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KE SMITH WINK VETERANS. v oar out. T e e I Appeal to the 8*a irf Save th« Party--Urged to Bmke the Order Till After the G. A. H. Knc»m|>- - i. ' k,>- Mjr Wajrt..*-' i'«- »: The facts regarding the issuance of e "modified" pension order are bo­ ning to erop out. It will be rem em- red that Commissioner Licchren urished the announcement that he bad been directed by Hoke Smith to change the practice of the bureau so that hereafter there would be no sus­ pensions of pensions, except in cases Shere the record showed on its face tat the soldier was not entitled to any pension whatever. In making this an­ nouncement Mr. Lochren Bald: "The fieei etary has for some time questioned the fairness of the old practice of the Pension Bureau, which suspended pen­ sions during- inquiry as to the right of 4 pension and to the pension rate he Was receiving. At his request the Hrhole matter has been carefully con­ sidered, and the present order modify­ ing that practice, so as not to suspend lit doubtful cases, has been agreed to As more equitable." It is well for Mr. Lochren that he Aid not go into details and give the teal reasons for the alleged change, for they reveal a shameful effort to hoodwink the old soldiers and at the same time save the Democratic party from losing manv votes. The real '-ejausa for issuing the "modified order," •m learned by the Washington corre­ spondent of "the Indianapolis Journal from authority that cannot be ques­ tioned is aa follows: The leaders of the Democratic party in Indiana be­ came frightened at the vigorous com­ plaints of veterans who had been rob- Ded of their pensions under the sus­ pension process. The complaints were Sent to Democratic headquarters at In­ dianapolis by county chairmen. They iiftid many old soldiers who had hith­ erto voted the Democratic ticket were Sow denouncing the Cleveland adminis- trarion and Hoke Smith, the son of a Georgia rebel, in particular. They ap- raled to the State central committee do something before the G. A. R. encampment, stating that sentiment against the Democratic party was growing so strong they feared it would crystallize into a revolt when the veter­ ans got together and compared Slotes. Thomas Taggart was not Mow to see the point. Joseph Riley, Secretary of the State Committee, was instructed to write a letter to Secre­ tary Hoke Smith, pointing out the peril to the party if something was not ttone to allay the anger of the pension­ ers before the encampment met. The letter stated that, while the commit­ tee was in sympathy with the Cleve- fend-Hoke Smith policy of cutting down Le pension roll, there ought to be a {let-up for a few weeks, or the Demo­ cratic party in Indiana would be ever­ lastingly beaten at the next election. .St was intimated that the order might be temporarily suspended. The letter pas signed by both Secretary Riley knd Chairman Taggart. When Hoke Bmith received it he summoned Rep- esentative Martin, of Indiana, Chair- an of the House Committee on Invalid ensions, and together they discussed ;he matter. As a result of the confer- nce, Mr. Martin telegraphed Mr. Tag- art before the "modified" order was sued that the suspension rule would be revoked. As previously stated by the Journal correspondent, Loch- ren's latest order was intended for Indianapolis consumption, and now that the encampment is over the old practice will be virtually restored. i Imports Under the McKinley Law. I The Springfield Republican publishes a table of imports of a dozen different (articles on which the McKinley law (advanced the duties, to show that the jlmportB have increased rather than de- Sreased under the operation of the igher duties. Tne Republican con­ cludes from these figures that the iMcKinley law has been a failure in its most important features. Why a fail­ ure? The period following the enact­ ment of the McKinley law was one of extraordinary prosperity. It was the boast last year that every man who (wanted work could find it, and that at good wages. In 1892 every factory rah at its full capacity. Ana prices were as low as they were before the McKin­ ley law, in many instances lower. A fin cup cost no more, nor did a glass tumbler, nor a suit of woolens. If the ^McKinley law did not decrease imports nor increase prices, why was there euch a noiee made about it by papers like the Republican? But 1893, the year the Republican - compares with 1889, as far as imports «,re concerned, is something of an ex­ ception. The necessity of realizing on ^ tnanufactured goods, growing out of failures in the English colonies, caused tnillious of dollars worth of goods to be jsent to the United States, some of the goods.probably at an actual loss. For­ eign taanuf&cturers have unloaded their igoods on Amei'ica regardless of the duty. The fact that a low tariff reform party was successful last fall may have Induced foreign manufacturers to bid for tfye American market, which they Sloped to see fully opened to them in the near future. If the party of pro­ tection had been continued in power iwe might have avoided this rush of foreign goods by which thousands of workmgmen have lost their wages. But If our imports to the injury of American workingmen have been large under the McKinlev duties, what would they have been under free trade.--Des glomes Register. McKinley Opens the Caanpalga. ; The battle for protection in Ohio lias begun with an enthusiasm that }»romises victory. The date set for the ormal opening of the campaign has ^iot yet arrived, but the impatience of the people to hear Governor McKinley could not be restrained. They were eager to hear the great truths which ~ e was eager to speak, and the result as a notably large and earnest mass eeting on Tuesday in the home coun- y Neal, tho Democratic candidate, "overnor McKinley's speech was orthy of the cause in which it was ttered. It was an emphatic arraign­ ment of the Democracy for its political uin of American industries; an indict­ ment that can neither be answered nor evaded. "If the people were assured that the McKinley law would stand Untouched, prosperity would return at once," the Governor declared. The • >und common sense of every business inen In the nation will indorse this ringing statement.--New York Press. The Unemployed. It is oertrinly no exaggerated e3ti- 1nate that not far from a million per­ sons ordinarily engaged in manufactur­ ing and mining are now out of work. Thai means a situation which is cer­ tainly not pleasing: in other countries than the TJnited States it might even t>e alarming. But it Jls a situation tvhich can be endured in our country lor a time without causing deadly dis­ tress or necessitating any starvation. She number of unemployed seems j large, of course* considered in the ag- . _ ordi- Mle&ess year in Jnnw^l rio* for Pension* At the G. A. R. encampment in In­ dianapolis Commander-in-chief Weis- sert devoted his annual report almost entirely to pensions. On this subject he said that pensions are the natural results of war and that it was supposed that when all the requirements had been complied with and a certificate issued, the pensioner was not subject to the whims and caprice of officials, but recently scores of veterans, many suffering from- wounds or disease in­ curred while in the service of their country, have been cut off from the pension roll without iirst making prop­ er investigation. He especially called attention to the fact that the Fifty-first^ Congress passed, by a large majority,! the disability bill, supplementary to previous pension enactments, and then arraigns those who were not friends of the country during the war and have taken every means to create public sen­ timent acaiost pension laws, and, it i* needless to state, do not confine them­ selves to faots and were not in the army on either side. No facts, Mr. Weissert said, are advanced to sub­ stantiate statements made against the pension roll. lie added: yore recently we leara that thousands of worthy soldiers, who at. lar*re expense have proyea their esses to the satisfaction of the pension bureau, have had their pensions stopped upon one pretext or another. The pension laws of our country affect the inter­ ests of the veterans of various wars, but somehow the indiscriminate taking away of pensions affects only those who served la the war <igainst treason and rebellion. Every per ­ son who served in the Mexican war thirty days gets & pension, irrespective of disabilities or fl i An«•>.<»• condition, although many reached the seat of war. but not a word is said against the Mexican war pensioners, while tne men who fought in the late war against treason and rebellion are abused and traduced as no soldiers have ever been. The orator stated that pensions are paid by a voluntary tax; that no man need buy the articles taxed for that purpose, and that every Southern State except one pays without murmur pensions to tne men -who fought against the Union. If army or navy service impaired the health of veter­ ans BO as to prevent them from earning a llveiihood, or who are to-day suffering or under expense on account of that servioe, they are Justly entitle t to all the frovemment, that has profited by eaeu service, can give. Were It not for the service rendered by>that great army, when the very existence of tho country was seriously threatened, there would now be no country to fulfill the prom­ ises BO generously made when oertara dis­ aster threatened to overwhelm the nation. While perpetuity la the reward of their ser­ vices, our civilization demands that no de­ fender of the republic should be suffered to die in the poorhouse. The Grand Army of the Republic is unalterably opposed to the grant­ ing of pensions to persons who are not Justly entitled to pensions under the laws, but all remedial statutes should receive a broad and generous construction BO as to carry out the humane intentions of the lawmakers. The Orand Army does not favor giving pen­ sions to those who at any time deserted their country in its hour of Ineed, whether prior to or during the war. Neither does it favor pen­ sions lor bounty jumpers or shirks. Neither does it favor any system that permits those whose loyalty was ever justly questioned to pass upon the merits of veterans who served honorably in the Union army, or which takes takes away or cancels that payment of a pen­ sion, lawfully granted, without first investi­ gating the case an 1 permitting the pensioner to be lnard, which should be done at the ex­ pense of the government, whioh demands the aditional proof. In such case it would be only jnut for the government to inform the sus­ pended, pensioner what further steps it de­ mands in the premises. No pension. Hhould be canceled until the government proved it fraudulent or undeserving. Action nhonld a', once be taken to secure the reinstatement of all worthy veterans who have been suspended from the pension roll. SCgpfclNTHj SOMS OF THE MEN WHO MAKE J,- U»ier» Engaged In Parliamentary XkwI- lag--Debates Bristle with 8harp &e- pmrtM- Coafgraa-- that InfllwU gU--U on of Mr. Cleve- Uetttenants on CORN CROP IS COOKE*. SENATOR LODOB. Protection and Soand Currency. It has been said in Washington that the extreme silver Democrat have indicated their intention to desert there party on the tariff question, the inference ltteing given that it is their purpose to trade silver votes for pro­ tectionist ballots'. We do not believe it possible that any serious purpose of this kind is, or has been contemplated. The Republican party is pledged to a sound currency just as strongly as it is to protection to home industries, and it would never countenance a barter by which either should be sacrificed. There is no reason, however, why the silver men should not ally themselves' with the Republi­ cans on the tariff question. Pro­ tection's aim is the welfare of all classes, all industries and all sections of the country. The silver men may rely upon the Republicans for their aid in establishing a currency that shall b© recognized as the soundest in the world, anA which will redound to the welfare of all Americans, whether in the silver States or in the extreme East. If the Republicans can rely up­ on equal patriotism on the part of the representatives of the silver-producing sections of the country when tfhe tariff is at stake, the result will be that pros­ perity will reign again. There teed be no alliance, no bartering; patriot­ ism is the watchword in the preient crisis.--Dolgeville Herald. Not Disappointed The country had a ri^ht to expert wine ana conservative counsel Horn 'Senator Bill. The country has been painfully disappointed. -- Chicago Herald. The country had no risrht It) expect any such thing as wise counsel from Senator Hill. The Btream cannot ?ise higher than the fountain, and Senator Hill's fountain is never above the low level of partisanship, malice, and fox­ like cunning. The country had a riaht to expect that the great State of I\ew York, which once had a Conkling and an Evarts in the United States Senate, would have had there a broad-minded statesman, capable of seeing beyvnd the narrow confines of his own lust for power. In this the country has been "painfully disappointed;" but it will never be disappointed, no matte"* what either of the New York Senators ryay do. A pair like Hill and Murphy are capable of anything.--Cedar Rapids Republican. A Simple Resolution Will Do. A simple resolution, such as has been already offered in the Senate, re­ citing the fact that the Fifty-third Congress will let the tariff alone, % ill be sufficient. These people who r.re thrown out of employment do not ask for bread or work; they simply ask that the natural apprehension of tariff tinkering by the Democratic party be removed, so that the mills and factories can start up again before the winter comes on and they can resume their employments.--Baltimore American. Not a Word oa the Tariff. It is more than six months since President Cleveland is in office, yet not a word has he said regarding bis tariff policy. In his message to t£ie The Great Debate. Washington correspondence: The scenes in the Senate shtoe the opening of the extra session have been remarkable for the regular and J? steady attend- ance of the San- ators, the sin­ cere interest of each of "them in 'r%~ the utterances of their associ­ a t e s , a n d t h e crowded galler­ ies. Each speak­ er is given strict attention of the Senate: The log­ ic of the speech BKNA'IOB wotcon is followed and stored away, the data and statistics are read and analyzed. Seldom has any debate been so. carefully followed and studied as that which has been going on for the past two weeks. Those who have been fortunate enough to be pres­ ent in the Senate galleries have seen and heard the men of the nation at their best. There has been a struggle on all sides to make for each party the most of the political capital that is cer­ tain to result when Congress legislates upon a subject of not national but international import. Every point, every word has its meaning, and before 6uch a critical audience one is bound to think twice before he speaks, for he appre­ ciates that should he make a misstep he would be at the mercy of those who are of a different beiflef, who are ever on the alert to make it embarrass­ ing for him. The de bates bristle with sharp repartee, and give to the sessions of the Senate a sharpness and bril­ liancy that is un­ usual. The battle that is being waged on the floor is not appar­ ent to the casual observer. In every motion that is made there is apt to be a hidden effort, and it takes the vigilance and quick insight of the leader to ap­ preciate the meaning of his opponent and as quickly parry it with a motion that will benefit his side. The confer­ ences that occur between these men are interesting and at the same time are indicative of the silent warfare that is froing on. A motion or suggestion made by the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Voorhees) hurriedly calls together Mr. Teller, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Dubois, Mr. Peffer, Mr. Jones, and the other silver Senators. On the other hand, a move on the part of any of these will bring together Mr. Gorman, Mr. Voor­ hees and Mr. Faulkner, and with their heads together they will talk hurriedly,and as a result one of the latter two will make the motion, which will prob- lably be carried out by the majority. It is very seldom that Mr. Gorman speaks to the Sen- SBNATOR M'PREBSON. ate. He prefers to allow others to carry out his plans. As a study of the aristocratic char­ acters of the different sections of the oountry the Senate even affords better opportunities than the House. It would not be a difficult matter to an­ alyze the temperaments of the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Lodge, or those of Mr. Peffer, from Kansas. Two men could hardly be more different in their tastes and nabits. In Mr. Lodge there is the cut and dash of a college- bred New-Englander. The trim, well- dressed figure, erect and athletic in its build, a good strong head well posted on national affairs and a mind clear and Independent are seen by his walk. Most closely resembling him in these attri­ butes is Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, who is also Eastern born, but Western raised. His stay in tho West has given him that boldness of speech and di­ rectness of manner whioh is character­ istic of the West, while adding a ro­ bust constitution which allows of a powerful vgice and force of gesture. For so young a man he attracts more atten­ tion to his speeches' than is usual. WHEATJQBOPS DECREASING. ttftfOH. tern cc 'I Firmly identified1 - • JJJM ~P=- with everything in BBNATOB SBBBMAM. the Senate that has a silver Using is Mr. Stewart of Nevada. He is known the world over as being for silver, free and unlimited as to its coinage, and in this respect he is one of the best-known characters in the Senate. He is one of the far Western self-made men, and though, perhaps, his power of oratory is not as magnetic as some of his fel­ low members, he is undoubtedly a thorn in the side of those who attempt to legislate against the white metal. He has an apparently eveirlasting fund of silver knowledge, and is ever pre­ pared to stand for the rights of that metal. Senator Sherman seems to have., aged since the last session, but it was appar­ ent from his recent speech that he has lost none of the fire and clear-headed manner of speech that has marked him as one of the most able men this coun­ try has produced. He is one of the parliamentarians in Congress, and is always ready to suggest the proper method of disposing of any question , that comes before the body of which new Congress he said that he had in- i he is a member. Though he had a por­ tended to call an extra session i*ot later than September to consider rev­ enue matters. Had he been obliged to do so he certainly would have had some suggestions to make on revenue matters.--Burlington Hawkeye. DEMOCRATIC papers continue to speak of the Shetjnan law as a Repub­ lican measure. Well, there were sev­ enty-six Democrats in the House who voted to retain this Republican meas­ ure on the books. THE Democrats used to claim that "protection doesn't protect." That proves to be true--under a Democratic administration. GOVERNOR BOIES was right when he asserted some weeks ago that he was "out of politic^"He, indeed, is not "in tion of his Bpeech written out, he sel­ dom referred to the notes, except for statistics or figures, and though he talked for nearly three hours he never hesitated or had to change his style of expression. He is seldom absent from the Senate, and is regarded as one of most valuable man that there are on the Republican side of the chamber for that party. Perhaps, next to Senator Voorhees, the Democrat who is taking the most active part in the financial discussion is Senator McPherson of New Jersey. According to his own statement he ap­ preciates that his party is now in con­ trol of the legislative branches of the country, and that it is responsible for all that is given to this country from Congress during this Congress at least. He has come forward as a strong friend ol the administration in the present eSnergency, and on account ol his ex- Milw Belt of the Couatrr Affected by the Drought. The September report of the statis­ tician of the Department of Agricul­ ture shows a decline in the condition of corn to 76.7 from 87 in the month of August and 93.2 in July, being a de­ cline of more than 10 points from the August and over i6 from the July re­ port. The change is marked in near­ ly all of the surplus corn States. The present condition is 75 in Ken­ tucky, 64 in Ohio, 65 in Michigan,' 59 in Indiana, ($4 in Illinois, 96 in Iowa, 92 in Missouri, 74 in Kansas and 71 in Nebraska. In comparison with the September foports of the last ten years only three were lower--70.1 in 1890, 72.3 in 1887, and 76.6 in 1886. In the same month in 1882 the condition was 79.6 or nearly three points higher than the present month. Thero has been a general de­ cline in the condition thiojghout the country due to the prevailing drought. The condition of wheat, considering both winter and spring varieties, when harvested was 74, against 85.3 in 1892. The general average is the lowest since 1885, when it was 72. The reported conditions from corre­ spondents in the principal wheat-grow­ ing States are as follows: Ohio, 98; Michigan. 80: Indiana, 88; Illinois, 60; Wisconsin, 80; Minnesota, 65; Iowa; 85; Missouri, 64; Kansas, 42; Nebraska, 65; South Dakota, 66; North Dakota, 67; Colorado, 89, and Oregon, 93. In the East, New York has 76;, Pennsyl­ vania, 93; Maryland, 98; Virginia. 96, and Texas, 68. In the New England, Eastern, and most of the Southern States the crop was harvested in good condition and the yield averaged well. The same can be said of Ohio. In Indiana the quality is good, but crop light, while in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska the yield is small and of an inferior quality, much of it grading No. 3 and under, while in some places it is reported to be worth­ less. In the Dakotas the yield is light, while the quality is generally good. In Iowa and Wisconsin the winter variety yielded well and was of good quality, while the spring yield was Koor and of an inferior quality. In linnesota the yield has been poor and not up to expectations, the quality generally being good, with some com­ plaint of shriveled grain. In Califor­ nia and Oregon the quality of the grain is good up to an(average, and the yield good 'Incept on lowlands, aa "" ** - M'-'yw {Scandinavian* ccmpiriMc m m type-' of tb^inhabitaot# of Nor are lonfedived, mlnr of t! ing tbe extreme old age of 116 wean. The Scandinavian records are full of the names of men who lived to exceeding old age, while the remark­ able names of the southern nations are always coupled with the state- meat of anearly death. f. ^ISjSks has been where it^was greatly lamaged. PEOPLE OF MANY CREEDS. Nearly all tho Great Religions Represented at Chicago. Christians and Jews, Mohammedans. Buddhists, Brahmans and followers of about every religious creed in the civi­ lized world met in one grand assembly in the Chicago Art Palace Monday morning for "the first time in the his­ tory of the world. Time and again the greatest audience which has ever packed the Art Palace thundered its approval of the spirit of tolera tion and liberality which made pos* sible the parliament of the relig­ ions of the world. The dark- skinned sectarians of the Oriental countries in their white and yellow robes and turbans sat side by side with the dark-gowned and hatted prelates of the Greek Church and a red cloaked and capped cardinal of the Church of Rome. Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Campbellites and Unitarians laid by their differences on baptism, eternal pnnishment, forordination anc the vicarious atonement and joined hands with the followers of Confucius, Mahomet, Buddha and those of every sect. Nor was woman forgotten. She was given such recognition as would have been impossible a few decades ago. Long before the hour for the open­ ing of the session Columbus Hall was crowed with such an audience as was never within its doors before. Up stairs and down the aisles were filled with people and the passage­ ways around the seats were packed with people five deep. Archbishop Feehan, the Rev. John H. Barrows, President Higinbotham and others delivered addresses of welcome and responses, and addresses to the occasion were delivered by Cardinal Gibbons; Archbishop R»iwoods of New Zealand; Count A. Bernstorff, Berlin; the Most Rev. Dionysius Latas, Archbishop of Zante, Greece; Carl von Bergen, Sweden; Prof. C. N. Char- karar, H. Dharmapala and P. C. Mo- aoomdar, India; the Hon. Pung Quang Yu, China; Principal Grant, Canada; Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, Rabbi E. G. Hirsch, B'^hon R. W, Arnott, Miss Jeannt. Sorabii, Khersidji Laurasava, Bombay; and Mrs. Chapin. fanr--»e ̂ l.pwiiSnij the Ares ttiHtli to That Grain. Urban population has increased so rapidly in the West and Northwest that the wheat-bearing area has largely decreased during the past de­ cade. Twenty-seven per cent of the wheat fluids of Ohio, Michig&n, In­ diana, Illinois, and Wisconsin have been diverted, during the past 13, years to the production of such crops as are essential to the subsistence of the millions added to the towns and villages of the lake basin. In the Southern States the large amount of land taken fro in the wheat area and devoted to cotton growing has sensibly affected our wheat, crops, j The ten States south of the Potomac and Ohio and east of the Mississippi included 27 per cent of the wheat area in 1859, and contributed 21 per cent of the grain. This region now embraces less than 12 percent of the nation's wheat area,, and produces only 8 per cent of the grain. North of Arkansas and the Indian Territory, in the States of the Mis­ souri Valley, is now found the granary of the nation. The wheat fields of this group amount to 42 per cent of the »nation's area, and with the Pacific States, furnish the surplus that enters into foreign commerce and places us in the first place as an exporter of bread-stuffs. But this large wheat area has been steadily declining since 1884, especially in Iowa, where the production of both wheat and corn has been giving place to meadows, oat fields, and dairy farms. California wheat farms are slowly being converted into orchards and vineyards, but the increase in Wash­ ington will probably make good such losses for a decade. , During the ten years ending with 1889, the wbeat-bearing area of the north Atlantic States, Maine to Mary­ land, declined 18 per cent, every acre the diverted wheatflelds being employed in growing crops that are more profitable, and are. required for local use. In the lake group, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, which held the first place in wheat growing from 1855 to 1882, the de­ cline has been even greater, equaling 23 per cent All of these acres have been converted into meadows, oat- tlelis, and new pastures demanded by the phenomenal growth of the town population, whose requirements for beef, mutton, and dairy products could be met in no other way. That it should be necessary to de­ vote all of the new acreage of these States to forage crops, and then di­ vert to such products part of the corn area and 23 per cent, of the wheat- field, within ten years, shows how rapidly we are trenching upon the acrcage devoted to the growth of grain. - • _ ^ An Anecdote of John Marshall. "I have often heard my father tell an anecdote of Chief Justice Marshall of Virginia (though to my thinning the joke was on the other fellow,) In the vain hope, doubtless, that the moral might sink deep into our modern breasts," says an Indianapolis lady. "Mr. Marshall, it will be re­ membered, was a living exponent of the 'Jeifersonian simplicity' of that day and time; but his tall and sturdy form, clad In Its gray homespun,'was the object of admiration and imita­ tion of both young and old. One morning shortly before Thanksgiving, when everybody seemed on turkeys intent into the Ilichmond market strutted a man of evidently newly acquired wealth, whose pompous and patronizing manner to all around soon made him the observed of all observ­ ers. Doubtless he had earned his shekels by the sweat of his brow, and to 200 eggs in a nest With their he was not going to part with any of tails the parents then beat down the 80BER OR STARTLING, F&UJF • RECORDED!* nutmeai, ana i shooting at tin passed by. anding at a [Presiding Elder Sboitf H1BM1> The Rev. W. A. Amsbury, pi'esiding elder of the North Platte, Neb., dis­ trict, shot and almost instantly killed himself Monday afternoon. He was riding in a Union Pacific caboose on his way to keep an appointment, and for amusement had been telegraph poles as the train While the train was standing station the crew heard a shot and, entering the caboose, found Mr. Ams­ bury breathing his last. His friends scoffed the idea of suicide, Wheel* Revolve Again. HAMILTON mills, Amesbury, Mass.* resumed. HOLMES & ID*, collar factory, Troy, N. Y., have resumed. GONIE woolen mills. West Rooheeter, N. H., resumed Monday. ABERNETHY factory, Leavenworth*, Kas., resumed, employing 300 men. PAWTUCKET VALLEY Print Works, Rhode Island, resumed on full time. COCHECO Manufacturing Company and Sawyer woolen mills, Dover, N. H., resumed. AMERICAN Curled Hair Company, Central Falls, R. I., resumed with re­ duction of wages. YOURTREE ore mine and Russellville coal mine, Russellville, Ala., resumed Monday, employing 2,000 men. C. A. GODCHARLES' nail works and City Nail Works, Milton, Pa., resumed. Pennsylvania Paper Company, Lock Haven, Pa., resumed. THE Peabody mills, at Newburyport, Mass., which have be>en shut down for the past five weeks, have started up. The corporation employs about 400 hands. MOORE BROS.' glaas works, Clayton, N. J., resumed in one factory. Entire plant will be running Oct. 1. North Clayton Bottle Works will resume Sept. 25. V PENNSYLVANIA Glass Works, Ander­ son, Ind., resumed with 110 employes. McCloy lamp chimney factory, Llwood, resumed. The Macbeth factory will resume next week. ROD mills of Iowa barb-wire works at Allentowii, Pa., resumed, employing 140 men. Adelaide silk mill began on full time with W0 employes. Tarn* knitting miUs, small foiee. etjua Devil's Lake Traditions. ̂ Tangago, theTlppewas, came ^fntn the north and pitched their tepees on the north shore of the lake. Thev had reason to believe that the Sioux were encamped on the southern shore, and they planned to cross to the south before daylight and surprise their traditional enemies. The Sioux had a similar thought and design, and each tribe proceeded to exter­ minate the other. They met in about the middle of the lake and fought end were lost The time is not fixed except that the incident marks an epoch \n the history of both tribes. Another battle was fought afterward on the south shore between other contin­ gents of those respective tribes. The Chippewas came in canoes from the north as before. This was In 18tf7. The Chippewa warriors were all slain but one man, who re­ turned badly wounded and riddled. The fatalities connected with the lake and the apparitions gave rise to the name Minnewaukan, or spirit water, mysterious water, fated water, and Anally Devil's Lake, as the only English equivalent for the Indian's idea as expressed in Minnewaukan. The Chippewas came here in canoes. The Sioux also used canoes. With but few portages the former could easily at that time, while the lake was so far above its present level, come from Lake Superior to Devil's Lake. Since the fatalities related, those Indians have a superstitious dread of canoes. Young people are getting over the dread, but old In dlans will wade to their waist fishing while boats are within reach, but won't dare enter.--Minneapolis Tri- bune. Swallowed a Turtle* A curious accident recently befell the 4-year-nld child of Frank Larsen, a Swede farmer of Skowhegan, in which the little fellow swallowed a newly hatched turtle. The creature, which was about the slse of a half dollar, had been «ent the mother of the child by a relative living in the South, and the boy was playing With it, putting it in his mouth after the peculiar fashion of children to clap everything there that comes in their way. The mother heard the hoy gasping for breath, and running to it saw that some hard object had become lodged in its. upper throat The doc­ tor was hurriedly summoned, and after some difficulty succeeded in get­ ting hold of the obstruction, and drew it forth to his and Mrs. Larsen's astonishment. The turtle had drawn in its limbs on finding itself in close quarters and was little the worse for Its singular experience, but the boy was almost suffocated. --Philadelphia Times. The Nests of Alligators. 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 constructed 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 top, there being commonly from 100 them easily, if one might judge from the way he hackled over the price of j approach the fowl he had selected. At length, when no amount ot bullying c »uld knockTjff another penny, he threw down the price agreed upon and or­ dered the turkey to be sent imme­ diately to his home. The market man explained that it would be impossible t<o send it just then, but at the earli­ est pjsstble moment it should go. Whereupon Mr. Moneybags refused to take tho fowl, loudly demanding his money back. A murmur of disap­ proval arose from the bystanders, when up stepped a countryman in iioinespuu and spurs who had been a quiet observer of the who'e proceed­ ings and offered to carry the fowl. So the pompous gentleman sallied forth, the man in homespun with the tu*key walking respectfully behind. When they reached their destination the fine gentleman tendered a ninepence to the man who had served in the capacity of servant It was politely but firmly declined. " ̂ hen te!l me yottr name, my good man.' •• 'John Marshall/"--Indianapolis Sentinel. tall grass and weeds to prevent the of unseen enemies. The female watches her eggs until they are hatched by the heat of the son, and then takes her brood under her own care, defending them and pro­ viding for their subsistence. Royalty Doesn't Always Come High. The small ness of his stature is al­ most as sore a point with the Duke of York as the same shortcoming is with his father. Both the Princess of Wales and Princess May are a&ood deal taller than their spouses, and that is the reason why the Prince of Central Illlaola Crops Short. WHU aad Stock BaJTorta*, Becaoee «t tl*S DroagM-Tried to Kill Her fa^V. ' ^ Froaa Far sad Kear. CAMPBELL S. HEARN has won the fight for the postmastership of Qumcy. MARTIN CASEY, of Jerseyville, drank a quantity of carbolic acid, thinking it was whisky. He lived an hour. MRS. WILLIAM MCBRXDE died at h«r home in Jacksonville from heart dis­ ease. She had lived there ball a ceil* tury. JACOB KELLER, of Chester, ha? re­ ceived a six-year sentence for poisoning the food of the Young family. None of them died. # MICHAEL RYAN of Broad well was adjudged insane in the Logan court and sent to the State asylum at Jacksonville. ROBERT MCEVOY. a trusted clerk in the Merchants' National Bank at Chi­ cago for twenty years, played the races and is a defaulter. } SIMON MARKS was fatally injured by § being crushed by a horse while Wt fp work in a manhole in the North Side >$, cable track. Chicago. A team of horses attached to a beer wagon stepped in it -1 and fell upon Marks. >0 MRS. LUCY A. JOHNSON, of Kendall- % ville, Ind., 60 years old, was held to the Criminal Court at Chicago in a tend of $S0J for shoplifting by Justice Foster. She had an underskirt cn with deep 1|: pockets, and ever/ pocket held some-. *' • thing, mostly from Siegel, Cooper A M Co.'s store. | ? THE wife of Abijah Rambo. a farmer living a short distance from Golconda, : attempted to hang two of her children, 4 ! but was discovered in the act by her husband. While cutting them down he was attacked with a pitchfork by the infuriated woman and seriously fx not fatally injured. SEVERAL days ago Miss Lillie Smith was out driving m a buggy at Alton and accidentally stepped on a match that had been carelessly thrown into the vehicle. She d;'d net know the match had ignited until her clothes were afire. There was no help near, and she ran screaming through the fields until she came to some farm hands, who extinguished the flames. She was so badly burned that she died. , THE North German Fire Insurance Company, of Hamburg, Germany, has deposited $200,000 of United States' registered Bonds in the insurance de*. Eartment for the protection of polic olders, and received a license te? business in Illinois. This is the 1 -f foreign company that has made a| posit in this State since the great; in Chicago in 1871. The other f« companies have their deposit la York or Boston. PEOPLE all over central Illinois ; devoutly praying for rain. No except light occasional showen/ fallen in that locality for 106 dam this unprecedented drought nt tended all Jover central Illinois. settlers say that they never knew a. drought to equal it, unless it waa in 1854, when & season perhaps equally aa devoid of moisture was experienced. Farmers are suffering greatly and the danger to crops and pastures is incal­ culable, the oats crop being from thirty to foi-ty bushels to the acre, whereas it should have been from fifty to*txty. Corn will range from twenty to forty bushels, while it should be from forty to sixty. Pastures have lost all their greenness, and farmers are required to feed their stock with grain. Wells have gone dry and farmers have to drive their stcck many miles for water. An immense rain at Nashville broke the long drought Sundiy. It was hailed with delight. Farmers can now put in their fall wheat Lincoln a shower broke the i which had been upon that section' the last forty-seven days. Cora and potato crops are both cut short by the long-continued dry weather, but great good will be clone in Logan County by Sunday. CHARLES D. SHEPHERD, who de­ serted from Fort Sheridan, June 8, was captured by a constable at Jack­ sonville He was hauling ooal at the time. > G. W. CURTIS committed suicide at the Le Grande Hotel, Chicago. He left a request to have his body cremat­ ed and the ashes distribute! certain friends. S>7raAE,a Peoria carpenter,; was caught in a caving sewer and In* stantly killed. . • t . THERE i3 carious question of the authority of the State Board of WW, L '4*. mers can Al#oat ' draught iction for Wales has such a marked aversion to j fzation to assess the capital stoclr ot A Cold Climate and a Long Lift. Cold climates are always productive of a vigorous animal existence. I know this to be a fact from recent studies that I have made of varjous climatic coaditioos and their effect Now 1 have found that the life of a people living in a tropical climatc is comparatively short Not only their physical life, but their life as a na­ tion is affected by this curious law. In evidence of this latter assertion I can point to all the short-lived gov­ ernments that have arisen and fallen in the heated zones of this new conti­ nent Everybody is aware of the constant revolutions and uprisings in Mexico, Central America, and the South American republics. Whereas, North America throughout the tem­ perate regions, has remained for a hundred years but little disturbed. Africa is a constant battleground for the blacks and Southern Asia and Southern Europe have ever been the scene of internecine conflicts* On the other hand, Russia has remained un­ disturbed for centuries, the people being apparently calmed by the cool climatic conditions. So, too, with Sweden and Norway, Denmark, and the North German provinces. There nations as indi­ viduals are phlegmatic. They are not easily moved to resentment ex­ cept where the burdens imposed are of the most tyrannical nature. So it happens that the governments have lived on for centuries, their kings traoing,>tbeir ancestry back thrdugh the a*e3 until their record in the barbaric period of the Roman domi- being photographed standing by the side of the Princess. If you look at almost any photoirraph of their royal Highness, you will see that either the Princess is sitting in a chair with the Prince standing behind her, or, if she be standing up,.the Prince is mounted on some steps in the background. There are a number of the masculine members of our royal family who would be prepared to take any quan­ tity of thought if they could there­ by add an inch or two to their height --London Figaro. The Blind Soldier and His Bible. There is a deaf and blind soldier living in Bridgeport Conn., who pos­ sesses what is probably the biggest Bible in the world. Some time after he had done his lighting--for he went through most of the CTril War--the American Bible Society gave him this extraordinary edition of the Scriptures. It consists of eight vol­ umes, and is printed in the raised type that the blind read. The books are each 15} Inches long, 12 inches wide, and almost 6 inches thick, and when piled on a table they reach a height of three feet and eight inches. The volumes contain 1,849 leaves and cost the society $35 to produce them. . 4 - i * * ViX-^ f t , , f ..'J- -t: .V tk -V- j.**. v» * - • *K:' '< . ' * ' v >' ' Behaved Quite Well. When a quite youthful and much petted damsel named Ruth goes away from home without her mother she is sometimes unmanageable, and always on her return is interviewed as to her deportment while absent On a recent occasion, after a round of vis­ its she had made with a certain dot­ ing and indulgent relative, Ruth was asked the customary question as to whether she had been a good girl. "Well." she replied deliberately, as if carefully balanciug the evidence, ••I was pretty goo:l, I think--only kicked at my grandmother twicfe*'-- Indianapolis SentineL GOETHE says life is a quarry out of which a man must chisel a character. Other people will chisel him out of It quick enpMh est to do v, A-. - ; -V; coal mining and banking corporations. Louis LAIX, an engineer, waa fatally burned by escaping steam on an engine in the yards at East St, Louis of the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis railroad. Jamee Smith, the fireman, was severely scalded, but will recover. AT THE close of the conference of the United Brethren of Central IllinoiB at Decatur. 111., Bishop Hottannounced J. W. Boggess to hi presiding elder of the Decatur district and Levi Field o1 the Lexington district. "V Gov. ALTGELD issued a warrant on the sheriff of Cook County for one Jos. Peldtner, now under arrest in Chicagp, who is wanted in Cherokee County, Iowa, for obtaining property under false pretenses, and for whom the Gov­ ernor of Iowa has issued a requisition. Miss JENNIE HOWELL was left alone at her parents' home at Bpringfiald and was compelled to defend the noose against a burglar. When the mqn'S intentions became evident the plucky girl armed herself and fired, wounding the man so severely that be gave ail intention of intruding at that ftouae. THE adjutant general honorably dis­ charged the following-named enlisted men: Privates August C. Sehult*, com Eany G, Second infantry; F. E. Woods, atterv D: S. C. Brink, F. Heea, mad H. M. "Davenport, troop A. TUESDAY night copious rainfalls oc­ curred at Springfield, Vandalia, Cairo, Edwardsville and Hilisboro. But little benefit accrues to corn, but pastures are greatly helped and cisterns re­ plenished In many localities stock was Buffering severely. The drought in many other parts of the State, in some instances lasting over 100 days, has been broken. JOHN WIERZLEICKI, a South Chica­ go grocer, tried to remove a loose wire from the Cahimet Electric's track and was killed. A HEAVY pall of smoke hangs over Lake Michigan and makes navigation as dangerous as though it was a heavy fog. It comes from forest liivs in Michigan, where everything is idry OB account of the protracted drought. At the lower end of the lake the smoke ft so thick as to make the captains pro- ceed with the greatest caution, aatt boats arrive in Milwaukee six hours late. Boats from Sturgeon Bav canal report tba^ the smoke !• SO thick that both banks of the nanal nap mot be seen at the same 4P;. j - * S *VY * « ^ £>&;