Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1888 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. "WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8 18881

BT Xf. J. CiP TERMS FEB TEAK. Knfle Copy, without Premium MIHIIW fl 00 6 00 Clubs et ilx for. We ask Democrats to beer In mind and ielect their own Bute paper when they come to utt lubscripUons and make up cluba. genta making up clubs een J lor any InformaHorn desired. Address 1iIIJLNi.poLI;? SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Lad. Thk Republican party in Kansas has brought about a happy condition of thing. The prohibitionists have all the law they trant, and the whisky-drinkers have all the whisky they want. So Bays Senator Ingalls. Cosgeess is determined to make the law relating to horse stealing in the Indian Territory more severe than has prevailed The penalty hitherto for stealing a horse in the Indian Territory has been a fine of 3l,O0 and imprisonment not exceeding one year, but hereafter imprisonment may extend to fifteen years. Thk wires tell the story that a little girl living in Brooklyn got two years in arrears in her subscription for the Youths' Companion. The misfortune quite overca me her, and she wrote to the President, stating the case, whereupon the President inclosed a f 5 bill to the publishers, and remarked that the little girl might yet be a President's wife. After paying arrears of subscription there was a "surplus," 'which goes to the credit of the fortunate Jittlegirl. Me. Charles A. Pillbcrv, of Minneapolis, hitherto an ardent admirer and supporter of Blaine, having made a visit to 'ew York, baa concluded that Blaine won't do for a Presidental candidate. If lie is the nominee Mr. Pillbury is confident ihat New York will go "overwhelmingly for Cleveland," and adds, "a great many republicans who were afraid to vote for Cleveland before will now have no hesitiacy in doing so cow, after his administration of a3eirs." That probably is as near the "God's truth" in the matteras it is possi tie to state the case. Old maw Singer made sewing machines, and he made money at the business. He died worih $20,003,000. He had a daughter named Isabella da ache, who received f 1,500,000 as her share of the $20,000,000, and now Isabella B'anche has married J ean - Elia Octavo - Louia-Lsver-Amanie w Due Decazes and de Glucksburg, who belongs to an old family of Boar bo n royalists. Isabella Blanche's fortune is now $3,000,000 or 15,000,000 francs, which she pays for the privilege of being Dachesse Decazes, which isn't worth fifteen cents. Due Decazes will now have a good time of it while the 15,000,000 franci last. Ordinarily, the sum might suffice for a life time, but will doubtless go to support the bankrupt aristocracy of France, who live in the hope that some time In the future a kingdom will take the place of the Eepnblic, when all the odds and ends of the French arisJocracy will run the machine again. Ose thing is very certain, there is altogether too much gashy talk about Mrs. Grover Cleveland. It is becoming absolutely nauseating. Bat it were useless to complain. The Niagara Sow of twaddle will go on, and we shall continue to hear about the "first lady of the land'' nntil her husband goes back to the ranks of private citizens. Mrs. Cleveland is doubtless good looking and a woman of more than an average share of common sense, and is to be commended for acting her part prudently as mistress of the "White House fcr the time being, but the ceasless glorification of the lady smacks of codfish, a piebald effort to transfer the old "White House into a palace and its inmstes into a sort of royalty, totally oat of place in a Republic and under a Government which ignores titles and the entire brood of Bhams prevailing in the courts of the jjecaymg monarchies of the world. It is not to be said that Mr. and Mr3. Cleveland are fond of such things, and it ought to be understood that they regard the tomfoolery wi th prudent disgust. Thk Chicago Times, referring to a rexnark of a London correspondent touching ihe memory of Lord Byron, intimating that the British matron and the clergy are Btill shocked at the poet's "social sins and bis Don Juan, Bays: "These plaints at what is termed neglect of Byron's memory axe about as Dröper as they woald be if applied to Aristophanes or Sappho or Plan tus or Horace. Eich has erected a monu ment '"more enduring than brass," and the social sins of none of them can tarnish it, nor, In fact, erase the lines thereon. Placlug an iiiuiur a uusi is u jr uow vuiu. la a ridiculous and feeble effort to tamper With the unerring verdict of tims." When Bvron had written the last stanza of Chllde Harold's Pilgrimage, nothing more was required to establish the poet's memory. After that there was no necessity for busts, atataes and monuments. The present is an age of monument building. Aside from the fact that it gives employment to skillful stone-cutters, and makes the bronze and brass market somewhat more acüve, there la little or nothing in the conuxent building business. ana roslöFF.Cß and the Indiana. FARMER. The statement made by the News a few" davs tince, that the Indiana Farmer had arrac-ed with the superintendent of the poatc'.:.ce to; pay lor the distribution of that ? per when it was mailed, has grown into i assertion of the fact in the Journal of jt ierday that the publishers of newspapers wp:3 compelled to furnish help to set their papers handled at the postoffice, show .:g what a small superstructure of fact i amor V fact the necessary on which to found a large at of misrepresentation. have taken pains to inquire into the i the case at the postoffice, and find uth to be aa follows: For two or veeki during the holidays, the force ' postoffice was worked day and night, ttnr ,ome extra help employed to keep cles-ofthe ex raordinary accumulations -Ot n..l, and that daring that Um some Jelja were unavoidable, though auch dt-

lays rarely happened to regular nawspapers. The proprietors of the Farmer called at the postoffice and complained that their subscribers were not receiving their papers promptly, and when told that the office was doing all that it could to get everything off, offered to pay any extra man tne office would employ to throw oft their papers on the day it was mailed. The assistant postmaster thanked the proprietors of the Farmer, and told them lf it became necessary to employ an extra man at their expense, he would notify them. No such notice has been given, and no man has been employed at the expense of the Farmer or any other paper; but, by

hard work and extra hours, the office has been able to keep itself clear. row, as to the. Indiana Farmer and the cause'of complaints by its subscribers. The Farmer is brought Into the office in small lots irom xuesaay to Saturday: as all are dated Tuesday, those mailed on Baturdry must appear stale to their patrons. Bat besides this delay, arising from their own fault, there are from one hundred to one hundred and fifty papers every week 'without direction or misdirected, which are returned. Many of these being single papers without directions, it is im possible to tell for whom thev were intended, and these subscribers get no papers for that week; hence complaints, which are charged to the postoffice. Tne postoffice people say they would not be so par ticular to expose the shortcomings of the Farmer if they had not immediately upon having secured what taey ajzsd lor, as a favor, rushed to the Nswa offic? 7iti te information an i set them ii growling at the postcflice. The News loves to bark at the Indianap olis postoffice. and the Journal, not to be outdone by any small dog of the press, joins in the howl and asserts that the "In diana Farmer is already assisting in the work of the government at its own ex pense." A postonice man suggests that tne pro prietor of the Farmer expend the money he intended for the postoffice in paying a competent cierk to direct his papers Possess your souls in patience, gentlemen of the Republican press. The growth of the country has been so rapid, and the increase of prosperity and business so great under Democratic rule, that the appropriations of Congress have not been large enough to meet the demands. Bat experience will remedy all this; appropriations will be in creased, more help will be furnished the postoffices of the country, the soreheads ill get accustomed to the situation, and everything will he lovely. THB CR0P3 OF 1887. The Department of Agriculture at Washington has issued a report showing the production of the three crops, corn, wheat and oata, for the year 1SS7, as also for eight years from 13-J) to 1357, both in clusive. The corn crop of the United States for 137 amounted to 1.156.101,000 bushels, grown upon 72.392,720 acres, and is valued at $G16.19G 770, which is at the rate of 11.1 per bushel. For the eight years past the total product of corn has been 12, 933,743,533, valued at $551.442. 1U, the aver age product being l,flG,713,567, the average number of acres planted 6S 930,270, the average annual value $G7G,71211, and the average price 41.9 cents per bushel. The home consumption of corn during the past eight years has been 27.5 per capita. It will be observed that the acres planted la 1837 was above the average for eight years, by 3, 4(2.4öO acres, and the product was below the average for the same period 100,557,57 bushels, but the price was 2 5 cents a bushel above the avers ce, but this increase in price still left the value of the crop $ ;0, (",M1 below the average for eight years. The wheat crop of 1S.37 reached 4",32,000 bushels, grown upon 37,841,033 acres, valued at 03.1 cents per bushel.or $310,612, -0, It will be seen that the value of the wheat crop is less than that of corn for th ytarl37, by $210,829,200, but wheat, in commercial affairs, is accorded a much higher place than corn, because of its ex port demand. The report states the fact tbat the increase of wheat production has been in excess of consumption, that the increase for a period of eight years has been 44 per cent , while the Increasing Donulation has been only 23 per cent r r - Wheat growing in the United States was stimulated greatly between 1375 and 1330 by a series of crop failures in Western Europe, causing a demand which never exited before, has not existed since, and mav never again, and this fact accounts for the low price of wheat. The production of 1337, says the report, Is am Die for the wants of the country, and for an xportation ot about 123.000,000 bush els, without trenching upon the small re serves of previous harvests. The estimates of production, as recorded ia our reports, average 443,000,000 bushels in round nam bers for seven years since 1330, not includ ing the present year. The exportation av e rages nearly 121,000.000 bushels, and with estimates of seed and bread the entire distribution averages 4 17 ,000,000 bushels. The differ nee is less than the losses by fire and foundnrinz en route to market. These figures may not be absolute proof of the ac curacy of the estimates, because the con sumption itself is estimated. Bat as no one hai furnished evidence to disprove the accuracy of thente ot consumption ot 4rj bushels per capita, there Is no p?gln exist ence upon which to hang a doubt of the substantial verity of the estimates. The report places the consumption ot wheat in the United States at four and two-thirds bushels per capita, while in Oreat Britain it ia placed at five buahels per capita, and this fact presents this singular Situation. England for the past fifteen years has imported an average of 121,250,572 bnshela of wheat a year, of this the United States has supplied annually 01,977,122 bushels, and yet the people of Great Britain consume one-third buihel of wheat annually per capita more than the people ot the United 8tates- It la worth while to state that in 1337 Indiana was the banner wheat producing State, and 1b credited with 37,323,000 bushels. Dakota, a Territory, however, stands first in the list, havinr produced 52,406.000 buahela. Three States, Rhode Island, Florida aai'Louiaiioa, prod iced no wheat, and were therefore required to bay all their bread. The oats crop

ia steadily increasing in quantity,

and in 1387 amounted to 9 65 .613,000 bushels, grown upon 25,920,900 acrea, and valued at $200,699,790. It is said that the use oi oatmeal as food lor man has eniarg ed the demand for oata. and the necessity of partial substitution of oats for corn in the feeding of horses in the South is steadi ly enlarging the requirement in that di rection. The area has increased propor tionally more than that of wheat or corn, and the price has declined less, showing the need of a larger supply than formerly for domestic consumption. This fact has the greater significance, as it exists without any appreciable foreign demand. The value of the three crops we have noticed in this article for the year 1SS7, amounted to $1,177,419,520. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE "The politicul effect of the message," is the caption of a paper from the pen of Mr Bai lard Smith, in the January number of the North American F.eview. The article, in so far as it discusses the "political ef fect" of Mr. Cleveland's message, may be well enough, and if not presenting anything of special consequence to the public, or adding anything to the general fund of Information upon the subject of which it treats, it may, nevertheless, have certain value with a class of readers who are pleased with stories which convey the idea that the present is an aire of miracles. Take, for instance, the following: "Fight years ago President Cleveland was not a particularly conspicuous lawyer of Buflalo, with probably little political ambition, and certainly no apparent pros pect of a political future." That certainly makes Mr. Cleveland suf ficiently obscure to suit the fancy of any one who wants bed-rock facta for a miracle. The writer continues. "He was a remarkably conscientious lawyer throughout, and devoted himself to his law books, largely to the exclusion of reading matter of any other sort." Here we have it, that Mr. Cleveland was about as ignorant of current events as it was possible to find any man of ordinary intelligence in the country. He simply read law books. Again says the writer. "When, for instance, he was nominated for Governor of New York, in September, 13S2, it may reasonablv be asserted that he bad never read a book upon political econ omy, and that the intricacies or the taria question, as applied to this new country, with its entirely novel requirements, were to bim as mystical and unsought as the resultants of the dream of Swedenborg." Now, here we have it that Mr. Cleveland, up to the age of over forty years, had never read a book on political economy. and therefore must have been grossly igno rant of all facts and theories relating to the subject; and as for the tariff, he was, if possible, still more profoundly ignorant. If he had ever thought upon such subjects at all, it had been to regard them as vagaries as foolish as the dreams of S wedenborg, Now for the miracle, says Mr. Smith: "That was six years ago. Tho other day he wrote a message concerning the tariff upon the broadest lines of the great subject, and expressed his views in such a simple and straighforward fashion as Implied the fullest knowledge, and apparently, the closest study of every authority." li ere we nave the miracle. The man who had never read a book on political economy, and bad treated tne tana as a species o! Sweedenborgism, suddenly stands forth conspicuous for learning. w'sdom, comprehension of the very sub jtcts aooai wmca air. ornun regarus it 1 - A L " 1 If. O . L 1 reasonable to assert he had never, for more than forty years, studied, thought of or read of and yet Mr. Smith contends th&t by hook or crook, when Mr. Cleveland cane to write his message he understood the tariff question thoroughly. We prefer to believe that Mr. Cleveland is no miracu lous production. "We prefer to believe that Mr. Cleveland has been all his life a student; that he had read works on political economy and the tariff; that he fairly com prehended the intricacies of the tar i ft, had matured opinions on political economy and tariff, and that he knew of other politicians than Samuel J. Tilden who ha 2 adorned the history of the country. Nor do we believe that Mr. Cleveland, previous to eight years ago, had studied men only "in groups of twelve'' indeed, we are forced to the conclusion that Mr. Smith is poorly equipped to write of Mr. Cleveland previous to "eieht years ago." Mr. Cleveland, regardlets oi "political ambition," was a great man when he was a lawyer that is, he had mental power which made him great in the eyes of the people. He has not learned everything he knows in eight years, and his present status as a politician and statesman is not the result of mysteri ous influences. Ina word, Grover Cleve land is not a miracle, but on the contrary, a stalwart, robust production, capable and honest, the result of study, thought, read mg. is or is ne by any means tlie first or the only specimen that America has produced. Mr. Smith's view of Mr. Cleveland's life and habits until he was more than forty years of age are not complimentary, nor do we believe they are in any sense just Indeed, they cannot be correct. They are out of the usual order. Such talk would inculcate tne idea mat men grasp ana master questions without preparation which results from reading and study. The advance made by Mr. Cleveland from obscurity to emi nence Is doubtlees phenomenal, unusual, but the fact that he has ehgwn Mmielf !qual to every position Which has been thrust upon him, is indubitable proof that he had been from his early manhood a slodent of all questions pertaining to the science of government politics, in the best sense of the term. When, from the office of Mayor of a smallclty, he became Governorjof the Empire State of New York, he was equal to the high responsibilities of the position. He evinced a familiarity with books other than law books, nor could it be reasonably asserted that he has never read a book on political economy, or that the "intricacies of the tariff question Wi.i to him aa mystical as the resultants of the dreams of Swedenborg." When Grover Cleveland was called to the office of Governor of New York, he was equipped by study for the position, and when eboeeü for his present hign office, he demonstrated that la reading, study, thought, he wai prepared to take the helm of the ship of atate, and in storm or calm keep her on a course of unexampled prosperity.

THE POST'S CORNER.

When the Sun Went Dawn. New York Graphic His parents, they objected, and her father, he saia "no, But Paul, be followed sweet Pauline wherever Bhe did go; Ue rowed across the river, for they lived afar from town. And thev met beneath the beeches wbeu the sun went aown, CHORCS. When the son went down, when the sun went down. And tbev met beneath the beeches when the sun went aown. She lived across the river and he In Ohio, And a white cloth on the rose-bush toll the lover when to eo: Tbat meant that "Pa has gone away, you need not tear nis irown." So young Paul rowed the river when the sun went aown. Oh, tbe twilight is for kisses, vulgar day is not lor love. For Uie lovers' star is Venus, fair and tar she smnes above; Handsome Paul and pretty Pauline sat on tree trunk bare and brown. As he just bad rowed the river when the sun went down. And they talked, cheeks close together, of a weddiDi? and a niznt, One had come in boat so lonely, but .it carried two that nignt; For at Aberdeen they landed and were married in the town, Such a handsome, happy couple, as the sun went down, CHORCS. When the sun want down, when the sun went down. And they didn't sit late talking when the sun wentdoirn. illiam kisnear, The Gretna Green of Kentucky lovers. Mothei'a Slipper. It's mighty cur'ns, so It Is, how these here poeis try To bi ing a sympathetic tear to some roor feller s eyes; A-rhymin' and a-singin' of mother's love and care. An touch in' on her laded gown, or stout, oldfashioned cnair. But none of 'em, I've noticed, an' I've won dered o er and o er. Has sung about the slipper that my good old motner wore. I recollect as well as If 'twas on'ly yesterday NVhen it seemed a drefful waste ol time to btudy 'tteaao play With other little yourjgsters who were hookln' ou irom scnooi An' Roin' to the swix&minn'-bole, so shady, ceer an cooi. An' many a time I'd missed my chance through lea mm s neigots to soar. Ei 'twernt for the slipper that my good old mother wore. An' latter when the female sex besan to inter est An' other fellers called on gals, all dressed up in their best. 8he knowed that though I couldn't keep my self to save my life. That like as not I'd unlertake the surportin' oi a wife: But I waited for mature yers and her whom I adore All owin' to the slipper that my good old moth er wore. She's a settin' in her arm-chair now, a smilin all ben 1 ltd. A-talkin' to our neighbors 'bout that "growniin son of mine " An' she tells of all the time she felt obliged myseuto wnaie, To keep me out of prison, or at very least from jan: Au' he aller makes me own that I'd been there lone before. F.f It wasn't for the slipper tiat my good old mother wore. Husband and Heathen. Yankee Blade. O'er the men ot Ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia. And shower wealth and plenty on the people oi japan. Send down jolly, cake and candies to theladians oi tne Andes, And a caro of plam pudding to the men of liincoostaa; And she said she loved 'em so, liuBbman, Flan, Kkimo. If si it! bad the wings. of eagles to their succor Bbe wonld ny, leaded down with jura and jelly, Succotash and vermicelli. Prunes, pomegranates, piums. and pudding, peaches, pineapple and p.e. She would fly with soeedy succor to the natives et Molucca. With whole loa lso! quail and saloon, and with tons of fricassee. And give cakes in lullest measure To the men oi Australasia And all the Archipelagoes that dot the South ern bea ; And the Anthropophagi, All their lives deprived of pie. She would satiate ana satisfy with custard, cream, and mtnee; And those miserable Australians, And the Bonioboorighalians. She would gorge with choicest jelly, raspberry, eurrant, grape, and quince. r.ut, like old war time hard tackers, her poor nusDand lived on crackers Bought at wholesale from a baker, eaten from tbe mantel shelf: If the men of Madagascar, Ar d the natives of AUf-ka. Had enoutth to sate their huager. let him look out lor mmseii. And his coat had but ono tail, And he used a shingle nail To Ii-ten up his gallus when he went oat to his work: And she used to spend his money To buy sugar pluuisand boner For the Terra del Fuegian and the Turcoman and lurk. Fate. Tid-Bits. Tbe beauteous night fell o'er us like a mist. Throueh which I saw the glory of her eyes Umpoken sain within their sombre depths, Like stormy seas sleeping 'neath stormy skies. isy stars uukissea. 1 saw the clustered brightness of her hair, 1CU-(U1U UBiU IUUUU HCl nCAHOU 1M.C. Where one could read, in dreamy lips and eyes. lbat sorrows band had left its blighting trace Forever there. I pleaded of my love, but all in vain; nne ouiy ga.ed in the dim afar, A hunted look within her dusky eyes, Fixed on the swift, bright falling of a star, In silent pain. "Tell me." I cried, while slowly at her feet, I told the loneine or mv throbblne heart: "What is this cloud that o'er your young life loans? Can 1 of Its deep anguish bear no part, No burden sweet?' She spoke no word to me, but drew her hood Of tlimv lace from offher red-gold hair. And rotated, with a white and shuddering hand, Across the gay and dusky dark to where A wliitt h'trtc nt'xxV. A TUton. Babyhood. Perchance my thought was wide awake, or 1 was dreamiDg, may be, As I rat rocking to and fro, ISj arms around my baby. I felt along my cheek and throat Ii er rosy fingers playing. And stooped to kiss the sunny curls About her forehead straying. The foolish rhymes of Mother Gooie In time and tune came springing To lips not made for song: and yet My children like my singing. And as I sang a mystic Fpell Changed all the world completely, Another woman singing sat. And rocked her baby sweetly. The woman's face, a look it wore Like mine; and yet the rather Twas like my baby's larger grown, Tu like my baby's father. And as she, swaying, softly sang, I taw some tear drops falling; I knew her thoughts, I knew her heart, Her heart to mother calling. A sudden passion filled my soul, I longed to sooth the weeping: My baoy stirred upon my breast. My baby gently sleeping ! The vision fled, yet well I know. Though I was dreaming, may be, Far down the future aits my child Mas. Georg a Archibald. A Winter Day Dream. Boston Courier. Upon a flowery bank I lie And watch the swallows aallinc by riwill winged along the rlver'a brink;

The watch dog'a distant bark I hear, The rooster's clarion shrill ind clear, Bovond the wooded hill, anl near The carol of the bobolink. The far off islets, creeks and bays Lie shimmering In the goiden haze Beneath a blue and cloudless sky I caze around me and admire The sunbeams gild a distant spire And butterflies with wings of fire Come hitting round me where I lie. I see the mower leave the field To seek the shade the branches yield, While his perspiring brow he wipes But now the vision fades away; I hear a voice half angry say, 'John, will that plumber come to-day To thaw those frozen water pipes'."

Ilefore the Rain. Harper's Monthly. The Mackctpg pipe among the reeds, And there'll be rain to follow; There is a murmur as of wind In every coign and hollow; The wrens do chatter of their ftars While swinging ou the barley ears. Come, hurry, while there is time, lull up thy scarlet bonnet, Now, sweetheart as my love is thine, There is a drop upon it. Fo trip it ere the storm hag weird Doth pluck the barley by the beard. Lo not a whit to soon we're housed: The storm witch yell above us; Tbe branches rapping on the panes Seem not in truth to love us. And look where throug the clover bush The nimble-footed rain doth rush ! Am eue Eive;: KNOTTY PROBLEMS. four readers are invited to furnish original enigmas, charades, riddles, rebuses, and o:her Knotty rroDiems." addressing all communi cations relative to this department to . B, cnaaoourn, ixwistou, Maine.) Ho. 22104. Cruel Bird. I did in idle fashion stray Along the moorland jeMenlsy; 1 saw a rare bird whiftle by tn tmuiant wings it emed to tiy ; A little buzzing sonv it sung. It had a forked and pionous tonguj. A gallant eatrle sai'ea aloft A cliff o'erhung with uerbage soft: And seemed, with ralin untlinchinr eve, To contemplate the .nh and sky. straight did the iiyn g falcon dart. And strike the gazer to the heart, W bo shook, his noble bosom bled. And o'er the cliS bn tumMed dead. Down fell tbe murderouihawk also. Its Dame and nature do you know? A slim, wasp-waisted. cruel thing, And most unerring on the wing. J , A. Mo. 2250, A. Charade. I never knew A one that two. Kor yet that stood or sat. did you? And still I know That he can go Through water in a way not slow. If you should be From banks of Iee My meaning you will straightway see When I tell yon My one, two, two, Just as ' a little horse" can do, Franzi. Ho. 8351 A Doctor' Enigma. "Myl, 10, 9,11, 4C, 32, S3, 34, 20, 20, 21 deadens bensiDiuty. My 28. 15. 16.17. 13. 1I. 21. 2-2. 2?. 37!32 promotes aisccarges irom tne lungs. My 5, l a ii. ou, oi increanes strength and gives vigor or action to tne system. My 8. '., is. 4.5. 9. 7. 20, H. 4 is a purgative. My 45, 47,2, 1. 19, 50, 4'.). 52 assuages pain. My 29. 10. 3. 10, 37. 33 allays pain. My 37, 1, 18, 21, SO, 5, 44, 21 relieves pain and produces sitop. My 1. 37. 5. 50. 40, 6. 5, 23 counteracts the effects Of poison. My ö v. si, 2t. so, u, au, a, iu. a produces a tran sient increase ot vital energy. My 45, 'J. 31, 50. 27, l, u, 13 produces ptyallsm. My 16. 7, 4'A 2.. z. iu. l'j. öu. 4J. 51 la an anti dote previously taken. My whole oi53 letters expressss wnat usual ly proves true. c. i. ii. w. Ho. 2252 A Transposition, K a tire, as I stand. Great power I command Transpose, and my power is less. Though slow, in our way We try to obey The voice of the Master we bless. Transpose me once more. And. somewhat as before. You will lind that in numbers we're two; Yet. an article good, Daily eaten as food By transposing again t omes to view, Again, you will see A persuader in me, For the wildest of natures I've bent. Though of letters I've five. You'll observe 1 contrive Five faces aiso to present. Uriah. ;No- 222 1 a Tableau. STEHE I. ITere is a rig for transportation; It will carry us ever the Nation, liatk and forth, from station to station. SCENE 2. A domestic brute, you plainly see .""lands between both me aud thee: "Tit, tat, toe, three in a row;" one, two, three! SCENE 3. This is a color you all csn see; ( ne of the colors of the three On the banner of the free. SCENE 4. Now we come to the consummation: See the pictures of men oi our Nation, Comicalized through imagination. Aktibcs uaur.ENTlNs. No. 2251 Authors in a Story. NAVE THEM. Little JImmie Willis often went to play on the green bant ot his mothers cottage, but she nai otten told him to keeD oil' the street, and never try to get through tbe heüRe which loaned a fence between her home and tne miner a. one day Dick Knsley and Dan Penant came across the common in great glee, seeing Jimmle sitting there alone, watching the young lambs frisk aroun, tuey stopped to ten mm a funny story about old White-htad. as they called tbe miller, one said he had screamed like a wild eagle, while the other howled like a wolf ever so many times, until they made the miller, who was an old hunter, really thick there was game In the wood worth bunting. They told him about the miller coming out with dog and gun to catc h them as they dodged iu and out of the woods on the bants ot the creek, but satd noth ing of the fright they got when a bullet whizzed through the busnes just above tneir heads. Dan and Dick wanted to make themselves, as well as Jimmie. think they had been having real fun, and they might have doue so if the miller and his dog had kept out oi signt, but when Jimmie saw how the boys took to the street he knew they were not very happy after all. a. a. No 2233 A Kiddie. Iiis tongue is Quick to talsify, I'nlike George Washington's in youth; But if be 6ays he alwsy lies, lie lies, for then he speaks the truth, To put bim on a witness stand ere wrong, he can not aand upright; lie Rives no color to his thoughts Iiis words are either black or white. J . A. Prizes for February. The sender of tbe best lot of answers to the "Knotty rrob'ems" published during February will receive "A Hundred Wonders of the World. ' a tine volume, containiug beautiful illustrations of the marvellous things described. A suitable nrizewillalsobe awarded :ior the second mi in size. Solutions must be forwarded weekly, ml should be entered in the competition, even if verr few. lt this coutest be even more vig orous aud lively than the last. Answers. 2234 The old year and the new. 2235 Terrible railioad acci dent. 9ilf 'The softly warbled song comes from the pleas ant woods And colored wings g'ance quick In the bright gun.' lNGFtI.l,OW. 5"7- kosp-ate. 2-j;; fctedman. Thaxter. LoncfeKHlow, Whlttler. Ijiiikt. l.arcoin. !todlard. (ioodaleUolmes, Hunt, baxe, Lowell, Carle, Poe, Hart, Eniprson. j-2V)-i. Landlock. 2. ixcker. 3. r.rrani. 4. Hinted. 5 Kdda. C. Dado. 7. Dolor. 2210 A-corn. A Republican Invention. Michigan City Dispatch. fitatn Ronator Weir, of La forte, writes very emphatic letters In regard to the taHv ko. et forerrv, bo cava the KendallTille News. This is all very commendable. and no one will question his position, but it would be well enough to atate that changing tally sheets ia a Republican in vention, it naa us oriRia in tne douiu, when tbe carpet-baggers held eway down there, and the first onslaught made upon tally Sheets was in ltnu, wnen nr. iuam was counted out of the Presidency. Tbe acoundreli, however, were rewarded for their infamy by giving; them fat poaitlona in the government, initiad ot sending them to prison.

A RELIC OF THE WAR

1 Chicago Compmy Prepiriaf ta Bay Libby Priton is x Spesalxtion. Ths Oil Stractari to bs Tnnsported to th) Windy City mi Rebuilt T&fl Coat of Removing ml Kecinstrnctinz AI reiiy reared Oat. To be Set up as a Curiosity In a Central Part of tbe City No Bloody Shirt Shriek in the Scheme. Chicago, February 5. A new depart ure in tbe line of relic worship haa been taken in this city. The preliminary steps for the formation of a corporation whose object is the purchase and removal to this city of the famous Libby i'rison. of Richmond, Vs., were taken here yesterday. The gentlemen who figure as the commissioners, and who are instrumental In organizing and developing tbe scheme, e -.et rs. William Ii. Uray, jjsiah Ht.tv, John A. Crawford and CnarlesK. Mil'tr, all Chicago men. The company ,il have a capital of $100. 090, and it is nrnieistood that all the s .ock has already b. : . Hf phed for. The history of the en- ,! is best told in the words of Mr. WiMlaro H. Gray, to whom is due the crtM c f its inception. "Last November," said he to a reoorter, 'wbn I was traveliB' through Eis tern Viiioiawith Judge Moore, of Toledo, we nieten the road between Old Point Comfor . "A Richmond Col. Birnes, a for mer othcer in the uoniederate army, ana at p'esent engaged in the business of fruit m V 1 eroving on a large iarm near uicnmona. In the courts of a conversation on the evf nts of the war reference was made to the old Libby Prison, and it occurred to me that it would be a gooa iaea to purchase the building and transport it to Chicago. I took Col. Barnes into my oonfidence and asked him to ascertain ii the property coma he purchased. Shortly after my return I received a letter from Rawlings & Rose, real estate dealers in Richmond, stating that the old prison was now the property of the Southern Fertilizing ComDanv, and tbat it could be purchased for 0J9. At my request Mr. Crawford, the general superintendent of the Chicago TowiDg Company, went to Richmond and looked over the ground and investigated the possibility of moving the building. He returned fall of enthusiasm for the enterprise. '.Some further correspondence with the real estate firm mentioned resulted in their obtaining for me an option for thirty days on the property. The option cost j nst u. 'The building," continued Mr. uray, 'is built of red brick, three stories high, and covered with an old-fashioned gable roof. It fronts on Cary street and runs back almost to the James River, the first 8 tor j in the rear being the basement in the front. It waa built in the good, oid-iisa-ioned substantial manner which is a distinguishing feature of the plain archi tecture of tbe boutn, and is aa soua to-day as when erected over fifty years ago. It contains about f!00,000 bricks, stone caps and sills, and is surrounded on three sides by a stone Bidewalk. I have consulted with the architects, and they Inform me it can be taken down, removed to this city and rebuilt just as it now stands in Richmond. We, that la the company, propose to nn naher every brick, ston e aad Bbingle. The baildiDfr will be taken down in sections, the material will be boxed up and transported by rail to Chicago. We will carefully draw every nail that has not rüste I away. We will grina up ine mortar ana use it as far as possible In the rebuildine. Every beam, joist, doer and window will be eet in place. "Wbat win tne enterprise cost. Somewhere about $200,000. We will surround it with another building 200x130 feet, with a class roof, and on the wall op posite the rear of the prison we will have painted a panorama view oi tne James River, and the country beyond." 'Where do you intend to place it : "We have not yet determined. Sime of the Exposition people favor tearing down thp conservatory at the south end of their buildiDg and giving ns a site there. How ever, we will get a site that will be con venient to the center or me city and easy of access. We es timate tnat the cost win oe uviaea in this way. 1 or the buildings, $-' ow; for tParinp down and Doilnff. lju'.m; ior freight, $10,000 : for re-construction, $2.1.000 ; for tbe site, $00,000; inclosing building $7r,000. 1 1 we cannot buy the lot we want we will lease. It is our intention t.o masre an elaborate collection ot relics oi the Rebellion, in fact, make it a perfect museum Of tne late war. We will have pamoramic views of the engagement between the Mon itor and tbe Merrimac, and other well known events of the war." "When do you expect to gn to work?" "The contract for the building and property will be closed this month. We hope to get early possession of the old store of Libby t Son, and have this portioi re built in time lor tne jepuoncan national Convention next June. As Boon after as is possible we will complete the rebuilding of the remainder of the prison." "Will the Richmoid people allow you to move the building? Do they take any local pride in it?" "I am informed tnat up to two years asro, when'the property came into the possession Of tae oouinern j erunzing vuuipaujr, mc Richmond authorities had to keep a guard around it to ward off the relic-hunters, who would have picked it to pieces. I have been informed tbat some oi the Kichraond people may kick, but it will do thern no K0d-" . .... . . . Josiah Crattr. one oi tne mcarDorators, in talking of the scheme, said: "It should be understood tbat there is no idea of waving the 'bloody shirt' in this; It is simply a business speculation lor what there is in i PROHIBITION POLITICS. The Foliey the Third Party Will Pursue In the Coming Carnpalsn. Portland, Me., February 2. General Neat ow, the father of temperance, and one of the leaders of the P-" -? pirty, was teen yesterday, and talked decidedly concerning the third party and its Influence in politics in the coming campiipn. "What do you think of tie attitude f the Republican leaders towards prohibition in tbia State?" was atked. "I know," replied the General, "that the liquor dealers of the West sent notice to the Republican bosses in Maine, threa or four years ago, that any injury inuiciea opon the liquor traffic in the State wiuld be reverged by them upon the Republican party in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, and tbat is the oaly way wi can ac count for the failure of the Republicans to do anything here to. materially cripple the grog.Ebope. General Daw said he thoajht the Re' rmhtican rartv everywhere was as thor ouebly committed to tna liquor interest th Democratic. He thought Cleve land'a message has given the Republicans a chance for success, lor it auoras tnem an opportunity to argue that protection of hnm Industry will really be an issue in tbe Presidential campaign and in that way n islead a great many temperance men. "What will be the strength of the Prohi bUion vote In the country at the next election ?" "It will be much Increased, at our mem ten hue been Incwasig Yerj rapidly,"

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"I don't believe they can cary It The Prohibition vote will surely increase thre , and I believe we shall poll öO.tRW votes." "Where will the Prohibitionists pat in their work?" "Tbey will concentrate their efforts in New York, lor there they believe their labors will be the most eflective. They will also do something in Ohio." "Shall you take the stump?" "I have been engaged to speak in Western New York in Antrugt, and shall also appear on the stump in the western pinion of lbat stare. I shall also make several Epiches in Maine." "Who will be your Presidential stanlard bearer?" "General Fisk, o! New Jersey, undoubtedly. He seems to be tbe most available man. I do not believe he would accept the candidacy, however, bat from a sense of dutv." "Wbat particular argument will the prohiM'ion speakers pres?"' "We shall lay preat emphasis upon the rollnsion of tbe Republican party wlth5 liquor trallic and endeavor tu draw atten-. tion of voters to this in all parts of the country." 'Wbat have you to say in regard to Itr. Blaine?' was the last query. "Air. RlaiDe is p?r?onally a temperance man and a Prohibitionist. I voted for bim in 1881, thinking tbat if he were elected the Republican party would recover the confidence and respect of the country. I shall not vote for him in the comiEg election. It is no longer a question of candidates, for the reason that prohibition cannot win in the life time of Cas Re p u b 1 ic an party." Leg Holling in Cuiires. New Yoru, February 2 The tendency to the old style of "log rolling" f ir appropriations is commented on aa fallows by the San: On Tuesday the Hiase passed four bil's, each appropriating $100,000 for new Federal buildings in four small towns. Greenville gets $100 000. Green ville is a city in bouth L roiina, with a total population, at the time cf the last census, of G.lf;0 Eonls. In other words.it s about as big 83 Rloomheld, in New Jer sey, or Flushing village, on Long Island. 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