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mm ifcR OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECOR QKO> ~ Tr- Ina&lttttlMi Snptrin. of fiqiib In the past graduates of the .Tackson- istitution for the blind held their the Band. The lie instital Uwt reunion In the history of the in­ stitution Friday, They gathered from *11 quarters Mid many of the scenes at the meeting' were quito tffeotine. Ttesy had the freedom of the large tratiatag and the Superintendent, Dr. W. F. Short, did alt in his power to make things pleasant for them. They formed an association, electing Miss Tiliie Johnson, of Moline, President; J. L. Tesh, Palmyra, Vice President; Martha Jewell, Scales Mound, Secre­ tary; Henry Hokemp, Quincy, Treas­ urer. The meeting wound up with a banquet. State ImtltntioB Tra«t«ei Xe«t . , A general conference of all superin­ tendents and boards of trustees of the various State institutions was he'd in the executive offloe at the statehouse Friday morning. The Governor opened the conference with a speech. He said: "When you were assembled last fall I explained to you that we wanted the institutions of this State to buy their supplies like the great corporations buy theirs--that is, of the lowest bid­ der. This system has now been gener­ ally introduced and may be said to be thoroughly established, but there have been a few cases of attempted evasion. Let me now say finally on this subject that there is a principle involved. We will have to adhere to the new method because it is right and we cannot per­ mit of any exception. The new meth­ od is not only right, but has been found to produce astonishingly favor­ able results, and I now say to you that we do not want to have a single pur­ chasing agent in the entire State of Illinois, and any superintendent or trustee who is not willing to carry out this principle both in letter ana * in spirit should sever his connection with tne public service at once." Hick Schools An ^.^•State Superintendent of Public In­ struction Kaab in his forthcoming re­ port will give statistics as to the cost of maintaining pupils in the high sobools of tbe State. In Chicago tne cost is the highe-t: and in the high school at Ashland, Cass County, the cost is lowest. The items upon which the comparisons are made are as follows: Cost per pupil enrolled for tuition, highest. $;41.63 in South Chicago; lowest, $6.83 in the Ashland high school; average for the State, $30.35'. Cost per pupil enrolled for tuition and incidental expenses, South Chicago, $101.17: Ashlabd, $8.05; average for the State, $'«.77. Cost per pupil on average enrollment for tuition, South Chicago, $113.-10; Ash­ land, $9; average for the State, $34.60. Cost per pupil on average enrollment for tuition and incidental expenses, South Chicago, $125.20; Ashlaad,, #!!; average for the State, $38,45. ' > Fatally Beaten by Farmers.' A terrible fight occurred Saturday night on E. W. Smith's farm, two miles west of Dixon, between Horace Hill and Bud Newman on one side and the three men who work on the farm on the other. Hill and Newman are fish­ ermen and camped on Smith's farm, And have been helping themselves to milk from the milk-house. A lock was placed on the house, and Hill and New­ man on seeing it got angry and said they would burn every building on the farm. A fight was started. When it was over Hill and Newman were one mass of cuts and bruises. The men on the farm thinking them dead came to town and gave themselves up. The officers went down and found the two men still alive and brought them up to jail. The doctors say they cannot live. Hill was struck over the head with a spade causing a terrible wound. Record of the Week. JOLIET'S council voted to not issue any taloon licenses this year. THE foreigners at the Decatur mines declare they will return to work. GEORGE MCDONALD, who killed Jo­ seph Spotswood in Peoria, has been ar­ rested. Gov ALTGELD has pardoned Holly Doyle, a murderer; G. E. Kingsland, a burglar, and John Little, a thief. AT Elgin, George Blythe committed suicide lay hanging. The cause was financial difficulties. He had been in charge of the National House and was an old hotel man. He leaves a wife DREDGERS working off the foot of Addison street, Chicago, found a boiler of the steamer Lady felgin, which went down in September, 1860, causing the loss of 400 lives. JACKSONVILLE business circles were shocked by the assignment of D. W. Rawlings & Son, clothing and gentle­ men's furnishing goods. The proprie­ tors are old residents. GRAND MASTER STONE, of Vandalia, assisted by the Metropolis lodges of the I. O. O. F., laid the corner intone in the new Odd Fellows' temple at Metropo­ lis. The building will be finest struc­ ture of the kind in the State outside of Chicago. RICHARD NAGLE has been arrested by the East St. Louis authorities, , charged with opening a switch which derailed a train on the Mobile and Ohio road near Fish Lake, killing Fireman Collins and fatally injuring Engineer Ryan. EX-MAYOR WM. BRANSON, aged 8?, died at Jacksonville. He was one of the leading old-time Republicans of Illinois. He was an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln. He had two sons, N. W. Branson, of Petersburg, and Sheiton Branson, of Chicago. SEVERAL W««KS Sgo A. L. Anderson was removed to the Rockford pest- house, the physicians having pro­ nounced him a victim of smallpox. An­ derson has just been released and Dr. Butterfteld, who attended him, has presented a bill of $500' to the City Council, over the payment of wh en there promises to be as much of a dis­ pute as there was recently when Dr. W. A. Boyd got $800 for attending/a, smallpox patient. Then to compromise the case Anderson went to Chicago, where he was carefully examined by physicians who say he has never had the virulent disease. SIX clergymen comprised a jury at Evanston which fined Druggist Elich 9100 for selling liquor. THE elevator belonging to Adolph Dreuchand, located at Greenville, was totally destroyed by fire, entailing a to38 of $18,00(1, $12,0J0 on building and •6,000 on grain. The building was in­ sured for $ VHH) and grain for *5,000. A MOVEMENT is on foot, started by the Christian Endeavor societies of Champaign and Urbana, to petition the legislature for the passage of a law prohibiting the sale of Uouors within five miles of the State Uni- ersity building. There are twenty- live or thirty saloons within the dit- named. school graduated tn.MURor' -***"*' ARTHONY Hmw, of Orl; Is, m thrown from a cultivator, sustaining internal injuries. AN effort is being made to have the Government establish a navigation school at Chicago. THE Unicn Malleable Iron Works, of Moline were sold to C. H. Deere, the plow manufacturer. MRF. JERRY BROWN, of Broadland, Kve birth to triplets--two girls and a y of eight pounds each. W. W. WIRT has been elected super­ intendent of Ottawa schools, to succeed D. R. A. Thorp, deceased. MRS. HENRY NEIPHAGEN, wife of a well-known resident of Bloomington, fell dead from heart disease. ARHUR HARMON was seized with cramps and drowned while bathing in White River, near Rockford. JOHN SOUTHALL, an Indianapo'is negro, and Delia McMinny, a white woman of Terre Haute, were married in Marshall CHICAGO citizens are asked to con­ tribute f50,000 to move the battle ship Illinois from Jackson Park to Van Bu- ren street pier. JUDGE GROSSCUP, of Chicago, ruled that Letter Carrier Palmer could not be held for stealing a decoy letter, and he was released. MRS. CATHERINE MANDEL, mother of the members of the firm of Mandel Brothers, Chicago, died at her home, She was 89 years old. EDWARD F. HUGHES, prominent in Chicago labor circles, attempted to boaid a moving train and was killed. He was 43 years of age. JOHN BURNS, who has several alias­ es, was arraigned at Salem on the charge of having: assisted In robbing a store at luka, and held to appear be­ fore the grand jury, his bpnd being fixed at $10,000. AT Paisley the graves of the Odd Fellows' dead were decorated by the Lincoln and Mozart ledges and by the Orphans' Home Lodge of Daughters of Rebekah. Rev. C. Jfi. Schaible deliv­ ered the oration. FIFTY Coxeyites seized a fast freight train at Fairtield. United States mar­ shals went to arrest them. Striker* at Staunton stopped freight trains and brokebe seals of all the cars to see if coal was being carried. ARCHIBALD MCKILLIP, the Chicago street car conductor who was shot Tuesday morning, did not die at the hands of footpads, as was thought. He was shot down by Calvin Keatley, the father of a young woman to whom he had been engaged and then refused to make his wife. GERHARDT SCHNYDER, a wealthy citizen of Damionsvllle, Clinton Coun­ ty, committed suicide by shooting him­ self in the head. The deceased was upward of 80 years of age. and had re­ sided in Clinton County for forty years. He was a native of Holland. The cause for the act is unknown., J. B. MASON committed suicide by taking morphine at Frankfort. He had been drinking considerably for sometime and this is thought to be one reason for the rash act. He left the following note to his wife: OPKAK Wir* -- Good by forever. Bury me In the new cemetery. Put nothing on u»y body but a shroud. Llvs and lore me as long as you live. I hereby i&y I came to my d»»th by my own hands. Have no In * quest or coroner's Jury. I give and be­ queath alt 1 have on earth to my wife, Mamie M. Mason, to do and dispose of same as she pleases. But pay all debts I have contracted In Franklin County, III.. and no others Is all I ask. Ever yours lov­ ingly. f J. B. MASON. * The following note Is supposed to have been written after he had taken the drug: U11 O'CLOCK.--Good-by, dear wife. YOB have turned against tne; I am going home. Can write no more; I am getting blind. God bless you. Live a good Christian Ufa 1 am growing worse. J. B M." GEORGE P. BLOW, in charge of the hyjdrographic office at Chicago, and who has started the movement for a school-ship there, sent a letter to the Board of Education, which will be read at it its next meeting. "I have proposed the school-ship," Mr. Blow said, "because it has been brought so forcibly to my notice since taking up the work cn the lakes. I have received numerous letters from parents asking if their sons could be put on one of the school-ships at New York or some oth­ er seaboard city, or given seafaring in­ struction in the naval service. Upon careful inquiry, I have found that neither of these can be done for boys living in the West. As a matter of expense the school-ship will cost much less than anv such institution on shore. There would have to be no building or building lot, and the only expense to the Board of Education would be fueling tha ship and keeping her in re­ pair." THE inhabitants of El Dorado, a vil­ lage eight miles northeast of Harris- burg. are excited over the attempted robbery of C. P. Burnett & Sons' store. The man who made the attempt was Judge G. H. Gcodwin, a lawyer of lhat place. Goodwin made known his plans to Charles Mcore and Henderson Traf- ton and asked them to become his con­ federates, to which they agreed. They were to make the att?mpt Tuesday morning about 3 o'clock. Goodwin's accomplices betrayed the whole mat­ ter to the Burnetts, who made arrange­ ments for the reception of the trio. At the appointed time Goodwin, Moore and Trafton knocked at the door of the store and were admitted by Willie Tjp- church. cashier for the Burnetts. Goodwin commanded Upchurcht ) open the safe, and upon his refusal to do so covered him wiih a revolver. At this juncture Constable Murphy m»Hn his appearance, and with the assistance of his deputies arrested and handcuffed Goodwin, who fought with despera­ tion. The prisoner is now in fail. He belongs to a respectable family, and was once prosecuting attorney in In­ diana. His father is said to be wealthy. RECEIVER BOSWOBTH, of the Chica­ go, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad, which is operated by receivers ap­ pointed by the United States court, received a telegram at Springfield stating that a mob of 2 0 striking miners had assembled at Mount Olive, Macoupin County, and stopped the pas­ sage of trains bearing coal from Chi­ cago to St. Louis. Receiver Bosworth applied to Judge Allen of the United States court, who directed United States Marshal Brinton to proceed to Mount Olive and release the trains. Brinton left on a special train of the Chicago, Peoria ana St. Louis road. MRS. MINERVA MERRICK ORCHART- SON, aged 84,well known as a spiritual­ ist, died at Quincy, leaving a large es­ tate to Professor Charles Orchardson, of Chicago, who married her about a year ago. Deceased during her life­ time spent much money among the poor and needy. She was a noble won: an. PROF. 8. A. FORBES, the State En­ tomologist, reports a large number of requests for advice and assistance on account of injury by chinch bugs to small grain. Farmers should send to him at Champaign, 111., live chinch bogs inclosed in a tight tin box. In return, Professor Forbes will send a stock of infected chinch bugs. WHEAT AND SILVER. THE PRICE OF ONE DOES NOT . . fAWECT THE OTHIJ* , 1 Statistics Which Show that the DeoMMM- tlaatfon of Silver. Is Not the Caoae off tKa In I, -.Utiiiwar '• 111 B •'•waaaaw aaa ww m as a Wealth De^ojrer. * ' Would Fool the F»rm"r. In as far a* the speech made by Mr. Chaplain, a member of the Salisbury ministry, tends to strengthen belief in a rational bimetallism, founded upon and made possible by , international agreement, well and go^t But In as far as it helps to deepen the entirely erroneous impression that the fall of wheat prices and the decline in the market value of silver are connected as caase and effect, it is t;> be deplored, and i equires a statement of the facts of the case. Not a few" sane men in this country have been led into the silver camp by this fallacious argument. They have teen wheat prices declining until the farmer's profit has been eaten away. They haveteen told again and again by the special pleaders on the silver side that the demonetization of silver was the cause of this; and al­ though there is neither rhyme nor reason in the argument, theirfearthat we may be injuring our agricultural interest and helping Great Britain leads them to take every chance, and yield to a policy of financial destruc­ tion if by so doing we might, haply, give a lift to agriculture and cut En­ gland off from a cheap food supply. How erroneous the notion is we pro­ pose to show by the facts submitted. To begin with, Mr. Chaplain must not be taken too seriously. He is one of the "outs" who want to become the "ins;" and we know that people in that position are not too careful of their lacts or their premises. Mr. Cleveland was an excellent civil service reformer when he was a candidate for office. It pleases Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chaplain to tell the British farmer at this time that the demonetization of silver is the TT J OA A cause of his woes. The British U nited States mar-^farmer'8 case is desperate. The com­ petition of America almost drove him out of the business; and now, in t£e face of a competition which it puzz" s even America to meet, he is unable to pay his rents or to make his industry a living one. It pleases a member of the opposition to say that the party in power has done this. It was the Glad­ stone government that closed the In­ dian mints to the free coinage of silver; and although that was only in pursuance of a policy from which neither Conservative nor Liberal has swerved in the past, it would be very satisfactory, in the preien.e of an early general e'ection, to make the British farmer believe that the ; ilver policy of the party in power was re­ sponsible fbr the low i rice of wheat. That is the political mil-c in tne cocoanut. Now for tiv^f#'-Vs. Mr. Matthew Marshal has written a great deal of imbecile stuff for the i\ew York Sun; he has also prepared an occasional article valuable for its statistical information, for, while his theories are of the wildest, his facts are generally unassailable. We use the statistics presented in a recent paper as the most conveniently pre­ pared for the absolute disproof of the asserted dependence of wheat prices upon the market value of silver. The statement has been refuted over and over again, but it will bear one more rating, as long as there are still those who cling to it. The fact is the/ there is neither a real nor an apparent connection between wheat and sil­ ver prices. As has been said aptly in this case, it is just as sensible to say that the mercury in the ther­ mometer is the cause of cold weather. It is not true that the prices of wheat and silver have varied together, or even in the same direction. It is not true that an ounce of silver is the equivalent of a bushel of wheat. In 18.-0, by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, wheat was worth $1.25 a bushel; and silver, by the Di­ rector of the Mint's report, $1,144 per ounce. In 1884 wheat was worth 86 cents, and silver $1.06|. Thai is, wheat declined 39 cents while silver declined 8 cents. The following table, taken from the London Economist, is conclusive:' • '#)>;« x; Wheat, Silver, > penoe. pvnee. 1990 U 4W 1891. «• 18W M 4TJ4 1893........ 88)6 oa WM WW 84)6 Any man who, after consulting these figures, can trace a relation of cause and effect between wheat and silver prices is beyond the reach of mathe­ matical demonstration. Again, there is almost as great a fallacy in assuming that the Tndian wheat competition is ruining our market. This has to be assumed, in order to make out a case for silver; for the argument is that Great Britain buys Indian wheat with siiVer at its coinage value, which it has procured from us at its bullion value, pocketing the difference and cheapen­ ing the price of Indian wheat by that amount. As she could not, if the ar­ gument wei e true, play this game with any other country than her own de­ pendency, the argument aga'n falls to the ground as soon as we examine the wheat export figu|es. The St. Faul Pioneer Press showed, a few days ago, that the Argentine Republic "was at p esent the most dangeroua and de­ pressing influence in the wheat mar- Ket. The following figures, again taken from the London Economist, show the wheat imports of Great Brit­ ain for the last five years. The figures given represent millions of bushels: Home-grown........ TO ItnwU 43 United Rtatea 14 ArK*-»tina ... latfia.... 18 Other countries.... 90 1HOT. ISO. 1892. 73 64 66 38 W 8.6 68 71 108 * 7 I» M SB S3 >7 38.1 1893. 49 au 103 15.6 13 33.5 Totals v.....21# 222 338 2»0 234 It will be seen that the Indian im portation is, relatively, a trifling mat­ ter; that our exports to Great Britain have held their own fairly well, while the Indian export last year was cut in two: and that, as a mattar of fact, prices were rising in England while the Indian import was the greatest, and have been falling off while it declined, i- or the first four month-t of the pres­ ent year we have sent to England only 2o,0u0,000 bushels of wheat, in the grain and as flour, against :^4,C00,- OiiO bushels for the corresponding pe­ riod last year. In the same time En­ gland's imports from Russia increased by mote than 4,000.000 bushels, from Chili nearly 1.000.01M) bushels, from Argentine nearly 2,000.000 bushels, and from India 3.000,000 bushels. It is nonsense to seek in the demonetization of silver a cause of a fall of prices so ' fully accounted for by this kind of competition. We may add that during the period when silver suffered a heavy fall, between 18S1 and 18!>1, the exports of Indian wheat to England declined. It is absolutely proved, by statistics within the reach of any one, that there is no such connection as has teen asserted between the price of silver and that of wheat. No intel­ ligent man should bacome the victim of such a superstition, which was in­ vented solely to procure, by false pre tenses, the votes of the farmers for free coinage and cheap money. A Wealth u«itira]r«r. It is probable ifftt If the truth were known it would be found that the Cleveland panic has cost the oountry In aotual money loss several tirtfes as much as did the civil war. A few large items will show how great and universal the shrinkage of values has been. The bank clearances for 1893, as compared with those of 18«2, fell off $10,000,ou0,t00. The mind can no more grasp the idea of that amount of money than it can the idea of infinity. Seventy-five railroad systems, repre­ senting one-sixth of the railway mile­ age of the United States, went into the hands of receivers in 189?. The gross receipts of 121 railroad systems fell off more than $8,000,000. Five hundred and ninety-eight banks closed their doors. The number of business failures increased 50 per c ̂ nt. within twelve months. During the six years preceding 1893 the aggregate liabili­ ties in all the business failures in the United States did not much exceed $2u0,C00,WH); in 1893 they exceeded $331,000,00). These are some of the large items which can be stated with a close approach to accuracy, but no definite statement can be made of the general shrinkage of values, the loss of wealth production from the idleness of great multitudes of men, the loss to the commercial world from the non-payment of wages and from a general paralysis of business opera­ tions. Every pound of wool that has been clipped this year has lost one- third of its value. Everv domestic animal in the country has oe#n scaled down in price. Every bushel of wheat has lost from one-fourth to one-third of its former value. In short, the shrinkage in values that eannot be arithmetically stated has probably been even greater than the aggregate*of the large items given above. Mr. Cleveland in one of his messages referred to manufacturers as "men who employ the protective system to levy a forced tribute from their fellow-citi­ zens. " Yet in less than one year Mr. Cleveland's party, led and instigated by him, has Inflicted upon the country losses probably exceeding all the pro­ tective duties paid by the people sinoe the foundation of tne Government.-- Indianapolis Journ&L fixing the Responsibility. The responsibility for the nefarious sugar schedule in the Senate tariff bill which lavs an annual tax of many mill­ ions on the American people has been traced to SecretarjpCarlisle, who was Cleveland's > man Friday in the whole business. Mr. Cleveland's Secretary rf the Treasury tried, in his testimony before the investigating committee, to shift the odious burden from his shoulders bv claiming that the sched­ ule finally adoote#was not the one he drew up. The deadly parallel will show how little there is in the defense put forward by Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury: T h e s c h e d u l e p r e ­ sented by Carlisle: "On and after Jan. 1, 1893, there shall be lev­ ied ami collected on all sncar not above No. 18 Dutch standard in col­ or, and on all tank bot­ toms, syrup* of cane Juicc or of beet juice, concentrated meiada, ooncrete and concen­ trated molasses, a duty of 40 per cent, ad valor­ em, and upon ail Migars above No. 16 imtch stsndard in color there shall bo collected a duty of 49 per cent, ad valor* ' • The schedule adopt­ ed by the Senate *1- nanoe Committee: "On and alter Jan. 1. tucre shall be lovleil, collected and paid ou all sugars not above No. 10 Dutch standard in color, and on all tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of beet juice, malada, concentrated malada, concrete or conoen trated molasses, i duty of 4<> per cent, ad valorem, and upon ail sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard in col­ or Vbere shall be lev­ ied, collected and paid a duty of one-eighth ot one per cent, pet pound, in addition to the said duty of 40 per cent, ad valorem. Comparing these' two sehaduies, it will be seen that both gave the sugar trust all it asked. Both gave it the time between the passage of the bill and the 1st of January, lSt'o, for stock­ ing up free raw sugar a favor that ex­ perts estimate would be worth fifty millions to the trust Both place a -A) per cent, ad valorem duty on raw sugar. The only difference between the two schedules is that Carlisle's ad valorem duty of 45 per cent, on refined sugar is converled into a 40 per cent, ad valorem duty plus a specific duty of t of 1 per cent, a pound. Commenting on this change the New York Sun says: "It is for experts tode- terraine which of the two arrangements is more beneficial to the trust. Very curiously we have on record the Secre­ tary's opinion that t».ere is no practi­ cal ditlerence between the original schedule." Squirm as it m&y the Cleve­ land administration cannot get out of the responsibility of doing its best to enab'e a heartless trust to wring out of the American people millions of dol­ lars which was to reward it lor cc n- tributing to the Cleveland campaign fund a half million ddKars. Invia lgatlng Reformers. Let us s<se. Duping this reform ad­ ministration we have had the follow­ ing investigations: Investigation of Judge Jenkins, the Democratic succes­ sor of Judge Gre-ham, for trying to make men work whether they wanted to or not at wages olfered: the investi­ gation of the Carnegie armor plate frauds, the penalty in which Presi­ dent Cleveland in part remitted, for which Mr. Carnegie seems to have written a letter in which h%s performed the miraculous feat of. indorsing the Wilson bill; the sugar trusft investiga­ tion, and others of l«?s importance, or at least less prominence. The administration seems to have opened with investigations, and the chances are good for closing in the same way. Keform seems to have been cast in unsuccessful ways. Ever since the reform Congress and admin­ istration came into power the desire of the people has been for a reform of reformere.--Des Moines Register. Coming Oar Way, It becomes more manifest every day that a national election this year would mean Republican victory in every Northern State. The influences that made Cleveland President are no long­ er enlisted on the side of the Demo­ cratic party. Ever# move of the ad­ ministration, every step taken by Con­ gress, has tended to turn public senti­ ment in the Republican direction. The country has had practical demonstra­ tion of the incapacity of the Democrat­ ic party for the work of conducSnj? the affairs of the government in an in­ telligent, patriotic and beneficial man­ ner. All the pledges upon which the election of 189^ was carried have turned out to be disappointments and misfor­ tunes. The worst troubles since the war have ensued. In every respect the situation proves that a terrible mistake was mado when Republican rule was suspended. They Won't Aekrevtodg* It. In the Chicago Tribune the other morning appeared the following curi­ ous advertisement: IJEBSONAL--VOTERS WHO VOTEB FOB Cleveland, but who won't do it aftasn.ylease send their reasons for change in politics to E 19 , Tribune offloe. It must be a very sanguine man who is trying to gather these statistics. He imagines tht# people who voted for Cleveland will have the shameless gall to admit the fact. Human nature can only be keyed up to the pitch of open confession at an old-fashioned revival meeting, not in the eo}d and eatottlat- ing appeal of a personal ad. A BELATED LAUQH. rwnMUMd thr Tory Good. The Chicago fftrl*s joke about West­ ern corn came very near suffering the fate of Sir John Franklin, and being lost from the sight of human­ ity forever. It may be of interest to briefly review the history of this singular international episode. It appears then, that last autumn Lady Poyle Ayle of Somersetshire, visited certain of the Western States of America Just before harvest time. The enormous fields of Indian corn, covering like kingdoms, with their beautiful products, "With its thining robes about it. And its long, soft yellow filled the patrician traveler with amazement From the Wabash to the Kaw extended these illimitable areas of precious grain, of which I11U no.s alone has yielded more than 300,- 000,000 bushels iu a single yea-. Out of the $4,000,000,000 produced yearly by American farms, it was shown that the value of the corn alone reaches •600,000,000. While standing before the cereal exhibits at the World's Fair with a young lady friend of Chicago origin, Lady Poyle Ayle remarked. MMay i awsk you, my dear, what becomes of this quite too awfully immense quantity of maize? (You Americans very wrongly call it corn, don't yo«, but wheat is the only proper corn in the United Kingdom.) I really cawn't comprehend, my dear, how you Yankees manage to dispose of such amounts of maize." . To which the fair Xllinoisan made reply: "Oh, that's easy enough. We eat what we can, and can what we can't."- The British matron, of course* missed the point, but the incident was noted down and borne back to England as an Illustration of the flippant inconsequence of the young American female. How long this inspired gem of repartee might naturally have lingered unrecognized and unvalued about the shores of the Bristol Channel we cannot estimate; But one evening Colonel Sabretoche, a widely traveled military officer, came oyer from the adjacent garrison town to dine at Poyle Ayle Castle, and was regaled with the Sphinx-like remark of the Chicagoan. He ie- mained in a penoive frame through­ out the rest of the evening, smiling in an increasing broadness as the pur­ port of the words dawned upon him, bit by bit, until suddenly be broke into a roar which clattered the mori­ ons and hauberks on the walls of the ancient hall, ejaculating: '•Yaas, by Jove, I see! Just fawncy! Tb can what they can't! Why, my lady, it is positively a bong moe worthy of Sidney Smith or the Oarl- ton Club" By the aid of a careful and patient explanation and a suitable diagram her ladyship In time came to compre­ hend the bright quip, and the gallant Colonel also communicated it to cer­ tain friendly officers of the Clack- manshlre Battalion. Thus the long- buried pleasantry was lifted from its catacomb, stripped ot its dusty cere aients, and Hew back to gladden millions of American newspaper ./readers. TO RAISE THE PEWABIQ. to Search for the Traaaare- Udca pull. It has been over two years since an attempt was made to raise the hull or secure the car o of the ill- fated steamer Pewabic, which re­ poses on the bottom of Lake Huron in 128 feet ot water. Preparations are now being made to raise the abandoned wreck. Superior, Wis., capital will be put into the new un­ dertaking, aq it was in the last ill- starred expMlUion tn which Diver Felkey lost his life. The diver, who will join the new expedition on shares, lives In Pennsylvania. So confident is he that he can raise the the Pewabic that he is willing to per­ form the work on much better terms than any other man of his profession. He has perfected a new style of div­ ing fcuit and has experimented with it for some time. He is not in the least concerned in regard to the depth of water in which the Pewa­ bic les, and says the stated depth will not embarrass his working to good advantage Two good sub­ marine divers, I'elkey and McCarty, have lost their lives in trying to get the treasure imprisoned in the sunk­ en hull. The Pewabic was a propeller of i about 1,000 tons. She was sunk in Lake Huron off Alpena outside Thunder Bay in June, 1865. She and the Steamer Meteor came in col­ lision at night and the former* was sunk. There were 2f.O person* aboard and the number lost is variously es­ timated at from 80 to 130. So far as the loss of life is concerned the sinking of the Pewabic was one of the greatest lake marine disasters on record. The cart?o of the Pewabic contained seventy-five barrels of sil­ verware, 3(55 tons of copper ore, 175 tons of pig iron, 250 rolls of leather --supposed to be buffalo hide--and a great number of trunks, for Which there are big rewards offered, rang­ ing from $100 to $5,000 for a single one. Among these trunks is one be­ longing , to the army paymaster,, which is supposed to Contain a larare sum ot money. ^ Hia Explanation. In a Certain town in Nevada was atone time a justice of the peace who had been tborn in the Emerald Isle, and whose blunder? occasioned many a smile to the better educated members of the community. At one time a subpiena had been issued from his court to another irishman to attend as witness in a case where James Smith was the plaintiff, and Isaac Williams et al. were tbe«defendant& Michael Fennessey,- the desired witness, appeared in court before the trial commenced, and during an informal preliminary conversation he asked, bluntly: "Judge, who in the wurrld la ^et al?' That's fwat O'im wantin't' be towld." "Well, well, Molcbael," exclaimed his honor, in evident amazement •Oi must say Oi'm a bit surprised that an Amirican citizes, an' a man av orthinary intiliiglnce, should not know the manin' of et aL! But for the biniflt av the witness an' any other gintlemin prisint that molght be iffnorant~as well as Moic$ael Fan- nfesey, Ol will explain, it la dirlv- ated from two Latin wnniSac con- thracted, an manes in its liiWal an' Amirican sinse, at al, at all!* An Enjoyable Ftr«! While the author of «'ln the Shadow of the Pairoda" was making a journey to the interior of Burmah he came to a village that was on fire. The inhabitants did not seem to be doing anything, and the Englishman set his men at work and called for help. At last one old native and two younner ones took very reluctantly their places at the pump They pumped half-heartedlv for Ave minutes; then, as ill luck would have itj a flock of paddy birds ap­ peared overhead. They hovered above the rolling smoke, and the flames sleanied rosy-pink on their snow-white plumage. ••Ahmay! Ked paddy-birds! Look! Red paddy-birds!' The sight was too much for the lazy wretches at the bandies. They squatted on their heels, re-lighted their cheroots, and stared upward. "Whose housB is that?" the En- glishman demanded, pointing td^bne now threatened. « «. "Your honor, that is the house Qf * h o T o o . " ; ' - - v "Where is Pho Totf?-, "He is there" * - ' 1 The Englishman turned. The man Indicated was one of the two that he had driven to the pump. He waa squatting on the root of a tree smok­ ing. ••Are you Poo Too?1* • The man nodded. • 'j' "Is that your house?** * ' He nodded again, and smiled pleas­ antly. "It will be on fire at once," the stranger said, catching the other man's infectious coolness. "Yes, your hbnor, I think so," and he contracted his brows and looked at the house with a disinterested air. The Englishman burst out laugh­ ing; he could hot help it, and he made no furthef effort to put out, a fire which seemed to be giving so much pleasure to the persons inter­ ested. ' • v - ai ' a": i'ttu / ' Settled tfie **ea FienA"^ , I called upoo the general passen­ ger agent of one of the big railroad lines running into the city yesterday and was ushered into bis private office. He was ecgaged in conversation with a gentleman when i entered, and after a few minutes of abrupt ques­ tioning took a small book from his desk and began writing. An expres­ sion of intonse deiisrht crept over the visitor's face as his eye followed the agent's pen, and I immediately sur­ mised that he was about to receive a pass. By this time two other per­ sons came in, presumably on the same mission. They sat down in the opposite side of the office, and realizing the situation cast wistful glances at the fortunate man. The agent continued h]a writing and asked the man where be^wanted to ira "Make it New York Qlty this time," responded the man, who had evidently dead-headed before. A few finishing touches were ap­ plied aud the pass was handed over to him. He thanked the agent very politely and assured him that he would not bother him again. He examined the ticket and started for the door, when he noticed that it was good for only one way. "Why, I guess you have made a mistake," he said, In a tone of sur­ prise, "this ticket will only take me one way.'* "Do you expect to return?" aaked the agent uneonceroedlir. ^ "Weil, I should say I da" "All right, hand me your ticket" The loan gave the aifent his ticket and was astounded to see bim tear it u(k "Weil If you're coming back you can't get any ticket from me. I thought 1 was iroing t > get rid of you for sure this time." Without further ceremony the chronic pass seeker took leave and the other two persons having seen enough, followg& ta tua train.--Buffalo Enquirer. v • THREATENED TROUBLE AT PAH* ILL., AVERTED BY SOLDIER*. Th» ftmacs of X««rljr TOO State Vraagm Awaa tks Mrtkm Into Qotater Way*-- Goldea of tfca Y. M. C. A. Omm In Ijondoo. • m* Brtkers Calming Down. The presence at Pana, I1L, of First Regiment from Chicago doubtedly accomplished good. There has been no attempt on the part of the invading strikers to attaok tjhe few men working in the neighboring mines and Sheriff H. W. Johnron lailrmly convinced that the splendid showing ^ of military order and the grim appear- anca of the rifles, cartridge bells and Catling gun has had its effect and ths j gathering mobs of Springfield miners lounging about on Pope's farm f vicinity will soon disperse. There are over 687 men in camp. The authorities have abandoned idea that the invading strikers will at­ tack either Cams> Ollendorff or the * outer lines, says a IPana dispatch. The mobs, however, are growing larger, and a lounger w ho strolled into the Big Four depot from Pope's farm saya the men are dei ermined to c >mpel any t miners who begin work to stop imme­ diately. The ringleaders of t&emobe who aiiect indifference over the well- established military post within, easy call say they wiu close the Pana mines if they have to stay six months. That they are largely « braggarts was shown by their non-in- tarferenee with a large party of mitten* who re-enforced the small number at work in the Penwell mine. Col. Hugh E. Psyle, Assistant Adjutant General, made a tour of the mines nn the imme­ diate vicinity of the city and reported that seventy men out of a possible eight hundred are at work. A confer­ ence of the mine operators held in a hotel near the Illinois Central depot decided that an attempt should be made to resume operations in all the mines. Sheriff Johnscn thinks that if the sheriff of Peoria County oaa quell any uprising in his district with a force of deputies armed by the thirty stands of small arras that Gene nil Orendorff sent from Springfield, his men can i ertainly take oare of mots in Pana. •% i STRIKERS SHOT DEAD. The Hasty Word; To think before you speyk is so wise an axiom that one would hardly think it needful to emphasize it by repetition. And yet in how many cases the hasty temper flashes out tn the hasty word, and the latter does its work with the precision and pain of the swift stiletto! Singularly enough the hasty word oftenest wounds those who love one another dearly, and ttfe very closeness of their intimacy affords them opportunity for the sudden thrust. We know the weak points in the armor of our kinsman and our friend; we are aware of his caprice, and originally are tender and compassion­ ate even of his vanities and whims, but there dawns a day when it Is written in the book of fate that we shall be as cruel as we are loving. We are anxious over unpaid bills, or our expected letters have not arrived, or some of the children are ailing, and we dread the outcome of the malady. So politeness fails us, forti­ tude is vanquished, philosophy is in abeyance, and we say that which we repent in sackcloth and ashes. But though the has by word may be forgiven, it is not at once forgotten. It has flawed the crystal of our friendship; the place may be ce­ mented, bui there is a shadowy scar on the gleamihg surface. Oh, if the w6fd of' hate had but been left un­ spoken; if the strontr hand of pa­ tience bad but held back the sword as if to strike!--Harper's Bazar. *, > Mob ot -Cek«-Workers aft Tsiw--L TMu. right with Deputies. The bleody and riotous seems of a few weeks ago are being' repeated throughout the coke region, and ter­ ror raigns on every haad. A fierce battle occurred Sunday forenoon be­ tween deputies and strikers at the Le­ mon t mines of ther MoCiure Coke>Gom- pany, located three miles north ot Uniontown, Pa,, in whioh one man was shot dead and three others fatally in­ jured, two of whom have diedeiiiceMMi. another will die within the next twen- ty-four hours. All lire Stars and strik­ ers from the Lenient plant, where the conflict occurred. The battle was one of the fiercest in the history of the strike, about fifty volleys being fired. The strike** had assemb ed, nearly 400 in number, and had in their possession four workmen fr^ m the Valley plant of the H. O, Fricke Coke Company, whom they had captured on Saturday afterpoon, and *ere holding prisoners at the oompeny houses. A posse of deputy sheriffs UB» . der Matt Allen attempted to reseae the workmen and were fired on by the strikers, who were well armed With revolvers, clubs, and stones. This precipitated the battle, which last­ ed fifteen minutes. Volley after volley was fired at a range at only seventy-five feet, and the shots were fired to kill. The deputies were all armed with Winchester* and revolvers, while the strikers were equipped with nearly fifty revolvers In addition to these kuledandwOuatted by bullets from the Winchesters the clothes of the deputies were shot full of holes and several of them were bad­ ly injured with stones and clutNk COL RICHARD W. THOMPSON. &il • i , V Slfl ? ^ • - .i . Millepeds. , 'a;r^ The little creature which possesses the distinction of having more legs than any other animal is that which belongs to the family of insects known as millepeds, or thousand footed^ There are several different species of these, but tbev all possess the common characteristic of having segmented bodies, each segment of which la provided with its own pair of feet These are eet so closely along the body as to resemble hairs, and when tbey move one after an­ other with j erfect rejrularity the ef­ fect is precisely the same on a small scale as that of a field 9! oats undu­ lating under the influence of the wind. Some species of millepeds have as many as 350 separate and distinct legs. They are all perfectly harm­ less, unlike the centlpeds, which fre­ quently hate t&e pow« ** poisonous wounds. Bseenttjr 'Celebrated Bb day. :/ The citizens of Terre Haute, Ind.t reesntly celebrated the 85th birthday of one of the most distinguished of their number, Hon. R i c h a r d W . Thompson. Hon. R, W. Thompson has played quite a G'Jjfr 1 .•< part in the history 87 ^ of the country and .Nv A W 1 has known ail the ^ Jj "'i* i>".- public men in the l a n d f o r y e a r s . The only two Pres idents he has not seen are Washing­ ton and John Ad­ ams, but from » w. THOMPSON. Monroe down he has personally knows them all. He was a friend of Lafay­ ette and met him many times. Col. Thompson began^ his politloal career in 1840, when he was elected to Congress. He Served that term and again in 1840, at which time Abra­ ham Lincoln was in that body. Though not opposed to slavery as an insti ution, after Fort Sumter was fired on Col. Thompson devoted all his ener­ gies in putting down disaffection ia the South and used his eloquence most successfully to urge Northern men to eniist. He is known as Col. Thompson from having held that raak on the. staff of Gov. Noble, of Indiana. When Kutherford B. Hayes became Presi­ dent Col. Thompson was mado Secr*» tary of the Navy. He finally resigned that office to accept the Presidency of the American branch of the Panamft Canal Company, which he held for six years. Col. Thompson occupies his time in writing and studying and, thrugh retired from active life, his In­ fluence is still strong and ia eseraiH|i^ over a wide sphere. ^ y" . t h jf-1* Overflow of Siewa, KANSAS Populists are arranging FOR 20.000 farmers to attend the State oqft* 'Mention at TopekaV THE national convention of the COOK Ifregational Home Missionary Society has opened at Omaha, Neb AT Mankato, Minn., William Con­ way w&i acquitted of the charge of murdering Harry. M. Wal raven. THE Maine Third District RepubiK can Congressional convention has if* nominated Seth L. Milliken for GM> gress. THE tug A. J. Heole was run down and sunk in New York harbor by the steamer Manar. A fireman waa drowned. ETHEL BIIANDON, the actress, what is critically 111 ife'San Francisco, has eued her husband, Lb B. Stock well, for divorce. JAMES AND Wiuuta STOCK, aged fc and 9 years, respectively, were drowrned near Lancaster, Pa., ̂ fhile bathing ia^ * the river. . CHRISTIAN* MILLER, aged 55, at» tempted to kill his wife at Ohio. His wife is f 0 years old. iJMfc murder was planned to woman1* property. . 7-J K, k..,vL. ! :r... -V V . ^r,,- - v.; / '1