IPAY RECORDED. < 3 \ 4 Wi ?*• f e - ' • ' Ingram Is a Flrkle Maldm --Aurora Youth Couldn't Stand the Mental Strain --Itowco? Wom»I» Killed by a. Cgfeleta ' M t t t g C l e r k . ' * - - - V Dlnnird) !<«**• fnt Hhm OM. Ernest Gla=ea, a grain and stock lealer of Versailles, Brown County, •§nd Miss EfPe Ingram, only daughter ,«f Frank Ingram a wealthy farmer of <he same place, hai been sweethearts '|or three years and w illing to marry, feut the father or the girl objected. To $vade him the two young people con­ cluded to go to Quincy and be married. T**©y stopped in Clayton, where the I'Oung girl met a former sweetheart and her o'd love for him revived. She •%ent to Bowen, eluding young Glasee, •nd stopj ed at the home of a friend. She said Glasee was after her and had declared he would kill her if she did jot marry him. Glasee did not know i for several days that he had been dis- . yarded for the* old lover. s.v: v'- Right Men Are In Coitodf/, Four men were arrested in Chicago .Friday on suspicion that they were Concerned in the robbery of the ticket Office of the Wabash Railroad in Springfield. Two of the numter. who - <£&ve their names as J. J. Kennedy and ' William Lloyd, respectively, have been ' Identified by a deaf and dumb woman, S" rho was in the waiting room at the epot at the time the robbery was •committed, as the men she saw there \ -lit the time. Kennedy, she says, is the one of the two who made a tnreaten- $ng motion to her to keep quiet. They Save also been identified as the men Who were seen counting money in a lumber yard near the depot d rectly Jfter the robbery. There is no evi-ence t against Frost and Baker, but ; .they are relieved to belong to a gang yi©f which the other two are msmbjrs. ^ H»d Too Much on Hie Mind. ^ At Aurora, on Friday morning, ; -John H. Scratford, a clerk in Sencen- 1>augh & Co.'s store, ended his life by 'firing two shots from a revolver, the •feullets piercing his left breast, caus- tng death ten minutes later. In ad­ dition to his business, he was an act- member of the Park P. ace Baptist U Church, teacher in the Sunday school And in the South Park Mission, Chair- 4, than of the Credential Committee of •X} the Baptist Young People's Union, ii vice President of the Aurora Baptist .. Young People's Union Association, an A Active worker in the Young Men's £ ' Christian Association, and a member ' Of a vocal quartette. His mental and itervous system gave way under it all, End, as he expressed it to a friend, it mil, became a question of suicida or in- -^sanity. V<' sv <- G»w Her the Vronc Dragfc "'* • ^. Coroner Aagesen, of Rockford, was Called to Koicoe Sunday to hold an in- ' -•guest over the remains of Mr3. A. C. : ' Miller, who died very suddenly, as the v result of poisoning. The lady hai a ; ; %een sick for some time, and Dr. Ho- Jv.';ward gave a pre-cription to be filled at floscoe. Instead it was taken to Be- • Joit,and it is alleged the drug clerk, in ^ bis ha te, gave the man a mixture of deadly poison, which was given the I sick woman, and she died soon after- -{. #ard. It is said to have been an act ^ #f criminal carelessness, and it will be ?r- - thoroughly investigated. The family ^ • Is almost distracted over the affair. p. • Corn Leveled Near Rorkford. | ? A storm swept over Rockford, Friday | »•' aight, the rain falling in torrents and i She electricity playing freely. Corn f '^as badly damaged, being leveled to the ground for miles. A number of barns in the country north of the city irere struck by lightning, four fires being visible at one time. In Rock- J ford the damage was principally con- Jbf&AJp the Hooding of basement^ Record of the Week. JTTFQTJ STAN A COLLEGE OPEFI&T its 1, r ; i:;-; .ihirty-fifth scholastic year at Moline P. F. BANCO, of Quincy,was arrested ibr selling cigars bearing a counterfeit union label. THE State Convention of the Illinois W. C. T. U. will be held at Mount Vernon, Oct. 10-15. A A PAST mail on the Wabash ran Into •„some freight cars at Staunton. Two ^v.|iien were killed and two injured. \ . ' MARION C. SNYDER was killed near JSdelstein by being thrown from a pile- \ driver owing to a defective chain. ! IT is estimated that railroads carried fully 10,000 Sunday excursionists to |f Chicago by giving reduced rates. 'SAMUEL S. ROWE, a commission If., merchant of Chicago, was found dead his bed, having expired Irom heart disease. , ROBERT HENSEL and Michael Bar- f' rett, the Chicago crooks arrested at I JPittsburg for burglary, were held for weourt trial. | • ^ AT Quincy, William .T. Sigsbee com- Ittitted huieiue by taking morphine. He was married two weeks ago. but . the marriage proved unhappy. *• AT St Louis the remains of Fred V . Iiloser, a wealthy man missing from f_ - *" Casey ville, were taken from the river. It is thought he was murdered, JF J. W. MCVICKEH, alias Jenks, /e- <jeived a fatal wound with a revolver .1m the hands of William C. Powell, a S,' prominent farmer east of Fairbury. k v Cmzi ns cf Evanston, suffering from i numerous robberies and inetficiant po- lice protection, have employed detect­ ives to guard the town. | ; AT Quincy, Mary Cox sued Shepherd P Cox for separate maintenance. She -- charges that he induced her before marriage to renounce her right of dower, although he is worth $100,000, ^ and that he has warned merchants J through the newspaper not to trust %' JSeer on his a mount. FCTHE worst Plorrc that ever struck the locality ot Woodstock prevailed Friday evening, when the ram fell in torrents, accompanied with hail, lightning and thunder, and a wind that raised havoc with trees, unroofed the Sentinel office, blew off the steeple ijV of the Baptist Church, and did other i.-:; damage. The rain fell in such vo ume that gutters and sewers overflowed, And every sidewalk was blocked by trees that had fallen. The principal damage is to the Baptist Churoh and the Sentinel office. At the latter place everything in the paper line was : soaked. _ f- CASS NICHOLSON, aged 21, son of J. f . J?, Nicholson, a prominent Decatur tolitician and Republican candidate for heriff, and Miss Gussie Ferguson, aged 19, daughter of Manager W. L. Ferguson, of the City Electric Street Railway iine, caused a sensation by running off to Chicago to get mar­ ried. AT Kankakee, Chief <Sf Police Boule And three officers were discharged by ® the Mayor. Two of the officers assisted &e chief to assault a man in a dis­ reputable house. Tfce chief was se­ verely injured in the affray, yet the Mayor reinstated him as a patrolman. The discharged officers promise some Masational disclosures. lC™ are to U bam at MTNERS of Burlington have struck against a cut in wagej. MES. ELIZA M. STEERS, of Anna, fell downstairs and recei ei injuries ' from which she died. DR. SWAYZE B. L. MERRILL dropped dead at Chicago from heart diseasa. He had just returned from Ann Arbor. ISRAEL UXDKRWOOD, jjged 68. a horse dealer living at Lena, wo'thrown from his buggy in a rmawav and in­ stantly killed. ARRANGEMENTS are practically com­ plete for the reorganization of the de­ funct Koekford Shoe Company as a co­ operative concern. OSCAR .JOHNSON, living near Syca­ more, 17 years of age, died with lock­ jaw. He had fallen, piercing his thigh with the tines of a fork. S TOCKHOLDERS of the Illinois Build­ ing and Loan Association of Blooming- ton pleaded unsuccessfully with Audi­ tor Core to cease his attacks. NEARLY three hundred delegates we e in attendance on tho meeting of the Illinois Grand Lodge of Good Templars at Decatur. Reports showod a gain in membership. FIRE at Benton Station, near Wau- kegan, cau-red a gasoline stove explo­ sion destroying the Northwestern Sand and Gravel Companv's boarding-house and adjoining buildings. Loss, i5,0 JO. THOMAS MURPHY and John Ster- netzke, two fa-mers near DesplainesL met in Carl Wickes' saloon. A quarrel arose between them and they name to blows. Sternetzke was pounded ab"ut the face so severely that his attending physician thinks he will die. HENRY RCPPEL, a leading boot and shoe me chant of Beardstown, com­ mitted suicide by drowning himself ill the cistern at his home. He reside! the e twenty-five years. Domestic trouble, it is oelieved. upset his mind, and while thus disturbed he took hii life. THE bodies of Isaac T. Wolcott and his wife, Narcbsa, were found Wednesday mcrning at their home near Chestnut. It is the general be­ lief that murder and suicide were com­ mitted, as the couple had lived unhap­ pily together. Monday the wife tiled a bill in chancery praying for a divorce and injunction, at the same time going to her mother's with her three chil­ dren. Infidelity, cruelty and profanity were charged in the bill. Wolcott was wealthy and high-spirited, and. smart­ ing under the di> grace and trouble, committed the deeds. ONLY a short session of the Illinois Chiefs of Police Union was held at Rock Island, owing to the fact that so few cities were represented. It was determined to adjourn to Aurora, Nov. 2<. In the meantime a circular--which was drawn up--is to be addressed to the Chiefs of Police throughout the State, looking to the dra'dng of a bill to be presented to the Legislature pro­ viding for the appointment of a Board cf h otice Commissioners in every city and town in the State, containing a stipulated population. The object of the appointment of the commission is to have it control the police, thereby separating them from the demoraliz­ ing effects oi politics, and in this way raising the standard of efficiency of police departments. There are now twenty-live chiefs in the association. THE State Boa-d of Equalization de­ cided to rai*e the personal property assessment of Cook County 40 per cent. A scandalous state o! affairs exists in the assessment of real estate in Chi­ cago. In the year 1870, lor instance, with a population of only 306.00 ', the assessed value on real estate was $2;i.V 64y,t00, while in 1693, with a popula­ tion of 1,500,000, the total assessed value was on^ $18^,000,00'J. While with a population five times as great the assessment is absolutely one-tenth less. The increase in the aggregate a3 eased value from 1889 to l!s...t is < nly !Bi6,05o,127, notwithstanding the fact that during this period building per­ mits were issued authorizing the con­ struction of buildings to cost $22c',2 «>,- 150. In the matter of pe: sonal prop­ erty it is even worse. The total value of personal property as assessed for 189H is only $;f,000,000 more than that of the year 183<. With twenty-six years' increased p operty and a popu­ lation five times as great as then only $3,000,000 is added to the entire ^lue of personal property. Comptroller Ackerman taid the trouble was pri­ marily with local assessors. He was informed that while the assessor's salary was only $1,C0J per annum a man would sometimes expend from $10,000 to $25,000 to secure an election to that office and then retire from office well to do. IHA DUBOIS, deputy sheriff from Peoria, went to Chicago with duly signed warrants for four Chicago crim­ inals. t riday evening he entered Powers & O Brien's saloon on Madison street, and when he left the place he was accompanied by two men whom he marched to the Central station, where they were locked up. Sunday morn­ ing he went in search of the remain­ ing culprits, and expected to find them in the same rendezvous. The right men were not there, so the deputy went outside and waited. The in- matas of Powers & O'Brien's knew what Dubjis was after, so they concluded to trip him. Two detectives from the Central station entered the place about this time, and they were informed by. some one in authority that Deputy Sheriff Dubois was a bad man and should be arrested. He had a re­ volver. and, besides, he was looking for two of Chicago's citizens. The officers acted at once. Deouty Sheriff Dubois was searched and the revolver fo'ind in his rea- packet He was like­ wise supplied with handcuffs. Be dis- ployed his star and warrants, but it was of no use. His trial followed soon afterward and a nominal fine was assessed, Justice Foster confiscated the revolver, and Dubois wa ked out an anerry man. He left forl-eoria with his captives, and if a life sentence is possible Dubois will see that the men get it. DANIEL B. VERMILLION, Chicago, Assistant Claim Agent of the Illinois Central railroad, was arrested at Springfield on complaint of Inspector Shea, Chicago, and placed under $300 bonds on a charge of pas ing a worth­ less check. THE case of W. J. Ray, City Mar­ shal of Smithboro, and Robert Wid- dQnfield and James Wilbjrn, charged with the murder of Wi liam Santifer in a saloon b.awl yi Smithboro last Christmas, was tried in the Bond County Circuit Court, ending with a verdict of acquittal of all the defend­ ants. THE Chicago express train struck three men on the track at Decatur, and Adolph Gororfski was killed out­ right and Herman Clemic and Charles Blossin were so badly hurt that they cannot recover. The three men were coal miners, and got Out of the way of a freight train to step in front of the passenger train. GOVERNOR J. P. ALTGELD honored the requisition of the Governor of Iowa for A. E. Kidd, wanted in Clay County. Iowa, for forgery and now under arrest at Chicago." Kidd had bB«n sent to the Iowa State peniten tiary for a term of three years, and made his escape from the oncers be­ fore he was placed behind the bara. SCORED BY M'KIKLEY. INIQUITIES OF THE NEW TARIFF F^LLFEASURE LAID BATTEMIS CAttlac til* Country IU Reserves end Its Business--A Bill that Is Mischievous and Disappointing--A Teamster** W*s«« In 1898 and tn lS94, Democratic Blunderlnff. Gov. McKinley's speech at Bangor, Me., was received with eathusiastio manifestations of approval by an au­ dience larger than any ether that evep assembled there at apolitical meeting. The Governor prefaced his address with warm tributes to James G. Blaine and Hannibal Hamlin. Continuing, be said: A Democratic President and a Demo­ cratic Congress have been running this Government for eighteen months, during which little else has peen running. In­ dustry has practically stopped. Labor has found little employment and when employed it had been at greatly reduced wages. The Government has suffered In loss of revenues and the people In incomes. There bad been no cessatlonv In the ttaate of wealth and waxes, no contentment, bright" neaa or hope has anywhere appeared. extract a grata of comfort from the election returns. The normal Repub­ lican majority of the State has not been 20,000. In 1892 the plurality for Governor wa? 12,030. Mr. Heed has had as high as 5,0C0 in his Congress­ ional district in one instance, though usually it has not been more than 2.t00 or 3.000. Now it is in the neighbor­ hood of 10,000. - •Tun the Rasrats Out." While idling around town the other day I saw a teamster sitting on his wagon at a street corner,so I sauntered up and asked him: "How is business?" "Bu -iness," he answered.as he looked ine over; "there ain't any." "How's that?" 1 asked. "Banged ii I know." was the reply. "We ain't got any hauling to speak of nowadays." "Don't you make as much money aS you used to?" wa3 my next question. "No, sir, I do not, and nobody else does around here," said the teamster. "But it costs you less to live," I said. "We were told to expect everything would be cheap. That was what the Democrats promised if they were elected." "Yes," he answered.' "They have cheapened wages. A couple of years ago I never earned less than twelve dollars a week, but less than a year ago I was lucky sometimes if I took home ten dollars." RUNNING UP AGAINST ft FA0T£T CTtQf* m. UNCLE SAM--" --Chicago Inter Ocean. men, you might as well take off your armor now.' Congress disappointed the people, trilled with the sacred trusts confided to It, excited distrust and disgust among its constituents and Impaired investments. Pledged, if platforms mean anything, to the over­ threw of the long-continued policy of pro­ tection they quarreled and compromised, and upon their own to^tlmony have been compromised. Tho result of a long wransle. 1s the tariff law which nobody Is satisfied with; a law which all factions of tho Democratic party have agreed Is the work of the monstrous trusts which Chairman Wilson confessed In the Honse, amid great applause ot his confederates, with deop chagrin, that they "held Congress by the throat!" The law of wbich the House was so thoroughly ashamed that they no sooner passed it than they made haste to amend It by passing supplementary hills which put sugar, coal, lead, Iron and barbed wire on the free list. The law which was char­ acterized before its passage by the great­ est loader in the Democratic party, the senior Senator from New York, as "a vio­ lation of Democratic pledges and princi­ ples," and which is denounced by the offi­ cial head of the government as such an act of "party perfldy and party dishonor," that If the House should at least concur ia i*. "they would not dare to look the people of the country of the face,"and which the executive still condemns since the surrender as «tbe very commission of itself." The President, In his letter to Congressman Oatchlngs, denounced the measure, and yet he permitted it to be> come a law,t lacking the moral courage to veto it If the country is disposed to ac­ cept this bill as final, and would perma­ nently adjust business to It, the narty la power would not have It sa They have so declared with boldness and unanimity. This means, unfortunately, constant agi­ tation until the 4th of March, isflj, at least, and for two years longer unless the people In their Congressional elections this year make the House Republican, in which event no further wrcckin* of our industries or Interference with the labor of our peo­ ple can occur durln? the administration of President Cleveland. What will tho ver­ dict be? Governor McKlnley then pave the his­ tory of the new tariff legislation, being es­ pecially severe Ih the characterization of the case of Louisiana Representatives,who were promisod protection for the sugar In­ terests and wore then left out in the cold The concluding portion of his address ar­ raigned the Democratic party for what he described as false pretenses and treachery to pensioners, asd for its Incapacity to Conduct the affairs of the nation. "What are you earning now?" I asked. "I get now only eeven dollars and a half. That's all my boss says he can afford to pay me, and I believe him, because I know he is not doing half the business that he did two years ago. If I give up my job there is nothing se foi1 me to do, and there are plenty ' idle/men around here who would be I 1802. jflad to get the job for Maine's Decisive Verdict. The most enthusiastic of Republi­ cans have not expected that the Ehenomena' victories of last fall would e repeated this year, but the biggest maiority ever given in the history of Ohio was no more remarkable in its way than the bigges ma ority in the hi-tory of Maine, which was recorded Monday. Evidently it was no mere whim that caused the people to inflict the disas­ trous defeat* of both the fall and spring upon the Democratic party. Maine joins Vermont in showing that these adverse vote* were th J result of a deep-seated conviction that Demo­ cratic rule was a constant mena.e to the welfare of the country. So de­ cisive is the verdict that it can be predicted with absolute certainty that the landslide of the coming November will be even more remarkable than the Democratic victories of J 890. It shows that Re­ publican sentiment in New England is on fire. It shows that the attempt to win her from protection moorings by the bribe of free raw materials has failed ingloriously. Vermont and Maine are not manufacturing States, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but they reflect the general sentiment. The overwhelming Republican ma­ jority in the State of James G. Blaine demonstrates that the un-American loreign policy of the Cleveland admin­ istration has roused a patriotic indig­ nation ihat will not be stilled. Ex- Minister John L. SteVens is a c itizen of that State, and through him the in­ famy Of the Cleveland-Gresham con­ spiracy in behalf of rotten monarchy in Hawaii became something of a local issue. But back of this and of other minor issues is the revolt against Clevelandism and Democracy. The returns show tbat the Maine Demo­ crats, hardy as they are, o, enly voted the Ropublican ticket. That was their verdict on their own party and on their own administration. Democrats won't find it possible to money than get." "Ihat's pretty hard," said I, "but don't the things you buy cost less?" "Well, there are a few things I can save a cent or two on now and again, perhaps ten to twenty-five t enths in a week, but what is that when I am earning five dol ars a week less?" "How do you account for the change?" "Because we were all fools. We were doing well and didn't know it. I'he Democratic politicians told us such in­ fernal lies here, that wages would be high and every th ing alse cheap, that we believed them, "yney said that free trade would bring cheap goods into the country and we would save lots of money. They fcoled us pretty well, but it isn't i nee a fool always a fool. We never saw a Democratic govern- in overwhelming reason for di them from control -- The Marittfrr- turer, Philadelphia. 'V • Against Us Again. 1 wish to know the tons of freight brought back from Europe, in proportion to tho toes carried. I understand that much more freight goes Kv>t thau Wmu Can you help m«f 1 H. WALXO, M. G Washington, D. C. -v- For the year 1892 the clearances from all ports of the United Kingdom to all ports in the United States amounted to 3,it37,5C8 registered tons. During the same year there were (\ 10y,0o7 registered tons entered at a 1 United Kingdom ports from the United States. Only 39.19 per cent of the total en­ tries and clearances we e to the United States. The balance ot 2,171,- tons was engaged in the triangular trade. This triangular trade is, of course, against the interests of the United States and a;ainst all theories of a reciprocal pursuit of wealth, on which the economists of the British school place so much weight. In a trade that was really reciprocal the tonnage emp oyed in bringing goods to the United States should also be employed in taking goods from the United States to the country from which we buy. This, however, is not the case and has not been the case since we gave up both discriminating duties and. «he restrictive clause of our act of 18^8. As a matter of fact the course of trade now, with Rio Janeiro, for in­ stance, where at one time .5 per cent, of the shipping in that harbor was under the American flag, and where the American flag is now i:early un­ known in commerce, a British" ship loads at a British port with goods of British manufacture, which are said at Ri-> de Janeiro for coffee and bills of exchange on London. The coffee is sold in New York for grain and bil s of exchange on London. The two sets of exchange and the grain sold in En­ gland give a profit to the English banks, manufactured and the vessel owners, and more goods are bought for another triangular voyage. There are several results from this state of affairs that are highly bene­ ficial to British industries ana British capital In the first place, any Ameri­ can nob selling a shipload of goods must s-end his goods to an English port before he can compete witn an English manufacturer. This causes us to be more and more the producers of raw material for British consump­ tion and manufacture, or, as one of their writers expressed it, "hewers of word and drawers of wator to them." It also makes Lond< n, instead of New York, the point on which ail exchange is drawn and also the place of largest accumulation of the wo Id's capital. This hinders both our employment of labor in manufacture g and the control of capital that makes manufacturing profitable.--American Economist. SENATOR CUU-dW TALKS Those Democratic Traitors. The traitors to Democratic princi­ ples are to be found in the Democratic camp,land, with the help of their po­ litical opponents, they have been suf­ ficiently numerous to carry thing* their own way. It has been a triumph of what is known as log-rolling--a pro­ cess of arrangementfbetween different interests to lend support to one anoth­ er by an interchange of votes, if the quarrel is to end, it must be by a sur­ render on the part of the Senate. Thtf House cf Representatives may be ex­ pected to stand firm in its refusal to agree to the amendments which have c me down to it. The prospect i9 not favorable, and our latest news is that that there are no indications of a satis­ factory compromise. This unexpected delay In the passage of the tariff bill is causing great mischief to trade in- Jteresti everywhere. No one knows what to look for or to prepare for. Amorican importers will make no pur­ chases while the duties question is un­ settled. American producers do not know what course it will be eafe for them to take. 1< oroign merchants are cut off from one of the best markets for their goods. None of them can look forward with any confidence to what the future may have in store for them. A settlement en any terms would be better for all parties than the piesent state of suspense.--London Times. WISH The English ARAII Free Trade. It is a curious fact that while proteo- tion has been overdone in the united States, and there is in conse quence a revulsion of feeling against it, the ed­ ucated classes in England are begin­ ning to believe tbat a modified form of protection would te an advantage to us. It is contended thqt Cobden and Bright never imagined that free trade wou'd ruin our agricultural industry. It is certain that something ought to be done to revive agriculture, for while free trade has encouraged the growth of our manufacturing town3 and insured a plentiful and c ontinuous supply of cheap food to the people, yet at the same time the farming interest has gradually gone from bad to worse. If excessive protection has injured trade in America, our idolatrous wor­ ship of free trade has had a disastrous effect on our own rural districts.--Mid­ land Evening News, Wolverhamptoa The Dishonesty of Democracy. President Grover Cleveland has taken a new way to pay old debts. It ie a~nb time to recall hu inaugural ad­ dress to |'ongresMarjh 4, 18^5, in which we^nd that: Every citizen owes to the country a vig­ ilant watch aud close scrutiny of its public servants, and a fair and reasonable esti­ mate of their fidelity and usefulness. This is the prlco of our liberty and the inspira­ tion of our faith iti the republic The man who wrote these words has been seeking to enrich an American- Canadian coal combination, and is will­ ing to enrich an American sugar trust, and yet has the effrontery to say to the American people: "I beg you to be­ lieve in my good intentions," Who will follow such a leader? ment before and by thunder we don't want to again, ard we won't if the working people can help it. You j watch the next elections and see. Mark my words now, what I'm telling you is straight goods. That Cleve­ land--to think of a man acting like he has after all that the Democrats told Trusts and Democracy. It is not easy to see why Democratic principles should favor the free im­ portation of iron ore, and at the same time lean to the treatment of sugar as a taxable article.. It has been pointed out that a duty on sugar would tear the interpretation that the Democratic us two years ago. why it make * me ! party has reasons for legislating in the want to hitch myself to that lamp pest and let my team here kick me. We'll turn the rascals Oit." B. THINKEN. The Difference of Democracy. The contrast between the procedure at Washington in this Congress, in re­ lation to the tariff, and that in the same halls in the Congress of 1890 cer­ tainly must strike every one who can see the difference between black and white. If, four years ago, the attempt of the Republican Congress to pas* the McKinley bill had been attended with such confusion, jobbery and evi­ dence of deceit, falsehood and trickery, with such prolonged and bitter dis­ putes between the ractions of the ma­ jority, we should have interests of the sugar trust. The President expresses his hatred of trusts and all similar combinations, but actions speak louder than words. There can be no denying that a duty on sugar will facilitate the operations of the trust which monopolized that commodity, or that there is a popular suspicion tbat the sugar corpo:ation has replenished the Democratic war chest.--Manchester, Eng., Mercury. without end from the free trade camp and their mugwump allies. It must certainly be evident that the men who are endeavoring now to cut d >wn the tariff, and whose main purpose is to pass "some sort of bill" in order to carry out their partisan program, are Congratulations to Ree l. Tom Reed wins by 10,000 votss! Strange tbat a Czar should receive such an emphatic indorsement in a free country; Can it b3 that the peo­ ple of Maine are of a slavish spirit, or had lectures i is it that they have their fair share of Yankee shrewdness which is never to be taken in by clap-trap? It is a mat­ ter for congratulation the country over that this big, brawny man is so warmly appreciated at his own home, HAVB f ; . totally incompetent to deal with the i The news fromi^ i ' ^ - subject, and that such incompetenoy | Mala?? ifeiS ;rI ~%K: 1 •pens (he Illinois State Campsllpi it a Kinging Spsech at Robin<oa. , Senator Shelby M. Cullom opened the Illinois campaign at Robinson, where he spoke to nearly 5,000 enthu- siastic Republi­ c a n s . I t w a s a n o 1 d-time outoour- ing and promised well for success in November. Sena­ tor Cullom entered into a discussion of the issues of the d a y . H e s a i d h e came as a Kepubii- can who believed that the principles ana j olieies of the Republican p a r ty have enabled this SENATOR cctit.oif nation to become the most prosperous and powet*ul on the globe, and that its pros­ perity can be promoted and as­ sured only by a continuation of the wise and progressive policies un­ der which our unexampled growth and progress during the past thirty years have been made possible. He then re­ viewed the history and achievements of the Republican party, contrasting it with the Democracy, which, he said, has always seemed t;> be troubled with what flight be termed a constitutional obliquity of vision upon public ques­ tions' ai)d its pathway of lato resembles tfttUt of a swaggering inebriate. If it ever postessed either purity or patriot­ ism it has lost its reputation for both since the present Congress convened. Its more recent triumphs have been signalized chiefly by a display of affec- ?lon. '.or sdg&r trusti and a display of hostility to American industry and labor. How long tho people will tol­ erate Democracy, however slightly seasoned with mugwumpery, remains to be 6een. Mr. MacVeagh, the Democratic can­ didate for Senator, had a;ked Mr. Cullom to tell him what the Republic­ an party proposed to do with the tariff, whether it would ruin business by re­ opening the tariff discussion in case it were returned to power, whether it would re-enact the Mchinley law or accept the Gorman bill a<* a final solu­ tion of the question. Mr. MacVeagh evidently thought that he had put the Senator in a hole by these questions. His reasoning was some wh tit as follows: The He pub­ lic an^ have all along b<sen complaining that the country was suffering from the mere agitation of the tariff ques­ tion. They have even gone so far as t> c-ry fur the passage oi a Democratic bill in order that an end might be put to a distressing period of uncertainty. If, therefore, the agitation of the ques­ tion is fti disastrous as they claim, be­ ing far more injurious than any sort of settlement, how can they ever con­ sistently reopen the tariff ct ntroversy? To Jbhis puiely specious and alto­ gether contemptible argument Senator Cullom replies: The agitation prior to the passage of the Gorman bill caused a paralysis of business because the business interests of the country were waiting to accommodate them­ selves to a readjustment that must inevitably work them ill. Thev were in the position of a man who i* expect­ ing a olow, and felt that anything would t>e better than the suspense. Hence their eagerness to have the thing over. But the Republican party does not now and never has proposed tariff changes that would bring disas­ ter to any one. Its revisions are not of the sort that destroy. "It has revised and reduced the tariff at intervals of a few years when it has been in power, and when it returns to power it undoubtedly will pursue the same policy and revise and reduce tariff duties whenever the constantly changing conditions of commerce and competition and of the revenues of the Government show it to be advisable or necessary. It has made these revisions in the past without disturbing or stop­ ping the business of the country and what it has done it can do again." Senator Cullom then went into a full review of the struggle over the tariff, ehowing how the incompetency of the Demccratiu party had unsettled busi­ ness and paralyzed industry every­ where. He called on the Democrats who charged that the depression and distress which followed Cleveland's in­ auguration were the result of Republi­ can legislation, to explain how it hap­ pened that under the same legislation the country reached the flood tide of prosparity when the Republicans were In power. He pointed out how when Prasidont Cleveland convened the Democratic Congress in extra session Bilver was attacked instead of the tar­ iff, how the Government revenues kept falling, how the public debt was in­ creased by the issue of $.30,000,000 bonds, how after the passage of the Wilson bill by the House the Senate began to make it protective in order that the curse might be. warded off. He showed how the Democrats keot on demanding protection in a tariff re­ form bill until 6J2 protective Senate amendments were swallowed by the House at one gulp. He quoted i leve- land s letter to Chairmun Wilson ask­ ing him how the Democrats could face the people. Regarding the relation of the tariff to labor, Senator Cullom said: The mere threat of free trade, or ot the "tarlfT reform \«h cb leads to froe trade.» as Mr. MacVeagh calls It, closed millB and factories and mines all ove^ the land and threw millions of honest toilers out of em­ ployment. Many thousands of these have been compelled to exhaust the savings ac­ cumulated durla^ their years cf prosperity under the Republican policy of protection, when employment was found without difficulty and waxes were higher than in any other country on the face of the globe. Those who were for­ tunate enough to be kept at work or to sventually ba glvjn employment a^ain have been compelled to accept reductions in wages and in the amount of work fur­ nished. These are the only conditions un­ der which the Industries that have b6en deprived of protection by the new Demo­ cratic tariff can resume operations and meet successfully the competition of the foreign manufacturers for whose ben­ efit the Democratic party has made these reductions. The country can­ not afford to pauperize labjr. Hu­ manity and good citizenship alike protest against it. Every element of jus­ tice demands that the uiun or woman who tolls shall be rewarded as liberally as may be possible, that they shall bo enabled to live in comfort, and tnat they shall thus be afforded opportunities to make of them­ selves such citizens as this nation requires to Insure the permanence of its institu­ tions and to make it a nation of Intelli­ gent, prosperous and contented people. I protest against the Democratic tariff poli­ cy. because its tendency is to pauperize labor and thus to debase the standard of citizenship of the republic, which can not be.elevated tn"> hish'v. Senator Cullom discussed silver and financial affairs at some length. H» said free trade and every approach to it is a hindrance to bimetallism. Every dollar's worth of foreign goods con­ sumed by the American people must be paid for in gold, thus drawing from us the gold we requite in order to maintain bimetallism. Protection is the natural ally of bimetallism, and together they constitute a policy distinctly American. He was in favor of a double standard, and desired that the end sought for should be accomplished through an in­ ternational universal conference of the chosen representatives of the princi­ pal nations of the world. In closing, the Senator said that if Republicans did their duty a great^e- Cte lacfcy Bodfnt Disposes otjUbm at "I saw the gamest flffht the other day I ever witnessed in my life," re- marked a gentleman on the few days since l,Not long aeo|k||rf rattlesnake was caught near house. Ib was the latber of all rattlesnakes in that taction and twelve rattles and a button. A or two after his snakeship had been captured we conclude ! to give him % rat to eat,- and as . had heard that rat* occasionally put up a light against a snake, Istoppe i t > see toe per­ formance. The snake was in ^ lygf box, arranged so that the tight cool* . Yjjfi be directly seen from the outuMe. ".Jig The rat was not anxious for the fight and gave a plaintive little squeak "*^1 when forced into the box. Then it • ran off into one corner and sat down. * The snake was mad and hungry, and J HJW no sooner spied it than his eyes fair!? s&i blazed with anger. He coiled him- V^StS self into a whi.ring, rattling, hissing •*' mass, and in a moiuent launched him- ' self through the air like a thunder- bolt. But the rat had been watch- Ing things himself, and when the" snake jumped he jumped, too. The -2^ snake was a perfect picture of de- moniacal rage, and bis rattling was v*§ v terrific as he missed his prey ami.! • .Ofc attain coiled. The same tactics were J ̂ repeated several times, and the snake * was evidently wear.ng himself oat J "P' with his own rage. Suddenly the rat - H|jf took the offensive, and whenever the ? Aipt snake sprang at him would jump to Wf one side and then, quicka^lightniaffc % would spring at the snake and bite it v •>"& before it could coil. (A rattlesnake^ ^ VQU know, cannot bite un.ess coiled.) t Then the rat would dart off to one ^ * side of the box and wait for his ene­ my to come again, which it always did, only to be again bitten. At last "'M1& the snake made a tremendous lange * at the rat, which again successfully ^ executed its tactics of jumping to /' o n e s i d e . T h e n , a l m o s t q u i c k e r t i u u i f ' % the eye could follow it, it rushed di- til i rectly at the snake, as it lay extended on the floor, and fastened itself right IJjf : on the back of its neck, and nem let go till it had oltten the bead nearly off the body. That ended thp fight then and there. The snaka- died sluicsv isstautly nud Liia ni trotted off to the other side of the box unharmed. 1 tell you, it was a great fight." ,"W Jfjft .J '« II fitunor In Washington. • J "44 v* '-V "A talent for story-telling," re* "'/I f marked one of the veterans of Wash- * \ ington, "is as valuable as oratory as I an equipment for public life. A new A member entering Congress * with an - /J fl idea that his eloquence will be im- *' 1 mediately apDre^iated is speedily un- . deceived. Not more than ten mem- : bers will listen to his first speech,and - > ? ^ he will be laughed down when be '*•* rises a second time. If he can tell » v':Jv J an amusing story the first time be t r f gets on his feet, his reputation as a L bright and promising young man if '41^ made*" j, If this judgment is well-founded, # ̂ ambitious young men will be led te $ ,.1 c u l t i v a t e t h e a r t o f s t o r y - t e l l i n g a s ^ ' " J assiduously as famous men have prac­ ticed oratory, llenry Clay in bit ' youth made a practice of reading / * every day a passage from some vol­ ume of essays or history, and of ft* . tiring either to a cornfield or a bsin > r ana repeating as much of it as I* could remember. -!i In this way he acquired facility in ; speaking, wealth of diction, and the V. ><c|j power of making direct use of supe** llcial information. This training^ w with the aid of a voice of singular flexibility, resonance and sweetness enabled him to become a populat > 'g J o r a t o r . . ^ < < But humor cannot be learned in f'* that laborious war. Lincoln never . ^ practiced story-telling in the solitude • ' of the backwoods as Clay acquired / v eloquence and command of language. , . No other man ever make a larger use .* M of quaint anecdote and homely - ?t 1 stories, but it was merely with him a natural method of popularizing po- Sii litical argument. • " Not every story-teller who enters 4V i public life in Washington makes a' good Impression. It is an art which •% depends to a large degree upon spoil* ' > taneity and naturalness. , > & ^ The story-telling that entertains a , ̂ -j> group of Congressmen or an after- dinner company is a species of im­ provisation, with few changes of key. One story must hang upon another, and bear unmistakable signs of hav­ ing been momentarily suggested by *t> There are professional humorists in Congress who invariably entertain their audiences when they take part in debate, but they are seldom infu* ential. Sarcasm, a trenchant stylet and humor, are powerful resources there as they are on every platform, but sustained power of argument and ! quickness of mind are indispensable to success in public lif& , Swindling the SUIMN#* ^ "A young and beautiful Hungarian ma'den, an orphan without means, but well educated, and with domestic tendencies." has been seeking 4 '•partner for life" by the help off ad' ; vertisements in various Continental papers. The answers to these advertise­ ments were to be directed to Paris, and thithei a dozen eligible offers of marriage was speedily on their way. To each of the suitors, in due course, a modest acceptance, accorupau««u by an exquisite photograph, and a request for a remittance to defray traveling expenses. By this ingenious method some three or four hundred dollars were netted, and the would-be bride­ grooms are left mourning, and in, mortal dread of their names appear­ ing in the matter. KvjgSS 4 J* f& ^ 'M Mi Broad Hint. ' Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lttefcno# # well known Scotch baronet, was long pestered by an impudent sort of per­ son, who insisted on being constantly "underfoot" finally, however, he dropped off, aud Sir Andrew was asked bow he got rid of hint. "Oh," said he, "I gave him a broad hint" "A broad hint0" repeated the in­ quirer. "I thought he was on® at those who never could be indu ed to take one." "By ma saul," said Sir Andrew^ •lie was obleeged" to tak* itf For as the chlel wadna gang|oot at the doer. Mm'.?!1 "k""7 °"'iU!a tlM,m N"" ! Hint tnrew W ooiilth. window- ""lift tf'