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W*?V <T.;. r̂ rw- i-?~ r ^-iJrmi r^Lf • i :..J...affl-. s* £ ' * -.a -. V J. VAN tLYKE, UOm tmi PaklHher. - "- 7"" ILLINOIS, THE diamond cuttei's trade affords proof that It takes bard work; to achieve brilliant results. •i, -| ,Aii£tbe waiters in Kansas went on a strike. It didn't matter much. Kansas City people generally regard waiters as an extravagant and -useless luxury anyhow. > IT is safe to predict that if the Cam- "bridsre barber who refused to cut the colored student's hair continues to do business at the old stand in the vi­ cinity of Harvard College, he will do 60 only at cut rate^ -- soiled, and withdmwn thence abso­ lutely clean and readr for use? Or what do you say to frocks which need only to be brushed with a hair brush dipned inSoap and water to be fresh for a new ball or reception? If one can manage to invent a class dress on which new patterns can be painted as often as required, paterfamilias will rise up and call the inventor blessed. ' THE astonishing thin# about the fast armored cruiser New York, that beat the speed record and won 8200,- 000 prize money, is that she was built in Philadelphia, where speed was supposed to be an unknown quantity. THE Nicaragua gentlemen who pointed a large gun at an American ship have reason to congratulate themselves that they pointed it away again. They would have round the damage from the recoil the really serious pari of affair. "I MARRIED that woman to have her support me, and she failed to do it," explained a Chicago man, ar­ raigned tor beating his wife, as he wiped away a tear. The court was so sorry for him that the county will support him now for sixty days. A number of Cherokees are in Wall street seeking the loan of $6,000,000. The circumstance is not without im­ portance. If thev Ret the loan and get away with it then old "Lo! the Poor Indian" will go out of date and MHi! the Rich Indtan" take his place. THE Italian may fool around until he invokes a law such as has been passed tor the deportation of the Chinese One of the representatives from the Southern clime has b«en arrested in Pittsburgh for gilding nickels and selling them for $5 gold pieces. ' ONE reason that banks have been failing seems to be that the capital supposed to be in tjbem has been out­ side hunting wildcat investmants. When banking capital acquires this habit it is as shadowy and evanescent as the. fine imposed by a Police Judge for contempt. LONDON has voted £2,500 to the Duke of York and Princess Victoria of Teck in token of approval of their betrothal. The untitled paupers of England Vho are merely engaged in battling for bread, and betrothed to destitution, have not yet secured such kindly municipal atterftiota. •THE Earl and Countis of Craven," is the way the hotel clerk entered It on the register at Chicago. If these foreigners expect all the pomp and ceremony which attend their incom­ ings and their outgoings amid the glories of the effete East, they must bring their hotel clerks and other subordinates with them. ISNGlish poetry and Action of the. present day, notwithstanding Eng­ land has no first-class poet or novelist* is of a soaring order, judging bv its titles. Mr. Watson recently gave us "The Eloping Angels," and now we read of a story bearing the title "The Heavenly Twins*" In refer­ ence to the latter one sturdy old common-sense Englishman, brought up on "Tom Jones" and "Humphrey Clinker," writes tp his paper saying that it will require an. emasculated race to properly assimilate its doc­ trines." He might have added that it requires an emasculated writer to produce such a story. A MOVEMENT started by a Company in Baltimore to have its drivers scientifically informed concerning horses and their proper treatment, is, as the American of that city says, one that cannot be too highly com­ mended, or too widely imitated. While seme men are naturally cruel, and take pleasure in inflicting pain, they are very few, the majority in­ juring the animals under their power more from ignorance than from in­ tention. Besides the gain to hu­ manity, this step is also one of sound economic policy, as the proper treat­ ment of horses preserves their health and strength, and thus prolongs their usefulness. Men cannot too soon dis­ cover for their own good that cruelty, voluntary or' involuntary is a reac­ tionary eviL THE consummate /oily of people who fancy that they can heat a room with gas stoves, or with new-fangled "carbonite" fuel, without providing a way for the deadly products of com­ bustion to escape into the air, says a New York paper, has received a fresh illustration in a New Jersey town, where two guests were suffocated al­ most to death in a room in which they were quartered in company with one of these -newly.patent.ed devices for heating rooms without any chim­ ney or draught It ought to be known by everybody, and everywhere^ that the combus­ tion of any sort ot fuel,--natural or artificial, solid, liquid, or gaseous, produces dangerous gases, noxious to health, and, in large quantities, per­ ilous to life. It was once the fash­ ion to use a pan of charcoal, ignited, as a means of suicide^ These new fuels, employed in stoves without stovepipe, or chimney, are almost as sure to kill as the old method. THE Orientalists have had a won­ derful ••find," and great is the re­ joicing thereof. A dispatch from Berlin states that Prof. Harris of Cambridge, England, has discovered in the convent of Mfc. Sinai a palimps­ est containing the four Gospels in complete Syrian text If this be true the importance of the discovery, can hardly be overawed. 1 EXPERTS have been going through the books of a ga&ff of greenwoods swindlers and find that the profits of a single month were $40,000 in good money. Since this all came from people anxious to grow rich by fraud, and much greener than the goods they purchased, it is quite a revela­ tion as to inherent crookedness and a whole volume on popular stupidity. A MELANCHOLY lover in Vienna wrote his sweetheart that at a certain hour he intended exploiting his vacant skull with a bullet and requesting her to take poison at the same time. Being a devoted sweetheart she did as he desired, and the twain, let it be hoped, found some place better suited to them than this cold world. The event has its pathetic side, but it might have been worse. The bul­ let might have been ineffective, for instance, or a stomach pump have interfered with the drug. THAT EXTRA SESSION. WHY ft WAS NOT CALLED « EARLIER. thilMMnt Adapted thePietley oTKvm- slon--He Dtrel Hot Call in Extra Bauton or Congress Until blsaater Blared Him In the Face* Condition and CaoM. President Cleveland's announcement that he will call an extra session of Congress between the 1st and loth of September is the only information he gives an anxious people of his inten­ tion to deal with the seriQus difficul­ ties of the present business and finan­ cial situation. The urgent necessities of the country, the growing loss of confidence everywhere, the failures, the breaking of banks, the closing of mills and factories have finally put this mountain of flesh in labor, and as a result we have .the mouse of an extra session in September. The whole coun­ try is in trouble. If the Democrats van save it as they promised, why wait three months more, during which time the evil must necessarily increase? But there is a good reason why Grover Cleveland has not called an ex­ tra session earlier--why, indeed, he did not call one right away last March. This reason is apparent in his mani­ festo, in which he urges the people to to think about the continual pur­ chase of silver. Mr. Cleveland herein betrays his fear that Con­ gress, if called together now, would not repeal the Sherman act, and he also betrays his ignorance in evi­ dently believing that the repeal of this act will restore public confidence. The of more than five to one in the House of Representatives. This act received the approval of President Washington on the prophetic anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Jubr i 178ft,--N. Y. Mail andEx press. The Same Old Party. ' ^ The renomination of Governor Will­ iam McKinley by the Republicans of Ohio has aroused a commotion among Democratic and deputy Democratic newspapers. Prominent among the agitated ones is the Providence Journal. The organ of New England mugwamp- ery shrieks in hysterical tones that the proceedings of %the convention at Columbus prove that the Republican party in Ohio and elsewhere is "the same old party;" that it has been "neither chastised by defeat nor in­ structed by rebuffs." The excited Providence Journal is right in its conclusion. The Republi­ can pj&rty is "the same old party;" the party whose patriotism and statesman­ ship restored.the. republic shattered by Democratic traitors and placed the United States in the van of human Srogress. In naming as ttieir candi-a man who stands for the fund&> mental principles of Republicanism the Ohio Republicans simply did their duty. The Republican party is a party of principle and not of expediency, ft has belief, and it fights for them. It did not accept Bull Run as proof that disunion and slavery were right. It will not accept the result of last No­ vember as a proof that free trade and a degraded currency are what the na­ tion needs. The Republican party has been the steadfast champion of the constitution­ al rights of every American citizen; it has demanded the protection b( Ameri- TIJE MOUNTAIN IN LABOR. m JOHNNIE J1MPLECUTE. "Ho, ho!n said Johnnie Jim pie cute, a ad laughed lo childish' gietT. "The glorious Fourth is bound to be a bally day for me. For Uncle John has given me thl*. and ere the son goes do* n I'll har«L*brf W#fcest cracker la the xtell, orthU big town!" And the wind soughed low, i And the snn shon® bright, iV A rare brave sight to ;<oe, But a braver sight was the darling boy, as he laofrbed !b childish sle* wm/m SUNDAY JOURT OP APPEAL8 RENDERS A PINAL DECISION. A mountain from which were heard to proceed dreadful groans was said to be in labor, and people flocked near to see what would be produced. After wait­ ing till they were quite tired, out crept a mouse.--^Esop's Febles. "WHEN the old men of to*day were boys there was a much-mooted ques­ tion discussed in their kitchen liter­ ary societies, and in all the succeed­ ing years an authoritative decision was not reached. Now the Supreme Court of the United States, a tribunal from which there is no appeal, has decided that the tomato is a vegetable and not a fruit. A New York im­ porter received an invoice of tomat&s and the customs officers exacted a duty. The purchaser refused pay­ ment on the claim that the tomatoes were fruit. Hence the legal fight and a final solution of the old con­ undrum. BLESS US! the dear creatures are go­ ing to dress in glass now! What do you think of gowns made of spun glass, daintily adorned in white, green, lilac, pink, or yellow, which can be thrown into the fire when THERE need necessarily be no great gulf fixed between the ritualist and the non-ritualist Each is but a form--or an absence of form, and if both are sincere in the means and method they transcend form and meet in the spirit If a man is striv­ ing after the heavenly life What mat ters it whether he burn a candle to every saint in the calendar, or whether he lights none at all? Whether he turn bis face to the East when repeating his creed, or to any other point of the compass? Whether his genuflexions came at this point, or that, in the service of the church? The Broad Churchman must be truly broad enoutrh to hold in friendly fel­ lowship any form, however It may differ from his own; the Ritualist must so wholly regard all rite and ritual as but means to an end that he can rise to that plane of Christian communion with those whose methods differ from his own. Then, only, can the true spirit of the church be ox- pressed. _ Mred By His Dog;. The "Naval and Military Sketch- Book" contains a good story of a dog whose perseverance saved his mas­ ter's life. In the year 1758, when the English made an attack upon St. Malo, a French shepherd was com­ pelled to act as guide to the Cold­ stream Guards, and purposely ied them astray. Gen. Vernon ordered him to be hanged. That officer used to say that he never witnessed anything moie af­ fecting than the efforts of the shep» herd's do? to hinder the men from putting the rope round the master's neck. . The executioner had no small difficulty in keeping the affectionate animal off, although assisted "by two drummers who enjoyed the reputa­ tion of having been practised dog- stealers in Westminister. ••But John Bull is a poor creature when it comes to the pinch," Gen. Vernon used to add, when telling the story, "and I could not find it in my heart to put the stubborn fel­ low to death for his patriotism. So, af­ ter well frightening him. and almost breaking his heart by threatening to have his dog destroyed, I let him go, i and the faithful creature with him." Ingenious. One of the talents of the restaurant waiter, according to the humorous paragraphers, is fertility of resource. The story of the waiter who told the smart young man who ordered ele­ phant on toast that he must pay in advance is time honored. From France comes another story of a waiter's ingenuity.' A patron ordered a filet saute. He was told that the cook was out of filet saute. Then he ordered chickeu. That too. was out •'Why," he asked the waiter, 'Vioes the bill of fare offer a choice of three dishes?" After a moment's rejection the waiter earnestly replied: "You see, sir, it is the proprietor who takes his choice. contraction of credits, caused by the knowledge that the Democratic party was pledged to destroy the tariff, is the true cause that the business of the country is on the verge of collapse. To this was added the growing convic­ tion that the President had neither the power nor the ability to meet the issue. It was seen that he had adopted the policy of evasion, that he dared not call an extra session of Congress till general disaster stared him in the face. It was seen that he was not unwilling to redeem treasury notes in* silver ana to favor free coinage at a ratio of 20 to 1, and finally that he'was prepared to issue more legal tender notes for the purchase of gold. These are the reasons why publio confidence has been destroyed, and not because of the continued purchase of silver and the shipment of a few mill ions of gold abroad. The people see that the President cannot control his party. In times of prosperity Mr. Cleveland's platitudes were swallowed by the ignorant and the gullible. To­ day, when we are face to face with a serious crisis, they can only excite eon- tempt. A President who answers a universal ory tor help by lamenting that the "timjmty of capital is painfully appar­ ent, and bv advising bankers not to have "any fear" because thev might "bring suffering to every humble home in our land" is to add insult of incompe­ tence to the injury of ignorance. The Piping Vole® of Hoi Holman, the chief demagogue of the cheap "economists" in Congress, who oppose liberal expenditures for the gefieral government, has been moved by the disaster at Washington to make a statement of apology and defense. He says that "Congressmen are not building experts." This is begging the question." Everybody knows, ana Mr. Holman cannot escape the obloquy which accompanies the knowledge, that he has for years been the chief of a band of narrow-minded obstruction­ ists in Congress, who have sought to capture unuformed approval by indis­ criminate, wholesale and unwarranted objection to every proposal to bettor the public service by wise expenditure. The investment of a liberal sum of money in suitable buildings at Wash­ ington for the use of thoee departments which are now forced to hire private property for the accommodation of their clerks, or else tp place them in unsafe structures, such as Ford's Thea­ ter, the present printing office, or the Winder Building, would long ago have been both economical in saving rentals and humane in protecting life. But to such a policy the demogogues, of whom Holman is tne most blatant type, have been persistently and vociferously op­ posed. Typical Southern Blackguard. Ex-Congressman Poindexter Dunn, referring to the terrible loss of life at the disaster at Ford's Theater, Wash­ ington, said: "It's too bad! I wouldn't have cared so much if they had been pensioners instead of the poor clerks." Mr. Dunn is a member of the commis­ sion which was appointed by John G. Carlisle, the Secretary of the Treasury, to investigate the workings of the N^w York Custom House and the appraisers' Btores. Mr. Dunn is an Arkansas law­ yer. When the war broke out he served in the Confederate army. He has served several terms in Congress. His hatred of the veterans is natural. While the brave men of the South who fought have only kind words for the veterans of the North, the skulkers in tne rear, the camp followers like Poin­ dexter Dunn have only abuse for them; Mr. Dunn is a type of the Southern blackguard whom the present Demo­ cratic administration delights to honor. --Dolgeville Herald. Protection the Guiding Star. In deriding the splendid and success­ ful system of protection, the Demo­ cratic quacks now in power are showing contempt for one of the foundation principles of our government as ex­ pressed by the second enactment placed on the statute bo*k of the United States, affirming both the principle and policy of protective duties, which af­ firmation was sealed by the unanimous v«*te of the Senate, and by a majority can labor that the nation might be in­ dustrially independent and that the working man might receive wages sufficient to enable him to rear hie fam­ ily in intelligence and comfort; it has insisted on maintaining evarv form of United States currency at its lull value; it has advocated liberal pensions to the men who endured wounds and hard­ ships and faced death for the cause of national unity; it has declared that the flag ef this country shall be respeoted and that the rights of its citizens shall be protected in every quarter of the globe. To these principles the Republican party will consistently adhere, not be­ cause it beMeves they are expedient, but because it believes they are eter­ nally right. The Press assures the Providence Journal that it will con­ tinue to be "the same old party," bat­ tling in the future, as in tne past, for the truths on which the advancement and prosperity of the nation are based. It will not emulate the Democracy in demagogic trickery in order to catojt votes. It will stand by its principles as it stood by its guns; and with the same ultimate result.--N. Y. Re*nlta of Democratic Bole, The platform on which Grover Oleve* land was elected was a protest against progress and a declaration of war upon prosperity. The return of the Demo­ cratic party to complete control of the Government, unless, the solemn declar­ ation of principles put forth by the Chicago convention was a tissue of de­ liberate falsehoods, meant ruin for American industries and debasement for American currency. Democracy came into power demanding free trade and State qank currency. The busi­ ness men of the nation have taken the party at its word, that is all. The shrinkage of hundreds of millions of dollars in the value of securities in which the earnings of the people are invested, the halt suddenly given to in­ dustrial enterprise, the scarcity of money, the dearth of credit in the wealthiest nation in the world; these are the logical and inevitable results of Democratic triumph with its threat to reverse all the conditions upon which the prosperity of the country had been based. The country to-day is feeling the effects of Democratic rule. When Congress meets it will be the duty of the representatives of the Republican party to do all within their power to protect the nation's industries and cur­ rency from the onslaught of the Bour­ bons. In the meantime there is noth­ ing gained by perverting or concealing the truth. Explanation Different Now. There are time^when those not ac­ customed to telling the truth are forced to do it. For that reason papers which, last October, were declaring that 65- cent wheat was due to the Republican tariff policy, which kept it from "the markets of the world," are now show­ ing that wheat brings only 63 cents, be­ cause the market is crowded.--Indian­ apolis Journal. They Don't Want to Find If. Lost, strayed or stolen, an unconsti­ tutional, fraudulent and atrocious pro­ tective tariff. A large reward will be Eaid, and no questions asked, to every-ody who will refrain from mentioning the fact in the presence of the Demo­ cratic party.--N. Y. Tribune. THE Democrats howled calamity last year when there was no calamity, and now that business and financial depres­ sion have resulted from fear that the 'Democratic promises made a year ago in Chicago will be fulfilled by Congress, the Bourbon editors declare that the Republicans must remain silent. This is characteristically Democratic, but the Republicans will scarcely heed the advice given. WHAT'S the reason the Democrats of Ohio can find no one to run for Gover­ nor against the gallant champion of a "culminating atrocity" and unconstitu-t tional protection?"--N. Y. Press. SINCE that harmonious McKinley convention, all that remains for the Ohio Democrats to do is to look for a: soft place to fall.--Kansas City Journal. Conrft of l)|iili That the United State* Had We Mh «lml Property Bights Woh«l and Beta JUiUte the l^Jnnetion. Vair Will Be Open. Chief Jnstioe Fuller, of the United States Supreme Coart, sitting' In the United Stales Court of Appeals, has rendered a decision in the world's Fair case which opens the Fair on Sunday. The government made a motion to have the appeal dismissed on the ground that tne Court of Appeals had no juris­ diction over a case in which the consti­ tutionality of an act of Congress had been disputed. The decision handed down by Justice Fuller first holds that the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction. The second point de­ cided * was on the writ of injunc­ tion issued by the United States Circuit Court to restrain the opening of the Fair on Sunday. This decision dis­ solves the writ of injunction. Justices Buiui arfel Allen, sitting with Chief WORK OP THE STATE SOLON# AT THE CAPITAL. *H|, be!" said Johnnie Jlmplecute, as bom© ho proudly boro The very biggest cracker he bad ever seen before. * . . Th&) cracker «u a monster. the wonder of its kind, And warranted to make a flash that vpuld i strike an army blind. - And th» sun shone bright, And the wind sobbed low. And John sang merrily, Aa bonre be trudged in the glad snashtn% and laughed ID childish glee. OHMT JUBTICB FCLLCB. "He, he!" sold Willie Winkelbaum, and * slyly wagged his head, Aa be and several other boys crept up with stealthy tread. And lit the white gunpowdered fuse that fluttered in the air. Then stood aloof and watched It burn with- „ out a thought of care. And the wind soughed low. And theisun "shone bright. And the fuse burned stead! , While oa and on marched sturdy J a, and laughed la childish glee. I "Hi, hi!" yelled Willie Wlnkelbaum, and laughed with fiendish glee. As the tiny spark crept softly up. a grew* some sltht to sea It sltded here--It sputtered there--and then to run was seen Its devastating course Into the powder magazine. And the *ua shone bright, And the wind soughed low. And the world was fair to see: And Johnnie unsuspecting trudged--a sim­ ple lad was he. i%\ - Aad now npen the happy world there falla a Mm* Wl2ht, And Willie W|nkaH>aius Is saddened with the sight. For now* that t-park has disappeared--aa Instant-nand a flash! And ltttto Johnnie Jlmplecute's converted Into ho»fc! And the wind soughed low. And the sun shene bright • And a whlfep-iobod boy la he. For Johnnie and hie firecracker are lmt a memoree! » ^ «-V Jul In Season, . jwsj p"' I [""-*? li.*- J V Sharpman--Come, come, boys! You don't expect I'll be fool enough to kick that bat, do you? This isn't the first of April! r\ ' i ' » |f?f The Boys--We know It ain't, Mis­ ter; but it's Fourth o' July, though! --Puck. She Trains Horses. There is in the world Just one woman trainer of race horses. This is an English woman, Mrs. Challoner, the widow and the sister of well- known jockeys. When her husband died she knew how to manage his training establishment, and success­ fully continued his business. Her eldest son is a trainer, and the four younger ones are all good jockeys. Their mother is an excellent horse­ woman, and goes oat on the Heath at Newmarket every morning to see her horses do their work. Would-be purqhasersof horses often seek her opinion. ' Justice Fuller, concurred in the opin­ ion. ' The attempt on the part of the Gov­ ernment to,enforce Sunday closing fol­ lowed at once the vote of the World's Fair directors on Tuesday, May 23, de­ ciding for a seven-day Fair. United States Attorney Milchrist was in Wash­ ington and conferred with Attorney General Olney. Returning. Mr. Mil­ christ filed a bill for4 injunction on May 28, the suit being entitled "The United States of America vs. Tha World's Columbian Exposition, H. N. jEUginbotham, D. H. Burnham, Ed­ mund Rice, George R. DaVis, and Hor- ace Tucker." This is the suit on which tne appeal was taken. Without action the suit went over Sunday until argu- -ments could be heard. A decision in favor of the complainants was rendered by Judges Woods and Jenkins, sitting on the Circuit bench, while Judge Grosscup dissented. Application for s supersedeas, pending hearing on an ap­ peal, was made by the defendants, and Chief Justice Fuller granted the ordei staying the effect of the Circuit Court decision until an appeal could ibe heard. The appeal has been heard and the decision of „ the United States Circuit Court closing the World's Fair on Sunday is reversed. IJhe Governments declared to have no exclusive right or authority in the control'of the World's Columbian Ex< position. The Court held that the appropriation of two and a half mill­ ion dollars in souvenir coins could not be construed as a charity contribu­ tion. The Court held that the local corporation was in actual and lawful possession, and that this fact had beei; recognized by acts of the national legislature. "Therefore," concluded the Chief Justice, "the order of tin Circuit Court is reversed, and the cas« is remanded for any further proceed­ ings not inconsistent tfith this ruling.' ' The decision means to a certanty thai the World's Fair will be kept open or Sunday and settles the case for all time, as an appeal would have to go t< the Supreme Court of the United States, which does not meofc^ until ^October, when the Fair wilj^tte ended. „ Brleflets. , FINKLET, DRESSER & Co.. Boston, stationers, nave assigned. Liabilities tide,ooo. THE Highspire distillery at Harris- t>urg8 Fa., wag destroyed by fire. Loss, 200*000. THE next iqeefing of tjie Interna tional Typographical Union will b« held in Louisville, Ky. JUDQMJENTS luwe been entered at Pittsburg agaiqst the Duquesne Inn Works for $330,000. TWBNTY persons were killed by th< explosion ef a ppwder magazine. al Scaramaqgar Greece. 1 A MANDARIAN betrayed Frenel troops at Camoun, Slam, and several French soldier* were slain. IMMENSE bods of asphaltum .have been discovered in the Chickasaw Reservation ia Indian Territory. ANDREW J. PETROIT, a student in the Baptist College at Kalamazoo, wai drowned while bathing in Wood's Lake. THE Oregon and Washington Mort­ gage Company of Portland, Oregon, foiled, with small liabilities and smali assets. JUDGE VANN has sustained the de­ murrer in the famous Crounse will case at Syracuse, N. Y. The estate is valued at $4,000,000. ELI/WOOD, postoffice burglar, has es­ caped from the Huntington (Pa.) jail, This is the fifth successful ©scape from the jail within five months. MME. LOPEZ, who has been suing foi a divorce at Sioux Falls, S. D., for the last vear, has been granted her decree and has departed for London. HENRY F. LEGO, a jeweler of Min­ neapolis, Minn.,.-" assigned, with lia­ bilities of $40,000 to $50,000. TTia assets are placed at the same amount. PETER MEGGS is serving a life term in the Texas penitentiary for thesup posed murder of Michael FerryTSrhc turns out to Be alive and a fellow-oon- vict. BOB WYATT, one of the gang which robbed the Santa ire train near Hen- nessy, Ok., has been captured. He wtf at one time a member of the Dal tor gang. THE Lombards have sold their stock in the Lombard Investment Company at Kansas City to H. E. Moody and wiD retire from the management of the company on Sept 1. THE Right Worthy Grand Lodge, I. O. G. T., assembled in Des Moines, Iowa, with nearly 200 members and vis­ itors in attendance. Reports showed an increase in number of Grand lodges and subordinate membership. These officers were elected: Right Worthy Grand Chief Templar, Dr. D.<H. Mann, of New York; K. W. G. Counselor, Joseph Malins, of England; R. W. G. Superintendent of Juvenile Templars, Mrs. America A. Brookbank, of Indi ana; R. W. G. Vice Templar, Mrs. S. E. Bailey, of Vfrginia; R. W. G. Sec­ retary, B. F. Parker, of Wisconsin; R. W. G. Treasurer, George B. Katzen- Btein, of California. Important action was taken, when the name of the body was changed to International Supreme Lodger the vote being 121 to 36. : One Week's Boslaeae--MeaMNmMI Presented, Considered end PneeeA£ ̂ Whnt Our PuMUe Servants Are In nnd Anwwf Legislative Halls. -4i The Law-Makers. Friday, the last day's session of the Lejp* ; Islxture, the House psssed these Mils: pro* vidlng that where property Is insured for ' the full amount the insurance com­ panies authorized to do business in this State may insure !n companies not author­ ized to do business in this Etate; for tike establishment of a naval militia; for the establishment of a hone* for juvenile female offenders and making ap appropriation of $75,000; pro­ viding that associations or societies or^aa- l*od for the purpose of furnishing life demnity or pecuniary benefits may trans­ act any business outside the State that S* can do in the State; increasing the number of Mi per lor and Circuit Coart jadges fta Cook County; to provide for the creatioa. ' ot pleasure driveways and park dlstrletpt to protect employes and guarantee their right to belong to labor organization; far the enlarging of Lincoln Park in Cklea* go; regulating contracts for the cos* ditlonal sale or lease of railway or streot car equipments or rolling stock, and pro­ viding for the recording of such contracts ia the office of the Secretary of State; pr«» vidlng that the State Board of Public Charities shall no longer have control over the Illinois State Rafoftn School, bat the control shall be vested in,a board of managers appointed by the Governor; the Senate bill known as the °l»lr~ erton bill; regulating S>he Soldlsm and Sailors' Home at Qul&cy; to amend the law to reduce the amount to be paid whon land is sold for *;taxes 10 . per cent, for six monthiw '20 per cent, for a year, and 30 per cent. eighteen months. The fenate joint redlOH. lutlon providing for the appointment of a commission to consist of two Senatoca; and three Kepresentatives to revise tke laws of the Sta,te, making them an nnffofia as possible, and submit their report to tho next General Assembly, was adopted. The senate passed these bills; House bill known as the "Stringer compulsory educar- t Ion;" compelling county clerks to note oa the records when they extend tax sales; to prevent and punish wife or child abandon­ ment by husband or parent; providing that nonresident insurance companies aobMr business in this State shall write their pol­ icies on property insured in this State to Illinois and keep an ageot here; preveat- Ing the use of uncovered patrol wagons: to regard to the drawing of jurors in courts of record; providing that cities of 30,009 or more inhabitants shall levy a special tax for street springllng purposea Both houses adjourned sine die. y He Watched the Wrong One, Two well-dressed women, whose k|§t> Ship could be seen at a glance, entered* store the other day and took seats at the silk counter. The clerk had scarce­ ly commenced his weather report when one of the women said: "It is my duty to warn you that aw sister is a confirmed kleptomania?, ana that you must watch her closely." After a little while the "klep" moved along to another seat, and the clerk felt it his duty to give her his most vigiiani attention. Twenty minutes' time was consumed and no purchase made, and as the women left the shop the clerk flattered himself that the little woman with the Grecian nose had tried it on the wrong store. "What made yoa watch that person so closely?" queried a lady who had ob­ served most of the maneuvering. "Kleptomania!" he whispered. * "Is that so? Why, I should h«P» thought the other one needed your eyes the most." She had taken thirty yards of silk and $15 worth of fringe. ' Nearly 3.000 Perish by Fit*. Some time ago the papers efrnmMwiT ' the fact of a disaster at Earn Li, China, in which 1,000 people perished. It in now known that the report only gave a faint idea of the horror, for almost 3,000 people were killed. The frightful tragedy was the wock of robbers, who fell upon the village of Kam Li during a theatrical perform­ ance. While the play was In progress three mat sheds containing over 3,000 persons were set on (ire. The dry mal­ ting lurned rapidly, and the support* giving away, fell and suffocated most of the audience. - •• • (Cne shed was occupied solely by women and children, and when this waa fired a band of well-dressed Chinese, unknown in the district, rushed in ana seized thirty or forty of the best look­ ing young women and girls and carried them away. As soon as other peopla went to assist at the mat sheds an otter band of robbers set fire to houses in different parts of i he village and plun­ dered the shops. The robbers escaped. Indians thai- Sleep All Winter. Among the Sierre Madre Mountains in Mexico in the State of Chihuahua in said to live a tribe of Indians in an al­ most complete 6tate of savagery. Thsy wear no clothing, subsist on berries and roots and know no weapons except those made of stone. But the most surprising thing about them is that they are said to have the practice of hibernating through the winter like bears. On the' approach of the ooM they gather in caves, a number in each place for the sake of warmth, and there they pass into a comatose state which lasts until early (spring. Although somewhat thinner when spring comes* they appear otherwise to have suffered, no inconvenience from their long nap. C.tnadlaus Immigrating Here. French Canadians are said to be leaving the vicinity of Quebec for the United States at the rate of 150 a day. These emigrants are nearly all farmeis or Inhabitants from the lower St. Law­ rence region, and in many instanoes Br are following friends and relatives i have already found homes in the ted States. Many of these emi- grants desert their farms absolutely, leaving them without intention of re­ turning, selling them for what theycan mt Hut. lnavinir them anv wav:.;- T ' •'M < " '£ it v 4t , • gel; but leaving them any way; The Qnesr Cow Tree. ̂ ,*•' The sap of the cow tree, as tlri inane" implies, resembles milk both in look and taste, and is very wholesome and nourishing; the treegiowsin Venezuela, and frequently attains a height of froas 100 to 125 feet. / How Thejr,worked. IBVING wrote a beautiful hand, and was very diligent. He spent a large part ot every day In his study, but was not easily disturbed. He seemed able to resume the thread of thought exact* ly where he dropped it, no matter what the interruption. BURNS composed his songs while in the fields or at the day's business,what­ ever it might be. and wrote them down in the evening. When he wished to write a eong he selected a tune to which |t was to be sung, and hummed It until te the mood to write. HAZIIITT, like Johnson, drank ton. He made it so strong that it was almoMt black, and drank enormous quantities. One of his visitors said that "to drink tea with Hazlett is a serious undertak­ ing." BrsTAN, like Cervantes, wrote his best works in jail. The "Pilgrim's Progress" is an adaptation of a Freneh work, which a few years before had been translated and published ia Eng­ lish. BYKON drank wiue while writing, b«t late in life used stronger drinks. Hie "Don Juan" was the product of brandy. He could dr nk extraordinary quaatttioa •while at work . without seeming to Is affected by It. * - . i i Vj