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ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING FAITH- , y ; . > B E C O R D « % . ^ "' ?» v ' * ><•$ OiWtf Chanty Threatened with • Fata Kqaiae 0:i«ue-P«call*rlT 8*d I)«ith or •fore Rose--New Home for Aged People chte^o. : • *: •• • '-iii •a ••'""y: •,"•'• : . ;0 iffr^.;. *>fala4!e dn Colt* The dreaaed equine disease, maiadie du coit, whicti some years ago was epi­ demic among the h rses in the vicinity of Clinton and Wapella in DeWitt County, has again made its appearance in the vicinity of Wapella. A number of cases have i een developed there, and Dr. Trumbower, of Sterling, the State Vet >i inarian. hes i een seat lor to«ondemn the horse* and i rdei>them kille^. Tne di ease i* incurable. It was brought to this country some yearj ago ry a stallion imported from France and by that animal communicated to a larga number cf brood mares. A strict quarantine was established aad the in- fecte i animals killed. The second out­ break has < aused no little (onsterna- tion among horsemen, inasmuch as it *a6 believed the disease was e.ad:» cated forever. ;.'r; M- kw a Brave Fi«cbt for Llf*. " A brave fight for life wai made' In ra, Saturday bV Joe Rose a laborer, who hai.been en.aged in cleaning a well. Twenty feet down the side of the well caved in burying the workman. The stones fell in such a way that the man was imprisoned in a pocket, and sufficient air passed in between the stones to keep him alive. The acci­ dent happened at J0:30 oclock in the morning. The work of rescue went on uncoasingly until 8:: 0 in the evening. Fose's voice could be faintly heard all day long airecting the work. He even, toward the .last, helped fill two backets. ' Then, just as the last rocks were being taken away, he gave up the ^rtggle • and died from exhaustion. • Corner Mtone ': Before an assemblage numbering at least 5,0,i0 people Ar. hbishop Feehan officiated Sunday in laying the corner stone of the new Home for Aged Peo­ ple, which is about to be erected on rraitie avenue, between Fifty-second and Fifty-third streets,Chicago, by the Litt'e Sisters ot the Poor. The cere­ mony was impressive. Incident to the event there was a parade of Cttlfho.ic societies. " ' Record of th« THE corner-stone of the new Chris­ tian Church was laid at Peoria. Its cjst is $^5,tOO. Mas. WILLIAM PFINS committed sui­ cide at Jacksonville, without any Known reason. MOSES MILLEP, a contracting brick­ layer, c mmitted suicide at Lecatjr by tak ing laudanum. EMMA H VLEY, a colored. woman at Peoria, unmarried, fell into a ceiss-pool and died a horrible death. ^ JOHN HASLETT, who lives east of Jacksonville, was run down by a Wa­ bash train and instantly killed. NORMAN L. FREEMAN, who fqr Thirty •years had I een clerk of the Illinois supreme Court, died at Springfield. IN a fit of passion Frank Clark, of Bloomingt n, fatally choked his brother's wife, a daughter of Jttev. Mr. Dcdsin. Ac t'~e bsglnning of the' military maneuvers at Evan ton one of the cais­ sons of tattery A exploded, but luck­ ily no one was injured. THE law office of Charles A. Barnes, at Jacksonville, was entered, the safe opened by m ans of the combination, and silverware valued at $o0 \ taken. WILLIAM C. DOYLE has been nomi­ nated and confirmed as postmaster at Sycamoie. Thij ends a long contest for the position between Doyle and i.dward Boynt n. THE bondsmen for A. M. Van Auken will like'y have him brought from Detroit, Mich., to i^uincy, as he is un­ der !S.-,000 binds there for forging the signature of Piesident Ingalls of the Big Four Road to a $.5,0X1 indemnify­ ing bond last winter. The bondsmen are R. F. Newcomb, Piesident of the American titraw Board Trust, and C. H. Castle, a ttone manufactrrer, who are protected by an indemnifying bond placed with on3 o; the i^uiney banks Oy St. Louis pirttes. JOHN LENT?, a tYeeport laborer, was ar ested charged with attempting to take the life of Henry Wolfens- berger, who is but' eight years old. With other boys, Henry was gather­ ing shavings near where Lentz was dressing some electric light poles. In attempting to turn a pale, the man ac­ cidentally broke his axe, at which the youngsters laughed. Lentz hurled his axe at young Wolfensberger and it struck him upon the right cheek, mak­ ing a dingerous wound. The physi­ cians think he iqav live. TROUBLE has agjun broken out in the Presbyterian Church, at Quiny, ani Pastor Black has petitioned the Presbytery tJ dissolve his connection with the church. 'Ahe congregation is also preparing to ask the Presby- tary to do this very same thing, there­ by cheating Past ;r Black out of the opportunity of having it said 4hat the Presbytery dissolve i the relations be­ tween him and the church at his own request. Pastor Black and his follow­ ers elt bad over the action of the con­ gregation. They begged that the congregation w uld humor them in this matter, adding that, they had frieen humored so \er.v little. In spite of tns appeal. J. W. Stewart, Pastor Black s w^rst enemy, and Charles Nio tols were appomte 1 to attend the special meeting of the Presbytery. P* tor black whose services, acco d- ing to the ict on of the Presbytery which met at t,lvastOJ la?t spring, were to cease . uly J, threatens to sue for his salary. He claims $3t0 more on the year than the trustees claim he was to receive ani they have agreed to pay the excess. E WARD CROWEI , a well-to-do car­ penter living nea • Tiskilwa, has sud­ denly uisanpeared. and the efforts of the family to locate him have so far proved unsuccessful. THE Ottawa Evening Journal, pub- li hed by Leste.* A. hdse, was' e'osed by the Sheriff on . judgment agg re- g iting $7,700 in favor of L. B. Merri- Jield and the National City Bank. Av unknown man. well dressed, ab~ijt 4o years old, was struck by train o. 5"> west of > aBerville and instantly killed. Oue dollar and seventy-one cjnts was found on his person. Gov. ALTGELD issued a le luisition on ihe Covernof of New York for the extraditton of Alfred W. Syrett, under arrest in New Yor«t City and wanted in Chicago for forgery. He forged an indorsement to a check for given by the Secretary of the Lumberman's - Building and Loan Association. JOHN LINING, the hero of many hard-fought battles on the levee, t.t < uincy, got cut in the neck Sunday night. Sundays John officiates as veace-prssorver on the excursion boat Park Bluff, running between Qulncy and Hannibal. John and "Polly" Vernioud got into a difficulty, and Vernioad slashed John's throat almost from ear to ear. mum 'if' I M, P. CLARK has been arrested b\ | ths police at Rockford un the cinm j of forgery. C. A GOODRICH, a farmer of Bloam- mgton. was fatally trampled by a de- j horned bulL I THE bank - of Champaign, HI., have agreed to cash the pay -roll of Company D, riith in antry. THE thirteenth annnal meeting of the Southarn Illinois Teachers' Asso- c ation convened at Effingham. JACX»B ILFS, a German labored 57 years old, was killed at. Dixon, whila trimming trees, by a ialling branch. • NORMAN NICHOLS wa • tcalded to death at Joliet and Henry burke eu- I vereiy burnei. Both were boiler- , workers. I FCLLY" 3,000 per on< attended the | Mason and Ca« County old riettlers fourteenth annual reunion at Chan- dlervilie. MOLTNE workmen have subscribai $2ji0 for the Pullman sufferers. The money was forwarded to toe re iei committee. ? ' THE fifth annua'. Mision-of the II i- noi-s state Ccuncil of the Junior Order of United Americiui Mechanics was held at Alton. < DRAINAGE district trustees canceled the contract of St eeter & Keretick on sect.ou E ani a s.uit for <teon ges is likely to follow. THE Chicago tra'n robber who gave the nameo: Lordonhasleen identified as Henry F. Griswold, sen of an icsur- ance company offi ial. WHEN the C hieigo, Paducah and Memphis tracklayers reacned Beot:n Wednesday evening a banquet was tenaered them by tbe cit/. FRED MCKINNEY, a young farmer of Rock Island County, had his skull crushed and was instantly killed by the upsetting of a hay derrick. THE Kev. J. W. Lessmanls ie >ign&- tion has been demanded by the con- gregati ;n of the St. Johannes' German Lutnerun Church at Decatur. OtTTof work and despondent. M. F. Brintoh, a well-known hotel cle k, j committed su cide at the Great North­ ern, Cnicago, by taking mjrphine. * SOME swindler has been working near Mendota, and care near buying tae dai y facms of George Johnson and Abner Edwards with bogus ohecks. AN electric car, the brakes of which refused to work, was crushed by a Northern Pacific train at Chicago. One man was killed and three were in­ jured. THE Rev. R. Q. Sharrett, an evange­ list of the United Brethren Church, was arrested at Decatur for chasing Chancy Turpin with a huge corn- kniie. * A. M. VAN AUKEN, alias C. M. Hobbs. was released by the Detroit authorities, and at on e rearrested ard taken to uincy to answer to a charge of forgery. Two SNEAK th'eves, detected plun­ dering apartments in the Eelmont flats, Chicago, were captuiel, after an e>c ting struggle, during which one was woanded. NEGOTIATIONS are about concluded for the erection of a new $200,000brew­ ery at Rockford by foreign capitalists, a part of the stock b.ing taken by Rockford people. ELGIN policemen are searching fo.* Doug as Force, an escaped lunatic, who is believed to be the man who bob) un by the roadside and threatens to kill farme.s who pasi. THOMAS J. DACEY was found dead in a grove near his home at Cnicago, from which he had g jne to buy a pail­ ful of beer. It is believed he was mur- derel and robbed. FRIDAY afternoon the break in the Peoria water works system was re­ paired and water was again furnished the city after having been shut off for nearly thirty hours. JACOB J. NOEI, who had been par­ doned after serving fourteen years of a life sentence for murder, attempted suicide at Chicago because a lawyer had obtained judgment against hini. ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLONEY re­ fuses to pro ecute the Illinois Building and Loan Association of Bloamington, holding it has a right to lavy an as- ses^mant on stock for an expense fund. IRWIN FRENCH, a well-known Rock ford capitalist, surpri-ed his friends by marrying his form;r housekeeper. He has been a widower for eeveral yeavs and has a lamily of grown up daugh- lers. MRS. LTLLK HTLER, charged with emtezz!ement while postmistress of Exeter, t-cjtt County, has been re­ leased from custody, her father, John T. Sittes, of Meredosia, furnishing bail. THE State tour nam ant of firemen >.t Fdwardsville was a great success Over 10,0u0 people witnessed the open­ ing parade, which was an hour parsing a given point. Kxcellent work was done in drill." HENRY H \NSEN. fireman of a thrash­ ing machine, was killed while crossinsr a bridge near rairbury. The bridge col'apsed under the weight of the en­ gine, which fell thirt/ leet. Hansen was carried down under the engine and crushed to death. WILSON HOWARD, a Springfield col- o ed man, aged 71, who was not «n good terms with his wife, 36 years old, quarre ed with g&er, shot her in the head, and then snot himself. He died instantly, but the bullet did not pene­ trate the woman's skull and she is not seriously injured. THE members of the family of Sam­ uel Hess, residing northwest of Van- dalia, are preatly concerned over the fast that they have been using milk and butter from a mad caw. The ani­ mal became suddenly mad one day last week. She kicked, hooked, beliowed and bit at everything that ca^me with­ in her reach, and before the vicious brute ccu'd be killed she had seriously injured a young man by goring him. Two weeks ago a mad dog passed through that neighborhood, and it is thought that the cow was bitten, by this rabid dog. THE Auditor o! Public Accounts has reported the Superior Savings, Loan and Building Association of Chicago to the Attorney Ceneral for such pro­ ceedings as he may deem necessary. This association is insolvent and in the hands of an assignee Its assets are about 34 >.000 and its liabilities some­ what exceed that amount The most interes.ing (.uestion involved in this case is whether a building and loan association can make a voluntary as­ signment under the statute. The Aud­ itor is of the opinion that a corpora­ tion of this character cannot make a voluntary assignment. WHILE Jason Mapes, a 'armer living west of Rockford, and hte famil, were driving to the Ridott campmeeting the team became frightened at a bicyclist and ran away, throwing the famil / of five out upon a tarbed wire feiice. Mr-. Mapes was terriblv cut, and ona child will die. MRS. EMMA C. KIBCHOEFEB, post- mist ess of Darmstadt, has sued Mrs. •lohanna J. Schickendorf for $2,00J damages for slander. The postmistress a leges that Mrs. Schickendo -f has en­ livened afternoon teas irt that com­ munity with startling stories about how the postmistress whiles away time opening and reading letters for other pucp'.e. VICTORIES FOR CHINA real estate and making improvement-, and over 83 per cent, of the incum­ brance was for the purpose of buying and improving real estata, investing In business, etc. Over 81 per cent, of the incumbrance on holies was in­ curred to secure purchase money »n<! ty maka improvement*. • PECK WILL NOT INTERFERE. PR? JiM»ANESE TROOPS DEFEATED ,#73 m SEVERAL BATtLlSk •?V;' C«lmtUU in Overwhelming Fo^ee, Aided by Corssni, Put tbe Mlkndo's Troops ti» Smt-Swli Ar* the Keports Pabltohni .•.If' the Native Papers of Shanghai. Rafoses to Call Troop* to Knforo* SanH tnry L*w* In Milwaukee. Gov. Peck, of Wi consin, promptly ended the m Veinent to have the State 8Sa|a to/ Thomtwi'!. OHN CHINAMAN seems to have been wiping up the earth ; troops cat ed out to enforce sanitary with the dead bod- ; regulations in ililwau- -- ics of Japane e kee. The Governor warriors. At east took the ground that that is John's story. ] the-municipal author- The Shanghai pa- ties had not exhausted their j owers in trying to enforce t he laws rel­ ative to small-pox, and that until the po.ice * » and thebhoritrsLircei-w vvj had been used to tbe / X extent of their powers he could not <al *.ut tbo militia to perforpi,GOVBR!'OR guard duty or enforce a quarantins The Governor came to this decisio*. after a consultation with Chief of Po- pers say that ."j,Ov.O Chinese troopi of all ai m* attacked the Japanese forces which had been de­ tailed to guard the Pidg-X ang passes in the norihwost of Cores, and eventually succeeded in driving the Ja anese from their 1 osi- tions. It is added that a large number of Coreans tlo.-ked to the Chinese standard, begging for arms and asking for permission to form guard of the Chinese against the Ja anese. the advance ; lite Janssen, who assured him that the o ces moving polica stocd ready to . enforce The Chinese ' the laws whenever appealed to were re-enforced by 4,0( 0 troops from Yi-Chowand on the day following they attacked the Japanese linos at Chung- __ Ho with the result that the Japanese were taken to the hospital they had retreated. The Chinese army was, j teon successful. The v^overno.' also by tha in every made an health ortkers. and that case where the police had effort to see that patients the reoortfays, further re-enforced by 13,0 .0 .frosh troops, and attacked the C.11HZSB CONSUL AT NEW TORK AND win. Japanese, who are said to have lost 4,^10 men and thoir heavy baggage. The Chinese advanced to Huang- Chow, and passing too near the Tatunsr River, where thirteen Japanese war­ ships lay, were attacked by the Japan­ ese, whj opened tiro upon them, iu- flicting a loss of several hundred men upon the Chinese. At ebb tide on the same day. the native reports add, three of the Ja anese warships found themselves agr. und. and were a ter- ward severely damaged by the hie of the Chinese artillery. The bulk of the Japanese forces, it is further as­ serted, retreated southward, pursued by the Chinese cavalry until night stopped tho latfer s advance. General Yeh, the Chinese commander, then made a detour and attacked the Japan­ ese in the rear, completely routing them and capturing Huang-C'bow. learned th^t the Sheriff had not ^een caMed upon at all, excepting in a gen­ eral way. The C overnor then ap­ peared teforo the State Board of Health, in sersioa at the Ptistar Hotel, and male known his decision. The entire police force will be me I if nec­ essary. and the pjlie met} will be or­ dered to use their clubs and make nu­ merous ar ests of rioters. In case this 10 ee is not suffe'ent the She iff will be called upon, and special deputies sworn in. It will be the policy to quo antine infected ho.ses wherever £cssible, and not t ans port to the iso-ktion hospital excepting where the quarantine would be impossible There a e now ov_ r 22 > ca es in the city. To THE NEW GRAY GABLES, President Summer HOMES OF THE NATION, the Nearly Ope-Half the Familiet Own Places Where They Live. The census office has given to the public the principal result J of the in­ vestigation ot .arm a..d home pro­ prietorship in all of the'i-tates and territaries. This is the first investi­ gation of the kind ever conducted in any ei untry. Of the 12,090,\'vl families in tho whole country, almost 4© j er cent, own their own farms and home3 and the rest hire. Of the families owning farm* and homes, almost 28 per cent, have incumbrances and over <2 ier tent, have no ia- cumbranc3. The numoer of resident owters of land in the United State > is l),0titi.417, to which must bo added any land owners who may be living in ten­ ant families. The farm families num­ ber •J,t>7»\170, of wholh oti per cent, own their farmland others hiie. Of the owning families over 28 per cent, have incumbrance on their arms. In 18SO 25.6H per cent, of the farms ware hired. In the cities that contain over 100.000 populati in there ara 1,94(^,-34 home families, of whom almost 23 par cent. ow.i and (7 v«r cent. hire, wnile of the ownin; families as per cent, own subject to incumbrance. Among tde cities having 100,00 J ucpulation and over New York has the highest per- centa e of home tenancy, nearly 93.05. The smallest peicentage-- 5>-- represents Rochester, N. Y. Bringing the urban population into contrast with the nonurban popula­ tion, almost 44 per cent., or 4,22-t„!)«i0 home families living outside of cities and towns if 8,000 people, own thSair homes and 5'i per cent. hire. «^f the owning families, 1 i per cent, own with­ out incumbrance. Tho value of the l,tiH6,!590 incumbered farmland homes is"$<>.oS7,29t,0jv\ and the incumbrances aggregate *2 l.i2.iHU 5 3, orx 37.50 per cent, of the value. Of the incumb ance on farms and home over 22 per cent, bears interest at rates le^s than (i per cent.: 34 pe * cent, at the rate of 0 Der cent.: 33 per cent..at rates greater than ti ) er cent.: and 11 percent, at rates greater than 8 per cent. The average of value of each owned s nd incumbered farm in the United States is $3,444: of each inc imbered home, "3,250, and the average incumbrance cn each of the farms is -£1,224: on each incumbered home, $1,293. The 8^6,957 farms sub­ ject to incumbrance are worth $3,054,- yja,l and the incumbrance is $1.0*5,- £95,960, or 3;".55 per cent, of the value. The 80v',933 homes sub.ect to incum­ brance aie valued at $2:',632,3/-,y04, and the incumbrance is fl,0M |«53,(>03, or 3 ).77 per cent, of the value. The cities of ?s000 to 10/,0;) > popula­ tion have 214,(513 incumbered homes oc­ cupied bv owners, worth $73!),84i with incumbrances amountingji© $29 011,974, which is 3H.55 per cent, of the value. In the cities of 1C0,000 popula tion and over tho value of the lt>8.159 incumbered homes occupi6d by owners is $931,191,811. and tfhese hemes are incumbered for $J93,u29,S33, or 42.07 per cent, of their vali e. In the country outside of cities and towns of 8,000 poople and o er, the value of the 427,"161 incumbared homes occui ied by owners is $' '.")8,3.,7,00(5 and the incumbrance is $301.311,7! 0, or 37. (0 per cent, of the value. In the cities having at least 100, M00 popu­ lation, 95,55.> represents the average •alue of each owned vand incumbered home. Cleveland'* Pleasant Resort. President Cleve and is once more with his family ani settled novo for a short vacation at Gray Gables. This summer h me of the Cleveland's on buzzard's Bay, thousrh unpre­ tentious, is a -very' peasant place durirg the watm weather, and is one the President und his fam­ ily visit every year with increa ed de­ light Here the Chief Executive with his wife and children oau obtain rest IBB BE OS8TRUCTID OBAT GABLES. and q ilet and a cessation of the many things which make official life so an­ noying in Washington. H During the past year additions have bsen made to Gray Cables which have much improved the place. As it now appears, tho house has nine chambers, wh'ch give the Cleveland family all the room they need and also allow them to entertain guests. The ro mis are plainly furnished, and several of them have fine large lire-plaees wherd huge legs can be piled, affording not only heat but the home-like feeling that open fires only seem able to give. Perhaps the p'.easantest room in the house is the sitting-room, a picture of which is here ghen. This is the gen­ eral meeting p.ace for the Cleveland*, their children and tbelr friends. It is, a remarkably attractive rojm and has BEFUDIAfE REGISTERING THEIR OPINION OF DEMOCRACY. The Democratic New York Sun Point) Oat the Rooky Bond Which Lie* Betoro It* Party--Cleveland** CowartUee--Good for England. Kot In Clovrr. The second year of an administration Is its critical time. At the elections of the second year you get the people's verdict of good or bad, says the Demo- ora'ic New York Sun. In the second year of Mr. Cleveland's first term, that Is to say, in 18cti, Rhode Island cd off on the first Wednesday in April. The Republican plurality in that Republi­ can State was J,39ti. At the corres­ ponding election in April, f§94, the Republican plurality was (',225. The Democracy went ail to pieces. The signal disaster which it encountered this year wai far greater than appears by the comparison wlth l£8a: for since that time the khode Island Democrats have actually carried the State, last year by a plurality of 185. Next, came Oregon. In the second year of Mr. Cleveland's first term the Democrats carried the State for Governor, on the hrst Monday of June, 188(J. The DEM­ ocratic plurality wa? 3,702. At the corresponding e eetion last Jane, in the second year ©f Mr. Cleveland s sec­ ond term, the epufblicans swept Ore­ gon from end to eni. They carried everything. They elected their can­ didate for Governor by a plurality of •early 7,<00. How about Tennessee? In that State at the election on the first Thursday of August in 1886. the Democratic ma­ jority over the Republican candidates was about 35,()00. From the corre­ sponding election in August of this year it is known that the Eighth Con­ gressional Listrict, which in November, 188(\ went. Democratic by 3,0,0 ma­ jority, was carried this year by the Republicans tor their judicial ticket witu at least 1,000 to spare. The indi­ cations for the whole State point to a greatly reduced Democratic plurality as compared with eight years ago. The last basis for comparison up to date is afforded l y the great Demo­ cratic State of Alabama* After Mr. Cleveland had bean for seventeen months in offioe during his first term, the Democrats of Alabama elected a Governor by the tremendous plurality of K.7,021. Nearly eighty per Cfent. of all the voters in that State was solidly Democratic eight years ago. At the: corresponding election this year the , remnants of this magnificentorgani/a-; tion managed after an almost oosper- ate campaign to elect a cmdidat* for Governor, supposed to have the good wishes of Mr. Cleveland, by a majority probably exceeding If,(00. Atkansas, Vermont, ar.d Maino are' still to be heard from. Then come the State eltctions in most of the States, and tho general elections for Congress in all Of the State', on Nov. (>. The prospect is not encouraging. The drift is all one way. Since tho people at the polls began to register their opinion of the first year of Mr. Cleveland's second term, the results have not been such a i to inspire even in the most sanguine mind any entb usia ;tic expectation of a glorious and general Democratic vic­ tory in November. age of the country in 189?. In other words, our entire goid«nd silver coin­ age would be nee ed as "security for the payment of this tax upon the break ast table of the people, aa pro- posed by the Democratic representa­ tives in Congress. Why Oram 8«M **D .* President Cleveland i < reported to have Interrupted a di tingui hed United States Senator who que-tioned him on the ubject of a tariff me ̂ sage with the violent ejacu ation, "D a message; I've written enough al­ ready. ' v Perhap? the Pre ident had in mind j Faria communicated CHATEAU riff, only tne famous letter to Mr. Wil on that ha * came back to plague him, but the puolic will gj further than that, a * it heartily subscribes to the sentiment thatGrover has wi itten enough. From the time when he compo ea that re­ markable speech about the;oil remain­ ing in it J pla -e even to this very day Mr. Cleveland has continued to give fresh evidence oh the slightest provo- ca ion that writing too much is a chronic complaint with him. On cere- ! monial occasions his ponderous sen­ tences, with their dearth of ideas, sug- ' gests a cramming of encyclopedic | knowledge, as his cruel enemy ot the j New York Sun was not slow to point 1 out, while his state papers have in- j variably turned out to be political I blunders. Tne most noted of them. ' the tariff me-sage of 1887, was tho despair of all the great leaders of his party, and it is well known that he himself began to recede from it be­ fore he was nominated for th ; Presi­ dency the second time. He and his friends opposed the tariff plank of the platform of 1892, which was its logical outcome, and during the last year it has been declared many times that he did not sympathize with those enthusi­ astic free-traders who have taken their cue from his earlier utterances. His lorg -paper on the Hawaiian question has been made absolutely worthless by the course of affairs dur­ ing the last six months. All the elaborate reasoning it contained has 1W ©natodlaa Wa* a UmlUMiniteHa Trntifef.JESmsHW Oo one of his last visits to Mare. Bellies, just before 187 n,- the year of his death, Alexandre Dumas viilttA the Chateau d'lf. Our Paris pondent writes: Old Grosson, Uk» custodian, who has just died, showed his visitor over the dungeons witl| his usual thoroughnesa. At tlMl proper place he showed nini the in the wall through which the AI ith Fdi *Bf SlTTlNfl-BOOM AT GRAY GABLES. an atmosphere of comfort which it would hi card to find surpassed any­ where. A view is also presented cf the ex­ terior of Gray Gables from wr.ich some idea of the house may ba formed. The grounds have been laid out lately with greatar care than hitherto and they now prove a most attractive feature of the place. On tho whole Gray Gables may be considered an almost ideal sum­ mer home. Cleveland'* Cowardice. There is some consolation in Presi­ dent Cleveland's running away from his party's tariff bill. It will end the flapdoodle about the President's cour­ age in never shrinking a responsibil­ ity. The public won t be treated any more to hysterical interviews with cabinet oft!cers and other a^sociaties of the Piesident, telling how Grover will face the music t nd either sign or veto in a vigorous message, 'ihere won t be any mor^j dishwater writing about Cleveland's serene confidence in the performance of his official duties. The President has acted the part < f a coward. Of course he is ashamed of tne tariff bill. So is the country. So are the Democratic Congressmen who passed it. But he might have shjired the curse with them and have showed some fellow-feeling for the Congress­ men in their misfortunes. There have been generals who preferred the igno­ miny of defeat with their retreating troop; to escape from the field of bat­ tle. There have be^n party leaders who would go.down with their party when they might have saved tho rem­ nant of a public reputation by desert­ ing it But Mr. Cleveland isn't that kind of a party leader. He declines to go down in history with his signature at­ tached to his party's tariff and he leaves the Democratic Congressmen to their fate. A braye man would neyer have done it. '•Tariff Reform." A NOW SEEKS- INDEMNITY. An American Citizen Who Claims He Wai MJANTLY Impr inon U in RUM IR . Nicholas N. Fredrikssan is an Amer* ican citizen who claims that he was un­ justly arreste l and mprisoned in Rus­ sia. He will endea­ vor to have the State Department atWash- ingtoi demand in­ demnity from tho Russian government. Ftedrikssan is an ar­ chitect and a me- cha deal engineer He was torn in Per­ sia but years ago took the < ath of al1 legiance to the Unit­ ed Slates, and re­ ceived his education in Chicago and at*-*- FREDHIKSSAX. California College, East Oakland. Last year he went to Russia with his wi a to build a factoiy lor Gen. Rebainder, a noted Ku s an. At. Kursk he was arre-tedbya gendatm \ who said he looked like a n ted criminal. His passp rts were, all right but he was thrown int 1 prison, ana dragged from one to another for almost a year. Bjr bribing a gendarme, he says, he finally escaped. He claims that he was half* starved and treated with shocking bru­ tality. *Jr- in rAMiLr bisAOREEiiavr THE STRUGGLE IN THE ORIENT. COREA.T--"! don't see whero I n: ke anything out of this scrap, no j "" - ' who win*. • Si Democracy'* Trlck-Splttle. Wbat is a tariff f tr revonye only? ,, JCOR JE \V. COU.ASD. j BH.LFIELD. N. IX As conceded by the Democra ic party, a tariff for revenue enly is a mere quibble, meant to afford wide enough ' seppe for trickery and treachery in. I tariff manipulation. As the Demo- j cratic party regards it, it mean) noth- , ing, and it wa* neyer intended to~m£&n j anything. What aiariff for revenue j only should ke. strictly speaking and i with honest intention, is a uniform tariff of ten, twenty or thirty percent, ad vaiorem upon every artie'e we im­ port from any foreign country, wheth- f r raw material or manufactured goods. It should be uniformly and exactly im­ posed upon everv article in precisely the tame proportion, with the sole ob­ ject of raising revenue^ It was in ect- ed into the Democratic platform at Chicago as a political catch-penny. It was ejected from that platform by tbe Democrats in Congress because it did not afford any opportunity for "rob­ bing the many at the expense of the few, " for discrimination, favoritism, treachery and trickery. That Juiar Tax. During the year ending Juae 3'\ f JK9 , the per capita of gold coinage in ' the t'nited States was 53 cents, and the per capit v of silver coinage was 19 cents, a total coinage of 72 cents per capita The srgar tax of 70 cents par capita would thus be almost as much a* the combined gold and silver ooin- ' 1 .... .: Dantes. 'This hole," said the cuato- diau, "the Abbe bored with a Safe bone. Alexandre X)umas says sa* "Then," said the visitor, "Alexandra Dumas was ac jiiainted with a goodt many things. Perhaps yon know him?" "Know -him," exclaimed Grosson. "Alexandre Dumas Is oM of my friends." "He is glad of i%» replied the great romancer, slippiae two gold louis into the man's hand, * which he grasped. Grosson com­ plained of the stinginess of tbe oMh nicipal authorities, who left tbe cw» todian of the Chateau d'lf dependent on the generosity of visitors, merely allowing him to live rent free I wr him a year ago tor the last tint* The poor man was already in tuft dotage. People were teasing Mai about his yarns. "You know Monfea CristoV" they suggested mockfoglji. "Don^t you know he never existed?* replied Grosson, pettishly. *'I win show you the cell, if you like, but lltt whole thing is a fl tion." From th s I know that poor old Grosson wa» drawing to his end. Pere Grossoia had the history of the tastle al Ms linirer-ends. It was genuine history* • and even better. His yar ns, repeated 1 and amended in the course of half % century, and improved with gleanings, from tbe wit and erudition of man? Mtf ot the most interesting personages it has been my fortune to meet. H* come to nothing, for he has finally , thousands of tourists made him ott recognized a government whose es­ tablishment he did his best to prevent and has abandoned to her fate the i- 4 , x., luckless Queen who staked her all up-1 fln's>^ed believing in his own tals* on the glittering and unsubstantial; ar!d. "j® listeners _were ready to pluo«s premises of the fickle man. As for the Wilson letter, that was a most egregious blunder, as many a brisrht politician declared tho day it was published. It was simply so much ammunition for the ensm;, since there was no prospect that it would make the Senators bidge: It fell flat as a "bluff," but remains the 6e erest criti­ cism yet penned of the Democratic tariff Dill. No wonder that Grover J^id^D --.Ch icago JourjuO. , Ireland for Pro;ectior> ̂ fiscal system is very ITbbrat, al­ lowing all nations to send their prod­ ucts free into the markets of the United Kingdom; and, on the other hand, all nations have disappointed the expectations formed, when protection was abandoned. Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Richard Cobden and others assured those connected with the soil that free trade would unlock the door of the millennium and we shou'd be happy. Agriculture and manufactures would flourish, for prices of corn and cattle were t>ure to be maintained, and the nations of the world might be relied upon to follow England's example. The ftredictions were cot in harmony with acts, as experience testifies." With \fheat at 3j shillings a quarter, the farmers' hopes have disappeared, and, owing to various causes, manufactur­ ing efforts are paralyzed. In the foi m- er ca*e high farming and low farming have been tried in vain: whi e in the latter, notwithstanding improved ma­ chinery and the alleged superiority of British workmen, foi eigne s can bring their products into our leading indus­ trial centers and undersell home prod­ uct*. We are a^ked, however, to praise the virtues of free trade, al­ though it has done grievous harm to our material interests and left us de­ pendent upon aliens for two-thirds of our daily, bread.--Belfast Prepare for the Futuen. The policy recommended by the American Protective Tariff League regarding tariff legislation, namely, for a solid front of a!l indust ies against legislation, was not a opted in the early stages of the preparation of this bill The results speak for them­ selves, tut it is to the future, not the past,that we turn. With unite 1 effort on the part of all of the protectionists of the country a protection Congress and individuals pledged to protection must be elected on Nov. 0 next. This should not only apply to Representative! in Congress but also to United States Sen­ ators who will be se ectetl by Legi la­ ta rei elected on the same date. With minv of our great industries sacrificed, employment le-seneJ, wagei reluced, we shall have a ta^te of what the free trader desires, and it remains for the American people to speak --Astorlean Eo nomist. = H Good for Knvland. v • ** What precise effects the .measure will have upon the trade of this coun­ try remains to be seen, but it is confi­ dently expected that it will give a much-needed impetus to industries which have been suffering under the prohibitive restrictions of the Mc­ kinley act. . . . Though the new act will prpve beneficial to the con­ sumer in America, and to the manu­ facturers and operatives in this coun­ try. the Democrats have not been able to return to the conditions that; existed prior to tbe introduction of the Mc- Mchinley bill in 183H. . However, we are all hoping that the modified daties will stimulate our industries in the potteries, and that that hope may be abundantly fulfilled is our earnest wish.--Staffordshire Post, July 5, 1S94. with him ioto dreamland. Around the rocky coves of the island of If, lavender, fennel, and rosemary gnw like weeds. The fishing smacks ply the sea, painted in bright colors, witik strange sails--the descendant?, toe all we know, of Ulysses's ships. Evafc the gloom of the castle is southern and Oriental Perhaps the charm at the Chateau d'lf is due as much is the fascination of Dumas' rom«uiee jNB to individual impressions--Londos News. Carious Medical Suit. ( J r. An interesting trial has been tafe* % fhg place in France. It beine neees* sary to resort to transfusion in a d«s» perate case of illness, the servant at the patient volunteered, or consented* to supply the blood. Some tias afterward the giver fell sick, and. at­ tributing bis diseas to the sacrifle* he had made for bis master, sued like latter for 60,000 damages. Experts were appointed to examine and port on the case, but. in theinterTa^ . the plaintiff died. Tbe action was continued by tbe widow at the Civti Tribunal of the Seine, whe e ths court gave judgment for the defend­ ant. Commenting upon the decision the London "Lan et," June 30, sajs that it was obviously eQuitablatt cond ensation was claimed simply on the ground that the illness resulted from the operation aad from e<lectof tbe loss of blood. When a person is asked to furnish blood for trabsfusiost it is the duty of tbe receiver, by him- self or agent, to state precisely ths possible dangers, and to insure ths* reasonable care is taken. Ol course^ a person could stipulate that ha .should be remunerated for loss at employment during enforced idlenoat 'and compensated tor incapacity aris­ ing from an uoforseen accident a*. • tendant on the operation, but, fall­ ing this, he has neither the moral right nor legal title to recovers money equivalent In the case un­ der consideration the man dted THM* cancer of the stomach, < ertainiy not caused, and probably not aggravated, by abstraction of a few ouocaa iff / blood. - 1 That 8nfar Tt x. The average ad valorem rate of duty collected upon all our imports during the twenty-seven years, 18(57-93, was 31.35 per cent The sugar tax of 40 per cent, proposed by the Democratic representatives in /Goi^gress will be 8.65 per cent, more than the average duty upoa all imports during twenty- seven years. Msans Justify the End. Moscow's foundling asylum, founded by Catherine II., is kept up by a tax on playing cards. Baby's Rights. He has a right to be "well bora1* He did not ask for existence; see Is it, then ye parents, that everythiag from concept on to birth, conduces to his moral, physical, and mental well being. He has a right to healthful blosd and clear brains, not those impovec*- isbed and befogged ty dissipation^ ^narcotics and alcohoL He has a right to a happy, heatttor 'f ful mother--one not exhausted by e& .cessivc child-bearing and overwork. . - He has a right to your first cat* and thought --baby first, self last- He has a right to be kept sweat and clean, that he be not repellesfc ' to those about him. He has a right to be "motheredP every day of his little life--not turooi over everv hour to the tender (?) ? mercies of the average conscienceless hired nurse. . ? He has a right to your deepest lot* and to your Keenest sympathies thafc you may, during hi> develop ng, entsc largely into his joys and griefs He has a right to wise discipline! since, if undisciplined and uncoqfc*s ' trolled in his infancy and childhood^ V a felon's fate mav await him. Q4 He has a r ght to an education^ > that life's best gifts may be fully ap^ 'p predated. He has a right to the rultlratio* of any special talent wilfe whiofe lMI is, by nature, endowed. • * »; t -Jr "Tariff Beform." The Famous Conisiocc. - * The famous Comstock was disoof^i ered by chance. According to the story told, the ground on which ths lode was afterward discovered ww prospectcd by Comstock, who located a claim but made up his mind thatH did not amount to much and as abandoned it Shortly after this aa odd character named Finney was hunting in the neighborhood and shut a deer. '1 he wounded animal strug*. gled off, and while scramb ing up th# side of a hill dislodged some loosil ' stones, disclosing sigus of the pres­ ence of gold. F.nney washed alittls of the earth in a pan ;ind was astoar» ished at the result, for from th# small quantity of earth tested cam* $10 or 915 worth of gold. Wba^ Finney and two of his ft lends wem l^ler working tbe mine along eam#;; Comstock and demanded to kuo«K what they were doing on his cJaisfc They were obliged either to kill him, or take him into p*ftatrsfe& teUMT did the latter. * ^ ;Y !" f"