Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — Page 7

OHIO AND IOWA

■ V ligmNiniN and Democratic Conventions of the Two States. ■ The nominations and the Declarations of Principles. Ohio BapaUliwu. The State Convention of the Ohio BepubMcans was held at Columbus on the 6th task, Senator John Sherman presiding; When the nomination for Governor came up. Congressman Ben Butterworth presented the name of Judge J. B. Foraker, of Ofactanati. Private Dalzell thereupon sprang from his seat, and gesticulating wildly declared that the convention had but one duty to perform, and if it did that success was assured He then' moved that the Hem. John Sherman be nominated by •acclamation. This was sufficient to make things decidedly exciting in every way. There were loud and prolonged cheers mid some hissing. Senator Sherman rapped loudly for order, which was soon restored, and then in the most emphatic manner stated that he could not under any circumstances be a candidate, nor could he, if nominated, accept After this little interruption,' the nomination of Judge Foraker was made by aoalamation. Theremainder of the ticket was as follows: Lieutenant Governor, William G. Bose, of. -Cleveland; Supreme Judge Gong term), W. XL Upson, of Akron (incumbent); Supreme Judge (vacancy and long term), John H. Doyle, of Toledo (incumbent); Clerk of the •Supreme Court, Dwight. Crowell, of, Ashtabula county (incumbent); Attorney General, B. Earnhart, of Miami county; Auditor, John F. Qglevee, of Clark county; TreasJohn (1 Brown, of Jefferson; Commissioner of Common Schools, D. F. De Wolfe, of Toledo; Member of Board of Publie Works, LeoWeltz, of Wilmington. The following platform was adopted: The BCpubUcans of Ohio, in State Convention assembled, have adopted the following declaration of principles; 1. That the Republican party, in preserving the life of the nation, in giving freedom and equal rights to all Its citizens;ln the reconstruction of the Union; in the upoldlng of the nar tional honor;in the generous provisions made for those who have suffered for their ootlntry: ! In keeping the national faith and advancing the 'national credit; in the speedy paymeht of the public debt; in the reduction of national taxation; in the elevation of the civil service, and, in the enacment of a series of wise public measures which have given the country unexampled : prosperity, have given the best assurance of its purposes for the future. ; J. That the Republican party believe now, as.in the past, in the maintenance of a tariff system ! which will provide a revenue for the Govern- ; ment and at the same time will protect American 'producers and American labor; that it Is opposed to the Democratic doctrine of “a tariff for revenue only,“ because such a doctrine, if enforced, would of necessity compel American ; workmen to accept the unremunerative wtujres 'which are paid their foreign Rivals. It looks with alarm, upon the purpose, already avowed -by the Democratic leaders, that the next Congress will revise the tariff by further reducing the duties on Imports, which, if executed, will j unsettle the business of the country, and will produce great injury to the mechanics, producers, and artisans of the land. • I A That the wool tariff of 1867 should be re- ! stored at the first possible opportunity. 4. That we are in favor of the establishment by Congress of a National Bureau of Labor Statistics, fog the purpose of collecting and sys- , tema tiring all statistics relating to the industrial, .social and Sanitary condition of the laboring wmHHfIH of the nation. t. That we approve of the action of the General Assembly of Ohio in the submission of the constitutional amendments in relation to the llqnor traffic, thus giving an opportunity to the ! people to make such changes fn the organic law of thrState as may be approved by their JudgI we approve of the taxation of the ‘ liquor jtiaffle for revenue, and for the purpose of providing against the evils resulting from such 'waffle. | 7. That we congratulate the country upon the 1 reduction by the last Congress of internal taxes of more than $40,000,000 annually, while at the same time the credit of the nation is maintained, j and the steady reduction of the national debt is i provided for. < 8. That the wise and conservative administration of President Arthur meets with the hearty approval of the Republicans of Ohio. I 0. That We commend the action of the General I Assembly of the State In providing a commission to examine into the system of prison con-, ! tract labor, and we declare ourselves in favor of I the abolition of said contract system. 10. That we reiterate the declarations of pre- | vious Republican conventions in favor of civil service reform, and weloome every intelligent effort to make that measure practical, and we ' especially approve the provisions made by the i Republican Congress for giving the patriotic soldiers of the late war, with the proper qualifications, the preference for all places under the I Government. , < , lL That we favor the repeal dt the law limiting the time in which applications fto pensions under the Arrears of Pension act shall be made. XX That the greatly-improved condition of the public institutions of the State; the suooessful refunding of the public debt at g rate of interest lower than a loan has been placed by any other State; the provision for and payment of $1,800,000 of the public debt—the improved financial condition of the State being such that we may reduce the rate of taxation, and at the same time be amply able to make large expenditures for the benefit of the charitable institutions of the State—all this, accomplished in the face of what appeared to be an absolute necessity, under Democratic administration, to increase State j taxation, attests the wisdom, care and eoonomy of the administration of Gov. Foster, and is an 1 assurance to the people of the State that their best interests are to be subserved by the continuance of the Republican party in power. 1 Judge Foraker, the nominee, Is a native of Ohio, and is a young man, being only 37. He was admitted to the oar in 1869, and has practiced his profession in Cincinnati. He ' was elected Judge of the Superior Court in 1879, but was compelled to resign, on account of ill-health. He is of English stock, •nd the name was formerly spelled “Foura•cra” f

lows Democrats. The Democrats of lowa held their State •convention at Des Moines or the 6th Inst The Hon. Edward Campbell was made Temporary Chairman. In taking the chair Mr. jCampbell made a speech of fifteen minutes’ length, devoted to a sanguine statement of the Democratic prospects and to a review of the Republican party. During a wait upon the Credential Committee, Hon J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, addressed the convention, taking the ground that tariff fer anything but'to get money to pay the public expenses is unconstitutional, and tariff taxes tar anything like protection should and must be abolished. Mr. Gannon, of Soott, antagonized the ■speech of Mr. Morton, and made a motion that it be declared the voice of the convention that it does not indorse the free-trade sentiments of Mr. Mortjm. Mr. Gannon was called to order from every part of the boose, but succeeded in making ■ajipeeoh in favor of protection before he was The Committee on Credentials reported ninety-eight out of ninety-nine counties of the State represented Dm Committee on Organization reported Coagmpsman Posev for Permanent ChairGoode for Sqpretary, and T. O. Mr. Posey takingthe chair, counseled tng the people are ready to trust the Democratic party. He declared against *ll sympathy with sumptuary laws and pro-' tection. Corporate encroachments mustibe restrained by all possible ognstitutional

An informal ballot for Governor resulted as follows: Maliary, of Loose, 94; Cleggitt, of OerroGord*. 33; Merrill, of Clinton, 2S; Merritt, of Polk, »7; Kinne, of Terns, 879. A formal ballot was ordered and bad, as follows: Kinne, 488; Mallory, 44; Merritt, 208. Judge Kinne’s nomination was made unanimous on the motion of Congressman Murphy and Gen. Jones. JuStin C. Clark, of Montgomery, was nominated for lieutenant Governor by acclamation. Jddge Hayes was nominated for the Supreme Bench on the first ballot, by a large Farr, of Page, was nominated for j Superintendent of Public Instruction by acclamation. ’ < Judge KinnA the nominee for Governor, was a Republican until 1872, when he followed the Greeley movement and drifted into the Democratic party. He was a candidate for Governor two years ago. He was called before the convention and made a speech. He spoke first in appeal for all Democrats to go hemeand fight harder than ever for tl)e success of the ticket He said he was in hearty accord With every principle of the platform, and always had been. He said: “We shall make this a fighting campaign, and, if we die or live, will sweep the State of lowa at the next election.” The report of the Committee on Resolutions was made by Judge Thayer, of the Clinton Aqe, which was unanimously adopted, as follows:

Resolved, Die Democratic party in convention assembled reaffirm the great principles which are the foundations of free government, among which are equal rights to all, special privileges to none, the protection of the weak against the encroachments at the strong, equal taxes, free speech, free preps, free schools, and, first of all, a free and incorruptible ballot Resolved, That we denounce the abuse in the civil service of the Government, State or national, inaugurated and perpetuated by the Republican party, and we favor the extension of civil-service reform in qvery department of the Government. Resolved, We arrtign the last Republican Congress for the extravagant Increase of public expenditure,- and demand economy in every branch of the Government Resolved, That we favor a tariff for revenue onlv by a gradual but persistent reduction of protective duties, and we denounce the tariff legislation of the last Congress as the result of corrupt and disgraceful intrigues and shameless attempts to perpetuate existing evils, under the pretense of tariff reform. Resolved, That we oppose constitutional prohibition, and, in the interests of practical temperance, we favor a well-regulated license law, with penalty of forfeiture of license for violation Resolved, That it is the right and duty of the State to regulate railways through legislative enactments, and we demand anoh action as will fully protect the interests of the people in every respect, and prevent unjust railway charges of any kind, ana at the same time as far as possible promote mutual confidence and friendship between the railways and the people. Resolved, So sacred are the rights of American citizenship, that we demand of the Government that no citizen thereof shall be imprisoned by a foreign government without charge, or denied the-rights of trial; and we cordially sympathite with the oppressed of uri nations struggling for their constitutional rights and liberties.

Indiana Anti-Monopolists. Representatives of the Anti-Monopolists of Indiana met $t Indianpoiis, • and were called to order by Mr. Tucker, of Hamilton, with J. Gfc. Smith, of the Monticello National , Secretary. J. It Tucker, of La Forte, waa made Chairman of the Committee ou Resolutions, and George Furry, of Kosciusko, on Permanent Organization. J. K Speer, of Marion county, was made Permanent Chairman, and resolutions were adopted condemning both the Republican and Democratic parties as “ns good,” owing .to the baneful influence of concentrated capital ana corporate wealth, specifying that a perpetual debt is a perpetual curse; recommending that taxes he assessed on a graduated scale and in such a way that the accumulation of exoessive private fortunes would be an impossibility, and favoring a return to simpler official life by reducing the President's'salary to $25,000 per annum, and all the other officials in similar proportion.

PACIFIC COAST FABLES.

The Digger Indians, of Placer, Nevada and El Dorado oonnties, are about to hold their annual conclave of mourning for their dead, in which the squaws plaster their heads with tar, and squaws, bucks and papooses indulge in a “heap big cly” that makes the eck-rabbit to seek ms lair, and tUb grizzly hunt till timber. Oveb in Yuba county, CaL, ex-Treasnrwr Be van and ex-Trustee Lipp drew their last year’s salary Jl,oooeaoh. They began to barter each other over their wealth, and agreed to flip heads or tails to see who shouldhavi both salaries. A mutual friend was called to see fair play, and. Bevan tossed np a dollar. Bevan won the mondy. This is said to be largest sum ever risked on the tern of a coin.

Buxt Edwabds was out hunting a horse last week, and when, iff a canon near Ross’ Hole his dog treed a black bean He was hi a quandary, as he had no gnu If ha left and went home for his gun his dbg Would follow and thus leave bruin to go in peace. Be he took his halter rope, tied the dog to tiie tree and rode hastily home sevexal miles, got his gun and returned The boys of the neighborhood are feasting ea bear-meat —Montana Independent. Et.ko, says the Winnemuoca Silver State. has a squaw who has an eye to business. She is the possessor of a papoose, and,reaUz> tag the extent of human curiosity, she ooncluded to make the child a source of revenue. She takes her jdaoe at the depot with her child carefully covered, and makes it the subject of a 10-cent shopv. Emigrants, in order to satisfy their curiosity, give her 10 cents to take a look at the Indian baby. In this manner she makes a good living. Jakes Clabx, of Virginia City, Nev., found a scorpion in a pile of waste rock. Ho thought it would be*a good idea to take the creature home and have some fun with hla oat At the first pass the scorpion planted its stinger in the end of the cat's nos* Pussy wanted no more scorpion. She went off and lay as though dead for about ten hour* Finally she came up, but was very groggy on her pins. Her hair stood the wrong wayjutd there was no speculation la her eyea When again brought faoe to face with tne scorpion she mfcde a big tail, and went up the tide es the house to a safe roost in the loft

POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A liAdy TU in Peabody, Mass, recently, with twins and an odd thing about them la that their birthdays come on different days of the week, in different months and in different years.. One was bom Just before midnight on Deo. 8), 1882. and the other Just after toe clock shrank 12, so* that the birthday oame Jan. t, 1888. The matter does not know which is the older. Thb.Los Angeles (CaL) Htrald says that about a year ago a water spout fell in a oanon near thePegin Rancho, raisiftg IQ Paso creek so high that all vegetation wan washed away and the oanon left bare as % desert The stream was at that time small, sweet and pellucid. Far the entire yea * succeeding, however, it has been nearly double in dze, has never been clear, and u even thicker with mud than the Sacra, mento. Neither has vegetation reappeared to any extent The people of the locality think the cloud-burst opened a mud and hence tiie change Ts

HOME, SWEET HOME.

Impressive Obsequies at the National Capital. The Remains of John Howard Pnyno / * Laid to Rest in the Son of His Native Land. [Washington Telegram.] After thirty years’ burial In the land of hla exile, the remains of the author of “Homo, Sweet Homo” were to-day laid at rest in the soil of his native land. The pageantry of the funeral cortege and the oerefnoniea of the oocasion were a tribute to the genius of John Howard Payne in keeping with the place which he holds in the homes and hearts of the American people. With solemn ■trains, funeral dirges, measured tramp* martial columns, and a distinguished following of notablemen representing all honorable walks of life, the funeral procession passed through the streets of the National capital -to the silent restingplace of the dead. All the pomp and circumstances of human grandeur contributed to this final honor paid by the living tb the dead The Government was represented by its Chief Executive and his council, constitutional advisors; by the occupants of the bench, its judiciary; by the members of both houses of Congress; by numerous representatives of the army and navy, and by members of the diplomatic corps The array of prominent Government officials, of representatives of foreign powers, the presence of military and throngs of citizens, gave the demonstration a national oharaoter that marked it os the tribute of the entire nation. 1 The prooession was farmed at the Gallery of Art, where military and civilians began to gather some time before the appointed hour, 4 o’clock. The remains, enclosed in a handsome caiket, were placed in a hearse which had been especially built for the oocasion. It was a square-finished vehicle, with plate-glas* walls, surmounted -by six urns, and drawn by four white horses The procession moved In the following column of march, via Pennsylvania avenue to the cemetery: Regular troops, under command of Maj. Gen. R. B. Ayres City military organizations. High School Cadets, commanded by Capt A A Smith. Battalion of the Second Artillery. Officiating clergy. Pall-bearers Hearse. j The relatives of John Howard Pay ns The orator of the day. The poet of the day. Hie President of the United States Members of the Cabinet Members of the Diplomatic Corps The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States The Chief , Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Many other distinguished persons followed in carriages All along the whole course of the route the people gathered to witness the splendid and imposing funeral pageant The sidewalks were thronged and the windows filled with eager spectators The relatives of Payne In the prooession were the Rev. Mr. Llquer and wife, of Bedford Station, N, Y., the latter being a niece of Payne; Mr. O. N. Payne of Brooklyn, whowas accompanied by Gabriel Harrison, an intimate friend of Payne, and author of, a book -of reminiscences Another intimate friend, Mr. Joseph Desha Pickett, of Frankfort, Ky., was also present Before the procession reached Oak Hill the holders of tickets had begun to arrive and take their position on the platform which had been built around, the monument The shaft of white marble, surmounted by $ bust one-hqlf larger than life size, is supported on a base es solid gray granite six feet square The height of the monumentis fourteen feet, and its general design Is Roman, of pure classical type. The inscriptions arid designs on the shaft are simple On the front is the following brief but sufficient inscription:

i JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. J : Author of “Home, Sweet Home.” : ; Bom June 8, 1784. : Died April 10,1803. | { On the back is the inscription which was 1 on the tombstone that marked his grave in Tunis. It is as follows: j Sore, when thy gentre spirit fled I To remain above, the inn dome, ! With arms outstretched, God’s angel said: 1 “Welcome to Heaven’s Home, SweetHome.’ The monument was shrouded In folds of white, and unveiled daring the exercises Ample platforms were built around three | tides, leaving the south side open. On the I north side was a platform occupied by the speakers and distinguished guests On the I left, on the west tide, were seated the slngI era and the Marine band; and on the east I side was a large platform where the general public were accommodated. There were seats provided for about 1.900 people. Die front of the speaker’s platform was covered i with evergreens and flowers, while folds of , onr national flag, and the Tunis colors ap. . peared on eiteer side. When the procession reached the cemetery Lthe coffin was carried by the pall-bearers inside the grounds and laid upon the bier. At the side of thq monument It rested upon * bed of evergreen* and flower-. The order of exorcises were as follows: Music by the Marine Band. Reading of the Scriptures. Poem by Robert 8L Chilton. UnveiHpg of the monument Payne’s “Home, Sweet Home” then being suqg by the full chorus, with organ accompaniment, the Whole as"■SSCJSSB' to Oration by Leigh Robinson. Interment ceremonies. Music—“ Grand Hallelujah Chorus,” “Messiah,” Handel; Philharmonic Society and Marine Band (the'audience rising.) Benediction. Mimic—Finale—Marine Band, “Safe in the Anns of Jesua” The coffin was placed in the vault directly benesth the monument, ’

OUR MENAGERIE.

A stout comes -freta N«w England of a mouse which wta so charmed by a gentleman’s tinging that It ran np to hu shoulder and sat motionless for a few moments until the singing was finished, then trembled violently, mil to the floor, and dldd. ;, A Kjnjropxr farmer boy found-a crow’s nest, which he robbed of the eggs, and placed them under a hen. When hatched, the chicken mother oared for them tenderly until they got big enough to fly. Then they took to the high timber, which so exaaper r ated the (fid hen that she went crasy. .< A monkey was given a lump of sogir hu tide of a closed bottle It worried htseif sick trying to get at the sugar. Fits of the most ludicrous melancholy, followed by spasms of delight, as a new idea suggested itself, followed by a fresh series of experiments. Nothing availed until one day a Jar of oliges fell from the table with a crash. The result was noticed by the monkey, who instantly hurled his bottle te the floor, and was soon in possession of the lump of sugar. —Nen York Sun.

THE BAH BOY.

“Ah, ha, you here got your deserts at last,” stad the grooeryman to the bad boy, as he came in with one eye black, and his nose peeled on one side, and sat down on a board across the coal scuttle, and began whistling as unconcerned as posuble. “What’s the matter with your eye ?” v “Boy tried to gouge it out without asking my consent,” and the bad boy took a dried herring out of the box and began peeling it. “He is in bed now, and his ma is poulticing him, and she says he will be out about the last of next week.” r “Oh, you are going to be a prise fighter, ain't you," said the grooeryman, disgusted. “When a boy leaves a job where he is working, and goes to loafiing around, he’becomes a fighter the first thing. What your pa ought to do is hind yon out with a farmer, where you would have to work all the tune. I wish you would go away from here, because you look like one of these fellows that domes up before the Polioe Judge Monday lfiormng, and gets thirty days in the House of Correction. Why don’t you go out and loaf around a slaughterhouse, where you would look appropriate?” and the grooeryman took a hairbrush and brushed Nome loose sugar and tea, that was on the oonnter, into the sugar-barrel. ? “Well, if you have got through with vour sermon, I will toot a little on my horn,” and the boy threw the remains of the herring over behind a barrel of potatoes; ana wiped his hands on a ooffee sack. “If you had this black eye and had got it the way I did, it would be a more priceless gem in the crown of glory you hope to wear, than any gem you oan get by putting quarters in the collection plate with the holes filled with lead, as yon did last Sunday, when I was watching you. Oh, didn’t you: look pious when you picked that filled quarter out, and held your thumb over the place where the lead waa. The way of the black eye was this. I got a job tending a soda fountain, and last night, just before we olosed, there was two or three young loafers in the place, /and a- girl came in for a glass of soda. Five years ago she was one of the brightest scholars in the ward school, when I was in the intermediate department. She was just as handsome as a peach, and everybody liked her. At recess she used to take my part when the boye knocked me around, and she lived near ns. She had a heart as big as that cheese box, and I guess that's what’s the matter. Anyway she left school, and then it was said she was going to be married to a fellow who is now in the dude business, .but he went back on her and after a while her ma turned her out doors, and for a year or two she was jerking beer in a concert saloon, until the Mayor stopped concerts. She tried hard to get sewing to do, bnt they wouldn’t have her, I guess, ’cause she cried so xhnch when she was sewing, and the tears wet the oloth she was sewing on. Once I asked pa why ma didn’t give her some sewing to do, and he said for me to dry np and never speak to her if I met her on the street. It seemed tuff to pass her on the street, when she had tears in her eyes as big as marbles, and not speak to tier when I know her so well, and she had been* so kind to me at school, just ’cause a dude wouldn't marry her, but I wanted to obey pa, so I used to. walk around a block when I see her coming, ’cause I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. Well, last night she came in the store, looking pretty shabby, and wanted a glass of soda, and I gave it to her, and Oh, how her hand trembled when she raised the glass to her Ups, and how wet her eyeawere, and how pale her face was! I choked up so I couldn’t speak when she handed me the niokel, and when she looked up at me and smiled just like she used to, and said I was getting to be almost a man since we went to school at the old school-house, and put her handkerchief to her eyes, by gosh, my eyes got so fuU I couldn’t tell whether it was a nickel or. a lozenger the gave me. Just then one of those loafers began to laugh at her, and call her names, and say the police ought to take her up for a stray, and he made fun of her until she cried some more, and I got hot and went around to where he was end told him if he said another unkind word to that girl I would maul him. He laughed and asked if she was my sister, and I told him that a poor, friendless girl, who was sick and in distress, and who was insulted, oughi .to be every boy’s sister, for a minute, and any hoy who had a spark of manhood should protect her, and then he laughed and said I ought to be one of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and he took hold of her faded shawl and pulled the weak frirl against the show-ease, and said something moan to her, and she looked as though she wanted to die, and I mashed that boy one right on the nose. Well; the air seemed to be fnU of me for a minute, cause he was bigger than me, and he got me down ana got his thumb in my eye. I guess he was going to take my eye out, but I turned him over -fifed got on top and I miuled him miu he begged, bat I wouldn’t let him up tQI be asked the girl’s pardon, and swore he would whip any boy that insulted her, and then I let him up, and the girl thanked me, but I told her I couldn’t speqk to her, cause she was tuff, and pa didn’t want me to speak to anybody who was tuff, but it anybody ever insulted her so she had to cry, that I would whip him if I had to take a olub. nagged me, and the team come n ms

- • v* ; would show him the father of the boy that I whipped, pa said he woflpwlrfp the old man, and ma said for miuofind the poor girl and send her up*!? the house and sne would give her a job making pillow-cases and night shirts. Don’t it seem darn queer to you that everybody goes back on a poor girl cause she makes a mistake, the blasted whelp that is to blame gets a ohromo. It makes me tired to think of it,” and the boy got up and shook himself, and looked in the cracked mirror hanging upon a post, to see how his eye was getting along. ’ “Say, young fellow, you are a thoroughbred,” stud the grooeryman, as be sprinkled some water on the asparagus and|lettuce, “and you can come in here and 1 get all the herring you want, and never mind the black eye. I wish I had it myself. Yea, it does seem tough to see people never allow a girl to reform. Now, in Bible times, the Savior forgave Mary, or somebody, I forget now what bar name was, and she was a better girl than eves. What we need is more of the spirit of Ohrist, and the wotld would be better.” “What we want is about 10,000 Christs. We ought to have ten or fifteen right here in Milwaukee, and they would find plenty of business, too. But this climate seems to be too rough. Say, did 1 tell you pa and ma are having trouble?” * * “No, what’s the row ?” “Well, you see, ma wants to economize all she oan, and pa has boon getting thinner ainoe he quit drinking and reformed, and I have kept on growing until lam bigger than he is. Funny, ain’t it, that a boy should be bigger than his pa? Pa wanted a new suit of olothes, and ma said she would fix him, and so she took one of my old suits and made it over for pa, and he wore them a week before he knew it was an old suit made over, but one day he found a handful of dried-up angleworms in the pistol pocket that I had forgot when I was fishing, and pa laid the angleworms to ma, ana ma had to explain that she made over one of my old suits for pa. He was mad, and took them off and threw them out the baok window, and swore he would never humiliate himself by wearing his son’s old olothes. Ma tried to reason with him, but he was awful worked up and said he was no old charity hospital, and he stormed around to find his old suit of clothes, but ma had sold them to a plaster of paris image peddler, and pa hadn’t anything to wear, and he wanted ma to go out in the alley and pick up the suit he threw out the window, but a rag-man had picked them up and waa going away, and pa he grabbed a linen duster and put it on and went out after the rag-picker, and he run and pa after him, ana the rag-man told a policeman there was an escaped lunatic from the asylum and ha was chasing people all over the city, and the policeman took him to the police-station. Ma and me had to go down and hail him out, and the polioe lent us a tarpaulin to put over pa, and we got him home, ana ha is wearing his summer pants while the tailor makes him a new pair of olothes. I think pa is too excitable Mid too particular. I never kicked on wearing £a’s old olothes, and I think he ought > wear mine now. Well, I must go down to the sweetened-wind factory gad jerk soda,” and the boy went out and hung up a sign in front of the store, “Spinage, for greens, that the oat ;has made e nest in over Sunday.”—Peck’s Sun. » . ■ . , .

Mississippi ’Skeeters.

The railroad station at Mil sissippi City is located among the vines, and the way the mosquitos were biting there, even in April, was enough to keep e mule moving. After awhile we got to talking about the insects, and I asked a native of the eountry: "Are they thicker than this in the summer?” “Thicker! Why, in July there's a mil* lion to one t n “And larger?” “Larger! Why, sir, one of the regular ’skeeters of this section could carry twenty of these on his back and still fly highr I thought I'd down him at once, and so continued: “Now, sir, answer me truthfully. Do you believe that six of your biggest mosquitos could kill a mule if he was tied up out here?” Je looked at me in amazement fer a ate, and then went to the door and beckoned in the man sittingon a box and watching the horses. When the man came in, the native said: “William, yon remember that air roan mole cf yours?” “I reckon.” “In perfect health, wasn’t he?” “He was." “Could ran like a deer, and kick like a saw-log?” “Heoonldr “And he was all alone in a ten-acre lot, William?" * “He wae.” . “And two of them mud swamp ’skeeters got sorter him one morning, and, run him down and killed him, and devoured both hams and sucked. drop of blood in hit body? William, speak up!" v “Stranger, if they didn’t then I hope to he chewed to lags!’,’ said William, and he said it exactly like e man who wouldn't have allowed there were two ’skeeters if he hadn’t been earnestly oonvfnced of the fact. He walked out doors , and a deep silence fell upon us two, broken only after a long interval by the native saying: "Fve alius kinder suspected ihafc them skeeters had assistance from a hosa-flv. but I can’t prove it. I kinder think the hoee-flv held him down till the murder was committed OuadT v