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mm J. 8LYKE, MtfEMNHT,*""* T end PuWisher. - ILUNOI& Sows men are decent ror «wrenae nJy. ' ••MONEY makes the mare go;" and conversely, the mare not infrequently makes money go. THBS vigor of tbe medical experts make it quite unsafe for a New York man to lose his wife. . " f DECATUR NOW WORK OK THE STATK SQLONS AT THE CAPlTAW^t? LYNCHING. Hois NEWS. Sleeft ot tkw flfnin Dm 4 -- . ' by » Ilalt-IllloiMik H^llS lack the set humor. Men, s^ya, rarely neeob Mm quizzed. - - t!t!SgS«?H^SaSES~-5S . TBBmoFBimaewmnce^tlM Fay as a fraud. She will be remembered as the enthusiastic person now on the way to India in quest of a wooden head supposed to be possessed of much wisdom and a voice of fine timbre. However, to designate her as a fraud is harsh. A fraud de­ ceives. If Miss Fay has deceived anybody the unfortunate has much the sort of head she is looking for. CARRIAGE owners in Chicago who charge $22 a day for their rigs say that they are only (retting fair prices •t that. , A YOTTSG man takes no "hi?art!otis chances in marrying a girl who is ,'jjEppd. thoughtful, kind, and ioyaA ,tp hit mother m THE Colorado Supreme Court has decided that when a detective induces (with intent to betray him to the law) a man to enter into a criminal com­ pact, the detective himself is nc angel of innocence. This is a severe blow to tlie detective who instigates misdeeds and then exposes them. If j detectives are to be made to wear the stripes they earn in this fashion the profession will lose some of its bright* est lights. CHAMPION CORBETT'S pretty wife is going on the stage to help him in his acting, and, it may be, to observe his actions, too. THERE is some truth in palmistry as a science. Thus if a young fellow can get a pretty girl to give him her hand he can tell her the name of her future husband. A BABY 3 years old has died of ex­ cessive alcoholism in New York. Tbe pace that kills seems to be the favored one in Gotham, and they enter on it as early as possible. THE assignment of H. H. Warner, of patent medicine fame, marks financial trouble for a man who made money in fabulous sums, and at any time in years could have invested his fortune with an assurance of a pri ncely income. But it is the old story of always wanting more A fever, for speculation and unremuherative in­ vestments absorbed the munificent fortune which he had made with comparative ease. COULD the James brothers have got control of a State Legislature they would have indulged their natural proclivities and yet gone through life lis "honored and respected" citizens. R A SPECK of gold weighing the mil­ lionth part of a grain may be easily seen by the naked eye, science says, but what science do:sn't add is that the naked hand will grab for it, too, nnless it is restrained. THE deputies in the Bohemian diet have been lighting on the floor of the House with ink pots They should follow the example of American statesmen and leave alt the ink throwing to their journalistic par­ tisans ANOTHER adventurer has returned from Cocos Island without having found any of the fabled treasures. Yet there must be real treasure tnere. It is known that hopeful fortune- hunters have sunk about $100,000 in tbe sands THE history of a multitude of these great syndicate schemes, isere and abroad, is the same. Sometimes it is the original owners that make the profit, sometimes the promoters, who buy to sell again; but alwavs it is the purchasers that lose. Men whose business and who are sure of being able to maintain it, do not usu­ ally go into these combinations, un­ less assured of an immediate profit that the business cannot legiti­ mately yield. .Thus in the great maiority of cases the company ac­ quires a declining business, at a fic­ titious capitalization, and by the time tbe venders and the promoters have unloaded failure comes as a matter of course. A SERIES of six volumes written, illustrated, set up, printed, and bound by women is announced as a feature of this season of triumphant femininity. It is noticed, however, that over-bearing man manages to keep his grip on the financial end of the enterprise bv being the publisher. THE giant Monterey helpless in the meshes of a fisherman's net was a practical illustration of the brief span dividing the sublime from tbe ridicu­ lous. If the new navy undergo an­ other such humiliation boys will soon be bobbing with bent pins for men- of-war. • . IN 1891 the expenditures for public education in the State named were as follows: New York, $17,326,280; Pennsylvania* $13,518,708; Ohio, $10,- 817,280; Indiana, $6,403,480: Illinois, $13,512,778; Michigan, $5,458,841; Iowa $6,706,249; Missouri, $5F530,- 943; California, $5,187,162. A DENVER man tried to bribe a San Francisco policeman by using a bright new 10 cent pieces He barely escaped arrest. Denver people who visit the coast may as well under­ stand that there is not a policeman on the slope but would scorn a bribe; particularly a 10-cent bribe. AN ocean steamer 20 feet looger than the Great Eastern is to be con­ structed by one of the international lines. It will be 700 feet long; the Great Eastern was 080 feet long. The new steamer will have engines of 40,- 000 horse power, which is 5,000 more than the new Campania The Great Eastern's engines were of but 7,500 horse oower which was the cause of its failure in navigation. It is said that the new steamer will make 27 knots an hour, which is not improba­ ble, for it would have to go but a lit­ tle over seven times its own length to cover a mile. Besides considerable over a quarter of a mile would be gained by counting from the leaving point of the stern to the arriving point of the bow. AUSTRIA is having her usual trouble with Trieste, which will not be Austrianized. It is the old Alsace and Loralne story over again. Tri este is an Austrian seaport, but strongly Italian in its sympathies. There was a notable manifestation of Italianism when the famous opera "Rantazus" was produced, and a few days later the City Council was dis­ missed out and out, for passing reso­ lutions of congratulation to King Humbert and Queen Marguerite on the occasion of their silver wedding. The latest action of the Austrian Government has been to prohibit the opera of "Falstaff," by Yeidl, in Tri­ este. All this may mean much or little as between Italy and Austria, but it does not help to make Trieste a loyal Austrian city. THE new manager of the New York Herald is evidently determined to convince the public that the recent change in that journal does not im-1 ply a step backward. He has just j advertised for proposals for the erec­ tion of a building of from twelve to j twenty stories on the site of tbe present Herald building. WHAT need is there of a flying ma­ chine when the New York Centra! makes a mile in thirty-seconds, or at a rate of over 112 1-2 miles an hour? It will be some time, probably, before that rate of speed is kept up for any considerable time, as long, say, as it would take to go from New York to Chicago It is interesting, however, to know that steam is capable of such does not telL things. A PHILADELPHIA paper inquires with some degree of Interest, •'Can you regulate the liar?" Particular reference is had by it to the warmly imaginative novelist in charge of cir­ culation statistics. Out here tbe scheme is not simply to regulate the person in question. It goes even so Learning Civilised Methods. 1 "Change the name and the story is told of you," or, as Horace has it, in the original, Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, is the heading of a little information which a French contemporary brings from Russia for the consolation of the citizens of Bal­ timore who have just been gratified with the reading of a certain munici­ pal report In September of last year the City Council of Warsaw entered into a contract with a com cany for the removal of the snow from the streets They were to receive 33,000 roubles on New Year's day and the same amount on Easter for this work. It was further stipulated that incase of non-compliance the contractors should be fined fifty roubles for the first offense and fifty more for the second, etc. The company up to January had been fined 3,000 roubles for not doing anything, but permit­ ting tbe snow to yield to thaw and rain. The balance they quietly put in their own pocket and scornfully asked: "What are you going to do about it?" What they did between New Year's and Easter our informant Baltimore Sun. WHat i*it& fArtil-V PROPOSE TO DO, , ftwWon* to B« Mad* Free of IMp-- Breadstuff Ar» Moctly to B* Free, WUUe Potatoes Are Left Batyect to » Duty of Ten Per Coat. Of Interest to A(rlcaltaM» Tariff reform has seen the light of day in the shape of the draft of a new bill prepared by the TariS Com­ mittee of the Reform Club. This committee proposes to make provis­ ions free of duty, breadstuffs are. mostly to be made free, while pota­ toes are left subject to a duty of 10 per cent. It is of no interest to look into this proposal from the farmer's standpoint. A very exhaustive report has Just been published by the Department of Agriculture, dealing with the prin­ cipal agricultural products of the world. From this official source it appears that wheat, in seasons of average crops, is imported to any ex­ tent only by the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy, and practically the wheat markets of the world, for which all pioducing countries are striving, are limited to the United Kingdom and Belgium, whose aggregate net imports did not exceed 125,000,000 bushels of wheat annually over a period of ten years. Excluding these two countries, tbe report shows that "Europe is practi­ cally self-supporting, the excess in the Eastern countries being sufficient to meet the deficiencies in the West­ ern nations." In order to supply the European deficiency of 125,000,000 bushels of wheat, the fields of India, Australia, New Zealand, the Argen­ tine, Canada, Chili, and the United States are drawn upon. Last year the crop of the United States alone was 51(5,000,000 bushels, while our require­ ments for consumption and seed are given in the March report of the De- partmentof Agricultureat358,000,000 bushels, thus leaving a surplus of j 158,000,000 bushels alone from our last year's crop, which would more than supply the European de­ mand of 125,000,000 bushels, without calling upon the surplus of India, Canada, South America and Austral­ asia. Hitherto our farmers have been protected against the surplus wheat crops of other countries, says the American Economist, but if the Reform Club coimpityee's idea of making breadstuffs free be applied to wheat, then our farmers must com­ pete with the cheap labor surplus from India and elsewhere, which ex­ ceeds 50,000,000 bushels, besides our own surplus, for all of which there is no market available in seasons of ordinarily good crops. Evidently American farmers will have to turn their attention to some other crop than wheat. Tbe farmers out West were tired of protection and wanted a change. They will get It. Take the case of potatoes, which, we learn, are to be subject to a duty of 10 per cent., the present duty being 25 cents per bushel. Our pro­ duction of potatoes is comparatively small when the European potato crop is considered. The United States grows on an average 170,000,000 bushels of potatoes yearly, while thaj, of all Europe is about 2,700,000,- 000 bushels, Germany alone growing 1,000,000,000 bushels in good seasons. Every year we import more or less potatoes from Europe, and this sea­ son we have been very heavy im­ porters, although the duty is 25 cents per bushel. With a 10 per cent duty, equal to 5 cents per bushel, when potatoes are worth etaly 50 cents, it is easy to imagine how o.ur markets would be flooded with European and Cana­ dian potatoes. They are now worth a dollar in open market, and at this price the European shippers net 50 cents after deducting freight, duty, and other charges. What a harvest they would have with a duty of 5 cents per bushel!- The market would be in the hands of the foreigners in such seasons as our last one, the con­ sumer would have to pay a dollar just the same, the European shippers would net 70 cents instead of 50 cents, our revenue would be lessened by 20 cents on each bushel, and the European potato growers and ship­ pers would wax fat at the expense of American consumers. Potato culture would flourish abroad, as tbe Euro­ pean farmers would receive the amount that is now given to Ameri­ can farmers by a protective tariff. Decrease of Exports. Few persons who do not follow such matters closely realize to what extent our exports of staple commodities have fallen off. We give here some figures which will represent the facts in a manner more or less impressive. They show the exports for the eight months ending with February this year and last: Exports for eight months. Com, bushels Oat*, bushels Oatmeal, pounds Rye, bushels. IfcbflfS, __ as fflatMljfl pxogmnof The above extract from the edito­ rial columns of tbe World is well- worth reading and studying. That' newspaper admits that under the fortunate conditions ™hich prevail in this Republic, as the result of Re­ publican legislation and Republican administration, tbe American citizen dots not feel "the hard and inexora­ ble exactions of the tax gatherer." Yet that same newspaper, in har­ mony, it is said, with the views of Grover Cleveland himself, does not hesitate to advise the introduction here of the system of taxation which grinds down the people of Europe. Cleveland Goes Fishing. President Cleveland snubbed every surviving veteran when he snubbed a committee of the Grand Army of the Republic, who called at the White House to invite him to attend the services of Decoration Day at Arling­ ton by rudely sending a message to them that he was "too busy to go." President Cleveland insults the loyal sentiment of the country when he announces, as he did through his private secretary, that he is "to busy" to be present at the decoration of the graves of the Nation's dead, but that instead he is going fishing in the State at whose capital the bones of the chieftain of the Confederacy were on the day following to receive osten­ tatious honor. President Cleveland has gone fish­ ing on Decoration Day before. This is only one of the offensive methods by which the man who sent a substi­ tute to the war and who was au ob­ scure Buffalo politician while General j Harrison was leading the charge at Resica displays his contempt for the memory of the heroes who died that the Union might live. In his long series of messages vetoing pension bills Mr. Cleveland exhibited a lack of sympathy for the maimed and suf­ fering survivors of the civil war which might justly be called brutal. With coarse and malignant "humor" he jibed at the frequency of ailments and diseases resulting from a service from which he purchased snug and safe immunity. In pleading that he had»"no time" to cross the Potomac to Arlington on the morning of May 30, and in the same breath announc­ ing that he would go flsljing in the afternoon, Mr. Cleveland outraged both the memory of the dead and the sentiment of the living. It is impossible to disguise, even if any effort were made to do so, the Intent which lies behind this deliber­ ate insult to loyalty. The American people- are essentially practical. In subduing a continent within a cen­ tury they have developed more vigor than sentiment. But the memories of the mighty throes through which the republic passed in preserving its life have a hold upon the heart as well as a place in the history of the nation. The display of indifference by the Chief Magistrate himself to the one day set apart to the memory of those who fell in that struggle is a spectacle as humiliating as it is offensive. It is, however, In har­ mony with the hauling down of the stars and stripes at Honolulu and with tbe purpose of the Democratic party to degrade and pauperize the veterans of the war for the Union.-- New York Press. He Took Down tbe Flag:. The men who hauled down the flag thirty years ago seem to have a mon­ opoly of the president's considera­ tion. A few weeks ago Blount, who spent four years in trying to shoot down the flag, was sent to Hawaii to haul down the stars and stripes which had been floated there by a compe­ tent and patriotic administration. For these services Blount has since been made Minister to Hawaii, says the Des Moines Register. Another man who distinguished himself by hauling down the flag has since been promoted. This is Capt. Wm. H. Hammer, who has been appointed paymaster in the army. Capt Ham­ mer's great deed, the only one for ' , A _ which he is noted, wa3 hauling down j of excitement at Decatur now as the ,, - , . , ° _ I aaHati nf hAVArnnr Alteram trw-ilr \lAaf the flag which floated over Fort j Sumter. This was done on April i feAm Crowd Otttes the Ndfro Bu*h--Prompt Action of GOT, Altffeld-- Big Rewards Offered-- Not a Man Hacked. Story of the Tragedy; From the time Sam Bush, the negro aaaaflant, was lodged in jail at Deca­ tur Friday at noon, until 3 o'clock Sat­ urday morning, there were hundreds of people around the jaii. They were mostly residents of the city, and were Attracted there by a desire to see a lynching. Their wish was finally grati­ fied, for as the big clock in the court house marked the hour of 3 Bush was dangling in the air and dying ot stran­ gulation. Deputy Sheriff" Harry Midkiff had an armed guard inside the jail. It was about 1:30 o'clock in the morning when Charlie Scott, a big Mount Xion fanner, sauntered leisurely through the crowd of idlers and sized up the jail. The whisper immediately passed that the mob was coming. Scott disappeared as quickly as he came. Fifteen minutes later about fifty determined farmers from Mount Zion Bwept around the cor­ ner, and before the crowd really knew of their Dresence they were at . the jaii door demanding admittance. This was promptly denied, and the doors were at once forced It took nearly an hour to get to the prisoner's cell, four wrought iron doors barring the way. The minute Bush was outside a man stepped up with a rope. The lyncher* •took Bush about eighty feet from tha jail to the corner of the Grand Operw, House, and just opposite the Brunswick Hotel, 'lhe first attempt at hanging was by using a telephone pole guy-wire for a scaffold, but the wire broke. The rope was then thrown over a wooden arm near the top ot the pole, and with n ten minutes the victim aied by strangu­ lation. The crime for which Bush was lynched was committed on Tuesday. On Mot- day a negro attempted to assault Mrs. Hubbard Dills, who lives iust south of Decatur. The foliowing day the same negit) assaulted Mrs. Vest. Mrs. \est was sitting in her home sewing. No one was about except her little daughter, not quite two years old. The woman fought desperately, but was choked au roost into insensibility. Mrs. Vest finally managed to reach a neighbor's--John Hornbook's." A hundred armed farmers began a seareh, and on Friday tush was captured near Windsor. The prin­ cipal mark of identification was two big black patches in a light pair of trousers worn by Bush. When the negro was captured he acknowledged that he had been at the Vest residence, but denied hat he had attacked the woman. He said his home was Me con. Miss. Governor Altgeld teleeraphed for Mar­ shal Mason, Sheriff Midkiff and State's Attorney Mills to go to Springfield. As a result of this coYiference, and being fully advised in the premises, Governor Altgeld issued the following proclama­ tion: "Being authoritatively advisod that a mob broke down the doors of the jaii at Decatur, overpowered the officers of the jail, took from his cell a negro con­ fined th^re, dragged him out and killed him by hanging him to a post noar by, I hereby denounce this cowardly and diabolical act as not only murder ulder laws, but as a disgrace to our civiliza­ tion and a blot upon the fair name of our State. The prisoner was accused of assault, but stoutly protested his inno- cenoe. He was already in the custody of the law, and no matter with what crime he was charged and no matter whether guilty or innocent, he was en­ titled to a trial--a fair trial according to^law. It niust never be taid that the laws of our great and proud State do not afford protection to all without re­ gard to color or condition. "I therefore call upon all officers of the law, and especially of Macon Coun­ ty, as well as on all good citizens who respect law and cherish the honor of | the State, to do aJl in their power to bring the leaders of this great crime to justice. "I hereby offer a reward of $200 each for the apprehension and conviction of every man who helped to break the doors of the jail, overpower the officers and drag out the prisoner, or who as* sisted in killing "nim." State's Attorney Mills assured the Governor that the parties concerned in the lawless assault on the jail and in the hanging of Bush would be prose­ cuted with the utmost vigor. The lynching is not so much the cause Week's Bvciness-HeamurM Presented, ConstttoNd and What Onr Public SorvaaU AN Dotagr- IflfltuI Around I^*fslative Haltai Tlie Lsw-Mskcn. The Senate Friday did nothing ot Inter­ est beyond the advancement of the new ap­ portionment bill The House passed a bill appropriating $9,000 for a statue of Gen. Shields to be placed In the old Hall of Rep­ resentatives In the Capitol Building at Washington or in the Memorial Hall at the World's Fair grounds, if a permanent build­ ing of that character be provided for. The Senate advanced to third reading a bill mak­ ing an appropriation of 11,500 to pay the expenses of the committees of the Thirty- eighth General Assembly in the discharge of special duties and passed Senator John­ son's bill, authorizing and empowering judges in courts of record to sign bills of exception and approve appeal bonds. The bill to provirte for the management of the penitentiaries of the State and to desig­ nate one of them as a prison reformatory was defeated Both branches of the Leg­ islature adjourned until Monday uitfui. In the House Monday the only business was to advance several bills. In the Sen­ ate the general revenue bill was passed. The new Senatorial apportionment bill was engrossed for a third reading and placed first on the calendar. Senator Mahoney's motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill to provide for the management of the penitentiaries and to designate one of them as a reform prison failed to pass, was carried. The Senate Tuesday parsed the new ap­ portionment bill and sent It to the House, Tbe following Senate bills were then read a third time and passed: Making au ap­ propriation of tl,213,800 per annum for the nuri;oso of defraying the ordinary expenses of tho State charitable ins'L.^tioas. §5(3.000 annually for repairs and improvements thereof, and 33,300 annually for the main­ tenance of libraries therein. Making an appropriation ot $(>5,000 per annum for the ordinary expenses of the State Reforma­ tory at Pontlac, 94,000 per annum for re­ pairs and improvements, $300 per annum tor maintenance of library, and for inside and outside painting the sum ot St,000 per annum. Making an appropriation ot $120,- 000 annually for the Illinois National Guard. Representative Mclnerney's bill to make the term of office of tbe Cook County Commissioners two yean instead of cne was read a third time and passed. In tho House Wednesday Representa­ tive Ferns' anti-trust bill, Representative Berry's anti-trust bill and Representa­ tive Langhenry's bill to amend tho law so that the judges of the various courts In Cook County may by order pre­ scribe the days on which the cletks of their respective courts shall keep their offices open for the transaction of business were passed. A message was received in­ forming the House that the Senate refused to concur in the House amendment to. the State institutions appropriation bill whereby the appropriation for the li­ brary of the Soldlors and Sailors* Home was reduced from §500 to 8200. The House receded from its amendment. In the Senate, the bill increasing the fees for commencement o? suits In courts of Cook County failed to pass. Senator Hum­ phrey's bili to provide for the CrS&i'GU Of. pleasura driveways and park districts was passed. A resolution from the Committee on Expenses of tho General Assembly pro­ viding for the discharge of all the janitors except two. a 1 policemen except two, all committee clerks with the exception of two, and also the Assistant Superintendent of Ventilation, wa? adopted. Senator O'Conor's bill, to govern Are insurance companies not admitted to do business In the State, was passed. In the Senate Thursday these bills were passed: To enable cities and villages to tax, license and regulate Intelligence of­ fices; making a uniform fee for examtning banks in proportion to their capital stock, and abolishing the system ot paying mile­ age to the examiner; providing that fire- escapes shall be built on all buildings of four stories hereaf er erected; providing for local option in regard to poll tax: for the enlargement of Lincoln Park In Chi­ cago by filling in Lake Michigan. Others were advanced. In the House, besides the advancement of several bills, the bill pro­ viding that cities having a population of between 25,000 and 190,000 may by special taxation provide a fund for the purchase of land to be used : s park i and boule vards, and for the purpose of improving and maintaining the same,'was passed. a 1892. 45,804,050 7,148,134 16,820,hTO il.f49.330 Wheat, bushels llu.uT'.-ias Early Purchases ot the Indians. Capt. West, in the year 1610, bought the present site of Richmond, Va., for «*ome copper." The Dutch Governor, Minnit, bought the whole of Manhattan Island, the present site of the City of New York, "for sixty Dutch guilders, some of them being of a doubttul metal." Lord Balti- I more's company bought thousands of acres of fine lands for less than the far as to embody the hope of reform- j number of glass beads, including the ins him. But the Philadelphia liar may be more set in his ways. MR. HENRY FURNISS remarked, the other day, that he very seldom caricatures a woman. Mr. Fnrniss went on to explain that, on two or three occasions when he had suc­ cumbed to the temptation, be had raised a great deal of ill-feeling. site of the city of Christiana, "for which was paid one iron kettle of the bigness of live quarts or thereabouts." Roger Williams bought Rhode Island, "Little Rbody," for "forty fathoms of white beads, strung:" It has only been 265 years this spring since the site of New Haven, Ct, was bought for "twelve coats of En­ glish cloth, twelve spoons of mixed metal, twelve hoes, twelve hatchets, 1898. 27,378,36* 730,530 3,'i91,3C9 l,2tHi,20a 8a,450,513 Cotton $204,412,317 $142,602,711 The statistics to the end of March are not fully prepared at this writ­ ing, but it is reported that the ex­ ports of breadstuffs, provisions, cob* ton, and petroleum declined from $60,278,324 in March, 1892, to $42,- 377,368 in March, 1893. This falling off of exports will go far toward ex­ plaining the tendency of American gold to go abroad, although other causes for that movement obviously are in ojJeration, without regard for the silver purchase act, upon which the blame is placed. Just why our exports have decreased in such a manner may not be explained with readiness. The poverty of European consumers may have something to do with it, and some baneful force may be exerted by speculation. It i9, however, very curious, and by no means easily explicable, that the ex­ ports have fallen off simultaneously with a continuous decline <Jf prices. --The Manufacturer. Au Un^ardert Admls >io I. The New York World, the perianal organ of the egotist in the White House, and tbe special advocate of the introduction of aliens and mon­ archical methods of taxation, made an ungnarded admission in a recent issue. Speaking of Americans of German origin the World says: Though removed from the scenes of distress 14, 1861, and marked the first sur­ render to the Confederacy. It may be possible that President Cleveland had no idea of rewarding Capt. Ham­ mer for his services on that fatal morning. His friends say that he had not, but it is at least strange that the men who were conspicuous in being on the wrong side thirty years ago should now be so conspicu­ ous in the lists of appointments made by the President It shows, to many, that there is something more than mere chance in all these appoint­ ments of men who were then on the wrong side, and have since continued on that side, in everything except overt acts.* It is possible to forget and forgive the past without elevat­ ing the men who disgraced that past and filled it up with dead bodies and sad memories of war to the highest office in the nation now. A Point for the Tariff Reformers. Congressman Russell, of Connecti­ cut, in a letter to the editor of the American Economist, says of the effect of the new tariff-reform bill on the purchasing power of the people: HA chicken at 50 cents in this coun­ try is cheaper than a chicken at a shilling in England--if you've got the 50 cents here and haven't the shilling there." THE Cleveland Leader lectures a Populist organ because it published the farm mortgage figures which the Democratic managers gave out in 1890, and which the census reports disprove. In that list the farm mortgages of Indiana are put at $620,000,000; as collected by the census agents, tbe Indiana farm mortgages in 1890 amounted to $74,- 553,217, or about one-eighth of the Populist statement. It is not often that the Populist editor gets within seven-eighths of the truth.--Indian­ apolis Journal. THE statement that the ruling of the Secretary of the Interior will re­ duce the pension appropriation $15-,- 000,000 may be taken with much allowance, unless pensions are to be denied to all those who will be forced to go to the poorhouse unless they are granted the bounty of the United States. The ruling will be applauded by every Union soldier-hater and by From his experience he . had arrived 1 -DJD-tr_f®u_r_kn!ve.1 f We ?neToSf ! the ultra free trade element, who see at the conclusion that Some French knives and spoons" I tlons of the tax gatherer, wtueh one must ieel action of Governor Altgeld took. Most people Ihink that Macon County officers | can enforce the law without any help from the Governor. The officers com* ! mend the Governor for promptly offer­ ing a reward, and-say there will be no play about this prosecution; identifica­ tion will be easy. The Mt. Zion men who participated are quoted as saying they don't want only the leaders in­ dicted, they want the whole mob in­ dicted, and they also want the men who pursued tho negro indicted. Tho object Is to have so many implicated that con­ viction will bo well-nigh impossible. The negro element is worked up, and Wilson Woodward, a young colored at­ torney, has issued an inflammatory ad­ dress branding the lynchers as red- handed murderers, and calling a mass meeting of colored people. This will be held, but will not result in anything much beyond endeavoring to lurnish help to the officers in the prosecution. To Mark Battlefields. Gov. Ail geld has appointed the fol­ lowing commissioners to mark the posi­ tions of Illinois troops on the battle­ fields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga: Gen. John M. Palmer, of Springfield; Co!. J. E. Everest, of Chicago; Maj. L. M. Buford. of Rock Island; Col. H. E. Eives, of Paris; Maj. AV. E. Carlin, of Jerseyvllle; Gen. Smith 1). Atkins, of Freeport; Gen. J. B. Turchin, Col. E. D. Swayne, Maj. E. A. Blodgett, of Chi­ cago; and Maj. James A. Connolly, ot Springfield. HAPPENINGS AT CHICAGO. Some of the Events Which Vary Lift in the Big Town. Balph Brady, 4 years old. was run over by a heavy iron roller used for house-moving purposes. He wa3 play­ ing with a number of boys and girls. They saw the iron roller attached to a wagon coming along the street and all | started to climb onto it. He was more ' active than his companions and soon I was on top of it. He tried to stand [ erect, when the wagon gave a sudden | lurch, causing him to fail forward, and i the heavy rcller passed over his body, I killing him instantly. The driver was j locked up. He says he was not awai e j that the children were upon the roller, j WHILE her father was out collecting . Nathalie Bautenkranz, the 11-year-old j daughter of a dyer and cleaner at 884 West Lake street, was suffocated by i the tumes of gasoline. She had been , left in charge of the place. The room j where the accident occurred is used as the drying-room. In it was hanging a I quantity of clothing that had been dipped in gasoline, and a wooden re­ ceptacle conta ning a small quantity of i the liquid was standing on the floor. The girl had been in the habit of inhal- MICE SCARE ELEPHANTS. • . -- *• "r An interesting; Experiment Tried on Bar- num'a WUd Animals. To institute a comparison between an elephant and a woman sounds rather rude, but the fact has been very clearly demonstrated that each acts in about the same manner when confronted with such a harmless creature as a mouse. Sunday, in the winter quarters of the Barnum & Bailey circus in Bridgeport. Conn., a test was made to determine the degree of fear--if any--that a rodent would exercise on such beasts as the elephant, lion, tiger, panther, leopard and hyena. The result is most Interesting. Keeper Conkling tied a string around the body of a mouse and introduced it into the elephant eage near where the largest of a herd of thirteen pachyderms stood. It was a lucky thing that that elephant's hind legs were manacled with chains with links two inches thick. The big beast no sooner saw the little mouse than he reared up on his hind legs in fright. Down he came, and then began to tug at the chains. The mouse scampered around as far as the limit of the string wouid allow him, and lhe small eyes of the big elephant followed him in terror. Finding it useless to try to break his chains, the big elephant began to trem­ ble ail over, and then turned squarely ground and began to trumpet and scream. The quarters of the lions, the tigers, the panthers, the leopards, and the hyenas were then visited to see how they would recoive the mice. The lions were made acquainted with a big rat that bit their noses when they became familiar, and caused them to make ugly fac s. They did not seem to be fright­ ened at the rat, but they didn't seem to care to meddle with him a second time and he escaped. The panthers, leop­ ards and hyenas gobbled up the rodents. The tigers were very much frightened at sight of the mice and roared and tore around as though they were crazy. One of them, however, a royal Bengal tiger, which has only been from its native jungles a few months, was not scared. A Picnic for the Men. All the courting Is done by the women In the Ukraine, Russia. When a woman discovers a man she would like to marry, she visits him at his house, and tries to charm him. If he does not like her, he leave her, and lives elsewhere until she deserts his home. From T»r ud Kesr. JOHIT PAGE, a prominent farmer llvln# near Benton, was drowned. He ieav«# a large family and estate. IT has been found that the fences in*. closing Jackson Park leak at the tOtt They will be made higher. William H. LEE, the largest lamf owner in Fayette County, while looking after his cattle, was gored by a vicious bull. He cannot recovt r. R. R. Line died at his home in E' of erysipelas, aged 61 years. He the Prohibition candidate for State- Treasurer in 18iW, the candidate of the* party for Governor in 1»92, and ha» ; been conspicuous in it» councils for • a decade. ^ REPOBTS from Fayette and adjoining counties are to the effect that the armjt . worm is playing havoc with the crop#.; In localities whole fields of corn ami'; considerable meadow have been devas^- tated. The unexpected destruction of~ the crops has cau-ed the farmers to be* . come much alarmed. REV. FRED H. WISES. Secretary of the Illinois State Eoard of Public Chap* ltle«, has been offered the r>oR>tfon «*§- Secretary of the Board of Charities ana Correction of Colorado. He has not yet decided whether he will accept the tion. Mr. Wines has been Secretary of" i the Board of Public Charities of ••hla * State for twenty-four years. . 1', THREE people were held to the Graa& .;' •> Jury by the Coroner's jury at Chicag* f" for the death of the young woman killed by a Bock Island work train running : down a street can The woman waf^r• ldentified as Lea Eidrid, of Benton Har-* - bor, Mich. Those held are: W. I* Aaron, conductor; W, H. Canal©, engi* -Hi neer, and W. D. De Normandy, gate* lyi * man. £.;* THE other morning Wm. W. IshmaeV the Postmaster, and Michael B. Garber, the editor of the Illiopolls Record, haa a fight on the street. Tbe editor had his nose broken and was otherwise to.« jured, but Ishmael was hurt but, littlefc Tho difficulty was the outcome of thia local postofitice controversy, in whic|t the editor has been taking a prominent' part. AT Jacksonville, Rev. George BJ£> Wells, D. D., of Minneapolis, preached the baccalaureate sermon Sunday to the class of Illinois College which graduates this year. The exercises were held in the Congregational Church and were attended by a great many pei*fc sons. At the State Street Church ia • , • * '• the evening Rev. A. B. Morey, D. D., preached to the graduates of the Jack*. , -• . V- aonville Female Academy, ^ S A MAX who "went through" twenty*-, v J. eight buildings at Jackson Park ijp J' ^ ;v; seven hours, including the Art Building - $ the Horticultural, the Fisheries, and • ' *1 number of the attractions in the A way Plaieance, rushes into print to ait jj his exploit. Some day he ought to de>»r -- vote about fifteen minutes of his valu* v ^ able time to a thorough inspection of v the forty acres ot interesting exhibits >£> the Manufactures Building aud the# ' write a book about it. & THE remains of Mrs. Harrison, who would have shortly becoxue Queen ol v * . .< the Gypsies or "North America, were , " laid to rest Saturday afternoon in th# v 1 Green Mount Cemetery, between Mas^N, ^ ; eoutah and Belleville. She died 6up-t vj rounded by the leading Gypsy chiefs' .Ij*/ from that section of the country. About H H, one year ago the Gypsy Queen, a Mrs. > Young, died and the remains were t&keia to New Jersey and buried there in ae- V/: { cordance with the weird rites of the ? Gypsy tribes. In accordance with tho J unwritten Gypsy law a special meeting x W> was called to be held at Dayton, Ohio*? ' next September for the purpose of electing a Queen of North America, There were twenty-two contestants fof *' J the place, but Mrs. Harrison would • J* have been an easy winner, as she had/. <, Secured tlie" requisite number of vote* j of different tribes throughout the eoun- v i try, who instructed their chiefs to vote *;» "| for her. ; f " *1 THE S-year-old son of Samuel Es« J tague, of Jacksonville, fell from a wagon and was fatally crushed. ^ THE old-time army worm has male. Its appearance in the vicinity of Hills* : boro and is playing havoc with mead­ ows. wheat anl oats. Farmers de-,' scribe the worm as the genuine variety and state that hundreds of meadow^ and wheat anl oat fields have beoft completely ruined. It is also feared that the worm will work destruction In the corn fields. ,^a| -j Here It Is Hotter than Tophet. The region between the first and sec­ ond cataracts of the Nile is the hottest on the globe. It never rains there, and the natives do not believe foreigners who tell them that water can descend from the sky. -St. Louis Republic most lUCULXU ** > LUC UUU lUl'&UIaUlO cal,c j w utviuvuvt «UW OW I - . , . _ , , . , j qb of the tax gatherer, which one must ieel in & liberal nension nolirv the nrmi I gasoline fumes for toothache, ana | in order lady to appreciate, they take the | , , ® necee*^ theory is that this practice led to A Queer Place for Family The Princess of Wales has the por­ traits of her family and near relations photographed upon oups a nd saucers of the most delicate china. United States Ciuios. COTTON was first exported in 1783. BALTIMORE, in 1S16, introduced gas. THE first college was Harvard, in 1638. IN Boston, 1841. the first rope was made. UMBRELLA8 were imported from India In 1772. NAILS were first made in Rhode Island THE Cape Girardeau Tower Railroad has been sold by Suydam Grant, of New York, and Will* lam O. Garrison, of St. Louis, whO;>,. 'fi bought the road in at a Maater's sale. early this year, to the Chicago and";', V Texas Pacific Railroad Company. The .1 '• consideration was $2,500,000. The dee<| - of transfer was filed with the Circuit -x, i Clerk of Alexander County for record, , v % MBS. MORRIS NATHAN, of Blooming- Ington, intends to lay claim to heirship in the $107,000 paid-up stock of the > V.*V Western Gas Improving Company of . Chicago found in a valise which last " i week was boupht for $2 from a railway > ^ jf company at Montreal. She claims to \ Z1 be the cousin of Louis Haiberstadt, the owner of the stock, who is believed to have been murdered in October, 189i, . , in Broekville, Ont., and who had a wife N ,/f| at Naperville, where he once lived. WHEN Maj. Carl Brandt, of Mae- * \%i eoutah, died several weeks ago, he left * a peculiar will in which he bequeathed "I his heart to his wife in Germany, from whom he had been estranged a quarter of a century. In accordance with this wish the heart was removed and shipped; 1 l-'fi' to the widow in the Fatherland. The ^ftp^ heart came back Monday with the re- • \\ quest that it be turied with the Major's 4$ remains. Maj. Brandt was for many.. „ • years editor of the leading German1 « • 4 newspaper of Southern Illinois. THE safe at Huron:el's general store,'fllvvl at Lenzburg was robbed of $500. It ' " ] was evidently the work of professional J * 7* vtj eracksmen. . ^ Jf THE Palmer 101 gave their first bisa , f! ] nial banquet at the St Nicholas Hotel, - 2 Springfield. Short soeeches were made ^ by Vice President Stevenson, Senate* Palmer, Speaker Crafts, ex-State Sena- i,'i tor Newell, Representative Springer and r jf t jj others. Mr. Moore, one of the F. M. B. A. representatives who cast the decid­ ing vote for Gen. Palmer, was present, but his 1 oDeague, Mr. Cockreli, was not there. The festivities lasted until long after midnight. JOHN JAMI.SON, of Quiney, for yean superintendent of public schools, died Monday. AT Bloomington, Jacob Simon, upon trial for murder, was found guilty el •murder and sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for lifet Simon was convicted of poisoning Mlsa SttSie Hoover on the 20th day of Oetober last. Miss Hoover was but 17 yean of age, while Simon is upward of 40. Simon kept company with the girl for mora than a year. The circumstances et the girl's death would admit of no doubt that death was caused by stiyehntne. The crime was conclusively proved up­ on Simon and ten of the jury wore for j* 1