Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1891 — Page 6

itlw IJemmxat DECATUR?IND. M. BLACKBURN, ... Publisher. Gen. Robt. E, Lee’s birthday, Jannary 19th, is now a legal holiday in Virginia. In Paris there are 56,000 gaslights, so that it is just 100 times better lighted that it was a century ago. » Miss Charlotte Crabtree (Lotta) is about to build a four-story brick store building to cost $50,000. George Vanderbilt has already expended $400,000 on the foundation and first story of his North Carolina castle. Lately an electrical apparatus has been introduced for stopping elevators, engines and other machines and motors instantaneously. \ ■' * / The second son of Prince Albert of Fnissia is destined to be the husband of little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. He is a lad of 15 years. There were over 8,000,000 kegs of nails produced last year in the United States, of which one-half were cut steel, less than one-fourth cut iron and more than one-fourth wire. A syndicate has offered the United States $14,000,000 for Alaska. The peninsula cost Uncle Sam $6,500,000. A property which is increasing in value at that rate is a good thing to hold. Bissell Sage,the financial magnate, is a tall-built, gaunt, keen-eyed, hay-seed-looking man, of nervous manner, with a long,-clean-shaven face, fringed with' a scraggy, iroq-gray chin-beard. The new American cruisers compare favorably in speed with the fastest Avar vessels afloat, and the battle ships promise to be among the most formidable and seaworthy of modern floating batteries. WileygUtnes, colored, owns outright two street bar,-lines, twelve miles in total length, jnjPine Bluff, Ark. He was born there, and was a poor barber fifteen years ago. He is largely interested in real estate. Some years ago Lady Assingfon philanthrdpically sent twenty-four British families to the cape to found an improved colony. She bought land for them, but the result was a failure. The men would not work. A French newspaper published the following extraordinary advertisement: “The owner of a lot of 3,000 dozen col]ars\and cuffs of find linen, valued at 13,o69Lrancs, would exchange them for a country house in the neighborhood es l arls.” Eight pin manufactories in New England produce annually 2,000,000 packs * of pins. Each pack contains 3,360 pins, which makes a total yearly pro-, duction of 6,720,000,000 pins. These pins are usually put up in large cases, each case containing 672,000 pins. Victor Emanuel, the heir-apparent to the crown of Italy, assumed a fictitious title while traveling in Russia and Germany not long ago. The title happened to belong by heredity to an im- . pecunious Italian, who has now sued the Prince for compensation for its use. 6 ' ” -------- - . One of the most artistic and most valuable wedding presents which Princess Victoria of Prussia received was the gift of the King and Queen of Italy, which consisted of a cable chain braceA let of old gold, with a huge emerald in the center, surrounded by diamonds, all picked stones. One day in October, just when a New Jersey fisherman had broken his last hook, a school of fish passed along which he estimated to be twenty miles long and two broad, and packed so closely that they crowded each other out of the water. Os course the hook was broken. r. > , The most recent observations as to the amount of heat the earth receives from the sun show that in clear, pleasant weather 63 b per cent, of heat is absorbed by the atmosphere and only 36| per cent, reaches the soil. This figure rises in October to 41 per cent, and sinks to 28 per cent, in January. Under the laws of every State in this Union the man who shoots another man who may be stealing his fruit or robbing his hen-roost can be prosecuted for manslaughter. The idea is that you shall go out and argue with him, and if argument won’t do whistle for an officer. A Belgian gun manufacturer says it is a mystery to him what becomes of all the guns made. They are not perishable or easily destroyed, yet year after year the great manufacturers have increased their works while the / -number of guns and pistols that are ihade each year is something enormous, and the trade instead of decreasing is constantly growing. Cincinnati, besides making 200,000 sets of harness, turns out 60,000 saddles annually, The saddles are of rude manufacture, however, and do not cornspare with the English article. The finest American saddle made does not Bell for more than S3O, while the English make are up as high as $250 apiece, and they are worth it, says a manufacturer. Lord Tollemache, who has just died in London, at the age of 22, was known as the best landlord in Great Britain. Although the most uncompromising of Tories, he divided his vast estates into small holdings, allotted three acres to each laborer for garden, grazing and tillage; demanded that a cow and pig be kept; hud his tenants taught butter and cheese making, and allowed them time to cultivate their holdings, the re-

sults of his liberal policy appearing in a large increase of the valuation of his property and the most prosperous and contented tenantry in the United Kingdom. There are subjects about which people think seriously every day. There is the subject of religion, the subject of health, the subject of human justice. Every day people think deeply upon these and kindred themes until perplexed and bewildered, and finding themselves no nearer their explanation or solution, they lay them aside, and take up the immediate questions that concern their daily lives. The cow tree, the sap of which closely resembles milk, is a native of South and Central America. It is a species of evergreen and grows only in mountainous regions. A hole bored in the wood, or even a -wound made in the bark in this remarkable tree, is almost immediately filled with a lacteal-like fluid. Alexander von Humboldt was the first traveler to describe this tree and bring it to the notice of Europeans. When Lawyer Kimbrough attempted to go on the stand to testify in behalf of his client, at Memphis, Tenn., recently, Judge Du Bose ruled that he must first retire from the case. ‘’The rule of this court is that no attorney in a case can testify for a client,” said the Judge. ‘“Wharton on Evidence' takes strong grounds against such practice, and I will not permit it.” Kimbrough formally announced his retirement and then gave his testimony. Though Mr. Spurgeon's sermons do not profess to be profound, and though their freshness is in the illustration and the “setting,” rather than in the thought, they are as compact and coherent as the most mind could desire. The direct preparation only takes a few hours—although it must be remembered that in another sense-all the preacher’s life has been a preparation—and nothing is committed to paper beyond the “heads,” which fill half a sheet of notepaper. i Judge Wheeler of the United States District Court held that the act prohibiting the mailing of envelopes having on the outside words “calculated to reflect injuriously on the character” of the person addressed was violated by sending through the mails letters contained in envelopes bearing the words “Excelsior Collection Agency”printedin large letters across the upper half of the envelopes. The printed words were separate from direction to return if not called for, and the court held that they were obviously placed so as to attract attention and reflect delinquency in making payment upon the persons to whom the envelopes were sent. The rapidity with which work on the Nicaragua Canal is being conducted, as shown by tile report of the company engaged in 'the construction, will give pleasure to/the country. This is an American, enterprise tb the extent that the corporation, attlpfe head of it has an American charter, receives its chief support from American capital, and when finished, will furnish important aid to American commerce. The original engineers’estimate of the cost of construction was $64,000,000, and the time required to do the work was put at between five and six years. Experiences with other enterprises of the kind suggests the likelihood that in neither particular will expectation be completely realized. But even with a moderate advance in each case, the canal must ultimately be a paying investment. “There’s nothing new Under the sun,” said Leo Ehrlich, the inventor, “nothing new. Take a recent invention —the telephone, for instance. We thought that was new, but it has since been learned that in India the Brahmins used a telephone long before the birth of Christ. It was similar to the lovers’ telephone, and consisted of two stretched sheepskin discs connected by a string, and the priests were able to talk over it a distance of six miles. Many of their miracles were accomplished by simply using the telephone. Take, again, the slot machines that are now all the rage. A similar device was in use by the French monks in the Middle Ages. They needed money and ingeniously constructed a wooden contrivance whereby worshipers could secure a small amount of holy water,by dropping a coin in the slot. Another popular story is to the effect that the man who invented the returning ball made a fortune. As a matter of fact he sold his invention for $5.” Buns It to Suit Himself. The oldest paper mill in this country, it is believed, is at Roslyn, L. 1., and in it the oldest, crudest methods of manufacture are still in vogue. It is run by Meyer Valentine, who is the oldest manufacturer of paper in this country. The mill is supposed to be at least 150 years old, and it has never been used for any other purpose. The manufacturer, who is 70 years of age, inherited the gray and wrinkled old building from his father, who made paper in it in the same old-fashioned way that his son still employs. During the Revolutionary war Gen. Washington stopped over night in Roslyn, and the following morning walked down to the mill,where, it is alleged, he made a sheet of paper for Valentine’s father by the old hand process. The small frame, covered with wire netting, which Washington is said to have used to pick up the pulp with, is on exhibition in the mill. Valentine runs the mifl with the aid of several assistants. He runs it to suit himself, too. There are no regular hours for labor. Soihe days he starts up the noisy wheel at 7 o’clock and on some others ut 10. He stops the machinery from rumbling sometimes at 6 jx m. and other times at noon. He consults his own feelings and does just as he pleases. Feed the Tramps Well. A Sacramento, Cal., woman once fed a tramp, who has just died at Portland, Ore., and bequeathed her $15,000. Charitable people all over the country will now drop cold bits into the mouth of the tramp and sit down virtuously to await a legacy.

“VANISHING SURPLUS.” CARLISLE ARRAIGNS REPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE. The Enormous Kate at Which Public Expenditures Have increased —An Enormous Deficit in the Near J'uture-Ex-travagance Caused by HighVTarift' Taxation. 'Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, contributes to the February number of the Forum an able article, entitled “The Vanishing Surplus.” The facts and figures set forth in this article deserve the careful attention of the people, as indicating the unparalleled recklessness in expenditures to which our extravagant tariff taxation leads. Senator Carlisle combats this extravagance in taxation and in expenditure by laying down the broad principle that, “All other things being equal, that is the best government, which exacts the least tribute from its citizens or subjects. ” He further says: “Gue of thA principal objects <>f all good government is to promote the materia) welfare of its people I by protecting them in the honest aceu- I muiation and peaceable enjoyment of | property, and this cannot be fully ac-, complishcd by any government which ' takes from them, in the form of! ‘.a xation or otherwise, more than is necessary to discharge its just obligations and to defray the expense of in economical administration' < of public affairs. The public peace may be preserved, the rights of persons ;nay be scrupulously respected, .and ample remedies jnay be afforded for all injuries intlivted upon the citizen by private individuals* but all this will not make thi‘ people prosperous, or permit them to be so, if the Government itself robs one part of them for the purpose of distributing the spoils to another part. Generosity is a commendable virtue, but justice is a greater one It is the confirmed and incurable habit of the party now in power to dispose of the public money in a wasteful and extravagant manner, and there is no reason to suppose that, it will cease to pursue this course until the treasury is exhausted. What was two years ago the richest public treasury in the world will be substantially bankrupt long before the term of the present administration shall expire, and then, perhaps, even the executive officers of the Government, who now delight in creating deficiencies to be supplied by additional appropriations, will be willing to assist in devising some plan by which expenditures can be curtailed.” The present high carnival of extravagant tariff taxation and still more extravagant expenditures leads to results, as pointed cut by Mr. Carlisle, which are most amazing. He shows that while our population is now about sixteen.rhnes as greatas in 1790, the expenditures of the Government, not counting payments upon the interest and principal of the public debt, are more than 130 times as great. The figures are as follows, excluding payments on the debt: 0 Popula- Expendition. tures. IS9O y C 2.450.540 261,037,203 In 1810 the ordinafy expenditures were equal to only 73 cents per capita of the population, “In 1890,'eighty years afterward, the population was less than nine times as great as it was then, but the ordinary expenditures were more then forty-eight times as great, and amounted to:st. 19 per capita, From 1830 to 1840, including the period of the Seminole war,” the population increased 32.67 per cent, and the expenditures increased 80 per cent.; from 1840 to 1850, during.which time' the Mexican war was commenced and prosecuted to a successful termination, the population increased 35.87 per cent, and the expenditures increased 53 per cent., but from 1880 to 1890, a period of profound peace,, population increased 24.57 percent, and expenditures increased 55 per cent. The ordinary expenditures of the current fiscal year, 1891, will be at least,l2 per cent, greater than in 1890, although population, as shown by the recent census, is increasing at the rate of less than per cent, per annum.” How expenditures have increased under the Republican protectionist administrations of the past thirty years maybe seen from the following figures, which again do not include public-debt payments: Expenditures t<er capita. IS6O ..... $1.99 Issa 3.77 1890 A 4.19 ■ One of the most striking things In Mr. Carlisle’sdiscussion is the prediction that, if the ordinary requirements of the sinking fund are complied with, there will be a deficit of $84,044,387 on July 1, 1892, or a deficit of $34,819, 459 if nothing whatever is to be paid on account. Our protectionist law-makers, in their eager haste to lay tariff burdens upon the people and at the same time to make the expenses of the government so great ■as to demand higher and higher protective tariffs, have evidently overshot the mark. Their big deficit will be heard from in 1892. Protected Fruit-Growers. A California protectionist paper, in reviewing the trade ami production of that State for 1890, says: “The fruit crop of the past year is the largest ever known. The shipments of green fruit amounted to 1f15.000.000 pounds; dried fruits, 30,318,000 pounds; oranges, 3,187 earloads; raisins,4o,ooo,ooo pounds; fruits, 84.250,000 pounds. ” Yet it was in that same prosperous year 1890 that the California fruit-grow-ers “talked poor” before a protection, Congress, and got higher duties imposed on foreign frnjts of all kinds. Now that they have got their higher duties, it is safe to crow over their prosperity. There is abundant evidence that the California fruit-growers are among the most prosperous of all our people, and that their cry for protection was one of the most insincere of all the insincere prayers that went tip to the great McKinley. The Hural Californian, a jour-nal-devoted to the fruit-growing interests of California, recently asked the question. “How to Get Rich?” and answered it by saying, “Buy a fruit ranch, or, better still, buy land and plant it yourself, ” >Here is how the Rural' Californian. further proceeds to “boom” the fruitgrowing section of the State: “The question is often asked of the Californian sojourning in the Eastern States by every four out of six people he meets who have a desire, to locate here, •What can 1 do in your glorious country to make a living?' The question can be readily answered, ‘What can 1 not do to make a living?’ Though of course there are many avenues open to capital and to the mail of brain and brawn, the backbone of the country is horticulture. This, more than all other Industries combined, has made many people with no capital at all well to do in a comparatively short time. Nor is horticulture confined to growing a few varieties of fruits, but embraces pretty much the fruits of the temperate and semi-tropic zones, all of which are produced with the same unvarying success in all portions of Southern California, some localities being, of course, better adapted to particular kinds.” The sanifi paper claims, further, that land for orange groves is now selling at even higher prices than during the “boom period.” California raisin makers are exporting large quantities of their product to Australia, and have begun to make shipments to England also. But all the

same they must have high duties to protect the home market and hold it for themselves. Some time ago a correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle said in that paper: “Contracts for figs for next month run from SSO to SBO a ton, and raisins in the sweat-box are easily contracted for at $l2O a ton. In consequence of this boom in fruits it is thought there will be fully 12,000 acres i “e c *du o,| s and citrous fruit orchards planted in Southern California before next May. ” • with this very prosperous showing of the California fruit industry, the growers represented to Maj. McKinley last spring that they needed higher pro- I tection on all kinds of fruit McKinley obediently gave them the duties asked , or - the duty on oranges was about I doubled, but the Senate restored the old rate. McKinley, however, succeeded in putting a duty of 30 per cent, on the boxes or barrels containing the oranges. The duty on raisinsand figs was raised from 2 cents a pound to 2.1 J cents. On plums and primes the 1 cent duty was doubled. Alabama Iron in Pittsburg. ; Th” South is comparatively a new secI tion of the country so far as manufactures are concerned, yet the rapid develI opment of the Southern iron industry 1 has just caused the shut down of twentythreeblast furnaces in the Shenango and

1 ONTHC zhLgxn W/z THEDEMOt’tATIcf’MTf! ... - palmers of - " —>r— ~ burden of taKition L vQt- an• MONOPOLI> r The Republican Press would have the workingman beliexe that he should do this for his health. —Chicago Herald.

Mahoning Valleys of.Ohio anti Pennsyl- I vania. How does this happen if it be true that “infant industries” in a new country cannot spring up and flourish without protection? These Southern furnaces 1 started without any “protection” against those of the North, yet the Southern pig iron is hauled by rail SOO pities to Pittsburg, and shuts down furnaces in Pennsylvania and Ohio only sixty-four miles from that city. The Southern iron pays a freight of $4.10 a ton from Birmingham, Ala., to Pittsburg, while the furnaces shut down by it had to pay oply 80 cents a ton. flow is this for protection's “infant industry” argument? HANDS OF THE POTTER. LOWER WAGES AND A STRIKE AT TRENTON, N. J., A High Tariff Journal Prints Some Interesting News—The Highly Protected Manufacturers of Pottery Cut Wages One-third and Their Men Strike—This Is a Twice-Told Tale. The protectionist newspaiwd’s and trade journals are printing a great deal of news now that will be of interest in future discussions of the McKinley tariff law. Here, for example, are two items which have recently appeared in the Boston t'onuncrcidi Bulletin: “The pottery manufacturers of Trenton, N. J., ha ve submitted a schedule of wages to the sanitary ware pressers which means a reduction of about 33X per cent.” > “Nearly 400 potters are on strike in Trenton, N. .1., because of the decision to reject the reduction of wages proposed by the manufacturers. The men were willing to continue work at the old scale pending further investigation, but the bosses insisted that the new list waftto go into effect, and the men quit work. ” These two items are taken from the same column in the high tariff organ; and on the. same page is an editorial defending the McKinley tariff law. The McKinleyites gave the pottery men higher protection than they ever had before, in order, of course, to “protect American labor,” yet already this same American labor has its wages cut down one-third and goes out on a strike. It is a significant fact that the tariff , law of 1883 was followed by the same result. though not in so brief a time. This fact was admitted before the McKinley committee by Mr. .John Moses, a large manufacturer, of Trenton. N. .J., as the following extract from Ins testimony will show: Mr. Carlisle—ln answer to a question by Governor Gear, you siid that if the Mills bill had passed, in your opinion you would have been compelled either to close up your establishment or to reduce wages. Is it not a fact that shortly after the passage of the act of 1883. which increased the duties, you reduced wages at Trenton? Mr. Moses—No, sir. Mr. Carlisle —They have never been .reduced since 1883? Mr. Moses—ln 1885 there was a reduction submitted to by the men themselves, owing to the reduction made in the price of goods From 1879 to 188a there was no reduction of any kind, although the price of goods had been gradually going down. In 1885, about the Ist of January, we called our men i together and held a consultation, and we' i showed that there was a necessity for a , reduction of wages. _ Mr. Carlisle—That was less than two years after the act of 1883 took effect. In about two years after that you found i you were pot able to pay the same w|,ges ■ as you did before that act was passed. i Mr. Moses—Yes, sir, that is true, because the foreign goods of all classes ■ wore thrown into~onr market. Prices ; of goods fell in the foreign market. > This Mr. Moses simply wrote out the ; duties which he wanted and handed in i the list to McKinley, and that lisp appears in the tariff law to-day with no change, except in the direction of maki ing the language stronger and more komi prehensive. The duties themselves, v hich Moses asked for, were about the sa: ieas under the old law; but there was a noro i important form of protection th; t he wanted. He asked that the duti son > foreign earthenware and pottery a iould

I assessed on the cost of packing, on the freights in Europe and at sea, etc. As these charges were under the old law deducted before calculating the duty, Moses claimed that the importers were saving the duties on from 15 to 60 per cent, of their goods. The good McKinley held up the hands of Moses and gave him everything asked I for. Not only did the tariff bill include the earthenware duties as written down by the hand of Moses, but the administrative customs law, which went into effect August 1, 1890, assesses the duties on packages, freights, etc., and no allowance is made in it for goods broken or : damaged in shipment. Moses had a gloomy tale to tell about the pottery business. “The domestic ' potteries,” he said, “have been kept in operation with the hope that the wisdom of our members of Congress would lead them to give us the protection which wo so much need to maintain onr ground against the colossal fortunes which have been made by foreign manufacturers at the expense bf the American people.” He talked much about the wages of labor here and in Europe, and went so far as. to confess that “but for the difference in the price of labor there would be no need of a tariff for protection.” All that .Moses asked for to lead the children of labor safely through the wilderness was granted by the great-Mc-Kinley; and already the Trenton potters

I are on a strike because of a reduction of their wages by due-third. Two Views of Free Wool. The high tariff manufacturers' club of Philadelphia issues a journal which is callefl The Manufacturer, the chief end and aim of which is, of course, to defend McKinleyism and to attack all opponents of that monstrosity as enemies of American labor and industry. The latest number of this Manufacturer criticises Mr. Cleveland once more for having advocated free wool in his famous tariff message. “Mr. Cleveland's free trade message in 1887,” it says, “was devoted chiefly to an attack upon one of the greatest agricultural industries of the country. He demanded the removal of the duty on wool, and wool is grown in all but two or three ecore. counties in the United States.” That statement makes it appear that Mr. Cleveland did a very wicked thing in recommending free wool; but on the opposite page of The Manufacturer is another -sdatement which 7 makes Mr. “free trade message” appear to have recommended the very thing that the w\lgrowers need. This statement is that “tvool, under enlarged duties, goes dotyp in price.” In the previous number of The Manufacturer the same assertion is made in even stronger language, as follows: “The oppressive nature of the taxon raw wool might be demonstrated by the fact that low wool prices have always followed the imposition of high wool duties.” a What a pretty piece of consistency! High wool duties make low wool prices, which is, of course, true; and yet the man who thinks the wool tax ought to be wiped out altogether, and says so, is criticised as making “an attack upon one of the greatest agricultural industries of the country.” According to your own statement it is rather the McKinley law which makes that attack. But free wool is coming “for a' that, and twice as mickle’s a’ that.” Delano and Lawrence, and other political woolgrowers of Ohio, have recently met and denounced the expressed desire of the manufacturers for free wool “unjust, unfriendly, and in violation of the agreement made between the manufacturers and producers prior to the passage of the McKinley bill,” and they also resolved that “the reduction of duties on wool will secure a reduction of the duties on the manufactures of wool, and any effort to secure such a reduction will be met by a united effort on the part of the wool-growers. Delano made a speech in which he “wanted to inform the manufacturers that when the wool-growers go down the manufacturers’ monopoly will go down with them. ” To all this vaporing the New York Dry Goods Economist, a prominent trade journal, which advocates protection of a milder type, replies as follows: “Mrs. Partington sweeping back the Atlantic with a broom was a serious and awe-inspiring picture in comparison with this one. Venerable fossils, go to! Free wool is coming as irresistibly as that rising tide which turned that other dear old la ly end for end upon the pebbly beach. Put up your bogies and cease rattling your sheet-iron thunder. Y’ou are an anachronism, a back number, a nuisance. Good-by!” Killed by the Watch Trust. We have a watch trust which is protected by a duty of 25 per cent, ad valorem. The Dueber Watch-Case Company. which was independent of the trust, has recently failed, and a representative of the company attributes the failure to the hostility of the trust. He says: “We had been lighting the trust for three years, since Nov. 11, 1887, which was the date of our expulsion, and had to weaken at last. The plant at Canton, Qhio, cost 55750,000, and the war with the trust came on just about the time the new factory was opened. It took away all our customers at one blow. ” There is a duty of 75 cents a ton on coal. The present price of anthracite coal in the Schuylkill (Pa.) region is now 553.35 a ton, making the duty now equivalent to about 33 per cent, ad valorem The miners’ wages have been lowered 5 per cent. But, of course, the tariff will make the wages go up again—•oaw fjap. 6 ■ ■

THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWz MAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and Hoa-,a ai Representatives — Important Me»~’ires Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The House, on the 20th, experienced the. stormiest scene of a very stormy Congress. The trouble arose over a motion to approve the journal without debate. Hard words passed between Mr. Mills and Mr. McKinley, and it was not until the Sergeant-at-arms and some friends had forced Mr. Mills into his seat was order restored. The row has significance from the 'fact that the leaders of both sides of the House were the principals. The scene in the House was re-enacted in the Senate, when Mr. George, of Mississippi, refused to yield the floor to Mr. Aldrich, who was anxious to present resolution. Mr. George had the fl<x>r when the Sen'h.te adjourned the previous night, and naliamentary rules gave it to him at reassejnbly. Mr. George's plan is apparently, to hold the Cloture off indefinitely. The prospective struggle over the force bill is the all-ab-sorbing topic. Rotli sides are anxiously counting noses. Turbulence again marked the proceedings of the House on the 2Wt. and again also it was over.jthe approval of the journal. Mills. Bland. Rogers, and Breckinridge on, the Democratic side, and Speaker Reed, McKinley, and Boutelle on the Republican, were the warring parties. At times intense feeling characterized the debate —or, more properly speaking, the-quar-re’.—and the gallery was packed by an eager, listening throng. The -scene was highly dramatic. Speaker Reed. pale, but calm and firm, listened to Rogers' scathing tirade in silence, and when it was ended made a ruling sipiarely against the wishes of the Democrats. In the Senate also the journal became a bone of contention, and a very acrimonious debate ensued. It was as to w hether or not the Senate had,decided to proceed with consideration of the cloture rule. Mr. Gorman held that no such deci-ion had been reached, while the journal announced that, it had. He spoke strongly against the Senate ignoring the laws established for its own government. He carried ffis point, and the journal was corrected. No further business of importance was transacted. > , In the Senate, on the 22d. Mr. Aldrich, said that the journal disclosed the fact that it was the determined policy of the ocratic Senators to prevent any legislaflH or action unless their wishes as to certain measures should be acceded to. The action of the minority was revolutionary and would be resisted. When Mr. Aldrich had concluded his remarks he nioVed that the Senate proceed to the consideration of his resolution for a change of the rules, A point of order was made that the unfinished business was the motion to correct Tuesday’s journal. -A long discussion followed, during which Mr. Stewart arguetk strongly on the Democratic side. Finally the Vice Dissident ruled that Mr. Aldrich's motion to proceed to the consideration of the cloture rule was in order, and overruled tile point of order that the question before the Senate was the motion to correct Tuesday's journal. The House on the same date got down to business. approved the journal, and then passed the District of I'olumbia appropriation bill. It then went into committee of the whole on the naval a.pnropriation bill, general debate being limited to four hours. At 11 a. m.. on the 23d. the Senate reassembled and resumed discussion of the cloture rule.- Mr. Hoar delivered himself of some rat her forcible and uncomplimentary remarks upon the course pursued by 1 lie Democrats. Mr. Cockrell spoke against the measure, and. witli frequent interruptions. continued until adjourn-iient. In the House Mr. Cooper of Indiana sent to the Clerk's desk and had read a resolution offered by him on Sept. 4 last, making charges against the Commissioner of Pensions The resolution had been referred to the select, committee examining previous charges;'and on the lit ii of September the Chairman of tliat committee had been directed to report the resolution, but be had -never performed that duty. In the Senate, on the 24th. there was no prayer, no journal, no morning hour, and only an exact quorum present — fortyfive Senators. The sensation of the day was the speech of Senator Stewart, of Nevada, against the forde hill. Though a Republican, he has taken a position upon this question squarely in line with the Democrats-, and so forcibly that there is a rumor that he will not be invited to future Republican caucuses for the debate of the bill. Mr. Stewart affects to find in the bill sufficient explanation of recent Democratic successes, and predicts further reverses for the Republican party if the bill is passed He characterized the bill jis an iniquitous measure, and declared that its, principle, if carried into effect, would be more prejudicial to human liberty than secession itself. He questioned the constitutionality of the bill, and upon this point had a sharp tilt with Mr. Hoar. Mr. Morgan also spoke against tlte bill, and held the floor at adjournment. After the customary squabble over the approval' of the journal, led by Mr. Breckinridge, the House went into committee of the whole (Mr. Burrows of Michigan in the chair) to consider the naval appropriation bill, and soon after adjourned to noon of the 26th. What to Teach Boys. . Teaph them how to earn money. Teach them how to be strictly truthful. Teach them shorthand and typewriting. t-;. > Teach them economy in all ■'their aU fairs. . • Teach them to be polite in their manners. Teach them history and political economy. Teach tlyjm arithmetic in all its branches. Teach them to avoid tobacco and strong drink. Teach them to ride, drive, jump, run and swim. Teach them careful and correct business habits. Teach them how to get the- most for their money. Teach them, by example, how to do things'well. Teach them to avoid profane and indecent language. Teach them habits of cleanliness and good order. Teach them the care of horses, wagons and tools. Teach them to be manly, self-reliant and aggressive. Teach them to be neat and genteel in their appearance. Fashion Miscellany. Fans with folding handles are sometimes seen. Feather plush is a novel garniture Os the autumn. There is a craze among collectors for old tapestries. Clasps for ball and opera cloaks are studded with stones. Velvet calf is exceedingly popular for ladies’ hand-bags and purses. Styles are very picturesque and materials and trimmings very rich. Torchon lace is coming in again as a trimming for sachets, toilet slips, etc. The most unique screen of the dty is one that has the cabinet ornamentation. Four raw oysters to each plate are considered the proper number to serve at dinner. Walking-costumes in Paris are in all Borts of hairy cloths, fawn’s grays and terracotta being the favorite colors. From the Dictionary. Imaginary insects—bugaboos. Very loud-mouthed—donkeys. Put to flight—carrier pigeons. All in a nutshell—the kernels. Bears good fruit—the epergne. The banner violinist—Michael. Cannot bo rolled—war whoops. A scramble for breakfast—eggs. AnwAYs in dew season—summer.

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