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-;xm. r . % ^*jmcaiMM&.i^./>,,-.-Mx^ -jfrm *., #*.*'*.&•> ^ff^xTr'- ^* * « I v7, - "* jfn : 1 V "v #'•** t.i V' * ••»/• • "•>£>,,* tiwgflamtlcatar I VAW 8LYKE. Editor at* PublUher. McHEKF.Y, ... ILLINOIS lii.^ THE Micawbers wait for something "to turn up," but wide-awake peopte advertise for what they want. IOHN Chinaman continues to take fa washing, and allows Uncle Sam to do all the worrying over the Geary act No WOSDEU people can't under­ stand finance when it's alleged the more gold sroes abroad the closer it geta 4 IT is said that France proposes to spend $2,000,000 upon ammunition and arms, for her cavalry alone, dur- fr.i - fag the coming year. -- THE leather trust, which is said to represent $120,000,000, has more sole than most of the trusts. But it will '•squeak" before the people are through with it. Trust# have got to from Cambridge a pamphlet concern­ ing students expenses made up of let­ ters from men who have been through college, and some of the records are remarkable in showing how economi­ cally it can be done by a bright young fellow with the motto "where there is a will there is a way." We are almost tempted to pijt fa some fa- stances the slangy inquiry, „ what sort of nerve food do you patronize. To those with little backbone the read* ingof it would"ptebably have the ef­ fect either to brace them up or dis­ courage them altogether. r, v KO­ TO KNOW how bad you are, become poo^ to know how bad other people are, become rich. Many a man thinks it is virtue that keeps him from turning rascal, when it is only a full stomach. EITHER the Congressmen are un­ fortunate in their selections, or thereP is something the matter with the boys of the country, lor oat ot 166 candidates for admission to West Point only forty-three passed the ex­ amination. THE announcement that, the Span­ ish government jiow buys ofi Cuban rebels on the ground that it ischeaper, suggests the possibility that some­ body with money, like Uncle Sam, might buy off the Spanish govern­ ment if there was anything fa it. EMPEROR WILHELM visite<£ one of the German transatlantic steamships the other day. "This is too splendid for me," he said; "if I go to America I shall have to take second class." He may have to take third class sud­ denly if he doesn't stop threatening Germany. ONE of the interesting features In the design of many new locomotives is the increased length given to the ports through which steam enters the cylinders. When an engine is run­ ning at the rate of fifty miles an hour the time that is given to the steam to pass in and outt of the cylinder is very little, and it needs all the open­ ings it can get in order to flow in the proper manner. For some unex­ plained reason many designers of lo- comotives have been opposed to mak­ ing these forts as large as could easily be done, but recently the Pitts­ burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail­ way has increased the length of ports of a number of engines from 18 and 19 to 23 inches, and the Big Four road has placed nearly forty locomo­ tives in service with ports of 23 inches in length. THE SOLDIER HATERS. RENEWED EVIDENCES OF TER ANIMOSITY. •tfr- IT is remarked that in the partition of Africa the natives come in where the JJorth American Indians did when the white man appropriated •everything in sight on this continent It may be remarked that the African stands a tine chance of going out as the red man did on this continent THE New York papers are claim­ ing that Gotham is more strongly opposed to drunkenness than any other city in the world. The moral consolation of this assurance is some­ what impaired from the fact that the sobriety claimed for the city is ac­ counted for in the practice of the leading saloons of shutting off a man's grog when it becomes apparent that he is getting too many sails in the wind. Of course he takes on the balance of his cargo at an accessible port and the stand made for so­ briety under this system does not amount to much. There may be something in the claim that outsiders who visit New York do most of the drinking, but Gothaiuites abroad in­ dicate by their habits that home consumption has a good deal to do with the prosperity of saloon keepers in the metropolis. A MORPHINE eater is always accus­ ing other people of the habits When you hear persons accusing others of any sin, it will be well to watch them. Their minds run on that particular sin: probably because they are guilty of it The worst people are nearly always the most inveterate gossips. BOSTON has a Cogswell fountain, though the matter has not been bruited abroad much, owing to a local pride that is strocg in that city. The fountain has just been taken from the common, and will be placed in a cemetery, where, it is believed, those who have to be near it will make no protest AT Denver recently a citizen went upon the roof of his house, grasped an «lectric wire and fell dead. He had touched the wire only with one hand. Scientists are claiming that electro­ cution as applied to murderers is not fatal, but only puts the subjects into a quiescent state. Can it be possible that science is in error? JEFFERSON VILLE, lnd., I# the Mecca for eloping couples from that State and from Illinois and Keutucky. Six happy twains of elopers were made one in Jeffersonville in one day Recently. The explanation given by these couples is invariably to the ef­ fect that it is cheaper to run away than to be married at home. It is possible that economy is at the bot­ tom of many modern elopements. How unromantic! Instead of the old story of the stern and unrelenting parent, the rope ladder by moonlight, the pursuit the hasty wedding on horseback, or in a wayside inn, we have the picture of the prudent lov­ ers figuring out the cost of the wed­ ding supper, the worth of theexpected presents and what they will bring, and setting down against the differ­ ence the expense of an elopement This is truly a material age. THE popularity of the study of Dante is rapidly increasing a cir­ cumstance probably due to the mod­ ern non-acceptance of Hell as a smok­ ing reality. People may now study Dante without the shudder of horror chasing up and down their spines, and ascribe his vision less to an ac­ curate prophetic eye than to a bad liver. HONEST acknowledgment of a spe­ cific offence is never exaggerated or overdone. It carries with it a pledge of truth and sincerity, and betokens the regret and desirer for improve­ ment of the one who utters it If received in the same spirit, it will be one of the best safeguards of social peace and a steadfast promoter of so­ cial happiness. SPEAKING of the comparative mer­ its df American and foreign watches, •a jeweler of 50 years' experience says that he has "one objection to Amer­ ican watches; they are so strong and so well made that a man of little ex­ perience can, as a rule, make them ' to^iooeggs PETER ROBERTS of Lyons, Kan., is the latest victim of the hat-snatching trick at Chieago, as practiced by the south side amazons. His hat was grabbed by a negress who, as usual ran into a hallway. Mr. Roberts fol lowed, when two other female thugs seized him and relieved him of $780 The police department of Chicago has thus far proved itself utterly un able to deal withjthe burlyj amazons who lurk in hallways and dart out upon their victims like hideous black spiders. Perhaps now that General Dodds, the conqueror of the Da homeyan women, is disengaged he could be induced to come over here and lead one of his regiments against the amazons of Chicago. It is about time, for the sake of the city's good fame, that they were hunted from cover and cleaned out It is bard to understand what is the source of the influence which these women have held for so long over the police au­ thorities of Chicago Their personal charms can hardly account for it run well, and they are so durable that if you sell a man a good one, that is the last one he is likely ever to want" Here's another illustration of the fact that different people look at a thing from different points, of view. An Alligator's Nest. Alligators' nests resemble haycocks more than anything else to which they can be compared. They average about four feet in height and about five feet in diameter, and are con­ structed Of grasses and herbage. First the mother 'gator deposits one layer of eggs on a mortar-like floor, and having covered this with a stratum of mud and herbage about eight inches thick, lays another set of eggs upon that, and so on to the j top, there being commonly from 100 in a nest With their THE disappointed gun designers who entered into the competition which lesulted in the recommenda­ tion of the Krag-Jorgen§on gun by the army board are determined to make a scandal out of the matter if possible The officers who conducted the tests were desirous of securing the gun that could be relied upon to Still the largest number of men in the shortest time, with the least liability to get out of order. The tests were thorough and the decision apparently Correct. | Ma. FRANK BOLIJES, the secretary &> of Harvard University, has published • , -'-a,., ' • '• . * ' •' i tails the parents then beat down the tall grass and weeds to prevent the approach of unseen enemies. The female watches her eggs until they are hatched by the heat of the suu, and then takes her brood under her own care, defending them and pro­ viding for their subsistence. Dr. Lutzemburg of New Orleans, once packed one of these nests for ship­ ment to St Petersburg, but theyoune batched out before they were started on the long voyage, and were kept about the doctor's premises, running all over the house, and up and down stairs, whining like young puppies. Proof Positive. A lady very fond of cats and a man devoted to dogs fell into a contro­ versy over the merits of those ani. mala In the midst of it the lady said: "So you really think that dogs sometimes possess more intelligence than their masters?" "Certainly, I've got one inywUX that does." s • i. Ihe Old Ruling* Governing the Appoint­ ment of Pension Boards Have Been Hide-Tracked and Nouc but DeiwMawts Are Now In It. Democratic Pension - A Washington special in the Louis­ ville Courier-Journal thus gives fur* ther evidence that President Cleve­ land is determined to carry out the policy of reorganizing all the Pen­ sion Examining Boards and making their membership wholly Democratic: There Is at least one ruan ^u'office here who believes thai Democrats alone should get the pluroa Judge Lo^hren. Commis­ s i o n e r o f P e n s i o n s , l i a s S i d e - t r a c k e d t h j old rulings gevernlug the appointments of medical boards. Instead of putting two Democrats and one Republican on a board as heretofore, he will uow appoint throe loyal sons of the Democracy. He thinks this will strike at the very root of the pen­ sion evil He is cogcUant of the fact that this new department wilt cause a stir, but he will carry out his policy mtih firmnessX "This one thing the Democrats have com­ mitted themselves te do," he is quoted as saying, "to sift as far as possible the rub­ bish which ^as been drifting Into this pen­ sion cesspocL The part/- bus commltu d itself to reform iu this matter, aud there is no better way to nrtike a start than by baring Democrats on these boards." The President will probably support this plan of reform. It is Jcnown that Secretary Smith wants a house-cleaning in the ten­ sion department, and it is in following out Uils line of thought, it is believed, that Judge Lcchren has taken his present stand. It is generally believed that Judge Loch- ren too1^ this step after consultation with President Cleveland and Secretary Sulth. Hence there Is more than ordinary sig­ nificance in the announcement. President Cleveland has never for­ given the Union veterans for defeat­ ing his re-election in 1888, and they will never forgive themselves for re­ electing him in 1892. Heretofore the Pension Examing Boards "have con­ sisted of two Republicans and one Democrat, or vice versa, but here­ after the members will all be Demo­ crats." So says the Courier-Journal special, and it truly adde: "There is more than ordinary significance in the announcement"--to the Union veterans who prevented the Demo­ crats from destroying the Nation during the long and bloody struggle between loyalty and treason in 1861-5. Judge Lochren was a Union soldier of good record, but he is now merely the tool of a conscript who permitted his own substitute to die in a poor-house, and is now deter­ mined to make the poor-iiouses the last habitations of as many disabled Union veterans as he can force with­ in thelrwalls. The New York Press and the Des Moines Register are united in the statement that "it is an undoubted fact that the administration pro­ poses to conduct a merciless campaign against the men that saved the na­ tion. The Democratic party was the malignant foe of the Union soldiers in the years when half the Democracy was employed in shooting them do*n on the battlefield, while a large ma­ jority of the other half was talking treason in the rear of the loyal armies. It has been their foe during all the years of Republican govern­ ment at Washington, but it has been powerless until now to carry its hatred into effective action. Dur­ ing Mr. Cleveland's former term a Republican Senate constituted a bulwark for the veterans which the Bourbons could not storm. The Democratic execijtive repeatedly manifested his enmity and his con­ tempt toward them in his sneering pension vetoes; but the Democracy was able to do the veterans compara­ tively little harm. Now, from the only President elected since the war who never bore arms in the nation's service, down, the Federal Govern- nent is Democratic. The warfare on the veterans is to begin in deadly earnest. The Republican party, the unfaltering champion and the friend of the Uuiim soldier, takes up the gage of battle in his behalf. No genuine Republican desires to see a single pension dishonestly drawn from the National Treasury; but the Ptirty e? urant and Ilaycs, of Gar­ field and Harrison will resist by every means in its power the pur­ pose of the Democracy to rob the veterans and the families of veteraus of the bone tits to which they are Justly entitled by the laws of a grateful nation. * the natural reaction which inevitably follows very rapid growth. A few bad seasons with their poor crops- precipitated it, and the better yields of the past few years have gone far toward dissipating, it -- Cleveland Leader. What Democracy Cortt the People. A New York Democratic newspa­ per asserts that outside the specu­ lative "industrials" the recent shrink­ age in stocks dealt in on the New York Stock Exchange amounts to about four hundtetl millions of lars, and that the total loss to LEGISLATIVE DOINGS. WORK Pf THE STATE SOLONS AT THE CAPITAL. Beeord or One V7e*k's Business--Measure* Presented* Considered and passed-- What Our Public Servants Ate rvjwy Ia and Artmnd legislative Halls. * The Law-Makers. Friday..-after an exciting session, the House passed the Congressional reappor­ tionment bill. In the Senate the bill pro- dol- | that the State shall pay for Coro- ; nets'inquests on bodies of persons dying In nuniir rlirpcf inrl indirect" | State Institutions was passed, as was also puoiic, direct ana indirect, has been the bill appropriating fu.so* to pay the nnnrlv nr»A mi linn ,-1^11 . . „ . . } Western Farmers Are Prosperous. The testimony is overwhelming which proves that the wave of agri­ cultural depression in the West has begun to retreat and that many of the evils which called the Farmers' Alliance into existence are dying of inanition. The great political out­ cry about farm mortgages a few years ago was in large part trickery, and it is now known with certainly that the entire agitation was grossly exagger­ ated. Mr. Edward Atkinson has in­ vestigated the subject very thorough-, ly and is well qualified to be an im­ partial witness. He declares that the farm indebtedness in the country at large, West as well as East, is little, if any, greater in proportion than that of almost any other indus­ try. As everyone is aware, credit and borrowed capital cut a very large figure in all industrial enterprises and transactions, and the farmers carry their burdens as well as the manufacturer or the merchant Mr. Atkinson is in a position where he nearly one thousand million dollars. The organ in question remarks com­ placently that "it is surely a wonder­ ful country in which so.great a ca­ lamity is borne without a panic and without ruin to legitimate industry or even to tolerably well founded speculative enterprises." The fact that the nation has been able to en­ dure tretnendous loss without panic .or widespread disaster shows how firmly and deeply the foundations of the national prosperity have been laid. For thirty-two years the country has been governed by Repul> lican laws: for twenty-eight years of this period Republican administra­ tions have been in power at Wash­ ington. In that time the mightiest rebellion in history has been sup­ pressed, the political institutions of the nation have been iirgely recon­ structed, an enormous national debt has been practically extinguished, and yet the country's wealth has in­ creased more than fourfold. No single interest has been unjustly favored by Republican legislation. The pro­ tective tariff has brought about a magnificent industrial development the dollar of the workingman has been made equal to the dollar of the millionaire, and the nation has been made so strong that it has just borne losses mounting into the hundreds of millions without panic. No better eulogy can be pronounced on Repub­ lican rule than the simple statement of this fact But the strength of the nation does not excuse the assaults which the Democratic party has made upon it and which it contemplates making in the future. The prospect of the pros­ tration of American industry by Dem­ ocratic free trade and the egregious blunders in finance committed by Cleveland's administration have work­ ed serious damage already. The en­ durance of a nation, like the endur­ ance ot a man, has its limit It is the duty of the Republican party to prepare to resist to the utmost by every constitutional means the exe­ cution of the Democratic program of destruction. The losses lately sus­ tained by the country are trivial in comparison with the overwhelming disaster which must follow free trade and the degradation of the currency, and the Bourbons that rule the Dem­ ocracy are bent upon both. - Democratic (it r.'ymind >rs in Illlnolk. The Illinois Legislature has Juflfc passed a Senatorial apportionment bill which is declared, by so good an authority as the Chicago Inter Ocean, to be "the most outrageous gerry­ mander that ever disgraced the stat­ ute-books." The purpose, of course, is to give the Democrats control of the Legislature, and the districts have been so contrived as to make less than seven Democrats count for more than ten Republicans. This bill was rushed through the Legisla­ ture only by defying all parliament tary usage. Fortunately, the pro­ visions of the Illinois Constitution, which this gerrymander violates, are explicit, and the Supreme Court of the State cannot well avoid declar­ ing the act null and void. , In both Michigan and Wisconsin Democratic gerrymanders have been recently set aside by the Supreme Courts of those States. The Demo­ crats of the Illinois Legislature now propose to rearrange the Congression­ al districts In a similar outrageous fashion. The Republicans should neglect no point which may aid in presenting the issue clearly to the Supreme Court. The fate of these gerrymanders is of interest to the whole country, because they are de­ signed to affect the representations of the State of Lincoln and Logan in both branches of Congress. ©RBW OP THEIR WtLLS. employes of the General Assembly. The following was received from the Governor and referred to the Committee on Judi­ ciary: uI desire to call your attention to the manner of investing the endow­ ment funds of the university of the State The law at present requires that these funds be Invested In either United States bonds or State, municipal or school bonds, nearly all of which bear a very low rate of interest, most of them bearing only * Per cent to 4% per cent, and are difficult to get at that. Experience has demonstrated that loans on Improved real estate make the best security and pay the highest rate of Interest, it being easy to secure 6 per cwats. and sometimes 6*^ per cent, on this class of loans, with interest payable semi-annually, security absolutely good, and no charges of any kind to be paid the lender. As this would make a vefy great difference in the income of the university, I respectfully urge your honor­ able body to so amend the law as to permit the trustees to loan the funds of the uni­ versity on the security of this character before an adjournment is taken, as It I* a matter of very great Importance to th? university. JOHN P. ATTOELD, Governor." Representative Kobe's bill removing the legal limit placed on a human life was.de- feated in the House Wednesday. The Sen­ ate passed the House congressional appor­ tionment bill with amendments, and the House concurred. The amendments mere­ ly relate to the description of the bound­ aries of several districts. Mr. Spellman's bill to prevent railway companies pother than street railway companies) frora charging more than 3 cents per mile for carrying passengers who fall to purchase tickets failed to pass. The House Thursday received a message from the Governor recommending an in­ crease of judges in Chicago and the ap­ pointment of a commission to revise the statutes of the state. The bill to prohibit railway companies from charging 10 cents extra when a passenger fails to purchase a ticket before entering the cars failed to pass. In the Senate these bills passed: To Mtahllsh a state reformatory for girls and appropriating $75,000 therefor; to protect employes and guarantee their right to be­ long to labor organizations. (The bill makes It a misdemeanor for any member, agent, or employe of any corporation tc coerce or attempt to coerce any employe by discharging or threatening to discharge him because of his connection with a labor organ lea t Ion. The bill provides a penalty of S100 or Imprisonment for not more than «lx months or both it\ the discretion of the court) To provide a trial by jury In all cases where a judgment may be satisfied by imprisonment; to enable park commis­ sioners to maintain and govern parks and boulevards; to authorize corporate author­ ities having jurisdiction- and cotitrol of paries and boulevards to levy aspeclal tax; appropriating $22,000 to tl.e Illinois state reformatory at Pontlac for Improvements. SLAVES TO THE CIGARETTE. Protection In South Carollni. In rejoicing over the proposed building of a $200,000 factory in a neighboring town, the Charleston News and Courier, one of the ablest Southern organs of "tariff reform," declares that "the day is not far dis­ tant now when South Carolina will hot only manufacture every pound of cotton it grows, but will have to im­ port from other States to supply the demands of its mills. The record for the past few months is a new mill every week." That "culminating atrocity" known as the McKinley law scattered its blessings with an im­ partial hand. The State that gave John C. Calhoun to free trade and secession is equally favored with the rest of the Union. Wildcat Banks. The recent failure of a large num­ ber of banks in the West should prove a lesson to the public. Under the present banking system only the stockholders, and depositors in these institutions will be affected; no per­ son who holds currency issued by any one of these We SpeBfl Sixteen Millions a Vear ou To­ bacco In This Form. The American Tobacco Company, otherwise the cigarette trust, ought to have a progressive rate of dividends if the growing consumption of cigarettes is any test. The manufacture of these seductive little rolls of tobacco at the rate of about 10,(H 0,000 a day, and the exportation, which was at one time practically nothing, now stands to the Importation at the rate of 100 to 1. The Hgures of this branch of the to­ bacco trade become startling when taken out of the bald statistical tables and put in different shape. The official reports of the cigarette manufaoture which are carefully taken by the In ternal Kevenue Department, give a to tal of 16,581,646,440 cigarettes as the output for the past eight years. Taking the average length of each cigarette at three inches, this would make a total of 4,145,411,611 feet for the entire roll. Dividing this by 5,280, the number of feet in a mile, would make a total of 785,116 miles, or a cigarette girdle ex tending over thirty-one tiu.es around the earth. The total number of clcarettes made in this country for" a dozen' or more years past stands:, 1879, 238,276,817 18ii0, 408.7C8.365; 1881,537,395,938; 1882 554.544,18fi; 1883, 637,021,653;' 1884, 908,090,723; 1885, 1,058,749,228; 1886, 1,310,961,3:0; 1887, 1,584,505,200; 1888 1,862,726,If0; 1889, 2,154,575,360; 1890 2,426,515,380; 1891, 2,976,270,885; 1892 3,210,402,937. Calculated at the lowest retail rate oi 50 cents per 100, the cigarette smokers of the United States spend $16,052,019 a year on their hobby. Cave-dwellers of British Colombia. There is a curious tribe In British folumbkir known as the Snuswap In dlans. These Indians have given their name to one of the most teautllul lakes in the world. The trains of the North ern Pacific travel along its shores, and as the engine follows the winding banks its head is turned to every point of the compass. Dr. George M. Dawson, of the geological survey of Canada, has recently.written a paper on these In d!ans. He says their winter dwellings ate partly subterranean, and that in parts of their country there are hollows marking the former positions of houses whose underground portions must in some instances have bean twenty-five feet in diameter. Excavations are made on sheltered hillsides, which are cov ered with wooden framework and brush, and upon these a covering of earth is spread.--New York Sun. can prove this by'figures" of "ungues- ^ ̂ f,!ibly tionahlo cnrrp'pt.nMc «inH hie pjinHiu . dolldf, t)Ut Under the Wildcat" tionable correctness, and his conclu sions are the last nails in the coffin of the dead free trade lies over which his fellow free traders gloated for many months. The reasoning of Mr. Atkinson is, confirmed by the recent observations of Mr. S. T. K. Prime, a well-known Western authority on farm topics. Mr. Prime declares that in the past three years more mortgages have been paid off farms in the West than have been put on, and that farmers are becoming lenders instead of bor­ rowers. The Eastern farm mortgage companies are being driven out of business because the Western farmer can very frequently borrow the money he needs of his neighbor. The greater part of the money now being bor-1 rowed, as in the past, is spent for j better stock, more machinery, and | general improvements upon the farm, j It is not wasted, but becomes pro- I ductive and profitable These facts j are instructive. They completely I overthrow the wretched fallacy that the depression in farming was even a | remote result of the protective tariff, and prove it to be .nothing more than bank system to which the Democrats are pledged, the failure of these Western banks would hate involved the Qommunity in the loss of mill­ ions of dollars. But as it is only the burnt child that dreads the fire, we suppose we must h§ve the wildcat system in order to make the present generation appreciate the banking system we now have.-- Dolgeville Her­ ald. ZIMKI DWIGGIXB, the bank wreck­ er, is the only man who has made a practical attempt to enforce the Democratic theory of the banking business. Zimri is a Democrat, of course, and a violent enemy of the Republican theory of sound banks and a reliable currency. WHEN the Iowa Democrats put up Boies against Cleveland at Chicago they forfeited all their chances of getting patronage for the promotion of their success in this year's cam­ paign. --Grlobe- Democrat. IT'S a wonder that the Democrats do not blame the McKinley law for the high prices at the World's Fair. It* Birthmark. "The physician," says a ribald con temporary, "is the tnan who (describes change, and then takes all you have. One physician, while attending an ob­ stetrical case where the pay was not considered good, when asked, "Doctor, is the child marked in any way?" an­ swered, "It has only one little mark about it; but you can easily remove that." "What is that, doctor^^lt is marked 4C. O. D.' " Shoes at S130> Heel-and-toe tips of pierced and chased gold are now worn on some satin house slippers. The metal ornaments cost from $50 to $100 per set, and the shoes from $10 to $20 per pair, so that shoes and ornaments may cost as high as $120. .. They Hare Large Tree* There. In the Yosemite Valley, thfe "Father of the Forest," a fallen tree 300 feet long, and . several centuries old, has been hollowed out so that for a distanot of sixty yards a man can walk upright Inside it. . Ml8»ln)t Links. A CAMP of the Sons of Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic has been organized at Koanoke, Va. Isr Albany, N. Y., about 1814, the first carriages were made, all previous­ ly used having been imported from E i- gland. THE motto £ Pluribus 1'nura was taken from the title page of tie Gentle­ man's Magazine, at the time of the rev­ olution having a large circulation in the colonies. FOB the first time in the history of Belgium, it is said, the principle of a monetary compensation for breach of promise of marriage luis juat been es< tablished. 1 Cnrlooa Species ot Amoaement In. dnlgwd In by St. Lout Schoolgirls. There is never any telling what tialf a dozen boarding-school cirls may take it into their pretty heads to do. Their teachers have been surprised so jftcn that they are generally prepared for the most startling developments, but one of them in Louis was rather more amazed than usual the ither evening when she found "the young ladies" solemnly engaged in making their wills. Attached to these documents were explicit inj structions for the conduct of their re­ spective funerals The girls were quite in earnest about the matter. Thev were all pretty well provided with this world's troods. and they ha;: disposed of everything down to the s m a l l e s t i t e m . M i s s B -- t h e teffcher, who, according to the Post- Dispatch, is'young and the object of a vast amount of schoolgirl devotion, was decidedly curious to know what ideas thes? sweet young things have about funerals and kindred subjects. After much urging one of the girls consented to reveal what she had written. Stie first disposed of the bulk of her property, giving one-third to her older sister and two-thirds to her younger, because, as she said, the older one has a husband to t ike care of her. In case the youhgeron^ mar­ ried, however, she was to promptly even up. Some minor legacies fol­ lowed, among them being sundry gifts co her teachers and schoolmates. "Give Miss B so ran the doc­ ument, "my diamond cross, my um­ brella with the Dresden handle and my watch. Have a new mainspring put in it first. Give Miss G--- (another teacher) my books. 1 haven't very many now, but I'm go­ ing to get Dickens iu thirty-two volumes on my next birthday." After the will followed the in­ structions for the funeral and these were original and imperative. "I want to wear a blue dress of some sort and I want my feet covered up, but I do not want ope of those little tufted comforters spread over my face There'll be about sixteen of them sent in. Don't cross my hands and put a flower in them. I'm sure I don't know just what I want done with my hands. I never know myself where to put them unless I have a jacket with pockets or a muff and I suppose I ought not to wear those. I positively insist on not be­ ing ])laced on public exhibition, if any measly undertaker gets up and says in a mournful tone that those who wish to view the remains may pass up this aisle and out at the right I shall haunt him as surely as my name is Ldllian . Another thing; I don't want a lot of relatives crammed into the first carriaees and having a lovely free ride with their faces so beaming that everybody will think some stingy old codger is in the hearee. 1 warn you that If these relatives are not put back toward the rear of the procession I shall get out and walk. 1 want the children left at home. They can ride some other time. I know I don't waut them eat­ ing cookies and hanging out of the third carriage windows. And I want the grave lined with flowers. Fur­ thermore, as there isn't any law re­ quiring a minister to throw dirt on my coffin, I decline to have that on the program. Last^ out not least, see that my grave is kept green." ILLINOIS INCIDE!Tfg| "f , fm The Fourth ft. Education in the art of road build­ ing is so mut'li needed a*d so hard to obtain that an enthusiastic advo.ate of the road reform movement declares that to the proverbial three R's there should be added a fourth--Roads. The i?reat scientific British road builders. Macadam and Telford, were incited to their inventions by the pressing ueeds of agriculture and commerce. The fine, permanent highways which they laid out took the place of clumsy turnpikes with heavy tolls, which in their turn had been preceded by roads so wretched that 200 years ago, it is said, produce was often allowed to rot in one Eng­ lish village when in another only twenty miles away there was actual want Somewhat similar as to cause and effect are the well proved tacts that in some parts of this country farms only ten miles from large cities are worth but $25 an acre because of the bad roads leading to the city markets, while elsewhere farms thirty miles from a city, but connected with it by moael highways, are valued at from $200 to $300 an acre. In some sections of the country, also, it costs a quarter of the price re­ ceived for grain to pay for carting it to market over bad roads. If the farmers once knew what good roads could do for tham they would no longer, as Professor Shaler expresses it, "wallow in the mire of their ways, pay excessive tolls, en­ dure in a word a grinding taxation, generation after generation, without appreciating the burden which rests upon them."--Youth's Companion. iOBER O* STARTLINO. FAITH# " If FULLY RECORDED. v; Strange and Pttifal History of Ttefc Ai Fairbanks -- Jacksonville Deluged by i Cloud-Burs t--I. L. Morrison ProteM] Fatally Hart--"ltfi" Reunion. \ From Far and Xmr. JOHN HOPS ON was drowned whil* „ ^ bathing near Waveriy. A MISTAKE In the specifications mas,* • add $1,000,000 to the cost of the Cook ^ County drainage canal. $Q: TONY JACKSON, a farmer residing V near Hillsboro. was gored to death by ••-• •fS' bull while crossing a pasture. MBP. ELIZA REXTSCHLEB of Bent- . • schler, a pioneer citizen of Souther*, ^ ^ Illinois, died, aged about 90 years. " i MBS. FIJAKK KIXCAID, a leading • •• * - ^^S|! ciety woman of Crawfordsviile, hat "v "C$ eloped with her husband's hired man. * „ ? - MisSY, VIOLET MORAS, a handsome ; , V young woman of Tower Hill, left hom* ^ and has not been seen since. It is be* <• V lieved that she has eloped or has bees abducted. Gov. ALTGELD pardoned Joe Hoff­ man, alias Joe Karseznski, from furthejfe confinement in the Chicago Bridewelli He was under sentence for eighteen months for stealing 1892. $30 in February; THE Democratic "101," who, wita th# 1 aid of Moore and Cockrell, elected Johii M. Palmer to the United States Senate two years ago, have decided to hold a.' • .!j reunion. They do not want the"Logant> 103" to get all the glory of reunions and banquets. . T? ' AT Lincoln, James Whiteside, oolored». vt;* was sentenced to eight years in'tb#.?- | Joliet Penitentiary for forgery. 'White* - m h ^ side's offense was committed againsfr ^ his attorney, F. L. Capps, who bail" saved him from prison for previous al»,--*T.| leged misdeeds. V* „" T THE first of the series of commence* I » > ment exercises at Jacksonville, was tho,.'- baccalaureate sermon for the graduat? 1 . ing claes of the Illinois Female Collect. " of Music and Art It was at Grace M|-^ Vf * E. Church and was by Bev. J. T. Mc» t V - Farlan, former president of Iowa City • " College. „ ISAAC L. MORRISON, Vice President .I ' " and General Solicitor of the Jaei?soa« ville Southeastern line, one of the lead*' ing attorneys of Jacksonville, was rui| , over by an Adams express wagon, rev - ^v^ suiting in injuries which, it is feared^ : will prove fatal. He was a member ot 4 the Legis!ature, and has always beea " . an active worker in the Bepublicaa •party. » -yft. THE official certificate of the nomine* ation of William Mortland for member.. of the House of Representatives waiv'll filed in the ,office of the Secretary of . State. Mr. Mortland will be elected t<§ /; fill the vacancy caused by the death or* " Ernest Meyer, of Calhoun, in th<r Tbirty-sixth Senatorial District, ani will bring the Democratic memberships up to the original number, seventy* , v ^ •ight ; JACKSONVILLE was visited by worst storm in its entire history, Fri» •'T Zm day night. A rain which began after dark was rounded out With a regular - ^. cloudburst, and in a few minutes tho " ^ , . *> south part of the city was under water. The electric light plant had its fires p«t , Itf. out, and a large number of dwelling#* t w"- alonc the small brook in the Third and ; Fourth wards were inundated. Tha ' * * ml people living in the houses were terror* stricken and cried for help as the angry 4 ;.V floods surrounded them. The fire bell® ' r "Cf wire rung, and with boats and tin pro* -,'j r Tjjl vised rafts the persons in the greatest 1 ' -M danger were rescued. Great loss of ' property has resulted. ^ ^1' THIRTY years ago Thomas A. Fair*r;'-:,$l| banks was a prominent and well-to-do 4 farmer of §t. Clair County. He had a< h- ^ wife and a family of children. In 18 if 1 his wife died, after a long illness. This 4' . V*,' * and other expenses forced him to sell* ^ * J his home, and with his small children- jf* he moved to Massachusetts. Misfor* 5 tune followed, and he was compelled to.', ~ * £ , i*>; give up his children to relatives. He> . went to St. Louis to search for employ-"' ment, was run over by a runaway team* ^ lost his reason, and upon recovery of it ' '." was a victim to opium, which physi- clans had administered in large <juan- titles. He was the victim oi a second, -TX ^ accident and finally landed in an in* firmary. A week ago he received hisc, '~..M first letter for thirty years. It was '"js from a stranger, a husband of one of *T|| his daughters. For ten years his chil-. ,i3, dreu have been seeking him, and now . he will be cared for by them. FREDERICK HIRSCHOUSEB was ar- rested at Sedalia, Mo., on a telegram"/- , from Litchfield, saying that he was^ » Railway Speed Becorder. An instrument has been designed to meet the demand of railway offi­ cials for an accurate speed recorder and indicator. This invention can be readily applied to street railway cars, and will not only record on pa­ per but indicate on a dial similar to a steam gauge the speed in miles per hour. The recorder can also be ap­ plied to a locomotive, in which case it is placed in the cab, so that the engineer can see at a glance the actual speed he is running at as easily as he can see by the steam gauge how nruch steam he is carrying. When attached to a car the indicator is placed anywhere to suit the conven­ ience of the persons using it The record is made by the pressing of J* metallic pencil on a ribbon or tape. The ribbon lias horizontal and per­ pendicular lines, and each horizontal line from the base or zero line repre­ sents five miles per hour, ana each perpendicular line a mile passed along the road. The line traced on this paper shows by its distance from the base line the exact speed at which the train passes any point on the road, the number and location of the stops, the distance traveled, and the loca­ tion • and speed of any backward movements that may have been made. The power of recording runs lip to about ninety miles an hour. - - -- wanted there for forgery. He refuses^-T "' to talk. THE new Catholic Church at Pierron, V ^ was dedicated. The dedicatory sermon!? * was delivered by Rt. Rev. .1 «j?nes Ryan,# - of Alton, assisted by Father J. W. Crow,:^ of Jacksonville. CHARLES O. PEARCE, a farmer whose ' home was in Richland County, was in­ stantly killed by a cable train at Chi­ cago. Without signaling the train to» stop he jumped off and was struck by, another irain, which was moving at ai rapid rate of speed on another track. THE pupils of the Institution for the ,,a Blind in Jacksonville left for their • JV homes, the school year i aving closed. - *1 "Y The graduating exercises were held a ^ few weeks ago in order to release the seniors who would be wanted for the work of the institute at the World's . Fair. The institution has had a pros- ' ( ^ / J perous year and the largest attendance ^ THE BE is too much about some men. WatejNfd stoc* in its history, and the prospects for the work in future are promising. G. W. BELL and his two daughters > registered at a Chicago hotel from \ Colorado Springs. The following irorn- h ing the watchman noticed the odor ot gas from Mr. Bell's room. Mr. Pell was found ia an unconscious condition • and the gas jet turned on full force. He ' died without regaining consciousness. *» Manager Sellers said he cautioned Mr. • Bell about the gas. Mr. Bell was 70 years and was well known in Colorado Springs. The remains w«re sent there for interment. THE Illinois College of Music closed a successful year at Jacksonville, and the graduating exercises were held in N Centenary Church. The young ladies receiving diplomas were: Misses Lucia Kellogg Orr, Blanche Amelia Massie, » Flora May Best and Eleanor Louise Arenz. AFTER carefully shaving himself Jos­ eph Gurry, of Chicago, drew the ra^or across his throat, killing himself in­ stantly. Gurry was a native of Ire­ land. He was not mariied and had been out of employment for some time. It is thought that despondency caused him to kill himself. AT Springfield Judge Creighton ren- ! dered a decision on the motion of coun­ sel for ex-Auditor Pavey for a rule Ml the plaintiff to tile a bill of particulars. The motion was allowed and the prose­ cution ordered to tile the bill prayed for in support of the money breaches al­ leged in the declaration. Attorney General Moloney will charge that Mr. Pavey illegally retaiued from the rev­ enues of the Auditor's office the sum of $5 per day while attending the session* of the State Foard of Equalisation; the sum of S5.0W each year for clerk hire and attorney's fees, a&d an amount approximating $io,<N0 a ymx ia and fees subsequently paid totci IM State treasury. < ' , 1 •ym- - 'A I"