St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 July 1892 — Page 2

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM HOW THE PARTY STANDS ON IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. KepitMican Protection Declared to Be a Iriusl on Labor to Benefit a Pew—A Tariff for Revenue Only—The Coinage Question. Text of tlie Resolutions. The following is the full text of the platform adopted by the National Democratic Convention at Chicago: The representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, in national convention assembled, do reaffirm their allegiance to the principles of the party as formulated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long and illustrious line of his successors in Democratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland. Wc believe the public welfare demands that these principles be applied to the conduct of the Federal (iovenunent, through the accession to power of the party that advocates them; and we solemnly declare that the need of a return to these fundamental principles of a free, popular government, based on home rule and individual liberty, was never more urgent than now, when the tendency to centralize all power at the Federal Capital has become a menace to the reserved rights of the States that strikes at the very roots of our government under the constitution as framed by the fathers of the republic. Federal Control of Elections. We warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preservation of their free institutions, that the policy of Federal control of elections, to which the Republican party has committed itself, is fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely less momentous than would result from a revolution, practically establishing monarchy on the ruins of the republic. It strikes at the North as well as the South, and injures the colored citizen even more than the white; it means a horde of deputy marshals at every polling place armed with Federal power, returning boards appointed and controlled by Federal authority, the outrage of the electoral rights of the people in the several States, the subjugation of the colored people to the control of the party in power and the reviving of race antagonisms now happily abated, of the utmost peril to the safety and happiness of all; a measure deliberately and justly described by a leading Republican Senator as the “most infamous bill that ever crossed the threshold of the Senate." Such a policy, if sanctioned by law, would mean the dominance of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of officeholders, and the party first intrusted with its machinery could be dislodged from power only by an appeal to the reserved right of the people to resist oppression which is inherent in eli self-governing communities. Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by the people at the polls, but in contempt of that verdict the Republican party has defiantly declared in its latest authoritative utterance that its success in the coining elections will mean the enactment of the force bill and the usurpation of despotic control over elections in all the States. Believing that the preservation of republican government in the United is dependent upon the defeat of the policy of legalized force and fraud, we Invite the support of all citizens who desire to see the constitution maintained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto which have given our country a hundred years of unexampled prosperity, and we pledge the Democratic party, if it be intrusted with power, not only to the defeat of the force bill, but also to relentless opposition to the Republican policy of profligate expenditare, which in the short space of two years has squandered an enormous surplus and emptied an overflowing treasury, after piling new burdens of taxation upon the already overtaxed labor of the country. Declaration for Tariff Reform. We denounce Republican protection as a fraud on the labor of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few We declare it to be a fundamental pri iciple of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power co impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes sh^ll be limited to the necessities of the Government when honesthand economically administered. We denounce the McKinley tariff law enacted by the Fiftyfirst. Congress as the culminating atrocity of class legislation; we indorse the efforts made by the Democrats of the present Congress to modify its most oppressive features in the consumption,' auu ww and clienw-r party. Since the McKinlev tariff went into operation there have been ten reductions of the wages of laboring men to one increase. We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity to the country since that tariff went into operation, and we point to the dullness and distress, the wage reductions and strikes in the iron trade, as the best possible evid. n-e that no such prosperity resulted from the McKinley act. \Ve call the attention of thoughtful Americans to the fact that aft- • thirty years of restrictive taxes against the importation of foreign wealth in exchange for our agricultural surplus the homes and farms of the country have become burdened with a real-estate mortgage debt of over <2.5 .i.anvoo, exclusive of all other forms of indebtedness; that in one of the chief agricultural States A the West there appears a real-estate mortu: ge averaging $lO5 per capita of the total population, and that similar conditions and tendencies are shown to exist in ftie other agricultural exporting States.- We denounce a policy which fosters no industry so much as it does that of the Sheriff. The Question of Trade Reciprocity. Trade interchange on the basis of reciprocal advantages to the countries participating is a time-honored doctrine of the Democratic faith, but we denounce the sham reciprocity which juggles with the people’s desire for eh'nrg d foreign markets and'freer exchanges by pretending to establish closer trade relation-, for a country whose articles of export are almost exclusively agricultural products, with other countries that are also agricultural, while erecting a custom-house barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against the richest countries of the world that stand ready to take our entire surplus of products and to exchange therefor commodities which are necessaries and comforts of life among our own people. Trusts and Combinations. We recognize in the trusts and combinations which are designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint product of capital and labor a natural consequence of the prohibitive taxes which prevent the free competition which is the life of honest trade, but we believe their worst evils can be abated by law, and we demand the rigid enforcement pf the laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary. Lands for Actual S dtlers. The Republican party, while professing a policy of reserving the public land for small holdings by actual settlers, has given away the people’-s heritage, until now a few railroad and non-resident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last Democratic administration reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the R publican party -touching the public domain and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred million acres of valuable land to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to continue this .policy until every acre of bind so unlawfully held shall be reelaimed and restored to the people. The Coinage of Si ver. We denounce the Republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 18.10 as a cowardly makeshift fraught with possibilities of danger in the future which should make all of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without dircrinfinating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metalsand the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency. Wc recommend that the prohibitory 10 per cent, tax on State-bank issues be repealed. Re’orm <»f the Civil Service. Public office is a public trust. We reaffirm the declaration of tbe Democratic National Convention of 1870 for the reform of the civil service, and we call for The honest enforeernent of all laws regulating the same. The nomination of a President, as in the recent Republican convention, by delegations composed largely of his appointees, holding office at his pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon free popular institutions and a startling illustration of the methods by which a President may gratify his ambition. We denounce a pol-

icy under which Federal officeholders usurp control of party conventions in the States, and we pledge the Democratic party to reform these and all other abuses which threaten individual liberty and local self-government. An Honorable Foreign Policy. The Democratic party is the only party that has ever given the country a foreign policy consistent and vigorous, compelling respect abroad and inspiring confidence at home. While avoiding entangling alliances it has aimed' j cultivate friendly relations with other nations, and especially with our neighbors on the American continent, whose destiny is closely linked with our own; and we view with alarm the tendency to a policy of irritation and bluster Which is liable at any time to confront us with the alternative of humiliation or war. Wc favor the maintenance of a navy strong enough for all purposes of national defense and to properly maintain the honor and dignity of the country abroad. Oppression in Russia and Ireland. This country has always been the refuge of the oppressed from every land—exiles for conscience sake—and in the spirit of the founders of our government we condemn the oppression practiced by the Russian Government upon its Russian and Jewish subjects, and wo call upon our national government, in the interests of justice and humanity, by all right and proper means, to use its prompt and best efforts to bring about a cessation of these cruel persecutions in the dominion of the Czar, and to secure to the oppressed equal rights. We tender our profound and earnest sympathy to those lovers of freedom who are struggling for home rule and the great cause of local selfgovernment in Ireland. Restriction of Immigration. We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the United States from being used as the dumping ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe, and we demand the rigid enforcement 0/ the laws against Chinese immigration and the importation of foreign workmen under contract to degrade American labor and lessen its wages, but we condefnn and denounce any and all attempts to restrict the immigration of the iudustrioks and worthy of foreign lands. Pensions for Soldiers and Sailors. This convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of the Union, in the war for its preservation, and we favor just and liberal pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, their widows and dependents, but we demand that the work of the pension office shall be done industriously, impartially, and honestly. We denounce the present administration as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful, and dishonest. Waterway Improv.-in ents. The Federal Government should care for and improve the Mississippi River and other great waterways of the republic so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to the tide-water. When any waterway of the republic is of sufficient importance to demand the aid of the Government, such aid should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous work until permanent improvement is secured. The Nicaragua Canal. Tn support of national defense and the promotion of commerce between the States we recognize the early construction of the Nicaragua Canal and its protection against foreign control as of great importance to the United States. • The World's Fair. Recognizing the World’s Columbian Exposition as a national undertaking of vast importance, in which the General Government has invited the co-operation of all the powers of the world, and appreciating the acceptance by many of such powers of the invitation so extended and the broad and liberal efforts being made by them to contribute to the grandeur of the undertaking, we are of opinion that Congress should make such necessary financial provision as shall be requisite to the maintenance of the national honor and public faith. The Common Schools.

Popular education being the only safe basis of popular suffrage, we recommend to the several States most liberal appropriation for the public schools. Free common schools are-the nursery of good government, and they have always received the fostering care of the Democratic party, which favors every means of increasing intelligence. Freedom of education, being an essential of civil and religions liberty as well as a necessity for the development of intelligence, must not be interfered with under any pretext whatever. We are opposed to State Interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of chil- | dren. r.s an infringement of tbe fundamental Admission of the Territories. We approve the action of the present House of Representatives in passing bills for the admission into the Union as States the Territories of Now Mexico ami Arizona, and we favor the early admission of all the Territories having the necessary population and resources to entitle them to Statehood: and while thev remain Territories we hold that the officials appolnt -d to administer the Government of anv Territory, together with the District of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona-fide residents of the Territory or district in which the 1 ’ duties are to be, performed. The Democratic party believes in home rule and the control of their own affairs b: the people of the vicinage. Protection of Railway Employes. We favor legislation by Congress and State Legislatures to protect the lives and limbs of railway employes and those of other hazardous transportation companies, and denounce the inactivity of the Republican partv, and particularly the Republican Senate, for causing the defeat of measures beneficial and protective to this class of wage-workers. The Sweating System. We are in favor of the enactment by the States of laws for abolishing the notorious sweating system, for abolishing contract convict labor and for prohibiting tbe employment in factories of children under 15 years of agfi. Sumptuary Laus. M e are opposed to all sumptuary laws as an interference with the individual rights of the citizens. Upon this statement of principles and policies the Democratic party asks the intelligent judgment of the American people. It asks a change of administration and a change of party, m order that there may be a change of system and a change of methods, thus assuring the maintenance, unimpaired, of institutions under which the republic has grown great and powerful. There are few more rugged figures among the Scotch scholars of the present generation than is Prof. Blackie, of Edinburgh. Though 83, he has never worn a pair of spectacles, and for thirtyyears he had no need of medical advice. He attributes the vitality of his old age to his custom of living by an unvarying system, and it is noteworthy that Oliver Wendell Holmes, who is of about the same age and equally well pres rved, told an interviewer some time ago that h's own good health was due to his habit of living strictly by rule, ov. n to the temperature of his bath. It is interesting to know that Prof. Blackie does not go to bed until the clo -k strikes 12. He rises at 7:30, and always after his midday meal he takes a nap. Dr. Carl Peters, writing of his travels in Africa, tells of a camel that, in a half-starved state, ate the flesh of a whole sheep after it had been cooked for him. The Doctor praises banana flour, and speaks highly of the Waganda people about Lake Victoria. They surpass every other African nation in intelligence, and readiness to progress, and subsist mainly on the enormous product of their banana groves. The warriors of the Massai tribe, on the other hand, live entirely on either milk or flesh, but only one of these kinds of food ata time. '1 hey will tap a live ox on the neck, and drink the blood as it flows. When they asked Dr. Edward Everett Hale, the other day, the secret of keeping young at the age of 70, he said; “First, never do anything yourself \vhich you can get another to do for you; second, never trouble yourself as to who will get the credit for what is done; third, never work after 3 o’clock in th<j afternoon; fourth, sleep ten hotr ut ol every twenty-four.” The Druids held many plants sacred, as, for instance, vervain, selago, mistletoe, Etad among trees the oak and ths rowan.

CLEVELAND GETS IT. STEVENSON HIS RUNNING MATE. STOUT OF THE BATTLE. HILL AND BOIES ALSO PUT IN NOMINATION. A Pandemonium of Enthusiasm Fairly liaises Hie Hoot of the Wigwam—Tho Air Thick with Hats, Canos, Umbrellas, Coats, Handkerchiefs and Banners. Wednesday’s Evening Session. Chicago special: Cleveland .616 Hill 11l Boies 103 Scnltcrlng 74 Wi en the first taps of the gavel wore heard in the Wigwam Wedn sday evening the great building was packed from top to bottom. For more than an hour the thousands of hot and impatient people had teen bombarding the barn doors or jostling each other in the tunnel entrances. Ender the acre of pine roof the heat was intense. No breeze moved the muggy and stagnant atmosphere. At the announcement that the Committee on Resolutions was ready to report a wild shout went up, and Editor Jones sidled up to the front*of the platform and attempted a little extemporaneous introduction to the con,mitt. e’s report, which was drowned out by yells of “Louder’" The resolutions were handed to exSecretary Vilas, of Wisconsin, hut before he bad a chance to speak Mr. Patterson, member of the committee from Colorado, who was already on the platform, lifted up his voice and cried that

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iho minority < f the committee had a rei ] ort to make through him, and he sliould expect the committee to listen to this 1 before ordering the previous question. । This suited the convention exactly, and it roared its assent. Ki-a<l:nq ol the Fliitform. Colonel Vilas stepped to the edge of j the ;>latform, resolutions in hand, and slowly and witli a powerful voice, ho began the reading. He got on as far as the reference to the Democratic leaders v.ho had succeeded the immortal Jefferson from Madison to Cieveland wh- n Ihe stopped. He had touched off 1)10 i powder magazine. The explosion was instantaneous, and it shook the wicwam. M ith one wild, shrill warwhoop of delight the greater part of the convention and the spectators jumped to their feet and waved hats, handkerchiefs, fans, an 1 umbrellas, and uttered shout after shout, and as fast as one set o’s throats and arms showed S'gns of weariness another set look up the jubilation and carried it on with increasing volume and greater vibration of light v ’ " '-A j A! LAI E. STEVENSON. wearing apparel and the adjuncts of hot 1 weather. The reading finished, like a tin i whistle in a hurricane sounded the 1 voice of the Chairman. He called for a vote on the adoption of the platform. : “The platform is adopted,” he cried, and then without a moment’s delay: “The nex business is the call of the roll for the nomination of candidates for Presi- i dent.” The great amphitheater was in disorder, commotion was everywhere. The Tammany leaders are on their feet'. Sheehan is in front. He turns toward his delegation and beckons them to rise i and come forward. He shakes his head ’ angrily as they refuse, and pulls at his tawny musta he. Don Dickinson rubs his hands with satisfaction. The crucial moment has arrived. A curly headed I clerk steps to the edge of the platform and sings out in a high nasal tone: ' “State of Alabama.” A dozen men are standing on chairs asking for information. Fenlon, of Kansas, moves to adjourn. The chair pays no attention to him. “Alabama,” 1

again cries the clerk. “Arkansas” was the no4K, and at the call a tall, lank Southerner mounts his chair. “Arkansas yields her place to New Jersey,” he says. There is a great shout. The Cleveland men are smiling. Again j Tammany is in turn oil. The whole ! convention knows that Gov. Abbett, of New Jersey, has been chosen to pre- ■ sent the name of Grover Cleveland. Abbett Names Clcvi’lamL Slowly the New Jersey Governor ■ walked down the center aisle. He is • broad-shouldered, heavily bearded, dig- ; nified. He climbs the steps and Chair- ■ man Wilson meets him with outstretched ' hand. In slow and measured tone he began to speak. “It is the name of a man who has twice carried iho electoral vote of my State whom I shall name," he declared, and th • Cleveland crowds cheered. Gov. Abbett was making a strong, thoughtful spee; h. Without warning, without rhetorical ornament, he mentione I the name of Cleveland. The volcano is in uproar. L’p, up, all about the hall the delegates are climbing, yelling asth 'y rise. Above the tumult floats the white banner of Michigan. On either side looks down the face of Cleveland. Up ; again conics the wild storm of cheers, beating in waves against the snowy ensign. From the sials of Michigan a delega’o carries the banner across the j aisle to the seats of New York. Gen. I Sickles waves his crutch in anger. “Back!’’ “Back!” cry the chiefs ■of Tammany. The whole body of delegates face inward about ths circumference of the great floor. In the center the Tammany tiger, crouched low, ! growls ominously at the I'oating banner 'of Cleveland. It is like a gigantic prize ring. Lieut. Gov. Sheehan, blueeyed and smiling, leans over to, Don Dickinson. "Don’t you worry, ha cried. “You have the noise, we the votes.” From the galleries hundreds of

!*"'■ ■ ' ’ . leaned out in'o space and s.-reamed. Hie ' nndidate 1 have named,” cries Gov. Abbett, "will carry New York." I p jumps Tammany in protest. “No,” they cry, with one voice, and hisses a swer them. As chance came, the speaker struggled throu_h his speech. I nem.nate that plain, Hunt, honest citizen, Grover Cleveland,” and so ho close I. A s.orm of deafening applause united With tbe thunder ol the storm outsi Is so 'med to shake the great wigwam from foundation to roof. At this point proposals to adjourn were volunteered from the gallerit s, but the convention took a stern view of its duties and kept at work. Mill and lloius Nainml. After the confusion the secretary called the State o' Colorado, which replied th it it yi.-ld. d its right to the floor to New fork, and New Aork, in the person of \\. C. DeM itt of Brooklyn, took the platform. In due time he said that David Bennett Hill was the candidate of thO" common people. Mr. DeWitt made ingenious use of Senator Hill’s reputation for partisanship, and made a clever appeal to the convention not to nominate a New York man who was not sustained by the delegation of his own State. He distrlluted graceful compliments to Boies and Palmer and Gorman and Pattison and Carlisle, whose friends were invited to reciprocate. John F. Duncombe, of Fort Dodge, in a Speech characteristic of the brainy lowan, placed the nomination of Gov. Boies before the convention. At the mention of the Governor’s name his adherents became wildly enthusiastic, and, I eing joined in their applause by several oi the other delegations, it was some time before the speaker could conclude. 1 lie nominations being seconded the convention proceeded to ballot, and at 3:20 o’clock Thursday morning the result of the first ballot was announced. Ihe necessary 605 votes had been reI corded for Cleveland. ; It was the most remarkable session : Known in the history of national con- , ventions. From 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon until the gray of dawn Thursday morning, the huge wigwam was a ; scene of tumultuous demonstrations. Ihe hundreds waiting on the streets took up the echo of their cheers. M ith sunrise came a monster ratification. Grover Cleveland’s nomination was ma le unanimous. The convention then mljourned until 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Stevenson for Vice President. The convention assembled in the afternoon, with Gov. (.ray, of Indiana, in a lair way to win the second place, but the New York delegation, by throw- I . ing its strength to Adlal E. Stevenson, i ol Illinois, succeeded in making him the victor. He was then formally declared I the nominee for Vice President, and after the usual resolutions, etc., the ’ convention adjourned sine die. j Youth has a tongue; age, ears.

NewTLlrg^ in Fhotography. One of the most interesting developments of instantaneous photography in recent years is that which has been applied to the analysis of the motions of animals, such as galloping horses, athletes running ami jumping, and so on. A great deal has been learned in this wav about j the. manner in which the limbs are managed in rapid motion, and some misconceptions have been corrected. One serious difiicuity that has been encountered in the practical application of photography to moving objects arises from the fact that, in certain cases, the sucee-sive images of the’ moving animal overlap one another in such away as to produce a confused picture. This diTciut v lias been overcome by a now method invented by Pi of. Marey, and des”ri )cd recently in the R ’Vue Generale des Sciences. He ; dresses the object to be photographed —and thus tar he seemed to have ajiplied the method only to man—in i black, marks distinct white lines and ! spots upon the limbs who c motions i 'no wishes to record, and then causes hi; subject, thus prepared, to pass in front of a black background. Only the white lines marked on • the limbs are photographically visible, i ,i::d owing 10 their narrowness they ! do not overlap in the pictures as the : comparatively broad images of the i whole limbs would do. Prof. Mar.’y is able accordingly to j increase the num' er of exposu-es per . second, and so to catch the moving Lmbs in a greater number of sue- ' ccssive positions. The pictures thus ; outlin'd are very interesting and instructive. A series of white dots, ar^’ng‘d in a waving line, represents : <ne su"cessive positions of the runner’s head, while bent white lines, following m a rhy; hmical series of ]> siti.'iis, show the play of the aims . and legs.

i Uy this method the mot ons of an । athlete in the act of making a run- : ning high jump have been photographed on a scale of twenty-live ■ ; imag per second, the result being a ' ’ beautiful series of lines showing ! cleariy how the lines are corrie I at ! . successive instants in the course of I the jump. Prof Mare; lias photographed an j . eel swimming, and a star-ll'di in the ■ 1 :i"t of turning over; and a writer in ■ 1 Not ure >ugge -t - t hat his methods and apparatus may be applied to the real i at ion of a wi-h of Prof. Ray Lancaster that he could photograph a running centipede, and the nmveinents of scorpi >ns and spiders. 'File rapid progress of photography in tbe discovery, on iho cne hand, of new w mder. in the heavens, and the revelation on the other hand, ol main hitherto hidden facts c incerning familiar objects upon the earth, is one of the most notable phenomena of this distinctively scientitle age. Turnins h ' Tables.

■f'lm'hn i.'i v ftymiii ik n'ttj up unlicens't peddlers. Taking his walk abroad one day. lie came a toss an old follow . whom he at on-e concluded was an (illegal trad t, and in piired if he had ' g >t anything to sell. •■Have I got anything to sell, It me?" was tic' resjHinse. “Guess I have got blacking that will make ,t he u oil e e.vi।id? Lo >ts of yourn si lin • I <o that you can suave in them. Got j r;o:or-.. too an a.tlcle you want, I ’ ( should -ciy, by the look of your beard. Got Balm of Columby. too, only a ’ d.Jnar a bottle, good for the Hur and ’ assisting pmr human nature.’^ . The Shorin' bought a b Htleof Balm , of <'mumb:a, a id then desired to see the Yank'e’s license for peddling. T.ie d cument wis produced, ex- , amine], pronounced genuine, and . handed back to the old man. “I don’t know now, that I care f ir this stuff, ’’said the disappointed oili- ' rial. hat will you give for it?” “V/a’al,” answered the peddler, “I don t want it, Squire: but seeing it's you, PH give you thirty-seven cents for it.” Tim Sheriff ; assed him the bottle and pocket d the money, when the p ‘ddler said, — ”I say, I guess I have got something to ask you now. Have you got a peddler’s license almut you?” “No,” said the Sheriff, “I haven’t anv use for one myself.” “Wa'al, I gimss we will see about that prettvsoon," replied the Yonkee. “If I understand the law, Sheriff, it s a clear case that you’ve been grading and pe Idling Balm of Columbr < n the highway, and I shall inform on you ” Thus lie turned the tables; and the Sheriff was duly lined for peildling without a license. A Wonderful Set of (Ticssmcn. A remarkable set of chessmen has just been completed by an American ; mechanic. Tine pieces are made of silvered bronze, and the period of costume and equipment is A. I). I i !>4. all the characters being historical and con temporary and strictly accurate in every detail of heraldic I blazonry and costume. The kniuhts , ar.' in chain-mail armor, with shii Id, ax, sword and dagger. Their fur eoatshave each the individual blazon of the wearer. The queens wc;ir r ya! nr es and carry sceptres. The bishop; are in church ve.-tments,with 1 cross ami crozier. The pawn-; are j men-at-arms in a kneeling posture, with spear, bill-hook and knife. The | white men are English, the black I’ren-h. The English king and queen are Richard 1. and his Berengaria. 1 The bishops are Hertnirt Walter, archbishop o.A’anterbury, and Willj lam Longchamps, bishop of Ely; and । | the irnights are the Earl of Salisbury and Baron of WorcestiT. The castle is Anszm-Norman, and is a perfectly; accurate repres<>niat ion of feudal ai' liiteeture. I'hc ITench king and queen are Philip and Inueborg, his Danish spouse, the bishons living de

Bronx and de Sully, of Beauvais and Paris. The knights are also wellknown men of the twelfth century, and the castle is Franco-Norman. The set lias taken upwards of six years to make.—New York Home .Journal. In Real Life. “Jim the Penman” is perhaps a more picturesque figure on the stage than in real life, but lie and his kind exist, nevertheless. The story of a ‘•gentleman burglar" recently arrested in London furnishes the material for a sensational novel. After running a career of vice in England, this fellow, who was but 30, and handsome in face and figure, came to America and introduced himself to New York society as a lieutenant of the Royal Engineers. So well did he play his part that within a year ha married the daughter of a lady of means, a pretty and accomplished girl. Uis mother-in-law soon pressed him to introduce her to his fashionable relatives in England. Yielding to her solicitations he returned there, and took a residence in a quiet country town, where he soon became । a social light, and entertained lavishly. By-ar.d-by mysterious burglaries began in the neigh: orhood, but I no one dreamed of suspecting the I elegant and wealthy “lieutenant” oi I complicity in t hem. Ultimately he i was caught, however, and accused of I breaking into residences and stealing various articles. By this time the i family of his unfortunate wife had ' be 'll stripped of nearly every penny, and left in an almost destitute condition plus the burd mos his liabilities. Even after his marriage the , 1 plain!' I- rogue kep* up a c u-respond-I once with ladies with a view to marriage, and paid personal attention to -I others. He was indicted for burglary, ; ■ and found guilty of receiving goods । well knowing them to have been

■ stolen, and was si ntenced to twelve , years’ jxmal servitude. The biMorv j of his various love affairs points out the moral which girls so often forget I —that a wooer should have more re--1 liable passports to their tavor than a ' handsome face and ingratiating man--1 ner. Antiquity of the Plane. A very interesting discovery has - been made at the Roman City of Silchester. The excavators came across 1 a dry well which, on being exploded, proved quite a little museum of antiquity. Some fifty-five feet d wu the diggers found an urn-shaped potl ten vase. at»out a foot long, quite 111i tact, and curiously enough, protected 1 by lumps of chalk l u.lt around it. The vase, which probably originally contained some precious substan e, was quite empty. Above it were de--1 posited a number of iron im;le--1 menus, most of which were in a wonderful stale of preservation. The principal specimmi is a car- ' pe ite ’s [iLtf of quite modern type, aitliouTh unquestionably more than

.tteeu huni.irc.l years old^- three- of"* four axes r. laining their edges and st 11 qu te serviceable^ ’* l ’* . number of chisels and gouges of all shapes and sizes, hammers, adz.s, saws, files, etc. Among the smith’s tools may lie specified a brazer for burning charcoal, quite complete; two or three anvils 01 different sizes a.nl shapes, a fine pair of tongs adapfe 1 for lifting crucibles, a cur - 0:1s tr p >d candelabrum lamp or candh Stick, and several other curious objects, the precise uses of which have not yet been determined, In addition there are several large bars of iron, a couple of plowshares and a broken sword. This is undoubtedly the mo-t important find at Silchcst r since the discovery of the bronze R man eagle now at Strathfieldsaye, i some years ago. l*lty tur the Foor Dr. Robert Simson, the celebrated mathematician, who flourished during t'ne first half of the eighteenth cmitury. ami whose edition of Euclid is still used in many schools, was a very absent minded man, and the object of ire.pi mt practical jokes. On one occasion a porter of Glasgow University, in which Simson held the chair of mathematics, dressed himseli up for the part, and. calling on the Drofe-sor, begged charity of him. In reply to several questions the man gave an account of himself that closely resembled (as, of course it was. meant to do) Simson’s own history, struck by the extraordinary likeness lietween hU visitors career and his own. he asked the former what his name w. s. On being told that it was “Robert Simson,” the Professor remarked with deep interest, “Why. it must be myself,” and handed the poor pniLssor a substantial gratuity, adi ding a few words of pity for his sad I fate as a man of genius. How the British Treat Their Old Soldiers Patrick O’Brien. 53, a tall man. was charged with begging. Constable I 345 II stated that recently he saw I the defendant begiiing from foot j asi sengers in the Whitechapel road and as he would not go away witness was : obliged to take him into custody. O'Brien, whose feet and hands were deformed, suited that he entered the Scots Guards in l‘-57. While serving with his regiment in Canada he got his hands and feet frostbitten. He lost half of each hand, his toi s and heels, after which lie was discharged from the army with a pension of (id a day for twelve month-, although he held the rank of sergeant. After that period he was left entirely destitute. He had only been in London a few davs and it took him nearly three months to walk from Macclesfield. Mr. Dickinson had the defendant put back in order to consider what should he done with him. When young married people go to housekeeping, we have noticed that in making garden, they never fail to include a catnip bed.