Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — Page 2

IfyeJlemocratttSenttnei RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. HcEWEN, ... Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Near Utica, N. Y., a man boarded a Lake Shore train, shot Express Messenger Lake, then gagged him, rifled the safe, and escaped. It is not known how badly the messenger is injured, or the amount of money carried off Edward M. Newman, in the empley of Michael Levinson, a New York clothier, has been arrested, charged with embezzling $75,! 00. Jacob Sharp will be the next one of those indicted for complicity in the Broadway surface railway steal to be brought to trial. This, says a New York telegram, has been definitely decided upon by District Attorney Martine, and the preparation of the case for presentation to a jury is now in active progress. Col. R. G. Ingersoll, who was admitted to practice in tlio cour s of New York, refused to be sworn. A silver pint pot filled with gold dollars is to be the stake in the contest between the yachts Titania and Bedouin, off Sandy Hook, in June. Herr Most, since his release from a New York prison, promises to bo more outspoken in his anarchism than ever. He threatens to seek out scandals among the rich.

WESTERN.

A National Association of Builders of the United States was organized in Chicago last week. Dr. James Hodges, who exploded a bomb during a Patti concert, was found guilty at San Francisco of assault to murder, podges stated that he proposed to end his life while Patti was singing, so lie could bo her page in the spirit land. A Springfield (Ill.) dispatch gives the followiug particulars of a tragedy which croated something of a sensation in that city: Wirt Butler, a well-known horseman, living a mile and a half southwest of this city, shot and killed a man named Thomas Heed, who was working for him in the capacity of a farm hand, about 3 o'clock this afternoon. Butler is a high-spirited fallow and ugly when under the influence of liquor. Both men were drinking at Springfield, and upon returning home Butl- r claims that Reed refused to unhitch the horses, and that he drove them about the yard in a circle. Butler protested against this performance, and Reed drew a revolver and attempted to shoot him, when he (Butler) raised his gun and shot Reed. Butler then telephoned the Sheriff and police headquarters of what he had done. He remained in the house till the officers arrived. Reed had been in Butler’s employ for a little over a year, and the latter regarded him as a useful and trusty man. He lived in the house with Butler and his wife was the housekeeper. Wirt Butler is a sou of William Butler, who was appointed State Treasurer of Illinois by Gov. Bissell, in 18.59, and elected to that office in 1860, Wirt's wife was the oldest daughter of Gen. John A. McClernand. About nine years ago Butler shot a policeman named Tomlinson, in Springfield, dangerously wounding him, and the litigation over the case cost him a fortune. William K. Rogers, a wealthy citizen of Sonoma, Cal., is said to be the notorious William Kissane who was indicted in New York for forgery in 1854. Gne hundred men battered down the doorß of the jail at Corning, lowa, eariy on Sunday morning, the 3d inst., and took therefrom J. H. McKenzie, the murderer of J. H. Biggs, and hanged him to a tree. The leader of the mob gave warning that the same fato would overtake any one who revealed tho details of the lynching. The Hotel del Monte at Monterey, Cal., has been destroyed by fire. Several hundred scantily clad guests were rescued and taken to San Francisco for shelter. No lives were lost Tho total financial loss will probably bo about $1,5)0,000,

SOUTHERN.

The West Point Cotton Mills, near West Point, Ga», were totally destroyed by fire. They worked 250 looms and 6,30) spindles. Eleven inches of snow fell at Lexington, Ky., March 3). On the strength of the report that the cholera in South America is extending northward, and lias already reached tho Isthmus of Panama, the city authorities of El Paso, Texas, have ’ established a stringent quarantine. A heavy snowstorm prevailed in Virginia on the 81st us March. An artesian well sunk by the Gulf Railway iu its yarJ at Galveston has struck fre:-h water at a depth of 765 feet. There has never been an ordinary well on th 3 island.

POLITICAL.

The Connecticut Legislature has passed a ten-hour law lor women aud children. Mr. Blaine will sail for Europe in June, tor m tin abroad one year. The Illinois Senate has passed a bill to indemni y owners of property for (lam,,gee caused by mobs. The Senate of Wisconsin passed a bill appropriating s;j per wees lor each inmate of the Soldiers' l-lome to be erected by the Grand Army of ihe Republic. Mr. Blaine visited the Merchants’ Cxchange in St. Louis and made a fivo-mmute speech. In the Pennsylvania House resolutions protesting against the coercion of Ireland were adopted. The New York Senate passed the high license liquor bill, which had previously been passed by the Assembly. The Nebraska Legislature has adjourned sine die, after a session of sixty-one days, the longest ever held in that btate. The general appropriation bills exceed those of two years ago by nearly 12,000,000.

A bill prohibiting the marriage of first cousias has passed the 111 mow jeuate. The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill to pnnish employers for blacklisting any employes. Anent the report that Secretary Whitney was about to leave the Cabinet, a New York special says: Secretary Whitney has been here for two days, as well as Colonel Dan Lamont, the President’s private secretary. It has leaked out during their stay that Mr. Whitney has determined to resign the Secretaryship of the Navy, ft has been known among his intimate friends here for some tiino that he has been dissatisfied with his position in Washington. and his conversations with his old associates in the South Pennsylvania hail road deal and other business enterprises have been repeated frequently enough to reach the public ear. Mr. Whitney’s chief complaint has been that ho had no patronage to dispense or power to wield outside a narrow circle in the Navy Department, where he could not benefit his friends. His ambition was to be made Secretary of the Treasury when Mr. Cleveland came into office. Tho President was inclined to give him that place, uatil William L. Scott, Smith M. Weed. Mr. Bayard, and other leading Democrats mode ft push for the appointment of Mr. Manning. The latter’s enforced retirement on account of his health gave Mr. Whitney new hope, but it is not to be met, and ho became so thoroughly disgusted that he has announced to his friends his positive determination to leave the Cabinet.

WASHINGTON.

The President, on the Ist inst., signed the commission of Charles 13. Fa;rchild as Secretary of tho Treasury, and Isaac n. Maynard as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Fairchild at once entered upon the discharge of his new duties. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement, issued on tho Ist diet.: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 414 P Br cent $ 250,003,00!) Bonds at 4 per cent 737,792,150 Bonds at 3 percent 35,976,5)0 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 181,900 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal 31,102,571,112 Interest 11,713,111 Total 31,114,234,253 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal 36,026,275 Interest 198,717

Total $7,124,992 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,738,266 Certificates of deposit 7,135,0)9 Gold certificates 94,046,015 Silver certificates 131,930,489 Fractional currency (less 38,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,948,497 Principal 3586,798,267 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,G90,295,654 Interest 11,911,859 Total 31,708,207,513 Cash items available for reduction of th« debt 3 263.123.971 Lcbb reserve held for redemption of United States notes 109,000,000 Total 8 368,123,971 Total debt less available cash Items 1J,340,083,542 Not cash Iu the Treasury 21,859,983 Debt loss cash in Treasury April 1, 1887 81,318,223,558 Debt less cash in Treasury March 1, 1887.;.. * 1,331,032,026 Decrease of debt during the month 8 12,803,467 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT, Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $94,046,015 Silver held for silvor certificates actually outstanding 131,930,489 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,135,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 18,838,131 Cash held lor bonds called not matured and balanoo of intorest 16,172,123 Fractional currency 2,210 Total available $268,123,971 RESERVE FUND. Hold for redemption of U. S. notes, acts January 14, 187.5, and July 12, 1882 $ 100,0)0,090 Unavailable for red uction of debt: Fractional silver coin.... $26,601,613 Minor coin 151,053 T0ta1......... $ 26,752,671 Certificates held as cash 36,380 459 Net cash balance on hand 21,8.59,983 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account. .3 4 -3,117,036 M. V. Montgomery, Commissioner of Patents, has been appoint id Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia. He is a resident of Lansing, Mich.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

The differences between the Knights of Labor and the Amalgamated Association o Minors and Mine Laborers in the coke regions have been settled. The Lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron aud 13 eel Workers throughout tljc country will elsct dul gitoi during the.com ng month to tlio a innal convention, which moots in Pittsburg Juno 7. Pennsylvania coal miners have agreed under pro.est to accop ,0< cents pjr ton lor mining one year. A big building strike is imminent at Cincinnati, where tlio carpenters wdl probably join tho iron and stone workers iu a demand for shorter hours and better pay.

AILROAD INTELLIGENCE

The Illinois Central Load has given notice that it wi.l next tall surrender ilu itas~of the liubuqno and ikioux C ty tracks. Nine-tenths of the traveiers on the Pennsylvania i»oaVt on the last day of March were deadheads, taking advantage of the last chance for a free r.di. alii same, to a greater or less extont, was the story of the day on all tno railroads. Judge Gresham gave his approval to a recommendation n, l.ee.ivor , o uuy that •1,000 tons of steel rad bo lajd ou the W>l ash iine3 oast of the Mississippi, at an outlay of sßo,oo'. All the daily newspapers in Cincinnati appear, a ou tli • Ist n l wit lout the customary column giving the time of the arrival and departure of trains. This is i.» accordance with a proposition mad) by the new - papers jointly, in view of the stoppage of passes, to atop the free publication of matter for the bonefit of tue roads but to accept tickets in payment for all advertising. Tne rafroads replied accepting the prepositionvior advertisements which they should order, and intimating that the daily publication of timetables should not be regarded as an advertisement The Chicago and Eastern Illinois lioad, I39mdes in length, has been purchased

by a syndicate headed by H. H. Porter, in the interest of the Chicago and Ind ana Coal Road. The new Board of Directors elected Richard M. Hoe President The earnings of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad last year, in excess of expenditures, were #1,031,380.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Interstate Commerce Commission lias organized, with Judge Cooley for Chairman. Secretary Lamar took the Commissioners to his private room, where a notary was waiting to Bwear them in, says a Washington speciaL “Do you swear or affirm, gentlemen?” asked the notary. “I’m sometimes charged with swearing/ said CoL Morrison, as the oath was administered. None of the members affirmed. The papers were then signed. About this time Bragg arrived and was sworn in. A few minutes' talk was then indulged in until the subject of organization was broached. Morrison, in a brief speech, named Judge Cooley for Chairman, and the motion was seconded by Bragg. It was at once carried by the votes of Morrison, Bregg, Kchoonmaker. and Walker. The commission will begin at once to formulate its judgment of the law. No bridges will be crossed until they aro reached, and no theoretical interpretations or constructions will bo put forth in answer to hypothetical questions. When tho commission octi on a given case it will bo known what its idea is of like cases. It is said that about the first complaint concernffig rates w r iil be male against the Pennsylvania Company. The schedule posted in the depot here lias a conspicuous headline to the effect that these are tho interstate commerce rates, the inference being that tho law is responsible for the increases. Analyses of tho new rates lmvo been published here, showing that the increases aro considerable. It is said that the Pennsylvania. Company has given the new law tho fullest study of any railroad in the country, and has fortified itself in tho course it has taken. Buffalo Bill sailed from New York for London with a steamship-load of Indians and wild aninia's. Reports have been received tending to confirm the dispatch that the sealing steamer Eagle was wrecked on tho Newfoundland coast, the vessel going to pieces on a reef. There were 26) men on board, and it is believed that all perished. The business failures in the United States of the three mouths of 1887, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., numbered 3,007, against 3,203 for the same quarter of 1886. The comparative liabilities for the corresponding periods wore: 1887, $32,161,00); 1886, $29,681,000. The geographical distribution is soipewhat unusual, the liabilities in tho Middle States amounting to $12,000,000, showing an increase of over $0,000,000 compared with 1886; and in New York City they were $5,0)0,000, against $2,700,000 last year. In all other sections of the country except the Middle States the failures are fewer and much less than in previous years. Iu Canada the failures for tho first quarter of 1887 were 398, against 389 in 1886; liabilities $3,6 2,000, tgainst $3,442,000 in 1886. W. S. McLeon, an insane veteran of a New York regiment, has been awarded arrears of pensions amounting to $12,488, which will be paid to his father at the Des Moines agency. A freight train on the Michigan Central was wrecked in a collision at St. Thomas, Ont, in which two of the employes were killed and twenty-six cars demolished

FOREIGN.

In the debate in the British Parliament on the Irish criminal law amendment Mr. Gladstone vehemently denounced the measure as one calculated to aggravate existing disorders. “With this coercion bill,” exclaimed Mr. Gladstone, “the prospect of conciliation vanished into tliin air. Thi Government intends to exclude the lan 1 bill, which was the main recommendation of the commission which has just completed an exhaustive investigation of the Irish troubles. Nothin" remains but the figure of coercion—bare, baid, and gaunt—alas, too familiar I The right honorable Chief fcocletary for Ireland has attempted to excuse the proposals on the ground that crime in Ireland during tho last three ye. s has increased, but he followed an unusual course in refraining from giviDg the House official information proving his allegations. Statistics from Ireland are againt the Government. Take tho instance given of threatening letters. In 1385 432 such letters were received. In iBB6 but seventy-five more were received. That hardly furnished ground for asking i'afliameut to assent to un extreme measure of coercion. Other classes of crime amounted in 18 5 to jl2, and in 1806 to 617. This increase is described as the main reason for the extreme demands of the Government. If Mr. Balfour has further private information let him speak.” It -•■•is the first time he (Mr. Gladßtonoj knew of anonymous assertions being imposod on Parliament in support of a demand for legislation Among the most insulting and exasperating proposals of tho bib—the worst over submitted to Parliament was the provision that irish trials be held in London. The Government could devise nothing more likely to ug; ravate every existing e\ il As to the pennantnt deration of ihe bili, tne’proposal made one s blood boil. To establish what was formerly only a temporary remedy as a permanent rule would put the brand of inferiority upon In land forever and recognizing as a fixed principle that force was a rouiedv.

The British House of Commons on the Ist in t passed cloture by a vote of 361 to 253, aud agreed upon the first reading of the coercion bill. Mr. r .rnell made a brilliant speech in o> pos t o i to the latter moa ure. No part of the previous coercion acts, said he, ever excited so much distrust of English justice as the proposal for a change of venue of trials to Iring Irishmen before special English juries. The proposal m ans a reign ot judicial murder. If meant that all hopes of b tter times which seemed d wrung upon Ireland would disappear. What was The only s ate of society that could arise under this reign of terror? Secret socie ties would spring up, lostered by the sufferings of an oppressed nation, and those who had been persisten in couns dii.g the people to observe patience and moderation link:lit i ouns -1 in vain, lint he would still counsel them to sub,>.it to justice rather than retaliate or do anything that might drive Gladstone from their’s ike,"or increase his difficulties, or place him in a false position with the Liberals. Their battle was now won in Ir‘land. | Cheers. There might be some s String and much tyranny yet to he en ured, but they would bo us u thing compared with what the Irish people had. gone thro.i h in tne past. . A little waiting and t e ot rpity i roposed for this bill wouid dfsu} pear I efore a brighter time, when Gladstone would be aide to appeal once more to the s nse and iustice of the people of Great Brit tin and receive full power to do right to Ireland. (Cheers. ! The party which alone could gain by the people of reinn l going beyond the law was the prosent Government. That was the reason this bill had been brought forwuri. Its object was to s’rengthen the Government’s own miserablrt position. I,et not the people of Ireland fall in*o the toils thus se fort em In St. Petersburg, while the Czar was exercising in iho p .rk connecter with tue Gatshma Palace, he was shot at by an army offlb r, the bul et passing cl se to his per-on. A cable dispatch from London contradicts a report th.t ex-Seeret ry of the Treasury Manning’s health is worse since his ocean voyage than before he left home. His health has greatly improved sinoe his arrival on the other side.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Michigan electors cast their ballots on Monday, April 4, on two Justices of the State Supreme Court, two Regents of the State University, and two amendments to the Constitution, besides county officers. The amendments were for the increase of the salaries of Btate officers and the prohibition of the liquor traffic. Both the liquor and the anti-liquor men worked hard, a lively campaign being the result Owing to the energetic working for and against the proh-bition amendment, a very full vote was polled, this being particularly true in the southern part of the State. ‘ In the Upper Peninsula snow fell to the depth of from two to four feet, and very materially interfered with the vote. Returns from onefourth of the State received at Detroit up to the morning of the sth indicated the election of the Republican State ticket by a safe plurality, and showed a vote of 30,000 against prohibition and 16,000 for it The counties reported as voting against the amendment were those which contain the large cities, the Lake Huron shore and Lake Superior counties, viz.: Sauiiac, St Ciair, Houghton, Kent, Wayne, and Saginaw. The interior counties, it was calculated by the friends of prohibition, would overcome the adverse majority and carry the prohibition amendment by 5,00). Municipal elections; The most interesting, uncertain and surpr.sing election held in Cincinnati for years was that of Monday, the 4th inst, says a dispatch from that city. The weather was fair and a large vote was polled. Many manufactories were closed to allow the men to vote. Democrats were generally apathetic. The uncertainty ail arose from the unexpectedly large vote .for the Libor party and from its distribution. The first footing of the returns made by tho Board of Elections showed the election of Stevenson, the Labor candidate for Mayor, by a slight plurality. The figures given were: Stevenson, 17,414; Smith (Rep.), 17,404; Matson (Dem.), 11,547. An error was then discovered, which showed the election of Amor Smith, the Republican Mayor, by from 200 to 40) plurality. The leaders of the Union Labor party had figured upon polling about 17,000 votes and electing a portion of their ticket The immense vote polled by the Labor party is exciting the utmost wonder. It was at first thought that the Labor party would draw its strength more from the Democrats than from the Republicans, but tho returns show heavy drafts in Republican districts, especially in tho German quarter. Tho election in Cleveland, Ohio, for municipal officers was a surprise to the Republicans. The entire Democratic ticket, headed by B. D. Babcock, candidate for M*ayor, was elected by about 3,r,00 majority. Hie Board of Aidermen is Democratic also. Tho election iu Toledo, Ohio, was a political revolution. The Republicans elected the city ticket,strongly Democratic last year, by majorities ranging from 500 to 1,0)0. The Democrats made astonishing gains in the City Council, which last year was Republican. The Board of Education, now Democratic, and the Police Board, now Republican, will undergo a change in political complexion. Oliver S. Kelly, Republican, was elected Mayor of Springfield, Ohio, by 3)3 majority. The Democrats elected their entire ticket in Columbus, Ohio. The Republicans carried Sandusky, Ohio, by 4)0. Keokuk, lowa, elected the Republican municipal ticket A. W. Edwards, Republican, was chosen Mayor of Fargo, Dak. Tho Republicans of Hartford, Ct, eleeted their entire ticket The Knights of Labor ticket made a fuil sweep at Dubuque, lowa. Every man on the city ticket and every labor candidate for Alderman was elected. Tho result is a complete revolution and a surprise. The vote stood: Voelker (Labor), 1,984; Preston (Dem.*), 1,238; and Gilliam (Rep.), I,OSS. Voolker’s plurality is 746. It is estimated that March fires cost the United States and Canada $10,500,0)0, or $3,000,000 above the average in that month for a dozen years past.

THE MARKETS.

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A STIRRING APPEAL.

Address by the President of the Irish National League of America. Headquarters Irish National League | of America, > Lincoln, Neb., March 26. ) Te the American public ana the Irishmen of America: The corporation of Dublin, the metropolitan city of Ireland, has appealed to the Christian world for the protests of humanity against the further persecution of the Irish people by the British Government. A time has come in the relations of Ireland and England when the laws of God and the dictates of humanity become superior to every rule of international etiquette, and demand from the morality of the world a stem denunciation of the course about to be pursued by the Tory Government against the Dish. The voice of America should not be silent when additional outrages are about to be inflicted on a robbed and persecuted nation. British statesmen who now champion a policy of justice to Ireland, and condemn coercion by the Tory Government as alike cruel and impolitic, did not hesitate to denounce oppression by the Turks in Bulgaria. Are the Irish less to America than the Bulgarians were to England, that Amer.ca should hesitate to interfere in Ireland’s behalf against the cruelties of the British Government? TheIrish have exhausted every means of moral and constitutional agitation to recover their just and legitimate social and political rights. The voice of Scotland and of Wales and of the mass of the British, democracy has sanctioned the efforts of Ireland, and proclaimed the justice of her cause. Gladstone, Morley, Labouchere, and every English leader worthy the name off statesman have proclaimed themselves advocates of Ireland’s claim to legislative independence. It is no longer the English people who oppose the restoration of Ireland’s liberties, but the aristocratic robbers who have throttled alike both Britain and Ireland, and have fattened for generations on public plunder with the proceeds of which they can use the lever of corruption to lilt them into power and maintain themselves there. The causa of Ireland is the cause of the British democracy, and to this fact may we attribute the bitter and unrelenting opposition of the British Tories. The Irish do not pretend to tight against the English, but against the oppressors of both. In this struggle the Irish have done all morality can demand from an oppressed nation, and now as a last effort they ask the interference of the Christian world to prevent their destruction. As President of the Irish National League of America, the representative body of the Irish race on this continent, I re-echo that appeal. I ask the American press and people to pass their verdict on the treatment now being meted out to thn Irish people by a heartless and venomblunted Tory Government. Let them say boldly if the Irish have not displayed ail the forbearance that human nature is capable of in their passive resistance to such inhuman laws as the British Government would force them to submit to. There isno law, human or divine, that compels tv nation to passively accept annihilation, and if these British Tories are permitted, to heap additional wrongs on the Irish people, despair will nerve the Irish toactive resistance and wild retaliation. The very deer turn on their pursuers when driven to bay, and if nothing will satisfy the British Government hut the destruction of the Irish people, Ireland wilL be justified before God and man in selling her life at the heaviest price shecan obtain, and in using every weapon the ingenuity of man can place within her reach. I ask the justice oc freedom-loving people of America to prevent this terrible consummation of British crime and misgovernment. Let the condemnation of the British Government’s policy in Ireland ring, from eveiy community on this continent. I ask the honest and fearless press of America to sustain the efforts of Mr. Parnell and Mr. Gladstone to inaugurate apolicy of justice and liberty iu opposition, to the tyranny of Lord Salisbury. 1 appeal most forcibly to the Irish race in America to arouse themselves to immediate action. In an especial manner I address myself to those of our blood whom God hasblessed with abundance to comd forward and share in the burdens and sacrifices of' their people. No rank or power can justify any man in refusing to identify himself with the race to which he belongs, and the man who thus shirks his duty deserves thecontempt of his fellow men. With the fullest confidence in their never-failing fidelity to Ireland, I call again upon the masses of the Dish race in. America to repeat the splendid generosity they have so often extended toward their struggling brethren in Ireland. Mr. Parnell says the immediate future wili be a time of suffering for the Irish people. With God’a help the time will not be long; hut, long or short, no Irishman must perish for want of Irish-American support, and no IrishAmerican is so poor that by self-sacrifice he cannot contribute his mite to the Irish, cause. I advise the officers of the Leaguo to make redoubled efforts to increase its membership. Every man of Irish blood in. tho United States aifd Canada should be enrolled in the League wherever it is possible, and steps should be taken to reorganize disbanded branches and establish, new ones. To those of our people living on larms too remote from each, other to form branches of the league, I will say that the Rev. Dr. O’Beilly, Detroit, Mich., will receive their subscriptons and. promptly acknowledge the same in the public press. They have every opportunity, therefore, to share in Deland’s struggle, and should lose no time in sending in their name and such contributions as their means will permit. In this crisis I also earnestly ast the assistance and support of the IribhAmerican press for the Irish Land League. Let us have one grand effective organization, with one heart and one voice pledged o sustain Mr. Parnell and his Irish associates with all our strength and influence in. their efl'orts to recover the legislative independence of Ireland, aided by Mr. Gladstone and the British democracy, who striveto replace Tory oppression with the broadprinciples of human liberty and international justice. Yours faithfully, John Fitzgebald, President I. N. L. A.

Stolen Sweets.

Brown—Why don’t you spread your umbrella? Coles—-Well, to tell the truth, I’m afraid some one in the crowd will recognize it. Brown—Then whydo you carry it? Coles—Afraid some one will call for it while I’m out.— Life.