Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 September 1888 — Page 2
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The National Ticket.
FOli l'HKilDENT,
BENJAMIN HAKKISON, of Indiana.
VICE I-RESIDKNT,
LEVI P. MORTON, of New York. KJ,KCTOK9-AT-I.AHiK, JAMES M. SHACKELFORD, of Vanderherg,
THOMAS H. NELSON, ot Vigo. Kioirrn msthht electors. .JOHN C. CHANKY, of Sullivan.
The State Titket. (H)VEHNOK
ALVIN P. HOVEY, of Posey.
I.IEUT.-OOVEltNOK
IKA J. CHASE, of Hendricks.
JUIHiKS OF SL'ritKMK COURT
1st District-Si LAS L. COFFEY, of Clay. 'M District -JOHN (i. BERKSHIRE, of Jennings. 4tti District -WALTER OLDS, of Whitley.
'SECKETAltY OF STATE
CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, Of Lake.
AUDITOK OF STATE
BRUCE CARR. of Orange. TftKASIiliKK OF STATK
JULIUS A. LEMCKE, of Vanderburg. ATTOKNEV-UENKHAL, LEWIS T. M1CUENER, of Shelby.
SUI'I'EUINTENDENT OF I'CHI.IC INSTKUCTION,
HARVEY M. LA FOLLETTE, of Boone.
KEI'OHTEU OF SUI'RKMK COURT,
JOHN L. (GRIFFITHS, of Marion. CONOKKSSMAN, •IAMES T. JOHNSTON, of Parke.
JOINT REPRESENTATIVE,
WILLIAM F. WELLS, of Vermillion. County Ticket.
STATE SENATOR.
FRANCIS V. H1CHOWSKY.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WILLIAM 11. BERRY. MARION McyUILKlN.
I'ltOSKCirTINO ATTORNEY,
JAMES E. PIETY.
TREASURER,
FRANKLIN C. FISBECK.
SHERIFF,
DENONI T. DEBAUN.
COMMISSIONERS,
1st District—LEVI DU'KF.RSON. 2l District-LOUIS FINKBINER. Hd District—S. S. HENDERSON.
SURVEYOR,
FRANK TUTTLE. CORONER. DR. JOHN HYDE.
THE MILLS BILL-FREE TRADE.
It Is evident from the events of the past few weeks that the progress towards free trade In the United States lia.s been lunch greater than was generally expected. However much the manufacturing interests may deny itv the fact Is patent thai great progress has been made on the road toward absolute free trade, and particularly has this been the case since the date of the delivery of the president's message. Our Iron and steel mamilacturers look with very much Interest on the movement which is now going on "on the other side," for trade there so ultimately Influences our own. London Iron and Coal Trades Review, July 27,1888.
The tariff bill in the United States has passed the house of representatives by 161 to 14'J ivotes. The bulk of the people are beginning to set their
backs
up at paying thro' the nose lor their Iron and sleel and other commodities. As It sbwds now the states are decidedly going lor free trade, and this will be the Democratic cry at the next election.-| London Iron Trade Circular, July 28, 1HSS.
The president feels compelled to characterize the attempt to brand him as a free trader as deception. but tor all that the electoral conlllct now in progress Is a conlllct between free trade and protection and nothing else. London News. July li. 1888.
It Is certain that the arguments which President Cleveland urges are those which Cobden used to employ forty-live years ago, and which any English tree trader would employ now.—| London Times, July (i, 1888.
The Mills bill puts on the free list articles which last year paid duties amounting to nearly fAI.OOO,IMl. It Is thereforelplain that It declares for:
Free trade In lumber, which we produce to the value of annually. Free trade In wool, of which we produce over :«XUXKUKKl pounds annually.
Free trade In salt, or which we produce nearly 411.0(10,IKK) bushels annually. Free trade In Max, hemp, jute and other libers.
Free trade In potash, lime and brick. Free trade In meats, game and poultry. Free trade in vegetables, peas and beans. Free trade In marble and stone. Free trade In at least one hundred other articles produced In this country, most of which would be produced In sullielent quantities ror home consumption If properly protected.
I believe In free trade as 1 believe In the Protestant religion.—tirover Cleveland. All trade should be as free as possible.—Speaker Carlisle. 1 desire free trade, and 1 wilt not help to ierfect any law that stands In the way of free trade.— Roger Q. Mills.
The Democratic party Is a free trade party or It Is nothing. The Democrat who Is not a tree trader should go elsewhere.—Henry Watterson.
Add to the free list as many articles as possible. Reduce duties upon every dutiable article to the lowest point
possible.—Secretary
lude
Fatrchild.
It would be a glorious consummation of this de
could we only have gentlemen oa the other side Join in this Invocation to paper and to type, and to the hearts of honest men, to clear the way lor British Cobden tree trade.—S. S. Cox.
Mr. Cleveland stands before the country a ch.unplon of tree trade. Mr. Mills' speech Is a manly, vigorous, and most effective free trade speech.— Henry (ieorge. we did not require money to derray the expenses of government I would be an absolute and uncompromising tree teader.—Congressman Hare.
The only use that England has for an Irishman Is when lie emigrates to the United Suites and votes for tree trade, which he invariably does.— [London Times.
Though lirookehire devotee a third of his time to the defense of vetoes of pen
sion bills, we don't see how that will offset the record of James T. Johnston, as known to soldiers.
Before the Maine election Chairman Quay said that if the Republicans got 15,000 plurality that, would end the contest for president. We got 20,000, more than in September 1884, when Mr. Blaine, of Maine, was the candidate for president. It must be remembered, too, that this year the Democrats had the federal offices which is a big item in Maine where they have so many ports of entry.
Senator Voorhees isn't cutting as wide a swath as he was before he made his speech here of personal abuse of General Harrison. That speech received very general publicity, by the Associated press and otherwise. The Democratic newspapers called for it because they supposed it would be a "keynote," but as it was a keynote none of them appreciated, they are now wary of the senator, and the reports of his present series of speeches and meetings in the state are being put in a few lines, under the heading of "Condensed Political News."
The Gazette makes an attempt to answer some of the points made by Mr. I. H. C. Royse in his address to the Young Men's Republican club and does so in its own peculiar way of misstating facts. For instance it says Texas produces nearly as much wool as the Northern states and that therefore putting wool on the free list is not a sectional measure. It also tries to make it appear that there was nothing sectional in putting cotton tie hoops on the free list, and leaving the tariff duty on hoop iron that the Northern farmer uses. Of course the Gazette can prove anything it wants to by this means, and it will continue to misrepresent the facts, as it always did and always will do.
Mr. BrookBh ire's maiden speech in Terre Haute was simply a "fake" from the Democratic campaign documents. It was defensive all through, supplicating in tone, in fact. There can be given no better idea of its character than his statement that wool was put on the free list because the country produced but 265,000,000 pounds of the 000,000,000 pounds of wool required for use. Of course he did not justify the retention of a G2 per cent, tariff on sugar for the benefit of those who produced but one-seventh of the amount used in this country. So as to pensions he told how many pension bills Cleveland had signed, but said nothing as to the number he vetoed by which it is ascertained that he has vetoed one out of three sent to him. Mr. Brookshire is but a very ordinary young man, and there is no prospect that he will display any originality or force to give alarm to the Republicans.
The Chicago Tribune has been frequently referred to by the Democrats as being in sympathy with the Democratic tariff idea. The Tribune has put itself on record. It says:
The Republican tariff bill proposes to make an even reduction ol one-halt In the sugar schedules and to break up the trust monopoly. This will destroy the oppressive robbery ot the llavemeyer combine and enable producers to import the yellow sugars treely whenever the trust demands exorbitant prices tor refined sugar. At the same time It will leave sufficient margin ol protection lor the new sorghum sugar Industry or the West and tor the development of California beet sugar growing so far as the tariff can properly roster that interest. The Republican tariff bill looks to judicious reduction made with a careful regard to the principle of protection of native industries, while the Democratic Mills bill puts the knife into those duties that do not shelter Democratic trusts.
The Chicago Tribune, which has always ravored adequate protection, and which has differed with individual Republicans only as to the propriety of ultra high rates fixed above the necessary protective point, can not see how any Republican who believes in the principle ol protection at all can now vote the Democratic ticket, since that party has come out for absolute free trade. The Democratic party is boldly avowing Itselt as hostile to the principle ot protection and as lirmly devoted to the doctrine or tree trade. It has the unqualified support and sympathy ot such ultra tree traders as Henry (ieorge and Frank Kurd. They support It because it is striving tor the utmost attainable degree or tree trade and the imposition of tariff taxes without any regard to the effect on American Industries and American labor. They know that at the lirst opportunity It will put the knife In deeper and prove that the .Mills bill was Intended simply as -a feeble beginning."
C. O. D.
Spirit wrappings-demijohns.
In China a wife can be purchased ror *20 to $200. Typewriters are advertised In the American press at $8 to #00.
Queer thing, llleInsurance. II' a man Is aflitcted with tits he is not a lit subject because he Is a fit subject. "Julius" wants to know "what is an eccentric'.'"
The mechanical editor Informs us that It Is a species or crank. Strange as It may seem, the "shadow-welg t" prize-tighter is the lightest ot the lot. What lot? Sand lot, or course.
A service ror dear mutes will be held In this city on Monday next. It Is expected that the musical part will be "songs without words."
"Well, Choliy were you accepted last night'.'" "1 did not get to see her at all." "So you went on a bootless errand, eh'.'" "No. not entirely bootless. Her father met me in the front hall."
The late Mr. Larry Donovan should have selected a higher bridge. The height of the Brooklvn bridge is 1G0 feet, and that ot the Hungerford Is a poor little space of thirty. Mr. Larry Donavan should not have drowned himself on English soil.—[Judge.
He would have found it much easier to drown in English water. Yacht owner—"Do you chew tobacco?"
Would-be siillor—"Yes sir." Yacht owner—"1 can't employ you unless you give up tobacco. I don't want my vessel soiled."
Would-be siillor—"I suppose, then. I must choose between -the deck or the quid.'" (Falls overboard with a gibbering groan.)
MOSPAT NIGHT.
"Helio, Bagley. full again?" -Yesh. Mozzer-ln-law's eomin' to stay two munse. an' I'm trytn' to console muyself."
TUESDAY NI li HT.
"Ain't you sober yet, Bagley? "Oh, yesh. /.Is is annozer drunk entirely. (Jot dispatch old 'oman wasn't eomin" arid I'm out ceiebnitln'."
RALPH.
He was a big, awkward fellow, worning with some patient will in an old-fash-ioned sawmill, and living on the far outskirts of a pretty village.
His home was a gray old farm house, where he dwelt with two maiden aunts, one of whom was a weak, fragile invalid, quick-tempsred and querulous the other was stout and strong in body, but idiotic and silent. Often he was tempted to go away—to rush out into the world and leave the old place to go to the dogs and the old women to the work house but a dogged sense of duty held him, so he staid and worked on.
One of the handsomest farms in Scott county had stretched its green fields about the old house twenty years ago, but when Ralph Mydack'6 young wife died and left her baby boy the husband, always reticent, had grown positively gloomy. His two sisters seldom heard him speak, but one day, when the little Ralph was about 5 years old, his moody father said in a strange, stern way: "I'm going to sell the farm. You f-vo girls can live here in the old house, and I will deposit money enough in the bank to keep you and the boy until I can send you some more. I shall go to Australia."
Huldah, the invalid, cried out pite ously, but her brother paid no heed Hannah, the idiot, stared stonily and spoke not.
That day the farm and the mill privilege on the little river were sold to a large corporation that had been trying for some time to buy it, in order to erect a cotton-mill there.
Ralph Mydack came home and packed his trunk," but his motions were unsteady, his face pale, and before night he was sick, verv sick.
There was little that two helpless women could do fur him the faim hands were dismissed, all but Jared, who was to stay and take care of the cow so they sent him off for the doctor, but when he returned Ralph Mydack was dead.
Ten bitter years dragged slowly by. The little money in the bank was soon exhausted, and partly by the few vegetables the neighbors helped them raise in the garden patch, the two old women and the awkward, sullen boy lived on.
It was well known that a large sum of money had been paid to Mr. Mydack for his farm, but the corporation had failed almost immediately after, so nothing was done about the cotton mills, and from the hour of the payment, when the legal papers were signed, all trace of the money disappeared as effectually as though it had been dropped into the sea of oblivion.
Lawyers searched the old house, looked over the few papers and books that Mr. M. had evidently intended to take with him, searched his wearing apparel, and gave up in despair.
Little Ralph grew up a stout, healthy lad, and when he was 15 he asKed some of the neighbors to help him rig the old saw-mill anew, that he might saw logs and thus eke out his scanty support.
It was here that Gertrude Kendennis found him one day early in June. He had seen her bright face about there the year before, but had turned away from her pleasant words with a moodiness that was almost rude. For what had his weary, toilsome life to do with beauty or kind words?
What, indeed? And yet she would not let him be. She went every day and watched, as by a resistless fascination, that pitiless, great saw tearing its way through the logs, making them useful while seeming only to destroy them.
He was 20 years old at last and she was 19. She had been fussing "about the old house, making gruel for Aunt Huldah, and trying to coax a smile upon Aunt Hannah's stolid face, but really only waiting for Ralph to return to the village.
He came in soon, and seeing her standing alone in the clean, poorly-furnished room, he went straight to her, and, taking both her hands in his, he said: "Now, Gertrude—Miss Kendennis— you really must not come here in this manner. People are talking about it down in the village. I heard it remarked upon to-day, and if your uncle should hear of it he would send you to a nunnery and kill me outright." "Oh, you do not want me here?" she said, trying to speak playfully, but with a little moan in her voice. "I do—I 5o," he answered, putting his arm about her, holding her close and touching her hair with a quick, caressing motion. "God knows it is worse than death to send you away, but, my darling, see the long, weary life stretching before me. See the work to be done here and you hovering like some bright bird just oflt of reach. Could I drag you down to share this poor, old nest? No, no, it would not be right. I have served duty too long to dare desert her now." "But you are so young," she murmured, leaning her face on his shoulder he could feel her breath against his cheek.
His heart beat so fast he thought it would strangle him, and that moment of rapture paid him for the suffering of years. "So young and so ambitious—and there is the invention down at the mill I am sure that is going to work well." "Yes but I have been to the village to-day for the last time trying to raise even $50 to pay for the patent, and I cannot do it. Nobody has any faith in it they think it is a boy's scheme and I am quite discouraged," "Oh, if I only had my money "Yes, but you have not, my darling: nor would I touch one penny of it if you had. No, you must go back to your own home and your own relatives. I shall never marry dear, but I shall cherish your memory as my one blessed gift. Now, don't feel badly—don't."
They were both sobbing together by this time she put her arm up around his neck, and their two tear stained faces nestled against each other like two grieved children.
Aunt Ilanuah put her white, Habby face in at the door to say that dinner was ready, and seeing tbe young people standing together there she started nervously and exclaimed: "Laws sakes! that's courtin', now, ain't it?" and as they neither moved nor spoke she went softly across the Hoor and whispered: "Ralphie, boy, are yeou goin' to be married?" "Yes, auntie," answered Gertrude "and we want your blessing." "But you want your money, too, don't you?" "Yes, certainly: the marriage portion, said Ralph, bitterly, brushing the tears from his eyes and trying to face his lonely life once more. "Then come up-Btairs,"' she laughed out, in her queer, wild fashion. "What does she mean?" asked Gertrude, wonderingly. "I do not know," Ralph answered. "I have not heard her speak so many words at a time in ten ysars."
Beckoning them to follow her, Bhe
THE TERRE HAUTE EXMESS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13,1888.
climbed the worn old stairs up, up to the dusty garret, where broken chairs and long-idle spinning wheels made up the furniture.
Down behind the big chimney crept the daft woman, and drew out a large, loose bundle of rags, in which was slyly hidden rolls of strong parchment.
They opened them there in the changeful light that filtered through the time-stained window.
There was 84,000 in gold. The price of the farm lands. Not a great fortune, it is true, but a fabulous sum for the young people who were bravely and defiantly married ere long, to the great wonder of the village folks.
And Ralph's invention was that queer new saw that has been winning such notice in the mechanical world these last few years.
Ob,- happy loved and lover.—[New York News.
ANDREWS AND HIS DORY.
The Adventurous Captain Abandons His Ocean Voyage and Arrives in New York, Captain William A. Andrews, who started June 18 last to cross the Atlantic ocean to Queenstown in a dory, socalled, named the Dark Secret, has made a fizzle of the adventure, and has come back to New York in a big bark. He was frightened out of continuing the voyage by a narrow escape which he had from foundering in the maw of a big sea serpent or some such monster which appeared four days before he was picked up. The vessel in which the captain undertook to make the voyage was probably smaller than any boat that ever made such a passage. It was a very deep-modeled whaleboat, fourteen feet nine inches long, five feet wide, and about three feet deep. It was decked over fore and aft except a cockpit, where the solitary voyager sat to steer. There was a small house amidships that could be entered by a scuttle, and thither the captain went when he wanted to sleep. The boat had a single mast, fitted with a lateen sail. It had a number of compartments tilled with cork and was fitted with an iron shoe on the keel to give it stability.
With a stock of provisions supposed to be ample to last him 1,000 days Captain Andrews sailed away. To-dav the Norwegian ship Nor, Captain Bjonness, came into this harbor bringing Captain Andrews and his whaleboat as passenger and freight. The captain had not bean heard from since August 10th, and those who had taken any interest in the foolhardy adventure had begun to think that the Dark Secret had foundered in a gale. The dory was sighted by Captain Bjonness on Sunday, August 19th, at 11 o'clock in the morning. The Nor was hove to and Captain Andrews sailed down to her and came alongside. The solitary mariner asked first for the latitude and longitude and was told that he was fifty miles more than half way across from Boston to QueenBtown. Then he told Captain Bjonness who he *was and whither bound, and he added that he had not had a warm meal in the fiftytwo days he had been afloat. As it was then about dinner time Captain Bjonness invited him to have a square meal on the Nor, and the invitation was promptly accepted. He remarked as he got on deck that his waistband was just seven inches too long for him, and his appetite at dinner, Captain Bjonness says, seemed to justify the statement. After dinner he asked Captain Bjonness to take him and his boat to New York, and the request was granted. He said that he did not feel able to continue the journey. His oiled clothing was ragged and his sea boots had holes in them by constantly bracing his feet against the sides of the cockpit. After the food and other stuff had been taken out of the whaleboat's cabin, she was hoisted on board. That night, under the influence of a good supper, Captain Andrews confided to Carlsen, one of the crew who was on the lookout, that the main reason for abandoning the voyage was that on the Wednesday preceding, when in latitude 45 degrees 10 minutes, and longitud 41 degrees 20 minutes, he saw a monster with a head very like a serpent swimmiDg along to leeward. Its head and perhaps six or seven feet of its neck were out of water. It was swimming at from two and a half to three miles an hour and heading east. It did not offer to molest the Dark Secret, but nevertheless Captain Andrews was so much startled by it that he decided to take passage on a larger craft at the first opportunity. Afterward, Carlsen says, Captain Andrews asked him not to repeat the sea serpent story. The story was not related to Captain Bjonness.
Maine in 1840 and 1888.
In 1840, the states chose presidential electors at the state elections which were held at various times between August and November. Says the Chicago Journal: It was not till 1845 that by act of congress the presidential elections were required to be held in all the states simultaneously in November. Under the system that prevailed up to and including 1844, therefore, the scattering state elections were the only ones held in such states, and the actual situation of the eleetoral college appeared as the successive elections occurred. Previous to 1840 Maine had been a Democratic state. At the election in 18:19 it A'ave a Democratic majority of 0,000. In September, 1840, it elected Governor Kent, the Whig candidate, and gave the Whig presidential electors 1,000 majority. It was under these circumstances that the final verse of the popular campaign song, "What has caused this great commotion, motion, motion.
The country through?"
was indicted. The historical song was sung to the tune of "Little Pig's Tail," the concluding stanzas being as follows: "Oh. say, have you heard the news from Maine,
Maine. Maine, All honest and true? It went hell bent for Governor Kent.
Kor Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. And with th^fti we'll beat little \an. van: Van Is a used up man. And with them we'll beat little Van.
She Could Count Up to the King. A little flaxen haired Cambridge girl was quite the pet of her playmates and teacher, and so it was not to be wondered at that when company one day visited the school she was selected to show the proficiency of the youngest seekers after knowledge in counting. This is how she reflected credit on herself and home: "One, two, three, four, five, sis, seven, eight, nine, -ten, jack, queen, king."— [Boston Times.
Concerning Mr. Mills
According to a story now current in the newspapers, at the close of the Hon. Roger Quarlee Mills' speech in New Haven a week ago, a man in the audience stood up and asked the Texas statesman how it was that if cotton goodp, with no duty on the raw material, are manufactured cheaper in Rhode Island than they can be in England, the markets of the world are not flooded with manufactured
American cotton? The concise and conclusive answer attributed to Mr. Mills is this: "You go home and soak your head."
We are confident that Mr. Mills made no such answer. He is too courteous a gentleman and too experienced a politician to insult wantonly a citizen who had asked him a respectful and pertinent question. But we should like to know what Mr. Mills did reply. If he replied and if he did not reply, what he would have said if he had replied.—New York Sun.
Mixing the Countersign.
The colored brother has a wonderful capacity for adapting a word to his senses. "During the war," said a wellknown veteran, "we often had trouble in getting up a list of countersigns. I had the matter in charge and took a list of European battles. It was a colored regiment. The countersign for the night was 'Austerlitz.' In the evening I tried to get into the lines and was halted. I gave the countersign 'Austerlitz.'
Dat aint right, sah,' said the darkey, and he called the provost, who was also colored. When that officer came along I complained that the sentry didn't know the countersign. 'What is it, sah,'asked the provost of me. 'Austerlitz,' I answered. "'You are wrong,sah,'said he. I was put under arrest, and it took tbe colonel to get me out. What do you suppose tbe darkies had made of tbe original countersign? 'Oyster shells.'"—[Washington Post.
Golden Morsels,
A fool is always beginning. Dearth foreseen never comes. One ass calls another "long ears." When two quarrel both are in the wrong.
The liar is sooner caught than the cripple. When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
A man's own business does not defile his fingers. One hair of a woman draws more than a cart of rope.
Change yourself, and fortune will change with you. The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big.
Would Part With Some Wealth. Miss Smith (coldly)—"Certainly not, Mr. Sampson, I cannot be your wife. I have never given you the slighest encouragement."
Mr. Sampson- "Then I may as well go Miss Smith. Miss Smith—"Yas, and you had betber go quickly papa, you know, has threatened to chastise you."
Mr. Sampson (doubling his fist as he turns to go—"Miss Smith, now that I have no hopes of winning you, I would give a S10 note to have 'papa' try it on!" —[Texas Sittings.
it Might Be Useful.
Beautiful girl (at dog fancier's)—Why, papa, there are no nice English pugs here.
Father—I see guess we've got into the wrong place. But what magnificent watch-dogs they have here! What breed is that handsome animal, Mr. De Brute?
Experienced dealer—He is a cross between a bulldog and a tiger. That dog, sir, if given the word, would swallow a dude at one gulp.
Father (quickly)—I'll take him.— [Philadelphia Record.
A Charmed Life.
"Biggs had a wonderful escape from death this morning. A brick fell from the roof of a four story building and hit him on the head." "Did it hurt him much?" "Not a bit. I can't account for it at all." "Oh, it's simple enough. He's been married three times."—[Lincoln Journal.
What Johnny Wanted.
Johnny (piously)—Pa, while you're praying, will you pray for something for me?
Father (offering grace)—Yes, my child name it. Johnny—Well, please just put in a word for our nine, 'cause we want to lick the Bucktowns like thunder to-day. [Judge.
He Didn't Comprehend.
(Old hayseed to bystandee, viewing a game of tennis)—"Say mister, will yez tell me what in the consarnation them people are playin' with snow shoes for in this yertime of year?"
Good Reason for Groaning. "George, what makes the ship groan so horribly?" "Give it up. Maybe she has a load of green apples aboard.—(New York Sun.
Women are taking advantage of the opportunities for education at the London university. Already this summer 181 have matriculated for admission, which is fifty more than last year. Hut the young women are still considerably behind the yeung men, of whom 1,04 matriculated at the last examination.
POLITICAL COMMENT.
Detroit Tribune: Private Joe Fifer is making the Illinois Democrats dance to live music. Omaha Republican: Is "old-fashioned cholera morbus" to be made an Issue of the campaign?
Chattanooga Times: And now we have the rice trust. Cut oil the duty, Mr. Breckenridge. No favors.
Chicago Mali: In the Democratic papers It will be noticed that Monday's crl ol "Reduced majorities in Maine" have been changed to "The Dutch nave taken Holland."
New York Press: "I am lor Crover Cleveland," said Henry (ieorge at ilie Hill protest meeting, "because I a a free trader." (.' me quick. Diogenes, one honest man is here.
Philadelphia Press: Some men achieve Infamy, some have infamy thrust upon them, and Representative Kilgore. of Texas, proposes to defeat the bill to peusion Mrs. Sheridan.
Wheeling Intelligencer: When the claim is made that West Virginia Is a safely Democratic state it must be regarded as either a blutt or the result of blind ignorance of the situation.
Kansas City Journal The population of Dakota is now about 600.000, and the assessed valuation of property Is *161,000,000. Nothing stands In the way of Dakota's admission but her "brutal Republican majority."
New York Press: William H. Barnum's favorite drink is gin and molasses. The molasses pleases his temperance friends, and the gin makes the eminent muleteer solid with himself. A typical Democratic straddle.
New York Tribune: "What we want," says an old spoils Democrat. "Is a president who will put tried Democrats in office." Well, you have a president who has done even bt-tter than that, for he has put tried aiid convicted Democracy in oflice.
Globe-Democrat: The slanderous charge that the Republican party favors free whisky is reiterated by Mr. Cleveland but he very carefully Ignores fact that the Mills bill provides for a reduction of the revenue to the extent of $4,600,000 per rear by exempting the retail licjuor dealers from" all federal taxatlou.
Chicago Journal: In Vermont, the Prohibitionists claimed 20,!X» votes. They received 1,299. In Maine they claimed 15.000 and got 3,500. The Prohibition vote will be much less in all the states this year than It was four years ago. The open and and shameless alliance between Prohibition partyism and the rum Democracy with "Thank God Brooks' hysterical rebel speeches, have done the work.
"HO FOR SLUM BERLAND!"
A little song for bedtime, when, robed In gowns of wblte. All sleepy little children set sail across the night Kor that pleasant, pleasant country where the pretty dream-flowers blow, 'Twist the sunset and the sunrise, "For the Slumber Islands, ho!"
When the lltte ones get drowsy and heavy lids droop down To hide blue eyes and black eyes, gray eyes, and eyes of brown, A thousand boats for Dreamland are waiting In a row, And the ferrymen are calling: "For the Slumber Islands, ho!"
Then the sleepy little children All the boats along the shore. And go sailing off to Dreamland and the dipping of the oar In the Sea of Sleep makes music that the children only know When they answer to the boatman's "For the Slumber Islands, ho!"
Oh! take a kiss, my darlings, ere you sail away from me In the boat of dreams that's waiting to bear you o'er the sea Take a kiss and
ti
've'one, and then away you go
A-sailing Into Drc ntand. "Fo ihe Slumber Islands, ho!" —[St. Nicholas.
EXPRESS PACKAGES.
"These are the days when heaven communes with earth And paints the sunset on the forest boughs When farmer boys with ringing shouts of mirth
Build up the hay in brown and fragrant mows When little red-cloaked maids drive home the
With sweet, glad songs heard on the evening hills When rivers flash, and droning cider mills
Run over with their juices, pure and sweet When from the yellow sheaves of golden wheat The merry reaper many a store-house fills."
For crying children—The spanking breeze. Sun baths give a splendid tint to blonde hair.
An evening serenade may also be a matin' song. A Philadelphian has patented an ice creeper for horses.
Mrs. Sheridan will remain at Nonquitt till the end of the month. Henry Grady is called the best impromptu speaker in the South.
Artificial flowers were first invented by the nuns of the Italian convents. Paiseley, N. J., a town only sixty days old, is to have a colony from Paris.
A thoughtful man in Columbus, Ga., has an ax 'neath his pillow for burglars. A Washington policeman had his pockets picked by a thief he was taking to the lockup.
Senor Sarasate, the great violin player, is small, handsome and genial. He will chat and tell stories by the hour on any topic except himself. He speaks many languages.
Lord Wolseley is as lucky as he is plucky. Queen Victoria has just presented to him for his lifetime the house and grounds of the Ranger of Greenwich Park.
Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn, of Albany, the widow of the late chancellor of the university, is the owner of a precious Ms.—the original draft of Burns' "Auld Lang Syne."
Prince Krapotkin's English home is at Harrow-on-the-Hill, one of a row of small cottages occupied by workingmen. The floors are uncarpetted, but everything is neat and clean.
A fifteen foot snake is terrifying the farmers of Wabash, Ind. It has been seen by a number of them and has carried off chickens, pigs, and small dogs. They have organized for a grand snake hunt
In digging a well near Goldsboro, N. C., the diggers came upon traces of an extinct volcano, and at once reported it to the state geologist, who will pronounce upon it authoritatively in a few days.
Small change is extremely scarce in Tegucigalpa, it is sometimes difficult to change a dollar. The sale of articles, such as food, cigars, etc., is made difficult or impossible, as no small change exists.
It is said that Chauncey M. Depew carries life-insurance policies to the amount of 8500,000. This sum is said to be equaled by John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, and to be exceeded by only one man.
William Knighton, who has just distinguished himself by erecting a statue of Shakespeare in Paris, is an Australian millionaire with literary aspirations and a judicial career. Paris already has a statue of Dante.
W. E. H. Lecky says that the statement that the seventh volume of his "History of England" is in the hands of the printer and that it will be ready for publication early in the forthcoming season is incorrect.
Mr. Stinyes, of Augusta, Ga., got married one day and eloped the next with an old sweet heart whom alone he swore he could love, and now there is a large and angry mother-in-law and lawsuit hovering in the horizon.
Seven hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred and ninety-five acres were devoted to pea raising this year in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The average yield was sixteen bushels to the acre, r2,17:i,:5.'!2 bushels in all.
Richard Fielding, a blacksmith of Ramsgate, England, is in jail charged with murder on his own confession that twenty-four years ago he had a quarrel in a boat with a woman named Hannah White, and pushed her overboard.
George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia L?dger, has three residences, all of which are kept in perfect readiness for occupancy and he may drop in either whenever the fancy seizes him and order a dinner of the best the market affords.
Natural gas was used to inflate a balloon at Memphis, Tenn., a few days ago, and it wtis so effective that the amateur aeronaut, George Ayres, was quickly borne out of sight to the southeast, and had not been heard of at last accounts.
A woman deaf mute who goes among down-town offices in New York selling deaf and dumb alphebets has printed on her cards this peculiar request "If any person thinks that I am not what I represent to be, please have me arrested at once."
A recent Friday was the hottest day in Sacramento, Cal., for thirty-six years. At 2::U) o'clock in the afternoon the thermometer stood at 107.50 dsgrees. This terrific heat maintained until 3:45 o'clock, when the glass marked 100 degrees. At 5 o'clock the heat was 104 degrees.
Vienna scientific societies have been investigating the wonderful "weather plant" discovered some months ago, and it is said that its weather foretelling properties have been thoroughly verified. The marine department of the Austrian war department is to give the plant a trial on shipboard.
The late M. Duclerc, who was a senator and for a time prime minister of France, was in boyhood a "printer's devil" in a newspaper office. He worked his way up until he became one of the leading editorial writers in France. Then he entered political life under the tbe patronage of M. Gamier Pages, the elder. During the second empire he retired to private life and amassed a fortune by "promoting" companies.
TIME TABLE
Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked tnus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) de note Bntlet Can attached. Trains marked thus run dally. Ail other trains run dally Sundays excepted
VANDALIA LINE! T. H. 4 I. DIVISION. LKAVB JOB TH* WKST.
No. 9Western Kxpress (S) l.« a. m. No. 6Mall Train* 10.18 a. m. No. 1 Fast L'ne (P4V) U.23 p. in. No. 7 cast Mall lu.04 p. in.
LXATK FOR TH* KA9T.
No. 12 Cincinnati Rxpress »(S) 1.30 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (S) 1.B1 a. m. Vn. Mall and Accommodation 7.15 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express *(P4V) 12.62 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line* 2.08 p. in.
AKBIVK rHOM TBI MAST.
No. 9 Western Express (S) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train* 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Llne*(PftV) 2.08 p. m. No. SMall and Accommodation fi.46 p. m. No. 1 Fast Mall 10.00 p. ui.
ARRIVX FROM TH* WK3T.
No. 13 Cincinnati Kxpress*(S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Kxpress* (S) 1.42 a. in. No. 211 Atlantic Express* (PAV) 1Z8 p. m. Vo. 8 Fast Line* L48 p. ui.
T. H. fc L. DIVISION. LMAVX FOB THK HORTH.
No. IS3 South Bend Mall 8.00 a. m. No. South Bend Express 4.00 p. in. AKBIVB FBOM IVOBTH. No. R1 Terre Hante Express 12.1(1 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.80 p. 111.
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