"Reform!" Yes, butyou bette r commenee d...

"Reform!" Yes, butyou bette r commenee down south with the men whose uitter hatred of a unión soldier would nt allow thein to be co ïrteous even to Gen. Sheridan in nis terrible sickness. New York State has abolished hauging, and tlit; execution of crimináis is hereatter to be accomplished by means of electriclty. The advantage is urjred that deatii ia ceita'n and instantaueous and the dis;uitiug und degrading spectacle ot hanging is done away with. "What is a luaatic, my son?'' " I don't just know, papa,'1 the boy answered promptly, " but 1 believe that it is a business man wlio attempU to do business without advertising." "lüght, uiy sou, ril.t. It' you continue in the path ut wisdom as you have begun, you wlll yet be president." Supiosinï the two Sherroang should get their front minies mixed and the republlcan delectes at Cliicaco next week ¦liould put Win. T. in place of John ! And then supposing old Tecumseh should actually get the noiuination ? Talk bout a cyclone ! ! No power could save the red bandaiina and U heavy weight standard bearer! Kvery northeru state, without ;m exception, wouid wheel into line for the grand old hero who went marektnf through Georgia. The Washington Pojt is k democratie paper, but the way it scores the democratie platform is a terror to the unterri(led. Hear it teil the truth: "But not nlone in enthuslasm, real and confldenee was the SI. Loul couventlon reinarkable. In llie muiter olcredullty it bruLe evea tlie democratie aonventlon records, else It could not have Induced ltself to believe that It waadiaplaylDg stmse, sagaclty, goo.l politica or anytlilug else ttian traunparent lolly. when 11 perpetruted lts Henselesi tarlff plank- ftenHeleas almost to the polntofUDmltlgated ldlocy. In iliat It lndoraes the conLemptlble Hlruddlea of 1SSJ and aUempU to bind in-i mul 1888 together )y lndorslng the president' tarlff message as a correct lnterpretatioo oí Lhat four-year-old fraud."