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$ *^r4!||t > *£ Vv & V ^Ire.t.fUmfaltr I. VAN 8 L Y K E , Editor and Pubiisbsr. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. the Health Board of that city reports that the quality of the milk sold in 1889 improved forty-six per cent, over that of 1888 aod sixty-four per cent, over that of 1887. The amount of milk brought into tbe city increased from 226,52S,400 quarts iu ,1887 t» 243,047,- 680 in 1889 and of cream from 4,427,520 quarts to 5,436,680. Assuming that the I T IS suggested th&t cellars may be "ventilated by connecting them by pipe •with the kitchen chimney, whitdU. will, report of the improvement iu the qua! •carry off the fotil gases. '* " - I1*- • x S ENATOR E DMUNDS IA.j FBPUT^ l 1 to make $50,000 a year from his law prac- "fcioe. and it is said some of his arguments have brought him $10 a word. A>» enterprising showman has been sentenced to two months'imprison­ ment at Rouen, France, for exhibiting a false "Angelus." He claimed that it "was the original by Millet, and that the «>ne in Ame'.ioa was a forgery. A TRAMP piled a lot of. ties tin the Northern Pacific track, near Portland. Oregon, the other night, and then gave "warning to an approaching train. He succeeded in being made a hero and in living high until close questioning elicited a confession. A WESTERN paper says the German language is fast giving way to English in parts of the West largely settled by Germans, bemuse the base ball reporto cannot be understood in the German lan. guage, which has no equivalents for the technical terms used ia describing the gaine3. A G ERMAN observe!- has come to the conclusion that the atmospheric condi­ tions most favorable to the spread of organisms iu the air are dryness of soil, deficiency of snow and rainfall, exist­ ence of fogs and low clouds, and high barometer with little intei^xlpe, .ol air in a vertical direction. : */* A C BOATIAN girl has a duel, near Vienna, a young doctor who insulted her. They fought with foils. It is refreshing to hear now and then of a girl who can take her own part and whose skill is not confined to paiuting daisies on satin which looks like yellow door-knobs in Elizabethan collars. A, CENTURY ago the Duke of Grafton called up his jockey, who had won two important race? for him, ' and said: "John Day, I have sent for you as I am going to make you a preseat for your good riding. There is a £20 note for you, and I hope you will not waste it." A modern jockey has received as much as £3,000 for winning a single race. A prominent attorney of Palatka, FJa., has in his possession a very old aud valuable law book. It bears the title of "A Collection of the Statutes of England Now in Use iu North Caro­ lina," and was printed in the year 1623. Among the curious acts contained in this ancient document, and one which would be entirely unnecessary tlie*e days, was "An act to avoid the double payment of debts." A Singular incident occurred at Scar- cliffe, Nottis, Eng. A man was plow­ ing a field when a fox started up and bolted away. Every encouragement was given to the old vixen to return, but as he did not, and as the young foxe3 left there were nearly dead from cold, the man took the cubs to a cat. The young foxes were put with the cat, and she has attended th$m in a most maternal way. Captain Bassett, the chief Door­ keeper in the Senate, is the man who knows which of the Senator's desks were used by Clay and Webster, and it is said no other parson is in possession of the information. He thinks it well not to swell the heads of the present Senators who put their feet under the historic furniture. When the old gen- - tie man passes away--and may that not be for many years--he will probably leave the interesting secret among his papers. . | A DMIRAL William Huns&ker, of Anna, III., who has just raturned from Pu- r laski County, reports that a colored farmer who has lived in that vicinity :> . for years, is turning white. The first V . indication of the change was the appear- •••:• ance of white spots on his face. These have grown until some of them are as 1. large as a silver dollar, aud they are c'< still getting bigger. As the rest of the f • man's face is a coal-black color, these ^ _ "White spots give him an odd, piebald i appearance. His health is not affected f by the color of his skin, and he is k entirely unconcerned about it. « ityof the milk is correct, what a lot of water in the milk of 1887 and 1888 must have contained. There must be au overstock of water in tbe dairy counties of New York at present S TORMY times prevail in the little Canton of Ticino, the most diminutive of all the semi-indepeudent states which constitute the Swiss Confederation. A short time ago the treasurer of the can­ ton disappeared with $100,000 of state funds. The radical opposition there­ upon attempted to impeach the mem­ bers of the local Government for crimi­ nal negligence, a-id assumed so threat­ ening an attitude that the authorities deemed it prudent to call to arms the constabulary force of thirty gendarmes. Cowed by this display of power, the radicals of Ticino are now appealing to the other states of the Swiss Federa­ tion to rescue them from "the despotic and iniquitous rule of a pretorian gov­ ernment." ,, . , A GAMBLER once objected life in­ surance because, as he said, he didn't care for a game that one had to die to beat. Ordinary life insurance is that kind of game, but a physician, Dr. Slo- cum, of San Antonio, Texas, has just gone to the grave with the distinction of having got the better of a smart life insurance company. Twenty-five years ago, while practicing medicine in Chi­ cago, he was given up by the doctors as a hopeless consumptive. An insurance company in which he carried a $10,000 policy, believing that unless it could compromise it would be called on to pay the claim to his bereaved family, offered to give him $5,000 irt cash if he would call it quits. The doctor ac­ cepted the offer, went down South, in­ vested the money profitably, and after twenty-five years has died--not of con­ sumption, but of cancer of the stomach. Even so careful a concern as a life in­ surance company, with its cautious ac­ tuary and learned doctors, may occa­ sionally suffer, in common with the rest of us, from the inaccuracy of medical science. S INCE the close of the civil war many of the colored people of the South have prospered greatly and one case, at least, is on record where a former slave and now a Senator supports his former mis­ tress who is now a pauper. Although all over the South many wealthy col­ ored men are found, Texas is the place which has witnessed their most signal success. A Mr. Sylvester, of Galves­ ton, is worth $350,009 and his wife em­ ployes none but white sorvants. Syl­ vester got his money by shrewd specu­ lation. Milton Sterreth, of Houston, is the possessor of an elegant mansion and exiensive grouuds planted with the finest shrubbery and flowers. He owns numerous plantations and is worth -$400,000. Senator C. N. Burton, of Fort Bond County, is worth $500,0;>0. At the close of the war wheu he was freed from slavery he acquired, by strict ap­ plication to business, a small farm. This he has added to constantly until he became wealthy. His Old mistress became poor and when Mr.* Burton was elected to the State Senate he sent her Lack to her native State, Virginia. For the past fifteen years he has remitted $150 per month. Henry Black is worth half a million and another man named Green, of Pecos County, has $500,000 to his credit. |e .,. r A DECIDED change has taken place in Che Siamese Government. The great :• , office of second king lias disappeared. *Tiie man who would have been second P^p.lting in the old order of things is minis- ^ " ter of finance under the new order. Tho dignity of crown prince has been v.-" created. The ministers of state no longer exercise their powerful functions in the privacy of their own palaces, but ftieir offices are in the palace of the r. Sing, where they must meet every day, f .. 'and the governors of the provinces, who •were formerly quite independent, are brought into direct control of the central government. ( A DMIRAL P ORTER, of the United r • naTy> has written a paper for the 'Illustrated American dealing with the ^ Deeds of the navy of the United States. ? • Admiral Porter does not take a rose- liir \ ©o.lored view of the existing conditions ji . Of the navy. In response to the ques- f toon: "What does our navy need?" he cays It would be more to the point to ask: 44 What does our navy not need ?* He believes that the navy, as now ex- feting, lacks almost everything essential to the protection of the vast interests * Of the United States and the enormous l ' coast line which is constantly exposed (bo the possibility of attack. * ~~ ~ - ' j N EW Y ORK C ITY has found out, after • three years' trial, that milk inspeot- tOftUy injgioto Ifrft President of Shaken Milk. Milk is a perfect food. The testi­ mony of nature upon this point is con­ firmed by the analysis of the chemist. Yet cow's milk is in bad repute for in­ fants, and thousands of adults • cannot drink it without harm. This is a serious matter. Multitude? of infants are shut up to the use of cow's milk, while it is precisely what many invalid adults seem to require for the building up of the starved tissues. The matter is all the more important be­ cause physicians of the present day, in­ stead of withholding food, as formerly done in typhoid fever and certain other diseases, seek to maintain the patient's strength the use of milk. In the Medical Record, of August 17, 1889, Dr. John C. Morgan expresses the opinion that the trouble with cow's milk is that it undergoes unwholesome chemical changes prior to its use. When fresh from the cow, it is a per­ fectly homogeneous fluid. Within a few hours it separates into cream and caseous milk, with a tendency to a still further separation into wiiey and curd. This final eeraration takes place rapidly after the milk is received into the stom­ ach, and the curd, in weak stomachs, hardens into a solid cbee?e-like mass, as difficult of digestion as cheese itself. The original condition and digesti­ bility of milk can be restored, in f)r. Morgan's view, bv vigorously shaking it just before taking it into the stomach, and he urges that the milk be sipped, and not taken in large swallows. Among the eases successfully treated j by Dr. Morgan was one of a physi- I cian 52 years old, to whom milk had always been injurious. The result was remarkable. The patient's report was, "I, who for many years have never dared to drink a glass of milk, am now dailv taking it in the new way, and am build­ ing up on it." The process of preparation is de­ scribed thus: A conical tin cup, such as is used by bartenders, is closely fitted over a class of milk, and the whole is violently shaken for some time, after which it should be immediately drank, or rather sipped.--Xouth'x Compan­ ion. Where Breathing Is Expensive. Niagara Hackman-- One dollar. 3 Visitor-What for? • Hackman--Information. ait; Visitor--You haven't told me any­ thing. Hackman--Didn't you ask me what I'd charge t' drive yow tr the Falls? Visitor--Yes; and you mid five dol­ lars, which is altogether too much. Hackman--Well, d' yer suppose I'm goin' ter give away price-lists for n o t h i t t ' ? P o n e v m t f • • • • ; . • AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. IITtKRKSTINO ITEMS CATHEIUCD FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Oar Neighbors Are Doing;--Matters of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riage* and Death*--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointers. --The State Supreme Court has affirmed the validity of the drainage law in all itv legal phases. The only dissenting opin­ ion is written and signed by Justice Magrader. The decision explains in de­ tail the history of the drainage act and the power of tbe people of uny district to legislate for themselves an the subject. The election of the mne trustees is con­ firmed, and they are empowered to carry out fully the provisions of the set as passed last year. Work on the great drainage project will begin without delay. --According to a decision just ren­ dered by the Supreme Court the bucket- shops will have to go oat of business. It is positively declared by the Court th»t speculation in futures is gambling and a crime. ... • * • ' • --Springfield dispatch: Secretary Gar­ rard, of the State Board of Agriculture, having called the attention of Prof. Forbe*, State entomologist, to the insect that is "devastating the oat fields in Southern Illinois, the latter writes that he will investigate and report in a few days. He adds thit the insect in ques­ tion is'leaving the oats and attacking the wheat. Samples of wheat sent to the department bear out this state meat. --A darins: diamond robbery was com­ mitted at the jewelry house of Shourds 6 Kasper, at State and liandolph streets, Chicago, one day last week. Shortly af­ ter noon, when the streets were crowded, a well-dressed mau entered the place and asked to be shown some diamon l studs. One of the salesmen placed a tray before him on the show case. The stranger picked up and held three of the finest gems before the eyes of the clerk and commented on their beauties. Then he deliberately shoved them into his pocket, and, coolly bidding the clerk adieu, hur­ ried out into State street and* ran south through the crowd. One of the clerks sprang over the counter and when he reached the sidewalk was not over twenty- fiv^e feet behind the thief. An old lady, who had her farms fall of bundles, was run into by the thief and knocked down. This impeded his progress for a moment and then he turned into au alley, closely followed by the clerk and a dozen citizens. But the thief was fleet of foot and he easily distanced his pursuers. At Dear­ born street he turned south and WAS lost in the crowd. The value of the stones stolen was $1,000. --The Secretary of Stat* has issued a license to incorporate the "Chicago Guide and Protective Bureau." The bureau will have a corps of trained guides, who know all about the city and its points of inter­ est, who can accompany strangers who want to see the Bights or go to any place oa business. Applic.it on at the bureau, when it is in operation, will procure a ma'e or lady attendant for any duty. Members of the staff tire to give bonds for the faithful performance of their du­ ties. They may be called upon to attend ladies on shopping tours or to and from theaters when the "men folk" of a family are otherwise engaged. They will accom­ pany pleasure parties and excursionists from interior towns through the parks and boulevards. In short, the employes of the bureau are to be made generally useful, and the assignment of one of them to service for a stipulated fee at headquarters will prevent imposition and enforced "tips." The non-resident of Chicigo will await the development of the project with a good deal of inteiest. --Grand Commander Moulton of the Knights Templars announces that the an­ nual encampment for the Northern Dis­ trict of II inois will be held at Boekford in August. . < --Marvin Hughitt was unanimously re­ elected President of the Chicago & North­ western Railway ( ompanv and its pro­ prietary lines at the annual meeting of the stockholders and directors which was held in Chicago last week. The an­ nual report shows: Gross earnings $ 27,123,790.69 Operating expenses, taxes, interest and linking funds. '23,051,070.60 Net earnings $ DIVIDENDS. 7 per cent, on preferred stock $ 6 per cent, on common stock » Surplus $ Add surplus lines west of Missouri Kiver 4,071,730.09 1,502,785.00 1,882,194.00 3,444,979.00 698,741.09 81,320.53 *Total surplus 8 708,061.62 --The Ancient Order of Hibernians of Illinois held its State convention at Hock Island last week. Lawrence Hen­ ley of Chicago was elected State Dele­ gate, J. F. Brennan of Bloomington State Secretary, and Alexander Vcghey of Seneca State Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted authorizing tbe State o! - cers to negotiate an adjustment of the difficulties between the two wings of the order in the State and recommending that tbese troubles be submitted to Arch bishop Feehan of Chicago, Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, and Bishop Spalding of Peoria for arbitration. Decatnr was chosen as the place of meeting two years hence. --Three Trustees of the University of Illinois will be elected at the State elec­ tion in November. The Trustees whose terms expire are Judge 0. A. Harker of Carbondale, Judge Charles Bennett of Mattoon, and S. M. Millard of Chicago. It is probable that they will be all re­ nominated at the approaching Kepubli- can State Convention. --Charles E. Dennett, managing editor of the Chicago Globe, and for several years managing editor of the Chicago Ttm§8, is dead. He was 6(5 years old. --At Peoria, little Willie Dodds, aged 3 years, died a horriblo death from hydro­ phobia. To add to the horror of " the situation, just as the little fellow was in the last agonies of death he sprang from the bed and bit his mother and h$g aunt, who were waiting on him. The boy was bitten about six months ago by a dog, which has as yei shown no symptoms of madness. ^ --Mrs. C. S. Doty. ifcife of a prominent liquor-dealer and former newspaper man and revenue officer of Peoria, committed suicide by jumping into a neighbor's cistern, WlSk • '. 7'J- V ' --Illinois patents: W. H. Alston, Adrian, band cotter; C. Beer and R. Bond, Chicago, tricycle; J. D. Bishop, Chicago, electric annunciator; M.C.Burt, Chicago, apparatus for generating oil gas; W. Cann, Atkinson, pipe witi&oh; W. H. Cogsw*ll, Chicaco, rotary clipper; R. Cra'.aft, Abingdon, cultivator; L. B. Firman, Chicago, railway signals; W. H. Gibbs, Mendon, whiffle-tree hook; J. H. Haish, DeKalb, rein holder; W. S. Hin- man, Streator, wagon jack; W. V. Hoag, Salisbury, stump extractor; D. M. Mc- Kinnon, Edwardsville, grairf scourer; R. Miele, Chicago, mechanical movement for covering motion; T. Milar an4 H. Pritchard, Atkinson, elevated hay car-; rier; E. H. and C. Morgan, Freeport, paper file; W. B. Morse, Chicago, trace fastening; T. J. Mullaly, Chicago, sten­ cil; G. W. Newb«rry, Chicigo, music sheet cabinet; J. F. Packer, Chicago, radiator; C. D. Bedfield. Chicago, im­ pression device for matrix making ma­ chine. for forming matrices; type die for matrix machines; type die for matrix making; C, Roehl, Chicago, flour packer; W. R. Honey, Chicago, funnce grate; O. M. Shannon, Chicago, gas cook ng Stove; water heating device, gas and air burner; H. C. Shubert, Chicago, electric burglnr alarm; J. F. Snyder, Roanoke, stuffing box for piston rods; M. J. Stef- fels, Chicago, autcmstic photographic apparatus; M. Sugbroue, Pleasant Val­ ley, wheel plow; C. J. Vandepoele, Chi­ cago, telephone; L. H. Watson, Chicago, friction clutch; H. Westphal, Chicago, churn; C. D. Wool worth, Chicago; re­ frigerator wall of wood palp. --The citizens of the northwestern part of Morgan County have been greatly wrought up lately over the presence of a strange creature who haB a hu ing place in the- woods in that vicinity. He is either crazy or else is workiug the dodge with excellent effect, for so far he has succeeded in keeping thee whole neigh­ borhood in a state of alarm. He prowls abont at night for his food, and gets what he wants. His looks are fearful, and so far no one has been brave enough to try to take him. --The little town of Wapella, DeWitt County, has been wrestling with a cy­ clone. A funnel-shaped clond traversed the town from northwest to southeast. It unroofed the depot and demolished the Methodist Church, leaving nothing ot it intact except the floor. Sidewalks were torn up and fences and small outbuild­ ings carried away. No One was injured. --ZachT. Hundley, who was recently shot and killed by his 19-year-old t-on at Huron, South Dakota, formerly resided in Bloomington, 111., and studied law in the office of ex-Postmaster General Ste­ venson, of that city, where he was ad­ mitted to practioe. For some years he wns the law partuer of ^udge Nelson in Decatur, 111. He married in the latter place. In 18S2 he went with his fumily to Hnron and settled on n farm near Lake By ion. where he continued to re- p de till removing to Huron-in 1885. Hundley was Chairman of the South Da­ kota Democratic Central Committee, and editor and half owner of the Huron Her- aid, and was well kno«A< throughout the State. , 1 ' --The State Board of Agriculture will soon publish its revised estimates upon the cost of production of all the agricul­ tural pioJucts of the State, says a Springtield dispatch. These estimates have run on a basis which evidently con­ tained certain elements of error. For example, the tRble on com shows that the cost of prodncing it in Illinois ran, from 1860 to 18S7, inclusive, at $10.50 an acre, except that during one year it was five cents higher and during three years five cents lower than the average. Evi­ dently no such close uniformity of cost existed. The new tables on cost of pro­ duction have been compiled with great care from the reports of more than one thousand reliable sources. The "use of the land" is based on the cash rent of land in the neighborhood where the de­ partment correspondent resides, and varies from $ 1.6* an aero to $4.83 as the highest. The average for the tue of land is ?3.25 an acre for the State. The cost of marketing is difficult to determine, but in the tables it is based on a three and one-half mile haul, whioh is accepted by the department as a fair average. Upon this the cost of marketing makes an average of $1.07 an acre for the State, the figures varying from $2.40 to 35 cents an acre. The total result upon corn is that its production in Illinois costs $8.94 an acre instead of $10.50 os long esti­ mated, and instead of $9.75 as calculated for the crop of 188D. The average cost of production of the different crops per ncre for the State is given as follows: Wheat, $9.81; corn, $8.94; oats, $8.45; rye, $8.08; barley, $9.56; hay, $7.57; flax, $9.22; potatoes, $18.69. --Chauncey M. Depew to a Chicago reporter: "The Auditorium is the largest hall in which I ever spoke, and its acous­ tic properties are better than in any hall, large or small, where I ever stood upon a platform. I found that my voice re­ turned to me perfectly in a conversational tone, and it was not necessary to exert myself to reach even- part of the house. The only requirement is a distinctness of enunciation. I think it is the finest au­ dience room in the world." --A party of bicyclists, consisting of John and James Doer, Joe and Harry Capps, W. N. Filson, and Maurice G. Keplinger, all students of Illinois Col­ lege at Jacksonville, propose spending their vacation this summer by seeing the sights of Europe. --At Chicago, Joseph Montag, 57 years old, shot and killed his wife, who was aged 48, and then, turning the gnu on himself, sent a bullet into his lungs, inflicting a wound that will probably prove fatal. --Chicago dispatch: One hundred miles in half a day! Seven men injured! The world's record broken! Such was the occasion of the prolonged applause at the bicycle races at the Exposition Saturday night. Nine men started at a pace that propiised excitement all the afternoon. The first mile was made in less than three minutes, and the first ten miles were cov­ ered in 30 minutes and 33 seconds. The 100 miles were completed in 5 hours 39 nrnutes 53 3-5 seconds. The previous world's record of 5 hoars 59 minutes and 40 seconds was beaten by all three fin* i THE M'KINLEY BILL. [Washington telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean.] It is becoming more evident every day that there is to be a very sharp contest in the Senate over .the Mc- Kinley tariff bill. There are many features to this bill which do not com­ mend themselves to the Eepnblican members of the Committee on Finance. The contest in the committee over the wool and woolen schedule is a good illustration of this. While it is under­ stood to lie a fact that the majority of the Republicans agreed to accept" the Senate bill substantially in the same form in which it came from the House, so far as the wool and woolen schedules are concerned, it is also a fact that Mr. Allison moved a very considerable re­ duction and was outvoted. It is un­ derstood, moreover to be the intention of Mr. Allison to move in th4 Senate the amendment which was defeated in the committee. Should he decide to do this, this would cause a break in the Republican ranks upon the subject of which the opposition would unquestionably take the greatest possible advantage. The representatives of the wool-growers are in Washington, very closely watch­ ing the actions of'the* sub-committee of the Finance Committee. The.v have been watching the proceedings of the sub-committee for the last few days with a great deal of interest. They had hoped that the contest over the wool schedule was ended. They now fear that the tight is to be reopened, \n the Senate, not only between the Re­ publicans and Democrats, but among the Republicans themselves, when the bill shall be rejxivted back from the Finance Committe'e. The members of the sub-committee no longer talk of reporting the bill in a week. There is now no expectation that it can be re­ ported back to tlje Senate earlier than one week from next Monday. The most moderate estimate for the time which is likely to be devoted to the discussion of this bill in the Senate is one month. Messrs. Mor­ rill, Sherman, Jones, and Hiscock are understood to be in favor of maintain­ ing the wool schedule as it is in the McKinley bill. . Mr. Allison is said to be opposed to this. It seems very probable that the silver men will be strong enough to prevent any action upon the tariff bill until after a silver bill shall have been finally disposed of between the two houses. The silver men are very much dissatisfied at the manner in which the rules iu the House were made to work to their disadvan­ tage. They intend to have an oppor­ tunity to offer free-coinage amend­ ments iu the Senate, and to have a fall vote upon them. As to tho woolen schedule, the two important amend­ ments which were recommended by the Ways and Means Committee in the House bill were defeated by the defec­ tion of a few Repxiblicans who united with the Democrats iu opposition have been, it is reported, adopted by the Sen&te committee. One of these amendments made the rate of duty on woolen and woisted goods valued at not more than 30 cents per pound three times tlir.t imposed on a pound of M ashed wool. Another amendment made the duty on woolen vara valued at not more than 30 cents per pound two and a half times the duty imposed unwashed wool of the fint.ciass, and 35 per cent, ad valorem. As it takes two and a half pounds of wool to make a pound of yarn, this duty was neces­ sary in order to give manufacturers a fair show with their foreign competi­ tors. Those two amendments were defeated in the House. But, accord­ ing to the statement of a Republican Senator, the Republican members of the Finance Committee have agreed to report those amendments to the hill as it passed the House. Mr. Allison is said to have been the only member of the committee who voted against mak­ ing the change in the bill. He pro­ posed an amendment cutting down the rates on wool to about the same as they are under the existing law. His amendment wa3 defeated. The committee has passed the flax, hemp, and jute schedule, and hai prac­ tically agreed to make the rates the same as in the Senate bill passed a little over a year ago. For instance, where the McKinley bill fixed the rates on tow or flax or hemp at $25 per ton, the Senate committee has voted to make the rate $10 a ton, the same as the existing law; and where the House made the rates on hemp $'25 per ton, the same as in the existing law, the Senate committee has reduced it to $20 per ton. On brown and bleached linen cloths, where the House made the rate 50 per cent, ad valorem, the Senate comnXttee has reduced it to 25 per cent ad valorem, the same as in the existing law; and on shirts and ar­ ticles of wearing apparel of every de­ scription, where the House made the rate 50 per cent, ad valorem wheu they consist wholly or in part of linen, the Senate makes it 40 per cent, ad valo­ rem, the same as in the existing law. The committee has not yet finally passed on the sugar schedule, bnt there is good reason for stating that the schedule as it passed the House will not be changed. Claus Spreckles was heie to-day, and he said that he was satisfied with the rates fixed in the House bill. Under the circumstances, a member of the Committee on Finance stated that he did not see how the com­ mittee would be justified in making any change. The matter has not final­ ly been passed upon, and will come up again when Mr. Morrill is present. The metal schedule, as given to the Democratic members of the commit­ tee, makes the rate on steel rails $11.20 per ton. This certainly looks as though that would be tho rate in the bill when reported to the Senate. Russell Harrison. "Some of the newspapers onght to describe Russell Harrison accurately and carefully for the benefit of their readers," said a man in the Gilsey House recently. "I have known Mr. Harrison for a good many years, and am in one concern a business associate of his. WThen he went to London, just after his father's inauguration, and dined with the Queen, the correspon­ dents there decided to make him a butt for ridicule, aud, as he is a man with­ out the slightest pretensions, and re­ ceived the correspondents in his room at the hotel while he was. packing his hand valise, instead of hiring a lackey to dp it, and talked to the correspon­ dents freely, they hold him up to ridi­ cule more or less as a man whose 'Americanisms' were violent and point­ ed. The press is about equally divided now between expressing admiration for Russell Harrison's bravery at the Texas accident and ia making fun of him for his action there. There is nothing remarkable about the Presi­ dent's son one way or the other, but he is a sort of frieada aytaa^ hy him, and he has » lot of good, stnrdy, I straightforward American character­ istics. "When he oomes to this hotel he keeps clear of the bar-room, moves about quietly, does not chatter with the barbers nor grow familiar with the waiters, winds up his New York busi­ ness as soon as possible, and goes on with the work of earning his living in a thoroughly conventional and proper way. He is exceedingly close-mouthed, inclined to be rather thoughtful, and is not lacking in consideration of his friends. Nobody claims he is a great man, bnt it is a great and notable mis­ take to hold him ur> as an object to jeer at. He is not that kind of a man by a very large majority."--New York Sun. Appeal to the Sooth. You are all willing to concede now that the political philosophy of John C. Calhoun was based on error and per­ meated with error from bottom to top. You know now that slavery was bad alike for white and black, and you are glad that the attempt to make it tho corner-stone of a nation's existence proved an utter failure. But you are making as big and perilous a mistake wheu you try to get honest government by fraudulent methods, and to main­ tain free institutions by fraud and vio­ lence. It won't do. As freedom and slavery couldn't co-exist, so can not honest government and fraud at the ballot-box. The> two things are ir­ reconcilable. You don't want to be governed by the negroes ? You needn't be afraid of that. Your better education, the Cul­ tivated quality of your brains, your inherited capacity for leadership, will keep you at the top. But for heaven's sake undo the terrible blunder you are making. Accept the Constitution as it is, and see to it that every legal citi­ zen, no matter what his * color, is al­ lowed to enjoy all the rights to which the Constitution entitles him.--Brook­ lyn Times. Human Nature in Tariff Legislation. I asked Senator Stanford if the Mc­ Kinley tariff bill would be passed, and he responded that he thought it would be passed substantially as it had gone to the Senate from the House. "Every Senator has sumac in his district., so to speak. You know the story? No? Well, it is old, but good, and I will tell it over. During the debate on the Morrill bill two free trade members met to discuss the schedules. They agreed that they would go over the list and decide between them what they would recommend the Ways and Means Committee to put on the free list. They had gone along with their pencils, marking off one thing after another, until one of them ran his pen­ cil through sumac. 'Hold on,'said the other, 'what are you marking off sumac for ? I've got sumac in my dis­ trict.' Well, that is the way with the Senators; every one has sumac or something else in his State which he wants to preserve on the dutiable list, whether he is a Democrat or a Republi­ can, and so I am certain the bill will pasa."--Cincinnati Enquirer. Be Consistent. The country is writing to hear some free-trader say that the McKinley bill is responsible for the recent advance in the price of wheat, corn, and oats. The country will have to wait a long time before it will hear any news of that kind. But why shouldn't the free-traders say so? *They raided their hands and solemnly assorted la*t fall that the low price of farm products was due to the tariff. We heard it all over Iowa. More than that, some Re­ publican farmers were foolish enough to believe it. The Democrats persist­ ently dinned it into the ears of every­ body who would listen to them. The tariff was the cause of 16-cent corn and 12-cent oats, they said, and if the tariff had such a remarkable effect upon the prices, why isn't the increase in prices due to the attempt to revise the tariff? Our free-trade friends should be consistent. If the tariff held the prices down last summer, surely the Republican method of re­ vising it has caused this rise in prices. So our Democratic friends ought to turn in and shout for the McKinley bill. Just see how it has raised the price of corn, wheat, and oats!--Iowa State Kegister. Importers for Free Trade. The reason why the importing class is found in alliance with the free trade Democracy is not far to seek. The value of our imports for 1889 was $770,000,000, of which amount $509,- 000,000 paid duty, and goods to the amount of $201,000,000 came in free. Importers naturally want to increase their business and their profits. If the duties on articles now dutiable should be materially decreased or re­ moved the importations would reach $1,000,000,000 or $1,200,000,000. These would have to be paid for in cash or in the products of the country. The duties encourage the manufacture here at home of the articles we would other­ wise import. They build up diversi­ fied industries and give employment to an army of wage-earners who them­ selves furnish a market for American products. Home manufacturers and home markets go together, but they restrict the importing business. It is clearly apparent why importers de­ nounce the McKinley bill.--Boston Traveller. T HEY had a model election, from thd Missisissippi point of view, at Jackson, the State capital, the other day. The Mayor was re-elected, likewise the Re­ corder, likewise the entire Board of Aldermen, all Democrats, of course. "The result of the election," says a dis­ patch from that city, "was an over­ whelming indorsement of the present administration." The overwhelming character of the result, however, is due to the fact that the Republicans did not vote and that less than one-third of the Democrats voted. Of course it would have been more overwhelming had all the Democrats voted. But, then, had all the Republican voters voted it would have been an over­ whelming Republican victory. So much depends upon the point of view. The total vote of the city was only about 500, but it was a great Demo­ cratic triumph. Overwhelming, in fact.--Chicago Tribune. D EMOCBATIC origans unite with the English in denouncing "the McKinley bill as an abomination." Now, if both wings jcould vote at the next election, protection would have a poor show. Inter OceHji. D EMOCRATS can at last rejoice that the McKinley bill makes "ipecac free." As Mrs. Partington once observed, "Democrats are great ipecaos."--Ex­ change. G BOVER C I.KVELA.ND is slow to reach conclusions, but long before 189*2 he will wish he had tried harder to let ikmn Walt ra TtmK " . ? , . There n one lesaon whioh efmf yonng person ought to leank It duty. .. ..... Wait on yourself. D° not grow np to depend on otben. Make it a rule to do whatever yon ow yourself. Don't call on your mother, or yoor sister, or the servant, for service w&ieit can just as well be performed by your­ self, without calling on anybodv. Tf von have lost your slippers, find them, "he world is wide, and if they are to b# found in it, why cannot you find then as well as anybody else. We are continually hearing the cry among young people, when any of their belongings are lost, "Oh, I can't find itf Ask mamma, or call Kitty." What is the reason vou can't find it? Have you lost your eyesight that yon cannot see, or have you lost your rea­ son that you do not know when jmt have found what is lost? We know of a number of young tnyi who depend on "mother" to hunt np their shirts, aud their stockings their neckties, and hang up the over­ coats and hats which they fling aay- where, and produce from the household litter the newspaper they may want to refer to. Now, what reason is there in this sort of thing? Isn't a young man of live-and-tweutv, with no rheumatism ia his legs, and no neuralgia in his teeth, and no corns on bis toes, just as well able to hunt up things, and take cam of his clothes, as his mother, who is, probably, twice his age, aud who haia her hands and head fall of household cure< and trials? We know young girls who can go to balls, and dance till daybreak, who are always too tired to darn their own stock­ ings; and expect "ma" to mend them. "Ma does so like mending!" They will stay out on a damp ] iazza, staring at the moon with Mr. Fitz Boodle, or young Mr. De Smith, till midnight, and never dream of taking cold, but if they have a ruffled aprpn to iron, ma must do |L They are so afraid of getting into * perspiration, and then taking cold! Young people nowadays, area help!em generation. We look at them, aod wonder what the next generation will be? We see young mothers who cannot hold and tend their children, because they have no strength; but the same young mothers are able to care for two or three lapdogs and paint strad­ dle-bug Chinese patterns on every avail­ able square inch of crockery in the house. We know young men who cannot get breakfast, and who find it an effort to brush their clothes, and who would shudder at the thought of making a fire or shoveling coal, or pumping water, who yet have the strength and oourage to contemplate matrimony with crea­ tures as helpless as themselves, on an income of fifteen dollars a week. Oh, we do like to see a young person who is equal to waiting upon himself! We like to see him take pride in it. We like to see him hold up. his head while he brushes his own coat, aod finds his things in his bureau drawers, ar.d brings up his own shaving water, and lets Brid­ get alone with her dish-washing and pot-scrubbing. It does not hurt anybody to wait on himself. It teaches self-reliance. It teaches the young man the Uicfiii lea- son that he was pat into the world lor pome other purpose than to make a slave of his mother, or to order around servant-girls, and men-servants. It gives him confidence in himself, aiul ai his power to be and to do, and gives him the comforting assurance that if all the servants iu the world shonld vanish into space in the twinkling of an eye, he could still manage to bru.«h his coat-collar, and get his beard off Hiith- out their help.-- Kate Thorn, in Xfeitt York Weekly. 'Xs* V * a; M ; M ; • ' yl j •a.H mi - \ ***? * .sfitlit •V, •- 3 r ^ i . j, <#*•, i *;i m , A > >• •wU-ji :? -Til"" ' ̂ ̂ V j Paper Money. t mhnstee^ of the world, with the exception of a few barbarous countries, is conducted by means of the exchange of paper, or in other words promises to pay. Bank notes, bills of exchange, promissory notes, aud even bills of lad­ ing and policies of insurance are used in some measure to prevent the trans­ portation for general business purposes of the solid metallic coin and currency, which has always had intrinsic valne^ and has been used since the time wheu "the memory of men rnnneth not back" to the contrary" for the puvj>ose$ of barter or trade between individuals or countries In order to balance account® between traders residing in different civilized countries it is necessary even to-day to transport what is known as "specie" to preserve the equilibrium; but this is done generally in bulk by large consignments, which are com­ paratively rare and infrequent com­ pared with what they used to be in times comparatively recent. The original method of trading be­ tween individuals or nations was few means of the barter of goods or chat­ tels, animate, or inanimate, and this in time was superseded in great part by payments made by precious stones and metals. Thepromises to pay" which arfe now so generally used for the pur­ poses of trade are of comparatively re­ cent introduction. Washington Irving was the first historian to call the at­ tention of readers in the English lan­ guage to the circumstances which caused the issuance of the first "prom­ ises to pay." They were issued in 1-183 by a Spaniard, Count De Tendilla, when with his forces he was hemmed in by a Moorish army. He was unable to pay his troops and gave them slips of paper, promising at some future time to redeem them in gold and silver. He did so and by what then seemed a sort of alchemy paper money was turned into gold. It is conceded that it would be difB- cultif not impossible to carry on the ^ i trade of the world as conducted to-day - but for these paper "promises to pay, -.4%^ and in fact a great many writers oa . : finance and trade, have contended that 1*^ but for the introduction of the present; g method trade conld not have been so x • k § extended or the world so civilized aft <5 ---- j * *• One Way Out of It. 4 i: ] Mr. Sampson (to Parson JohmefeV-* * What am de meaning ob de command* " « Ji ment dat says something 'bout not cot* ; ' etingde belongiugs ob yo' neighbors? 4 Parson Johuson--It means prezactljjp what is writ. If yo'neighbor's got somft ? yaller-dog pullets yo" don't wan't for «#< covet em." " Mr. Sampson--But s'posen yer neigh" bor's got a likesome daughter, am it ft sin to covet dat er gal ? Parson Johnson--I done tole yo' a* yo' doesn't want to eovet nnffin belong* in' to yo' neighbors. » Mr. Sampson--Well, s'posen dat % man lubs his neighbor's daughter s* berry much dat he can't help covetirf; 1 \ | her, what's a pussou gwine to do to ge(| ober dat covetous fee!iu', eh? , Parson Johnson--Marry de gel, ofcM^ course.--St. Loui# Star Saying*, .-V cM 4$ it-:':*'