"The noblest Roman of them all"-as has been familiarly said of that grand old Democrat of the West, Hon. Allen G. Thurman, who has served in the United States Senate with the dead statesman,expressed his condolences for Mrs. Logan, the devoted wife, and remarked: "John Logan was a strong man. There has been a tendency to underestimate him, but my associations in the Senate with him led me to consider him a remarkable man, and much stronger intellectually than he was commonly given credit for. He was a forcible speaker and a strong thinker. Certainly he was a good and brave soldier. Logan had peculiar qualities of heart, that endeared him to his friends. He was a blunt, plain-spoken man, yet always courteous and eminently fair. While we differed widely in politics, we always got along well together on committees. He has been a hard worker, and the public has lost a trusted and valuable servant."

In Congress the general served on many of the most important committees. The public press, as well as statesmen's views, teem with praises or serious considerations of the dead chief. They are the caioneings o'er his manes and in lauds to his departed spirit. For they, like

"The harp's wild notes, though hushed in song,

The mimic march of death prolong.

And seems as if the minstrel's wail,
Now the sad requiem, loads the gale;
Last, o'er the warrior's closing grave,
Rung the full choir in choral stave."

Dr. John Logan, who in 1818 emigrated from the north of Ireland to America, was the father of the dead hero. Dr. Logan went West on arriving here, and wild was that region at that date. He shortly afterwards made his home in Missouri, where he married a Frenchwoman. She was the daughter of a wealthy planter, and by her he had one daughter, who is said to be living. In about a year after their marriage this lady died; and Dr. Logan removed, and settled at Brownsville, Illinois. Lieut.-Gov. Jenkins was then a resident of this place, and he had living in his house his sister, Miss Elizabeth Jenkins. Dr. Logan met this woman, and in a year married her, and she became the mother of John A. Logan. He was born on the 9th of February, 1824, and on a night that one of the wildest storms ever occurring in this country prevailed-so say the annalists. Our subject was the eldest of eleven children in that numerically good, old-fashioned, old-country family. The Jenkinses were Scotch people. It has often been said that "Black Jack" Logan-on account of his complexion and long coalblack hair, had American-Indian blood in him. But he had no more of that in his veins than his ancestry from the old sods gave him, and who possibly may have been able to lay claim to descent from Scottish chief and Irish king. There is a claim that the general was born at Murphysboro, Tenn., and that subsequently the father moved to Illinois, where he practised his profession, which took in such a wide range of territory that he was alike unable to devote the time to the culture of his growing family or the care of his farm, which later he

placed in the hands of a superintendent. Young Logan was a child of the West, a daring boy, a bright playmate, and a very faithful friend, and had no especial aptitude for intellectual pursuits. His father was a very able man, and very well educated. John worked under the direction of the hired superintendent, and was instructed by a sort of tutor, who was hired for the purpose of giving the children of the Doctor a little education. Logan's father died in 1851, and his mother in 1877.

The boy, through hard work, strengthened his rugged constitution, which supported him in his various trying experiences in his later life. When seventeen years of age he was sent to Shiloh College,then in its infancy, where he remained three years. During the last year of his stay at this place the country was very much agitated over the boundary question between this country and Mexico. Logan took a decided interest in the discussion, and displayed a warlike spirit. He volunteered, and was appointed 1st lieutenant of Company H, 1st Illinois Volunteers. He entered the war at its very beginning, and served with some distinction till its close.

When at Shiloh College, Logan had selected the law for his profession. On his return from the Mexican war he was elected clerk of Jackson County. In 1850, in less than a year after he was elected clerk of Jackson County, he resigned the office and entered the law department of the Louisville University. In his legal studies he made. remarkable progress, and graduated with high honors. Ex-Gov. Jenkins, his uncle, invited him to enter into a partnership with him, and he accepted this invitation, and gained a lucrative practice. He had a most excellent advisor in Ex-Gov. Jenkins, and had a most severe training in the courts contesting cases against lawyers who afterwards became among the most eminent lawyers and jurists of the country. The year Logan graduated from the Louisville University, 1852, he was elected to the State Legislature. On the 27th November, 1855, he married Miss Mary S. Cunningham, who was a daughter of one of his strongest friends in the Mexican war, Capt. J. M. Cunningham of Marion, Ill. She was then but 16 years of age, and was well known as a gifted, noble-minded young woman. She was born in the village of Sturgeon, then known as Petersburg, in Boone County, Mo., Aug. 15, 1838. She was one year old when her parents settled in Marion, Ill. It was here that she and her mother shared the dangers of a frontier life while the father was away to the Mexican war, or among the gold mines of the Sierras of California. In the "life and public service of John A. Logan," a writer, speaking of Mrs. Logan, says: "The father felt a just pride in his eldest daughter. The assistance which she had rendered her mother during his long absence in Mexico and California has even more closely endeared her to his heart, and her love of study had prompted him to give part of his income to her proper education. Accordingly, in 1853, the daughter was sent to the Convent of St. Vincent, near Morgansville, Ky., a branch of the Nazareth Institute, the oldest institution of the kind in the country. This was the nearest educational establishment of sufficient advancement in the higher branches of knowledge. The young lady was reared

a Baptist; after her marriage she joined the Methodist Church, the church of the Logan family."

Graduating in 1855, Miss Cunningham returned to her father's home, at Shawneetown. In her younger days, when a mere child, she had aided her father as sheriff of the county, clerk of the court, and register of the land office, in preparing his papers. Those were not the days of blank forms for legal documents. Accordingly the father depended upon the daughter to make copies for him. While Mary Cunningham was thus aiding her father in his official duties, John Logan was prosecuting attorney of the district. He had known the young lady when she was a little girl, and now the renewed acquaintance ripened into love and marriage. In 1858 she saw him elected to Congress as a Douglas Democrat. In his campaigns his wife followed him, and advised him in the contests, frequently receiving his friends and conferring with them as to the details of the campaign. When Logan came to Washington he was accompanied by his wife.

While a member of Congress the war of secession broke out. From Washington, he went over to Virginia, to see the Union troops, and, wearing black clothes and a black silk tile, he served as a volunteer in the ranks at the battle of Bull Run. Subsequently he raised the Thirty-First Illinois volunteers, and left Congress, to command it in the field. The war developed his grand characteristics. The "cavalry bugler sounded his key-note, and, in an atmosphere of dust and powder, he grew great." He served with glory and distinction in the great battles of the West, where he was like unto a god of war. He was truly magnificent in battle. He reached the rank of major-general, commanded the Fifteenth Corps, and, for a time, the army of the Tennessee.

In 1871 he was elected to the United States Senate. In 1877 he was defeated for a re-election by David Davis, and then for two years he saw the darkest period of his life. However, in 1879 he was elected to fill the place of Senator Oglesby. In 1884 the Republican Convention nominated him with Blaine on the national ticket for President and Vice-President. At the next convention he would undoubtedly have had Illinois as a unit at his back for the Presidential nomination— the first place. The great departed, besides his most estimable wife, leaves a married daughter and son. It is to his public credit to say that he died comparatively poor.

STUDENT.

My commandment is, that you do like little children: while they feel their mother holding them by the sleeve they go on boldly and run about everywhere, nothing daunted by the falls that are caused by the weakness of their legs. Thus, while God holds you by your good-will to serve him, go on boldly, undaunted by your little stumblings, provided you cast yourself into his arms and give him the kiss of charity. St. Francis de Sales.

"High License.”

WILLIAM J. ONAHAN, being asked "How has High License in Chicago effected to diminish Intemperance?" replied:

"Opinions are likely to differ as to what would be the true answer. My own judgment is that High License' has lessened the drinking habits of the people to some extent by diminishing the temptations and opportunities for indulgence.

"Under the low-license system ($52 per year), in force five years ago, there were nearly 4,000 saloons in Chicago. Under the present high license ($500 per year) we have 3,700.

"It is to be remarked, however, that while the low-license rate prevailed the number of saloons increased every year until the total (or nearly) given above.

"Had the same rate continued in force I am fully persuaded we would now have between 5,000 and 6,000 saloons in Chicago. So that comparison, if instituted, should be, 3,700 as against, at the least, 5,000 or 5,500. Remember, our population is not stationary. In 1880, 503000, in 1886, it is 720,000, and the saloons, you may be sure, would have kept even pace with this growth but for the interposition of 'High License.'

"You can draw your own inferences from these premises. For my own part I do not look to High License, still less to Prohibition, as a remedy or cure for the plague of intemperance. I believe in the right of communities to regulate and even to restrain, deny if they see fit, saloons and public drinking-places; the latter is only practicable in small towns and villages.

"For cities I regard High License as desirable and expedient both as a source of revenue and as tending to the better control and regulation of saloons. High License even will not wipe out the low and vile dens in cities. They can afford to pay any sum, however high. The only way is to deny such places a license altogether-shut them up and keep them closed.

"But when you have done this, and when you will have diminished the number of saloons in general by a High License, will you then have got rid of the drink plague? No! The only rational way, as I believe, is to persuade men and women to keep out of saloons to stop drinking just as your admirable total abstinence societies are doing and

seek to do.

"Saloons are not run for fun, they are carried on to make money. When patrons are wanting, when people cease to stand up at the bar, when money no longer drops into the till for drinks, the saloon will not long continue open. The leaders of the labor movement, I am glad to observe, seem to realize the terrible drain on resources and comforts of the working people caused by drink. There is probably not far from thirty (30) million dollars spent annually for drink in the saloons of this city; and am I not justified in asserting that two-thirds of this enormous

sum is drawn from the scanty income of the men and women who labor in one or another form of industrial or professional employment?

"Twenty (20) millions — think of it! How such a sum otherwise employed would lift up and elevate the masses, the homes it would purchase and brighten, the comforts and blessings it would confer on wife and children! It would assure good clothes and plenty of food and fuel. It would mean books and music and amusements. It would put an end to the wrangling and strife, the bitterness and the rancor, growing up between capital and labor. It would mean peace and security in our cities, prosperity and glory for the entire country; and I am only considering the physical and selfish aspects of the question. Can these ends be brought about by parties or platforms, or by legislation? Certainly not the reform must begin with the individual.

"Laws won't bring it about; force will prove unavailing. Let each man do his duty in his own sphere by example and by precept. Religion is the only power equal to this work, and I look to the agency of religious teaching, the influence and the example of temperance and total abstinence societies, of whatever Church and denomination they may be, to bring about this great and salutary reform. There is, as I believe, not only a growing public sentiment in favor of temperance (I do not mean political temperance) but a steadily widening circle everywhere in the United States of men and women who practise temperance and total abstinence."

The Late Gen. T. F. Meagher.

THE portraits of sundry English monarchs have been evicted from the council chamber of the City Hall of Waterford to make room for the likeness of a distinguished native of the urbs intacta, Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher. The patriot orator was sentenced to a felon's death in neighboring Clonmel, in 1848. Thus the whirligig of time brings about its revenges. Punch made passing fun of "Meagher of the Sword," anent one of the most magnificent bursts of rhetoric on record, and to-day in his own birthplace two swords-one gallantly borne on the rough edge of battle, the other a presentation of honor from admiring comrades-are enshrined with loving pomp in the most complimentary spot his fellow citizens could accord them. Beside those blades are laid a sprig of the historic box, the badge of the Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg, and the war-flag, with its beautiful motto: "Death if you will; victory if God will give it to us; but no defeat and no retreat." It may be objected that it was unkind to remove the painted sovereigns from the walls they long disadorned. We think it right and appropriate, for they were really very stupid fellows, and had no claims upon Waterford. William the Dutchman is not a popular idol in Ireland south of the Boyne. And as for the Georges, the opinion of Thackeray as to their merits is notorious and incontrovertible.