Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — Page 1

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mmawßUM. BX PAUIi H. HATKB. The nin, the desolate rain! Ceaseless and solemn and chilli How It drips on the misty pane, How it drenches the darkened sfllj O scene of sorrow and dearth! I would that the wind awaking To a fierce and gnsty birth M in ht vary this doll refrain Of the rain, the desolate rain; For the heart of the heavens seems breaking In tears o’er the fallen earth, And again, again, again, A Vo list to the somber strain— The faint, cold monotone Whose soul Is a mystic moan Of the rain, the mournful rain, The soft, despairing rain. The rain, the'monrnful rain! Weary, passionless,slow;. Tin the rhythm of settled sorrow, The sobbing of cureless west And sU the tragic of life, The pathos of long ago. Comes back-on the sad refrain Of Hus rain, thodreary rain; Till the graves in my heart unclose, And the dead who are burled there, From a solemn and weird repose Awake, and with eyes that glare And voices that melt in pain Oo the tide of the plaintive rain, • The yearning, hopeless, rain. The long, low, whispering rain I

LOVE’S SACRIFICE.

William Henry Cranstoun was the needy younger son of an ancient Scotch family which had made great alliances, by inter-marriages, with the nobility of Scotland. His uncle, Lord Mark Ker, procured him a commission in the army. Cranstoun married a Miss Murray, m Scotland, in the year 1745, and received a handsome fortune with her, but soon ran through with it, after which they led a shifty existence on his pay, eked out by loans and his winnings at the gaming-table. In 1746, shortly after his wife had been delivered of a sou, Cranstoun (who held the title of Captain), was ordered to join his regiment in England. He was sent with a recruiting party to Henley, and there met an old friend of his uncle’s, a Mr. Blandy. Mr. Blandy was a man of independent means, and he extended a cordial hospitality to the Captain. The latter was not backward in accepting it, and soon made himself at home in his new' acquaintance's houso, setting up his headquarters there. Blandy had a daughter (Mary by name), a pretty and unsophisticated young woman of 26. Of course the trooper could not but pay attentions to her. The Captain was a little, ugly, pock-marked, squinting fellow of 46, but he had a golden tongue for small talk, which would have imposed on a wiser woman than the one he had made a victim of. For ho did make her a victim—not for her sake, but for that of her fortune. The needy soldier saw a golden future for him, and determined to win it. The fact that he was already married did not trouble him in the least. His wife was far enough away in those days of slow coaching and no newspapers not to bo a terror to him. To avoid the chance of any complaint, however, he informed Miss Blandy that he was involved in a disagreeable lawsuit in Scotland with a lady who claimed him as a husband, and asked her if she loved him well enough to wait the issue of the affair. She told him that she did, and with this understanding their courtship continued.

In time, however, Lord Ker heard from one of his nephew’s brother officers of the little game of bigamy the gay Captain was playing, and wrote to Blandy, informing him that the Captain had a wife and children in Scotland, and conjuring him to preserve his daughter from ruin. Alarmed by this intelligence, Mr. Blandy informed his daughter of it, but Cranstoun’s declaration had prepared her to expect, some such news; and whan the old gentleman taxed Cranstoun with it he declared it was only an affair of gallantry, of which he should have no difficulty to free himself. Mrs. Blandy seems to have been under as great - a degree of infatuation as her daughter, for she forbore all further inquiry on the Captain’s bare assurance that the report of his inarriage was false. . Cranstoun, however, could not be equally easy. He saw the necessity of devising some scheme to got his first marriage annulled, and he wrote jit length to his wife, requesting her to disown him for a husband. The substance of this letter was that, having no other way of rising to preferment but in the army, he had but little ground to expect advancement there while it was known that he was encumbered with a wife and family; but could he once pass for a single man he had not the least doubt of being quickly preferred, which would procure him a sufficiency to maintain her as well as himself in. a genteelor manner than he was able to do. “All, therefore,” added he, “I have to request of you is, that you will transcribe the inclosed copy of a letter, wherein yon disown me for a husband; put your maiden name to it and send it Dv the post. All the use I shall make of it shall be to procure the advancement, which will necessarily include your own benefit. In further assurance that you will comply with my request, I remain your most affectionate husband, “W. H. Cranstoun.” Mrs. Cranstoun, ill as she had been treated by her husband, and little hope as she had of more generous usage, was, after repeated efforts had passed, induced to give up her claim, and at length sent him the requested paper, signed Murray, which was her maiden name. The Captain made some copies of this letter, which he sent to his wife’s relations and his own, the consequence of which was that thev withdrew the assistance they had afforded the lady, which reduced her to an extremity she had never before known. Exclusive of this, he had instituted a suit for the dissolution of his marriage, blit when Mrs. Cranstoun was heard and the letters read, the contrivance was seen through, the marriage was confirmed, and Cranstoun was adjudged to pay the expenses of the trial. At the next session the marriage was again confirmed, and Cranstoun was obliged to allow his wife a separate maintenance. Still, however, he paid his addresses to Miss Blandy with the same fervenev as before, which, coming to the knowledge of Mrs. Crans"’toun, she sent her the decree of the Court of Session establishing the validity of the marriage. It is reasonable to suppose that this would have convinced Miss Blandy of the erroneous path in which she was treading. On this occasion she consulted her mother, and,. Cranstoun having set out for Scotland, the old lady advised her to write to him to know the truth of the affair. Absurd as this advice was. she wrote to him, but soon after the receipt of the letter he returned to Henley, when he fe§4 impudence enough to assert M

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the cause was not finally determined, but would be referred to the House pf Lords. Mr. Blandy gave very little credit to the assertion, but his wife obsented at once to all he said, and treated him with as much tenderness as if fie had been her own child. The fact was that the Captain was a shrewd, plausible, and unscrupulous man of the world, and the country gentleman and his silly wife and daughter had little show of safety in his hands. The old lady’s faith in him, indeed, was something simply idiotic, and she continued to favor him up to the timejof her death in 1751. Once she was dead, the husbandnttempted no longer to conceal the dislike he had imbibed for his daughter’s suitor, and his enmity to his presence finally overcame even the Captain’s cast-iron cheek, and he ceased to/visit the house. He kept up his connection with the daughter,'though, and ah the eve of his departure for Scotland had a parting interview with hei, during which he complained of her father’s illtreatment of him. “But I know how to conciliate him,” }»e said. “How?” asked the yotpig woman. “A friend of mine in Edinburg, a doctor, has the secret of some love-powders which never fail. I will get some from him and send them to you. Yon must give them to your father. Do you understand ?”

The silly woman, superstitious and narrow-minded, like most of her class and time, consented; first consulting the village fortune-teller, who examined her hand and bade her do as her lover demanded and all would be well. Cranstoun sent her the powders, according to promise; and Mr. Blandy, being indisposed one Sunday night before his death, a maid-servant maidservant made him some water gruel, into which Miss Blandy conveyed some of the powder and gave it to her father, and, repeating this draught on the following day, he was tormented with the: most violent pains in his bowels. When the old gentleman’s disorder increased, and he was attended by a physician', his’ daughter came into his room, and, falling on her knees to her father said: "Banish me whore you please; do with me what you please, so you do forgive me; and, as for Cranstoun, I will never see him, speak to him, or writ® to him as long as I live if you will forgive me.” “Why, what do you mean?” asked the old man in amazement. The penitent woman then confessed the whole affair.

It was too late to mend the matter, however. Mr. Blandy died, and a postmortem showed that his system wts permeated with arsenic. His daughter was arrested, and on March 3, 1752, tried at Oxford. Her only defense was the following curious speech: My Lord : It is morally impossible for .mo to lay down the hardships I have received. I have been aspersed in my character. In the first place, it is said I spoke ill of my father; that I have cursed him and wished him at hell; which is extremely false. Sometimes little family affairs have happened, and he did not speak to me so kind as I should wish. I own I am passionate,; my Lord; and in those passions some hasty expressions might have dropped ; but great care has been taken to recollect every word I have spoken at different times, and to apply them to such particular purposes as my enemies knew would do me the greatest injury. These are hardships, my Lord, such as yourself must allow to be so. It was said, too, my Lord, that I endeavored to make my escape. Your Lordship will judge from the difficulties I labored under. I had lost my father. I was accused of being his murderer. I was not permitted to go near him. I was forsaken by my friends, affronted by tho mob, and insulted by my servants. Although I begged to have the liberty to listen at the door where he died I was not allowed it. My keys were taken* from me; my shoe-buckles and garters too, to prevent me from making away with myself, as though I was the most abandoned creature. What would I do, my Lord ? I verily believe I must have been out of my senses. When I heard my father was dead I ran out of the house, and over the bridge, and had nothing on but a half sack and petticoats, without a hoop—my petticoats hanging about me; the mob gathered about me. Was this a condition, my Lord, to make my escape in ? A good Woman beyond the bridge, seeing me in this condition, desired me to walk in till the mob was dispersed; the Town Sergeant was there; I begged he would take me under his protection, to have me home; the woman said it was not proper, the mob was very great, and that I had better stay a little. When I came home they said I used the constable ill. I was locked up for fifteen hours, with only an old servant of tho family to attend me. I was not allowed a maid nor the common' decencies of my sex. I was sent to jail, and was in hopes there at least this usage would have ended, but was told it was reported I was frequently drunk; that I attempted to make my escape; that I did not attend at chapel. A more abstemious woman, my Lord, I believe does not live. Upon the report of my making my escape, the gentleman who was High Sheriff last year (not the present) came and told me, by order of the higher powers, that he must put ah iron on me. I submitted, as I always do, to the higher powers. Some time after he came again and said he must put a heavier one upon me, which I have worn, my Lord, till I came hither. I asked the Sheriff why I was so ironed. He said he did it by the command of some noble peer on his hearing that I intended making my escape. I told them I never had any such thought, and I would bear it with the other cruel usages I had received on my character. The Rev. Mr. Swinton, the worthy clergyman, who attended me in prison, can testify I was regular at tho chapel whenever I was well. Sometimes I really was not able to come out, and then he attended me in my room. They have likewise published papers and depositions which ought not to have been published, in order to represent me as the most abandoned of ’ my sex, and to prejudice the world against me. ’ I submit myself to your Lordships and to the wortny jury. I do assure your Lordships, as I am to answer at the great tribunal, where I must appear, I am as innocent as the child unborn of the death of my father. I would not endeavor to save my life at the expense of truth. I really thought the powder an innocent, inoffensive thing; and I gave it to procure his love (meaning toward Cranstoun). It has been mentioned, I should say, I was ruined. My Lord, when a young woman loses her character, is not that her ruin? Why then should this expression be construed in so wide a sense? Is it not ruining my character to have auoh a thing laid

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to my charge? And, whatever maybe the event of this trial, I am ruined most effectually. Miss Bland was sentenced to death. Her execution occurred at Oxford on April 5, 1752. The night before her death she spent in devotion, and at 9 in the morning she left her being dressed in black bombazine and having her arms bound with black ribbons. Having ascended some steps of the gallows-ladder she said: “Gentlemen, don’t hang me high, for the sake of decency.” Being desired to go something higher she turned about and expressed her ap prehensions that she should fall. * The rope being put around her neck she pulled her handkerchief over 'her face, and was turned off on holding out a book of devotion which she had been reading. Cranstoun, hearing of Miss Blandy’s commitment to Oxford Jail, concealed himself some time in Scotland, and then escaped to Boulogne, in France, where he changed his name to Dunbar. Some officers in the French service, who were related $0 his wife, hearing of his concealment, vowed revenge if they shonld meet him for his cruelty to Jibe unhappy woman, on which he fled to Paris, when he went to Fumes, in Flanders.

He had not been long at Furnes, when he was seized with a severe fit of illenss, which brought him to a degree < f reflection to which he had long been s stranger. At length he sent for a Either belonging to an adjacent convent, and received absolution from bis hands on declaring himself a convert to the Romish faith. ' Cranstoun died on tho 30th of November, 1752, and the fraternity of nonks and. friars looked on his conversion'as an object of so much importance, that solfenrtj mass was sung on the occasion, apsl the body was followed to the grave not only by the ecclesiastics but by the:magistrates of the town. His papers were then sent to England po his brother, Lord Cranstoun, his clothes were sold for the discharge of ais debts, and, in spite of the saintly sharacter of his end, his name stands so this day in the calendar of criminals in England with the inscription against it: “Murderer—died while evading trial.”

Landlord Tim.

I We possessed a landlord once in our I pleasant little Canadian village, and the said landlord was witty and harmless, but was an inveterate “exaggerator.” Stranger or friend wero pleasantly entertained of an evening by listening to his impossible, though truthfully told, yarns, aud many a guest felt he received his money’s worth of combustible chin, besides his board thrown in. He would tell about feeding bushels of corn to a wild goose that daily visited his father’s “lower farm,” and at last, shooting it with a rifle, found half of the bullet on either side, split by the breast-bone. Beautifully would he relate his favorite, a pigeon yarn. Noticing hundreds of this game in a tree one day, and having only a rifle he was sorely perplexed as to the best means of making a fruitful discharge. Brains brought into requisition so plentifully his head ached,* quickly set him clear. Choosing the fullest limb, he fired, splitting it and the bullet passed through the limb, their toes dropped in and held them fast. While sawing off the limb it suddenly broke and let pigeons pud all into a stream below. When he reached the shore again ho had ninety-seven pigeons in his hand al l a peck of small fish in his boots. “Tim,” said Henderson, a new comer, one night after Tim had finished his imaginative triumph, “Tim, I shot at some pigeons years ago; I had as good a double-barreled gun as was ever made, and I saw clouds of pigeons on the ground not more than twenty-five yards away. I let go both barrels at the same time, and how many do you suppose I killed?” “Did you say you had a shot-gun?” inquired Tim. “Yes, sir, double-barreled and a good one.” “Oh*! don’t know,” said Tim, thoughtfully; “say 200.” “No, sir,” said Henderson, with an pir of satisfied expectancy, “no, sir, not a single one!”— Detroit Free Press.

The Ostrich Kick.

When a farmer goes into a savage bird’s camp he takes with him a thorn pole, with a branch or two,of the thorny bush left on the end. This is called a “tuck,’’.and when the tuck is applied to the ostrich’s neck or head (his tender points) he is almost invariably subdned, and, after one or two efforts to escape, bolts furiously off to the other side of the camp, where he races up and down to vent his baffled rage. If, however, tho bird gets near enough to his opponent to give the so-called kick, he lifts his bony leg as high as his body and throws it forward with demoniac grotesqueness, and brings it down with terrible force. His object is to rip the enemy down with his dangerous claw, but in most cases it is the flat bottom of his foot which strikes, and the kick is dangerous as much from its sheer power as from its lacerating effects. It is a movement of terrible velocity and power, at all events. Several instances may be mentioned of herd-boys being thus either wounded, maimed, or killed outright. One case occurred near Graaff Reinet, in which a horse had his back broken by a single blow. In this case the bird had endeavored to kill the rider, but missed him and struck tne horse.

Many persons have been set upon by birds when there was no shelter, not even a tree to run to. In such a case, if the pursued were acquainted with struthious tactics, he would lie down flat on the ground, where the bird finds it impossible to strike him. But even this is no light matter, for some birds in their rage at being baffled of their kick, will roll ovr-r their prostrate enemy, bellowing v ith fury and trampling upon him in the most contemptuous fashion. One man who thus attempted the lyingdown plan found that every time he attended to rise the bird would return and stand sentry over him, till at last, after creeping a distance he gpt out only by swimming a pond that bounded one side of the camp.— Century Magazine.

Persistent Love.

“With all thy false I love thee still," said the newly-married man to his spouse when viewing the mysteries of her toilet. “With all thy faults I love thee still," said the owner of a whisky still. “With all thy faults I love thee still,’ said the man who was mated to a garrulous woman. “With all thv vaults I love the stilly 4 ■aid a wife to the leaping acrobat.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23,1883.

THE TARIFF.

spe«d» of Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, In the House' of Representatives, Jan. 26, 1683. Mr. Chatkman; The bill which is reported by the committee contains 2,440 lines. There is scarcely an' article known to the consumption of the American people that is not included within its schedules for taxation, either by name or within their extraordinary classifications We are taxed on every class of subjects, and if the House will look at the bill they will find the last item is some article whose name begins with “Z.” So, then, we are taxed from “A” to “izzard” The truth is that the whole purpose of our tariff system seems to have been perverted from its original object, which was to select those subjects which would produce revenues for the support of the Government, until by the law of the last session experts have been employed for the purpose of finding not how we can raise revenue but how We can prevent revenue, in the interest of bounty to monopolies Why, Mr. Chairman, my friends and colleagues on the Committee on Ways and Means who hold views diverse from my own will admit that in the counsels of our committee it was conceded by a witness before us-that certain duties were absolutely prohibitory and were intended to be so. And as to one of the classifications in the wool schedule, upon which they do not know the present rate of duty charged because of expert classification, it was also conceded that ft was not even an infant industry, but an industry to'be brought into being by this paternal Government (not an infant in esse , but only in posse) in order that the little bantling after it was started into life might be protected bv the public bounty as all other Infant industries are by this so-called protective policy. Mr. Chairman, let us look at the history of the efforts for the revision of this tariff. We find that the tariff which had existed up to 1861-62 was revised by what is known as the Morrill tariff at rates very largely below what now exist, that continued during the war and until 1872-’7B, when there was a revision by which the duties were reduced 10 per cent And just before the advent of the Democratic party to power In this House, in the last hours of the Forty-third Congress, the tariff was revised again, and the 10 per cent which had been taken off was again imposed and continues to this day. And this tariff is higher in most respects than that of 1842, ana on the average on dutiable articles is nearly as high os any in our history. Ever since that time we have been trying to get this tariff revised. My honorable friend from Illinois (Mr. Morrison), who was Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in the Forty-fourth Congress, reported abill on which we might have secured action had it not been for the great Presidential issue of the winter of 1876-’77. The late Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Hon. Fernando Wood, of New York, in the Forty-fifth Congress reported a bill, and the only consideration it received from our friends on the other side of the House when it came into the committee of the whole was a motion made to strike out the enacting clause, which was done. Every effort, Mr. Chairman, hitherto made has been foiled; and the effort has been to keep the people of this country under the same burden of taxation that now exists without any change or revision. No change has been made except in the sporadic case of the motion of my friend from Kentucky (Mr. McKenzie) to suspend the rules and put quinine on the free-list

At the last session of Congress, when a proposition was made to consider the revision of the tariff, a counter proposition for the creation of a Tariff Commission was offered for the purpose of making that revision. A commission for a revision had been proposed in a previous Congress, but it was postponed. As was wittily said by some one, the whole Tariff Commission proposition was simply an affidavit for a continuancer We were told at the last session of Congress that Congress was incapable of acting upon the question, that it was incompetent for the task of a systematic and thorough revision of the tariff, and that we must have a board of experts upon a commission to do that work for Congress On our side of the House, in opposition to that commission, we insisted that when the report of the commission came into Congress, with its tariff Sosition, we would necessarily be comdto go to work to remedy the defects that might exist in it; in fact, to revise the revision: and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House and the Finance Committee at the other end of the Capitol have been for nearly two months revising and changing the work of the commission of exEerta It is not surprising that this should e the case. That commission for revision, I will not say all of them, because it is not true, but a number of the gentlemen who were on that commission, were persons who were interested in the perpetuation of this system by which the consumers of the country are made to contribute to the support of the monopoliea It was a tribunal so constituted that the advocates at its bar were the judges who sat on its bench; and, after their advocacy of the system which they proposed in tneir own interests, they sat on the bench and decided accordingly. This was not true of all; there were exceptions; but it was notoriously true of some of them The bill of that commission came into our Committee on Ways and Means. I am not revealing any of the secrets of that committee when I say that two of the members of that commission appeared before it, and one them very signally went back on the report which he had signed as a member of the commission, and advocated the views which had been his own personal views on the commission but in which he was overruled by the other members. Being thus overruled he came" into the committee, and the committee almost entirely subscribed to his views and increased the duties on woolen goods, being the particular articles to which that member of the commission addressed himself. The committee in the way of revision of the bill of the commission has increased the duties, I believe, certainly with very few exceptions, as, for example, on sugars and tin-plates. Now, Mr. Chairman, here is the biU of the Tariff Commission and here is the bill as we propose it, or rather as the committee propose; and my honorable friend, the Chairman of the committee, the chancellor of the exchequer, comes in with his budget under his arm, and when asked, as he was on yesterday, to throw some light on this subject and tell the House and country what would be the effect of the revenue bill now" proposed on the quantum of revenue, he said he was unable to do anything more than to make a very shrewd guess at it In the revision and formation of a tariff bill three parties are interested: the Government for its revenue, the manufacturer for his bounty, and the consumer for his burden. Before I go into an analysis of the bill in respect to these important interests, permit me to make this remark: those with whom I co-operate upon that committee nnd with whom I stand associated in this House on the tariff question have not proposed any radical reforms in this tariff system. -We recognize the fact that under this protect-ive-tariff policy industries have grown up, have been brought into being, nave been nursed by the Government, and capital has been invested in them to such an extent that it would not only be wrong but unstatesmaplike for any one in this country to attempt to break up the whole manufacturing interests of the country by a leap from the high protective system which prevails down to what I would regard as a rev-enue-tariff system. All that we proposed or attempted to do, and all that we will attempt to do in the course of the investigation of this bill is to diminish the enormous profits of the manufacturing industries which are derived from levying a tribute upon the consuming interests of the country.

With this preliminary statement I proceed to show what I call the special attention of the House to, that the burden which the consumer bears in reference to the tariff system is double, in its character. He bears a burden resulting: from the tax levied by the Government upon an article of import that he consumes, which tax goes into the Treasury. That is a burden which he bears in the support of his Government; and, heavy as it may be for all the legitimate purposes of the Government, he cheerfully Dears it But there is another burden that he bears, and that is the burden which results from a system of prohibitory duties under your tion, prevents all but indirectly enhances the price of the home article he u forced to consume instead of the foreign article—not to the full extent of the duly in all cases, but a large percentage of that duty he does pay in the enhanced price of the domestic article he consumes, and which thus goes, not into the treasury at

m all, but into the pockets of the manufacturer, as a bounty contributed by the consumer. It is obvious, therefore, that, when the country lifts its hands and cries for a relief from the burden, it is idle and delusive for the gentlemen on the other side to say; “Why, do not yon see we have decreased the burden? The*revenues under this tariff will be $20,000,000 less than they are under the existing tariff.” True, if that be the fact, the burden which the citizen bears in contributing to the support of the Government is lessened: but if, along with the lessening of the duty which would go into the treasury you increased the duties which are for the benefit of the manufacturer, and by prohibiting importation increase the bounty paid by the consumer, do you not see that, while yon credit the Government with a diminution of burden on the score of revenue to it, you must charge the Government and this bill with the increase of burden Which comes from the amount the consumer is made to pay to the monopolies of the manufacturers? Take this instance, and I call the attention of my honorable friends from the South to it, take the instance of cotton-ties. The present duty on cotton-ties nnder the “n. o. p.” provision, the “not otherwise provided” provision, is 35 per cent ad valorem. Now, what is tho duty proposed by this bill? It will amount, as 1 see by the statement of some gentleman who has made a calculation, to 82 per cent ad valorem. Now, while under the present rate of duty of 35 cent ad valorem there is a revenue collected for the Government from cottofities, under the proposed rate of duty of 82 percent ad valorem there will be no revenue at all derived from that source. And the effect of it will be that gentlemen will say, “Why, yon see we have relieved the people of the country, particularly our Southern brethren, from all taxation on account of cotton ties.” That is bo say, by the orook of the treasury we will take nothing, but by the crook of protection the burden on the cotton-tie consumer is doubled in the interest of the monopolist manufacturer, although the Government does not get a cent of revenue from it

Now, Mr. Chairman, there is a subject which has been one of very great interest in this discussion—the subject of labor. I have gone into that so fully on a former occasion that I do uot desire to consume time upon it just now, except by making one or two statements. 1 wish to show that the idea that a protective tariff can have any effect in increasing the wages of labor in a country is absolutely unfounded If you will ask a man why he wants a protective tariff he will tell you, because labor is so much higher in this country than abroad that he cannot pay the wages demanded and manufacture the article at a profit Suppose there were no tariff, would the protective-tariff man demand a tariff? Yes. Why? Because under free trade, as labor here would be so much higher than it is abroad, capitalists in certain branches of industry could not afford to carry them on, could not go into these manufactures without a protection which would enable them to pay the wages demanded Thus it will he seen that so far from the tariff being the cause of the high wages, it is the- fact of high wages that makes occasion and creates the need for a tariff. Men want protection because, as they say, the laborer demands higher wages here than he does in England, and they cannot afford to carry on manufactures unless they get enough protection to give such price to the products as will leave a profit after paying the wages demanded by labor. Yet the protectionist turns the argument right around, and holds that the tariff is the cause of high .wages, when in fact the high wages in this country is the-cause of manufacturers wanting and demanding a tariff for protection.

But, Mr. Chairman, there is no man on the committee —and I speak not only for gentlemen on the other side but for myself and, I think for the distinguished friends who act with me on this question—there is no man on the committee who is not willing in the present condition of things to accord such a duty upon all these manufactured articles as will enable the manufacturing interests'"to pay the full measure qf wages that the American laborer has a right to demand. But what we desire is that, after we have made the tariff high enough to enable you to protect the laboring man in his wages, you shall not under the color of getting a high tariff to protect the laboring man get a tariff which will enormously increase the profits of manufacturing capital But I want to call the attention of the committee to another point in this connection. A proper question for the laborer to ask is not only “How much wages will I get?” but “How much will I be able to get w ith my wages?” It is not how much wages in money he gets into his hands, but how much of the comforts of life will he be able to buy with his wages? When you tax the blanket, when you tax the food, when you tax the clothing and the very homes of the Soor laboring man 50' 00 and 70 per cent., it i a mere delusion to him to increase his wages and then to a like extent increase the price of the things he has to buy with his

wages. There is another matter to which I desire to call especial attention, and that is a point made by a distinguished gentleman on the Republican side of this House many years ago. I claim for it no originality, and give him full credit I refer to my friend the present Director of the Mint, the Hon. Mr. Burchard, of Illinois The idea is this: The factors that enter into the cost of every manufactured article are the cost of the raw material and the cost of the labor. Now, if the raw material costs the domestic manufacturer no more than it does the foreigner (sometimes it is less, as in the case of cotton) and the cost of labor in this country is 50 -per cent higher than it is in the cotton factories of England (which it is not, for the reports of the Secretary of State show that, looking to the efficiency of our labor and the length of time employed, the English laborer is as well paid in the cotton factories of Manchester as in the cotton factories of America; I refer to the reports of Mr. Secretary. Blaine and Mr. Secretary Evarts, in such case the manufacturer demands such duty on the perfected article as will compensate for the increased price of raw material and of labor. Now, when raw material is not enhanced to the domestic manufacturer over what the foreign manufacturer has to pay, then the only thing you want a dqty for is to protect the labor. I may say the labor in cotton manufactures, in round numbers (I am not precisely accurate), is about 20 per cent and the raw material 80 per cent It is obvious, then, to any man who is an - arithmetician that if you want to give 50 per cent protection to the labor involved in the manufacture of that particular cotton product worth SIOO a duty of 10 per cent on the whole product, which amounts to $lO, will yield 50 per cent on the S2O of labor in the product; therefore where the cost of the raw material here and abroad is the same, and the only thing to be protected is the labor, you may distribute a small duty over the whole product “which will accumulate on the element of labor engaged in it to an extent ample for its protection And in the case of cotton a duty of 10 percent on the cotton manufactured would be equivalont to a duty o 4 50 per cent protection to the labor engaged in making it The same doctrine applies in reference to all manufactured articles. Very often our friends say that, while the cost of labor here and in England differs by 50 per cent, you must have on this article 50 per cent duty to protect the laborer. But the view I have taken shows this is not necessary. 'You must look in each case at what is the cost of the raw material there and here, and so lay your duty on the whole, raw material and labor combined, as will be equivalent to the protection of the labor engaged in the manufacture of the particular article. Now, Mr. Chairman, let us see how much the manufacturer is interested in this matter. I find by the returns of the census that on all of the manufactures of this country the profits amount to over 35 percent, under the existing tariff—the profits on woolens to 34 per cent.; on chemicals, 33 per cent.; on cottons, 24 per cent On iron and steel the final report has not been made, as there have been errors in the previous one; but the new report will show an increased profit over the present one But the profits on iron and steel bj the present report amount to 21 per cent; on window-glass they amount to 20 per cent Such being the beneficial results to the manufacturer, what is it to the consumer whether you levy the duty on him and put it into the treasury or levy the same duty and put it into the manufacturer’s pocket? I will tell you what is the difference to the consumer. That which he puts into the treasury goes to the support of the Government and is a benefit to him. What goes into the pocket of the monopolists is a tribute winch he pays out of his own labor to fill the already full and overflowing coffers of the manufacturing industries of the country. They have now got so mean that they adulterate poison,

AWFUL FLOOD.

Sixty-four Feet Four Inches of Water la the Ohio at Cincinnati—Great Oestrnctlon of Property. [Cincinnati (FeU 12) Telegram to Chicago * Tim«<.] The Indian may have witnessed such a volume of water in the Ohio, bnt his white successor never before saw such a flood It has not come upon us with a rush, or this rich, beautiful valley would become a wilderness with its subsidence, but has slowly swelled from a fair river, a useful servant, to a silent yellow sea that has sent Its waves into the marts of the city, and with their . quiet lapping put a stop to business, to manufactures, to traffic, sent thousands on thousands adrift without shelter and without food, and in the 'aggregate inflicted damages that may directly and indirectly amount to millions of dollars Within a space of twenty-five miles tributary to the city, thousands of people are houseless, many of them as destitute as when they were born, at least for the time If they stay in their houses, they are isolated, and must depend on ohance for Succor. If they leave, a host of river pirates will despoil the deserted dwellings. The Ohio river flows west between Cincinnati on the Ohio side and Newport and Covington opposite; in Kentucky, the latter cities divided by the licking river. A mile and n half below the Licking river Mill creek empties Into the river on the Ohio side. The licking has been swollen by its tributaries to a raging torrent Narrow and deep and swift ordinarily, it is now out of its banks for miles, covering points of ground never before reached by the floods. Along its banks are many factories, large and small, rolling-mills, ana furnaces. All these are flooded, their fires out, and their workmen idle. Mill creek forces its way to the river in the western part of the city, flowing through a wide valley, along which for live miles are not only dwellings, bnt pork-pack-ing houses, slaughter-houses, divers manufacturing establishments, and hundreds of market gardens, together with several railroad tracks All these axe under water, and, while the gardens are ruined, great damage is also done the factories, packing-houses and contents, but to what extent is simply impossible to even approximate. The front of Cincinnati for several streets is low. Here is done the heavy wholesale business of the city, and there are located many large factories of all sorts, machine-shops, coal-yards, etc. All this Is under water from a few Inches to several feet, while cellars for two or three streets farther back are flooded. In some of these streets a steamboat could make its way without a particle of trouble. On Second street the current runs like a mill race Where there is but little water, if the business is of a kind to warrant it, clerks and porters wade about in rubber hip boots, but most of them are simply in charge of watchmen. Most of them had removed their goods to upper stories or higher ground. In streets back and higher, hundreds of hogsheads of tobacco, sugar, etc., are piled on the sidewalks from the flooded districts. In the upper portion of the city, along the river bank, »1 live many poor people and most of, the lawless class .of the city. They are drowned out, and perforce invaded the central portion of the town and the fashionable streets, so that the the crowds were more diversified than ever before The gas-works supply both of this city and Newport has been shut off, and their fires were put out yesterday afternoon with only a slim night’s supply on hand. Today the lamp stores, drove such a trade as never before, and candles were as common as 100 years ago in the central city of the Union. Three hundred thousand people are cut off from their regular supply of gas to-night. The streets are in darkness save for an occasional electric light Theaters and other halls had to supply themselves with electric lights, oil lamps or candles, and the audiences blinked their eyes under the unwonted light, and were hilarious and jolly, as they could not have been otherwise. The water-works have about five days’ supply in the j ervoira Under the most favorable ci. stances the works cannot resume in tin to more than keep consumers scantily supplied, and, should a great fire occur, the result Is disheartening to contemplate. Should it occur in the overflowed business district, the department would be simply powerless, and the flames would run unchecked. Only one railroad, the Cincinnati, Hamilton ana Dayton, is above water. There are ten feet of water over the track leading into the new Union Depot, and on the lower ground the water runs over the tops of some freight cars that were left on the track. The stage of water at Frankfort and Louisville. Ky., and at New Albany and Lawrenceburg, Ind, Is unprecedented Thousands are without employment, many are shelterless, and much suffering prevails Dispaiches from Cincinnati, undef date of Feb. 13, report great suffering on account of the flood The frame depot of the Southern road became undermined and toppled over with many spectators, but it is not known that any lives were lost One correspondent telegraphs: “It would require the publication of the greater portion of the directory to name the businessmen, particularly those in the tobacco, produce, grain, commission, and whisky business, and in all kinds of manufacturing interests, whose businesses have been wholly suspended Many of these also lose £hoir goods. The manufacturers all lose eavily in the damage to machinery and stock, aside from the loss of time. More than a thousand business firms and manufactories are thus prostrated Yet business men are not disheartened nor selfish. These same men, for two days, have poured in contributions to the fund for the relief of the suffering among that much greater class—the poor—who are driven from home and are deprived of work. It is estimated that from thirty to forty thousand workmen are out of employment by the' closing of the manufactories. To them the loss q£ time and the injury to household effects will prove the smallest loss The dampness in their houses after the flood subsides must bring sickness and suffering. The Common Council’s action in asking'authority to issue a loan was promptly met by the Legislature, both houses having passed a bill to authorize a relief loan of $ 100,000. Thus the city has arranged to provide for ifcself. Telegrams have been received from New York, Chicago and elsewhere, offering assistance.” The Deluge at Louisville. THE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY WITHOUT A PARALLEL IN THE ANNALS OF THAT CITY. The waters in the Ohio river at Louisville reached a height not witnessed before for years. About forty squares in the northeastern section of the city were inundated, and 5,000 persons driven from their homes. The cut-off dam, overcome! by the terrific weight of water from above, gave way suddenly. “With a loud roar,” Bays an eye-witness, “the flood rushed over. The waters covered the ground with irresistible force, falling about eighteen feet to the ground below the dam. In a few seconds the yellow tide was sweeping in from all points, and the infatuated inhabitants in the Bear Grass creek bottoms, who had gone to bed, were completely surprised in their homes With a mighty rush the waters swept from square to square, rapidly rising in the houses and severing many from their foundations The roar of the waters could not drown the screams of the terrified ones who were escaping from their doomed houses Men, women and children waded through the advancing waters Bonfires glimmered on the higher ground which many poor outcasts bad gained People who were sleeping in foolish confidence that the embankments would shelter them were rudely awakened by the flood coming into their houses Borne were even surprised in bed. When the stroke came it was like lightning. In the darkness and cold they flea the waiting death, half clothed and shivering. By morning thirty-five squares were under water,and over 153 houses destroyed. AH dav long a stream of people passed up ana dowh the Short line track to look at the river's devastation. Houses were overturned, some on their sides, some almost on their roofs; other buildings were crashed to pieces, and perhaps a third were swept away from their foundations Doors, windowsash s, pieces of furniture, lumber, driftwood and shingles were floating about in confusion. In the lower bottom lands the water is within a foot or two of the roofs of the houses. Several persons were rescued from trees into which they had climbed. A gratifying feature of the flood is that comparatively few are thought to have lost their lives Many occupants of houses in the submerged districts had removed and thus escaped. The fact that the survivors are scattered over the city renders it impossible to make a definite statement qtwho are lost qrtpved. Fiv|gersonf

NUMBER 4.

are positively known to nave been drowned. The money lose will reach into the millions”

THE FAMILY CIRCLE.

Punishment and Percept.— Parents should train, aqd, when necessary, so punish a child that the reason of tho child itself would approve of that action if it were mature. If parents would always ask themselves this question: Would the reason of my child, supposing it could see what was best for it, approve of what I am doing? Then they could never go wrong. You must train yourself in order to train your children. Ob, fathers and mothors! bo ye considerate toward one another in your daily lives ahd you will not need to tdach one precept of love to your little ones. They have keen eves, those children. Nature has gifted them with the power of penetrating all veils and masks and of tearing aside all dissimulation. You must be genuine, in the presence of those ajtgus-eyed Prof. Adler iritmmL Herald. The PETTED ofeic.—Look in many households will fipd men—-keen-witted jtiuHKkpwe taste in ail other best” of the fatal mistake they made in marriage, but believing with ail their souls in their coarse-grained, frivalous, selfish wives, adoring them, gratefully accepting a pretty trick of expression, a kind word now and then, in place of the noble, womanly heart, the self-sac-rifice, the devotion whioh never were and never will be theirs. This peculiar sort of blindness, too, does not belong' alone to love or married life. In every family it is the selfish, cynical member that calls it forth. He is most tenderly cared for; his rare words of affection are remembered and cherished; young women make a hero of him wherever he goes; at home the fatted calf is kept ready to kill, and the gold chain burnished In hope that this unrepenting prodigal may take it into his head to comeback, while the plodding, unselfish brother is set down for commonplace fellow, and gets scant than,ks for spending his life for others. Horrors op the Kissing Gauntlet. —lt is a common thing to have a baby brought into a room and—spite of kicking and whimpering—his way of saying “you are doing an impertinent thing,” passed around to bo kissed. Oftener the victim selected for this sort of holocaust is a little girl, say two or three years old, at what the mother calls the “cutest” age. This little victim is not coaxed by unfulfilled promises of fabulous amounts of candy and nuts, but is commanded to kiss, it may be three or four strangers, bearded creatures, with tobacco juice on their lips. Some . sixteen years later—should we suspect her of this sort of promiscuous gathering of sweets, we would reprove her most severely, insisting that the relation must be very near and tender, indeed, between kisser and kissed. Of one of the most horrible recollections of my childhood, is that of an old woman who used to come to our house. And she had a big hooked nose. And she used snuff. And her big hooked nose wasn*t big enough to hold all the snuff she tried to get into it. Afid I had to kiss her. The way I did it, was, I pressed my lips tightly together; held my breath as long as I could; made a dab at her—something in the way a hen pecks at a grain of corn—and walked quickly away,furtively wiping mv mouth on my little calico apron, jfow our folks didn’t mean to be cruel, yet none of them ever kissed that snuffy old woman. It was only that the household gods called for a sacrifice, and it was so easy to offer up a child.— Hetty A. Morrison in Indianapolis Herald. Be Sympathetic. —The expression of sympathy lias many forms, but the simplest are generally the most impressive. A pitying look, or a mere exclamation, are the ordinary and most natural forms in which sympathy is shown. A tearful eye in a visit to the afflicted is often a benediction, when words would appear almost a mockery of sorrow. But in some way, it is the duty of all to show themselves tenderly pitiful toward those in any kind of trouble. We recently heard this good story of a little boy the son of a minister, who, having biiuised his finger, ran into his father’s study and, with an expression of suffering, said, “Look, pa, how I hurt it ” The father, interrupted in the middle of a sentence, glanced hastily at him, aijd with just the slightest tone of patienfle, said, “I can’t help it, sonny.” £he little fellows eyes grew bigger, and as he tamed to go out, he said in a low voice, fYes, you could; you might liaye said ‘Oh l 1 ” — Baptist Weekly.

All Age of Monologue.

. “There is no comfort in talking nowadays,” sighed a nice old lady, recently; “even the best-bred people interrupt so that one can never finish anything. Everybody wants to talk, but nobody is willing to listen.” Perhaps the inattention of her hearers to some pet story had ruffled the speaker’s usually placid humor, and undoubtedly she stated the ease somewhat strongly, but there is unfortunately far too much truth in her remark that in these days everybody wants to talk and nobody to listen. ’ It is partly because it is an age of prolific, if not always profound thought, and the simplest of our acquaintances are seething with ideas that jostle each other in their eagerness to come to utterance. For the most part these ideas, like Dr. Holmes’ moral, run at large, qnd are caught from the air, but none the less do they compel speech, and the result that conversation has well nigh become a lost art, and we live in an age of monologue. Two or more people sit down together, and each utters his monologue, more or less brilliant, as the case may be, paying no especial heed to the words of his companion, and only in the faintest degree modified by them. Epigram, anecdote, simile apd wise observations are poured out to unheeding ears, not for the sake of being heard, but for the sake of utterance. We have become like so many Cassandras, and bear about the burden of prophecy with ah inward necessity of declaring it which is mightier than we. We read, we talk, but how seldom do we listen.— Boston Courier.

Supposing a Case.

He said he didn’t intend to stay a minute, but just dropped in to ask a little advice on a business matter. “Suppose,” he continued, “that I wanted to raise a thousand dollars to meet a sudden emergency?” “Yes.” “I would naturally go to the bank?” “You would.” “I would give a note for 90 days, and it would have to be indorsed?” “Exactly.” “And in case you indorsed it for me—” “I should expect to be obliged to pay it! Good porting!” »

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. oub job rnrnm office Has better facilities than any office In Northwestern Indiana for the execution of all branches -of «TOB PTHiaTIJN’Gr. Mir PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY."** Anythin'’, from a Dodger to a Prioo-List, or from a Paraph ct to a Poster, black or colored, plain or tuner t r f>" S»tl»fnctt>'n troarnulccd.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Early in the session of the Log-Ma-ture Hon. John H. Winterbothara, of Micliigau City, presented a memorial asking that legislative action bo taken concerning alleged election abuses in the Thirteenth Congressional district, claiming that the employes of the BtudclHikor wagon-works, Oliver chilled plow-works, and other large mannfactories wore compelled to vote the Republican ticket, whereby the memorialist (Winterbotham) was defeated for Congress and his opponent (Calkins) was elected. In response to this Messrs. StudelnUgcr and Oliver presented a iwtttion emphatically denying the charges and demanding a full investigation of them. The communications #ag» referred to the Committee on Elections, mi thotain# them to send for i>ersons and pajiers, and to make a full investigation. In pnrsnaneoin a notice served Senator McCullough, ChgtriuAu of the Senate Election Committee, on the IfK-U Inst,.,moved to reconsldei tho vote by which the investigation was authorized, and to relieve the committee from any further consideration of tho subject. In support of his motion he said that tho committee had not time to make the investigation; that it would be necessary to examine the so vend hundred witnesses, or that, at'any rate, it. referred to a matter entirely beyond the jurisdiction of the Senate —tho election of a Congressman. This aroused the Republicans, and s heated political discussion followed. Seuatoi Foolke vigorously denouncod such a course as proposed. He Add it was not fair, Just not honorable to make such charges on the floor of the Senate against Messrs. Studebaknr and Oliver and then deny them tte opportunity of proving their fajotiy. Other'speea£p<, pro anil con, followed.;* mil action NotlttnfflßM Worthy, cl In'ovi 1 “B ik]i mil{>* . Toe discussion of the cUsohaiue the Committee of Elections‘from the duty of investigating the charges made by J. H. Winterbetham against the Studebakers and Olivers, of South Bend, of bulldozing and intimidating their employes Into voting contrary to thetr political proforenoe, was continued anti concluded in the Senate on Feb. 12. Tho motion was opposed by Senators Foulkc, Spann, Bundy and Campbell, and advocated by Senators Brown, Bell and McCullough. The ;v previous question on the motion was ordered, but adjournment came before a vote was taken. Mr. Vogler Introduced In the Senate a bill to establish a homo for soldiers’ orphans and helpless ox-soldiers of Indiana. Under the provisions of the bill tho Governor is to appoint three Commissioners who Hindi each give $5,000 bonds,and who shall select, a proper location in the Third Congressional district of not more than 300 acres and build a house on tho site. The capacity shall bo such as to accommodate at least 850 occupants. The bill appropriates $42,000 for the purpose. In tho House Mr. Mock introduced a bill providing for the election of a Board of •Regents for the State University. Nothing olso was done bnt to listen to reports from the Committee on Judiciary, and on its recommendation indefinitely postponed forty or fifty bills, most of them relating to tho Decedents’ Estates act. When the Thirteenth district election matter came up In the Senate, Feb. 13, the motion of Senator McCullough was adopted by 23 to ill. This withdrew the Studebaker-Oliver memorial from the Election Committee, a subsequent motion Instructing that committee to inqui re tub) I ho truth of the charges against those gentlemen by ex-Senator Wlnterbotham being rejected by a similar vote. Mr. Hutchinson’s bill for the construction of a sewer from the Northern Neuitcntlary to Fish Lake creek, whioh flown into Lnko Michigan (appropriating $38,000), was read tho second time and ordered engrossed for tho third reading, and the remainder of tho session was devoted to the consideration of tho General Appropriation bill. In the Senate, tho Republicans endeavored to withdraw the Governor’s appointments from the Committee on Executive Appointments, but the effort was unsuccessful. The Democrats voted against it. In the House, the Brown 1)111 to reorganize the State benevolent institutions was passed by a strict party vote, under tho operation of the previous question. It is tho same as indorsed by the Senate, except that tho provision is stricken out that a woman shall bo apixffnted Superintendent in tho female department of the Insane Asylum. The Metropolitan Police bill was next called up as a special order. The Republicans endeavored to stay the tide by raising points of order and appealing from tho Speaker s decision, but Mr. Heffron had his majority well in hand, and iho bill flnnllv passed by 58 yeas to 40 nays, lvcsteii, of Vigo, alone of the Democrats, and Robinson, the Greenbacker, voting with the Republicans. The bill was so amended as to apply only to cities having a population of 29,000, thereby Including only Evansville and Indianapolis, making the Commissioners to consist of two .Democrats mid one Republican, and forbidding officers from being delegated to conventions or taking any part, in the elections.

A bill passed both houses of the Legislature, under a suspension of the rulos, Feb. 14, appropriating $40,000 for the relief of the Indiana pufferers by the overflow of the White, Wabash and Ohio rivers. The vote in tho Honate on tho measure was 39 to 7, snd In the House H 4 to 4. The measure with various amendments and Changes proposedoeeuj>led nearly the entire attention of both houses during the day. It gives t.lie Govcrnorddeutenant Governor .Hocrotary and Treasurer of tho State tho custody of tho fund, and directs them to dispose of it In what manner may seem ,lo them best. The Anally passed the Brown'bill reorganizing The benevolent institutions, the Hilligar bill to allow County Commissioners to purchase toll roads, and the Benz bill re-enacting tho ltoad law repealed last, session. The Yancey bill,preventing the running pt large of all kinds of stock, was defeated on account of the lack of n constitutional majority—yeas 22, nays 2i. The House ordered engrossed the bill providing for an Apliellato Court. The I>lll originally provided that the court should consist of three Democrats and two Republicans, but Mr. Robinson, of Clay county, the only Greenbacker In the Assembly, offered an amendment that one of t.lie Judges should be a Greenbacker, which was carried by a vote of 63 to 30. The House bill to establish a hospital for • the incurable insane at Evansville came up In the Senate on the morning of the 15th, and, in order to permit Logansport to try the effect of their blandishments on the Legislature, it was rondo a special order for next Tuesday. The Honate spent the entire afternoon session in considering the General Appropriation bill, the point under discussion being the rider to comiiel tile (acuity of Purdue University to abollth its restrictions against the existence of secret societies in that institution. In the House, Mr. Jewett, at the opening of the morning session, obtained unanimous consent for the introduction of a bill making a further appropriation for the relief of the sufferers in the flooded districts of SIOO,OOO in addition to the $40,000 voted yesterday. The rules were suspended and the bill read. A motion to refer it to the Ways and Means Committee was adopted. Mr. T ll ley moved the adoption of a resolution asking for uu appropriation by Congress for the relief of the sufferers in the flooded districts along the Ohio river and throughout the entire valley, which was unanimously agreed to. The House laid on the table the bill proposing to make the office of Connty Superintendent elective, and limiting eligibility thereto to one term of four years.

The Mngee bill, which abolishes the prosent Statistical Bureau and recreates it, but consolidates in one office the present statistical and geological departments, was passed by the Senate Feb. 16, after a long and animated debate, the Republicans opposing nnd the Democrats advocating the measure. Mr. Bell, from a majority of the Committee on Elections, submitted a rei>ort, signed by himself and Messrs, Fletcher, Sayers, Spann and Lookridge, that ail the speciflcaljkros in the contest of Johnston vs. Overstreet, except the charges of bribery, are not sustained by sufficient evidence to entitle the contcstor to a seat in the Senate, and that the legal effect of the evidence as to t.lie charge of bribery is not such as to sufficiently sustain the direct charge of bribery, and, believing the contest was made in good faith, the report recommends that the con tester lie allowed per diem and reasonable exismses. Mr. McCullough, Chairman, reported with the majority as to all charges hut bribery, but that the charge of britiery Is made out and sustained by the evidence. The General Appropriation bill was under consideration, and the attack upon President White, of Purdue University, was successful by a large majority. The appropriation for the institution was increased from $12,000 to s2o,ooocoupled with the provision that none of it shall l»e used until the regulat ions against mernlHrrs' secret societies wove removed. The House indefinitely' postponed the bill to repeal the Slab) Board of Health act, thus Insuring thu continuance of that department It also passed the bill to reorganize the House of Kefngc. The Legislature adjourned until the afternoon of the 19th in order to allow those who desire to accept the hospitalities of Logansport in behalf of the location of the proposed asylum for the incurable insane, and others to visit the flood.

In a single block in Philadelphia, embracing five acres, there are 150 buildings with an aggregate value of £0,000,000, whose contents have a vakio of from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, ■nakiqg the total value from $28,000,000 to s33,ooo,ooo—insured probably for about three-fourths of this amount;, say $25,000,000. Five millions of iiisuruble property to the acre. Bobkbt Collyer says one way to be young at 80 is to keep faith in the common manhood and womanhood, and iu the ever-advancing progress of the day. “Never say that the past was better than to-day is; read the new books, understand all the new ideas; and keep to your faith in God and in man, uild in the victory of good over eviL ”