Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 September 1888 — Page 2

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The National Ticket. FOR I'KKSIDENT,

BENJAMIN HABRISON, of Indiana. VICE PRESIDENT, LEVI P. MORTON of New York.

KI.KCTORS-AT-I.AROE,

.lAMES M. SHACKELKORD, of Vanderberg, THOMAS 11. NELSON, ol Vigo. EIOHTU DISTRICT ELECTORS.

JOHN C. CHANEY, of Sullivan. The State Ticket. GOVERNOR

ALVIN P. HOVEY, of Posey. I.IEDT.-OOVEKNOR IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks.

JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT

1st District—SILAS D. COKKEY, of Clay. District—JOHN (i. BERKSHIRE, of Jennings. 4th District—WALTER OLDS, of Whitley. 'SECRETARY OF STATE

CHARLES K. URIKKIN, of Lake. AUDITOR OF STATE BRUCE CARR. of Orange.

TREASURER OF STATE

JULIUS A. LEMCKE, of Vanderburg. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, LEWIS T. Ml CHENER, of Shelby. SUPPKKINTENDENT OF PUHL.IC INSTRUCTION,

HARVEY M. LA KOLLKTTE, of Boone. KKTOHTER OF SUPREME COURT, JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, of Marlon.

CONGRESSMAN,

.IAMK3 T. JOHNSTON, of Parke. JOINT REPRESENTATIVE, WILLIAM F. WELLS, of Vermillion.

County Ticket. STATE SENATOR,

KRANCIS V. BICHOWSKY. REPRESENTATIVES. WILLIAM H. BERRY.

MARION McQUILKIN. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, JAMES E. PIETY.

TREASURER,

FRANKLIN C. FISBECK. SHERIFF. BENONI T. DEBAUN.

COMMISSIONERS,

1st District—LEVI DICKERSON. ftl District—LOUIS KINKBLN Kit. Hii District—S. S. HENDERSON.

SURVEYOH,

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 has been mncli greater than was generally expected. However much the manufacturing interests may deny It, the fact Is patent that ^rcat. progress lias been made 011 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 manufacturers look with very much Interest on the mpvement which Is now going on "on the X1 her side," for trade there so ultimately Influences our own.—| London Iron and Coal Trades

Review, July '27,1888.

The tarllT bill In the United States has passed the house of representatives by 161 to 149 [votes. The bulk of the people are beginning to set their

backs

up

at

paying thro' the nose for their Iron

and steel and other commodities. As it stands now the states are decidedly going tor free trade, ami this will be the Democratic cry at the next election.—I London Iron Trade Circular, July 28, 18S8.

The president feels compelled to characterize the attempt to brand him as a free trader as deception. but for all that the electoral conflict now in progress Is a conflict between free trade and protection and nothing else.—[London News. July (i, 1H88. "Free Immigration of Chinese would be advantageous as furnishing a class of cheap and efliclent laborers.- Senator Thurman in United States senate In 187J.

I believe In free trade as 1 believe In the Protestant religion.—(irover Cleveland. All trade should be as free as possible.—

we

Speaker

Carlisle. 1 desire free trade, and 1 will not help to perfect 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 freetrader 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 Kalrchild.

It would be a glorious consummation of tills debate

could

we only have gentlemen on the other

side join in tills Invocation to paper and to type, and to the hearts of honest men, to clear the way for British Colxlen free trade.— S. S. Cox.

Mr. Cleveland stands before the country a champion of free trade. Mr. Mills' speech is a m:inly, vigorous, and most effective free trade speech.— Henry George.

If

dlil not require money to defray the expenses of government I would be an absolute and uncompromising freeteader.—Congressman Hare.

WHAT HARRISON THINKS.

"I think our workingmen will wake up to the Tact that reduction In their wages, which every candid advocate of free trade or revenue reform admits must come with the adoption of his theo-ries-a reduction variously estimated at from 10 to tfj per cent.—Is poorly compensated by the cheap ciat he Is promised. This bull-in-the-Clilna-shop sort of work that our Democratic friends want to make of the tarllT will not do."

In nn address made in Chictlgo in March of this year he said: "l am one of those unlnstructed political economists that have an Impression that some things

may

too cheap that 1 cui not iind myself In full sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seem to me necessarily to Involve a cheaper man anil woman under the coat. 1 believe It Is true to day that we have many things In this country that are too cheap, because whenever It Is proved that the man or woman who produces any article cannot get a decent living out of It, then It is too cheap."

"1 would nither be William O'Brien In Tullamorejall, a martyr of free speech, than the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In Dublin Castle."I General Harrison. In 1S77, at the Ksmonde and O'Connor reception. Indianapolis.

We are uncompromisingly In favor of the American system of protection we protest against Its destruction as proposed by the president and his party. They serve the Interests of Europe we will support the interests of America. We accept the ISSIH and contidently appeal to the people for their Judgment. The protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always been followed by general disaster to all interests except those of the usurer ami sheriff. We denounce the Mills bill as destructive to the general business, the labor and the fanning Interests of the conn try, and we heartily endorse the consistent and patriotic action of the Republican representatives In congress In opposing its ptissage. We condemn the proposition of the Democratic party to place wool on the free list

1

and we Insist that that the duties thereon shall be adjusted and maintained so as to furnish full and adequate protection to that Industry. The Republican party would effect such needed reduction of the national revenue by repealing the taxes upon toba-co, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the tax upon spirits used In the arts and for mechanical purposes, and by such revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check Imports of snch articles as are produced by our people, the production of which gives employment to our labor, and release from Import duties those articles of foreign production (except luxuries) the like of which can not be produced at home. If there shall remain a larger revenue than is requisite for the wants of the government, we favor the entire repeal of Internal taxes rather than the surrender .of any part of our protective system, at the Joint behest of the whisky trusts and the agents of foreign manufacturers.—[National Republican platform.

Republican victory, the prospects of which grow brighter every day, can be imperiled only by lack or unity In council or by acrimonious contest over men. The Issue of protection Is Incalculably stronger and greater than any man, for It concerns the prosperity of the present and generations yet to come. Were It possible for every voter of the Republic to see for himself the condition and recompense of labor In Europe, the party of free trade In the United States would not receive the support of one wage-worker between the two oceans. It

may not

be directly In our power as philanthrop­

ists to elevate the European laborer, but It will be a lasting stigma upon our statesmanship If we permit the American laborer to be forced down to the European level. And in the end the rewards of labor everywhere will be advanced If we steadily refuse to lower the standard at home.

Yours with sincerity, JAMES G. BLAINE.

THE 7 PER CENT. FALLACY.

General Harrison punctured the 7 per cent, fallacy when he said: Do not allow any one to persuade you that this great contest as to our tariff policy Is one between schedules. It Is not a question of 7 per cent reduction. It Is a question between wlde-apart principles. The principle of protection: the Intelligent recognition In the framing of our tariff laws, of the duty to protect our American Industries and maintain the American scale of wages by adequate discriminating duties, on the one hand, and on the other, a denial of the constitutional right to make our customs duties protective, on the assertion of the doctrine that free competition with foreign products Is the Ideal condition to which all our legislation should tend.

"We [the capitalists! can control the workingman only so long as he eats up to day what he earns to-morrow."—W. L. Scott, Mr. Cleveland's political manager.

"It may be for your Interests that he (Mr. Cleveland) should win, but any expression of En gllsh sympathy wouldjprobably hurt his prospects." —London Saturday Review, August 25, 1888, page 232, second co'timn.

"Do not pave Wabash street," says the Gazette yesterday. A week ago it was much in favor of paving the street.

John Jarrett's speech is sinking in. Its good effects will be felt up to election day. Our esteemed contemporary, the Gazette, seems to be of this opinion as it indulges in a tirade of personal abuse of the speaker.

That charming woman from Illinois who was at our depot the other day with twins born in 1884 named Blaine and Logan and twins born in 1888 named Harrison and Morton is, to use the phrase of the campaign, "all right."

What will he do with it? We mean what will Mr. Cleveland do with the Chinese bill which his friends rushed through the house on the supposition that China had refused to ratify the treaty but of which action there is no authentic information.

Later reports from the cyclone in Cuba are that from 500 to 1,200 lives were lost and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed. Ships were carried inland and left stranded in the streets of Havana. It was, indeed, a very big cyclone for a very small country.

Senator Voorhees is getting to be a rank free trader. At Lafayette he "warned the advocates of protection of the fate of the slaveholders—in their greed for more they lost everything." Now, we would like Mr. Voorhees to explain to his neighbors here at his home what he meant, heretofore, when he told them that protection had developed the industries in this coal region.

When the Terre Haute Gazette, which 'has been in a fight with trades unions for years, attacks John Jarrett, who to the iron workers stands in the same relation that Arthur does to the railroad men, then the workingman knows how to measure what it says. We don't think there need be a word said to workingmen in Mr. Jarrett's defense further than to say that the Terre Haute Gazette attacks him.

It is reported from Lafayette that Mr. Voorhees gave it out on the quiet there that the Democratic managers are preparing a bombshell for Harrison. It is nothing less than a charge that he was a member of the Know Nothing lodge of which his father was ahead officer, near Cincinnati. As General Harrison, at. that time, was in Indianapolis making Republican speeches, it would seem that the Democratic gunners do not take good aim, and will miss the mark about one hundred and fifteen miles.

The Republicans will have no wigwam meeting here on Saturday night but it is intended to go to Paris in large numbers. This is a good idea. Our friends over the line have extended a cordial invitation to the Republicans of Vigo to join in the great meeting that is to be held there on that day and promise that for every visitor they will send two to Terre Haute later on when the Republicans here want to make a demonstration. Among the speakers who will be present are Governor Oglesby, Private Joe Fifer, Congressman Cannon and Congressman Burrows, of Michigan.

The reports from Washington indicate that there is some prospect of adjournment of congress within a week or ten days. The senate finance committee should first report the tariff bill, though it be not considered by the senate. It wquld be folly to try to pass it this session in the hope of having it, or any other measure, become a law, but the Republican senate can very easily

put itself on record as favoring a revision of the tariff with protection for a reduction of revenue, but not the removal of protection.

The Democrats ar claiming before audiences of farmers that the Mills bill does not repeal the duty on potatoes. The Mills bill absolutely repeals, without any qualification, the duty on potatoes In these words (see lines 128-9 of the free list of that bill:) "Vegetables in their natural state, or In salt or brine, not specially enumerated or provided for."

Potatoes ara vegetables. Potatoes are not specially enumerated or provided for, and are, therefore, put on the free list This Is another specimen of Democratic dishonesty and evasion. —[Indianapolis Journal.

Webster names potatoes in his definition of the word "vegetable," but the significant act of the Mills people was their refusal in the house to amend the bill, when asked to do so, that there might be no doubt on thiB score. If they intended to leave the duty of 15 per cent, on potatoes as they now claim they then had a good opportunity to make their intention plain and refused to do it.

Cot'on Is raised In this country and In India. The raisers of cotton In this country must therefore compete with the pauper cotton raisers of India. Cotton Is on the free list—[Gazette.

Well, then, with free raw material, why does not the cheaper manufactured article occupy the markets of the world? We know that it doesn't, and yet the argument in favor of free wool is that it will enable the American manufacturer to reach that foreign market about which we hear so much. Some days ago Mr. Mills was asked this question by one of his auditors and he was reported to have replied: "You go home and soak your head." Since then, however, Mr. Mills indignantly denies that he made this coarse rejoinder. What he did say was: "You go take a bath," and thus he showed that free wool would do what free cotton has not done.

A correspondent of the EXPRESS makes a good point when he says that one of the incidental features of complaint about the main thoroughfare of the city is the imposition of merchants by obstructing the sidewalks. As he says, there is not so great necessity for a wider sidewalk as there is for a less obstructed'sidewalk. Some of our merchants through the rivalry of trade have assumed the right to pile their wares on the sidewalk in such profusion that the passageway is but a squeezing point which causes a constant blockade and stream of profanity. THE EXTRKSS has received many communications on this score, some of which also refer to the gauntlet of "sports" who at points between Fifth and Sixth streets, are not only obstructive but insulting, not to mention disagreeable in their prescence. Clear Main street.

THE CITY'S DEBT.

Several years ago the city council by an egregious blunder ratified the action of a short-sighted school board by creating a debt for the High school property and building. The city was then trying to manage its financial affairs so as to keep within the constitutional limits of indebtedness, 2 per cent, of.the assessed valuation. The council yielded to the pressure and authorized the school board to proceed. Immediately the debt was §40,000 beyond the limit. The barrier once broken down it was easy to increase the debt. The school board that had given its sworn pledge of possible cost soon asked for still more money to complete the undertaking that should never have been determined on, even though the city were in a fit condition financially to have carried it out. Admitting that High school quart ers were a necessity, such as would have been adequate could have been supplied at a third of the cost.

However, the start in a bad direction was made, and the city is $160,000 beyond the constitutional limit. Of this amount 850,000 is for the Normal school, but no one will complain of this part of the debt. The showing is enough to alarm the tax-payers. It should alarm the council that is about to increase the debt by the building of a new police headquarters. While it is true that the property owners and the Street Car company will pay for a new pavement on Main street, yet the repavement of the street will necessitate sewer building and other expenses amounting to thousands of dollars that will fall upon the city.

It is time to call a halt, that means halt. If the council is not capable of conducting the city's business in a rational, business-like way, the members of the body must be made to understand that they have already gone too far and must stop.

C. O. 1).

Crooked work—A "worm" fence.

What railroad is called to mind by a fat man chasing a hen out of his garden? The L. .t N.

"Begin as you can hold out." This Is not an extract from from "How to win at poker." but Is a one-line editorial in the Journal or Education.

"Water! Water! Give me waterl" gasped the dying Kentuckian. And the watchers shook their heads solemnly, and murmured: "The end Is near. His mind has begun to wander."

First prisoner—"Well, Jimmy, what's the outlook this morning?" Second prisoner (looking through the window) —•"Grate." 1 First prisoner—"I was thinking myself that it was fine."

"So you are going back to Italy, are you. Garibaldi?" Violinist—"SI slgnor, I make-a de mon In America. In Italy I no make-a de mon." "Then what the dickens are you going back for?" "I no have to play-a de 'White Wings' In Italy."

"Mr. Lightly Is not connected with your paper anymore, I understand?" Editor—"No. He wrote up an account of a swell bal masque »st week In which he stated that 'Miss Browne and Miss Maude Helghton, of Elite avenue, were not In mtsque. but appeared au naturel, and were the recipients of marked attention.' He managed to get out of town on a freight train, and I understand he Is driving a street car in St Louis.'-'

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18,1888.

FARMERS' TARIFF BENEFITS.

Those who do not see the benefits derived by farmers from the tariff will do well to read the following extract from the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune: "During the month of Jun&, 1858, Farmer Brown, wlA lives on the Michigan road, in Center township, begins to 'shin' around to make ready for the coming harvest. He has to have money to pay the harvest hands he must lay in a, large stock of groceries to feed them some extra dishes are netded, and other necessaries around the house and farm. He finds also that he has to have anew wagon, and he would like to buy anew two-seat buggy for the family to come to town in instead of always riding in the lumber wagon. As he had no ready money (the free trade tariff taking nearly all the money out of the country to buy English-made goods), he has to spare what produce he can cut off of the farm. He tells the following: 100 bushels wheat, 6314 cents :'$63 25 30 cords of wood, $2.60 75 00 10 tons timothy hay, $6 60 00 100 bashels corn, 25 cents 25 00 100 bushels oats. 23 cents 23 00 30 dozen eggs, 6 cents 1 80 30 pounds of butter, 10 cents 3 00

Total $251 50

"Farmer Brown and his wife came to South Bend during the latter part of June to buy their harvest groceries, etc., and get a wagon. Here is what they bought: 1 Studebaker wagon with seat $130 00 5 pounds Rio coffee, 15 cents 75 20 pounds brown sugar, 11 cents 2 00 6 pounds granulated sugar, 15 cents 75 20 pounds rice, 7 cents 1 40 1 pound best green tea 1 00 2 gallons syrup, 75 cents 1 50 1 barrel salt 2 49 2 pair overalls, 50 cents 1 00 12 yards calllco. 121& cents 1 50 40 yards (bolt) bleached muslin, 16 cents.... 6 40 1 set granite cups and saucers 75 1 set plates 75 1 set knives and forks 150 1 dozen pint tumblers, 12VJ cents 1 50 50 wheat sacks. 30 cents 15 00

Total $168 40

"[The above prices paid by J. C. Watkins, Stephen Field, Samuel Rupe, William Hoke and other St. Joseph county farmers for produce during the month of June, 1858, as the Tribune can show by day books in its possesion, and the above are prices paid by them and other farmers for goods they bought.] "Farmer Brown and his wife find after making these purchases that he has $82.G5 left to pay his harvest hands, and much as he woulfl like to gratify his wife and daughter with a two seat bugg: to drive to town in he has to forego that luxury, which would cast him $150. Free trade will not permit it. "In June, 1888, under the terrible Republican protective tariff which Mr. Anderson says robs the farmers as well as the workingmen, Farmer Brown finds the harvest coming on and gets ready for it. He happened to need a new wagon and exactly the same groceries and goods that he brought in June, 1858, and by a coincidence sends to South Bend the same kinds and amounts of produce he sold thirty years before, for which he gets the following prices: 100 bushels wheat, 88 cents $ 88 00 30 cords wood, $5 150 00 10 tons timothy hay, $12 120 00 100 bushels corn, 50 cents 60 00 100 bushels oats, 30 cents 30 00 130 dozen eggs, 14 cents 4 20 30 pounds of butter, 15 cents 4 50

Total $457 70

"He and his wife then make the same purchases as in 1858, as follows: 1 Studebaker wagon, with seat $65 00 5 pounds Rio coffee, 20c 1 00 i.0 11'irtds brown sugar, 6c 1 20 5 pounds granulated sugar, 9c 45 20 pounds rice, 8c 1 60 1 pound best green tea 75 2 gallons syrup, 45c 90 1 barrel salt 1 00 2 pair overalls, 40c 80 12 ya ds calico, 5c 60 40 yards (l bolt) bleached muslin, 9c 3 60 1 set granite cups and saucers 45 1 set granite plates 45 1 set knives and forks •. 60 1 dozen half pint tumblers 60 50 wheat sacks, 21c 10 50

Total $i© 50

"After he and his wife have made their purchases he finds he has a balance left from the sales of his produce of §368.20, instead of §32.05 as in 1858, and he exclaims to his wife: 'B'gosh, who'd a thought that farm trucked brought in so much money,' and he goes and buys a two-seat buggy for family use for S9S and a nice top buggy for the oldest unmarried son for $125, and still has §153.20 left to pay harvest hands. "Mr. Anderson, you don't want to talk to Farmer Brown about Democratic free trade being abetter thing for him and his family than Republican tariff. He doesn't want to know anyth'ng about your theory, because he knows from -experience the condition of things in 1858 under free trade and in 1888 under protection. When that difference amounts to $206.68 in the same kind and amount of produce he sells and to §78.00 in the same kind and amount of articles he buys, he knows he is just $285.55 ahead by living in the Republican protective tariff times."

GENERAL GRANT'S SON.

Colonel Fred Grant Talks With a Cincinnati Knquirer lteporter.

Colonel Fred Grant, son of the late General Grant, has been spending several days in the city, stopping at the Burnet house, says yesterday's Enquirer.

He returns this evening with his accomplished wife to New York city, his present residence. Colonel Fred Grant is the very image of his father, has the same deliberate motions, the even balance, the equipoise that gave to the general such a Napoleonic coolness, even in the greatest emergencies.

The colonel is about his father's height and build wears his whiskers trimmed close as his father did. He has an especially genial smile, and is affable and friendly with every body. It is safe to say that no one has been in Cincinnati for many a year who has made as many friends, and so easily and without apparent effort. There is a musical ring in his voice and a fascination in his smile, that destitute of arrogance mark himatonceas a man from and of the people.

Ijist evening he spent with friends, and at a late hour was seen by an Enquirer reporter. The colonel wore a white hat with dark band reaching half way to the top and a pepper-and-salt overcoat. He looked the picture of health, and the ruddy red of his cheeks told the tale of that love of good cheer and eating that is the heirloom of every healthy and wealthy American gentleman. Speaking of his father's memoirs, he said: "There is no especial demand for them now. The sale, you know, rose to over two thousand sets. There is still a demand for it, but it is that demand which attaches to books after the first thrill of curiosity has been satisfied." "Where is Mrs. Grant, your mother?" "At present at Lake George, where she has been spending the summer." "And Mrs, Sartoris?" "Still in England." And then: "lam here, you know, by the request of the committee who gave the award of the equestrian Btatue of my father to Mr.

Louis Rebiaso, which is intended for erection in Chicago." "And your opinion of it?" "I can saj truly that it is more accurate, more true to nature than any photograph ever taken of father. It is simply perfect." "Colonel, you are credited with saying when asked what you would do with the surplus, that it was easier to manage a surplus than a deficit. Is that so?"

The colonel smiled and knocked the ashss off his cigarette, saying: "Yes, I really think it is easier to manage a surplus, than a deficit, don't you?" and with a merry twinkle in his eye he excused himself, as a friend was in waiting.

DANA TO THE DEMOCRATS.

The New York Editor Tells the Plain Truth Abontthe Maine Election.

The following editorial, written by Charles A. Dana in the New York Sun of September 13th, caused a profound sensation in New York among the Democrats:

The cheerful dispatch which Colonel Brice sent from headquarters to Arthur Sewall in Maine, after the returns had come in from that state, bubbles with the carbonic acid gas of aerated campaign politics:

You made a good fight and held your ground. If the Republican party, with all the advantages they had In Maine, could make ro gains ever 1884, when we carried the country, our success In November would seem to be assured, especially if our friends elsewht re make as good a fight as you made In Maine, We can now see that It our national committee had aided you and undertaken to make a fight In your state we could have made a substantial reduction in the Republican majority.

We hope this philosophical conclusion will not lead Colonel Brice to turn his attention away from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Indiana, and to "undertake to make a fight" with a view to carrying Ohio, Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Massachusetts.

There is reason to imagine that Colonel Brice has been contemplating some such Quixotic enterprise. If the lesson in Maine does not convince him of its utter futility, nothing under the Sun can accomplish that desirable result. In the sincerest loyalty to the Democratic cause, and speaking in the interest of permanent and essential success in November rather than with the ephemeral enthusiasm of the blowhards, we therefore address ourselves to the task.

The plain truth about the Maine election is that ingenuity can devise no formula of comparison with past results /hich exhibits the event as a Democratic victory, as an indication of adrift of voters away from Harrison to Cleveland and Thurman, or as encouragement to the notion that any one of the traditionally Republican states of the north can be transferred this year to the Democratic column.

This year the Republican plurality was over the average, and came nearly up to the highest figures ever reached in a September election. The truth is that the Democratic canvass has made no inroads upon the solid Republican vote of Maine. There are no signs of a drift to Mr. Cleveland. If these is any drift it is the other way.

But those Democrats who, like Colonel Brice, think it is the indispensable duty of loyal partisanship to extract sunbeamB from cucumbers say that it is a glorious victory for the Democracy of Maine to hold its own this year when Mr. Blaine has been on the stump, when the fishery treaty was having a bad effect, and when the interests of the protected lumbermen ha,ve been threatened. To get even that amount of consolation they compare the returns with the figures of 1884. That is a fair basis of comparison—fairer, on the whole, than the Republican method of figuring large gains over 1886, which was not a presidential year. But it is not quite so reasonable to hold that the Republicans have had exceptional advantage in position in the canvass just ended. It is true that Mr. Blaine has been on the stump, but in 1884 he was the Republican candidate for president, and not only the Blaine machine but every Blaine Republican in Maine had stimulus to do the utmost. It is true that the lumber interest was threatened, but where is the manufacturing state which has not some important interest which a free trade movement threatens? The Democracy's candidate for governor this year is a man of large calibre and of wider reputation and popularity than the Republican candidate, who is a somewhat obscure politician and apparently a rather commonplace individual. So far as the personal and social element counted, it counted for the Democrats, and up to election day the Democratic managers believed and predicted that Mr. Putnam would capture many Republican votes. The nomination of Mr. Burleigh left some hard feelings on the part of the Republican bosses in at least apart of the state, and his candidacy at no time inspired enthusiasm. More than all, the whole power of the federal offices in Maine, in past presidential years turned with tremendous effect against the Democratic organization, has worked this year with it and for its ticket. This reversal of former conditions counted double as a Democratic advantage.

We present these facts about the Maine election, first, because they are the truth of the matter, and it is our business as a newspaper to tell the truth and, secondly, because a right understanding of their significance will serve as a wholesome corrective to the scatterbrain policy that has seemed to meet with favor in West Twenty-ninth street, judging by some official expressions that come from that quarter.

Maine does not say to the National Democracy, "I lead the way to certain and glorious victory in November!" What, she does is this: "You have hard work before you put it in where it will do the most good! Waste no time, money, or nerve tissue in the hopeless endeavor to wrest Republican states from the Republican column. Devote every remaining hour of time, every dollar of President Cleveland's §10,000 contribution, every ohm of electrical energy incorporate in your campaign committee to the canvass in the doubtful states where

victorv

is possible, and which,

if

carried, will elect Cleveland and Thur man!"

Sullivan a Very Sick Man.

John L. Suliivan is very ill of gastric fever at Trenton Cottage, Crescent Beach, Mass. Several weeks ago his health became so poor that he concluded to go to the seashore, in the belief that the change would benefit him. Instead of getting better however, he is getting worse. The doctors, however, say he will pull through all right. The champion's friends don't like to dispute the statements of the physician, but they are inclined to believe that Sullivan's fighting days are over. His illness is indirectly the result of his recent debauch.

Somewhat Invidious*

Customer (having finished his dinner) —Er-about what is your customary tip, waiter?

Waiter—It varies somewhat, sah, 'cordin' to thegemmen hiaself. De meanest man what ever come into de place, Bah, guv me 10 cents.—[Epoch.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

THE BCSTLK.

Oh, the blooming, blooming bustle, The flouncing, bouncing bustle. The heaving, weaving bustle

That the maid of fashion wears

How it quaps and quakes and quivers, How It oscillates and shivers. "iHow it shocks all modest livers

When In public it appears.

When extended and expanded As by fashion Is demanded. I think If you are candid

With me you will agree.

That this absurd Illusion Is a snare and a delusion. And conducive to confusion

In a very high degree. —[Detroit Free Press.

Thirty million trees have been planted in Kansas this year. The cow bell has been adopted as a political emblem in Wisconsin. It, calls the clans together.

Santa Rosa, Cal., has a floral curiosity in the shape of a hollyhock bush that bears jet black flowers.

An artesian well, sunk under the salt waters of New York bay, on the Jersey side, produces pure fresh water in abundance.

There are eight mission

Bhips

now

cruising in the North sea, each a combination of church, chapel, temperance hall and dispensary.

In Prance there are 22,313 national schools for girls and 37,924 for boys. The first named are conducted by female teachers and the last by males.

A volume of Matthew Arnold's miscellaneous essays, which have not hitherto been collected, will, it is said, be published about the end of this year.

A Connecticut couple couldn't agree on a physician to attend one of their children, and a squabble which followed now has its outcome in a suit for divorce instituted by the wife.

The finest and most prolific crop of grapes exer grown in the Hudson River valley is now being shipped to market. The yield will exceed that of any previous year by 9,000 tons.

Five years ago a Christian Police Association was organized in London. It now has a membership of 4,000 and 153 branches, which extend as far as Singapore, Tasmania, South Africa and Canada.

As a coffin was being lowered into a grave in a cemetery in Vienna it fell in such a manner as to cause the lid to come off and the corpse to fall out head foremost. Three of the mourners fainted.

There is only one tree on L. A. Rumph's fruit farm in Houston county, Ga., that produced a crop of peaches this year. The gross returns from this tree, however, amounted to $58, yielding a net profit of $45.

AH artistic colony in the Catskills has named its cottages after wild flowers. Among others is the "Bachelor's Button," owned by a little artist who apparently has no realization of the forlornness of his condition.

British Columbia Indians are coming over to Washington territory to help gather the hop crop. The advance fleet of canoes contained about three hundred men, women and children. The crop is extraordinarily large.

The greatest span of a cantilever bridge is that of the Forth bridge, which will be finished in October, 1889. It has two of 1,710 each. Its extreme height will be 361 feet above high water, the foundations going ninety-one feet below highwater.

The popular dread of green on account of suspicion of arsenic in its composition seems to have disappeared, if one may believe the report that green will be the fashionable color for the winter, and will appear in wall paper, draperies and ribbons.

There is a granite house in Rowan county, Virginia, built in 1766, and is still owned and occupied by the descendents of the man who built it. The fireplace is eight feet wide, five feet high and five feet deep the house is in a good state of preservation.

Mountain travelers are rewarded by the finest views of the season. Clear, cool air and high, soaring clouds bring out the mountain peaks to view with wonderful distinctness. This is the time for nature's beauty reserved for those who waited.

The telephone was allowed to be us«d on Sunday for the first time in London a few weeks ago. The managers of the company, it is said, had grave doubts about the result of such an innovation, but the large use that was made of the privilege satisfied them.

At an inquest on a Cheshire farm servant it was testified that the deceased, only 17, had worked the whole of that week, getting only three hours' rest each night. A companion of the dead man said: "It is the custom. If you won't go somebody else will."

A novel electric railway has been completed, running from the shore of Lake Lucerne over abed cut in the solid rock to the summit of the Burgenstock, 1,330 feet up. It has a gradient of from 32 to 58 percent. The electricity is generated by a water wheel in the River Aar.

One Banks, a young man from New York City, recently fell headlong over one of theJCaaterskill Falls, in the Catskill Mountains, a distance of eighty feet. He landed in a pool of water, and was thus saved from instant death. He was badly injured, though, and it is thought will die.

Hunt's pictures on the wall of the assembly chamber at Albany will be covered or destroyed, because it is impossible to remove them unless the stone on which they are painted are sawed out. The indifference about their fate is due probably to the fact that the pictures are much injured by dampness.

James Wal'acb, a distinguished engineer of Sydney, New South Wales, is engaged in working at a patent which he is confident will fairly revolutionize ocean travel. It is a steamship that will m£ke sixty miles an hour. When this is accomplished a trip across the Atlantic will be made in a little over two days.

A company in Paris is prepared to supply cabs with electric lights, aigrettes for the head of the horses and the coachman and footman, and exterior and interior lanterns for the cab,

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Sixteen-year-old Sherman Small, of North Cheeterville, Ma, decided that he wanted to be a pirate, and, as a preliminary, ran away and walked to Gardiner, where he hoped to find one of the long, low, black, rakish vessels, of which he had read. He didn't find it, and he didn't find anything that his fancy had pictured, and that night, as he wandered along the wharves, a night watchman collared him and took him to the lockup, and there Sherman saw four drunken sailors, and they didn't fit the picture that his mind. had drawn, and Sherman wept bitterly and begged for a chance to walk back to North Chesterville, and when it was granted to him he started briskly homewaiH.

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