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% r - MARKET TRUTHS. sar AWED THE WILD SIOUX. AFFAIRS IK ILLINOIS. CROPS? ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS. ITEMS GATHERED PROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. LP£UIRIES OF A FARMER .AS TO \ V HOME CONSUMPTION. * Short Talk with Rtpnbllctna--Pro­ tection •»*. Free Trade-Th» lax on Turkey,* and Who Paid It-Tha Equity Protoctton--A Short Tariff Arga- *> „•>* aaent. A farmer writes the Inter Ocean with the Inquiry: "What per cent, of all farm productions are consumed in this coun- -?*ry? What percent, of all manufactures ,are t'°fi6umed in this country (United "States)? What per cent, of everything . raised, n;anufactured, or produced in any |f'*|:,,"Way is consumed in this country?" ® K To this ihe following reply is given: ;. ' The exports of agricultural and manu- , factured products for 1888, the last year A, *" -of which perfect reports are at hand, 'vS-i- were: ,.V Animate . #109,8S3,M8 p^Bwadstuffa u 127,191,687 < Cotton and cotton-»o«d oil 224,!U2,499 Miscellaneous farm produoti 36,948,895 ;= j. : ; - Total agricultural >»portB, 1688... .$*98,966,083 t. Total agricultural exports, 182(7 5-20,820,788 •J^^JSaqportH of .American maautaetnxes /" lor 1888 683.B02.1M • l ; * T h e v a l u e o f . b r e a d s t u f f s , w h i c h c o m - , 'prise all kinds of grain and flour, for 1888 v '"was $1,204,289,370. So that the export V. of breadstuff's amounted to about one- tenth of the crop. ;i s Sir Lyon Playfair, an eminent British free-trader, speaking to a meeting of voters at Leeds, which is the chief city *5,' l^of the British woolen manufacturing '.district, very recently, told his hearers «f ^ that in twenty years from now they ||il /! wouid have to look elsewhere than to 'T\ . V. the United States -for their grain sup- , plies. "For,* ho said, "if the relative " increase of farm products and of man u- facturing population continues for the "V;next twenty years in the same ratio as tiJ- . for the last ten, the manufacturing and jfe*; * trading people will consume all that the . farmers can raise in America." His pre- & diction would seem to be well in&kle the • nark, for while our wheat prod action £^;-.,bas shown no average of increase during ^" the |«ast ten years, our avorage of oon- Bumyjon has increased greatly. In 1878 tVe total output of wheat was 432.- j?' / 190,41* bushels, of which we retained §C;only 273,081,865 for home consumption. j In 1888 the output was 416,003,851 •' bushels, of which we retained 327,181,- , ' y<. " 399. In 1887 wo retained 336,785,169 for . home use out of a total of 456,922,860. .The decrease in our wheat*exports has been very steady during the last ten years, it being 149,508,553 bushels in ^ * " 18?8, against only 88,822,462 in 1888, >); /- although the wheai crop of 1878 was greater than that of 1888. This does i>ot look as if we need trouble ourselves concerning foreign grain markets, so far 5# as whtat is concerned, at any rate, i As to manufactures, it is very difficult to get a correct estimate of the ratio of :Yexports to production. We know what the yearly exports amount to, but wo ^ 4 have to $uess what the output is, for ;;/• there has been no official statement since r ' (; the census of 1880, and that. is wholly •; inapplicable to the year 1891. But it is certain thaV greatly as they have in­ creased of la&e years, our manufacturing enterprises au not yet on a scale of suffi- . cient magnitude to supply the wants of ^ the country. During the l*st six years there has been but a slight increase in the acreage ^ under wheat or * own, the figures being t'! 1,4 i."'- IV: as follows: 1885........... 1886.. 1867.....T...., 1888 1889 Wheat, acres. ...39,475,855 ...... ...34,189,246 .........36.806,184 . 37,338,138 87,641,783 g .j. 1889 • 88,133,859 \ ' ~ But the increase between 1809 and 1880 is mdSt marvelous, it being 19,181,004 K * • acres for the former and 37,986,717 for ' the latter. The same ratio rules in corn, < , of which there were but 37,103,245 under " cultivation in 1869 against 62,317,842 in ; 1880. Between these years was the < great rush on the new farm lands of the t great West, and in these years many, perhaps most, of the farm mortgages of i which we hear so much were laid. Since ' 1880 the tendency to farm occupation has been somewhat checked by the op- : portunities of employment in trade and ; manufactures, with the result of a home market for farm products extending the increase©* such f | f l m o r e r a p i d l y t h a n ' • products. i A Talk with K®pTibHcan«. % A majority of the intelligent people in ? ^ the North believe that the Government 'hj " will be more wisely administered by the Or ' Republican party than by its opponentk. They may not- always be satisficJ with that Republican administrations, 1'Congresses and Legislatures do, says the /. <• Indianapolis Journal, but they have ** *>'" come to believe in the general principles , , advocated by the Republican party, and i:*Y to have faith in the men who are now and have been prominent in its councils. 7 -K- To such men, to those who are Republi- Icans because they believe in the Republi- •fU: can party, a word seems necessary, The day has passed when any party, ; no mattter how good its record, can go /' t'ft before an intelligent people without pre- .., , vious organization, two or three months if* ^ before an election, and win a victory. pC'V'" The very fact that those who vote the Republican ticket or would naturally p, l."ally themselves with the Republican , party as the progressive and intelligent • party of the country are reading and £ • thinking people, renders intelligent or- -*v;" ganization and education necessary. JV The Republican party has never been * beaten when the people have been fully informed regarding the issues involved in a contest. It is only when they have not had opportu­ nity to be informed regarding the pending issues that Republicans have suffered defeat If the McKinley tariff act had been, passed six ironths earlier and its friends had had the courage of !'• their convictions and gone before the Is people and explained its provisions, it . would have been a source of strength rather than weakness. If Republicans In the States which have been swept r from their mooring by financial heresies and false theories had met the dema- gogues proclaiming them face to face ' .', " and exposed their absurdities Kansas i;-J woul<i not be disgraced with a crack- ;l brained socialist and a "sockl«w states­ man," and a Nebraska district would ? not have elected a man to tjjie House be­ cause he had never earned more than ? $500 a year and has a $1,500 mortgage on his farm. The opponents of the Re- - publican party took early advantage of J the general ignorance of Republican 'y ' vo^ers regarding the tariff and financial t t: legislation, and sprung upon the country < ,• such a storm of misrepresentation that ' ' {v-; ^ was impossible to counteract it. The l result was that Republicans, by tens of •Nl thousands, did not vote, because they were In doubt. Hence the Democratic | victory. It was too late in October to ' send out speeches and to overcome the ? assaults of the lying Democratic mana- H t gers and free-traders. Now thousands S f are learning that they wero deceived, p : and already reaction has set in. The issues in 1892 will be much the same as in 1890. The tariff, reciprocity, the Federal supervision of Congressional elections and questions growing out of ag currency art^coinage will be the issues. C? v The Republicans have wie right side on these question^V~bul»J)ecause they have policies to defend and cbampion, they must see that the people are fully in­ formed. Those who believe in the Re- :gt publican position must see that the mass ^ of voters who naturally belong to the Republican party are fully convinced by fact and history that the policy of pro- . taction is essential to the prosperity of kfa'. Vu.... •>:^ *• \'*.• l ... m. ; y tlb Mkintry, that* so^nd eomsney t* a nMwitftor, MB4 that laiv Are so eMentl ̂to tbe welfare of the «mntry This Work reqnlres organieatlon, and organization that will educate the peo­ ple. To that end, without delay, clubs should be formed to enroll members and Insure the circulation of Republican lit­ erature and the discussion of Republican principles. A few prominent Repub­ licans in every village can secure Repub­ lican literature, and provide for the presentation of the Republican truth by speakers. There are men in every com­ munity who can give instruction upon these topics. In short, without delay, club?, which shall be Republican schools, should be organized in every community. That done faithfully, a. Republican vic­ tory in 1892 is assured. ; A Terao Tariff Arsmua«.̂ v • The following advertisement, <Sopfe<f verbatim from a baker's announcement in a Connecticut newspaper, is a whole tariff speech in itself: "How is it that Kelly the baker sells his goods so cheap when other people are howling high prices on account of and the homos aad lands of workingmen and farmer*, the love of fair so characteristic of the American people will insist that no alien be given the right to compete in our markets against the production of these citizens until he has made a corresponding contribution to the National Treasury. "Recognition of this fact is the justifi­ cation of protection. And when there is added the further fact that the stand­ ard of American citizenship has lifttH the wages of all classes of workers to a higher plane than is recognized in any other country--a condition which it is neither desirable nor possible to materi­ ally alter--voters need look no further for their warrant in maintaining the pol­ icy of defending the home market against competition from workers and traders occupying a level below that of the average American citizen. > "Free trade attorney® are ceaseless in their efforts to befoar the issue with dis­ torted statistics and to mislead voters with promises of cheaper goods, but they aro certain to fail in Ihe end, for aa in- KOTTI.E0. ' , - 1 ate. / .. •TV A I. - / , '***;'. <f.»i. k 4-*; \* p ' %•? , ® * P Sf {» _/ }» ' i r ' i f t \ ^.1:. :l • i A Aibifc ' Position of the Democratic Senators ia the Fifty-second Congress.--New York Press. the McKinley bill? The tariff doesn't increase the duties on his line of goods: "1. McKinley puts no duty on Ameri­ can flour. % Ho puts no tariff on American eggs. "3. He puts no duty on American butter. "4. He puts no duty on American raisins. u5. He puts no duty on American lard. "6. He puts no duty on meat for mince "7. He pnts no duty on American milk. "8. He puts no duty on pumpkins and squashes. "* *' " "9. He puts no duty on huckleberries and blackberries. "10. He puts no duty on apricots and prunellos. "11. He puts no duty on baking pow­ der and cream of tartar. "12. He puts no duty on spioes of any description. «• "But the McKinley bill has reduced Kelly's sugar bill one cent and a half a pound, or $6 a day; a cent a pound on currants, and from four to eight cents a gallon on molasses. The new tariff on sugai and Uiola&ses doesn't go into eiiect till April 1, but the reduction is already felt because there is a big surplus on hand which dealers are trying to work Pro taction vs. Wr-- Trade, . Frrt Tratfc, a London Journal? "which advocates, at least, partial protection to English industries, talks thus concerning the growth of commerce in the four chief countries of the world: One of the features of the foreign trade of the United States, says the Manchester Examiner and Times, & strong free-trade organ, is the comparison which it bears -with the foreign trade ol other countries. The following table shows the aggregate foreign trade of the four principal trading eoantrles of the world for 1839; Country. Imports, Exports. United Kingdom.... fa,0Sl,098,356 $1,535,831,772 Germany 1,347,045,352 1,147,533,893 France..., 1,025,817,900 927,075,500 United State* 720,521,955 887,106,347 The following table shows the changes in the trade of these four countries from 1888 to 1889, the figures given being the aggregate imports and exports: Country. 1889. 1898. United Kingdom... S3,610,930,128 fS,338,087,844 Germany 8,494,579,150 ^306,258,318 France 1,953,893,40) 1.830,682,900 United State* 1,597,628,312 , 1,417.172,481 A comparison of the growth of the commerce of the four leading countries between 1880 and 18S9 4s shown in the following table: Per cent Conn try. ; 1S80. 1880. of inc. United Kingdom.®?,616,930,138 33,335,084,677 6.58 Germany 2,494,579,150 2,123, Hi',263 17.48 France 1,953,893,4 (0 '2,087,78(1,898 6.41 United state*.... 1,537,02 <.312 1,596,400,593 .70 Thek comparatively email increase in the for­ eign trade of the United States during the part nine years is dne to the fact that the increase was peculiarly rapid in the years preceding. 1881. The comparison between 1870 itnd 1880 shows an increase of 72.8U per cent, of the United States against 54.24 for France, 3G.1U for Ger­ many, and 27.46 per cent, forthe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The comparison between 1870and 1839 is equally favorable to the United States, the increase being 74.07 for the United States, 44.3 > tor France, 52.80 for Gar- many, and S5.79 for the United £indom. Cer­ tain comparisons between the trade of the United State# and the United Kingdom appear below: United United Year. . Kingdom. States. 1850 #94-2,695,380 •917,885,252 1860 £825,191,«1B 087,192,176 Increase.£82,496,388 369,303,934 Percent............. 93.81 116.21 1870 ^663,620,718 917,714,421 Increase ovar 1810.. 838,429.070 Percent...- 45.09 1880 8£95;084,677 £33,602,245 33.56 1,586,490,593 Increase over 1870.. 731,463,959 668,696,177 Percent '27.46 72.86 From these figures it appears that highly protected* America has made the greatest, highly protected Germany the next, moderately protected France the next, and virtually free-trade £ngland the least commercial progress in the periods under review. As usual, the fig­ ures rise up and smite the free traders. The Equity o! Protection. "Underlying all protective legislation," ssys a prominent - writer, "there is a stratum, of justice whJch the great body of AnMk|MM|ters cannot be Induced to pera^^^^^Hmore. Money is required the machinery of gov- long as so much of this herent love of justice, leaving, out of the count all selfish considerations, can oe relied on to refuse to virtually hand over American markets to European trades­ men and operatives by handicapping the manufacturers of this country with a rate of taxation and a standard of wages from which their foreign competitors are in taost part exempt" r ! If tho Tariff 1* * tta. '. f The one cry of the free-trade organs is that on account of the tariff the Amer­ ican people are being taxed to death. No sane man believes that the tariff is a tax. If it is added to the price of the article in a few instances--the Democrats have not cited any as yet--in the great major­ ity of the cases it is paid by the foreign manufacturer, not by the American con­ sumer. But, for the sake of argument, admit that the tariff is a "tax," and let us see how this tax is "taxing the ucople to death." According to figures recently published, the total revenue of the Gov­ ernment was, last year, $467,827,490. This is a large sum of money. But, with a population over 62,000,000, the amount of "tax" per capita amounts to only a little more than $7. England has a population of 35,000,- 000 and raised for public revenues last years §442,374,000, or 812.75 per capita, nearly double the amount paid by the American people. England is the boasted land of free trade, the system thjt Grover Cleveland and his, echoes claim is the solution of the industrial and labor problems of the world. What poor man would exchange $7 tax per year in America for $12.75 in England, with wages nearly twice as large as they are in England? This calculation is based on the theory that the tariff is a tax, which is by no means true. The fact is that the $467,827,490 of revenues is paid by t he foreign manufacturer for the privilege of doing business in America, and the revenues derived pay the ex­ penses of the United States which would have to be paid by revenues derived from direct taxation If free trade was the la^ of the nation.--Dz* Moines Reg­ ister. . A Tariff Picture. Cook stoves have come down from •S3 In 1880 to 8X4 in 1890. Tho result Is that la on* year Canada bays 19,724 stores from vs. M against from Groat Britala.--New York Prm. 580 stoves THERE is not a Democratic paper in the United States that dares to say it is in favof of the Constitution as it stands. To say so would be to favor fair and honest olections in the South, and there is not pewer enough on earth to make any Democratic paper do that The en­ tire Democratic press and party are a unite in favor of the practical nullifica­ tion of the suffrage amendments to the Constitution, and from present indica­ tions the time is not far distant when they will openly favor the repeal of the amendments. BEFORE election New York importers sent out circulars announcing that owing to the McKinley bill their prices would soon be advanced from 10 to 25 per cent Now they are begging Congress to save them from the ruinously low prices which they say will come if they have to take their foreign purchases out of bond in February, according to law. A great change has come over the spirit of their dreams, so to speak. THE tariff reformers constantly refer to protectionists as "high tariff men," as though that were a term of reproach. We are high tariff on some things and low tariff or no tariff on others. We have made free more than half our imports and made the average rate upon the whole lower than that of the Mills bill. When the whole tariff is taken into ac count, the Democrats are the "high tariff men."--Home Market Bulletin. -a. GENERAL MILES' FQRCS8 PASS IN REVIEW. Four Themaof SeMi*rs» latonjr art Cavalry, in fosnd. Parad* Before Their Commaadwr, mm! laaprosa tte '--"-rat With Their Svlid fefa-eagth. [Pine dispatch.} Ten thousand Sieax had the oppor­ tunity to see the-strength and discipline of the United States army, for the end of the ghost-dance rebellion was marked by a review of all the soldiers who have taken part in crushing the Indian rebel­ lion. The day was one of the most dis­ agreeable of the campaign. A furious wind blew from the north, driving tho sand and snow over tho valley in blind­ ing and choking sheet* The summits of the buttes to the north were then fringed with Sioux warriors, who were closely wrapped in their blankets and staring stolidly at the long lines of cavalrymen and infantrymen which stretched away to tho south until they were lost in the flying sand. The redskins were a strange group of spec­ tators. They looked like Arabs as they are sometimes seen in paintings, squat­ ting on the ground or mounted on ponies on the top of knolls when the sun is sink­ ing. The great Indian village two miles to the north was deserted, and the sul­ len Sioux seemed awed by the activity of the troopers. The warriors were still sus­ picious that some move would be made to wipe them off the face of the earth. Stretching in a long, ghostly line on the ridge of buttes to the north were their pickets, ready to give tho word that would send the redskins flying in case the so'.diers should advance upon them. General Miles sat upon a black horse on the knoll to the east in front of his escort, which consisted of representa­ tives of every arm of the army In tho field. Finally there came through the gale the shrill notes of the bugle. They were so faint that they wero almost lost in the storm. Then one by one tho trum­ peters took up the call, and tho great parade of the regular army, which wus the grandest since the final dispersement of the troops in 1865 in Washington, be­ gan to pass in review. General Brooke, muffled up in a wolf-skin overcoat, grimy from the sand that swirled about his hor.-c, and followed by his staff, led the procession. When tho horsemen passed in front of General Miles, the two leaders of the campaign made the salute, then General Brooke, wheeling his horse over the yellow grass, took a position beside his superior. Through tho blinding sleet and with heads muftlod in huge fur capes, came the great de­ tachment of Sioux scouts with Captain Taylor, his sword at a salute, at their head. Sergeant Red Shirt, tho hand­ somest Indian in the Sioux nation, was at the extreme right, his long hair toss­ ing in tangled masses over his shoulderi. Yankton Charley, who saved the revolv­ ers of poor Lieutenant Casey, rode at the left of the line, his overcoat but­ toned so closoly about him that the war feathers on his breast were concealed. Then came the great swinging column of infantry in brown canvas overcoats, fur caps, the glittering barrels of their rifles over their shoulders. "Colonel Shafter, with his side whiskers closely clipped, rode at tho head of the ad­ vancing columns. This was the famous First Regiment of the army, and as Its officers passed in front of General Miles, their swords flashed through tho flying sand and then fell at their saddle girths. Captain Dougherty, the grim veteran of a dozen Indian wars, and the man who had his three-inch rilled gun trained on the liostiies all the tfme they marched up the valley to the agency, was at the head of one of the columns. Then came the Seventeenth Infantry, swinging along with tho jauntiness it displayed when it marched through tho blizzard and sand along the Cheyenne River. There was a rumbling back ef the infantrymen. The mules, with patient-looking faces and statuesque ears, were dragging the machine can­ non, those guns the Indians declare shoot to-day and kill to-morrow. The noise came from a battery of gatling and Hotchkiss guns, with mules plodding at their sides, with cartridges packed in white canvas bags on their backs. Be­ hind these machine cannon was Capt Capron's battery of three-inch rifled guns, with soldiers holding carbines sitting on the caissons. Behind the artillery was Gen. Carr, astride a bay horse and leading tho Sixth Cavalry. Behind these troops was still another battery of grim Hotchkiss guns, the carriages of which still bore evidence of tho furious storm of shot that raged f6r an hour at Wounded Knee. A lean, shrunken-faced man, with his .overcoat buttoned tightly around his throat and mounted on a splendid horse, followed tho cannon. It was Col. Guy V. Henry, who was shot through the face in the battle with the Sioux in 1876, and who led his flying negro troopers of the Ninth in an all-night ride of eighty miles to save tho Seventh Cavalry, which was threatened with Custer's fato at the Catholic mission less than four weeks ago. Behind him were long lines of black faces peeping from fur caps' and the high collars of buffalo overcoats. There was another battery of machine guns and then came in long column front the most celebrated regiment in the Western army. It was preceded by a bugle corps mounted on white horses, and from the glittering instruments there came a shrill blast that even the scream­ ing of the storm could not drown. The troopers of the Seventh Cavalry, a regi­ ment that has been torn and loveled by the silent ghost-dancers on tho buttes, was approaching. As it passed General Miles the entire staff doffed their bats, while the commander himself waved his white-gloved hand. Troop after troop passed by with guidons that had been riddled by Indian bullets until B troop and K troop came in view. The ap­ pearance of these troops aroused tho emotions of the spectators. B troop was not so large as those that had preceded it,,and K troop was even smaller. When the savages at Wounded Knee turned their carbines upon tho soldiers theso troops faced the awful (ire. K troop was without its commander and all of its commissioned and non-commissioned officers. The only one who was not killed or wounded in that terrible fight, and the only one to lead B troop was a second lieutenant with a bandage about his head, but the gallant troopers who remained rode with proud bearing, their rifles being held over the heads of their horses. Behind the cavalry came tho hospital and supply trains and pack mules. The column was an hour passing General Miles, there being nearly 4,000 soldiers and 3,700 horses and mules in line. Gossip from Everywhere. \A STATUE is to be erected in Mar­ seilles to the memory of the caricaturist Daumier. IT is estimated that the total cost of the new science and art buildings in Dublin was about $1,000,000. HT'BEBT HERKOMEB succeeds the late Mr. Herbert as a correspondent of ^ the British Academy of Fine Arts. THE largest gold mine in the world is said to be in Alaska. It is lighted by electricity and is run day and night. COLLECTOR EBHABDT, of New York, has been sued 4,000 times for the settle­ ment of disputed points in tho customs WINTER WHEAT J"U®T ABOUT HOLDING inrs. OWN. Kffbet or til* Vrwealncaai* Thawiag Weath­ er--Snow Here midtTkm SMfhtly Covers the (Crops--The Hour Trade Dull, and Little Wheat SIo*.;ing;-~~Itevlew of the Sit- aatloa ia the West [Chicago dispatch.] Two years ago tho present week the ground was full of moisture, frozen hard and solid, and all the reports as to the general condition of the winter wheat at that time were el an encouraging character. The conditions of the corre­ sponding week a year ago were, in the main, similar* with the difference that up to Jaa> 20,1890, the winter had been exceedingly mild, and even at that early date we were hearing a good deal of the development el insect life and an un­ natural midwinter growth of winter wheat With the exceptions of some acres through Kansas and Missouri the winter wheat crop has been entirely bare of snow all winter. Then came our first widespread snow of the season, extend­ ing largely over tho southern area of the winter wheat belt At that time tho reports as to the general condition of the winter wheat crop wero conflicting, some areas reporting that the winter wheat never looked better, others stating that tho midwinter had develped consid­ erable insect growth, and that the wh: at was rank and tender. As the season advanced both of these ro ports proved to be correct, and these were the causes no doubt which had so much to do with tho partial failure of the winter wheat crop of 1890. Northern Texas reports that the gen­ eral condition of the growing wheat is good. That there has been very little if any snow thilt winter. Central Texas re­ ports it is drawing its supplies of wheat from Kansas, and that tho acreage this season of wheat in that section is small. In Southern Texas, owing to tho good prices that farmers have obtained for their wheat, tho acreage sown is a trifle larger than last year. There has been plenty of moisture and the crop is doing well. Up to a week ago the condition of winter wheat in Kentucky was fairly good, but how that the snow has all gone and tho weather has been cold at night, the earth full of water, with more or less freezing or thawing, there is quite a change in the general condition of the crop. Tennessee reports that it has had no snow this winter and plenty of rain. The wheat is generally in good condi­ tion. Mills hold but little if any wheat, and aro drawing mainly on the North now for supplies. In Northern Kansas the winter wheat ) has for the last week been covered witli about two inches of snow. In Soutlierh and Central Kansas until recently there has not been any snow on tho ground except for two or three days since Dec. 1, and tho crop all over the State was needing moisture badly. Little wheat is moving. Mills aro generally well sup­ plied with wheat In Northern Missouri the wheat looks fair, but needs more moisture. In Central Missouri wheat is In better shape than a year ago at this time. Farmers are not holding much wheat. In Southern Missouri, since Dec. 1, the ground has boen covered with snow for about three days. The winter has been mild and favorable for growing wheat. Flour trade has been better for the last two weeks than for some time. The gen­ eral opinion seems to be, in this part of the State, that the reserves of wheat now in farmers' hands will all be needed by tho mills at home. In Central Illinois winter wheat had its first covering of snow Jan. L The general conditions of the crop In this area as compared with a year ago are not as good. The plants aro smaller and the stand not as heavy. The ravages of the fly are much more apparent In Southern Illinois the wheat is bare. There is more complaint of fly than a year ago. The early wheat has suffered considerably from fly. Freezing at night and thawing through the day is also hav­ ing bad effect upon the wheat In Northern Indiana wheat has been bare nearly all winter. The plants, how­ ever, seem perfectly strong and healthy, and the present prospocts are good. Fanners are generally holding their wheat and only sell when they are obliged to. Considerable wheat is being shipped in. In Central Indiana wheat has not been covered with snow more than seven days since Dec. 1. Farmers are marketing practically no wheat in this section, and it becomes more apparent that the shortage of the crop was fully as great as estimated. A great many of the country mills in this portion of tho State are shipping in wheat from Michi­ gan to supply their home trade. In Southern Indiana they have had no snow since Dec. 25. Tho wheat is looking brown, and is not as promising as last year at this date. Tho reports from Southern Indiana are generally of a favorable character with regard to the condition of the growing winter wheat. Farmers are still disposed to hold their wheat, and receipts for the last six weeks have been extremely light. Up to the opening of the present week the winter In Michigan has been mild and the winter wheat has been practi­ cally bare of snow. The wheat gener­ ally looks better than it did last year at this time. Since Dee. 1 in Northern Ohio the wheat has been covered with snow about half the time. The crop is about holding its own. The general conditions are hardly as good as last year at this time. FUTURE PRICES OP SUGAR AND SALT. Sow Present and Prospective Changes in the Tract Will Affect Them. [Chicago dispatch.] How the price of sugar will be influ­ enced by the reorganization of the sngar trust is being watched with much inter­ est by the wholesale grocers, and none of tnem as yet are able to tell just what the effect will be As to salt, the smash- up of the Michigan Salt Association at Saginaw, Mich., ipay cause the price of salt to drop considerably. Many promi­ nent Chicago wholesale men think it will occasion the price of salt to fall from 85c to SOe per barrel. ^ A ̂ A What Our Neighbor* Ar* Doing--Matters of General and toes) hitenit -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--AoeMeata and Crimea --Personal Pointers. THE buildings erected in Chicago dur­ ing 1890 cover a frontage of fifty andt one-half miles. In the South Division 1,120 buildings were erected, having a frontage of 29,594 toet, and at a cost of $15,400,800: in the North Division 502 buildings, with a frontage of 14,055 feet, costing $1,681,200?'in the West Division 3,994, with a frontage of 91,336 feet, costing $13.687*600. Hyde Park shows up with 2.0i>2, with a frontage of 44,481 feet, costing $(5,624,300. In Lake 2,889 were erected* with a frontage of 63,297 feet, costing $5,578,100. Lake View added 1*051, with a frontage of 23,518 feet, costing $2,350,100. The total fig­ ures for the city are as follows: New buildiags erected..' 11,608 Feet, frontage 268,284 Tota) eoel.. .047,322.100 Nin)i{»'r of shixls. 2.S57, at a cost Ot.. 22,5700 The largest previous building year Chi­ cago ever had was in 1889, when 4,931 buildings were erected, with a frontage at 419,573 feet at a cost of $25,065,500. AT Stronghurst, the generai-mer- ehandise store of Foot & Putney burned. Loss, $17,000; insurance, $10,000. S. B. CASH accidentally shot his wife at Rowcll. She may recover. GEO. METI.ES, aged 15, of St. l&lmo, while skating, broke through the ice and was drowned. NEW Knights of Pythias lodges are to be established at Chicago, Aledo, and Vermont soon. OTTO MIIXEK got crazy drunk at Lom­ bard and brutally beat his wife and baby. The neighbors got craiy mad over it and tried to hang him, but officers saved his worthless life. VETE^AXS of the Mcxiean war met at Springfield, and asked tho Legislature for a monument to llllolsans who fell in that war; also, that Congress raise the pensions of Mexican soldiers and their widows to an amount equal to.that drawn by pensioners of the war of the rebellion. CONDUCTORS and dispatchers os the Chicago and Erie struck, completely stopping traffic on the whole line. Two NEW-YORKERS each sue M. T. Scott, of Bloomington, for $40,000, com­ mission on a $500,000 sale of mining lands in Tonnessee, to an English syn­ dicate. FIRS at Hermosa destroyed the Stand­ ard Motor Works: loss, $80,000; Insur­ ance, $30,000. The Northwestern Ex­ panded Metal Company also lose $62,000, with insurance of $30,000. JAMES PATTERSON, of Chicago, was arrested in the act of firing his own res­ taurant AT Quincy, in 1886, Behrensmeyer con­ tested the election Of Ktreitz to the county treasurership. Kreitz- held tho office, and the contest has lust been de­ cided against him; but he doesn't care, for he is dead. Some think the county will have to pay Behrensmeyer the amount of the salary--$2,500. AN unknown party has shot at T. W. Todd, a Chicago real estate dealer, three times within two weeks, each time through the window of his library. JOHN SKEI.TON'S barn and contents burned at Lincoln; loss, $6,000. Incen­ diary. A caown of Greeks in Chicago as­ saulted and probably fatally injnrefl Lawrence Casey and Richard Caskens. The two men fired their revolvers indis­ criminately, when a squad of officers ar­ rived and the Greeks retreated into a house and barricaded the door. The officers forced the door, and it took ten minutes to conquer the Greeks, who fought like fiends. Eighteen wero club­ bed into submission. THREE toughs probably fatally injured Arthur Davidson, a Chicago contractor. THE Dickson Block at Peoria, one of the handsomest structures in the busi­ ness part of the city, was destroyed by fire. Damage to building and stocks, $150,000. The building was erected a year ago, and cost $50,000. It was in­ sured for $18,000. The buildings and stocks of tho Walker Hardware Company and Comstock, Avery & Co., located on either side o^ the burning building, were also damaged about $8,000. JOHN W. ROOT, consulting architect of tho World's Fair, died of pneumonia, at Chicago, aged 38. He designed and built the Rookery, the handsomest office building in the world. THE financial record of the State Board of Charities shows for three months that the average number of In­ mates in the twelve institutions under tho supervision of this board was 6,768. The gross cost of maintaining them was $303,846 and the cost to the State $291,- 407. The average cost of maintenance per capita was, gross, $44.89; net, $43.06. The distribution of inmates was as fol­ lows: Northern Insane Hospital, 563; Eastern Insane Hospital, 1,701; Central Insane Hospital, 913; Southern Insane Hospital, 609: Asylum for Insane Crim­ inals at Chester, 0; Institution for Deaf and Dumb, 503; Institution for the Blind, 185; Asylum for Feeble-Minded, 428; Soldiers' Orphans* Home, 429; Eye and Ear Infirmary* 131; State Reform School, 379; Soldiers and Sailors' Home, 927. MRS. A. V. JONES, of Chatham, wife of a farmer, was probably fatally burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. DETECTIVE CAMPION, of Chicago, shot a grocery thief in the shoulder, and cap­ tured him, when the thief bit off the officer's finger. Two WOLVES broke from their cage in a Chicago ghooting gallery and severely bit two men. LAST June Joseph Montag killed his wife in Chicago. He is sentenced to death by hanging. ARTHUB SKINNER, Albert Ott and John Connors, miners, wero terribly burned by an explosion of fire damp at Lincoln.. The mine was badly damaged. B. H. NIEHOFF, Cashier of the Ram­ say Bank atCarlyle, was quietly marrie'd to Miss Ida Rink. N -A Ok the 16th, after a session of ball minutes, the Senate adjourned tfllitbt 1 Among the bills introduced during tfeei slon was one by Senator Novell, ~ every inhabitant who shall kfl) an' sparrow a bounty of three cent*. House also held a short MWtoa. and amillty v the bill# there introduced wero the follow- ; ing: By Mr. Norsworthy--Fixing the maxf- " mum rate of interest at six per cent By ;« Mr. Scaife--To provide for; the examination of mine bosses and superintendent* of wtnes to protect the life and health ofthoaten. Bjr? Mr. Moore--A bill to confer the privilege at suffrage and to hold office in the cities, f towns and villages of this State upon ' i women. By Mr. Johnson--Providing that no sleeping-car company ahatt charge more , than for lower qr upper berths. §2 per f section, or 83 for state rooasa tor a period of twenty-four hours. By Mr. Morris--To : amend the present civil rights bill tar giv-' *«: ing justice court* jurisdiction in etvUsalta brought under that act. By Mr. Dearborn » of Kane--To authorize cities and vUlageil. to acquire, construct and maintain plants and gas plants. By Mr. Norsworthy--' '•> To revise the pharmacy law by granting * license of phaaraa&cy to all physicians hold--. Ing a certificate to practice. . - ' A MA.JOJWTT ot the Senators on both of the (ShamJber were present on the ipti* y Aa | when- tho preeldinz officer rapped for ordter^ , 5 s v The Qierk o# the House informed the 3enat% ' - j of the passage by the House of Scnate bHla * J V* A 4 1 &nd providing for the incidental ex­ penses of the General Assembly and tha care and custody of the State HOU£I to­ gether with the necessary expenses of tb© State government until the 1st of July aext. Senator Fuller moved an adjournment to ltt a. m. the following day, the session not ex­ ceeding fifteen minutes. The only thing done in the House was the consideration of a resolution offered by Representative Headen to amend the journal so fa* as It re­ lated to the defeated Harrison resolution of Mr. Wilk. The resolution provoked a great deal of acrimonious debate and a party dl- : ^ vision, but peace was finally obtained when f, 8peaker Crafts sujrsest<"d that the vote be "."S', verified in tho morning. The suggestion . was acquiesced in by both sides. OK the 80th, the opening gun of whati l|§ "i promises to be a memorable Senatorial con- • * ,r,; test was fired. In both houses Richard J. V " Oglesby was placed in nomination for United 4^ States Senator by the Republicans, an& John M. Palmer by the Democrats, while in 1 the House the F. M. B. A. members sou- - f.'f i inated A. J. Streeter, and the first ballot . * f was taken. The vote in the Senate was 27 J for Oglesby, 24 for Palmer; in the House. ; % " j 73 for Oglesby, 77 for Palmer. 3 for Streeter.. No joint ballot was taken. Interest in the event is intense, spectators filling all avail-<, - ,5 '.Jj able space. The houses will meet in Joint ? ^ < \ session on the 21st, at noon. Several blue ; '; of importance were introduced in the- - House. At a conference between leaden <wT the two parties, it was decided to drop all election contests, Representative WatwaT Introduced a resolution declaring It to fa*1- the sense of the House that United State* Senators should be elected by direct vote of i. the people, and calling upon Congr»Bme*I' , from this State to urge it at Washington. » "u . f The resolution was adopted, the Republi- ' tV«r„ cans voting no. ft •' THE morning of the 21st was oonsumod "'I *, by both houses in attending to routine boat- ' ."S i ness. Bills were presented in the House to-,/; provide for payment, of taxes in two equal . "i| Installments; to make it unlawful for eoo- tractors to agree not to bid for public works; •' and to compel brewers to stamp .».!! > ages with the name of contents. A resolu- . tion was adopted expressing thanks to all /.•~y' States and Territories for co-operation Sit. making exhibits at the World's Fair; nn& • * another was introduced calling for iavestl-» " gation of charges of cruelty at the Anna ' " ' Insane Asylum, but action cn this was de- layed by the arrival of the hour fee thflf1 , * "i joint session. Promptly at noon the two *;* houses met in joint session, and three aepa- , ,) rate times in dreary monotony 204 Senator* ' and Representatives announced theirchoic* for United States Senator, with the sane result--101 for Palmer, 100 for Ogieaiby, % "v>. for Streeter. Adjournment of the joint ̂ ̂ p session was then had. It Is reported thai the F. M. B. A. members favor the jjmjXW • V,- i M of routine business regardless of the Sena-- 'If, torial contest, but every indication augni* a long and stubborn fight. » . ;jp IN the House, on the 22d, the Anna A«y- lum investigation was referred to the Oom-s mittee on Public Charities. Of bills intra*' duced these are the most important: ¥*" compel all railroads to equip freight car*,' with air brake and automatic coupler; tO> ^ > make all substitutes for butter and chain* • of a distinguishing color; to reduce the nan*- " ber of Inhabitants necessary to incorporate IT. a village to 200: to prohibit railK»d»t(oaa^f-"4%-^ issuing passes to any officer elected by the'. people; to regulate rental of telephones; to ! i compel mine examiners to mark plainly tt-.V iv ^ each room of a mine the date of his last in- . •*•'*. •; spection; to permit miners in any mine to. „ employ a check weiglunan at their own ex-»,, ^ . pense. In the Senate bills were inttodao*4< H to govern life insurance agents; to permit ' change of the pauper support system; to reduce pay of official stenographers on*t • >;' third; to repeal poll-tax laws; to exempt > ? discharged U. S. soldiers from road wortu* -V- • ** In executive session the Senate confirmed appointments heretofore made by the Gov- •, , osMioi, ol ruiltiiiiiMji Cwininl*iHMiMir'"~Vf; member of State Board of Health, public guardians, public administrators, audi " member of State Board of Education. joint session but one vote was taken for^ Senator, but former results were * - =============--- Was Decalvad. ^ "I have been deceived in Chat fellow J"' Dettleson you introduced me to ike : other day," said Biggie, speaking friend. "At first I was much ink*. 'V ri pressed with him, but I have fomft 4;rf * that my confidence was not well placed.* "What has he done to merit a re­ versal of your opinion?" "Oh, nothing, only I have lost coaft> dence in him." "Yes, but he must have done some­ thing." - ^ "Or, perhaps it would be more Vi 1 propriate to say that he failed to do - something." Yes, we might say that; and did, he?" Well, 111 tell yon just how it was: When you first introduced him he > . * V. " right. The next day I met him in tho ^ street, and after shaking hands ho said that it was about time to take a.' drink. So it was and we took it. if **"•£ Three days later I met him again, and^fe;'" 4: again he asked me to drink. Well, it *• w went on this way until I felt sure of a, V, ^ drink every time I saw him. I could ' ^ : absolutely couut on liim, but I die-t'"" covered my error this morning. I >- him on the corner and shook hands - ,s with him in a most cordial manner and ? ^ then waited and waited for him to something, but he didn't say a word. J ^ j I'I thought that I would aid his mem- -K ory, and spoke of the fine mint toddies A; made by a fellow across the street, . he Maid "nothing. Then I knew that I % j had been fooled in him, that the confi- <Vv* • THE United Mine Workers of America ! dence that I had reposed in him had o«_i been misplaced. It takes some time Josh BlUlngs* ReMlntloOti ' If a lovely woman smaks me on one cheek i will turn her the other also. I will try to be honest, but it will be just my darn luck tew miss it. I wont bet on nothing, for thing's that require betting on lak something. I will respekt public opinyun just ez long az i kan respekt myself in doing It. * When i hear a man bragging on his ancestors i wont envy him, but i will pity the ancestors. It iz just az natural tew be born rich az poor, but iz seldom so convenient. I wont hanker for happiness, but if i see any thet i think iz a bargain i will shut up one eye and go for it. I wont advise enny body until i kno the kind of advice they are anxious tew follow. I wont wear eany more tight boots if I hey tew go bare foot tew do ML : at Springfield passed resolutions calling for radical changes in laws governing the working of mines. C. E. GOULD, alias L. S. Loring, an alleged Louisiana lottery agent, was ar­ rested at Chicago; proof said to be con­ clusive. It is a penitentiary offense. His operations were extensive. "GITTY" SMITH, of Chicago, stole Ma­ mie Richburg's purse, with $50, in broad daylight; captured, after a clubbing. DB. HEXKY OLIX, noted aurist and oc­ ulist, of Chicago, is dead.' ILLINOIS shorthorn breeders will make a big display at the World's Fair. MBS. TODP, wife of a business man at Lyons, N. Y., returning home from a visit at Chicago on a Lake Shore train, gave birth to a boy. Miss MAI D BENXETHAM, aged 17, apd Frank R. Ziders, a veteran, aged 46, died at Freeport ELI.SWOBTH BITKCHAV brained John Belcher with a billiard cue at Brooklyn. '.V to find a man out; and this thing of forming a good opinion of a man with­ out having studied him and discovered his weak paints ia not in keeping with a man of the world."--JrkansGM* Traveler. Manners ot Men. "J. ' The agreeable people in society * j|jL ^ the disagreeable people at home. Put one bad man among seven good , ^ ^ < men, and at the end of a month yon ^ have one good man amoug seven bad , r ' ones. ,JL man with his pleasure* is T**y J* , ' much like a small boy with Ms jam; *- J he spreads it so thick on the first slice ' ^ that the last slice is left without any. v 'S There are two worries that IMr mm J I escape: I. What he will do wHkUi . boys. 2. What his boys will ^ ^ him. \ '%v In talking of his past, a man must < 'fe either defend it by calling hjiatelf n THE co-operative store which the F. j fool to-day, or he must defend hf M. B. A. intended to start at Alton is a to-day by admitting that he was fuitnva * k. iailuro. * SL*. ' * >..V_ ,.V »