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aged 52, died at V* «** 'X. tU ANDLISH, twice Sheriff berland County, died at UNCUS NEWS CONCISELY CON- -- "f OENSEO* of even an old resi- committed suicide tfcoati Big yatfcw-larl^W CwUrfrtter .$/ r*«# Think* the Fair WU1 B* *«*»««. John Virgi*, of Fairbiiry, for many .years a member of the 8tate Board of Agriculture, will shortly resign his •otLeUtjpoBiUon preparatory to remov­ ing to Peoria, Where he will make his future heme. He says that he has long contemplated resigning, and as­ signs m a reason therefor that he •thinks that the State Fair will certain- / ly be a failure in its present location at rfeprlngfieid. He has been identified ^rlth the fair while it was a success, •and doe* not desire his name connected With it when it becomes a failure. •V" y HM a M»nl» far HearMna Money. Lewis B. Wolf, a wealthy farmer of Terre Haute Township, nearLaHarpe, Wa< adjudged to be insane recently and Ordered to be sent to the insane hospi­ tal at Jacksonville, but to get him •there was no easy matter. He was the 'brightest insane man seen in many a •( day. After several ineffectual attempts to get him started the party finally reached Keokuk, Iowa, when Wolf de­ clared that he was outside the jurisdic­ tion of the Illinois courts and abso- 'lutely refused to go any farther. Bsp- Tesen:ative C. R, sittings finally coaxed Wolf to return to La Harpe, where he was left in charge of officers tmtii necessary papers could be secured • jto satisfy Wolf that he must go to JO Jacksonville. Wolf has a mania for •hoarding money, starving himself in 'order to save expenses. He refused to lent a meal because of the expense. He "ban been failing mentally and physi- - oally for some time. |", Fatally Shot In a FamUy QnunL K I t Henry Drake shot and fatally wound­ ed John Nichols, his brother-in-law, jnear Brownstown. Fayette County. Jjlrake quarreled with his wife, and she iWent to Nichols' to live, taking their [little child. Drake wanted his wife to (return to him, but she refused. He •swore he would have the child and ;would kill the first person who inter­ fered. The other morning Drake went {to Nichols' and demanded the child. [He was met at the door by Nichols, (Who refused to let him in. Crake at­ tempted to push his way in, and at the isame time drew a revolver and shot jNichols in the throat. Drake fled and .has not been teen since. He is a •desperate man, and has sworn ven- Igeance against any one who attempts jto arrest him. Nichols' condition is lOritieaL . . |. Counterfeiter# Under Armt> 'James Larimer was arrested at jOentralia and bound over by United IBtates Commissioner Duncan there to janswer a charge of passing counterfeit :&ioney. He was taken to Springfield jand lodged in jail Larimer confessed iand implicated T. J. Murray, who was fcrrested at Sandoval. Both men had {considerable counterfeit dollars and jhalf-dollars on their persons when •rrested. Murray is thought to be an iOld hand in the business. Larimer's home is Pittsburg, Pa. He says he and Murray were engaged all last {winter in St. Louis, Mo., manufactur­ ing bogus coin. They have been operating in Red Burr, Sparta, Murphysboro, Duquoin, and Centralis. Township Clerk Turns Kobber. The house of Joseph Johnson and *#ife, an aged couple living northwest of Olney, was entered by robbers the <Other night, who demanded money. ;Mr. Johnson gave up his pocketbook, containing $i, to the burglars. The old lady made a stout resistance and {succeeded in tearing the mask from {the face of one of the men, who was .found to be Andy Gate wood, Clerk of Noble Township. The other man firoved to be T. T. Miller, ex-Clerk of he same township. Deputy Sheriff Wilson arrested both men. Saloonkeepers to Be Tried. ' - At Dixon the grand jury filed its re- '""ffort with Judge Shaw. The members •reported nine indictments against sa- loonkespers in Dixon, Amboy and Lee Station. Thirty-nine counts were re­ turned against Lewis Preston, fifteen against William Kennedy, fifteen against Stephen and Funk and a less number against the others. The jury did not report indictments against a church which it was said had a wheel of fortune at a fair held by it last win- tor at the Opera House. Record of the Week. A TRUST deed 6f $75,000 against the Jtoyal Sewing Machine Company has been foreclosed at Rockford. TRAMPS vobbad three Chicago and Alton cars at Godfrey, of boots and •hoes and clothing, and two suspects were arrested at Carlinville. HARRY PENS AN, a notorious charac­ ter of Ramsey, stabbed Robert Chand­ ler while Chandler was trying to eject Um from 'his place of business. THE Rev. S. G. Ohman, pastor of the >Zion Lutheran Church at Rockford, will resign to become General Super­ intendent of Augustana Hospital, Chi­ cago. J. DEITRTCK, an old Freaport carpet Weaver, left his home two weeks ago, and from the appearance of the house •where he lived alone it is thought he left mysteriously. EDWARD A. NILE3, of Lincoln, was .adjudged insane and taken to the Jacksonville hospital for treatment. ;He was a popular though erratic yoking (man. and nis insanity IQ caused by his 'devotion to ark ! WILLIAM SHEESLEY wa» arrested at Rushvilie and taken to Cambridge, 'Henry County, where he is wanted for robbery. Sheesley and a companion, "iff is alleged, robbed a Henry County •termer of $1,00?. A SICK tramp giving his name as iWoods wandered into the Rock Island .police station Sunday Health Com­ missioner Eyster pronounced it a ease 'of smallpox and ordered him sent to the pestnouse. This is the first case in Rock Island. \ E. NOKES, F. L. Sayreand Dr. F. A. , Beck lean had narrow escapes from .drowning in Spoon River, at Cotton­ wood ford, near Lewiston. The horses were drowned and the ferrymen res­ cued the young men, who had climbed on top of the buggy and were being carried down stream. • FIFTY teams and about one hundred men are at Benton to work on the Chi­ cago. Paducah and Memphis Road. ,Work will be pushed as rapidly as pos­ sible. Contracts for grading have been ilet in sections of four miles each and jit is expeeted that the road will be in operation inside of ten months. • A MAN giving his name as Frank Arnold, ef Hamilton County, is being detained at Carlyle by the Sheriff. Arnold came into town driving an un­ usually good-looking bay horse. Stop­ ping at Means' Hotel, he sold the horse io Means for 930. He refuses to tell where he got the horse and tolls cetf licting stories. dent at , by shooting himself. JAMES L. HUFFMAN, a will-known farmer living near Assumption,dropped dead trom apoplexy. WILLIS CABMACK, one of the early settlers of Fayette County, died, aged 80. He had lived in the county fifty years. AT Ottawa the Bushnell Block was damaged by fire $20,000. Cigar stubs thrown in a wooden spittoon started the blaze. HENRY GROETTIISTG, a cigar manu­ facturer of Quiocy, committed suicide by shooting himself. He was in strait­ ened circumstances. THE 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Weiehert was fataly burned while playing about a fire ia her yard at Fairbury. Miss WlLHELMINA FABSMAN, Of Erie, Pa,, who came to Rockford to visit friends, dropped dead soon after alighting from the train. THE Chicago and Northwestern Read may move its shops fropi Chicago to East Clinton, in the event of enforced track elevation in Chicago. MARY KAISER, 20 months old,strayed from her father's side at their farm home, northwest of Elgin. He found her shortly afterward dead in a milk- cooling vat, into which she had fallen. "JUDGE WILLIAM F. MARSH died at Quincy after a lingering illness. De­ ceased was 72 years of age. He prac­ ticed at the bar for many years, and recently served a term as circuit judge. MK». WEHRMANN, wife of the Rev. Charles Wehrmann, pastor of the M. E. Church at Littleton, died at Ed- wardsville. Mrs, Mourning, mother of City Attorney D. L. Mourning, died at Rushvilie. DESTRUCTIVE wind and hail storms are reported from the vicinity of Lin­ coln, Mount Pulaski, Springfield and Bloom ington. At Mount Pulaski, Su­ pervisor Job n Anderson and his brother were killed by lightning, JAMES GUBBINS, an engineer em­ ployed by Horton, Gilmore, McWill- lams & Co., hardware dealers at Chi­ cago, found a package containing $1,-500 in currency in the street. Gub­ bins examined the package and found that the money consisted of $20. $50. and $100 bills. He gave it to the po­ lice for safe keeping. Two MEN attempted to rob Profes­ sor C. A. Bowsher, superintendent of the Champaign city schools, in the western portion of I rbana. Professor Bowsher had an umbrella, and though the footpads had him covered with two revolvers he attempted to use his um­ brella on them. One of the men fired, the shot taking eflect in Professor Bowsher's breast. The wound is dangerous, and the highwaymen were not captured. THE Statutory Revision Commission, appointed under a resolution adopted at the last session of the Legislature and consisting of Senators Green and Berry and Representatives Crafts, Mor­ ris and Callahan, will hold a meeting at Springfield. The Legislature failed to make an appropriation to defray the expenses of this commission, but the Commissioners will trust to the next General Assembly to reimburse them. They are already far along with the work. DETECTIVE HARRINGTON and Train­ master Linton, of the Illinois Central, trapped a gang of petty freight-car thieves in Mattoon, and wounded Henry Dolley and Oliver Heath, both young toughs of this city. Secreting themselves in a sealed freight car loaded with merchandise Harrington and Linton waited until the thieves broke the seal, crowded in, and began to dump out goods. Then they called a halt, and the robbers started to run. The thieves were fired on and severe wounds inflicted. They are now in jail at Charleston. THE Illinois Evangelical Conference closed its session at Naperville. The following are the Chicago appoint­ ments: Chicago District--William C. Clymerp, Presiding Elder; Chicago, Noble Street Church, Z. Zepperer; Harrison Street Church, G. C. Noble; Dearborn Street Church, J. A. Foege- line; Englewood Church, F. Stierle; Sout'i Chicago Church, W. A. Schultz; Wisconsin Street Church, M. Hoehn; Sheffield Avenue Church, J. Kiest; Lane Park Church, J. A. Geisa; Oak Park, Theodore Albording: Niles Cir­ cuit, F. Greenwald; Desplaines, High­ land Park and Deerfield, L. Schmidt; Barrington, Sugar Grove and Plum Creek, E. B. Elfring; Bensonville, G. A. Lippert; Naperville College Chapel, REVERSAL OF OPINION REGARO- DEMOCRACY M '* The rmotBMA IMaUko for tt» Prluolplc* Kxtoads Over the Whole Caaatcy jfot a Word t* So OaM Jm lM Democracy la Doomed. The Democrats are trying to console themselves in their present season of adversity with the familiar theory that an administration i? generally weak in By the test many of those of thel» own political faith these men are cot* demned as unworthy of confidence ; Lack of statesmanship in men who as- I sume to dii ect the a$airs of their coun- ! try is bad enough, but lack of patriot j ism is wor^e and it cannot be over­ looked. Next November the people whose confidence has been betrayed r* Y I will have an opportunity to pass judg- 800011 year' ow*nS *"ke ordinary , jqquj upon the Democrats in Congress and, fortunately, there is no doubt as ' u*wwiu» iw*i Ahaeit Thmm aMbttttvtN. for . .. '^• *hat the statement f The making of artlfleial limbs to y?'Li5u^. Leicase< m the extent of which ia 8Tn not generally realized. These Dmtw, their oWiSSoni° **** fals310 TNKSEASON OPENS If iSiX *'ARGE CITIES. " > circumstances attending the work of adapting itself to the work that it has to perform. Such an explanation will not answer in this case, however. The prevailing reaction against the party in piwer is not simply the result of causes that are repeated at regular intervals, and that have only a superfi­ cial and temporary significance. It implies a general feeling of dissatisfac­ tion with Democratic rule. A year's experience has satisfied the country that a monstrous mistaka was made when the Republican party was de­ feated, and a new svstem of political doctrines and policies introduced. It will not do to say that the waie ef dis­ pleasure which is now rolling over tho country represents only an impulsive and transit:at sentiment, ana one that is liKely to spend its force in a short time and leave things as they were when the votes were counted in 1892. The proof to the contrary is plain and conclusive. There has never before been suett a pronounced reversal of opinion with regard to the principles and purposes of a party. It extends all over the country, and the form of its manifestation is such that its mean­ ing cannot possibly mistaken. When the Democratic party took control of public affairs the people were inclined to believe that it would improve it« chances of usefulness and strive to justify the confidence reposed in it by tho e who had voted its ticket. But it was a disappointment from the first. In not a single respect has it ccme up to its promises or made proper use of its opportunities. Instead of pursuing a judicious and sensible course, it has acted in a persistently foolish and reckless manner. All of its performances have tended to discredit its capacity and to show that it is seri­ ously lacking in honesty and con­ sistency. It has done nothing whatever to promote the welfare of anv section or any class. Every move that it has made "has been disad­ vantageous to the people. It found the times good, and it made them bad. There is no hint of profit in any of its schemes of legislation. It nas been tried, and the result is entirely unsat­ isfactory, with no prospect of anything better. If it had met public expecta­ tion even in point of honest, but un­ successful, effort to redeem its pledges, there would be some reason for view­ ing it with indulgence and waiting for it to improve its conduct; but as a mat­ ter of fact it has failed beyond that point of extenuation. There is not a word to be said in its favor. The story of its attempt to govern the country is one of utter and unprecedented incom­ petency and unfaithfulness, and the re- j action against it is not for a day but (or all time.--Globe-Democrat, the lightest willow wood. Over this calfskin is tightly stretched and enameled f l e sh co lo r . The cos t o f a good one is from »t0 to $100. They have a number of cunning device#, steel springs, rubber bands, and the like to take the place, as well as may be. of natural thews and sinews. Sometimes aluminum is used in order to reduce the weight. Sometimes the feet are made of rubber, which must give a truly elastic tread, or nerhaps they are jointed in almost as many places as nature's compli­ cated work so as to allow of a great 1 variety of movements. Indeed, the That Dollar WhMt. j variety of tbese movements and the Farmers may well remember the fall simplicity with which they are dt 189?, when, during the Presidential J brought altout is astonishing. There campaign, they were told by the free- j seems hardly a limit to the possibil- to what that judgment will be. The members who lack patriotism should be turned oat and they will be turned out. trade party that all they need do in ities oX an artificial limb when added order to secure dollar wheat was to below the elbow vote for Grover Cleveland for Presi­ dent and for every other candidate of the same political faith. Some farm­ ers believed this dollar wheat promise and voted as they were directed. They are now reaping their harvest, as a re­ cent report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture points out in the following words: rstarss of «MS COffeipOiiudllts O& »ud department throughout the great wheat surplus States indicate a new factor In the consumption of wheat--vis-. . tWj the feed­ ing of sasse to hug* «uu other stock, a f&ct due, as declared, to the uitnMfpdent- edly low prices, the claim befn^ tBat this inodw of disposing of the cereal la profit­ able as compared with marketing it tot human food. <Look* a Good l>eal Bl||»r Now* When Harrison, the good and wise. Went out, a dollar looked thU alse: o came--* day in ne- ukd blnrar. tMr' - PMMIOB Payments Deeltelag. Secretary Hoke Smith's rule sus- spending pensions without justifica­ tion, explanation or notice on the mere suspicion of irregularity has teen re­ scinded. The pensioners have been restored to their rights, ai d are now enjoving their poor reward in money and rich recompense in gratitude for their services to their cjuntry. But before the unjust order which Secre­ tary Smith has since been compelled revoke, nWw XwTa l IVWi ROIIIBK in Cleveland Clover. It appears that the workingmen of Michigan are rolling in some of the Cleveland clover. The Labor Commis­ sioner of that State reports that of 2,966 factories in that State which he has visitel, 377 are wholly shutdown ard 572 running on short'time. This means that abtut a third of all the fac­ tories are closed in whole or in part, in a State which was one of the most prosperous in the Union.--Great Falls (Mont.) Leader. Wouldn't Be a Calamity Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, is fearful that Mr. Cleve­ land will not leave enough of the Dem­ ocratic party to hold a convention in 1893. Such a condition would not be a calamity to the country after the ex­ perience it has had with the Democ­ racy. Senator Hill's Sp*>««rh. WILSON ISM is trembling to-dav be­ fore the Democratic gladiator, David B. Hill.--Troy Press (Dem.). • SENATOR HILL delivered a great Bpeeoh. His position is sound, Demo­ cratic, and popular.--Albany Argus (Dem.). SENATOR HILL'S speeoh was a strong arraignment of the incompetency of Democratic leadership.--Philadelphia Ledger (Ind. ?. SENATOR HILL'S speech on the tariff is a scorching arraignment of the national administration which is bound to produce a deep impression on the country.--Albany Express. THERE is this much to be said of Hill. He fights in the open and he hits he thinks. And he hits hard.-- joint or below the knee joint. You hear ot a man who has lost both his legs continuing none the less in his trade of house carpen­ ter, going uy and down ladders, work­ ing on soaHoldings, and so ou with the best. You are shown letters written by a hand of wood and you are told that these have little- difficulty in the cutu- mon movements of lite, holding a book or paper, taking off and putting on a hat. or using a knife and fork. The man who invented modern artificial limbs was one Ambroise Fare, a sturdy old Huguenot of the sixteenth century. . He was special physician to the Valois Kings of France. In the 12th chapter of his work on chirurgery is described by what means arms, legs, ana hands may be made by art and placed in­ stead of the natural arms, legs, and hands that are cut off or lost Nearly fifty years before Ambroise Pa re's day there lived a German Knight, Got* von Berlichingen, famous for reckless courage and a Stran?e mixture of cruelty and mag­ nanimity. He was generally known as (>Uotz of the Iron Hand," and some of his fiercest lighting was done with an artificial band made of steel, weighing thr6e pounds so in­ geniously constructed by a mechanic of ancient ISuremburg as to grasp a sword or a lance. Way back three centuries before the birth of Christ the Romans, who knew ail that we moderns know, except for a few trifles, like steam power, electricity, and the printing press--well, they too, had craftily made artificial limbs. A very neat one of bronze and wood was discovered in the,tomb of a Roman soldier at Capua. ANSON. Chicago ClaU to revoke, pension payments passed their maximum and are now rapidly Baltimore American, declining. The statement for the first nine months of present fiscal year is as follows: July..... tSSSsivi: October........... November December......... January........... February.......... March Totals i-ne. H»,7«7,66» U,2«ti,15R », 789,844 1V.S4U.X14 111,330,668 18,766.534 18M. 16,996,808 ll.5a8.M7 12,820,030 1106,598.390 $130,8M,<!84 1693. fl4,339,140 IS,* 78,067 13,654,367 11,(H2,410 14,431.871 14,942,108 1693. H3,038.270 13,435,063 13,840,739 Under tho law of 1890 almost every new pension granted carried with it arrears dating from the day of the ap­ plication to tne date of the first regu­ lar monthly payment, and these ar­ rears of pensions swelled the total pav- H AFKrame7Kteid HM W P SS' ! ments fo^ tbiee ^om 1891 to Sheridai M SchSShifen 1 1893 delusive, far above the normal, sneriaan, M. bchoenlafen. , &Qd far abov0 possible future re- IN a brief telegram sent out recently | auirements. Death not only eadly : diminishes every year the number of j living war herces, but the amount of i arrears paid naturally declines with the number of new claims. The esti- it was stated that Rolla Boyd, a farm­ er, had been kickdu to death at his farm, ten miles north of Decatur. Later developments go to show that Boyd was murdered. and a warrant was sworn out for the arrest of John Creekmur, charging him with the crime. Creekmur owns the farm on which Boyd livei. and he was the last person seen with him. The prosecu­ tion states that recently Boyd and an­ other man had instigated legal pro­ ceedings against Creetcmur, and that an attorney wrot9 a letter to Creek­ mur, in which he stated that serious charges had been made against him and he had better come to see him. Boyd delivered this letier to Creek­ mur and he was furious. On Monday, April 10, Creekmur was again at the farm, and in the evening he and Boyd were in the barn together. Afterwa d Boyd was found in a stable in which a stallion was kept, but the body was up under a manger and the wounds on the head were not such as would be made by a horse's hoofs. Another ev­ idence of foui play ia found in the fact that the doorstep to the barn, ten feet from the stallion, was covered with blood. ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLONEY ren­ dered an opinion that if a majority of votes cast in a county favor domestic animals running at large they can do so; yet if in counties under township organization any town votes against their running at large they must be restrained. PRESIDENT TRACY, of the Illinois Bankers' Association, and President Elliott, of the Private Bankers' Asso­ ciation, issued a call for a joint session of the executive committees of the as­ sociations to meet at Springfield. The meeting will be held to provide a plan for the union of the two associations. PHCEBK H. LEACH, a resident of Rockford forty-six years, died, aged 74 Ears. She was the mother of Dr. F. Waxham, of Chicago; Mrs. Edgar E. Bartlett, formerly of Kalamazoo, Mich., but now of Rockford; Mrs. J. B. Whitehead and Mrs. W. L. Frisbie. MART HAMILTON, a young Morris business man, was to have married Miss Lizzie Cryer, a graduate of Mor­ ris High School, Wednesday evening. The community was greatly startled to hear that that the prospective bride- gro m had uneeratoniously left town without notifying his parents or his intended wife. All arrangements had* been made for the wedding and tho young woman is heartbroken. mates to-day induate that nearly $20.- UOt),COO of the current year s appi Qpri- tion will be unspent. We ho^ie that no part of this saving has t een effected by Secretary Hoke Smith's favorite method--surreptiou^ly cutting off pen­ sioners without notice. Cause and BSeet. Why did Rhode Island go Ttepubli- can by 6,000 and more in 1894? Why did it go Democratic by almost 1,200 in 1882? Why did the Democratic plu­ rality fall to 178 in 1803? We submit a few figures in answer to these ques­ tions. The number of wage-earners em­ ployed in the factories of the State stood in 1892 at 19,089. This was the McKinley year, the unprecedentsdly prosperous year, the year in which workmen were told "it is the unions, not the tariffs, that create high wages," and were told also that to "swipe the tariff" would to to hurt their employ­ ers, described by the Democratic press as "robber barons," without hurt- ng themselves. Many of them belicrei what they were told, and therefore tue State went Democratic by 1.200 plu- rulity. But in 1893 the possibility of Democratic tariff tinkering became plain, and so the number of wage-earn­ ers employed became less, being but 14,770. This demonstration of the in­ timate relation of protective tariff to the demand for labor caused the wage- earners to put on their thinking-caps, and the Demoeratic plurality of l,i00 in 1892 fell to 178 in 1893. In 1894 the dangerous possibility of Democratic tariff tinkering had become a danger­ ous probability, and the number of employed mill"and factory operatives j had fallen trom 19,089 in the great Mc­ Kinley year of 1892 to 10,9ti3 in what] seemed likely to be the first disastrous Wilson year. Every wage-earner was alarmed, and so there was a He pub-1 lican plurality of 6,000 registered at the election of 1894. All this is as plain as A B C.--Chicago Inter Ocean. IT would seem very unlike Senator Hill if he should finally yield his con­ victions so far as to support a measure which he has condemned in such posi­ tive terms.--Springfield Union. • THE speech contains nothing new in opposition to the pending measure. It is Republican doctrine, of crushing force in its truth and of dynamic effect because of its source.--Utica Herald. THIS speech of the senior Democratic Senator from the President's own State may or may not have killed off the Wilson bill, but it has at least made the consummation of the crime against Northern industries and wage earners more difficult.--Hartford Courant. Political Notes. WONDER if Grover Cleveland's sub­ stitute Is marching with the Coxey army? SENATOR HILL had influenoe enough to defeat the nomination of two men for Supreme Court Justices. Has he influence enough to defeat the Wilson bill? IN the recent Colorado elections the Populists carried six town«. In 1892 they carried the State by 13,277 ma­ jority. Populism is done for, became there is nothing popular about it, being merely rank despotism under a false name. CHICAGO'S Democratic plurality for Mayor in April, 1893, was 21,089. Chi­ cago's Democratic plurality for Mayor in December, 1893, wa-i 1,290. Chica­ go's aggregate Republican plurality in the recent w ard elections was 18,539. This is the kind of a change that pub* lie sentiment is undergoing in every ! part of the free voting United States. I THE Chicago Inter Ocean says the Democrats will start into the next cam- i paign with 120 Congressmen from the Ant* at Play. MI approached one day to the formicary of some wood ant9, exposed to the sun and sheltered from the north. The ants were heaped upon one another in great numbers, ap­ pearing to enjoy the temperature of the surface of the nest. None ol them were at work, and the Im­ mense multitude ot insects presented the appearance of a liquid in a state of ebullition, upon which the eye could scarcely be fixed without great difficulty, but when 1 examined the conduct of each ant I saw that they were approaching each other, each moving his antenna) with astonish­ ing rapidity, each patting the cheek ot one of his fellow^. "After these preliminaries, which very much resembled caressing, they were observed V> raise themselves up­ right on their hind legs by pairs, struggle together, seize each other by mandible, foot, or antenna?, and then immediately relax their hold, only to renew the attack again In a moment They would fasten to each other's shoulders, embrace and wres tie, ovorthrow each other, and then raise themselves by turns, each tak­ ing revenge without producing any serious mischief. 'They did not spurt out their venom as they do in their real com­ bats, nor retain their holds upon op­ ponents with such obstinacy. 1 have seen some so eager in these exercises that they would pursue and vanquish several in succession, only struggling with each a few seconds. * * * In one place two ants appeared to be gamboling about a stalk of straw, turning alternately to avoid or seize each other, which forcibly brought to my recollection the sport and pas­ time of young dogs, when they are observed to rise on their hind legs, attempting to bite, overthrow, or seize each other, without once clos ing their teeth."--Pierre Huber, the Naturalist KathMladlD Crowd* Before** at All tho tWNPW .-CtaUMt -- Bright the General Saecee* of the Titlilliol Faatlme Thte Season--Tho Ctabs. BASE-BALL fc with us once again. Sad eyed, s i g h i n g c r a n k s swarm in the bleach­ ers in half a dozen or So of the big citie?, and from now until the 1st of Oc- tober the most im- -- portant question in ' the mind of the American public will be "What's the score?" Every year, as regular as the v e r n a l e q u i n o x , | comes the opening of the base-ball sea- i son. With it comes the revival of the 1 yearly six months battle for the I championship of the league. Tine can­not wither the interest in the race for the championship or custom stale the | infinite variety of excuses for losing it. j So long as the small bsy of this coun­ try does not suffer any material change in the make-up of his bit of human na­ ture base-bail will prevail and the small boy, grown up to manhood, will pay for the privilege of "roasting" the umpire and yell when his favorite bats out a home run. The s-eason of 1894 opened Thursday in six of the big cities of the Union. J Chicago played its first (fame at Cincinnati with Captain Comis- key's men. The New York club opened the sea on with the Balti- mores at Balti­ more ; Brooklyn began its Ions fight for honor with the cham­ pion Boston team; Pittsburg trav­ eled all the way to St. Louis to open the season with Von der Ahe's Brown Stockings; Cleveland played at Louisville and the Philadelphias at Washington. In the latter city the opening of the season was looked upon as being quite as important as the open­ ing of Congre s: more so, in fact, for tradition has it that more senators and congressmen may be seen in the grand stand at the first game than in the chambers of legisla­ tion at the first ses­ sion. So important wast the opening of the season considered this yea * that a spe­ cial commi11ee of base-ball men called upon the President #Vand extended to him ?'§ a most cordial invi- t" tation to be present, and to even make a New Yortc «:iuh speech if he felt so disposed. President Cleveland replied that nothing would give him greater pleasure than a free ticket to the ball park, and that if he were not prevent­ ed by engagements impossible to break he would certainly be on hand to see the Washingtons defeat the Philadel­ phias, as he knew they would. Managers and presidents of the league clubs all say that never before were the prospects for a big season so brilliant. Of course these gentlemen look at the game from only one angle. "Big season" to them means a large at­ tendance in t h grandstands with cor­ respondingly larg ' numbers of dollars in1 the till. SThey are ™i expert judges, to?, of r " the feelings of the „ COMMIT, people on thi< head, ^clnnati ClaU. for they have been through the fire of many disastrous seasons and have seen gooc! times also. So that, on the whole, their judgment is to be trusted. Then the reports from the various oities which hold membership in the league are quite favorable acd thef minor league towns are full of enthusiasm. City dealers in base-ball Supplies re­ port that they cannot fill their orders from the country for base-balls and bats, masks and gloves and other im­ plements of the national pastime. All of which are said to be sure indica­ tions of a general interest in the game. PRODUCTION OF COAL. South just as good as elected, and they will be able to spend all their mtney j as she stood upon in trying to elect 59 Democrats in the North to secure a majority in the next House. But even under such favorable circumstances the Democrats are won­ dering where they will get the 59. Tliejr Call Her the Storm Spirit* "There is a storm spirit in Ken­ tucky," said BL G Babbington of that State. 'It is not a spirit in reality, but a woman who has be­ come known throughout that section by the name of Storm spirit' She stands when a storm is portending upon a prominence overlooking the Kentucky River in Morgah County, and her appearance is regarded as an infallible sign that rough weather may be expected, I saw her once, and will never forget hnw she looked a rocky ledge, hei Total Output ot United State* 1898 Waa 179,320.612 short Tone. A report on the production of coal in 1893 has been compiled by E. W. Park­ er, of the United States geo'ogical survey. It shows the total production for the year to bo 179,326,612 short tons, with a valuation of $2J5,256,479. The production and valuation on the basis of short tons are given as follows: TODS. Value. Alabama .....1........ S8,o@i»r>83 A r k a n s a s . . . . . . . . . . 0 6 8 , 7 8 3 California.... • 73,408 Colorado...... ........ 3.667,636 Georgia 373,740 Illinois Indiana Indian Territory. Iowa Kansas Kentucky riand OUB friends the enemy should try' not ta feel too bad about the recent elections and reserve some of their grief until alter the Congressional con- j sj.eret tests next fail, when they will for surety have something to feel sorry for. THE bill proposing to tax greenbacks will not be of much account as a rev­ enue measuie. Under the blight of a Democratic administration but few people have enough greenbacks to make it worth while to tax them. face turned towards the sky as if be­ seeching some unseen power, her iohg hair floating in the breeze, her face pale and emaciated, but her expression flrni and resolute. My «uia6, who was conducting me through the mountains, said sententiously: 'I reckon #eMl hev a storm.' Thar'air From several sources I 3,681,701 .. 1,262.110 .. 3,791,0118 .. '2,453,641 . 2,855,010 .. 3,661,631 45,979 .. 3,747,43ft .. 918,460 .. 601,146 17,000 49,580 ..12,5*0,770 41,« Irving^- Immense Earning*. Henry frving, who has just com­ pleted a professional visit of twenty- eight weeks in .this country, is reported to have received about $600,C00 in gross receipts during that time. It is said that no other actor in a similar time has taken in such a large sum of money. When it is considered that during the ?>ast winter people have felt the pinch-ngs of hard times this array of figures Tnru Them Out! "They lack leadership: they lack statesmanship; they lack cohesion; i _ and, worse than all, they lack patriot- i furnishes material for a good deal of ism." These are the words of the I solid thought. In this connection it is Philadelphia Times, one of the strbng also wortn noting that the bulk of theater patronage dc*3 not the wealthy. Democratic newspapers of the country and a firm supporter of the administra- learned her history--once the> belle of the mountain side, she plighted her troth to the young man of her choice. He left for Frankfort on a raft and was never heard from after­ ward. For many weary months she awaited his return, and then they told her the truth, that he bad been drowned in the treacherous river. Then reason deserted her, and ever since when a storm is portending she goes upon the rock? and appears to plead with the elements to stay their fury that her lover may return."--St Louis t lobe-Democrat. > A oiBii Is always saying *<dori,fcn to some boy, but there's a difference be­ tween the way she says it to a young* man and to her brother. THE colleges are full of young men who will receive a thousand dollar education to take a forty dollar joU Maryland Michigan Missouri...,. Montana New Mexico. . North Carolina....".. North Dakota.... Ohio Oregon -- PtmlmrlTania. bltnminoas.43,298,063 SBthzsolte. .63,960,400 Tennessee 1.W4.9U Texas 302,136 Utah j?J &>?.•&.,.. 413,** Virginia .......... 818,988 Washington 1/364,877 West Virginia. 10,629,986 Wyoming 2,439.311 The aggregate amount of anthracite shipment* was 43,08i\535 tons, an in­ crease of 1,198,213 tons over 1892. About the same increase is reported for bituminous ooal. The entire in­ crease of both shipments took place in the first hklf of the year. 761,347 1A7.S55 4,606,939 386.972 17,837,696 8.9J7.42S 2,148.637 4.932,703 8,024, *61 2,460,973 8,23V,719 «,385,*t»9 l,836,ora 948,2s« 25,500 53,160 Il/i63,7^ 1*4,S0f» 34,408,473 8V:8l,4«5 2,063,977 6H8,24*-1 611,093 6*4.83* 2,9».trr« 8,106,312 8,290.904 Vtaaay Attogatlaoa liiglnjii A Kansas wife recently diroreft from bar htartMHkl solemnly set forth In •the defendant the plaintiff, causing it to' very red, thereby causing tlw iff great pain and. ang«ia|iof; An Ohio man hassedEfidsd because, as he declared iBtoonk "the defendant pulled the plaintiff out of bed by ̂his wbiskem" A henpecked husband got a divorce in a Pennsylvania court because, In the language of his affidavit* *tbe defendant struck the plaintiff i vio­ lent blow with her bustle." A Missouri divorce was once granted because 4 the defendant goes gaddfeHr about, leaving this plaintiff MjppRr- less, or if he gets any he 'has to coalc it himself." Out in Illinois a wife secured cree because her husband threw the baby at her when she hit him with m coal bucket for spitting on the stove, a Connecticut man got a divorce on the ground that "the defendant would not get up in the morning nor call this plaintiff, nor do anythisqi she was told." A decree was granted In a Masm- chusetts court because "the defend­ ant keeps this plaintiff awake met of the night quarreling.n A Wisconsin man got a divorce be­ cause his w.fe keeps a servant girt who fsni*. on the fryisg pau io see II it was hot enough." A Jersey wife secured a decision because;*'the defendant) the husband, sleeps with a razor under his pltkMr to frighten the plaintiff." A Virginia woman was set free be­ cause ' 'the defendant does not come home until 10 p, m., aud then keepa the plaintiff awake talking." A Tennessee court liberated a wife because the defendant does not wash himself, thereby causing the plainfilt great mental angu sh." In Illinois a decree was obtained because a loug-suffering husband complained that "during the past year the defendant struck this plaint­ iff repeatedly with pokers, fiat-iroMk and other hard substances.1' In Minnesota a decree was given te a wife because the defendant.. n<Sf«|; cot his toe nails, and, being rcetiiil in his sleep, scratches this plaintiff severely." A youthful Kentucky husband se­ cured a divorce on the ground that "the defendant came into the bed­ room the morn r rig after the marriage and beat this plaintiff oh the head with her shoe heel.*' ' A New York man pleaded in his petition for divorce that "the de­ fendant would not sew on this plaint­ iff's buttons, neither would she allow him to go to fires at n;gbt" The court decided that the plaintiff was entitled to a decree on the ground that his oppression was cruel and in­ human. Haitian Temperaments. It is interesting to find so thiir oughly scientific a man as lYoC William Preyer has adopted the four> fold classification of temperaments made nearly 2,001) years ago--namely; the choleric, sanguine, melancholy, and lymphatic, The existence of one or the other of these temperaments may be discovered, he saya-in hie work on "The Infant Mind," veif early in the great majority of chil­ dren--in the second quarter of tin first year, beyond a doubt Nearly every one who has written about temperaments has made a classification of his own. Galen had nine, Haycock gives six, Graham Brown seven, and others have got down as low as twa Modern writers use the word nervous for choleric, and bilious for melancholic tempera* ment. With these verbal modiftca- I tions the old classification seems to answer all practical purposes, and individuals can build up combinations (as* needed. I Hutchison defines temperament as the sum of the physical peculiarities of a man, exclusive of his tendency to disease This is not satisfactory, though perhaps temperament is a thing a little too vague to be satis­ factorily defined. In modern terms it may be ^said to be the peculiar wiy in whk'h tne individual reacts to the simuii of his environment* There la no doubt that one class ot persons react quickly and easily, expending energy profusely and often needlessly in their life work; others react hope­ fully and work buoyantly, yet with less waste. We can thus distinguish the nervous, the sanguine, the.melan­ cholic, etc. A capacity to recognise and appreciate the importance of temperament used to be considered part of a sound medical training. It has been too much neglected in ear pursuit ot minuthu with microscopes and test tubes. Our teachers ot practical medicine might well nrfasu its study. --Medical Kecorder. jp ^ 3 WS& W'.fm Wr5 & Jill Overflow or ftowa. Louis KXORR, of Chicago, commit­ ted suicide at Boston. 'V SALOME, a mining camp near Pres- oott, Ariz., was burned. Loss, $50,000. JOHN DUNCAN'S three children were burned in a cabin near Pinevllle, Ky. WOOLMAN J. HOLLO WAY, ex-Consul to Stratford, Ont., died at South Bend, Ind. A CYCLONE in Oklahoma Territory killed two persons and destroyed much property. THE Midwinter Fair carnival began with the arrival of Rex Felix on the ship Argus. HENRV SCHRUTT, serving a sentence in Jackson, Mich., penitentiary for lar­ ceny, escaped. THE Logan Iron and Steel Works, near Le wist on, Pa., have been d*> stroyed by die. Low, $100,0001 Taking Proper PreeantkNM. sS Pete Dailey sprang a new gag on his audience at the Bijou one night which made a great hit While in the middle of one of his important scene* a man beckoned to him from the wings. Dailey left the stage for a moment When he returned his face had fallen several inches He looked positively sad. Advancing to the footlights he asked seriously: "Is there a doctor in the home?** In all parts of the tbeater the an dience, anxious to hear full particular of the accident, leaned flMvsid eagerly. Dailey scanned the au­ dience with an anxious gase, «ntli«fter a moment's hesitation a broad-shou!- dered, bespectacled young man stood up, blushed vividly and remarked: >*1--1 am a physician." • f K. W-"-* ' Instantly DeUe^e fixtures relaxed. * >. ^ f- "Th»t*« riorKt " Ka - -- - • » - - ' : "Don't go away yet I'm just going to sing a song."--New York Sua. When There Were No Pluiben Lord Fountainhall, in 1GT4, Hftt there are no piumberaj in Scot­ land, because their is no need tor them. Happy simplicity of our ancestors! Now every man should be his own plumber. No man should he al­ lowed to tnarry till he has passed aa examination io plain and fancy piumh* ing. Few know what to do if the pipes are frozen or if tne gas meter ie frozen, if you are practicing with n pistol, however, and casually cut n ias pipe, we do know what to da Exhibit soap? Fill up the orifice with »oap This accident is, it must he admitted, less frequent than a iiujde* flood.--The Saturday He view, v Jtf'I i ' 'f k