Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — Page 6

BE COULDN’T SLEEP.

TH« OLD SETTLER* TUSSLE WITH BEARS AND CI EC UM STANCES. Ed Mott, in KeW York Sun. --- “The night o’ Sept. 1,1840, " said the Old Sett.er, musingly, “1 tumbled an’ tossed all night on my pillor. Th’ Wa'n’t no sleep to my eye nor slumber to my eyelids. The percecdln's of the day had ben too excitin', and I couldn't sleep no more’n a catfish ain saw wood. An’ ever sence that time th’ hain’t never ben a single Sept 1 rolled round th’t I hain’t tumbled an' tossed all night on my piller jist the same ez I done it fifty year ago. An’ if 1 live to be. ez old ez Methuzeller, ’Squire, things won’t never be no deffer’pt.” “Why so, Major?” said the ’Squire. “Azmy?” ••B’ars!" said the Old Settler. “No!" exclaimed the’Squirek “Did they hustle ye up ez bad ez that?” -- “WuH, twa’n’t so much b’ars, nuther, ez it were sarcumstances th’t went with ’em," replied the Old Settler. “Ez fur oz b’ars goes, b'gosb, th’ wa'n’t no b'ar ez ever lived ez k’d keep mu awake, er put me to sleep, nuther. But when it comes to handlin’ b’ar an’ ahull lot o’sarcumstances noth to wunst, I tell ye, ’Squire, a feller’s apt to bite off so much more’n he kin chaw th’t if he don’t choke tryin’ to swaller. it, he’s g'ot more luck th’n ayaller coon dog has fleas, an’ a feller th’t wants more luck th’n that ’ll hes to travel the len’th an’ breadth o' this vale o’ tears a lookin’ fer it, an’ then cross over Jordan, b’gosht’lmighty, a dissyp'inted man. ” “So he will. Major,” said the ’Squire. “But was the sarcumstances th't went along o' them b’ars p’tic’arly aggravatin'?" ••They ’peared to me that way, Squire," replied the Old Settler. “But I were young then. Mebbe they wouldn’t ’pear so aggervatin’ to me now. Them sarcumstances begun to happen 'long lo'ards thq middle o’ the arternoon o’ Sept. 1, 1840, ah’they kep’ on Happenin’ till the shades o’ evenin’ was cornin’ down. Two b’ars, both on 'em bigger'n th’were any kind o’ reason fer their bein’, had been snoopin’ ’round the pastur’s an’ the pig pens o’ Sugar Swamp affthat summer, an’ nobody k’d run ’em down. The b’ars ’d ben followed a dozent times or more clean to whar the north eend o' Squaw kee Hill chops off bz straight up an’ down ez the side of a barn or the edge o’ McGonigle’s Run, an’ ’round w’ich no enterprisin citizen O’ the deestric’ ever ben able to git. an’ thar the b’ars’d disappear ez •uddentez if they, were spook b’ars. Nobody know’d whar they got to so mddent, but they got some’rs. Th‘ wa'nt no way to git on top of ol’ Squawkee ’cept by goin’ round to the south eend, 'bout nine railed. The hili wa'n’t more'n a railed wide, but it were dum nigh ez high ez it were wide, figgr'tively speakin’. On the east side it run down pooty steep, an' MoGarigle's Run twisted along by it fer quite a piece, the west sde were straight up and down fer about two hundred fool from the top, an'then it pitched fer the rest o’the way down inter Welcome Holler, on a grade sumpin’ like the roof of a barn. Teat straight up an’ down piece were all rock, an’ it were split into openin’s here an' thar th’t ye k’d ha' druy a team o’ bosses in, an' folks said them openings didn’t bev no more bottom to ’em b’gosh, th’n the rollin’ sea. “Wull, them onreasonable big b'ars kep’ a worcyin’ the folks o’ the deestric’ to setch a pitch th't w’en I got thar from a job o’ hooppolin’ I’d ben doin’ over on Wild Gander Ridge, I found ev’rybody durn nigh crazy. That were Sept. 1, 1840. 1 felt sorry fer the deestric’ an’ I tol’ the folks to cheer up.

go out an’ red the land o’ them devourin’ b’ars!’ says I. “So I took my gun an’ my huntin’ knife, an'sot out to git the b’ars. I lived nine railed down McGarigle's Run, below old Squawkee. an’ I hadn’t more’n got to the south eend o’ the big hili ’fore I got sight o'one o’the or b'ars makin' tracks up lords the north eend., I follered him right up, but he were travertin’ like a streak, an’ he got w&y up to the highest part of ol’ Squawkee ’fore I ketched with him. I kim onter him kinder suddent an’ onexpected, an’ I jist had time to hang at him wunst an’ grab my huntin’ i knife, w’en he were on to me like a I hurrycane. Ez he landed agin me I; give him an all-wallopin’ slash with my j knife, but when he struck me ’twerej jist like a ton o’ hay failin' oh me. an’ down I went. The huntin' knife were . wrenched outen my hand, an’ when 1 j got up on my feet, specting to hev to act in a way to’rds that b'ar ez’d make him sorry th't me an’ him had ever met ez foes up thar on the mountain's frownin’ brow, b’gosh the bar were gone! I kid hear him tearin’ away' through the bush ez if lie were try into git outen the way of a locomotive. I were kind o’ s’prisen at fust, but w’en I got over my s’prise I had to larf. “ *1 mowt ha’ know’d it!’ I larfed. ' The durn ba’r reco’nized me ! I got to shave off my w'iskers or sumpin ,’ I says or I can't never git nigh that ba’r agin’!” ' | ••nut I didn't cal’c’late to let it get away if I k’d help it, an’ so I sfcrim■maged around in the bushes to finfi my Ihuntin’ knife fore I follered the b'ar. *1 looked an’ looked. but the knife were lost so I couldn't find it, and by that time the b’ar' had got out of bearin', loosin’ that knife made me madddr’n I’d been in a coon's age, an’ I jist made |up my mind th’t I'd lay low aroun’ ,tia-. kind of feelin’ th’t the b’ar ftaln’t made it’s way to that part o’ ol’ |Bquawkee fer nothin’, an' th't he'd be imore'n likely to show up ag’in 'fore (dark, an’ mebbe hev his partner with Shim. • ‘"Then,’ says I. Til fill ’em both

with lead, an’ settle the hull business? 7 “I walked over to'rds the.west side o’ the hili,.-an’ biraeby kim put on the ( edge o' the straight up an’ down two hundred feet o’ rock. Th’ were a big stun on top o' th’ rocks th’t we usety call the teeter stun. It hung twenty feet out over the edge o’ the straight up an’ down rocks, an* ye k’d walk out ■ i on it an’ it’d teeter with ye. but it Were hung so nice th’t it kep it’s balance. Th’ wan’t many folks though.' I kin tell ye, Sqiiir;, that keered to go out on ol’ teeter, fer they couldn't gitover the idee that it mowtgit a leetle over it’s b'iance some time an' start fer We’come Holler, half a railed dowq. A big oak tree stood right by this teeter stun, an’ one of its big branches stretched out over it, mebbe eight feet high. I stood out on the fur edge o’ the stun, teeterin’ an’ lookin’ down inter them Welcome Holler dep’s, an’ madder’n a hornet yit over losin’ my huntin’ knife. One o’ them big openin's in the straight up an down rocks run down fer a hunderd foot, an' whar it ended a shelvin’ piece o’ rock shot out six foot or more. I were wonderin’ whuther th’ act'ly were any bottom to the seam or not, w’en I felt the ol’ teeter stun movin’ off with me! Gosht'lmighty, ’Squire! I were oznigh skeert then ez I ever were in my life. The stun kep goin’ faster an’ faster. I slung both hands up, an’ they struck the limb o’ the oaktree. — I grabbed the limb, an’ away went the teeter stun. That stun must ha’ weighed more’n five hundred ton, an’ it went a biliu’ <1 own the—west side—o’ old Squawkee, tourin’ up trees an’ things, more noise th’n twenty c aps o’ thunder rolled-inter one. An’ thar I hung, ’Squire, over that west edge o’ S juawkee, with nuthin’ much Lut air betwixt me an’ Welcome Holler half a mile below. “Fer a minute I were Skeert. Then I begun to hitch my way, one hand at a time, back to'rds the tree, ’long the limb. I turned my head to see ho w fur I were away, an’ not ’spoolin' to see w'at I did see. I kim just as nigh lettin’ go that limb an’ startin’ fer Welcome Holler ez could be. At the but eend o’ the limb, settin’ with his back agin the trunk 'o the tree, were one o them bg.b’ars. He were grinnin’ at me ez if hethrot it were funny to be danglin’ over that big gap. Ez soon ez the b’ar see that I had diskivered him w'at does he db but start out on the limb to meet me. I give myself a swing an’ pulled myself up on the limb, too, an’ thar we both was. The limb begun to bend an’ crack, an’ I felt the oncomf’tablest kind. I crop to’rds the b’rd, an’ the b’ar crep to’rds me. W’n we was about two foot apart the b’ar a snappin’ an’ snarlin’ an’ showin' his teeth, an’ me a cussin' like a raftman ’cause I didn’t hev nothin’ to fight with I see sumpin’ th’t kim nigh makin’ my heart pop outen my throat I were so tickled. Stickin’ put o’-the b’ar’s shoulder were the handle o’ my huntin' knife! This were the ol’ b’ar 1 had tackled half an hour ago. W’en I found that out I got so mad th't. I forgot all about bein’ glad th’t I’d found my huntin’ knife. I mowt ha’ ben wil in’ to give tha b’ar a little show for hisself, but w’en I thort of of his diirn meanness in tryin’ to take advantage o’me a hangin’ thar with nuthin’ butaa half railed o’ air in under me I shet my heart ded agin him. I made one spring, an’ ketchin’ the - b’ar by one ear w Ith my left hand. 1 draw’d ray huntin’ knife outen his shoulder with ray right hand, an’ fore .the pesky ol’ bruin k’d git over his s prise I were sinkin’ that knife inter him ag'in at about the rate o’ nine t mes a second, up to the hilt ev’ry time. W’en the b’ar got his senses bach he natur’ly male up his’nrud th’t things was gittin’ middlin’ hot fer him, and concludin’ th’t h’s chances was better some’rs betwist thar an"

Welcome Holler th’n they was with -me,- -Ire k yelp- an* aTump; ah’ started in the same d'rect’on theteeter stun had gone. But in jumpin’ he bad my knife in him ag in, ffn’ ez I didn’t ca’e’lata to lose that knife a second time, I made a grab fer it ez the b’ar shot by me. I got my knife, but I lost my balanced an’ away I w.n arter the b’ar. Ez I were faffin’ I sea th't I were goin’ straight down to’ards the shelvin’ rock that struck out at the bo’.tom o’ the big seam in the rocks. An’ I see more’n that, too, ’Squire Standin’ on that shelvin’ rock, lookin’ up at the little circus th’t had been goin’ on, stood another big b'ar an’ I knowed to wunst that it were t’other bar’s pardner. I lit plumb stracd eon : that b’a -, an’ I don’t think -he were i ’speetin’ it of jngjjter hejjive'a sr.o t an---d5Ve inter the mouth o’ tliat hole I quicker, a good deal, thah““T kTn~tell !ye. I dug my fingers inter the b ars I hair an’ hung on like a burdock to a 'cow’s tail. By the time I got my breath back good that b'ar must hi’ galloped me inter the den’s o' old Squawkee m r’n a hunderd yards ai d were still agoin’, “Booty soon it got darker’n Eeypt. I had my huntin’ knife in my hand, and could ’a put an end to that bar h?n an’thar, but I thort I’d jist let him go an’see whar .we d wind up. iWe twisted an’ turned an’ jeed an* ■ hawed around in the dep's of ol’ Squawkee. -the b'ar evry now an’ then tryin.’ to chuck me ofTu bis back an’ takin’ it inter his head to balk. Ev’ry J time he'd do that, though, I'd give ’im a jab with the knife and give a yelp, an’ away he'd go, licketysplit. I J couldn’t seeno morn if Td been head- ; ed up tight in a bar’l, an’ it were colder’n ten ton o’ ice. Arter we'T~clr7 cv.ssed around down thar fer ’bout an hour 1 seen a little patch o’ light way on ahead. The patch got bigger an’ bigger, an’ arter a while I seen it were a openin’ in the rocks. The b'ar were goin’ so fast w’en we got thar that he coiildn’t stop, an’ he went o >t'n ol’ Squawkee likeashot, an'landed plumb in McGarrigle’s run. right at the northeast corner of the hil 1 . t “We both went under, nd when we kim do the top the fight were in. We

' fit as' we fit an* we fit till the Water ’ were so thjek with blood that one k'd a’ most walk pn it- l ark were jist cornin’ on we’n I give the b’ar the dig th’t ended him. I drawed him to shore an’looked up. 01’SqiMnvkee Bili we e gone, ’Squire, an’ all it s s’rroundin's was gone.’ An’ whar were I? Standin’ b’gosh, within ten rod p* my own cabin door. Me an’ that b’ar had fit an’ floated, an’ floated an’ fit, an’hadnV never noticed it, an’ we'n the fight were over we war just nine railed from whar it started. I didn’„ sleep none- th’l night, ’Squire. an’ I hain’t slep no night o’ Sept. 1, |from I that day to this. B’ar hain’t So much, ’Squire, but w’en ye ppt b ar an’ sarcumstances together, b’gosh, it’s a leetle tryin’ to the nerves.”

[?]IISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Dallas, Texas, has a plague of crickets. There are always 5.500,000 people on the seas'Of the world. Archbishop Corrigan is the son of a Newark Hotel proprietor. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has gone abroad for an extended visit. It is said that Maine’s hay crop this year is worth $15,000,060. Parisian Anglomaniacs send their linen to Lbndon to be washed. There is no rest for lhe weary, and nobody else needs it.—-Dallas News, ■ Strauss is perfecting a waltz that will admit of conversation while dancing it. The. first King’s speech from the throne is said to have been by Henry I, 1107. General Ezeta, "’ho whipped the Guatemalans, is only twenty-seven years old. Twenty thousand miles of railroad have been built in the South during the last 1 eii years. One may travel a great waysin London beforeseeing all of the town. The collective length of the streets would reach over 32,000 miles. Mr. Thomas R. Ballentine, of Norfolk, Va., Has a 350-acre truck farm which brought him in $50,000 this year. His net profit was $20,000. Mr. Gladstone will not be persuaded. He writes to the Canadian Liberals that “I can not hope to see that great territory, for my age. and still more my engagements utterly disable me from crossing th© Atlantic.” C. A. Eastman, a full bleoded Sioux Indian, who recently graduated from Harvard, is, the idol of the Boston girls. His room is filled with pin cushions, chair covers, gloves and j handkerchief cases and givesJorth the . scent of sweet flowers. In the “Editor’s Easy Chair" of J Harper’s Magazine for October. George William Curtis will present some! pleasant reasons why we should regard our own time as the best of all possi- • ble times. “If it were not so, Nature would deny to each generation and . every man the opportunity which she granted to all her predecessors. If the Golden Age seems always to be far., behind, that also is but a gentle device ’ of Nature to stimulate us by the happy ; inspiration that what man has done man may do—and more. ” - Joseph Jefferson closes his autobiography in the October Century with what he himself is sahfto consider the most important instarlltnent of all, probably because he ventures to state here, more fully than before, his reflections on the art of acting. He touches on the question as to whether an actor should “feel” his part; describes a fault of French actirig; discusses imitators; how to keep fresh in playing a part; how to learn to act; how to conduct rehearsals; and how far realism rtiliy be allowed on the stage.'

There is a young lady in as mitarium at Clifton Springs. N. Y., who has become such a slave to chocolate candy that all the shopkeepers for miles ’around have been notified not to sell her any. She has eaten so much ofAt that her skin has become the color o f chocolate. ReccnCy. by a piece of deception, she was :.b'e to get two nounds of the candy frtTffl a confectioner and ate it al l at one sitting. She was seriously ill for a. while, but is again ready-for more chocolate. It; may interest those who have been heart-tossed by the countless'romances of Miss as well as those who never expect to read a line of this prolific authoress, to know that not a little of her story stuff is manu-Jartttred.-in=m,.-regular.-stoEy_machina shop, to-wit, in a London bureau of clever people conducted by her husband, Mr. Maxwell Miss Braddor ■ supplies plot, some of the situations, ' conversations, catastrophes, etc., but leaves, the padding to the unknown biit skilled hirelings of the bureau. When the book is done the bureau , talks business with English and Ameri ican syndicates. “Antoine’s Moose-Yard” is the title of an article w)iich Julian Ralph w 1 ' contribute to Harper's Magazine for I October. It is a narrative of hunting ‘adrenturei in the grea' Canad’an woods, and is accompanied by twelve spirited illustrations from drawings by , Frederic Remington. A moose-yard jis the name given by Canadian htints- ; men to the <f®eding-ground of a herd 'of moose. Each herd or family of ' these great wild cattle has two such feeding-grounds', and they are said to : go alternately from one to the other, never herding in one place two years I in .succession, Whether they desert a yard for twelve month* because of the damage they do it in feeding upon tho branches and foliageof soft-wool trees and shrubs, or whether it M*stinctivo ciutlon that directs their movements, no one can more than conjorturo. It took Mr. Ralph’s party a w®i»k to kill ’ one moose in a country where they were common game.

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

Indianapolis, Sept. 27.—This has been State Fair week, and consequently a good week for the political gos sips. They have had a gay time talking over the prospects and Comparing notes one with the other. Republicans and Democrats, men of all parties and men of no party have been in the city during the week, and some of them have been charged with a vast amount of information, while others have been equally liberal in misinformation. The i things most talked Of. in a political way, were the declarations in the platforms of the two parties most interested in the coming election. I met one old soldier and asked him what he thought of the condition of affairs. Without a ■word he pulled from his pocket a card on which was pasted the following paragraph, quoted from one of Cleveland^veto messages: “Recent personal observation and experience constrain me to refer to -another result which-will eventually follow the passage of this bill. It is sad, but nevertheless true, that already, in the matter of procuring pensions, there exists a widespread disregard of truth and good faith, stimulated by those who, as agents, undertake to establish claims for pensions, heedlessly entered into by the expectant beneficiary, and encouraged, or, at least, not condemned, by those unwilling to obstruct a neighbor’s plans'-” , After I had read that he handed me another card on which was inscribed extracts from President Harrison’s leter of acceptance, inaugural address and message to Congress, and then gave me a copy of the last pension law. His comment, after I had exarriined them, was: “Democratic words, Republican wordsand Republican acts. Where do you suppose we stand?” It was enough. The old veteran had sized up the whole matter in his two cards and the copy of the disability law, I related this incident among the gossips around the hotel corridors, and they all agreed that, as against the words of the Democratic party through Mr. Cleveland, for when they nominated him after he had sent in his veto messages they endorsed his language and adopted it as that of the party; all that was needed was to set up the words of President Harrison, followed by the disability bill, against the passage of which qyery Democratic member of Congress voted. I find also that the free school book plank is a taking one. It wih secure uniformity in education, enable the poor as well as the rich to|getthe full benefits of our magnificent school system, and re- ■ move a heavy load from the shoulders l of parents of limited the edu- , cation of their offspring. * The more it is studied the more will : the-.financial plank of the Republican platform recommend itself to all i classes of the people. The Democratic declaration in favor of an increased ■ valuation of land for the purpose of taxation, coupled with the utterances of the Sentinel, declaring that all laws ' providing for the taxation of personal property should be repealed, is not meeting with favor anywhere. It was ■ originally drafted and adopted as a , dodge of the State debt question, its i supposing the Republicans would of n6cessity.be forced to declare in favor ot an increased rate of taxa•tion to meet the increased burdens placed on the people by Democratic incompetency and rascality, but the Republicans found another means of increasing the revenue, and declared in favor of that, and then of a rigid economy in all matters. During the week two meetings have been held, that may or may not be of importance. One was quasi political, and the other was in the interest of labor. The latJtet was very significant for several things. First, because it attended td its own matters and made no effort to mix up politics with them. It was a labor meeting to discuss ways and means for the benefit of the wage earners of the State, and it did not propose to be diverted from that object by playing at being a political party. Secund, it was significant because of what the delegated declared themselves to be in favor of. Scanning the declaration of what the workingmen want it will be found to be in all things just what the Republicans have, favored and do favor; Hence, if the membert of that convention are honest, and no one can doubt that they are, they naturally belong to the Republican party in sympathy, and ought to vote for its candidates as the only means whereby to bring about the reforms demanded. Tfee other was a meeting of the old Greeubackers. They have undertaken to resuscitate that old party, and have put a ticket in the field. Its platform of principles is also very closely allied, in many things, to that of the Republicans. Their agreeing with the Republicans in so many things the query is why do they not Vote with them instead of running a ticket of their own. They cannot hope to elect anybody, but might accomplish something by voting with those with whom they agree, but they have concluded to run a ticket of their own and no one ought to say them nay. But the fact is very significant that two different meetings, called for distinctly different purposes, and composed of separate classes of people, bat all intelligent and important factors in the State citizenship, should declare hostility to the Democrats and their agreement with the Republican doctrine. The Republicans at the capital are exceedingly well pleased over the work of the last ten days in making congressional nominations. The First, Second, Fourth, Fifth. Seventh. Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Districts have put their candidates in the field, and the selections made prove that the Republic: ms of those districts are in earnest hd 1 that they do not intend i .to yield thei i up to the Democrats without a Mruggl*. It is believed

here that the First, Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh Districts will surely go Republican while the Fourth, Twelfth and Thirteenth': give them more than an even fighting chanee. Even the Second is not regarded as dead sure for the Democracy. Holman, in the Fourth, already realizes he will have a hard pull this time and is growing uneasy. Bynum has left his seat in Congress and come home to look after his fences in this district, and it is time, for several panels have lately been knocked down. He says he will not return again until after the election. That fact shows how. badly the Democrats are seared. All the Republicans need now to scoie a grander success than they have had for years

is courage.

THE DEMOCRATS AND TAXES.

Railroad Companies Find Favor with Them, Farmers Bear a Barden, Indianapolis Jottnwl.— — —• , •. • The shifting of the burden of taxation from personalty to real estate as proposed by the Democratic party of the State will be of great benefit, especially to railroad corporations. The taxable values of the latter have always been carefully watched by Democratic State boards of equalization lest they become too great. Pleas of railway officials as to poor physical condition and failure to do anything more from earnings than to meet current expenses and pay interest have not been unheeded. On that account the railway values placed by Democratic boards are far below the natural order of increase as observed by the Republican boards. The latter this year placed upon the duplicate $69,763,676 as the aggregate value of real property held by the railroads in the State. The last Democratic board, that of 1886, thought that property at that time was worth no more than $55,244,820. Since 1882 the work of 'the State Board of Equalization in this respect has been as follows, in comparison with the mileage of each year: Year. Mileage. Valuation. Admin. 18t2.. ..4,898.44547,^5,.Repub1ican. 1888.. .5,240.19 ... 53,480,932. .Democratic. 1834.. ..5,2.9.49.... 55,057,687. .Dem icratic. 1885.. . .5.495.24.... 54,983,513. .Democratic. 1886.. . .5,560.32.... 55,244,820. .Democ-atic. 1887.. . .5,079.55.... 62,092,439. .Republican 1888.. . .5,745.75.... 64,211,717. .Republican 1889.. . .5,825.81 ... 66,241,532. .Republican’ 1890.. . .5.929.28.... 69,762,676. .Republican Increase in mileage during Democratic administration (1883, 1884, 1885 and 1886), 661.88 miles; increase in valuation, $7,359,422. Increase in mileage during Republican administration, 1887,1888, 1889 and 1890, 368,96 miles; increase in valuation, $14,517,856. In addition to $14,219,463, the value of rolling stock, is on the duplicate. Putting taxation on lands, is urged, and thus burdening the farmer and small householders to an extent that will virtually deprive them of their property, will exempt that great sum alone fioin bearing its share of taxes

THE SENTINEL SCARED.

The following is an extract from a long editorial in the Sentinel and shows that it is not as hopeful of a Democratic victory as it was sometime ago. It is a Studied effort to crawl out of the hole it got into on the single tax idea. The Sentinel says: We are not all alarmed about this new qrusade that has been inaugurated by the Republican managers. In fact, it is encouraging to the Democrats, because it shows to what desperate straits their adversaries are reduced for campaign ammunition. They have runaway from thetariff question, from the discussion of State finances and from almost every other issue of present practical politics. Their coward--IC6 is only equalled by their dishonesty. Their campaign, like that of 1888, is nothing but a systematic appeal to popular ignorance and prejudice. It proceeds upon the theory that the average citizen is an idiot. It will certainty not succeed, if the Democrats do not fall victims to overconfidence. It is only necessary for the Democrats throughout the State to “hustle,” as their adversaries are doing, and take the necessary steps to circumvent the Republican -schemes of bribery and fraud, to redeem Indiana on Nov. 4 by a glorious majority. As Mr. Lincoln said: “You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time."

THEY DON’T LIKE FARMERS.

••Kimmel lives on a farm near AN bion, and hasn’t any more idea of congressional life or its necessities or qualifications than he has hopes of an election.’’--Fort Wayne Journal. This extract is from the leading Democratic paper of the Twelfth district. The idea that a man can not be quail* fled for a seat in Congress because he lives on a farm is undemocratic and un-American. Beginning with George Washington and Thomae Jefferson, both of whom lived on farms, many great and good men fall in-that class. Mr. Charles A. O. McClellan (the Sentinel would call him “alphabet” McClellan), Democratic Congressman and candidate for re-election in that district, is a lawyer and banker. As he has reflected no credit on the district or State the people up there might do well to try a farmer. . -■■■ Section 2 of the new election law requires county commissioners to give notice of the boundaries of precincts and of the voting places therein by at | least one publication in one Republi* 1 can and one Democratic newspaper, at | least pne month before the election, ' and by posting notices thereof in four of the most-public places in each precinct. It is important that this pro. vision of the law be complied with, and It should be done before Oct. 4.

PRICES OF FARM IMPLEMENTS

American Buyers Not Discriminated Agai st by Home Manufacturers. Chicago Inter Oce>n. If. General Palmer really wants to compare the prices paid by Illinois farmers for the products of American manufactories with those paid for the same goods by foreign ■'-onsumers, we • give below a table for his use. It sets forth the prices charged in America and Great Britain for the same Amer- -- ican articles. If‘necessary we ean furnish the names and pages of the different catalogues from which these prices are taken. The list, with the British prices given in American currency, (s as follows: fl II I! ■eu tre ns c 2. i□. g g ARTICLES, og 8 o : ° a •5 > irt 3 5 IB : £ ? ? i£• 52. Planet, jr., combined drill, wheel-hoe, cultivator-rake and plow sl2 00 s3l 00 $3 31' Planet, jr., plain doublewheel hob ... 450 608 158 Planet, jr.. singl--wheel hie, cultivator and plowxxxir.”? 766 166 7 Fire-fly band-plow 250 828 78 Fire-flj’sngle-wheei hoe, culti- . vator and plow 500 '6 44 141 Planet, jr.. celery-earther.... 10 00 12 16 216 Eiterp ise lawn-mower, 11inchl 13 00 13 37 37 Hand-saws (Disston’s D 8) 26inch, per doz n 22 00 21 87 nand-saws (Digst it’s No. 7) 26 , , ; 1 inch, per dozen 20 09 20 41 41 Hand-aws (Disston’s Acme No. 120; 26 inch, per dozen 33 0 33 41 41 Bu k-saws (Disstou’s Climax No. 60). per doze i 10 00 10 21 21 Bu k-saws (Di stou’s No. 6), per dozen 950 911 39 Wringer, “A-M C 0..” No. 2... 3OU 30; 03 ‘‘Enterprise” sad irons,No. 59, per dozen 5et5.....~......;v SO 00 30 38 38 ‘‘Enterprise” bone, seell and Corn-mills, No. 730 7 s’. 765 15 ‘‘En erprise” coffee - mill, No. 8 ..-.M. 16 00 16 28 28 “E uerprise meat-chopper No 22.....,.-.. .... 4 0 4 01 01 ~ "Enterprise” meat- chopper , - No. 62• :co 00 204 12 412 Ice cream freezer (Star) 4 qts. 5 st> 559 09 1 ce-cream frei zer (Star) 14 qu 14 uO 14 21 21 Ice - cream freezer (Crown), witn flt-whe 1, 8 qts, 13 00 13 12 12 Ice cr am freezer (Crown' with fly-wheel, 32 qts...:, .. I 37 S' -31 Si 40 American Cake mixtu e. 6qt 35( 3 6 14

NICODEMUS.

This list is not copy«gu(.ea. eral Palmer or whosoever will may freely use it. All we ask is that the farmers of Illinois and the general public be given the benefit of the information. We have only to add that herein may be seen a fair specimen of the difference between free-trade misrepresentations and the actual facts in the case.

Economic and Political Subjects Treated in a Ready and Handy Manner.

Washington Special. A visitor to the Republican Congressional Committee headquarters in Washington will be impressed with the bustle pervading that place, while a similar inspection of the Democratic headquarters will discover no signs of activity and scarcely an indication of life. The Republicans are evidently alive to the situation. Documents are being mailed by the wholesale for campaign use, and every sign is apparent already to indicate that the hardest Kind of work will be done. While the Republican committee, rein forced by Gen, Clarkson, o f Io wa, is well supplied with funds, the Democratic managers are complaining that their Congressmen are not paying up their assessments. The Democrats seem to take it for granted that they will carry the next House, through their infamous gerrymandering*, and that this species of trickery will, make it unnecessary for them to do anything further. The Republicans, recognizing the seriousness of the situation, are spurred to enthusiastic effort, and nothing will be left undone to lessen tho handicap which the Democtals have already placed upon them. One of the campaign documents issued by the Republican committee is a gem. It is called a handbook, and is in attractive form, with an American flag in bright, colors on one cover between the portraits of Lincoln and Grant. Under the .striking combination appears the REPUBLICAN RECORD MADE IN THE HOUSE DURING THE NINE MONTHS OF

CONGRESS. 1. A federal election law. 2. A protective tariff law? 3. Silver restored. 4. Obstruction knocked out. 5. A just -pension law. 6. (Contract labor forbidden. 7. Convict labor forbidden. 8. An effective eight-hour law. 9- The American hog vindicated. 10. A uniform bankruptcy law. 11.. Two more new States. 12. Six new ships for the navy, * 13. Harbor fortifications. 14. Supreme Court relieved. 15. Shipping bills. This list on a scroll bears a red seal with the letters G. O. P. inscribed, The book contains but twentv-eight pages, but these are full of information on economic and while Republican arguments ready compiled and handy for use are easily found. Any Republican with this book in his pocket can confound half a dozen Democratic adversaries in argument or statement by the record. The cost of flags has been increased by the admission of the new Western States; but this is one of the advances in price that represents a substantial gain, and so there is no room for complaint about it. The failure of the panic to come to hand is a terrible blow to the Democratic chieftans and the speculators. The rest of the country, however, ia not mourning much over their discomfiture