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P ? s ? " 5 • ; -"WW W* / e THE ODD NUMBpR. The short November afternoon was darkening, and the snow, falling stead­ ily, melted as it fell, making the slush still deeper. • On one of tUe street corners of an .Eastern city stood a girl playing a vio­ lin; the wild, sweet notes pierced the air and died away, and the girl held her chilled hands out to receive the pennies offered her. Then she walked on, only pausing to look through the brilliantly lighted show windows at the rich furs. \ Fox some moments she stood, then. he «at in a licary stupor in his chair with head failed on his breast. "I have done the best I could by you', father. I have tried and failed. I won't stay and be made to marry that man. No! not even to save the roof over your head." The girl opened the Window a trifle, picked up her bundle and violin, and, blowing out the light, left the house. t* * * Paul Oldfield sat reading before the fire in his little back parlor. The blaze, lighted and shadowed the walls lined •drawing her old shawl closer, hurried with books--old, musty books which on. 0vet the bridge she passed and Up the dark street, entering one of the houses in a.long row of tenements. The great bare room, dimly lighted by a lamp: the rusty stove, and the fumes of oil struck the girl unpleasantly as she threw open the door. By the win­ dow sat a man busily mending an old ; violin, while near him was a bench strewn with tools. T'.' "'Here, fatten," she said, coming over and throwing some pennies on the bench; "I stayed out until I was chilled through, aid that is all I could get." "You hussy! It's because you won't Work that you can't get it. You're as lazy and proud as your mother was-- she'd rather freeze to death than ask a penny." The girl stood by the stove, with one foot resting on the fender. It was her apparent indifference that roused the 'anger of the man. He spread the money in his palm, and counted it. •'Twenty cents, you lazy good-for- nothing. How are we going to pay the 'rent with that?" The girl neither answered nor showed that she had heard When she had partly dried her feet she went to the cupboard ami, bringing some brown bread and cheese, sat them on the ta­ ble. She then whaeied her father's chair to the boards and sat down to the cheerless suppertjyShe broke off bits of bread and ate as though unconscious of Avnat she was doing. "You'd be glad enough to see your father turned out, wouldn't you? Rent coming due and nothing to pay it with." He waited for a reply, but the girl had nothing to say. • "Three days more, then nothing to do but freeze and starve to death," he con­ tinued, watching closely to see the effect. The face opposite remained unchanged. "Say, Sal," here the surly tone chang­ ed into a coaxing whin.*. "Bill Bradden was around to-day again, and ne says he'd be willing and glad to marry you. "Yoc'l.l. MAURY Bint. BRABDEX, OB YOU'LL LEAVE HOME. hal lain for years waiting to be claim­ ed; the little room was oddly furnished in quaint pieces, also" waiting to be Into that young |ife. He vfns thinking of his own lifer sol itary, lonely, almost melancholy in the monotony of its days, .Tust then the bell Jinkled. He went iuto the shop and found Sal Garriek gazing intently into the case. * "You have sold them, then?"' Het voice trembled in spite of her effort to hid; her disappointment. "Miss Garriek, I couldn't 'Mr. Oldfield," she interrupted, "the loan is due--overdue. I have sent the little I could pick UP to father, and there is none left for interest. Take this--take it!" she demanded, shovlug the violin on the counter. "I won't need it any more." The broker started as he saw the ex- pr *5sion in her eyes--wild, desperate, determined. He took the girl's hand add drew lier toward him. •'The loan is up," he said slowly. "In default of payment thereof, the broker is authorized to take into his possession that which is deposited, to protect and love as he has never loved in all his empty, lonely life. Sal, will you marry me?" She thrust the pawn ticket in his hand. "It's the odd number that's not&re­ deemed---take it," she said, wearily, and Fan' Oldfield kissed the beautiful Up­ turned face arid held her in his arms. say:ng, "Mine--my own--by consent and right of law." - I HA'VE DOXE THE BEST I COULD , BY" YOU, FATHER. <-> claimed, for Paul Oldfield was a pawn­ broker. as his father had been before him The door opened, jingling the bell on its wire. The pawner drew aside the chintz curtain and entered the shop. Before the counter stood Sal Garriek. "You can sell things," she said. "I CP n't redeem them, and you needn't sav tnem any longer." As she spoke she looked at a bracelo\ and a bunch of brown curls in the case. "1 can keep them a while longer, Miss Ga-rick. Just to-day a woman wanted the curls, but I told her the time was not up. If--if you could pay the inter­ est." He watched the gild's face as she gazed steadily at her treasures. She slowly raised her eyes; they were glis­ tening with tears. "It's no use, Mr. Oldfield. I can't do it. Mother will know I tried to keep them, but couldn't. "Anything I can do for you, Miss Gar­ riek?" 'Well--yes. I don't suppose you ever loan money on people do you?" The broker was surprised and puz­ zled "It is this," she went on. "I must have money to keep father from being turned into the street. ! can't make eno' gh by playing to pay up the back rent, and--I thought I could pawn my­ self i "Why, • yes, I could loan money on you, though I have never done it be­ fore. How much do you need?" "Twelve dollars. Oh. Mr. Oldfield, I will play on the streets night and day to pay the interest and redeem my­ self." ' Take your time about it, Miss Gar- rick I am not in any hurry," he said, making out the ticket and handing it to her. It was midnight when he locked the sh>p and put out the lights, after first taking a bracelet and a bunch of curls from the case, and laying them care­ fully in a box. Sal Garriek grasped the money La one hand and her violin and bundle^n the other, as she almost ran along the streets. Going home, she slipped the packet through the pirtly opened win­ dow and heard it fall on the floor, then went on. % She had walked a long distance when she entered a lodging house and paid the price of a bed. T.V adjoining room INDISCREET LETTERS. Never Safe to Pen Matters Which You Want to Keep Secret. Harriet Martineau. who was very deal', always shifted her ear trumpet wheU-atiy one asked lier a question she dii not wish to answer. The late Cy­ rus W. Field apparently did not hear a question that it would be indiscreet to answer. He had another good habit. Letters that if seen would cause others pa.u or might be misunderstood lie de­ stroyed as soon as he had read them. The following true story proves the wisdom of Mr. Field's practice: A distinguished educator had, with considerable difficulty, persuaded a millionaire to found a college. The ed­ ucator was to have been its president, bu: unfortunately be neglected Aaron BUT'S advice: "Talk as much as you please, but don't write a word.'" The founder, an uneducated man, was full of crotchets which, if express­ ed 'n the deed establishing the college, would have greatly interfered with its educational work. The educator, irri­ tated by the labor it required to elimi­ nate these whims from the founder's mind, one day wrote H complaining let­ ter to a clerical friend, in which he nar­ rated his trials, and ended by saying of the rich man, -- is an ass." The clergyman, a careless, absent- minded man, put the letter into his hat, an! called at the office of a law firm to transact business with one of the part­ ners. "While in the private office he left his hat outside, and one of the lawyers, seeing the letter, and knowing the handwriting of the address, read it. Of course he was not a gentleman, and was without moral principle; and his subsequent conduct showed him a mis­ chief maker. He retailed the consents of the letter to a nephew of the founder, who was bitterly opposed to his uncle's proposed disposition of his property. He report­ ed it to the uncle. Tiie college was founded: but the ed­ ucator was never its president. He died a broken-hearted man. through the carelessness of his clerical friend and the meanness of a legal Paul Pry. SONG OF THE LIONESS. Now, Bradden's got money enough to takp us both iu, and a good hoine for your poor old " ' V, • The dark eyes slowly raised to his-- great, glowing eyes, burning with rage and scorn. "I'd starve before I'd marry that Bill Bradden. I'd rather starve, anyway, than live out this--this--what is called life." "We'll see. my girl," was the reply. spoken so quietly as to sound ominous. "You'll marry Bill Bradden, or you'll leave home." "Home!" and the girl laughed a mis­ erable little laugh. Nothing in the determined expression of the girl betrayed tha agitation in her mind as she quietly rose and cleared away the dishes, piling the crusts and bits of Cheese in the bowl for their wa<: we^ filled with cots, and Sal Gar- breakfast. Suddenly a figure passed the window. In an instant the girl had sprung to the door and bolted it. A loud rap sounded She went on putting away the supper things. The vigorous pounding continued. "Sal! Let me in." Sh&.did not answer but slowly light­ ed the candle and, passing the window at which the man stood peering in, went upstairs. She listened at the pipe hole and heard her father open the door to admit the v.sdor. "That girl of yours is a rare one. The minute she sees me coming she runs and bolts the door in my face. It doesn't look very encouraging, eh, Gar­ riek?" "Just you have patience, Bradden. > The girl's got to have some of the stub­ bornness knocked out of her, that's all. Brit say, old fellow, about the cash. •It's agreed and written down in black and white that you are to hand it over the night you marry her?" "That's the bargain. The girl's a prize and I'm willing to pay well for her.; Clip her wings Garriek, that it wt<» be straight sailing. "Let;me see--this is the 12th. Three days more and then-- 'Say. Bradden. what do you say to doing the thing up tomorrow night? She'd be just as willing then as she would a year from now. Shall we go ahead?" -Then they laugh-vd together and shook hands. Sal strained her ears, but could hear nothing more but the click of glasses. •'Oh. how cold it is," she half moan­ ed. "Inside--inside I am freezing--my heart is turning to stone and my blood Is like cold water; hue my brain is not yet numb--I can think." She heard the door open and Bill .Bradden go out. Creeping noiselessly odown the stairs, she laid the bundle down and put on her bonnet and shawl, then walked over and looked long at the unconscious face of her father as BH!39GM£ MINE--BY CONSENT AND RIGHT OF LAW." rick looked cautiously about at the sleepers before taking a paper from her pocket. It was a pawn ticket. By the light of the candle she read: "International Loan Office^ "No. 205. Nov. 12, W 'Received the following goods, the person of Sal Garriek, who will be^ub- ject to conditions herein contained as security for twelve dollars ($12). "To be paid in one month from this da.o with 10 per cent per month addi tion for interest, and in default of pay ment thereof, the undersigned is au thorized to sell the same at any public auction. „ "PAUL OLDFIELD, 6 Penn Street. "No. 205," she murmured. "Always the odd number. All my life I hav been the odd one. The world didn want me and has no place for me." It was Christmas n,glit. Paul Old fieltl sat by his fire, idly watching the bright coals and thinking, thinking, al ways thinking. He was thinking of the wistful, earnest face of Sal Garriek, of The Lnllaby She Ilaa to Calm Her Noisy Little Cuba. Fanny Locke Mackenzie has a Rus­ sian story, "The Little Duchess and the Lion Tamer," in St. Nicholas. Here is the tamer's account of one of his pets: "The lioness is Puska," he said, Leo's wife; and she is a great scold. She growls and worries at Leo all the time. Sometimes she even slaps him with her paw, and snarls at him; but to the baby lions Puska is very gentle and kind. She sings to them softly, and licks their smooth little heads with her warm tongue, and they snuggle up to her and listen, until they fall last asleep. She always sings the same lullaby song." He closed his eyes and dropped his head lower over his hand. PUSKA'S SONG. When Kiva, the big snake, swallows the sun, Then, O my eubkin, the long flay is done. Yellow and burning, so the day dies, Drowsy lids, drowsy lids, close over eyea Sleep, sleep, while mother purrs, Sleep, sleep, eubkin of hers. Lie low, cuddle and rest. Sleep, now, mother knows best. 'That is Puska's song," he said. Sing it again," lagged little Duch­ ess, her, eyelids dropping down over her brown eyes, and Ivan sang: Hear my heart beat for you, small whelp of mine, All the love in it surely is thine; Hear Nana, the night-hawk, call as he flies, Drowsy lids, drowsy lids, close over eyes, Sleep,-sleep, etc. ' "Once more, please,", she said dream­ ily; lier head rested against the white bearskin, and her dark lashes touched her cheek. Half under his breath, soft­ ly, sleepily he murmured it: When the night falls, come the stars on« by one; Fire-flies flit, and the little mice run: As Bursa, the beetle, passes, he cries,- Drowsy lids, drowsy lids, close over eyes, Sleep, sleep, etc. Dreadful Duel Between Animals. There was , a ( terrible bdttie to the death between a stallion and a bull on the stock farm of Richard Jordan, eight miles, north of Ivokofiio, Saturday. It lasted forty-five minutes. The bull charged again and again on the stallion repeatedly thrusting his horns through the ribs of the horse the full length Th} stallion kicked, struck and bit with all the force at his command, tear ing the tough hide fronT the jbull's neck and back and breaking nearly every bone in hi. body. The. bull, thorough ly exhausted, lay down and died. Fif teen minutes later the stallion died. The two animals were valued at $1,500.-- sLqdianapolis News. "This car," said the surly passenger, "reminds me of an organ. It has so many stops." "Reminds me just now of a street organ," retorted the tired , conductor, \'it goes with a crank." the poverty and unhapplness crowded 1 Philadelphia Record. AlTOEl3)'S PROTESTS ARGUED INSTEAD OF SUPPRESS ING RIOT. 1 '• • • 1 \ PettifoscijinK arid Obstinate W'hiniiipc in Midst of Flame Riot and Death --The President's Stiiijiinc liebnke-- A Shameful ami Infamous Record. • "7 " . * : AltKcld Splits Hairs.- It was on July 5, 1804, that Gov. John Peter Altgeld sent to. President Cleve­ land his first "protest" against the use of Federal troops in Chicago to suppress the Debs riot. It was a long logic-chop­ ping screed about the "basic principles of our institutions." The Govenror waxed eloquent about "liberty" and "local self- government." He declared that iii ig­ noring him, the great John Pete?, the President had done "violence tp the Con­ stitution." Instead of preserving the peace .and protecting life and property, Altgeld was "preserving the Constitu­ tion" by arguments, while the terror- stricken citizens of Chic-.ago suffered. His, despotic temperament led him to suppose lie could interpret the national Constitu­ tion for the President of the United States, and lie demanded the "immediate withdrawal of the Federal troops." While Altsrelcl Was Splitting Hairs* What was going on in Chicago on this 5th day of July. 1804, while John Peter Altgeld, with .his. corps Of stenographers md typewriters was getting out his dis­ quisition on state's rights down at Spring-, field ? The following -news headings taken from file Chicago Tribune of July 0 will serve to epitomize the riotings of. the pre­ vious day, July 5: » ' "RIOT WHOLE DAY- AXALLCHY REIGNS SUPREME IN THE STOCK YARDS AND VICINITY; -- LIEUT. FITZGEUALI) AND HIS POLICEMEN LET BULLETS FLY INTO THE CROWD --FIRES WITHOUT NUM­ BER KINDLED ALONG THE TRACKS WFTFOILT WAYNE MILK TRAIN SHOW ­ ERED WITH ROCKS-MEAT TRAIN RESCUED UNDER COVER OF DARK­ NESS--RIOTEKS ASSAIL PASSENGER TRAINS--B. & O. HAS MANY AVIN- "DOW HANDLE YARDS--LOSS, WORLD'S FAIR BUILDINGS BL KN- The Inter Ocean headings for the same; day. July ('», put the situation thus: "FIRE DESOLATES -THE BUILDINGS AT .TACKSON PARK- WILD RIOT OF FIRE-DKSRTKARE STRIKERS ITT THE ^OIUH ̂ TO RAILROAD PROPERTY-MAN! i T.AKS BURNED-RACING ARCHY AND OESTRI CTION--I O- LICE ARE POWERLESS--0_N ROCK THE UNRULY MOM - DARKNESS BRINGS INCREASING; ISOLDNHSFC. 1< THE LAWLESS ELEMLN 1. AM' PROPERTY IS DESTROYED--INCOM- STRIKERS WELL ARMED AND DE- TERMINEI)TO RESIST ALI.< EI' 1' ORIS TO MOVE TRAINS." The President Calls AltselcPs Bluff. President Cleveland did not "withdraw the troops," as the irate state's rights Governor demanded, lie told GoVi-John Peter Altgeld that "Federal troops were sent to Chicago in strict accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States upon t)ie demand of the Postoflice Department that obstructions to the mails hould be removed, and upon the represen­ tations of the judicial oflieers of the Uni­ ted States that the process of the Fed- •al courts could not be executed through the ordinary means, and upon competent proof that conspiracies existed against ommerce between the States. And every man in Chicago knew the President told the truth. John Peter Splits More Hair3. After receiving the President's clear and truthful answer, did Gov. Altgeld be- ishami'd of himself, and set about his duty to assist in protecting property md preserving order? No. he went on writing! On .Inly (5 he prepared and sent second "protest" divided into "firstly," 'secondly," "thirdly," "fourthly" and •fifthly." with an exordium and a concili­ um. He said "except in times of war" hr> United States military must keep out t: Illinois, until he (John-Peter) invited hem, fljul that the presence of troops here without his invitation was an "un­ warranted interference." had "proved to bo an irritant." and had "aroused the in­ dignation of a large class of people who had been taught to believe in local seli- government" (then mob government). He said another thing. Mark the words: "AS FOR THE SITUATION IN ILLI­ NOIS. THAT IS OF NO CONSE­ QUENCE NOW COMPARED WITH THE FAR-REACHING PRINCIPLE ' INVOLVED." The Situation Which Altjrelil Thought "of No Consequence." What was the "situation in Illinois" which was "of no consequence" to the State's rights Governor as he sat at his desk in Springfield scribbling and dic­ tating his endless "protests?" Again the press headlines of July 7 will tell us what was happening on that fatal July tj. Here they are: "ANARCHY IS RAMPANT-FLAMES MAKE HAVOC -- UNPARALLELED SCENES OF RIOT. TERROR AND I'LL- LAGE-FIIEN/.Y OF THE MOB-IIUN- DREDS OF FREIGHT CARS BURNED ON THE PANHANDLE-LOSS OVER SI.000,000--EVERY RAILROAD SUF­ FERS FROM ,INCENDIARISM -- AT BURNSIDE, ENGLEWOOD AND THE STOCK YARDS THE TORCH IS AP­ PLIED--MOBS AT PULLMAN APPLY THE TORCH--SHOPS MAY BURN- OVER 1,000 CARS IN THE Y'ARDS DE­ STROYED--FIRST REGIMENT SUR­ ROUNDED BY ANGRY RIOTERS- TREMENDOUS LOSS OF RAILROAD PROPERTY THROUGHOUT THE CITY -- MAJORITY OF RAILROAD EM­ PLOYES ARE LOYAL--WILLING TO WORK AND ONLY NEED PROTEC­ TION -- RIOTERS AT THE STOCK YARDS BURN HUNDREDS OF CARS- MOB LAW RAMPANT--POLICE AND SOLDIERS UNABLE TO QUELL THE VANDALS." Such was the dreadful "situation' which was "of no consequence" to the state's rights Governor, who was so big with logic and so full of nice legal dis­ tinctions that he must needs be delivered on the spot, though flames should lick up all Chicago, and blood should flow knee deep in the streets of the doomed city. Snuffs Out the Dcmagojjrie. What did the President say in reply to Altgeld's second effusion of Obstinacy and Calhounism. It is so good it should be quoted entire. Here it is: "WHILE I AM PERSUADED THAT I NEITHER TRANSCENDED MY AU­ THORITY OR MY DUTY IN THE EM URGENCY THAT CONFRONTS US. IT S BE M S TO M E TH A T IN THIS HOUR OF DANGER AND "UP.L1C DISTRESS DISCUSSION MAY AS WELL GIVE WAY TO ACTIVE EFFORTS ON THE PART OF ALL AUTHORITY TO RE­ STORE OBEDIENCE TO LAW AND PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY." No wonder Alt geld's object .in life since the day he got that letter has been to de­ nounce and insult President Cleveland. He has ranted and foamed at the mouth, and expectorated all manner of vile epi­ thets upon the President, all because the President, enforced the national laws, withoutasking Altgeld's leave. But the surprising thing in that the Chicago pop- ocratic convention actually incorporated Altgeld's malice; unreason and anarchy lata its platform, and expects the people of Illinois to nowo indorse it by electing Bryan and this same pestilential, dis­ honest demagogue, John Peter Altgeld, upon that platform. Will the voters re­ spond? , > What a Great Jiitl~e Said. Walter Q. Gresham. then Secretary of State, long a judge on the United States bench, and who had some reputation as ;a constitutional lawyer, said, referring to the first "protest" of Altgeld: "The telegram of Oj>v. STATES BIGHTS GONE MAD. If his demand means anything, it means that the United States courts in Illinois shall not be permitted to exercise their Con­ stitutional functions, except by the per­ mission of Gov. Altgeld. He takes the ground that the United States Govern­ ment cannot maintain itself within the State of Illinois without his permission. '* * * This is, of course, ridiculous." Altgeld True to His Pardon Record. In all these doings Altgeld was true to his record as a pardoner of outlaws and murderers. He had turned all the, an­ archists and thugs out of the penitentiary to prey upon society, and now that the carnage and riot had commenced he was determined nobody should interfere. This man is now calling upon the voters of Illi­ nois to indorse his administration at the polls. Maybe lie thinks the people have forgotten all these infamous. acts. We shall see on next Nov. 3. ,;1 .: i,;... it' *S jpPi " £ TRIBUTES TO TANNER. His Standing as a Citizen and as an • Official- • Unhampered by the active business man's stereotyped pretext; for neglecting to inform himself on such^matters,' the undersigned lias fceen at considerable vol­ untary pains, as a stranger personally to the candidates, to clear up some previous doubts relating to the Illinois campaign. With particular reference to the sitting Governor of the? Sfate, and a candidate for re-election, continuous personal travel, extending on the writer's part to the' uttermost bounds of the nation, east and south, and covering a period of several years, might be presumed to have brought immunity from monotonous and humilia­ ting denunciations of his Governor at home, bii't it hasn't. There is not a nook or a Corner, however remote, anywhere in which one can escape hearing the man's oflicial career vigorously condemned. The question, for this and other reasons, is: Can we do worse than re-elect him, or can we by any possibility help doing better by displacirig him? At one stage of the campaign, in com­ mon with several neighbors. I entertained a fear that John B. Tanner as an instru­ ment to that end wad"at" least an unfortu­ nate selection. Opportunities of later in­ vestigation in quarters of unimpeachable veracity, have, however, convinced me that I was wrong and that my neighbors had been similarly deceived. There is no test of a man's intrinsic worth so severe as the crucial one of his personal standing at home. There is no proverb-more undeniably intrenched in human affairs than that "A prophet is not without honor save in his own coun­ try." When this truism is overcome by any natural order of things it means something. It is at home where he is best known that John Tanner is honored most. I have found that out from men who have known the.man intimately from boyhood. Men, too. who touched elbows with him in the ranks of the Union forces on many a blood-stained battlefield during tht; war of the rebellion avouch the same thing. Benjamin Harrison, than whom no na­ tional executive in our history was ever more exacting or conservative in making hijili appointments, thought well enough of Mr. Tanner to put him in charge of the sub-treasury of the United States at Chi­ cago, with its millions upon millions of money constantly in its custody. He quit that and all other public trusts reposed in him uusmirched and unsmirchable. To any mind mi warped by false witnesses these things must outweigh the innuendoes and the unsupported charges of men ow­ ing a blind allegiance to one whose public record is a national stench for which there is no adequate moral disinfectant".. There is no reason to encumber this paper with details. They have been the subjects of "damnable iteration," and probably will be heard from over and over again. Mindful that a vote for any third candidate, however unexception­ able, will naturally be a vote for Altgeld. and as a humble citizen of a communiiv pre-eminent as one of the high standards of criticism and an atmosphere of social, intellectual and moral excellence--with a full, a profound appreciation of all tha:-- I yet dare say to my fellow-citizens there and elsewhere throughout the proud State of Illinois, that the impending change from Altgeld to Tanner, figuratively speaking, will be like emerging from ihe dark recesses of some noisome prison house into the pure, broad, open expanse of a sunlit field in June. , JOHN E. WILLIAMS. Evauston, 111. * « * I desire to notice the charge preferred by some, or suggestion of inquiry, rather, that John B. Tanner, the Kepublicaik nominee for Governor, killed Tom Ers- kine. I will say that the account which I have read of the affair was'a six-column article published in the Chicago Times- Herald of date June 1,. 189(5, prepared for the express purpose of manufacturing capital against Tanner. I have not seen any version of the affair as given by Tan­ ner's friends, nor do I desire to. It appears from the six-column state­ ment above referred to, and which one may obtain by addressing the Chicago' Times-IIerald, that in June, IS'57, Mr. Tanner with a nttmber of' others :n a wagon was driving home after working on the road, peaceably, lawfully, disturb­ ing no one, when this man Erskine came out to the road with an ax, leaned his ax against a tree, stopped the team Tanner was in, provoked a quarrel with him, then without" a moment's warning suddenly •seized the ax and attempted TO murder Tanner then and there, as well as to en­ danger the lives of the others who were in the wagon with him. AS quickly as possi­ ble, before any other club, rock or missile could be hurled, Tanner seized a revolver which was in his pocket and fired at Erskine, inflicting upon him a wound from which he afterwards died. Had Tani)£f,. or is there any living man who would not have had. the right to pro­ tect his own life against such a mui ler- ous assault. Those who (now for cam­ paign purposes) would dany Tanner that right of following the natural instincts of self-preservation are infinitely meaner than Erskine himself. I do not mean by this to be •offensive; I am only endeavoring to use correct language. I should add that the ax hurled by Erskine. was dodged by Tanner, something I sup­ pose that he luu! no right, to do, and, pass­ ing on, struck George Lus3, inflicting a mortal wound. A trial resulted in the jury finding Tan­ ner. guilty of • manslaughter,-fixing the penalty at two years, which verdict was immediately set aside by the judge on the bench ant| a new trial awarded, and upon a, second trial being hal in November, 1SG9, according to the Tunes-Herald ac­ count, "the jury was out only about long enough to write a verdict of acquittal." I also learn from th^ sains account that within a year thereafter Mr. Tanner was elected Sheriff of Clay, his natiw, eoun- I ty; a striking vindication, irrespective 1 of party, and subsequently followed by ' . . .V ; • • % tributes of tlie.^steein and honor in which John It. Tanner hail been held Oy his 'fel­ low-citizens from the time of that unfor­ tunate occurrence twenty nine years ago until the present day". AH that I can say is that the man who had the courage to protect his .own "life will have the courage to protect this State and maintain its laws agailist mobs and aUarchy. But Democrats will not urge this against John It. Tanner. In 1804 Anrir " _ , of friends for three days to voluntarily engage in a' duel with one Dickinson, fought the duel and killed Dickinson. Andy was also engaged in. several oth.±r scraps. Andrew Jackson was subsequent­ ly nominated by the Democratic pirt.s three times for the presidency, and elected twice. Every returning 8th day of Jan­ uary the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans^ Democrats assemble with leav­ ened bread and light wines to commem­ orate the life and deeds of Saint Jackson. Nor is Jackson to be condemned. His­ tory shows that he was justified; neither did foul aspersiori nor darkened calumnies prevail against him. I have here 100 extracts from the pub­ lic ^ press throughout the country, the majority of them from Democratic papers, commenting upon what they term Alt-j geldism and anarchy in our State; and a portion of the Democratic State platform adopted at Peoria. Let us redeem our State. Let us defeat Altgeld, and rid our State of anarchy for­ ever! It is not congenial to Illinois soil. Therefore, let every citizen of Illinois fho believes it to be his duty, cast his ote against John P. Altgeld. Bise above party ; vote for your State; its institutions and, its laws. j A foreigner cannot be President of the United States, and Illi­ nois has hp use for one as Governor, such as Altgeld. JAMES P. GItOVE. Colfax; 111. /Jslfs'* v. : -1 i. - od t \ • '• ,'U Palse Clfoinis of Economy, Gov. Altgeld. and his supporters have- been claiming that in the three years of his administration he saved the State nearly $000,000. The record is contrary to any saving in connection with the Joliet penitentiary. S. IT. Jones, one of the commissioners of the penitentiary under Gov. Fifer, says: t "The penitentiary has been selfrsustaiii- ing for several years, and Gov. Fjfer's commissioners turned over to Altgeld's commissioners $64,000 of earnings above expenses, and $100,000 appropriated as ontingent fund. It has been stated by Altgeld and by the present warden that the institution has been self-sustaining. The record shows that Gov. Fifer's com­ missioners turned over $104,000, and that their first appropriation was $150,000, and that in 1893 and '05 they got $399,- 500, making in reality $713,500 that the Altgeld administration has had. Now will they explain what has been done with the money, if, as they claim, the peniten­ tiary has been self-sustaining? That amount has been appropriated since Alt­ geld took possession, and no earnings are shown." The following official table explains it­ self: Amount drawn from the State Treasury during four years of Co v. Fifer's administration to be expended for the ordinary ex­ penses of the Illinois State Peu- itentary at Joliet $100,000 00 Of the ahove amount drawn from the treasury during Fifer's administration, there was turn­ ed over to Gov. Altgeld's com­ mission at the time they took charge and control of the* prison the sum of 7T..... 7 $ 04,000 00 Net amount expended during the four years of Gov. Fifer's ad­ ministration for the ordinary expenses of maintaining prison.? 30,000.00 Amount expended by Gov. Alt­ geld's administration for the or­ dinary expenses of said peniten­ tiary as follows: Amount turned over by the commissioners of Gov. Fifer to Gov. Altgeld's commissioners at the time they assumed charge and control of the prison $ 04,000 00 \mount expended of the appro­ priation made during Fifer's ad­ ministration, but unexpended liy him at the close of his term of office .? 04,000 00 Amount expended by Altgeld's administration up to date, Sept. 1, 1896, out of appropriation made in 1803 and 1805 $3."">0,000 00 Total amount expended for the ordinary expenses of the prison by Altgeld's administration up to date. Sept. 1, 1S!X> $314,000 00 Excess of Altgeld's expenditure for ordinary expenses over ex­ penditure of Gov. Fifer's admin­ istration $278,000 00 Amount expended during the four years of Gov. Fifer's adminis­ tration for special purposes- appropriated, 1889 and 1801 for new water supply, tanks, pipes, painting, repairing, floors, books for library, etc $ 01,100 00 Amount expended during Gov. Altgeld's administration for special purposes appropriated 1803 and 18t)5. for machinery, etc.. to enable commissioners to keep convicts employed, for repairs, painting, water supply, i books for library, etc .$300,500 00 Excess of expenditure for special purposes by Altgeld over ex­ penditure made by Gov. Fifer's administration $338,400 00 Aggregate excess of expenditure by Gov. Altgeld over expendi­ ture by Gov. Fifer $018,400 00 The railroad men of Chicago are or­ ganizing "sound money" clubs in con­ nection with every department of the service, and about the middle of Septem­ ber will make a pilgrimage to Canton. Ohio,'and call on William McKinley with assurance that they are for him and the platform on which he stands. At the office of the Illinois Central superintendent in Frccport, 111., a "sound money" " club,, with 200 members, was formed. It includes Bepublicaus and Democrats employed in railroad work, and a pledge was signed to work against free silver. ' $3,COO fteward for a I.i03t Plant. A British firm of orchid importers has offered $5,000 for an orchid bearing the impressive name of Cypripedium Farieanim. This is the famous "lost orchid." For nearly forty years this handsomest of all the "ladies' slipper" variety of orchid lias eluded the search of tbe professional collectors. Thous- audsnof pounds^ have been spent in the hunt for it, and days and weeks of weary misery in fetid swamps and im­ passable jungles have been endured in the search for it by those whojspend their lives in the quest of newjpr rare varieties of the fashionable flower of the day. The history of tbe so-called "lost orchid" is a curious one. Forty years ago three or four plants of it ar­ rived for the Calcutta botanical gar­ dens. Where it came from remains a mystery to the present day, for its native habitat has never been discov­ ered. Tbe plant flourished well, and was sold in some numbers till about twenty yft^rs ago, when it vanished, despite all efforts to reproduce it from seed. A $10,000 Thermometer. Out in Montana, where E. A. Tipton is managing tbe bicycle race meetings, lie lias issued an edict that women in bloomers must pay the same admission fee^aagtedLof men--$1. Women dress- edlHPation garb are admitted fr niple celebrate tlieif* golden pie can come pretty near old their oldest child is. Herbert Spencer and James Bryee are mong those suspetted by English re- viewers of having written the reply to Max Nordau entitled "Regeneration." John Boyd Thacher's folio volume, "The Continent of America; Its Discov­ ery and Baptism," which has just beqii published by William Evarts Benja­ min, is limited to 275 signed copies. The Macmillans announce a transla­ tion from the Russian of A. P. Tvers- kov entitled "Sketches froih the United States of North America." A high Ger­ man authority has called Tverskov the Rusian Bryce. President Paul Kruger's library has consisted of two volumes--the Bible and "Pilgrim's Progress." Now he is said to have become so fond of Mark Twain's humor that he has order­ ed a set of the American writer's works. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer al­ ways were careful of the.company they kept. r. •* r • Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, the member of the Chicago Academy of Sciences who accompanied Peary in his north polar expedition as meteorologist, has issued a volume entitled, "The Search for the North Poie&iitt which he sums up all former expeditions and announces his intention of organizing a new one himself at an early day. " Kipling's "Letters of Marque," de­ scriptive of the old cities of Rajputana, written when he was a reporter for the Pidneeiy were issued in pamphlet form in India, but could not hitherto be pub­ lished in England on account of some copyright trouble. This has now been removed, and the essays will sOon be brought out in London. Surviving friends of Gambeti^i are exceedingly wroth with Roche- fort, who is publisUjiB^JiS^*%n' remin­ iscences in a Paris" Whether Gambetta died of-pistol wtn^tjds'j and whether these wounds were inflicted by a woman after an all-hight orgy,/are questions which Roctii>forfprofesses to decide in the affirmative by/new person­ al evidence, but he has .been promptly met with categorical denial and scien­ tific refutation. .. u u;j. ---- i_ Commodore's Dying Jdke. Some reporters were waiting for news after midnight recently of the condition of Cornelius Vanderbiit.', It is no fun to kick your heels against the pavement until 3 or 4 o'clock in the in.orni.ng, and the reporters grew rest­ less. "This reminds me," said one, re­ flectively, "of the death watch on the old commodore. Things were quite different then from what they are now. When the old commodore was just taken ill he used to send for us every day and tell us all about himself. He used to read the papers and hc liOticed- that a great deal of space was devoted to him. " 'Well, boys,' he said one mornlug, 'I hope I live a little longer for your sakes. You seem to be making a lot of sfrace out of me.' "Finally, though, when he became too ill to see us, we had to camp out, as we are doing now, and it soon be­ came tedious. We used to camp about twenty feet from the front of the house in which the old gentleman., lay, and sometimes you could hear what was said in the sickroom. "Among us was a certain gentleman who is now the respected father of a family. He was rather impatient. It was late at night. He' had a voice in him like a bull. " 'Oh, why don't he die?' he sudden­ ly exclaimed, petulantly. "We thought no more of his1 remark until a few minutes later, when a trim servant girl came out of the house. She looked us over and watched us for a few moments. Then Doc. said some­ thing and she came over to aim and handed him a note. He opened it, wondering what it could be. On the paper was a score or so of words writ­ ten in the old commodore's well-known scrawl. They read: " 'I trust you will pardon me, DUt as this is the first time I have over died, I am a little inexperienced and don't exactly know how to-go about, it. Il' you will bear with me a* little while, however, I will trp to do my best.' "The old gentleman had heard the pious remark and it had been too much for his grim sense of humor."--New York Press. Rising Tide. Many of the aneedbtefs told of Father Taylor, the celebrated preacher of the Boston Seamen's Bethel, show that he wao ready with a simile whenever oc­ casion for one arose. One evening a prayer meeting had lasted long beyond the usual hour for closing, and Father Taylor's talk was increasing in fervor and energy, when som-^ restless young men arose and shuffled hastily out of the room. "That's right, brethren," said Father Taylor, shaking his nead as if' his an- tieipations were suddenly realize tide is rising; the drift ning to fiout." tt*.i- > . Peculiar Spiders. a ' The most peculiar spiders in the Wdrid, as well as the largest dtie^ in­ habit the island of Sumatra. :Some have square bodies poised on ldhg red legs, and others have, crooked jjreeu and yellow legs which support^€eart- shaped bodies. One of the very odd­ est of the lot has a body that looks like that of a young turtle, the "shell" having round knobs and pear-shaped jirojections all over it. • '.Meanest Man on Earth*. Dobsou--Bungster is the meanest man I ever saw. "Hobson--What has given you that opinion? Dobson--I invited him to take dinner with me at the hotel yesterday, and ho said he couldn't do it because he paid for'his board by the week and got uo rebate for meals that he didn't eat.-- Cleveland Leader. In Constant Danger. Jasper--I wonder why Jones whistles so much. Jumpuppe--Probably to keep up his courage. A man who whistles as bad­ ly as he does is in constant danger ot death.--Truth.