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t VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. ;,McHENRY, m rS ; IF wives instead of HTTSBVARW WERE the cashiers it would be hard on the sa­ loons. Two CHICAGO clergymen came to ^Wows in church. The tine ring of '; Christianity is scarcely the prifce ring . •even in Chicago. ^' PEOPLE who like to ride on a high ' ihorae will be interested to learn that • , Missouri boasts one that stands nineteen f* «nd one-half hands high. THE escape from the gallows of Dan- can, the young "Washington man who , ILLINOIS.; murderously assaulted his wife at the ! summit of a Welsh mountain, will be a surprise to most Americans, as British courts are entirely unsentimental and view with the utmost distrust certain defenses that are very popular in this country, among them that of insanity, which was set up in this ewe. Duncan had the disadvantage of being a for- ARE AND BE HAPPY. SHOULD in New He will (probably be discharged for unpro­ fessional conduct in running. A DISTRICT messenger boy •* * • "York ran away to get married. #• i; IT is believed the doctors will keep " on finding new methods for the cure of consumption until the bacilli get up and walk out through sheer disgust. T IT is to be hoped that when that tight-roping walking photographer was balanced over the angriest part of the fi Niagara rapids some one shouted to him to look pleasant. SOME disgusted patron of the Louisi- v' ana lottery has sent thirty-eight tickets ' to the dead letter conscience fund. The , tickets had matured, but, like the vast ^ majority, had no cash value. NEABLY everybody tries to create the f impression that he amounts to more than is really a fact. The time con- . sumed in practicing the deceit would make a man in truth what he pretends to be. * A PHILADELPHIA dentist says there is over $2,500,000 worth of gold in the „ mouths of Philadelphians. The state­ ment is interesting but not alarming. , Think of the awful priees the dentists V got for that gold! THE man who dreams of ever getting the world exactly to suit him is labor­ ing under a delusion which would be dispelled if he would just consider that there are times when a paradise itself would not please the average man. A COMPANY of "gentlemen" were re­ cently refused a fine hall in Chicago the eeooud time for a banquet, because when they occupied it before; they damaged the floor by spitting tobacco juice on it It is a freak of nature to pat ooiy two legs on some hogs. IF the drink question could be dis­ cussed only on Mondays, there would never be but one side to it. The Satur­ day night and Sunday's crop of fatal accidents and violent crimes due to alcoholism leave not an inch of vantage ground for a defense of the habit. A Comparison of Farm Ur* of Hi* Praa- •at with TbatoT th« *• Qoori 0<t Tim«a" --The InM MsmIbs of AmaHwaiMS- CHiupbeU'i Dish «r tro*--1'ullUckI Coui- SlftBt. The Farmer* Are fl ppy. It fi Ions since the* farmers of the United States had a more pleasant p-os- pect opening to their eyes, and proteo- eigner, and his defense was necessarily ition is tbe magician that has thread the enchanting scene. As Senator l addock conducted at arms* length, yet he saved his neck. JCPGE MCADAMS, of New York, gave » decision regarding nuisances the other day whioh would enable a man to de­ clare anything or anybody a nuisance. He declared that that which is "hurtful, vexatious, disturbs happiness, impaicg or prevents their enjoyment, is injurious if it causes displeasure, gives pain or cause* unpleasant sensations, is of­ fensive," and therefore a nuisance. Under this ruling the defendant oon> vieted of maintaining a nuisance might be able to convict the Judge's decision of being a nuisance. It would cer­ tainly cause "displeasure and unpleasant suggestions." ' GOVERNOR MKKRIAM'S hostile move on the Hall and Fitzsimmons gang has dealt a blow at the pugilistic interests of the entire country. It has completely destroyed the prestige of the twin cities as a favorite resort for the sluggers. Before the Governor'^ recent action the two tovmk enjoyed a monopoly of the prize fighting business. Their mayors and police officials were warm admirers of the manly art and prize fighters were perfectly safe from interference. When all ihe other places were closed up St Paul and Minneapolis were wide open and as a natural consequence they be­ came a scene of a great many slugging matches. Bat they will be carefully shunned hereafter by every pugilist from Sullivan down. The Minnesota Athletic Club has already admitted that it will never attempt to give another prize \ tariffs, fight and a gloom has settled down upon pugilism generally. EXPERIENCE is a great teacher, but i the rates of tuition are very high. A full oourse of experience is so expensive in money and especially in time, that we advise all to put their pride in their pocket and take a "short cut" method, by learning all they can from the ex- perience of others. THE Eskimos are said to be about the dirtiest people on earth. That is why we regret to disclose the circumstance that an Eskimo, fresh from his native land, who traveled across the country a short time ago, was made deathly sick by being compelled to ride a few miles in the smoking car of a suburban train. A NEW YORE man has been im­ prisoned in Eondout for having eight wives. A punishment fitting his crime would be to compel him to live for a year with the octette and their mothers. If any hair would remain on his head or skin on his face at the end of the first month it would be a wonder. WHY those editors up in St. Paul should attempt to tell each other "How to Edit a Paper" is a mystery. For exact information as to the art of con­ ducting newspapers apply to any Cau- casion between tiie ages of 6 months and GO years who has never seen the in­ side of a newspaper office. He knows all about it--and more. THREE STARS, a full-blooded Sioux, has been appointed post trader at the Pine Ridge Agency. This will prob­ ably be an improvement over the old state of affairs. There are other trad­ ers in the immediate vicinity of this agency that should be "moved on." The chronic trouble with these unau­ thorized traders is their tendency to sell whisky instead of flour. THE memory of one man like the brave collegian, Brokaw, lost his life at Elberon while endeavoring to do his NrxERous complaints are heard against retail druggists who, when asked for a well-known proprietory article, endeavor to dispose of an imi­ tation bearing their own trade mark and represented to be "just as good." This practice is a growing one and it seems pro|>er that steps should be taken to put a rtop to it. It is a dishonorable attempt on the part of the druggist to profit at the expense of proprietors of medicines remedies and other articles that have been extensively advertised and, by taking advantage of the demand thus created, to work off upon the veople substitutes of their own oon- coction. It is only recce unary to warn the publio against this species of im­ position in oider to awaken a sentiment that will result di-astrously to the dealers who practice it If standard articles cannot be found in one store they may be had in another, and con­ sumers alert to their own interests will not fail to apply the remedy. says, "All the world is wanting to buy J grain, and we are the only people who have it to sell." „ Has protectiom^roatcd this condition? Let us seo. Of course, the largo harvest that seems imminent might have conic to pass und r a free trade adtninis ra­ tion as well as under a pro eclivo policy; but a largo crop without a large market for it is but a m iior blessing. Lo. us consider tho efloctof p.oiCvtion upon markets. 1. It has created a, home market which consumes about nine-tenths of all Immo farm products. 2. By its adoption in the German era- pirp it has eaie-ed that country, which ux|>oncd praln while it was under free trade, to become an importer of gta n now that protection has multiplied its lai tories an I dra*vu labor from its farms. Thus there is now a larger demand for Anier can grain in l-.ngland in exact proportion to the amount of grain.which Germany now cousumes at home in­ stead of selling iu Lherpool. Ther.' also is a new market in Utrmany for American grain: th s, howe.er, is cur­ tailed by the proactive duty which the emp re levies on grain, lint the demand fo.- tho repeal of the duty on grain and meat is growing hot in Germany, and ti e i'nited State ', by reason of the re­ ciprocity clause of the Mcivinley bill, is able to .offer to the empire a solution of its gra n and food question which will not involve departure from its fixed, and hitherto successful, po.icy of pro­ tection. Tho United states is to a posi- t on to offer a continuance of free im­ portation of German beet sugar in return for free, or lowdutied, admis­ sion of American grain and meat to the empire. Nothing can be plainer than that If this country had a freet.tade policy it would have nothing to offer to Germany a# compensation for the empire's repeal or modili ation of its gia n and meat Protection in Germany has cre­ ated a demand for American trrain Protection in America has armed the Republic with a weapon whL*h may open a free or at any rate an easy passage for American grain to Germany. Piote -tion, by its reciprocity clause, ha* o'ened Bra/.ll to a fre^ importation of American farm products. It has maue an enlarged exportation of Am 'ri- cau larm products to Cuba a certainty. Nature is helping tho American prin­ ciple of prot 'et'on to bless t<ho farmers of the Republic, for close on ti:e heels of the news of a demand for American plain in Germany comes news of a short c o.) of Indian wheat. All tho word wants grain, and Anier <•» has iots of it to sel'. The farmers are happy, and th y have to thank profec ion for a large share of their happiness.--Chlvajo iuU r Cc an. masons busily at work, but hard! found no tin-plate in process o*/manu- ' facture, and have returned and ?o re­ ported. Then these journals have blos­ somed forth in satirical editorials de­ nouncing the American tin-plate indus­ try as a "myth."--Boston Journal. Farm Life In the " Goofl Old Time*." Under the heading, "Our Farmer Fathers" the Tribune, Minneapolis, says: "It is sometimes well to look back over the road, takp bearings, and meas­ ure progress. \\ hen we lind farmers and Jaboters politically in arms against i alleged oppression and hard times, we ; naturally turn to view the conditions of j 'the good old times' when everybody I was prosperous and contenie l. | "Tho farmer of the day makes two ; special complaints--high price? for what ! he buys and low prices for what ho soils. | How was it with our farmer fathers? j "Take the staple dry goo is articlo-- calico. In 1790 it cost 58 cunts a yard: I in^ 1830. 2:> cents; in I860, H cents; in i 1791, 5 c.nts. | "Take tho staple grocery article-- j fugar. In 1.90 it tost lS;-& cents for cheap, brown grados: 1830, 15 cents; in I 1S60, 10 cents; in l&U, 0I4' cents for ! granulated. J "f or wlia* the farmer sells, take the j Ptaple dairy product, butter. Th.- prjees j in .Massachusetts are as follows: In 1*790, I 11 cents; iu 1830, 18 cents; in I860. 2<i (cents: in 1891, 30 to 35. "Tho stap'e moat product dressed beef, in Massachusetts sold in 17i«» at j only 3>»" cents: in 1830, 7}^ cents; in | 1800, 12 cents; in 189L 12 to 18. j "Our farmer fathers of revolutionary I days whistled among the stones and 1 pumpkin vines of sterilo New England, j attired in cotton jeans and shirtings that cost 50 cents a yar.1, slept on tick- i ing at 90 cents, and, if rich enough, • wiped the perspiration from their brows | with handkerchiefs that cost 70 cents, j Their wives, if unusually stylish, paraded I in muslin at 75 cents, ginghams at 55 cents, and cambric at 81. Pins were 15 j cents a paper; for matches, e\erybody borrowed fire, and for fa m implements aud machinery the hoe and scythe were as all-important as to-day's Sulky plow and self-binder. What tne farmer sold brought not much more than oue-half what it brings to-day, and what the farmer bought cost more' than double what it costs to-day." Tariff Plctvlaa, NO. I. Two years ago print cloths, OlxM, Bold at Tim 1.0ns of Popularity. There is a phase of metropolitan life that appeals very strongly to human sympathy. It is the struggle of once popular and more or less gifted public singers, but who have, by reason of failing voice and beauty, been drooped into the museums and concert halls to eke a precarious livelihood. "The sing­ er who has a declining voice is like the artist with failing sight," said a manager. "It is the most painful thing a manager has to do--this brutal con­ demnation of footlight unfortuuates." But how about the singers themselves? Did you ever figure up the full mean­ ing of voice failure to a talented oper­ atic singer? It is not merely the loss of a means of livelihood--it is tho re­ tirement from the dearly beloved pub­ lic eye. It is a sort of personal public disgrace. It is to fall from the stars into the mire, and to be horribly con­ scious during the entire descent If the blow fall at once, as it sometimes does come, the mental suffering would per­ haps be acute, but it would aoon be over. "It is this terrible lagging, dragging from day to day," said a sing­ er, when I mentioned the subject to her, "sometimes better, sometimes worse; sometimes full of hope, some­ times overwhelmned with despair. It is dreadful!"-- Corr. Tame Humming Blrtla. Humming birds are generally sap- posed to be extremely timid and almost untamable, but when their confidence is won, which is an easy matter to those who understand them, they are very fearless and the loveliest little pets in wofrld. We tame them nearly every season, and they come to us anywhere around the place, and when the doors are open make themselves perfectly atv home, even in the bouse. A year or two ago I called my wife's attention to the fir.-it ene of the spring, as we were sitting on the piazza, aud when I called Vi f rmrttl n Worth Havlic;. The mom^e s of the free-trade, syndi­ cate of fal elioo I are attempting to make the American public believe that the, manufacture o:' lin plate in this coulitr. is not likely to bo ser ously un­ dertaken: that nothi g has been done or can be done toward making tin except in a sma 1 way, ami t at the tin tariff has been moru than doubled without creating any possibility that tin indus­ try will over flourish ne c. The tin tariff has not yet gone into operation, but t! e ^scoffers ask, "Where are your tin-plate factories?"1 a>.d .they say in effect, "Commence immediately to turn out tin enough to supply tho de viand of the L'lilted States or repQal tho tin tariif." They cannot wait a minute for the establishment of tin factories here on a scale as extensive as that of Wales, where the industry is tho growth of centuries In the meantime h^ro is something on the other side--not from McKinloy sources, but from official British sources. The Tx>ndon Finanrlil Time#, which will not be d sputed as authority, refers to a report of the distinguished British Consul at Chicago (also pretty good au­ thority), as follows: "A recent report from Mr. Hayes Sad­ ler, the British Consul at Chicago, con­ tains some observations on tin and tin mining which will be read with interest, in view of#the new duties which are to be levied next month on tin plates im­ ported into tho United States. Accord­ ing to our Consul, t n plate manufactur­ ing will soon rank among the varied industries of Chicago Sheets have been tinned, and retlnning has been practiced in the States for some years past, but hitherto the sheets have been Imported, and the laborcmployed, if not Imported, has been of a foreign origin. But this state of atta rs, it apjears, is not to last much longer. " This is a well-studied and accurate statement of fact, given to the British manufacturers for their information on a subject of the highest busiuesss im­ portance to them. It is ?om 'thing more than a free trader's partisan fabrication. daty like a Christian and a gentveman, j him he came at once aud examined is invaluable in the example it sets of «*cb of U8 carefully and then flew off. the twin qualities of g«itleness ftna ; I «aw at once that it was one of our manliness which go to make up the grandest word in the language. Yet there are those who will think three times of Slavin or ten of Sullivan, hired and paid brutes, whose they will give one thought to this modest hero. CERTAIN masculine intruders upon a meeting of Chautauqua women, who were assembled together to discuss the need of dividing skirts and otherwise reforming feminine garb, were ejected by the fair reformers with a vigor that pets of the previous year, so I went in and prepared a small bottle of sugar and water, and it was but a few minutes before he returned aud at once took his dinner, an he had been accustomed to. Unfortunately he had a mate who was bossing him and dragged him northward after he had paid us but two or three visits.--Forest atul Stream, & - No liread. Antoinette de Bourbon, the mother of the Guises, had in addition to her other fine qualities, great good sense. One example of the discipline to whioh she subjected the youug Guises, indi- left them looking as though they had | c»te^ that had there been more mothers passed through a mechanical churn. I lii^e her in her class' there would have It would seem that tho gospel of dress j '»<"> of ruthless extravagance on reform ha. come to e»rth briagiug Dot1 !he "art ot tbo ro'a"? a°b'Ut7 01 1 v . j • ' rranee. peace but a sword. The voung nobles were out banting. IF actor "BillV" Florence has the right aud rode trough fields which had been ® sown with corn. The duchess heard of it That evening, according to the tra-of it, all that the wornout worker needs is a prescription of country air and onions. He declares that "the man who will take two weeks every summer in the country and eat a Bermuda onion a every meal, and take one for a night­ cap besides, will be sound as a dollar when he gets back to his woriL" It is a remedy worth trying, tho Ameri- ditiou preserved at Joinville, there was no bread on the supper table. The princes at once asked for bread, astonished at such negligence in this well-ordered household. "My children," replied Antoinette^ "it is neccessary to economize flour, since yon have destroyed the fatare harvest* - / Meaning or A nctinuilnm. •Americanism moans the development the culture, the expansion, the progress, and the protection of everything Ameri can. It mcaus tho growth of our indus­ tries, the in< rease of our mi is and fur­ naces, the development, of our mines and agriculture, the prosperit. and h.ippi nessof our people. 'J he apostle of that American idea is Will'am >iclvinlcy. V> e greet him here, ami iu planting li s elm, too, a principle whi h began with \* ash- ington and caniilton, and has been so conspicuously defended by him, we wish him (.iod-speed in his canvass in Ohio. \> hen he siia 1 have s:»rveJ as Covernor of Oh o, and in the iu ure a- President of the United Stale-. 11 ;heeven.ng of his days, when tliiselin >hall haw grown to a height wlwsre a large proportion of his Ohio constituents can find restful sha !e under its branches, we h*>pe that, ho will come here aijaiii to greet the eim whose auspicious planting preceded and prefigured his election, an t wiioso lon­ gevity typiiies the • erpetu ty of Ameri­ can prosperity when fust-ered by'.the pract.cal opcratiou of American ideas." --Chmmccy M. Uepar, in a trie io Mr. McKinlcy, ut 1 Voodnt/xsk. CiimpboU'* I>j-ih of Cniw. Gov Campbell, of Ohio, is fran'c. enough to state, in an interview with a Pittsburg reporter, that to him tho 1 em- ccratic platform. 011 which tie is a can­ didate lor re-election, is loaded with crow. "I am not going back on the platform," ho says, "but it is not just as I wo Id have preferred it " That is, ho accepts the nomination while ho disap­ proves the principles, or at least one es­ sential principle, of the party nomi­ nating him. Ho eats tho < row in order to get at the pie. 3.86 oexxta a yard. Now tboy are down to 3.01 cent* a yard. NO. 8. Hereto something that will Interact Amerl- oan tob*coo-grow«rt. In the Connecticut Val­ ley the average daily pay of the men who raise tobacco la 81.50. In Sumatra the laborers who raise tobacco get daily about 25o. What better evidence than this can be given of the need of a protective tariff? NO. 3. This is tbe way the McKinley bill is "strang­ ling* our foreign commerce. Daring tbe eleven months ending with May. we importer! 940»,8U8,&H6 worth of dutiable merchandise; during the elev- en months ending with May, 1831, we imported SMll. I l-i.353 of 4&tiflft>kl good*; bhuwing that t' had been tornod over to American rroducera. But, although during ihe eauio months of IHHO- 90 we imported S .'-ia.07 7.281 worth of merchandise free of duty, duiiug the eleven motfths of lSV-.tU we imyr.ed S3X7,343,74V of s\jcli goods. Dartrln'* Theory of Coral ReoAk Acoording to Darwin's theory, wb:*r?h hast been almost universally accepted during the past half century, the corals commence to grow near the shore of a continent or isiand; as the land slowly cinks, the corals meanwhile grow up­ ward to the nnrface of tbe sea, and a water space--the lagoon channei-- is formed between tne shore of the island and the efccircling reef, the fring­ ing beiug thus converted into a barrier reef. Eventually the central island sinks altogether from sight, and the barrier reef is converted into an atoll, the lagoon marking the place where tbe volcanic or other land once existed. Encircling reefs and atolls are repre- seuted as becoming smaller as the sink­ ing goes on, and the final state of tho atoll is a small coral islet, less than two miles in diameter with the lagoon filled up and covered with deposits of sea-salt and guano. It is at once evident that the views now advocated are, in almost all respects, the reverse of those de­ manded by Mr. Darwin's theory. The recent deep-sea investigations do not api>ear in any way to support the view that large or small islands once filled the spaces now occupied by the lagoon waters, and that the reefs show, approx­ imately, the positiou of the shores of a subsided islaud. The structure of the upraised corai islands, HO far as yet ex­ amined, appears to lend no support to the Darwinian theory of formation. When we remember that the great growing surface of existing reefs is the seaward face Irorn the sea-surface down to twenty or forty fathoms, that large quantities of coral debris must be an­ nually removed from lagoons iu< suspen­ sion and solution, that reefs expand laterally und remain always but a few hundred yards in width, that the la­ goons of finished atolls are deepest in the center, and are relatively shallow compared with the depth of the outer reefs, then it seems impossible, with our present knowledge, to admit that atolls or barrier reefs have ever been developed after the manner indicated by Mr. Darwin's simple and beautiful theory of coral reefs. l'ies at V3 Aptfor. There has been some talk lately of the first pie-maker of California. Many an old California miner who worked iu El Dorado County in the early fifties remembers Mrs. Wakefield's dried-apple pies. She came across the plains aud started in almost as scon as she reached Hangtown, as it was then called, at the busiuess of pie-makiug. Dried apples were sent around Cape Horn from New York in clipper ships. These she bought in bags and converted into pies, baking them in wide, deep tins. She was never able to supply the demand, although she charged $2 apiece for them. She opened a restaurant, and her favorite plan was to sell a quarter of one of these pies and « cup of coffee for $ 1. The early miners were queer cattle. Just as BOOU as a raw Missourian or a down-east Yankee, who had been raided on corn and baoon, began to make money fast there was nothing good enough for him to eat. He would buy eardiues at $2 a tin, or canned peaches and other fruit at from $2 to $3 per can. So Mrs. Wakefield's pies be­ came noted, and when any miner came down to Haugtown with his gold dust he was never satisfied until he had eaten his fill of her apple pies and carried one or two home with him. She cleared up several thousand dollars in two months. --St. Louis liejmbUc. home Vitlnabln There are only four eggs of the great auk now iu this country, says an oologist, "and they are valued at $500 German Military Men Advocate fTantne* for Picket aurt Other Similar Herricea. The idea lately taken up in earnest in the German aud Bussian armie* of using dogs for military purposes has been generally talked of as an innova­ tion. This, however, as M. Mennier shows in a learned article in Ihe ttevue Scientifique, is a mistake.- Dogs of war, it appears, were well known to the great nations of ancieut times, the Greeks, liomans, JeW3 and Gentiles made use of the fearless, intelligent an­ imal, whose vaiue is now once again to be put to the test. The Greeks had dogs in every one of their fortresses, and E. Blaze, one of M. Meunier's au­ thorities, tells a good story of an outpost that was occupied by strong'watch-dogs only. Opposite Corinth, facing the sea, such an outpost was situated, guarded by fifty dogs. One night the enemy began to disembark. The garrison was drunk and the dogs had to keep back the aggressors. They fought like lions, and forty-nine of them were killed. The only survivor, S^fer, rushed away in hot haste, gave the alarm in the camp, and the enemy was driven back. The Romans, as every one knows, were less fortunate on a Mmilar occasion, where the gee*e performed the task of the dogs in calling the attention of the sol­ diers to the Gauls scaling the' walls of the capitol while the dogs were fast asleep. As a punishment for the un­ faithful servants a religious ceremony, at which even Plutarch had occasion to laugh on beholding it, was afterward annually performed at Rome. Its chief feature was that some dogs were taken through the streets with great pomp, whipped at every cross-road and in every public place, and finally hanged on a cross of the wood of the elder tree near the Temple of Youth. Even in the Sixteenth century two Turks per­ formed a similar ceremony in memory of the dogs whioh had devoured the corpse of Mohammed. In Delmatian and Croatian garrisons dogs of war were kept in the Seventeenth century whose duty it was to reveal by tfieir barking the presence of the Turkish soldiers; to run to their masters aud I make them acquainted not only with ! the fact of the approach of the enemy, ! but also to point out in the forest the | place where the aggressors were hidden, j But, asks M. Meuuier. is it possible for i a dog to distinguish different nationali­ ties? It is impossible to give a certain answer to this question, but so much is certaiu, that tho aucient* had very well noted that the dog bad this peculiar faculty. Minerva's temple at Dualia was guarded by dogs which were trained with such care that they otuld distiuguish Greeks aud barbarians, lav­ ishing caresses on the former and bark­ ing continually if any of the latter ar­ rived. And not only were dogs made use of in ordinary warfare, but from tbe time of the Roman Empire downward, almost to our own day, the slave-hunt­ ers have had invaluable assistance In their bloodhouuds. M. Meunier de­ scribes Horace Yernet's touching pic­ ture of chein du regiment, whioh creeps up with bleeding head and shattered feet to his two friends the drummers; but does not mention the most famous of all recent dogs of war, the faithful regimentshund, who went through the war, and has now well earned his place in one of the magnifi­ cent bas-reliefs round the Sieges Saule at Berlin. Mother's Influenoe, Writing in tbe Princess of a mother, who, though "no Angel." was Ma dearer being, ali dipt in Angel instincts. AFFAIRS IS ILLINOIS; ITEMS GATHERED PROM VAI»i OUS SOURCES. Yit t - y - i i I>e*pera'« Liar* Cndona. A favorite dodge of the free-trade journal < has been to send their agents o it to localities where tin-plate works are in process of construction. These agents have sometimes found large areas of ground covered with lumber and Urtcks and 8»e»t»rr with carpenters and The True American King. The speech of General .lames Clark- son at the reception tendered him on his safe return from 1-Juropc had in It that broad spirit and true Amer.can nng which touches men's hearts, if hearts they have. As l'resident of the Nation­ al Republican League, his utteriugs 11 at- turally attrac ted attention In advance as reflect ng tho spirit of the great national organization of which he is the head. Ho came back from his European trip prouder than ever of America and Amer- can institutions As ho happily said, the American who goes abroad to study other nations tinds that tho American is a composite of tho better races of Eu­ rope aud tho d.scovcry tends to broaden him aud make him still more an Amer* lean. Exchange Comment. GROVER Ci-EVF.r,AND spent the Fourth of July eating clams.--Detroit lYlbuiic. Goon crops, fair prices, full employ­ ment for most labor--this Is a Republi­ can year.--Indianapolis Journal. THK Sandwich clambake in honor of ex-President Clcvela id bad the flavor of funeral-baked meats.--Xew York Re­ corder. COL. JAMK3 8. CI,ANK»oir, Rresident of the Republican National League, is a man with pteuty of "go" in him.--Cin­ cinnati Commeri-'kil-Onzette. EXGI.AND would re o!ce with exceed­ ing great j<jy with the Democratic party if it can succeed in defeating .McKinley for Ciovernor of Ohio.--Ghicdyo Inter Occan. "POOR mortgaged Kansas" Is fattening her hogs on i;ea-hcs, while Simpson is sawins the air down in A abamaand tell­ ing of the doleful hard times.--Inter Ocean. Gov. BOIKS nud "Stormy" Jordan, a notorio !S violator of Iowa 3 Prohibition j law, have fallen ont. The next thing I that the (.'ov- rnor will fal out with will < be the gubernatorial chair.--Kamai t'ily jownal, Iftwxa and wills'les. made of Amer­ ican tin, wiil make good Uepublican mu­ sic in the campaign of 'i).'. iu fact, their iirst notes will Le heard before this year's <ampaigi is end d. -- Chi-^ago Inter Occan. D'-:MOCI5 \TS do not wish foreign Im­ porters Who seek our markets to help pay- our la es. . hey therefore go in for^ fr< e tra:ie and a tax 011 the incomes of American chi ens--Cincinnati Corn- mere.a Uazc'Jr. TIIK worst feature about an income tax is its inei;ua ity. Tho extent of tho income is, in most cases, known only to the individua. and he can, with a fair deg.ee of safety, conceal as •much of It as ho likes !rom ihe ottieiala.--Su Loula Glole-lMnur •ra'. TIIK I'rltlsVi orsrar.s < f fiis country have now turne I from the eifort to em­ barrass Ameii-an tin-p'ate manufac­ turers and are endeavoring t> prevent the succ ssful application of tiie subsidy to the revival of American shipping.-- Rochester l)ciu'>'~ra.t. TIIE New York delegation in th» next convention will not be for Mr. Cleve­ land, aud neither wi 1 that from Indi­ ana, and wo don't be leve the Demo­ crats of the rest of the Cuion would under any conditions be willing to cive their brethren < f thes? two necessary States a direct slap in the face1--Bif mingfvam Aije-Herald, Dan. each. It seems odd to think of a bird breathing Paradise," Tennyson .ex­ claims : Happy he With such a mother t faith in womankind • Bents with bis blood.and trust iu all t hiogs high Comes easy to him, aud though be trip andftul, | Be shall uot bind bin soul with clay. THE tariff pictures which we repro­ duce each week from the New York Press may not be fine art, but they ex­ cite the feelings of free trader becoming extinct, but no one has seen a Labrador duck, either, since 1856. There are but five mounted specimens in existence, and none of the eggs are in existence. Kirtlaud's warbler is an­ other bird that is rare. Until recently but seven had ever been captured, and these all were found in a region near Cleveland, O., less than a mile square. Specimens were worth $100 apiece. But a little while ago a naturalist who chanced to visit the Bahama Islands came upon a colony of the birds, and knowing what a mine he bad struok, shot about twenty and brought them to this country. When he began to un­ load, the story came out and the mar­ ket sagged, so that now you can get a Kirtland for $5 or $ti. The Connecti­ cut warbler is another bird of interest to oologists, beoause no one has yet seen its eggs. It passes up the Mississippi River in the early spring and probably mates far iu the interior of British North America, and goes south iu the fall by the way of the Atlantic seaboard. Jf any one can find the nest of this lit­ tle fellow with four eggs in it, if will be $200 in his pocket.--New York Tri• lune. , Ulatorjr Itewritten. It used to be the fashion for orators as well as novelists to show their learn­ ing by indulging freely in quotations. They did not, always succeed in im­ pressing their hearers as in the follow­ ing case, which all boys who are in their Romau history will appreciate: A certain member of the Legislature, "from the rural districts," as the news­ papers say, was discovered to be absent when his presence was sorely needed. An important measure was pending, and although this certain member could not speak he could vote, and in this jnncture every vote was valuable. Accordingly two other trusty mem­ bers were deputized to hunt up the rec­ reant. They went to his house and was informed that he was "tomewheres around the farm." "Somewheres" proved to be a field where he was busily working. "Well, is that what you're doing? cried the searching members, reproach* fully. "Yes, here I am, said the rural mem­ ber, cheerfully. "You find me, like another Cincinnati, killing potato- bugs !" French Law of Marriage. It is not generally known as it should be that a marriage between a citizen of the United States and a citizen of France, which may be perfectly legal in our country, is considered in France as a mock marriage and nothing more. Such marriages occur, and that they are productive of great misery isjevinced from the if act that there are here in our neighbor Republic a number of American (and English) who are the cast-oft wives of Frenchmen. A citizen of France residing iu the United States, but not naturalized there,may marry an American girl in the most approved of legal ways, and returning to the coun­ try of his birth, is not, by the laws of France, accounted a married man. In the same sense, an American may marry a nothing but death or divorce oan sep­ arate them. But that girl may go to France and marry again as legally as if she had never entered into the bonds of matrimony^ ' WHEN is a girl like a* mnaic book? When she is foU of air* ^ I The poet's thought is illustrated by a little story told by the Rev. Joshua Cook in an artiole on tbe mule-deer, contributed to "The Big Game of North America." The clergyman's oldest son, a ranch­ man in Oregon, stands six feet and an inch in his stockings, and is a powerful man. a good shot, a fine hunter, warm­ hearted and generous. One day a fellow-ranchman came to his cabin, and said: "Mr. Cook, my old mother Is dead. She was a Christian woman, and I don't want to put her in the ground like the cattle we bury. There isn't a min­ ister withiu thirty miles. Your father is a minister; you have taught in our Sabbath school. Would you come and say a word over my mother?" It was a new experience; the big boy thought a moment, and then said: "Whitehead, I never did anything of of the kind, but if it was my mother-- ancl I have one whom I worship,--I should feel as you do. Your mother shan't be buried like a dog. I'll come." Afterward he wrote to his father: "I recalled the words I had so often heard you pronounce over the dead. All alone I read a passage of Scripture, sang a verse of a hymn, said a short prayer, said the 'dust to dust,' and all was over. It was a tight place, father; all the men and women of the valley were there, but I thought of mother, and it carried me through." A rough young ranchman said to this son one day, "Bates, we notice that you will take part with us in our sports" up to a certain point, and then yoa stop. We wonder why." "Jerry," he answered, "when I left home, I made up my mind to go no­ where and take part in nothing that would displease my mother." The Dcair«d Information. ' A well-known newspaper man whose custom it is to take long walks Jn the country, was out one Sunday. *s he passed an orchard he noticed all the trees but one fairly well filled with ap- plea, "That's very strange," he remarked to his companion. "What's the reason, do you imagine?" asked the other. "Here comes a boy, IU ask him," and the journalist tackled the boy. "Fine apples you have for an off< year," he said with an air of freedom, and acquaintance with the facta. "Kinder," replied the boy. "Where do you sell them, mostly?" "Mostly don't sell 'em. Make cider." "Ah, are they cider apples?" " Course; oouldn't make, cider ii they wasn't." . "Very true. By the way, my boy, I notice one tree over, there by the fence hasn't an apple on it Do you know why that is ?" "1 reckon." "Well, my friend here and lam a little curious, and would like to Itere you tell us if you will.*' "Certainly, sir. It's cause it's a plum tree mostly." The man of inquiring'mind'hung his photograph apparatus over hi# shoulder, and went on. Wluit Our Xalglibore An Dolus--Matters * s> of General and Local Interact -- .Var* . 'f M ' Haeca and Death*-AccMnli and CrioMS » :i >'] • -- Personal Pointer*. ^ 'jf s _TIIF. twentieth State reunion of the vs if Veterans of the Mexican War assembled ; in Mount Vernon, ^here was a much i/* larger attendance than for many years, ,3'^ ^ about one hundred o'd veterans being present, most of them accompanied by f5 fi their wives and daughters. Mayor Wat- ^ son delivered an address of welcome , "i which was responded to by Rev. J. O. •< ,^8 f! Henry, of Vandalia Rev. J. R Tbomp- , 1 son delivered an address on the cause* t« of the Mexican war. Addresses wert , ^ ti delivered by Colonel P. T. Turnley. ol . yS ^ Chicago, and James Creed, of Walnut HilL Judge Holbrook, of Chicago, re- ' / jf V"i cited two or three interesting poems. The local post of th« Grand Army of th< ?l|| 1 Jjj Republic tendered them a reception at 4? 4 their hall. • Dnting a heavy storm at Jerseyvill« ^ three valuable horses were killed at tht , 1 assembly grounds. One was a valuable trotter. ;\5'*-"j KEAU Benton, the annual .reunion.' of the Payne family was he:d. This is one yvtf'lj of the largest families in Egypt, and 208 ^ to 300 of Uncle Lewis' lineal descendants * wore present. i PRKSIDKXT HARRISON- has pardoned ! Andrew Monical, convicted in the United i States Court for the Xoithtrn District - 5 of Illinois, of < ounterfeiting. ^ RAV.VOXD was visited by a disastrous ^ lire. Property, consisting of stores and their contents, to tho amount of -1510,000, . »3 was destroyed. Thore was a small * ^ ̂ amount of insurance. ' AT Quincv, the 200 mo'ders employed •; In tho stove foundries of 'Iho.nas uhite '-Y'-t'il' a n d C o m s t o e k , C a s t l e & C o . , w e n t o n a * ~ M X I strike. The men have been working ' /V , under an agreement whereby they have: received half pay for castings spo led by; defects in the iron, but they decided to abrogato tbe agreement aud demand full pay. The foundries refused to conced •, hence tho strike. Should the tight be­ come general about 1,000 men will b1 af­ fected In 18.->4 the0'iincy molders were out all summer, and business suffered greatly. Merchants fear a repet.tio 1 of that strike and hope for a sp edy settle- , b-. ment. • ' V"j . ! WHILE dressine, Austin C. Dewey. Qa 'If" '1 Chicago, wa sei ed w.th as pas 11 of tho " heari. and die t >mn c tiatel.i. i;e was a 'il man of unusual vigor a id s re tgth. tut a ^ a a severe atta k of th > jsrip las: winter t weakened him. The tiight to oreh»I at ^ bt en cha t ng in h s us al m< rry mood . \\ with his family. , v. | AT ChU ag >, lJrakeman Charlos Khi»;n-V < hart, of the ROCK l^and Ra lway. was.' kil cd. He lei letw • n two < ars a.ud was ground to piee« s.* He leaves a wife- dangerously sick and U-n children. ( -• CnmsToi'iiKi: H ART of Chicago dr pped ' '• d;>ai. Heart diseas > was the «a .s •. . A 8ample trunk belonging to P. Dl Brewster of Chi a?o, touiaining $4,000u ; '*4 worth of jewelry, was sto.en fr^m Lemars, la.,dci;o,. •; '*^ '; Tire A H. Whitney Or an Company, «J r< O'ntly bi.r.ied i.ut at Quiney, has justi , -j decided to but d a new la-tory, t > cost,<:«> A 83.i.OiH), exclusive cf grounds, with % •, capacity of 200 organs per month, the \ Xi j? factory to be comp!o ed Jan. 1, 1892. ' HAKTI.KY BROWN, a Chicago sewer- cleaner, was overcome by loul gas while in a sewer, and died from the effects off* tho poisonous \apor. * Patrick Hunt,* ^ 4 fellow-workman, was also rendered ua- ; Vs conscious, but was revived. ALBEBT G. OAOE, of the Wellington, Hotel, i/.id William Boyle, tbe restaur'; rant-keeper, Chicago, who are charged with celling game birds out of season, gave lionds. Several Chicago restaur rants have pai^fiafs^«-<c^a^-!J3SE«^ AT Springfield, the State Assembly W ; the Knights of Labor closed its session. " , > The Legislative Comniittae reported thai tho last Legisl»tur> passed more judici- ous and humane laws than any previou# * General Ass mbly, but that their law# V '.J are ignored or openly violated by th« * j| corporations, who propose to make a le*' gal tight in opposition thereto even to the court of last resort Robert MeCon- nell, of Peoria, was chosen State Mastet ' £ Workman. • • V t LVDWIO D. Erb died in the guard*- ,4~; house at tho Soldiers' Home, Quincy*- . and was said to have been killed by ill . ... . treatment But investigation shows that , he died ot delirium tremens, and wa# cared for as kindly as possib e. , THE Governor has appointed Myron C» 1, Dudley public administrator for Dupag^f County. _ . • "<c v. A REQUISITION was issued by the Gov«»f ernor for Mosc Johnson, who is undeE|, arrest at Cleveland, Ohio, and is wauled at Jacksonville for robbery. Isjy. TBE Mascoutah Electric Light Com- pan? nas been incorporated. It Is posed of local capitalists. i THE Council of Belleville has annulled the franchiso of the Alexander Horsw.^SRi! Railway Company. Citizens held a meet­ ing and organized a company to con­ struct an electric line on the same right , of wav. . 1 A WABASH passenger train collided at &{•>) % Homer, east of Springfield, with tho rear end of a freight, which was side- ' tracked Tho baggage, mail, and smok-,, ing cars wore telescoped. Engineer1 ' "I* Frank Clark, of Springfield, died. A. J. _ Mourning, of Quincy, chief mail clerk, ' had his skull fractured, piy»bably fatal-. . ly: C. A. Compton. Toledo, Ohio, mail : ^ , clerk, feet and hands badly crushed; Fireman Henrv M. Onel, Springfield, "fl severe cut on head; L. H. Gerke, Fort - ' 3$ ^ Wayne, fnd., legs ladiy bru sed. JN'o "J passengers injured. ADOLPII MII.I.EK, in jail at Mount ^ jCarmol, for robbing his father of *and Edward Wall, an accomplice, broke" " <jj jail during a parade of Rent« & Co.*s .« ?•" * circus. A reward has been offered for their capture. SAMUF.l L. and Julia Smith, a dt- q \ A vorced coaplo of Springfield, wer^ re- ^ it j married at Greenville.. ,g/ ' CHICAGO coopers held a meeting, and . 4 it was reported that tho committee ap-» t* pointed to confer with the stone-polish- ' .y[' h ers. shoemakers and harness-makers, *" concerning tho advisability of begiuuing impeachment proceedings against vari- ous State officials, because of the adop- '4' tion of the contract system at the State - j Penitentiary,ftad mot with encourage- £ mcnt. Tho idea of joint action was , discussed and adopted. It is probab e g| "i that within a fortnight the unions of the ^ four trades mentioned wiil unite and publish their complaints and demands, ".JJ gi aud will then push the impeachment - f proceedings in tho courts. Wiu.iAM Ru n, the farmer whodisap- ,V'J t.; peared from liis home near Salem, sur- M prised his .family by returning. Hun- ^^1®% dreds of his neighbors had searched for ! him in vain. . He is not materially changed in appearance an:l his mental condition is but litt'e impaired, though he lias given no information as to his wanderings- . AT t linton a couple of tramps onrf- lari/ed MeHenry A Bailor's hardware store, taking S»0 worth of pocket-knives and a revolver. The night watchman caught the burglars. A KKWAKO of is offered for Thus. McClaren and Tony Kleb» r, two toughs of Carl vie. They fractured the skull of Anthony Hubert and Injured A. ILFerd. * " f1 vim .j.im. mmm