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wwi "f*? * fyfW *v*¥**? * j^K* ; W'W ' , * " # 'h"Z '•'(<' 'V ^[c^turg |Maiutleale J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. •tcHBNBY, - - ILLINOIS. % TWENTY million bores 01 me land of United States ue held bj for­ eigners. THERE ARE twenty-seven States with • #•©* 1,000,000 population each. At the previous census there were nineteen. ; THE Italian clergy, nnlike those of France, and for the most part, of Eng­ land also, have never made any objec- • lion to cremation. ... "WHEN we came to the town," writes : * Georgia editor, "it was little more : than a water tank, bat now the very best whisky in the country is sold here, And there are ten moonlight stills in active operation in the county. A news­ paper is a power for good in any com- ^tnunity."' , /J ' •r. , •-£ ; r '• 1.1 • : . A DAT or two ago a gentleman who was ? , n isiting his laboratory, and whose son •Vas about to enter upon his first employ- , fnent, asked Edison to gi# him a motto lor the boy so that he might have it as a Stimulus and guide. Mr. Edison laughed little at the novel request, then said. : f Well, I'll give him this: 'Never look - 4t the clock'." ; ; THE famous Algemeine Zeitung in 4P«ermany has been pretty nearly ruined by the conduct of its editor. At the lime of Bismarck's fall from power he tleserted him, after having made his ig>apor the great chancellor's special or­ igan for many years. The circulation of th'e Algemeine has now fallen trom 25,- «00 to 10,000 daily. J JOHN CHABLES, of Florida, seat word §o Andrew Case, of Mississippi, over ten years ago that he would kill him on ^ight. Mr. Case sized Mr. Charles up for a liar of the first water and didn't ^ Jet the matter worry him a bit, but the either day as he sat on a salt barrel on the steps of a grocery, Mr. Charles came •long and popped him over. * JAMES MOSSEY, a veteran of the war, •died a few days ago at Nebraska City. A few years ago he applied for a pen­ sion on account of a wound he received *t Fort Donelson. Hia application was rejected, as no mark or wound oould bo found on his head, where he claimed to tiave been shot. After his death a po^t- tuortem was held and a large buckshot was found embedded in liis brain. A NEWSPAPER man, who gets to bed «o late that he sleeps until 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, awakening the other day and looking at the clock, saw that it was 6 o'clock. As he had an engage­ ment at that hour he fairly leaped into ibis clothes and rushed from the house, to find that it was 6 o'clock, but 6 a. m. He had slept just one hour. He wasn't *mad," because he felt too foolish. AN order has been promulgated by itihe Russian Ministry of the Interior that every laborer must carry with him, besides his passport, a "hire list" in *whicli the conditions under which he takes employment are recorded. Both the passport and the "hire list" must be iept by the employer as long as the t- : laborer is in his hire, even in cases !§!':;> *hen the two parties have an oral ; agreement between themselves. But r-v still, in order to facilitate the employ­ ment of laborers, the courts shall recog­ nize a verbal contract as valid if it is satisfactorily proved and attested by witnesses. ^ OWING to many reasons, nervousness about the electric wires is on the in­ crease, and others beside weak women 4fldget a little when they travel on the ears or pass beneath the network of wires. The Listener will confess to one weakness himself: He has fallen ipto the habit of carefulteifctepping over the rails when he crosses the tracks of the electric railway. No doubt any ap­ prentice in electricity oouid prove that this is entirely idiotic; but he has an in­ stinctive idea that if one of those sus­ pended wires bhould tumble upon him, as they will tumble, he would rather r have his feet somewhere else than on the iron rail. Other people, equally timid, are welcome to this hint. IT is asserted by men of high profes­ sional ability that when the system needs a stimulant nothing equals a cup Of fresh colfee. Those who desire to rescue the dipsomaniac from his cups will find no better substitute for spirits than strong, newly made coffee without milk or sugar. Two ounces of colfee, Or one-eighth of a pound to one pint of boiling water, makes a first-class bever­ age, but the water must be boiling, no*, merely hot. It is asserted that malaria 4tnd epidemics are avoided by those who drink a cup of hot coflee before ventur­ ing into the morning air. Burned on hot coals coffee is a disinfectant for a aick room, and by some of the best phy­ sicians it is considered a specific in ty­ phoid fever. - A HOME for fallen women and unfor- " tunato girls has been established in Keattle, says West. Shore, The sisters in charge state that they will have to begin in a very modest aud limited way at first; so now, if there are any wjjgLlthy philanthropists who really desire to do something for those who, having taken one false step--under, often aud often, such temptations and trials that no •calmer soul can fathom or comprehend them--realize that they can never again find firm foundation for their burniug !• .. -feet, let such philanthropists come for­ ward and help. If you believe in Christ's teachings at all, you must be- V - Meve that a woman's reformation is as ' * jprecious to Him as a man's. JUDGE STRIVE, a prominent citizen . of Seattle, who had accumulated a large r--A jgmount of material for a history of Washington, when the great fire was 4~ flying rushed up into his office to save this one I will savo. No, I guess this one is more valuable." Thus he hesi­ tated, and among his many books, all of which were dear to him, he was un­ able to decide which cues to save. Just then the cries of the firemen were raised, and the Judge was urrred to come down and save his life. Being thoroughly alarmed and still undecided, be turned and grabbed the first book in reach and rushed out of the building. On reaching the pavement he found he had saved--the city directory. THE scheme of coast defences out­ lined by the chief of United States en­ gineers, Gen. Casey, and which will be recommended by the War Department, contemplate* the immediate construc­ tion of fortifications a< New York, Boston, Hampton Itoads, Washington, and San Francisco. The total cost of the Work would be thirty-foul* millions, of which New Yprk would get sixteen millions. Congress, however, provided for fortifications only at New York, Boston, and San Francisco, appropriat­ ing $726,000, $235,000, and $260,000 respectively for the work. There are other appropriations for the purchase of land for submarine mines and the manufacture of guns and ammunition, but the aggregate sum will be hardly more than enough to begin the system of defense recommended by Gen. Casey. The proposed defense contemplates an armament of the heaviest rifled guns mounted on disappearing carriages, the idea being to concentrate a disastrous firo on the most powerful fleet. A sys­ tem of submarine mines is intended to occupy the channels, and batteries of rapid-firing guns are in turn to cover the approaches to these miries. • GENERAL LEW WALLACE says this is the way he came to write "Ben Hur." He was going on an eastern-bound train, and while going through a draw­ ing-room car he passed the open door of a compartment in which sat Colonel Robert G. Ingerscll. "Come io," said the latter. "I'm lonely in here, and want some one to chat with." Wallace entered and seated himself. "All right, Colonel," he said, "what shall we chat about?" "Lots of things," replied In- gersoll. "Is there a future life?" Look­ ing cut of the window dreamily, as the express sped on, lie answered his own query. "I don't know -do you ? Is there a God? I don't know--do you? Was Christ the Son of God? I don't know--do you?" He paused and looked keenly at Wallace. The General was a little embarrassed by the abruptness of the great infidel's interrogatories. He replied: "Really, Ingersoll, I have never given much thought or study to the questions you propound. I had a Christian training, and I have always taciiy accepted them." "Indeed!" said Colonel Ingersoll. "Why, man, you surprise me ! They are vital issues. I have studied the subject thoroughly. Every man ought to. Now, take my advice and look into the matter. You'll find you'li agree with me." "I went away from this interview both embar­ rassed and mortified,* said the General, "that 1 did not feel competent to dis­ cuss so important a matter with so learned a thinker. I made up my miud that I would never place myself again in so embarrassing a situation. I took down my books and read every author­ ity I could lay mji hands on. After "a year'sstudy, so far from agreeing with the great agnostic in his opinions, wrote 'Ben Hur.' %liat j9 my reply to him. Too Much i'ritle. In some parts of Tennessee there are a number of people that make a doubt ful living by hauling hoop-poles fifteen or twenty miles and then telling them for enough money to buy a peck of corn meal aud a piece of thin bacon about a foot square. Several days ago an old fellow who had sold his load of poles started home with a bag of meal on the seat beside him, and with his piece of bacon (to pro­ tect it from the sun) .swung under the wagon. Just as he had halted iu a small stream to let his horse drink, an ac­ quaintance, going out to the railway station, came along. "Hello, Alf, jest gettin' home?" V "Yes, 'lowed I'd poke on back* Whicher way you goin'?" " 'Lowed, I did, that I'd go out to the station an' see ef tliar's any discussion g.'un' on thar. Am so clost penned tin at home, you know, that I like to git outen the w.ay of the wimin' folks %nct iu awhile. Dun sold yo' poles, I Bee." " Yes' an' am goin' to tako my little mod­ icum of meat an' meal home so mur an' the chillun kin have some Sunday eaten'. Durin' week days, you know, they don't eat nuthin' but b'iied co'n and sweet potatoes, an' you better believe a little meat do bring 'eiu out powerful. I do believe that youngest boy of mine--that ar' one we call 'Drap Shot'--kin eat a string of meat as long as from here to the station. Thar a many a rich man that would give big money for that boy's appetite. An' thar's mur. You better believe she ain't slow herself. I have ki)owed that woman to eat a whole b'iied pumi>kiu. Wall, I recon I better be a shovin'." "Say, is that yo' dog?" " Whav's any dog?" the wagoner asked, and then looked around just ip time to Ree the dog making off with his meat. The unfortunate man uttered a yell of rage and jumped off the wagon, but the dog--and he had doubless been follow­ ing the wagon for some tiuie seeking for an opportunity to seize the meat-- scampered,over the hill and was soon out of sight. The disconsolate man re­ turned to the wagon to find the intelli­ gence of another disaster awaiting him, for, in his hast to reach the ground, the sack of meal bad been knocked off into the stream and had been borne away by the current. It was some time before 1*3 could say anything, and when "at length his tongue came back to him," he took off his old white cotton hat. wiped his perspiring brow with it, and in solemn voice said: "Alf. this here is what a man gits fur goin' off atter the vanities of the flesh. I wa'n't satisfied with b'iied co'n an' sweet potatoes, bnt must have midlin' meet and sich. The Lawd won't put up with pride in this year world, Alf; He jest nacbully won't do it."--Arkansaw Traveler. IF only one hope in ten is realized it I should be comforting to know that only 40 m e of his xsost valuable books. * Ah 11 one fear io ten is ever realized. SUSPICION AND JEALOUSY CURES. A Traveling Man's «u»» to Circumvent a JDoubtiiiff Wi o. Tlio worst case of suspicion and jeal­ ousy in the Northwest has just been cured, says the St. Paul Herald, the patient being the wife of a well-known traveling man. She had noticed that her husband never brought his giif. home with him, but always left it at the store when he came in from a trip, and in her jealousy she imagined it to be filled with love letters, appointments of meetings with fair ones, etc. A few days since, while her husband was on a trip through Dakota, she west down to the store, and approaching the porter, said: "John, you like to make a dollar honestly when you can, don't you?" "Oh, yes'm." "You know where my husband keeps his grip, don't you?" "Yes'm; he throws it down in a cor­ ner of the office and leaves it there." "Well, look hore, John. He will be in on the Northern Pacific train to­ morrow morning, and if at the first op­ portunity you slip his grip out of the house and bring it to me I'll give you a dollar. You can bring it back again in half an houf " The porter consented, and two days later presented himself at the drum­ mer's residence with the grip in his hand. He explained that he had not before had an opportunity to carry it away, and, giving him a seat in the parlor, the woman carried the prize to the bed-room, and with set teeth aud pale face opened it. The first thing she encountered was a well-worn pocket Bible, thumbed and showing the marks of much handling. Then she dug out a soiled shirt, some socks, comb, hair brush, and then she found a letter folded within an envelope. This she opened eagerly and read as follows: FAKGO, D. T. Aug. 1.18.90, in7/«<ini : Dmrt SIR--Your monthly assessment of fifty centa for the support of the Young Men's Christian Association (Bible fund) is now due. and the earnest interest you have always taken in the work assures me you will promptly remit the amount. You will be pleased to learn that the pood cause pro­ gresses rapidly, us you predicted it would in your address delivered here a few weeks since. Yours, A. W. EDWARDS. Secretary. This drove much of the hard, stony look from her face, but she continued her search. She fished out three or four tracts, a bottle of pop, a Francis Murphy temperance badge, a bottle of Dr. Surepop'a corn destroyer, and be­ neath it all, in the bottom of the grip,a letter, sealed, stamped and ready for the mail, addressed td "Miss Georgic Gray, St. Paul, Minn." T?he superscription was in her hus­ band's well-known handwriting, and again the stony look came into her eyes. "Oh, the wretch!" she cried iu her anguish. "My suspicions are too! well founded! Georgie Gray! Oh, this is too much, too much!" aud she gave way to a flood of tears. When she had calmed herself, she tore the letter open and read as follows: ST. PAUL, MINN., Aug. 15. 1390. Mis* Cray: Your note asking me to mo -t you in Rice Park Saturday evening was haudod mo by a district messenger boy this morning. In re­ ply permit me to say that yoU have mistaken the man. You may not be aware that I am a married man. and am blessed with the love and confidence of the greatest little wife in America, llather than betray that confidence or dishonor that love I would 6uffer ten thousand deaths. In my eyes there is but one woman in the world, and she it is who greets me with a pleasant smile and a wifely kiss every time I come from a trip, WILLIAM . Then she lay down on the bed and sobbed for a while and theu closed the grip, took it to the porter and asked him to return it to the store and say nothing of what had occurred. As lie entered the store the drummer stepped from behind a pile of goods and asked: "Did she go through it, John?" "Guess so. She took it into another room an' was gone half au hour before she brought it back." "How did slie&ct?" "Well, she was smilin' awfully, but looked tearv all around her eyes. She gimme another dollar, an' said this would be a happy world if all men were like her husband." "That's business, John. Here's the V I promised you, and now let's go across the street aud take something. When you come back dump my stuff and put my things back in the grip, for I go out to-morrow morning. I'll never forget you, John, for putting me onto this," and they slipped out aud disappeared behind the green shade of a convenient Baloon. • Ills First Thousand Dollar*. To a rich man a thousand dollars is a trifle, vet all rich men--that is, self- made men--have left on record their opinion that the first thousand dollars was the hardest to get, and, once ac­ quired, formed the foundation of a for­ tune. But what shall a young man do wit h his first thousand dollars? If he invests it in bonds or leaves it at interest the increment will be very small. Yet he must use it in some way, or it will never grow, and therefore be practically use­ less. Opinions differ on this question, and doubtless there are many answers equally good. Emory A. Stoors, during his lifetime a talented Chicago lawyer, once wrote a letter to a young man, who asked for his advice as to the best way of invest­ ing a sum of money which he had in his possession, and the replv is interest­ ing: "One boy takes his $1,003, spends it either in foreign travel or iu the culti­ vation and improvement of his mind and manners at home. At the age of 31, if he is consistent in his course, he has laid the foundation for along career of usefulness and honor, and, whatever at his death his bank account may be, he has achieved something for the good of mankind, for which the world will always gratefully remember him. "The high spirit, the clear head, the sharp, intellectual discrimination be­ tween right and wrong which his travel, culture and education have given him, is a capital as much better than bank stock as gold is better than brass. No reverses of fortune can take it from him. No financial panics can rob him of it. "The other boy lays up his $1,000; he doubles ii, tripples it. What of it? What kind of a man is he at the age of 31 ? Leisure is dreadful to him. He leaves nothing behind him but money, and that his children waste. "The glorj'of this world is not in corner lots nor bank stocks. No great man whom the world to-day reverences is remembered because he was rich. The saddest spectacle on this earth is that of a man of great wealth, which he cannot carry vrith him, dying, while his legatees are counting his money even as the breath escapes from his b »dy. "But suppose that your saving boy loses his stock; suppose, as often hap­ pens, through no fault of hia, values •re melted away. Where is he (hen ? bly ruinpd. hopelessly „nd taelriev GKUSDED AND MANGLED "Finally, no men recognize the worth, | value aud splendor of strong native AN EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED nilieina&a iVAninu nelf oA nin/tU ^ ^ . business genius half so much as edu­ cated men. Don't despise or underrate | it. It wiil always help you. It will j never hurt you. Stocks and cash and j corner lots are well, but they are not all | that there is of this world, nor nearly all. Our great men have lived without them, and died without them, but th6 world loves them still. "Croesus was very rich, but the gen­ erations of tkree thousand years have despised him. Socrates was wretchedly poor, but for two thousand years the world has loved him." NEAR CHICAGO. The Austins In New York, and Mrs. Austin, of Texas, have been sight-seeing in New York, finding much to astonish them. A good, simple soul is Mrs. Austin, and having lived iu the country all her life, city ways are a great puzzle to her. Mr. Austin, how­ ever, who spent a winter in "N'Orleans* when he was a young man, is better posted. The following conversation oc­ curred between them the other day: Mrs. Austin--I am told that there are pipes busied all along under Broad- wav. Mr. Austin--Oh, yes, all sorts of pipes. , . Mrs. Anstin--I wish yon would dig up one so that we could take it home to pa. You know he has quite a collection of pipes--meerschaums, clay pipes, and corncob pipes. Mr. Austin (looking quizzically at his wife)--Now that is an idea. I never thought of that. We might increase his collection very considerably. Mrs. Austin (quite innocently)- Yes, dear.^wjsow if. we could only bring him one oPthose nice steam pipes that we read so much about. I don't suppose pa ever smoked a steam pipe in all his life. Mr. Austin--Probably not, though I've heard that he used to "steam it" a little when he was young. How would he like a water pipe? Mrs. Austin--Isn't a water pipe rather damp? I should think it would put out the fire. Mr. Austin--Well, it might if a hose was connected with it. He would find a gas pipe Boothing, but it's apt to put a person asleep when indulged in iu a close room. Mrs. Austin--But pa never smokes in a close room. He goes out on the ver­ anda. Who d'ye s'pose buried all of them pipes? Mr. Austin--Men accustomed to "pipe-laying," of course. No one else could get the job. Mrs. Austin--You won't fail to dig up one of them pipes, will you, dear? Mr. Austin--I may have to get a per­ mit of Mr. Gilroy first. Anything else you would like to take home to Texas? Mrs. Austin--There aiu't a fountain on our whole farm. Mr. Austin--I know it. Mrs. Austin--And none of our neigh­ bors has one. Mr. Austin--That's a fact. Mrs. Austin--We've got pons--pig pens, sheep pens, cattle pens-- Mr. Austin--What yer driving at, Mirandy ? Mrs. Austin--I was thinking how nice it would be to have one of them fountain pens I see advertised. A pen with a fountain in it would be just the thing to set off oui1 place. Mr. Austin--Now, Mirandy, you just set off and let me look at you. Don't you know that a fountain pen is a pen to write with ? .sj . Mrs. Austin--Is thatso»Jfthn? Per­ haps them pipes buried under Broad­ way are not to smoke ? Mr. Austin--Well, they make the people smoke, sometimes, with taking them np and putting them down. I really believe, Miramlv, that you know less about city affairs now than you did when you came here. Ayd they go off arm-in-arm to visit the menagerie in Central Park.--Texas HijUnrja. The Shark and Itlnr, A business-like and very hungry shark met an unsophisticated diver in search of investments. "Good morning," said the shark, af­ fably; ' won't you step inside? I have a remarkably fine interior that I want to show you, also some corner-lots you'll like--at least I corner lots like you. Besides, this is my usual dinner hour, and you are just in tipie, and I can as­ sure you, you are exceedingly welcome. Oh, don't hang back; I have ample room to accommodate you, and 1 can't take no for an answer. I have taken in any number of strangers for dinner, and not one of them ever complained after­ ward of the treatment he received, and j I am sure yon won t either. So don't j keep me waiting any longer." v | "Well," responded the diver, "since | you are so urgent and your family are notoriously such good entertainers that nobody once their guest ever goes any­ where else, I wiil not refuse your courteous offer." And in justice to the shark it is only fair to state! that the diver was never known to make the slightest complaint. »Mtly Turned. Seated in a street car were two sweet young things who were full of the beau­ tiful ingenuousness of girlhood. "Oh, Amy; I have a frightful rip in my riding habit and I forgot to have it mended. Lend me yours to-morrow, will you?" "Yes, indeed, dear," (with emphasis and the utmost sweetness), "but I'm awfully afraid you'll find it too tight; I wear a twenty-one corset you know." "Yes" (a slight but very impressive pause), "I think perhaps I can get it together, though; I wear a nineteen." it was as clean a cut as a stroke of a razor, beautifully given and beautifully taken, Both faces preserved their calm and placid expression, ,aud a new topic of conversation was started almost In­ stantly.--JJoa to n Gazelle. Tho Modern Match. Husband (getting ready to light the gas)--My dear, I wi«h you would re­ move all newspapers and other com­ bustible material to the next room Theu send for several pails of water and have them handy. Wife--Why, what for? • Husband--I am going to strike a match. Of course it will break and there is never any telling where the burning end will land.--Good Newx. JPackin£ a Trunk. Friend--Good-morning, John] The girl told me to come right up .stairs. Bu«y packing your trunk, I see. Married Man--Yes. Help me get it strapped, quick. Friend--What's the hurry? Married Man--We are going to the seaside. This is my trunk, and, as you will see, it is full clear to the top, but While Standing: en the Track It Is Bnn Int.. by a Train Kunnl|ig at I'ull Speed- Five Killed and Over a Dozen Iqjnrtd- Someona Hurt Blnmleraii. Chicago Dispatch: Through the carelessness of the train hands of an Il­ linois Central train, who tailed in the performance of their duty, two passen­ ger trains cams together Sunday night at the Kedzie avenue crossing of the Chicago* Burlington & Qnincy railroad tracks, enacting a horrible death-deal­ ing scene. Fivo persons were killed, two fatahy injured, and eleven more or less seriously injured. Tho killed: * LILY MENER. IT viirs of age. living at No. -foB Ashland avenue, • •' MAKGAUET niENEK. 14 years of ace, living .it Ashland avenue and Twentieth street. OTTO SCHOLEFF. SO years of age, living at No. I.-!-: Center street. * I'ETKtf HEUGEK, 22 years of age. living at CQB Hastings street. UNKNOWN MAN. about 2? years of age.* The fatally injured are: LK.N A KISWIG. NO. IS* Orchard street, left leg broken and crushed about tho upper part of the biwly. LOCISKLTOKRSK. 19 years of nge, residence unknown, less crushed and severe Internal injuries. FHKI> Uigwic, No. 18D Orchard street, left leg broken and hand crushed. Miss KOCUK. No. lits Burling street, collar bone and ri^ht arm broken. FISEH PFISTKH. right hand cut off. .IOUN KRAEMEU, left AM broken and fin­ gers of right hiind mashed. ALBERT licitOEit, No. JW0 Hastings street risht foot cut olT. It. HOFFMAN, NO. YO Nutt street, left leg broken below tho knee. E. Koitx, No. 39 Fisk street. riRlft arm and three ribs on the right side broken. liOiiKHT HOKIMAN, No. AW Latlln street) rl?ht arm broken at the wrist. FUANK UUULIST, right hand mashed and soaip wounds. PETE it IVVHLMAN. ripht foot mashed. , IIESIIY HIKNNMAN, No.Ogden avenue, severe cut on tho neck and scalp wounds. The accident occurred at 7:20 o'clock and was causcd by the Downer's Grove express on tho Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, crashing Into the rear of an Illinois Central picnic train standing at the crossing only a few'feet from the Douglas Park station. .-Lt. that hour the Illinois Central train bearing several hundred merry children who were returning from a picnic given bv tho Germau Evangoll cal Lutheran Orphan asylum at Addison Park, twenty-eight mllos from tho city, became stalled at the Kedzie avenue crossing, between Nineteenth aud Twentieth strocts, ow tng to a train crossing the track at Western avenue a fow blocks further east. The picnic train was divided In three sections, the rear section con­ taining eight passenger coaches. They had been warned by the semaphore of danger and had couio to a complete stand-still, when the C. B. <fc Q. Down­ er's Grove express came bowling along at the rate of thirty miles an hour and. In full view of dozens of horrified spec­ tators, crashed with terriiic force Into tne rear car of the last section of the train. Au almost Indescribable scene of hor ror and. misery immediately followed. The crash of the collision was heard blocks awav, whie above the din could plainly be heard the shrieks of agony from tho dying and injured, and the cries of tho uninjured who, goaded to desperation by their Impending fate, fought madly with each other to escapa the awful wreck. Station Agent Eagan was standing on tho depot platform whon tho crash camo, talking to an acQiialntanco, and to­ gether with several residents of tho neighborhood ran to tho scene only a few yards away. It was an awful sight. Tho three rear coaches of the picnic train were telescoped and pilod up in great confusion. Beneath the debris of crushed timber and broken glass the groans of tho dying aud injured could be heard, and the rescuing party imme­ diately began the task of extricating them from their perilous position. A teiephono call brought' a patrol wagon with a squad of men. ^ The mem­ bers of truck company Xo. IV, with their axes aud saws were also sum­ moned. With these reinforcements the work of rescuing tho unfortunates was speedily accomplished. The dead aud most of the Injured were in the second and third coaches of , tho train. Axes and saws were brought Into play and in a few minutes the dead body of Lilly Dieuer was taken from the wreck. The poor girl's body was fearfully mangled and was carried into the depot and laid on the floor. Then two unknown men wiiose faces were crushed beyond recognition were taken out and carried to the depot The injured were speedily taken out aud carried to neighboring houses. Physicians who had been summoned, alleviated the sufferings of the injured and they were then taken to the county aud Presbyterian hospitals. A few of the injured lived within a few blocks of the scenc of the accident and these were taken to their homes. There seems to be a division of opin­ ion as to the real cause of the accident The engineer of the Burlington train, Robert Dixon, claims that the picnic train displayed no danger signals on tho rear car. while hi£ ii reman, Frank Marsh, admits that he saw one from his side of the engine, but it was burn­ ing so low as to be almost inaiscerua- ble and could not be seen five car lengths away. L. Voss, who lives at No. 954 Spauld- ing avenue, was in his back yard talk­ ing with a neighbor, John Fellows, and says that two bright, red lights were displayed from either side of the rear platform of the last car. However that may be, the Illinois Central train is in part or wholly to blame from the fact that tho rear brakeman disregarded the rules of the company and failed to go back with danger signals to warn ap­ proaching trains after his train had come to a stop. SHORT SERMONS. A PREACHER IN PRISON. THE [From the Barn's Horn.] No man can sleep his way to heaven. The first step toward God is repent­ ance. It is always safe to expect great things from God. The best news ever heard on tlii« earth is that God loves the sinner. The man who knowingly does wyong is the biggest of all cowards. Whenever we admit a doubt the bauk of heaven immediately closes. No man can get religion enough to keep him pure in bad company. If you want to get more from God, thank Him for what Ho has done. When you want to make the devil run. tell him something God has said. The man who reads the Bible prayer­ fully will always read it carefully. No matter what the devil says; you believe what God Bays, and peace will be the result. Getting men to be selfish is one of the ways the devil has of getting them to become his. If some people are really on their way to heaven, they are traveling in the sleeping car. Jesus is sure to meet us when we are if my wife happens to come in before it's [ strapped, she'll crowd half a ton of her | trviniTto tail Mmdhtvlv t h t o S T a t o 0 . . - M W Y o r k W e e U y . I S L M S ! ' S,y-k.il. ;• r,JHt l. A. !*?*.' *.>.*' >A*J h % A j j k . l'1 . . . i s i REV. A. M. DE FORD IN A MILWAUKEE JAIL. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS; ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. A Tonnjf Clergyman Charared with Raising the Face Va ae of Bills by an Ingenious 8y*tem-tiow He Explaim the situation --llamaffiDi; Kvitlence. [Milwaukee dispatch.] Transforming bills into "tens" ann "twenties" and attempting to pass them as such is the charge against the Rev. A. M. DP Ford, r. minister from Horton- ville. Wis., who occupies a cell at £he county jail to-night In default of 32,tO'J bail. The reverend gentleman was on «tiis way to Whitewater to-day to attend the Methodist conference when arrested here. For five years he has been con­ nected with the Methodist Church in Wisconsin, the last year In the Rorton- ville circuit, and so enjoyed the confi­ dence of the people that they had unani­ mously signed a call asking thi> White­ water Conference to return him to them. That their confidence in him was misplaced is quite evident from the testimony produced at his preliminary examination this afternoon. Mutilated bills of various denominations found on his person were offered in evidence. There were good bills of $10 and $'20 denominations, from which the corners had been cut to be pasted on bills of smaller denomination, 32 bills thus raised to $10 and $20 having also-been found with him. On his per­ son, too, were found a pair of scissors, two sharp knives, and a bottle of mu­ cilage, all of which had their part in transforming the bills. This scheme is a novel device-which old counterfeiters might nractice with even less success than the reverend gentleman, for, ac­ cording to advices received here to-night, he found viet-ims for his game in both Oshkosh and Fona dn Lac, and a United States officer will leave tomorrow for those places to find further evidence of De Ford's evil. The first witness at the preliminary examination was a saloon-koeper named Stillivan. whose place is opposite the Union Dopot." Sullivan said the minister came into the saloon that morning and asked to have a 310 bill changed. The witness identified a bill handed to him by the U nited States District Attorney as the one the minister asked him to chango. The figure $:*) from a good bill had been pasted ox er the figure $3 at the upper right-hand corner of the bill; but this would have been unnoticed except for a person seeing8* that the smaller fig­ ures on the back of the bill had been erased. Sullivan saw this and recognized it as a $2 bill. "Would two fives do , you for this?" asked Sullivan, and the minister replied that it would. Then Sullivan said: "Vou are more likely to get five years if you are caught attempting to pass a bill of that kind." Tho reverend gentle­ man showed no astonishment, but left the place. He crossed the street to Kocnlg's saloon and was noticed to walk past the door three times before enter­ ing. Mrs. Koanig was alone in the sa­ loon. He asked for a glass of wine, say­ ing he was not feeling well. It was given him a id he tendered a $10 bill in pay. Mrs. Koenig stepped into the dining- room to have her husband change tho bill. In turning it over Koenig recog­ nized it as a $2 bill raised to $10. Kcenlg told his wife lie would get it changed at the depot and stepped out a side door, while Mrs. Koenig returned to the sa­ loon. telling the minister that her hus­ band had gone out to get tho bill changed. "Where did ho go," said tho tninister anxiously, and as he stepped to the door ho recognized the saloonkeeper crossing the street. Tho minister called to him to return, saying that he had plenty of change to pay for his drink, but the sa­ loonkeeper did not pretend to hear him and entered the depot, while the minis­ ter took a seat to await his return. Wheu the saloonkeeper returned he had a policeman with him, and he or­ dered the minister's arrest on a charge of passing counterfeit money. After examining the S10 bill the policeman said it would be necessary for the minister to accompany him to the station. De Ford was asked if ho had any state­ ment to make. "I feel somewhat em­ barrassed at this time," he said, "as it is the first time in my life that I was ever charged with'a dishonest act. I have a wife and four little babies, and we have b e e n l i v i n g f r o m h a n d t o m o u t h . I a m now 8300 in debt. For five years I have been a Methodist pastor in Wisconsin, three years of which time I was in charge of the Waupaca circuit. The last year I have been in charge of the Hortonville circuit, including Hortonville, Medina, and Stephensville. Although my salary was but $600 a year I was content to remain where I was, and in my valise I have a petition from my parishioners, which I was to present to tho Whitewater Conference to-day, asking my return to that circuit. I had arranged to attend the Lawrence University at Appleton, as I was anx­ ious to continue my ministerial studies, as I am still a young inan, being but 28 years of age. Recently I collected about SI50 among my stewards, which was mostly in silver, and I changed that Into bills, as you have there to-day." "Where was it you changed the silver for tho bills?" asked the District At­ torney. "I have been trying to recall where it was. b it I don't just remember, although I think it was at a Jew's store in Apple- ton." "But how came you to have that bot­ tle of mucilage and pair of scissors in your pocket?" "A minister has sometimes to take the amount of a ehurrh subscription out in goods in some small tow n and that bottle of mucilage I took from an Oshkosh drug store as part of a 82 subscription." "Who was the druggist?" "I just don't remember, but think I could find the place." "Rut how came it that you had some of your money in a pocket-btiofc, while the mutilated bills you kept in a pocket air most entirely sewed up?" "I always made it a practice to divide my money while traveling, so in case I was robbed while asleep the robbers might possibly overlook tho money in one place or the other, and I would not be broke." Pithy Paragraphs. Ax editor of a Georgia newspaper has been presented with a six-pound potato. Ix Yokohama, with a population of 70,000. the number of electors is under three hundred. Ix Kuenos Ayres the police alone have the right of whistling on the streets. Any other person whistling is at once arrested. A GEHMAX watch that is on exhibition in a Pittsburgh window is probably the thinnest timepiece in the world. It is not more than an eighth of an inch thick, and the works themselves seem no thicker than cardboard. A limnEFORD. Me.. mSn was so glad to be sent back to .iail by the court, after he had experienced one brief day's con­ tact with a heartless world, that he of­ fered to walk to Alfred and take the mittimus along with him to save the otfi- ( ccrs all trouble. FKANK EVANS, a yonng farmer living near Ottawa, Ont., was infatuated by the face of a woman he saw in tho streets of . the capital and spent his days trying to j see the face again. Instead of finding what ha sought he went crazy and has disappeared. What Onr Neighbor* Are Doln(-S*tto(| of General and Lord Interest -- »la#V riages and Death*--Accidenl* and Crimea --Personal Pointers. JVDOE URESHAM. of the United Statii* Circuit Court, went to fcprinsriield Ia4t we 'k in i espouse to afequest for him to hear the injunction case of Edward EL Tjitchtield vs. The Srt. Louis, Alton ailtl Terre Haute Railroad Company. He de- : clined to l car the ra e. however, for the reas< n that his son hoids some of the bonds of the St, Louis and Fouthcni Illinois Railroad Company, which is ft portion of tlr- Cairo Miort Line system that is held under a lease by tlio defen­ dant company. The application for *• temporary injnnctit n was thereupon withdraw;., and the oa-ie will be heant hereafter by a full bench. PUKSIDEXT MARTIN* VAX BCBHX'S sig- nature figured in a million dollar land suit in one of tho Chicago courts last week. It was a suit brought by J. H, Burbank against James Stinsou for ejectment from 1C0 acres near Grand Crossing. Augustus Dickinson entered the land in 183.5, paying the regulation price, SI.2." an acre, and four years later received his patent from the Govern­ ment. This document, which was intro­ duced in evidence, bears the signatures of President Martin Van Buren and Martin Van Buren, Jr.. and H. M. G. Garland, at that time respectively the Secretary and tho head of the General Land Office. It is well preserved, aetd the signatures are as If gible as if penned a year ago. It is in the usual form of m Government conveyance of land. A RAXOEROITS $2 silver certificate isbe- ing circulated in Chicago. The imitation^ are deceptive and differ from the gen­ uine in the fact that they have no dis­ tributed liber nor parallel silk threads running through the bills, and there is no period after the words "Register oif tho Treasury." TITK Grand Lodge of Illinois Knights of Honor held its tenth regular and sec­ ond biennial srsdon at Springfield, with, about one hundred and seventy-five del-, egates in attendance. The reports shov a membership in the State of 6,242. Ffl*?: relief during the year $9,188 was paid. THE-officers, Lcgis'ativo and Finance Committees of the Grand Lodge of Illi­ nois, Ancient Order of Unitiyl Workmen, i met at Springfield last week to consider the question of applying to the Supremo Lodge for reii»f. Before a Grand lodge can apply for relief it must have made twenty-one afs* s -ments for deaths. It was found that only seventeen such as­ sessments had he >n made, hence the de- ;• I red relief cannot be asked for. A com­ mittee was appointed' to district the State for work in instituting new led gas and in building up the order generally. TOUCHING the alleged shortage of the% hay crop, the Chicago Tribune says; "These alarming reports about a short­ age in the hay crop in Illinois are with­ out foundation, it is said, and probably grew out of the fact that prices are I somewhat higher than the immense cut I of grasses warrants. In certain placed of Iowa the crop is a little light, but not sufficiently to affect prices. The crop i throughout this State has been largiv ; and, owing to tho fine weather, farmers have not been so prompt in cutting It; They are now engaged on that work. There is, in consequence, just now scant, supply on hand, but after next week the rush of hay will begin."' " AT a mass meeting of the miners aft?1 tho Springfield distiet. held at Spring field, a resolution was adopted indorsing the action of the National Executive Board in calling on the miners of Illinois to make a demand for increased wages and to strike if necessary to ©ttforcs thSt ' demand. REV. WIIXIAM W. EVERTS, one of the ablest Baptist ministers in the West, died in Chicago last week, dged 76 years. He had been in the ministry continuously for fifty-one years, thirty-one of whieh< were spent in Chicago. P. MCBRYHE. senior member of tho Executive Board of the United Mi no- workers of the United States, was inter­ viewed at Springfeld in reference to tho report regarding the probabilities of * strike among the Illinois miners on Nov. 1. He said that the general teia$r of the report was correct, and in adw> tion gave the following information: The situation is this: Illinois forms part of what is known as a eompetitivedistrie*-- \ that is. a distriet where the coals of ent localities meet lu a common market, ' This competitive field comprises Western Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana, part of West Virginia, and Illinois. Western Pennsyl­ vania and Ohio are paid for mining by what is known as the Columbus scale. That scale is 17? j cents a ton higher than the price paid for mining in Illinois. Tho operators of this (State withdrew from the agreement, alleging that they were not able to pay the price named and enter th? market on an equality with their compet­ itors. Tho miners in this instance :uro, waiving their claim to 10 cents a ton, bat insist on the payment of the remaining _ cents. In May lust an attempt was mate to have the operators pay this T% cents, but we fulled to come to an agreement. Presi­ dent Kay of the United Mine Workers ha» determined that a forward move must be made in November, lie lias issued a circu­ lar to the miners of this State instructing, them to demand of t ie operators the 754 cents. Should the operators refuse to ci afc- ply a general strike will be ordered Nov. 1. A CHICAGO dispatch says that "within a few days one of the most important enterprises, involving large investments of foreign capital, that have yet been organized in this country will be floated in Chicago. It is the great English syn­ dicate scheme, to be called the London and Chicago Contract Corporation. Be* sides centering in Chicago a capital of ' some SI0,000,000 for immediate invest­ ment, the scheme contemplates the sub­ sequent placing of practically unlimited. Western securities in the English mar­ ket. One of the maiu objects of tlio „ big corporation, in fact, is to assure to the numerous concerns which make up tho London Contract Corporation, of which the Chicago enterprise is to bo v really the auxiliary branch, a safe tiekt. of investment after export examination S of Western properties." CHICAGO society has a new sensations? Marshall Field. Jr.. son of the grea^ merchant prince, lias determined to eiat* , brace Catholicism ;n order to marry Mis«f " Albertine Iluck. daughter of Louis Huek, the millionaire malster. Thj& voung man is 22 years old, a graduate of Harvard, and an employe in the big dry-goods store of his father. Th% ^ Fields are Baptises . .. TIIK annual rally of the Illinois Cit!»' , zens' Mutual lYotective Association, j generally known as the Anti-llorse-Thior Society, took place at Sandoval lastjs week. Several hundred members were ; present. Si'iti.w.FiEi.n dispatch: After sevc rat hours' deliberation the jury in tho habeas corpus proceedings of Johft Fan Ids, who resisted recommitment to . the Kankakee Insane Asylum, returned a verdict to the effect that Faulds : sane, and he was .thereupon given his frc'dom. He has been confined for eight years in the asylum, being sen* from Danville, and according to the tes­ timony developed the oniy reason for this treatment lies in the fact that he H a man with two or threo hobbies--a d«>- giro to marry evety woman he uteen being the principal one--and the vktiai « of designing relatives who desired to oV tain control of his property, of wbieh bt claims he had a considerable amount •