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•AMERICA'S DUTY AND OLOWV 18 PROTECTION. -> .ft- <" let Shot fbr IM-Clal* LUn-lM C land r^tuww of th« Tart flT--Uio tie Democratic Dttnl About ^•Arm, "f/ * . mm tha Tln-Hata 14**. *#>.v J: Only two or three of the out and out free trade organs In this country still Cling to the assertion that no tin plate is tMi«g manufactured or can be manu­ factured in thia country. Hardware, in the current week, contains Information •on this subjec t, and is a reputable and re- Sponsible authority. The Evening Post recently challenged It* announcement 4hat Taylor & Co., of Philadelphia, were ready to offer roofing tin of their own ^manufacture in place of brands they ^formerly imported, and quoted an -anonymous witness as proof that Hard­ ware was wrong. That journal now ^produces a letter from Taylor & Co. backing up the original statement, and •adds its editorial comments that it has a letter from its staff correspondent too late for publication, but equally corrob- . - - - • • orative. Thus another tin-plate lie is : gained run down. More significant, however, than the establishment of this Philadelphia tin- plate works, or rtmors of the establish­ ment of others, is the careful report in -j Hardware of the proceedings of an in- ' formal meeting of tin-plate manufact­ urers held in this city on April 29. The Prestt contained a report of this gather­ ing on April 30, and wb have repeatedly referred to it as the completest possib'e answer yet made to f the free trade lies About tin plate. As a trade paper Hard­ ware gives some particulars which were not brought out In the daily newspapers. Members of twelve large firms or organ­ izations participated in the meeting, and this is a summary from Hardware of < their expressions: - . "Each firm represented stated that it iras making tin plate at present or was ilttaking preparations to do so, and would make tin plate whether or not any other firms did sa The works in operation or about to be operated, it was stated, would have a combined capacity of 60,00 J net tons of tin plate and terne plate per year. In view of the fact, however, that it will be nccessary to increase the annual production to at least 10),000 tons before the expiration of five years from July 1 next, in order that the rate of duty provided by the McKSnley bill may be retained, those present at the meeting felt that steps should be taken to secure the co-operation of other manu­ facturers, and it is mainly for this pur­ pose that the committee named above was appointed. The general opinion was that every indication pointed to the production of 100,00!) tons annually long before the limit of the time named in the •lew tariff law." This is evidence from the most prac­ tical of all sources, furnished through an unbiased, non-political trade paper, that the tin-plate industry is already established in the United States, and that it is here to stay.--New York JPretw. torn#* and Ohio, and by tin •asthiajorlty of tiM Democratic press of thia region. All over tin country, East, West and South, the Democracy champions what is called free trade. These are all the actual fighting provisions in the Cincinnati declaration of principles, and on all of them the Democracy and the Peopfc's party occupy practically the sam& ground. The free trade, free s lver and income tax notions will be engrafted in the Democratic national platform of 1893. If the question of the mainten­ ance of the national banking system comes up in Congress the majority of the Democrats will be found against the banks. The sub-treasury and land cur­ rency planks of the People's platform are not referred to here because the Democracy has not had an opportunity yet to declare Itself formally on these issues < As there is substantial harmony be­ tween the People's party and the Dem­ ocracy on almost every issue of practical politics, what is the use of creating any People s party at all? The Democracy aims at the same ends, and has the ex­ perience, ability, and prestige to gain Moreover, it has a discipline and coherency which the People's party can never reasonably hope to attain. The expenditure of energy which the latter will have7 to make to render its influence effective in any filiate or county would bring better remits if it was made within Democratic hues. Nine out of every ten of the men who were conspicuous at Cincinnati have acted with the Democracy recently. If not always. All of them are Democrats at heart. What, then, do the leaders of the new party seek to accomplish? Their aim is to unite all the disaffected ele­ ments in the country, and with the show of strength thus made to inveigle a suf­ ficient number of Republican farmers over to them with the agricultural prod­ uct warehouse and land currency baits to give a few of the Western States to the Democrats. This is the game which the Peffers, the Donriellys, and the Simp­ sons are playing. The South knows the dodge, and while the agitators of that section support it the voters will stick to the Democratic ticket Republicans of the farming communities will not be deluded with such devices as these into to the | United'States tt'wa* t?> become Secreta­ ry of State under Washington, and to become a party to intrigues against the administration. The foundations of the anti-Federalist party were laid while he was out of the country, and he only followed the lead of others. When .Jefferson became President, his anti-Federalist ideas were thrown to the wind. Nothing less Jeffersonian than his administration could well be imag­ ined. He went much further .than Washington had done in the exercise of executive or Federal power. His pur­ chase of Louisiana was as flagrant a violation of the Constitation as the secret purchase of Cuba by President Harrison would be. Jefferson did not found either the antl- Federalist or the Democratic party. The first was founded before he became con­ nected with the Government, and the latter after he died. He did not found anything. As a' political theorirer and litH-.trinrilre he had some good ideas, along with some bad ones, imported from France, but he was not a constructive statesman. He was, however, the father *4 a^kJkation.--1 ndicmapoliS yJ^rjuiL "ft" • TmrM Plenum*. NO. i. s," M • Great Britain's siporU of oarpeta to tfcs United States far the ftrst tauter of tbla year •33S.700. •410,600 as against any of the traps which their enemie# setting for them.--Globe-Democrat. 7* in the first quarter of 1890, But bow do we know that we are making more carpets ? Well, one proof of it is that during the little month of February, in the middle of the Quarter in question, our import* of wools of the third elass (mostly carpet wools) were 0,874,334 lbs.. '96 Mr. Cleveland at Buffiilo. - After a great deal of coaxing and a great many assurances that the Maria Halpin unpleasantness in his life at Buf­ falo would not be referred to by the papers of that city, Grover Cleveland ventured back to the city Of lunch coun­ ters and bull pups "for a fiver," to de­ liver a speech before a Democratic club. ^Fhe speech showed the impress of his surroundings, and was timid in its utter­ ances. There was none of the old-time boldness in the speech, and thrasonically It was less than the previous utterances of the stuffed prophet. • • The unprecedented popular success of the tariff law has evident y dampened flie ardor of the great tariff reformer, lb a speech that occupied nearly half an %our in delivery we find only distant al­ lusions to the industrial system that in the opinion of Mr. Cleveland, no more &an a month ago, was responsible for all the ails and ills of humanity. Com­ pelled to drop the tariff in obedience to popular approval of the McKinley law, Mr. Cleveland resorted to a promiscuous Abuse of what he termed public extrava­ gance. He seems to have suddenly dis­ covered that the people are faring badly because of the-extravagance of the last Congress. After heaping a great deal of abuse upon the party which he charges With the responsibility of heedless and Heedless expenditure of public moneys, he calls for a vigorous "Campaign of Education" for the benefit of "the tasses," "who are not dishonest, but only leedless. * But better than all this general abuse Would have been specific charges on the |iart of Mr. Cleveland. If the Republican party has been extravagant he ought to have stated wherein this extravagance «xisted. He did cite the increase in pen- •lons; but for pension expenditures the Democratic party is wholly responsible, for had it not been for that party there Would have been no war and no old sol­ diers to b3 supported by the Govern­ ment. Mr. Cleveland's references to qther extravagances, river and harbor *n4 shipping expenditures, were so in­ definite that one is led to believe that «ven in the opinion of the ex-President •these appropriations are really justi­ fiable. Afraid to combat popular ap­ proval of the tariff law, Mr. Cleveland sorted to the demagogue's cry of the illion Congress, for want of anything else to carp about The Tin-Plate Industry and Its Enemies. The free-trade papers continue their efforts to persuade themselves and their readers that the manufacture of tin plates will not be established here un­ der the new tariff. At first they con­ fidently asserted that no one ever thought of investing a dollar in the in­ dustry in this country. Forced to re­ cede fro:n this position, they still kept up their absurd policy of denying the existence of definitely located plans. As these began to multiply and American tin plates began to appear, they again shiftecP" their ground and turned to ridiculing the new American prod­ uct. They said at first that tin plates would not be made at all. Actually confronted with the shining sheets, they challenged the manufac­ turer to produce 100 boxes a day, a physical impossibility then ?o soon after the enactment of the new tariff. But in llue time the hundred boxes appeared, #nd, behold! your free trader dared the ^Manufacturer to turn out 1.000 boxes a .iay. This is the point at which he has jbow arrived. f?•; The progress of the new industry will, V ' s iaoon drive him from this position also. takes time to establish great tin-plate ^plants. and the new law has been in- #ured to our manufacturers only seven ^ j -4 , ^months The Increased duty on tin teV-.* i, Ijlates does not go into effect till next J^Tuiy. Protectionists can well afford to wait. The "tin-plate liars" will suffer 'ihe fate of the McKinley prices liars, all in due time.--Economist. What Is the 2few Party Hare Ftorf On every question on which there is an *ctual division between the Republican *|tnd Democratic organizations, the Peo- 1 lie's party stands with the Democrats. . he proposition in the Cincinnati plat­ form that national banks be abolished d that an unlimited issue of legal- nder Government notes take the place the bank currency, has often been in­ dorsed by Democratic Conventions fn ij of the Southern States.- In the <eet«Mi Seat* are si- •M&, * . • ;•*' The Basis of Free Trade. * ' * Free trade is based essentially on the idea, expressed or implied, that in trad­ ing with other nations we can cheat them in the trade--that in exchanging with foreigner^ we can seoure an ad­ vantage over them, that in return for the products of one day's work of ours we can get the product of a day and a half of theirs. This is a delusive hope. With free­ dom of trade, equalization would soon take place. All the wealth we can have is what we produce, or its equivalent. In obta'ning the equivalent let us obtain it of our own people. Thus, to tlje ex­ tent that we are consumers of the things they make, we shall give them employ­ ment; and, in return, to the extent that they are consumers of the things we make will they give us employment, thereby insuring an equilibrium in our industries, developing at home skillful artisans in everv branch of industry and dotting the country over with manu­ facturing establishments. Free trade would banish those estab­ lishments and would exchange skilled mechanics for cheap doorknobs or cheap cutlery. It would reject the knowledge of useful arts in order to save for the moment a few cents a yard on woolen cloth or cotton ties or a few cents a pound on tin plates. Protection secures the arts and protects the artists. It transforms ignorance into knowledge, Indifference int ) zeal, inertia into activi­ ty, impotence into power. Free trade is based essentially on the idea of landed aristocracy--on the idea that the land of the country is the prop­ erty, not of independent farmers owning and working their own land but of allo­ dial lords owning practically the com­ munity in which they live. It has its foundation in that form of social devel­ opment of which slavery was a type, which takes no thought of the man who works with his hands. It implies that, as in Europe, there shall eventually be in this country no proprietary farms, but that a few groat proprietors who disdain work shall monopolize the land It implies that when a few barons shall hold in large tracts the land of the coun­ try they, as lords of the soil, can ordain that what they call "their" country shall forever remain in the primitive occupa­ tion of agriculture These baronial owners can say to all comers: "We own all this land; this country is ours; you can starve unless you accept work on our terms. We do not wish you have a variety of occupa­ tions. We do not wish you to aspire. What have you to do with aspiration? We can buy all the manufactured goods we want from the cheap labor of Europe or Asia. If you open stores or set up workshops you must compete with the cheapness of Europe and the squalor of the Hindoos and Chinese; you are en­ titled to no protection as against them. They have as good a right to sell their wares here as you have." But in the same breath the landed proprietor will add, "Of course you people are expected to shoulder your gnns and with your lives defend and protect us and our property in case those same Europeans or Chinese invade the country and en­ danger our ownership of this property." As to Thomas Joflorsan. The platform adopted by the Demo­ cratic convention of Kentucky speaks of the party "as founded by Jefferson This is a time-honored fiction of the Democracy, and they have repeated it so often that they perhaps think It true. Or, more likely, they repeat it without knowing whether it is true or not, for the average Democrat knows precious little about Thomas Jefferson or the his­ tory of his party. No party was ever founded by one man. No one man founded the Demo­ cratic party any more than Abraham Lincoln, or William H. Seward, or Sal mon P. Chase, or Charles Sumner, or any one of a thousand others founded the Republican party. No political party was ever .formed without the co­ operation of many leaders, aided by the still more Important co-operation of the people. Jefferson did not call himself a Demo­ crat. Ho started out as an anti-Fed eralist, and it was as such that he lent himself to the intrigues against Wash­ ington's administration, of which he was a member. When the anti-administra tion factions which he fomented came together, he suggested the name of Democratic-Republican party, but only the second part of the name was adopted. During Jefferson's time the term Demo­ crat was one of derision. It was not adopted as a party name until long after he had ceased to be President. He was elected President as a Republican. • Jefferson was not even the founder of the anti-Federalist party. Other men had a much greater part in that work than he. Jefferson was not in the United States during the formative period of constitutional parties. He was not here when the Constitution was framed and adopted, nor when the new government went into operation. He resided in France from 1784 until March, 1790, eleven months after the new gov­ ernment went into operation. It-was. la franca, during that revalnttoaary pe- whereapla February, 1890, they were only 4,314,054 lb*. and «bf«, tee; In Spite offnereased duty. NO. 2. Our exports of American manufactured prod- nets are inon***** steadily under the MeKicley tariff. In March, 1830, we exported these prod­ ucts to the value of •11,030,37a In March, fe91, oar exports of manufactures •14.7S6.S17. NO. 3. Orwrt Britain Is not selling bo mnefc worsted goods to ns this year as last. During the first <iu«t«r of 1890 she exported to the United StAtes •ie,»54,30O, and dnring the first quarter of 1891 only •7,336,300. ChargB It to the McKinley bill Price or Binding: Twine. A correspondent writes as follows: "Binding twine is lower than ever be­ fore. The McKinley bill reduced the duty on it. The argument used in the case of the reduction in the case of sugar does not hold here. Please ex­ plain." It seems to us that the reduction in the price of binding twine can be ex­ plained by the reasoning applicable to the case of sugar. We produce sugar in this country in the same sense that we produce binding twino. The raw ma­ terials for both--fibers and raw sugar- were dutiable under the old law, al­ though in each case only part of our consumption of the raw material was grown at home. The duties on them constituted, therefore, a revenue tariff. The McKinley bill abolished these revenue duties, which aro always taxes, on tho raw material and reduced the duty on the finished products, refined sugar and binding twine, thus reducing the price to the consumers. For remem­ ber that refined sugar still bears a duty just as binding twine does. The reduc­ tions In the duties on fibers will be In­ dicated by the following table: Old law. Sunn and Bisal grass, per ton.. #15 Manila, per ton 25 Iatle or Tanipico fiber, per ton. 15 These fibers are largely used in the manufacture of the twine, and the re­ moval of the duty on them should oper­ ate just as making raw sugar free has operated. As a matter of fact nearly all twines have shown a tendency to decline in price since the passage of the bill.-' American EconomM,. New law. Free Free Free Bobbe l Both Peter sad PssL In discussing the present condition of national finances a Democratic paper of wide circulation says: "Let us not for­ get that Mr. Cleveland left one hundred milli3n dollars in the Treasury." Like­ wise let us not forget that Mr. Cleveland left a legacy of debt incurred by Demo­ cratic legislation, or failure to legislate, which demanded nearly all this hundred million dollars for their payment. Mr. Cleveland's administration robbed both Peter and Paul to make a false showing oft large surplus. PSStAtl*. 4 PAST TRAIN ADRIANOPLE. MS? Taught by an busst. It has been said that the operations of the spider suggested the arts of spinning and weaving to man. That may be doubtful, but it is quite cer­ tain that to a hint from an insect was due the invention of a machine instru­ mental in accomplishing one of the most stupendous works of modern times--the excavation of the Thames tunnel. Mark Isambard Brunei, the great engineer, was standing one day about three-quarters of a century ago in a ship yard watching the movements of an auimal known as the terredo navales --in English, the naval wood worm-- when a brilliant thought suddenly oc­ curred to him, says the New York Weekly. He saw that this creature bored its way into the piece of wood upon which it was operating by means of a very extraordinary mechan­ ical apparatus. Looking at the ani­ mal attentively through a microscope he found that it was covered in front with a pair of valvular shells; that, with its foot as a purchase, it oom- municated a rotary motion and a for­ ward impulse to the valves, which, act­ ing upon the wood like a gimlet, pene­ trated its substance, and that, as the particles of wood were loosened, they passed through a fissure in the foot and thence through the body of the borer to its mouth, where they were ©XptiUcde "Here," said Brunei, to himself,|"ia the sort of thing I want. Can I re­ produce it in an artificial form?" He forthwith set to work, and the final re­ sult of his labors, after many failures, was the famous boring shield, with which the Thames tunnel was exca­ vated. This story was told by Brunei him­ self, and there is no reason to doubt its truth. The keen observer can draw useful lessons from the humblest of the works of God. Thk Charleston Newt and Courier says that if the Democrats have a man in the North who is as well qualified for the Speakership as those in the South he should be chosen by the Democratic House, as Republicans will make polit­ ical capital out of a Southern Speaker. This is nonsense; It Is what the Demo cratic party far Congress I&, rather than whera-itconss'from and hss been, that causes the Republicans to assail it, i J.~\.* s Several Gsmss S8«l KnfrU»h TosrUts • aptorod and Held fbr Ransom--The Price for the Bslssai or tho Prisoners Placed at MMMO-A Dsriai Pleeo of Work. t A party of brigands near Tchereskal placed obstructions across the railroad track and succeeded in derailing the Eastern express, says a telegram frori Constantinople. When they had thus brought the train to a standstill they found that there were several German and English tourists among the passen­ gers. One of them was a banker of Berlin. The brigands have demanded §40,000 as ransom for the captives, and Chancellor von Caprivl has telegraphed to IIerr von Radowitx, the German Am­ bassador there, authorizing him to ad­ vance this amount. The remaining pas­ sengers were despoiled of their belong­ ings and were then left alone. > The place where the act of brigandage occurred lies between this city and Adrlanoole. The band which made the Sattack on the train numbered thirty men, led by the noted robber Anastasius. •The brigands first seized the watchmau on duty at the railroad station, and when they had prevented him from giv­ ing an alarm they set to work and tore up the rails for some distance. They set no warning signal for the engineer of the train, but allowed the cars to dash on to possible destruction. When the Eastern express reached the spot the engine tumbled over on its side, dragging with it the tender, a baggage car, and all the third-class passenger craches. The first-class passenger cars luckily did not follow the rest of the train, but re­ mained safely on the road. When the train was thus disabled the brigands rushed forward, uttering loud yells and brandishing their gnns in a most threatening manner and boardea tho cars. Several of the passengers re­ sisted the attack, bift' the brigands replied with a volley from their guns and dangerously wounded one of tho men who sought to repulse them. Tho outlaws finally overcame tto occupants of the cars and proceeded to plunder them, stripping the travelers of all their valuables and looting their baggage. When the brigands ended their work of robbery they seized four of the passen gers In the first-class cars and also the engineer of the train and then started with their captives for their rendezvous in the mountains. The men carried away by the outlaws were: Cscar Greger, Herr Israel, a banker of Berlin; Herr Maquel, a land­ owner of SiegeIstlorf, Bavaria; Oscar Kotyseh of Zorbig, Prussian Saxony, and Freundiger, the engineer of the eastern express. Upon reaching their retreat the ban dits sent Herr Israel to get the ransom of $40,000 which they demanded for the release of the prisoners.' Herr von Rodowitx says the Porte will refund this money. UNCLE SAM'S DEBTS. A Mot lnorM'o of •683.015 Shown by tho Statement for May. The following is a recapitulation of the latest public-debt statement as Is­ sued by the Treasury Department: IXTF.KRST-BKABINCi DKBT. Bonds at 4>v per oent 9 50,8GB,200 Bonds at 4 per cent. 659,565,300 Betunding certificates at 4 per oent. 94,130 Legal Old di Aggregate of interest-bearing fltebt exclusive of U. 8. bonds issued to Pacific railroads •eic^»4» Debt on which interest has ceascd since niaturit.y 1.647,508 PENT BEARUtQ Mo INTRKBST. il-tender notes :.... «S4C,681.018 demand notes 86,033 National bank notes-- Redemption account (deposited in: Treasury under act of July 14, : 1*80) . Fractional currency, les8 $8,375,931 ejftiimated as lost or destroyed.... Aggregate of debt beoiriagAo In. terent, including' national it !>ank fnnd deposited in the ' fi'reaeujir under act of Ju.'y 14, MO THE GENERAL OUTLOOK EX­ CEPTIONALLY BRIGHT. FrospcMfna Condition or Financial Affairs In A marica--Labor Disturbances Inilf- •Meant-Good Reports of Oraln Crops trom tho Principal Agricultural Sections. From one end of the country to the other business is reasonably active, and the general outlook Is exceptionally bright The month of May is always richer In prospects than in results, how­ ever, and this year it has not violated the time-honored rule, says the Inter Ocean* In a negative way a good deal of ground has been gained. The usual labor disturbances have proven remark­ ably insignificant outside the iron regions of Pennsylvania, and even there final mttlement has happily been reached. The enemies of the grain crops have not carried on their ordinary work of devastation In the principal agricultural sections, and the Euronean consuming markets have not spent a very great amount of money or energy In depressing the prices for our prod- uco. Then, again, the United States has sent nearly $3O,O0O,OC()r In gold to Great Brit­ ain and Europe during the past month without causing the slightest semblance of financial distress in this country. When resumption occurred tho Treasury held $114,000,000 in gold, besides that held for certificates outstanding, and that was all the gold apparent in the country; now there is about $214,€00,000 in the Treasury, and about §400,000,000 in circulation in the country, or was May 1. Russia's seemingly insatiable de­ mands for the yellow metal are yet quite Inexplicable to financiers on this side of the Atlantic, and no satisfactory excuse for their continuence has been made by foreign bankers. This enormous gold ex­ port from New York has had a strongly conservative influence upon both the speculative and legitimate interests, and served to keep loanable funds fairly well employed at profitable rates of in­ terest. But the chief end of this peculiar con­ dition of financial affairs will be one of great profit to America. It will demon­ strate to the world at large that the United States is a nation of immense monetary resources, as well fcs a land of unparallelled powers of production. The apparent ease with whi ^h our markets have absorbed the tens of millions of American securities that foreign holders have returned us since last autumn has given them a higher place in the estima­ tion of investors abroad than whole de­ cades of wise and honest administration and any amount of handsome interest- bearing operations would do. Last November the great Bank of England was forced to call upon the leading financial institution of the most prominent republic of Europa to re­ lieve its pecuniary distresses and In order to avert a world-wide panic. For more than a month now the proud old monarchies of Great Britain and Europe have sought monetary aid and support from the most prosperous republic of the •New World." There are in these two statements a decidedly slgnificent Bug gestion to the subjects of kings and princes, and one not unworthy of con­ sideration by some of our own dissatis­ fied people. rfEIKS GATHERED FROM VARI-, O08 SOURCES. What Onr Neighbors Aro Doing--Matters of General and toesl Interost -- Mar- riags* and Deaths--Accidents aad Crimea --Personal Pointers. Dispatciiks from various points in the State show that the results of the elec­ tion for Cirvuit Judges are as follows: nnsT DISTRICT. O. A. Barker .........Hep. James P. Roberts Rep. A.K. Vlokers Bep. axcoxD DismicT. 8. Z, Londes ..,j.......rvem. C. C. Boggft .Wt.'...Dem. C. D. Young blood Dem. THIJU> DXSTBICT. . George W. Wall • •a*e«oeo*«&*e.; .'.Dem, Benjamin R. Burroughs Dem. A_ a Wilderman ......Dem. POCRTa DI6THCT. Edward P. Vail .......»....i...Bep. Ferdinand Hook waiter ^........Bep, Frank Wright - Bep. VIFTH DlsraCT. Jesse L. PhllHps ..i.Dem. James Creightin..., D«m. Jacob Fouke ;....i...l>ein. t-iXTH DiamicT. O. P. Bonney ,.Dem. C. J. be ho field .........Dem. Jefferson Ore Dem. B*v*!cnr MSTaiCT. 'RUN DOWN, OF COURSE." iposlts of legal-tea- Certttca'oa issued ou deposits of gold and silver col . der notes: Gold certificates /. [Silver certificates. Currency certificates Treasury notes o! 1890 $309,649,601 158,003,143 815,651,1®! 18,060,000 «,677,847 Aggregate of certificates offret by cash in the Treasury $538,190,619 Aggregate of debt, including oertifl- .$1,546,213,875 eaten. May si, 18H1 decrease of bonded month 8,900,188 CAHB IN TaXASCBT BESKIiVKD FOB THE FOLLOW­ ING PCBPOSKS. For redemption of United States notes, acts of Jan. 14, 1875, and July 17,1882 $100,000,(100 For redemption of gold certificates issned . .. 158,903,149 For redemption of sliver oertifleates issued..... 815,551,153 For redemption of currency oertifl­ eates issued.....^. 18,000,000 For redemption of Treasury notes, act Jnly 14, 1W0. 45,677,345 For matured debt, accrued interest, and Interest doe and unpaid 5,165,897 $648,356,048 Total cash rjserved for above purposes AVAILABLE FOB OTHKft PURPOSXS. Fractional silver, fractional cur­ rency, and minor coin not full le­ gal tender. •*3,37t,119 Net cash balance, including $54,907,- 975, national bank fund de­ posited in the Treasury under act of July 14, 1690. Total Debt, less casn in the Treasury May SI, 1891 Debt, less cash in the Trsasury, April SO, 1801 $697,077,906 849,188,508 848,515.538 Met increase dnring the month $632,915 THE FATAL PATIEHf. Ptrango Fatality That Follows tho Treat­ ment of a Woman at Oss of tho Hi s- pltals. A remarkable series of fatalities has followed the treatment of a woman suf­ fering from eatarrn by the physicians of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, says a special from New York. Upon three different occasions this woman has placed herself under care of physi­ cians at the hospital. She is known as "the fatal patient." It was a couple of years ago when she first called at the hospital. Cabinet D, where nose and throat diseases are treated, was at that time under the charge of Dr Johnson, who died almost immediately after treating her. The next occupant of Cabinet D was Dr. Pond. She called on him a few months later, and Dr. Pond's death quickly ensued. For a year and a half she kept a^ay from the Eye and Ear Hospital, but-she called last Wednesday. She was again referred to Cabinet D, where Dr. David Phillips had succeeded Dr. Pond. Dr. Phillips, who was about 38 years old, had won the golden opinions of his associ­ ates as a nose and throat specialist and was regarded as an excellent general physician. After seeing tho "fatal pa­ tient" for the first time Wednesday he did not get up at his home the next morning, and when members of his fam­ ily entered the room he was dead. ' Dr. M- D. Lederman, who has taken Dr« Phillips' place in Cabinet D at the hospital, says that he will never attempt to treat the "fatal patient" It Is Said That Mosby talks, bnt It often goes without saying. Figttbes can't lie, bat liars can figure, all the sama Ismbasob of the law excuses no one, except the lawyer. Whm you laugh at yo$nr owa Jokes no one else laughs with yoo. Mysterious Csmo of the Schooner Thomas Hume. The disappearance of the schooner Thomas Hume, from Muskegon, Mich., to Chicaso, lumber laden, is one of those unfathomable mysteries of the Great Lakes which have in years past dark­ ened the lives of hundreds ot the kin­ dred of those who have disappeared Not certain that death has claimed the husband or father, wives and children Jb®oiutelc'ing v&inly' year year, to tho hope ^.hat some time the loved one will return |o his home. Captain Lee, of Chicago, who is conducting a search for the missing boat, when asked his opinion of the fate of the vessel, said: "Collision--rundown, of courso, just as the W. C. Kimball was run down. If she capsized she wouldn't sink, and I don't believe that stanch, stiff vessel ever capsized. Some steamer ran her down. People say no captain would be heartless enough to leave a crow after running their \essel down. Pshaw! I have sailed these lakes forty years, and I know of several such cases. The line schooner Magellan was one of them. If the officers of some steamers see a b'g loss to pay for, you bet they keep mum." For days the reporters have been endeavoring to learn the names of the crew, but to no purp se. The Hume, like all other vessels, kept a book on b^ard. That book Is lost with her, and no list of the crew was left ashore. The owners of the Hume can give only the name of the master--Capt. Albrightson. Even the Seamen's Union has no list of the crew. It was ascer­ tained to a certainty that the mate was Olof Johnson, but the names of the other five seamen have not been learned. Johnson was 25 years old and was a single man. His brother and sister live in Chicago and his parents In Europe. Capt Henry Albrightson leaves a widow and six children in Chicago. Vessel-owners gen­ erally urge that Congress should pass a law making it compulsory for masters to leave a list of the crew ashore each time they go out It is a matter that the masters must attend to themselves, as they often pick up crews a few hours be­ fore they leave port. Those men on the Ilume shipped in Chicago, but as their names are not known it is of course im­ possible to say at what ports their fami­ lies reside. • Wander In* Holr. A private letter from Vienna says that Count Stephen Karolyi, one of the most powerful and wealthy members of the old Hungarian aristocracy, has just re- turnea there from the United States without having succeeded in his mission. Tho object of this journey across the Atlantic was to recover his son, the young Count George, who landed in Boston accompanied by an actress named Bariska Frank, the star of one of the fourth-rate theaters of Buda Pesth. According to the statements of the old Count, the woman forms part of a gang of Vienna usurers, whose sole object is to exploit the family of the young man. The latter has been in their power for more than a year, and it was only when, toward the end of last summer, he was on the point of making a full confessloo to his father of his troubles and of ap­ pealing to him to save "him from their clutchos, that the gang, fearing to lose their prey, causing Bariska to induce him to eiope with her to America. In February the Count received the news that his son had married the ac­ tress, and he immediately set ojit for the United States. On reaching New York he began a search for his son, visiting Boston, Philadelphia, Washington. Chi­ cago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Atlanta and New Orleans. At the latter place all traces of the couple were lost. The Count accordingly returned to Vienna. The object of the gang in keeping father and son apart will be easily appreciated when It is stated that the young Count is an only son and legally entitled on the death of his father to at least one-half of the latter's vast fortune. According to the Hungarian laws he cannot be dls- irlted. and Is, therefore, being per- to discount his future Inheritanf* ralnons rate by the gang. vtl bUB X. Inherit* tSti 'i Lyman lacy George W. Hi erdman ..f.,....Dem. i . . . . . Cyrus Epler Bia&T« dwinter, DanF. Baum ...,.i'.>..Rep. Judge Shaw. Dem. Judge Green l>eut. SIXTH DIS1HICT, Dorrence Pibell Uep. W. Stipp ..iw.-Bep. Charles Blanchard .. Hep. TKNTH DISTRICT. George W. Pleasants .Bep. Arthur A. Smith Rep. John J. Glenn i.. .. Rep. ELEVENTH D1STBICT. ' 8. A. Sample Bep. Charles B. Starr .....Hep. Thomas F. Tipton .Bep. TWIbVTH DISTRICT. Charles Kelluin .Bep. C. W. Upton ..........Bep. H. B. Willis Bep. TRIRTLSMTH DISTRICT. J. H. Cartwright. Bep. John D. Crabtree Bep. James Shaw Rep. CiiAiii.iK Bai.owin, son of Sam Bald­ win, aeronaut, was drowned in the Mis­ sissippi while jumping from the railway bridge at Quincy. Ix stepping off a passenger train at Maquon, before the train ^topped, Oliver C. Bigelow, of Elmwood, received inju­ ries from which he died. femasl*- nofs Probate Patkoi.man Euan, who was dis­ charged from the police for winking at lawyer Kate Kane, met a merited fate. W hen a policeman is unable to distin­ guish a lawyer from a soda-fountain, he is not lit for tho duties of his position.-- Chicago Time*. --Thk Illinois River '•Valley people want Chicago to start the Bridgeport pumps and send more water down the canal to dilute the sewage. This is a reasonable request, and, in fact, Is only what Chicago promised to do when the pumps were established and the way opened for converting tho Illinois Canal into a Chicago sewer.--litter Ocean. Tim city of Philadelphia voted 81,S00,- OOt) in aid of the Centennial, while the city ot C ilcago has appropriated $5,000,- 000 for the World's Fair. The United States Government expended $649,250 at the Centennial, and has voted §1,500,000 for its exhibit at the World's Fair. The figures show that States, cities, and the General Government have arranged for a much larger outlay in 1893 than was expended in 1876. In fact, the World's Fair is surely to be the greatest show the world has ever seen. A Pittsbvko contemporary Is afraid that "Chicago will not awaken to the im­ mediate necessity of hustling." The contemporary finds the pictures of the World's Fair buildings imposing, but has, ".ike many other onlookers, become Im­ mediately possessed of the Idea that the edifices will live on paper--not in fact" You are mistaken, our Pittsburg friend, in supposing this to be an "idea." It is not. It is a notion. Don't have any more notions. Moreover, don't be so im­ mediate.--Chicago Daily News. Um-kss the maple-sugar makers of Illinois make application for licenses by July 1 they will fall to gel any Govern* merit bounty during the coming year. Collector of Internal Revenue Wilcox of the SprlngflHd district reported recently that there would probably be sixty to seventy-five farmers who would ask for tho Government bounty of 1M cents a pound. The revenue office has heard of no application for a license as yet, how­ ever. The law makes it necessary that the application for a license must be made by July 1, and unless the license is taken out there Is a forfeiture of all bounty. L. L. Tabbkll, of Boston, Mass,, writes: "I think David Blalock, of De­ catur, III., would make a good claim asent I wonder If he was in command at Bunker Hill. He claims to be 'the only living son of a revolutionary sol­ dier.' Bless his dear soul, we have twenty-one 'own sons' as members of the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R., and there, are two more in the State who are likely to join us. My father was throe years in the service, enlisting at the age of 17. He drew a plan of the cantonment at New Windsor, N. Y., which is regarded as authority In set­ tling points in history. I have the orig­ inal and a copy is preserved in Wash­ ington's headquarters at Newburg,N. Y." A good deal has been said of late about the fact that Chicago has no hos­ pital accommodations for any contagious disease, small-pox alone expected. It seems to be almost Impossible to make this condition of things realized. An incident occurred lately which forcibly illustrated the inhumanity and peril of this state of affairs. The facts in this particular case were that a young man working at the World's Fair grounds was taken with the measles. At first he was taken to the County Hospital, but the nature of his disease being known he was denied entrance. The next thing was to take him to the Harrison Street Police Station, as If he were a criminal who had done something penal. Of course that was no place for him, and as a last resort he was dumped down in one of the cheap lodging houses on Clark street, where anybody can gain admittance for a pittance, and no ques­ tions asked. A Horse bill proposes to take it for granted that any one who is found on inclosed ground with dog and gun has been violating the game law--a con­ clusion which amateur sportsmen will take as a piece of delicate (lattery. At Galesburg Dr. John T. Binkley of Tacoffia, Wash., and Miss Alice LeQing- well were married. . Chief McCi-auohry's announced In­ tention of cleaning out the "dives" where disreputable characters congre­ gate in public is , commendable. These places would be plague-spots in a frontier town, and have long been a disgrace to Chicago. Gov. Fifkk has pardoned from the State Penitentiary at Joliet John Brad- shaw, who was convicted in May in Rock Island County of the crime of burglary and sentenced to imprisonment for one year. Bradshaw was led by older boys into taking a keg of beer from a saloon.. At the time of his copvictlon he was not a professional criminal. Lkt us all be duly thankful that that Illinois clergyman who was recently ar­ rested for making counterfeit coin and who says that his salary was so small that he had to do something to pay his expenses--let us be duly thankful that there is one clergyman who wlH not ha tried for heresy right away. Wvm Ptw$* ' ' ' 1 ' - amended by strtktaf oat allafter tlse e« acting etame, rawtttsHaf tfMwofor tks measure as recommended by the Hem In Educational Committee, which reqaiwa teach lag of reading, wrltln*. and Vatteft State* history In English. The hilt to aow upon its third reading. Bills wete pagieA making special appropriations tor tho fol­ lowing State Institutions: Southern Karma! University, at Carbondale; Joliet Peniten­ tiary; Chester Penitentiary: Blind Asylum^ at Jacksonville: Insane Asylum, at \Elgfa. Bills were also passed making tlons to pay awards of the Claims Oorni slon and to purcha.se a set of Illinois ports for Peoria County's new Court. Mr. Shumway's bill, allowing building of high schools in districts lying In more than one township in that tow»- ship having the largest population, wee passed. Senator Kerrlck's bill providing for the incorporation and regulation eg building and loan associations doing busi­ ness in counties other than that In whleti the principal office Is located, coming up sa a special order, an amendment was adopt­ ed providing that associations organised la other States desiring to do business !n this State must make a deposit with the State Treasurer of $100,000 before any buslnssa can be trasacted by them. Mr. Bsjm' bill providing that interest on special ass-- ments which are paid ou the Installment plan shall be paid annually, was passed by a large vote. In the House, on the 3d, an exciting scene ensued when amendments wen offered reducing the World's Pair appro-' prlation to 8500,000. *600.000. and «?50,«8a. The two former were defeated; the roll om the last was called amid the wildest con­ fusion, and declared carried--70 to 73. This set the crowd lnt j a perfect frenay. Treddjr moved to adjourn but the Speaker wae surrounded by the mob. Members climbed on the desks, upon the railing In front ot the Speaker's stand, throwing off their coats, applying all epithets they could think of. all swearing vengeance and mak­ ing the hall a perfect bedlam. Womeu and children In the galleries screamed with fright. Adjournment was finally had. The Senate gav« further con­ sideration to tho antl - trust bill; passed bills as follows: Appropriating $1.'>,000 for an electric light plant, cellar, and nainttng Jacksonville Insane Hospital: imposing a fine of 91 to $10 for allowing an- iin:ils to run at large in the cities. The House ballot-re form bill, as amended by the Senate, extending the time for which Canal Commissioners may lease State lands from five to twenty yean; providing that any person cutting levees around cities may be imprisoned in the penitentiary for from one to ten years: al­ lowing changing of the boundaries of road districts in counties not under the township organisation: providing a fine of fr>00 or six months' imprisonment In the county Jail entering horses In the wrong class at races. Thk situation was unchanged in the House, on the 4th, regarding the World's Fair bill. The women's appropriation waa fixed at 10 per cent, of whatever amount Is finally decided upon for the main appropri­ ation. The Senate's compulsory education bill was passed, but that body's amendment to the ballot-r form bill was rejected. In the Senate. Senator Shumway presented a memorial signed by 250 citizens of Chicago^ asking for the lower-Itvel system of drain­ age for that city. The following bills were passed: Two deficiency appropriation bills, one appropriating $3,000 for the paymentoif the employes of the General Assembly, and the other appropriating $1,000 to pay the expenses of the special commit­ tee of the General Assembly. Senator Iianier's bill, providing that directors of school districts organized under special laws may assume aud provide for Indebted­ ness heretofore created by cltv authorities for school purposes. Senator IverrickN bill, i providing for the incorporation and regula- * tion of building and loan associat ions doing business in counties other than that fat which their principal office Is located. Sen­ ator Secrest's bill, providing that school districts organized under special charters may change their boundaries in the same manner as is provided by the general school law for districts organized under it--by a majority of the legal voters so voting. Sen­ ator McDonald's bill, providing for the in­ creasing of the number of trustees of col­ lages, seminaries and academies ocgantead^,- under the laws of the State. •^8 T.i .4^ . * ' • What Is •«< ognae V rf A Berlin journal, quoted in tha oar- ' rent Board of Trade Journal, ia- p| quires what the French themselve^lljj understand by "cognac." The district of Chareute is the plaoe of origin of J real "cognac," and has during the last - ^ seven years produced an average of 20,000 hectolitres, while the annual en- . port by France of liquor known as "cognac" has exceeded seven times thia quantity. In trade "cognac" is usually -i understood to be a brandy obtained bj ^ the distillation of wine, and which was formerly known as French brandy; but 'j, it has been shown by analysis, and in a % bulky volume issued by the State De- <-;v partraent of Hygiene, that there is no reliable method of distingoiahing real brandy distilled from wine from the ^ spurious. So it is interesting to have a ; decision of a Freuch eourt of law as to what it understands by the word "cognac." A merchant of Angonienie. :-v who bought brandy in Valenciennes and labeled it"oognac,"was prosecuted for so doing, but was acquitted on the ground that the word 'oognac** is not to be exclusively understood as descriptive of the place of production, but often, as in the present instance, as desorip-" tive of the nature of the product. Ac­ cording to this decision it is to be re­ garded as sufficient when labels an­ nounce the nature of the goods to which they are aitixed. and it is not requisite that the contents of a bottle should have been produced in the place men­ tioned on the label. This decision is not consistent with sentences pro­ nounced by various French law coturta upon manufactures of sparkling wines, who have been heavily fined for intro­ ducing into trade wines which ther described as "champagne," and whim had undergone a similar process to that of the genuine article, but had not been made from wine grown in tha champagne district.--St. James Gn- seite. . ...v Baa') Born Wrinkles. Thb religion of Christ does enrrt&iag for man that he cannot do for himself. Thf.oi>ogy is wh&t man thinks aboat God. Salvation is what he knows about Him. Lack of fear does not alwajs mean courage It may mean a lack of knowl­ edge. THE only way by which love can ha measured is by what it is willing Is suffer. Yor can never hnrt the devil so much as when yon strike at him with the word of God. THE devil will never be much discour­ aged as long as he can find a moderate drinker. THE devil cheats ns out of a good maay- blessings by teaching ns to ha close with our money. THE greater the house built on a poor foundatiou the more foolish the man who builds It. THE devil always agrees with the maa who says he can't see any sense la try in® to be religious. THE devil is never entirely sure of a man as long as there Is somebody living who loves him. It takes some people a long tisae H find out that a snake's headquarters am not in its taiL No majj knows how desperate awoattft can look until he has ssea her undertake to ride a bicycle. It wouldn't be hard for aaybady la h» the b«Mt Irind of a Chrtstlaa It wasn't any devil 'M I Mi rL't M- i