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ABOUND A BIG STATE. ^rpffl,!fwas * •*»- - > ». » -*:- •taffisUttora Asked for Better Work--Es­ caped Lunatic Caught--Violators ot the Gauae Laws Heavily Fined--JiU Vernon -Deluged by a Cloudburst. St. Chtir Democrats Want More Work. At the St. Clair County Democratic Convention at Belleville, alt townships were represented. The fact that the battle rjyai. in the new Twenty-first District will be l ought in St. Clair County caused hard work for a strong ticket. The following resolutions were adopted: W HEREAP, It has been the practice of the General Assembly of Illinois to •adjourn each Friday of the session until the lollowing Monday; be it Resolved, Tbat the Democracy of St. Clair County assembled condemns this practice and instructs its repre­ sentatives to the next Genera' Assem­ bly to use all honorable means to se­ cure the abolition of the same. -i, Soldiers May Receive Their Moner. Adjutant General Orendorff wrote a letter gi.ing- in formation relative to the form of vouchers under which banks and individuals througftout the Stale are advancing money to pay for the active service of the Illinois Na­ tional Guard in suppressing riots and preserving the peace in Chicago, in which he said: The laws of the State of Illinois fix the amount of pay which officers and men shall receive when on active duty iu suppres­ sing riots and preserving the peace and state the payment therefor shall be made on rolls prescribed by the Adjutant Gen- •oraL The pay roils have been examined, found correct, and approved for payment by the Adjutant General and have been indorsed by the Governor as follows: Ap­ proved. to be paid with interest when an appropriation is made for that purpose, -shall recommend G per cent. JOHN P. ALTGELD, Governor. ... The letter was written at the re­ quest of a Mr. McDowell, who in­ formed the Adjutant General that he had, after a brief canvass in Chicago, received pledges of *o0,C00 for the pur­ pose indicated. It is believed that the next legislature will promptly make an appropriation for the payment of the militia, with interest at the rate the governor will recommend. The mem­ bers of Company B, of Joliet, are to receive cash for their recent services durirg the railway strike. The Colonel has made arrangements with President J. A. Henry , of the Will County Bank. The bank will advance the amount due from the State ($2,214) in installments. Elgin'" Munlac Caught at Last. Elgin's wild man was caught the other evening after a few days' chase. He is Douglas Force, a desperate pa­ tient at the asylum, and after his es­ cape kept the city In terror. He ap­ peared at night only and always beat the patrol to the woods at the east of town and hid in the bushes. He was phased into this ambush, and to make the capture certain a guard was kept about the forest alL.-night. Marshal Myhre and volunteers finally found the man,under the I ankl of Black Snake Creek. He showed fight until he s-aw he was outnumbered twelve to one, and within an hour he was behind the bars in the asylum. Is Making Their Sport Costly. * Deputy Stata Game and Fish War­ den ll-enK is causing a great commotion among sportsmen in Manteno. He has thus far brought four suits against hunters for violating the State game laws and has evidence against many more. The cost o. this sport is heavy. The fines in the four cases t-ied ranged fi om $18 to $800. He has secured suf­ ficient evidence, he thinks, to convict parties of using dynamite in the Kan­ kakee River n&ar AJtorf for the pur­ pose of killing fish. Cloudburst at Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon wai visited by acloud- burst and heavy windstorm about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, which blew the cupola off the East Side School Building, deluging a number of the rooms, kno-king the plastering off several of them, and doing about $1,500 worth of damage. Trees were stripped of limbs, awnings blown down, and for an hour rain poured in tor.ents. The track of the wind only covered a nar­ row area, but the rain was general. Record of the Week. FOUR steamers and two schooners ran ashore ow.ng to the dense clouds of smoke which overhung the lakes. THE expense to the State caused by the calling out of the militia during the late strike is placed by the Adju­ tant General at $350,0o0. AN rox TREBUKE, Foglio Enrico and Manrico Chiroti have been arrested by State Game Warden Peter Pell for catching tish in the Kankakee River with a net. They were taken to Joliet for trial. •T. W. HARRISON, of Quincy, pleaded guilty in the United States Court to contempt of court in interfering with the running of Wabash trains during: the recent strike and was sent to ail in default of a fina of AT a meeting attended by seventy- live young men of Kockford. prelim­ inary arrangements were perfected for the organization of a new independent military company, which will ,.e cap­ tained by Elisha Thayer. A MAN giving the name of W. N. Clark was arrested at Rockford for passing forged checks. He passed one forijl^ signed by L. A. Weyi.urn, a prominent manufacturer, and one on D. S, Cjonradt, a grocer." THE Cass County Soldiers' Reunion Association will hold its annual re­ union at Chandlerville, Sept. 20. Ex­ tensive preparations are being made and a large at.endance is expected. Senator Arthur Leeper, Finis E. Downing, Gen. John I. Rinaker and Richard Yates are to fce present and make addresses. As A result of a falling out between W. H. Martin and Ernest Heaton, pro­ moters of a California land companv, the iorm.r was arrested at Chicago lor securing money on false pretenses and the latter on a charge of blackmail. THEKE will be quite a clearing out At the Northern Illinois State Prison this month, seventy-.-ix prisoners gc- ing free, of whom thirty-eight hailed irom Cook County. There is not a woman in the lot. One completes a ten-yeai^entence which was his second and there are four other second term­ ers and one who has done time twice before. BANDITS GRISWOLD AND LAKE, of Chicago have been identified as the men who held up the conductor and "brakeman of a Lake Shore freight train <. n Aiyj. 13. CHRISTOPHER Fox, watchman for Hysind»r & Rosenthal. Peoria, retail dry goods dealers, was arrested by De­ tective Lincoln a< he was leaving the t.tore in company with Lottie Heberer and Ida Ott, all of whom were carrying euch silks, la es, dry goods, and notions as they could comfortably make way with These thefts have been going , on for months. Other women are im- Miss ROSE BENSON, of Sycamore, died from a stroke of paralysis. RICHARD FARRELL, an inmate of the soldiers' honm at Quincv, dtopped dead of heart disease. ROBERTS was swept by a bla e which originated in a grain elevator. Only six houses are left standing. THE second annual reunion of the Fayette Soldiers and Sailors' Associa­ tion was held at Vandalia. NATHAN A. WESTON, an instructor in the University of Illinois, and MisJ Annie Gayman were married at Cham­ paign. « MRS. CHABLE? HALTZ, of Kankakee, has brought a damsge suit fbr $5,000 and costs against C. G. Pa ker, alleg­ ing slander. AT Champaign Harry Herney, a switchman in the Illinois Central yards, was run over while coupling cars and die.1 from his injuries. Gov. ALTGELD has State prisons enough, he says, and knows nQtning of a proposition for another one in North­ ern Illinois. « G \BRIEL BERDJELE and his sister- in-law, Ellen Fe'leches, of Romeo, were locked up at Joliet for murdering Thomas Hogan by shooting him. FRANK MILTON, aged 30 and a hotel keeper, was killed at Rose Hill, twelve miles south of Greenup, by a Peoria, Decatur and Evansville freight train. JAILER GEHRS came near losing his life at the hands of two prisoners in the Carlyle jail. After a oitter fight they made their escape, but one was la:er captured, .laiier Gehrs was bad­ ly cut over the hip. M. F. BRENTON, who committed suii ide at the Gr.at Northern Hotel, Chicago, was. the son of George W. Brenton of Metropolis. He was en­ gaged to be marr ed to a young lady in Cairo, at which j lace he was lormerly a clerk in the Holliday House. THE first sod wai turned Tue day af­ ternoon at 3 o'clock toward excavating the first two miles of the eastern ter­ minus of the Hennej in.Canal. Twelve teams and twenty mon were started to take off the top, ^o as to allow the big wheal scrapers and graders to begin work. ELEVEN Chicago young men, who roaie life a dream for a large party of Rockford young ladies at Delavan Lake this summer, went to Rockford on a special car Thur day mo:ningand became the guests of the young ladies, who entertained them in royal style. flhe program included a visit to the county fair, theater part es, a german, a drive about the city, and a hay ride and corn roast. GENERAL rains continued through­ out the State during two days, which will be of great benefit to torn and late pastures, but is proving detrimen­ tal in t e brocm corn regions. The broom corn harvest had just fairly be­ gun and promised an unusually fine crop, but the rains will not only*defer cutting and allow the corn to grow too mature or red, tut bends the bru?h and makes the corn second choice. GEORGE JOHNSON wa$ killed at mine No. 3, Duquoin, by an explosion of a powder can. Before he died Johnson said he had heard the report of a pis­ tol in the can before it exploded. On examination the pistol was found, with a string fastened to the trigger and also to the cork used as a stopper to the can. No one has yet been arrest­ ed for the dastardly crime, but everv clew will be followed up. Johnson, it is learned, had trouble with a man named Van Clark. Clark cannot be found at last report. PATRICK HALLOW AY, a farmer, was pla?ed in the custody of the Sheriff at Ottawa, charged with the murder of a neighbor. Joseph Williamson, in a street fight at Norway, a small viUage twelve miles northeast of Ottawa. The men had been enemies for some time and met in front of the vil'age drug store, where they at once eJigaged in a spirited combat. Williamson was cut across the abdomen with a knife, dying in a few hours. He claims halloway stabbed him, but the latter says the wound was caused by the other attempting to u-e a knife. ARRANGEMENTS were made by the old Second National Bank of Aurora to advance to the resident members of the State milit a the money they earned guarding Chicago. There has been much delay in the matter and sevaral banks have refused to cash the pay roll unless guaranteed by respon­ sible citizens, as it is not bankable Eaper. The old Second National Bank as, however, come to the rescue, and in order to entirely conform to the law four of the directors gave their notes to the bank as security. Aurora has two military companies and is the Third brigade headquarters, so that the pay roils are something over $7,0u0. THE little town of Shipman was al­ most entirely wiped out bv fire be­ tween 12 and 2 o'clock Tue day morn­ ing. Only two business houses out of nineteen escape*!, one of which is Sheriff O'Neill's saloon. A number of dwelling houses were destroyed. The lo-s is estimatad at $80,000, "le.-a than half insured. Some are of the opinion that the fire was of incendiary origin, while others claim that it was caused by spontaneous combustion in a pile of waste in a hardware store. The few goods that were saved from the fire ! were damaged or destroyed bv a heavy j rain, as no place could be found in : which ta shelter them. I THE Commissioners of State Con- i tracts met at Springfield to consider I bids for State printing and supplies I for the ensuing year. The chief con- | test was over the contract for the sec- j ond class, which embraces tho printing l of the Senate and House joarrals, the 150 JUS THE IAP LEGISLATION ACCORDING DEMOCRATIC THEORY. -TO The Difference 'Between Free Coat and Taxed Sagar to the P«opl*-Ont Fifty Million Dollars Burden |with Wages--Cleveland's Cowardice. *" ' ' ( Free Coal a Fake. ^fwTVeasury Department has jjfriNi the total consumption of sugar in the United States at -1,313,20.*,500 pounds during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894. At least 80 per cent, of the sugar consumed in this country is of the best grades, ranging in value from 5 to 7 cents or more per pound to the con­ sumer, though costing more money in the interior markets that are distant from the refining centers. When we consider that the cost of sugar is greater the farther the distance from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, New Orleans or San Francisco, and the ex­ tent of the population of the country Outside of these five cities with i their 8.003,0<AJ inhabitants only, I it can readily be understood that the other u0,00U,0J0 people are : paying much more heavily for their sugar than the iew. It seems reason- ; able, therefore, to estimate that the actual average cost of all sugar con- a cheap man, I mean one who haif dot brains enough, to conduct himself wisely, is about the cheapest of ait cheap thin js. A CORRESPONDENT. Fanragut, Iowa. '•Tariff Reform.** THIS MODEL WASN'T TIRED. England for Protection. If we may trust the prescienoe of the Spectator, the English people will lefore long have to face a demand for a return to protection--a demand so formidable that for free-traders its re­ sistance will involve "a hard struggle," although their ultimate victory is cer­ tain. The circumstances upon which this forecast is founded are that among MM HAD ma Extremely TRYING POM, TAT It Didn't Matter at 111. Good artists' models ate usually f where, was waxing full of seed. Under I their slender roots the partridges i were ronning about, thrusting on* I their necks. "The air was full of a thousand •r Ms A MATTER ,OW plentiful this summer, and the stu-! different bird-notes. In the wky dios of the better-known painters are i bung motionless, a cloud of hawka flooded with applicants who waat to i stretching wide their wings, and flx- pose. A majority of these are not! ing their eyes silently on the grass, professional models but theatrical | The cry of the wild geese moving in people, who, being stranded in the i elouds was heard fro^i God knows city for the season, which is ao an- I what distant lake. From the grass w „u , the great mass of the present genera- sumed in the Cnited States will exceed > 1 « of eduoated Englishmen there is precedented one in theatrical annate for dullness, and being short of money, are very glad to pi k up a few dollars in the studio. Artists are al­ ways glad to get this kind of models, for the stage people not only pose well and with great patience^ but there is found among them, as paint­ ers say, a greater variety ot peculiar types of faces and figures than in any other profession. In the matter of peculiar and unusual muscular de­ velopment especially, the "knocka- bout" actors and variety performers are valuable. The women, however, have not the courage of their con­ victions, as have the professional models, and decline in all cases to pose for the "altogether," says the New York Sun. The most remarkable thing about these theatrical posers is the ease with which they assume difficult at­ titudes and the patience with which no firm grasp of tho principle of free trade, that tliey have received the ac­ cepted doctrine as an inheritance, have never convinced themselves of its soundness, and are becoming skepti­ cal as t) the wisdom of retaining it as ill have, for the 4,343,20.1,..00 pounds i a PractjcaJ; &uide to legislation. Even total outlay o; «»3S,s7i),523 per an-! ?.Gme of the lows papers road by intel- * • • ligent people are giving voice to this skepticism, as is shown b,- the con­ temptuous manner in which they re­ cently referred to the annual meeting of the Cobden Club.--Manchester Guardian. 0 cents per pound, as we know that .-0 1 er cent, of it is of the highest grades, Mr. Havemeyer to the contrary notr withstanding. If we take only ">| cents as the average cost yer pound of all grades of sugars to all consumers, we will have * num, or, for o.ir population o C.8,500,- 0i0 persons, an average of $3.35 per capita for sugar as compa ed with a per capita cost of $10.50 for coa'. In consiiering the effect of f.ee coal and a tax upon sugar, it m jst be re­ membered thit, acc >rding to the Dem­ ocratic theory, the consumer pays the tax. Our imports of coal in 18. z were 1,354,817 tons, upon which was collected a duty of 75 cents per ton, or a total of $1,02^,1)13 in a single year. This is the extent of the relief that would be ac­ corded to the American people by free coaL Our consumption of sugar last year was 4,343,205»,5i,0 pounds, which, at an average nrice of 2r cents per pound, would be worth $119,438,261. An ad valorem tariff of 40 per cent, upon this amount would bj $4;,775,304. A differential duty of * cent upon 4,343,209,50J pounds would be $•%429,012, making a total breakfast table tax of $5,V_()4,31*'. Free coal would thus, according to the Democratic theory of the consumer paying the tax, effect a saving to the people of $1,023,(513, or li cents per capita, while taxed sugar would cost them $53,204,31<5. or 77 cents for every man, woman and child in the country. The direct loss by such Democratic legislation would have b^en 75 v cents for every individual, a total additional burden of $52,180,703 a year. Cowardice nf Cleveland. President Cleveland had four dis­ tinct courses before him in connection with the Gorman tariff bill He could have signed it; he could have return:d it to Congress for correction of its many errors; he could have vetoed it; he could have permitted it to become a law without his signature. It was hardly to be expected that President Cleveland would >attach his signature to the Gorman tariff bill after his de­ nunciation of it in his private letter to Congressman Wilson. He would have adopted a buinesslike course, however, had he returned the document to Con­ gress for correction. This would have been appreciated by business men and would have gained for him their appro­ bation from a business standpoint, lint anything savoring o. business would have been un-Democratic, therefore it was not expected by the people. Had President Cleveland vetoed tho Gor­ man tariff bill he would have strength­ ened himself and strengthened his party. Such action would have been consistent with his former publicly ex­ pressed opinion of disapproval of the Gorman bill. He could have sent to Congress a ringing message of denun­ ciation of the document. He could have torn it to shreds as a fraud upon the Democratic platform that elected him to his high office. He could have laid bare the deceit practiced by his Democratic Congress upon the people. He could have spurned its rottenness. But President Cleveland did none of this. He had not the ordinary in­ stincts of business to insist upon a bill that would be free from blunders, such as his Democratic Congress could and thould have passed, and which his legal training should have suggested. He had not the manliness to veto the document and appeal to the people to support him, as they would have done, being Americans who appreciate man­ ly conduct, with a rousing enthusiasm. He did not even attempt to gather his scattered Democratic forces together by signing it, and thus creating a sem­ blance of harmony in his party s ranks But the personality of the man out­ ranked the high office of the Presi­ dent. The coward who hired a sub- Btituta to shield his carcass frcm the enemy's shot, the sneak who would not defend his country, these things predominated. There was no President in the United States on the night of Aug. 27. There was a criminal a complice of the robf bers of the votes of the people. Those who by solemn pledges were elected to TaHff Tinkers at Work. t Foreign Wool Advaftcev The eft«ct of the Gorman tariff bill is already being experienced in the wool market, 'ihe price of American wool has fallen, while that of Austra­ lian wool has advanced. The Ameri­ can farmer suffers while the Austra­ lian farmer prospers. At the latest London wool sales the price of Austra­ lian wool closed firm at an advance on all desirable grades. In this country there_ has been quite a movement in combing and fine-clothing wool, the bulk of the business being sales in bond, so that no duty should be paid. Tho American clip is i.0 per cent, less than last year owing to the slaughter of s-heep rendered compulsory by the mere threat of Democratic tariff tink­ ering. Our farmers cannot raise wool at a profit at existing prices. The small »r our supply, the greater the de­ mand for foreign wool and the higher its price. The American farmer suf­ fers while the foreign farmer prospers. This is the result of Democratic Tar­ iff Reform." Buy American Uoods Only. If every patriotic American will pur­ chase American goods only for his con­ sumption he will lessen the disastrous effects of the free-trade Gorman tariff bill. The American Protective Tariff League invites all to join in such a movement, and to sign the following pledge: I hereby pledge myse f to buy American goods only, whether of the farm, mine or factiry, and to use my influence to have others do the samr\ Please si^rn the above, giving your postoffice address in full, and send the same to W. F. Wakeman, General Sec­ retary, 135 West 23d street New York. "Tariff Reform." arose with measured strokes the prairie gull, and luxurimraly bathed he self in the blue waves of the air. Now she was lost in immensity, and was visible only as a lone black speck. Now she swept back on broad wings^ and gleamed in the' sun. The deuce take you, steppes how beautiful yoi> are!"'--Gogol's "Taras Bulba" H© WM a Gcntlcmait* A few days ago I was passing through a pretty, shady street, where some boys were playing at base baiL Among their number was a little lame fellow, seemingly about twelve years old--a pale,sickly-looking child, supported on two crutches; and who evidently found much difficulty in walking, even with such assistance. The lame hoy wished to join the game, for he oi l rot seem to see how much his infirmity would be in his -- o w n w a y , a n d h o w m u c h i t w o u l d they preserve them. A well-known | hinder the progress of such an active painter recently employed a young | sport as base ball. His compan.ofis, very good-na­ turedly, tried to persuade him to stand at one si Ic and let another take his place; and I was glad to notice that none ot them hinted that he would be in the way, but that they all objected for fear he would hurt himself. "Why, Jimmy," said one at last, '^you can't run, you know." "Oh, hush." said another--the tallest in the party; "never mind, I'll run for him," and he took his place by Jimmy's si: e, prepared to act. "If you were like him," he said, aside to the other boys, "you wouldn't want to be told ot it all the time." As I passed on I thought to my­ self that there was a true gentleman. --Dumb Animals. woman who has been a variety actress since her early childhood to pose for him. and "set" the model in an ex­ tremely difficult position. He made things as easy as possible for her by arranging a rest for fcer head, and every few moments he would stop and tell her she could rest. To this the invariable response would be: "O, I'm not ti^ed. Go right ahead. Never mind uie. t He would insist, however, on her resting. One day, determined to test her endurance, he painted steadily for nearly halt afn hour, purposely omitting to offer ner a chance to rest, and presently, in his interest in the work, forgot all about the possible •^discomfort of the girl. When he finally did think of her it was with a start of self-condemnation, as he saw by his watch that the patient model had held that trying pose fcr more than an hour. "I'm through for to-day, Stella," he 6aid to her. "1 forgot all about you. You must be awfully cramped." No answer or movement from the model. "By Jove! She must have fainted," said the painter. "What a careless beast I am." He went over and lifted the girl, who stirred, looked around in a puz­ zled way, stretched herself, and said: "What? What time is it0 Did you call me? 0,1 guess I must have fallen asleep." ' 'How on earth came you asleep all twisted awry likethaty" inquired the ama/.ed artist. "That's nothing," returned Stella, smiling. "I did a contortion act for three years, and that pose is a soft thing lor me" HOW MILK MAY BE STERILIZED. laws, reports of State officers. State ! !?r boards, etc?. H. W. Rokker and F. F. Hartman both tied in their bids, and the contract will have to be awarded by lot. No awards were made, but the Illinois State Register will get the contract for the printing of the Senate ani Hou e bills and resolutions, the Illinois Printing Companv. of Dan- \il!e. for printing election registers, ar.d Phillips Brothers for general job work. THE twentieth annual reunion of the veterans of Gen. Grant's old regiment, of deceit/, were no more dishonest in what they did openly in Congress than their cowardly ally, who tacitly aided and abetted them in the dead of night by allowing the Robber's bill of the Basement to enter the homes of the American i eople. The crafty evasion of the perform­ ance of a most important public duty is the gift of President Cleveland to the people of the United States for the honor they have twice thrust upon him. The result he cares not for. It will fall not upon his nead. It will plicated. It is said the amount takeu . in the year will reach several thous- I Douglass will receive -and dollars. 1 money for his work. the Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers, I make the people spew out Democracy was held at Kinmundy, and notwith- I or,,. *1 standing the rain was largely attended. THE Van Wie gas stove factory, one of the biggest plants in Rockford. was totally destroyed by fire, together with all its contents, the building being lo­ cated bevond the reach of the water mains. The factory was the property of James Harnett and other Cleveland parties, while the stock and machinery was owned by George S. Roper, of Rockford, who conducted the busi­ ness. The loss will reach fullv $30,000. AT Springfield, during the noon hour the other day. and while the agent was away, burglars entered the ticket otfee of the \Vabash Railroad by prying apart the iron bars of ah outside window, and robbed thp safe of #1.000 in currehcy. Ihe safe was easily entered, a* only the day lcck was on. DOUGLASS, the noted convict in the penitentiar/ at Joliet, worked five hours to open the safe of the National Lean and homestead Association. This is one of the mrst remarkable safe openings ever undertaken in Joliet. as it was a double combination lock safe. ~ a large sum si frcm any participation in the nation s administration for another quarter of a century at least But what is that to him? Cbeap a^d Nasty. Judging from the free-trader's stand­ point, it would appear that "cheapness" was the great prerequisite and the culmination of all enlightened states­ manship. Cheapness, at the expense of quality, may be very Tlear, but never can be cheap. Can bread be cheap at any price to a hungry person who has nothinsr to buy it with.' Other things being equal cheapness will be very ac­ ceptable. If "low prices" be a synonym of cheapness, at what price would a dozen of addled eggs be cheap? The free traders want a cheapness of men. Protectionists want a cheapness of metheds. Free-trade produces cheap men; cheap men produce cheap goods. Cheapness, without due remuneration for honest toil, leads to poverty, deg­ radation and want. We live,* it is said, in an age of progress, especially so in the United States. But, to our sorrow, since the fall of 1892, we have j been blessed (? > with a progress of pro-1 gressive insanity. It seera to me that I The Fate or a Bastard. Ten days ago a legislative foundling was abandoned on the front steps of the White House. Mr. Cleveland said it was not his; Mr. Wilson repudiated its paternity: it had been born out of political wedlock. La^t night as the clock struck 12 Mr. Cleveland opened the back door, and the waif was sneaked in to receive a cowardly wel­ come in the house of him who was re­ sponsible for the puny creature's ex­ istence. The father of tho Income Tax and qualified Protection neither dared to accept his offspring before the world nor turn it away to die.--New York Sun (DemA Legislate for Americans. Foreign nations are supposed to ad­ just their own tariffs with regard to the interests of thoir own people, and if any of their schedules ; operate against us, that is incidental, and gives this country no rightful cause of of­ fense. So we should adjust our tariffs for the benefit of our own people, not stopping to consider whether certain items injure or benefit foreign nations. --Minneapolis Tribune. TlM Coming Contest. A Simple Formula That Can lie FoUowed by Any Housekeeper. The conviction that milk should be sterilized, or Pasteurized, as is conceded to be the better method, Is forcing itself upon more and more mothers and housekeepers every day. It is, however, one of those depart­ ures from conventional methods to which the great majority must be educated little by little. Many wo­ men laughed at the notion of boiling drinking water who now would not think of using any other sort. Most of these were converted during the cholera scara If now in like man­ ner the laggards iti the sterilizing movement could appreciate the dan­ gers to be escaped by conversion to it another big step forward in domestic sanitation will have been gained. Di­ rections have been given on une or two occasions in these columns just how to rid milk of dangerous germs, but the story needs telling and retell­ ing. Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal industry, gives a simple formula that any woman can follow: Take a tin pail and have made for it a false bottom perforated with holes and having legs hair an inch high to allow circulation of the water. The bottle of milk to be treated is set on the false bottom and the pa l is filled with water until it reaches the level of the surface of the milk in the bottle A hole may be punched in the cover of the bottle, in which a cork is inserted, and the thermom­ eter is put through the cork so that the bulb dips into the milk, and the temperature can thus be watched without removing the cover. This water-is-jhen heated until the milk reaches ^temperature of 155 degrees Fahrenheit, when it is removed from the heat and allowed to cool grad­ ually. A temperature of 150 degaees maintained for half an hour is suf­ ficient to destroy any germs likely to be present in the milk, and it is found in practice tbat raising the temperature to loo degrees and then allowing it to stand in the heated water until cool insures the proper temperature for the required time. The Pasteur method is practically the same--the temperature is raised to 160 degrees, kept there about ten minutes, and the cooling process Is as rapid as possible, rather than gradual. It is found tbat the latter method makes the milk more easy of digestion in the case of infants or delicate persons. Either process in­ sures the ridding of dangerous germs, and milk so prepared will keep usable thirty-six hours. Would Treasure It. #lie simple people of Alsace, who retain in their hearts a strong love for France at the saniq time that they are desirous not to offend their German rulers too much, have a hard time of it when they are brought to the ballot-box to vote for representa­ tives in the German Parliaments In one electi >n in a certain Alsatian district, the two candidates were Kable, an Alsatian of French sym­ pathies, who had protested against the annexation after the war of 1870, and a German. On election-day, a peasant came to the pollitfg-place, having in oue hand a ticket on which was printed the name of Kable, and in the other a ticket bearing the name of the German candidate. "Mein Herr," he said to the German election officer, "will you tell me which of these two tickets is the bet­ ter one?" The officer looked at them. ••Why, this is much preferable," said he, indicating the German's ticket. "Ah, I thank you:" answered the peasant; "1 will keep it next my heart." He folded it carefully and put it in his inside coat-pockeu "As for this other, then," said he, with an air of putting it away from him as an unworthy thing, "I will leave it here." And he put the Kable ticket in the ballot-box. *«d-Faced Man Tells of the Sport Mae Fishing; In Winter. The Red-faeed Man ordereS some picked-up codfish and then began talk about fish, says the Buffalo Ex­ press. "it makes me sicK," he sai(& • tn hpur men going around i/lowinif about the fish they have caught and the fish their friends have caugbfc. As a matter of fact, I suppose 1 know a stream in this vicinity where then* are more fish than there are anywheiv else in this great and glorious coon* try. "I am not going to give away tb# name ot this stream, for 1 am a good deal of a fisherman myself and I know a good thing. I am not avenfe! to telling you however, that summer is the poor season in these waters. It is a good deal better fishing tbenr *D l^e winter. Last winter one day I made up my mind that 1 would g|r down and get a toess and J took mf ax and started out. Don't have t© fish with hooks ana bait and ail that sort of thinir there. The stream is § shallow one. Jill yon have to ao fa* to build a big fire on the bank and then chop out a chunk of ice Tblfr stream is generally fro en to the ho«- tom, and when you haul out youf chunk of ice you are sure to find * dozen or so whopping big fish frozen into in. Then you prop up the ic# beside the fire and melt it, and thet'fi you have the nsh with just no exen- tion at all. It's a great stream. ;j '•I remember one day last wintei^ along about New Year's it was. wheli I needed some fish for brain food, I went down to the stream and chopped out my piece of ice. Wheu I bad almost got it out I noticed ii, kit?d of bulging up in the ceo* ter, and the first thing I knew it had broken in two and was thrown out on the ice by the force of upward pressure. Half a wagon-load of fish shot up into the air and scatr tered about on the ice; You see.th* water was a little deeper ID that part ticular spot and the Ush were packed in so tight beneath the ice that wheft the ice was loosened a bit they jua§ expanded-and were thrown out." "Say," said the waiter, "where i* that stream?" - : "Oh," re pi iea the Bed-faced Msft as he picked up his check. 'I'd likt to tell you, but there ain't no tea down there just now." MARKS OF PROGRESS*, Explosives In Military EnKlneerfnir. The use of powder for artillery long [ preceded its adoption for exp.oding mines in sieges The first instance of the latter use is in 1487, when the results of the explosion were so trilling that there is no other in­ stance of the practice till 1503, when the Spaniards employed gunpowder to blow up a fort held by the French in Naples. Thus Miakspeare perpe­ trates a trilling anachronism when he brings in Fluellen at. the siege ot Harlleur, complaingng: "For, look you, the mines are not according to the discipline of the war. I think a' will blow jip all if there is not better directions;" while his frien 1 the Scotch Captain is equally in advance of the times when he cries: "I would have blowed up the town, so Christ save me la, in an hour." ~ Shakspeare's evidence is conclusive on the point that, when he wrotet the use of explosives in military engineering was sufficiently well un­ derstood. The same period, too, had witnessed the success ul use of gun­ powder in a blow-up of a private character.--Ail the Year Round. Eneorcs C. (). I). Only. An Italian impresario has discov« ered a way out of the "encore" diffi­ culty that is not open to the objec­ tions made to Hermann Vezin's pro­ posal that they should be forbidden by the public auth rities. The im­ presario in question controls a small operatic theater in Milan, and he has absolutely forbidden singers to repeat any of their songs, but at the same time he has placed the following no­ tice in the vestibule;: "Those per­ sons who wish tor a repetition of any number from the opera or of any part of the ballet dancing are begged to hand in their names at the box office. At the eod of the performance thev will enioy the encores demanded on paying for their seats over again." j Since this measure was adopted no j one has availed himself ot the priv- I ilegc thus granted, and the perform­ ances have not been interrupted by demands for encores. The Beauty of the Steppe* ••The steppe grew more and more beautiful. The whole South, all the region which includes the new Russia of the preseut day as far as the Black Sea, was a virgin desert of green. Never had the plow passed through the boundless waves of vegetation. Only a few horses, concealed io it as in a forest, trod it under fc^eir hoofs. Nothing in naturecouid be finer. All the surface of the earth was like a green, golden ocean, from which emerged million*; of varied (lowers. Amid the delicate tall stalks of the grass gleamed azure, purple, violet cornflowers; the yellow broom lifted on high its pyramidal tower; the white clover, with its umbrella-like bonnets, mottled the plain; a wheat- «tock. brought from God knows Sharp Practice. The London Chronicle of Jaa Il­ ia, 1781, gives an acconnt ofa lawyer who dined on several occasions with a client previous to a trial, and charged him (is 8d for each attend­ ance at dinner, which was allowed on taxing. His client shabbily thought that by inviting him u) dinner he would get all consultations free. The lawyer's host thereupon sued him, and recovered for the value of the food and wine. The , lawyer, how­ ever, informed against him for deal­ ing in wine without a license, and the client was obliged, to his intense disgust, to pay the penalty, much of which went to the attorney as in­ former. This whimsical instance of sharp practice has been made the subject of a song, which at one time was popular. TIIE more a man is satisfied with himself, the less satisfying he is to his neighbors. The Electric BuUet.Finder and ita of Operation. The electric bullet-finder or prober an invention of Dr. John H. Girdnef of New Y'ork, consists of an ordinarf telephone receiver, an ordinary metaft probe and an extra bulb of the sam» metal that the probe is made of \ In­ asmuch as there is no battery con* nected with the apparatus, it na| puzzle even an electrician to discover wherein the electrical element liesb » Just here is where the instruments assumes its truiv scientific aspect, for its invention proves that there is » definite quantity of electricity in th« battery which suppl.es the current^' Dr. Giraner had tried for years t# devise some surer means of locating! bullets than was possible with tb* ordinary probe. Some years ag* somebody had invented aa electric ; bullet probe which depended on battery cell to supply the current* " But the trouble was as soon as tb« end of the probe was inserted in th* flesh an.electric circuit would be es* tablished through the flesh itself and, the electric bell would ring. So it was not known whether a bullet had been touched or not One a ght ifr? occurred to Dr. Gird ner that th« body itself might contain enough of a current to operate a bell or a tele­ phone receiver. Experiment proved the fact. The principle of the in­ strument is as follows: The metal ^ bulb is placed in the wounded per* sons mouth, the telephone receiver is held to the surgeon's ear and the probe in the hole made by the bullet. The bulb in the mouth and the probe are made ot the same metal, copper being preferred, and because they are the same no. manifestation ia heard in the telephone. But as scon as the leaden bullet is touched it brings another metal into the circuit. The human body then becomes one, immense cell, which generates a car-*' rent strong enough to operate the ' telephone, *o that as soon as the bui- ^ > let is touched a click is heard in the telephone and the location of the' bullet is established beyond doubt.-- Boston Transcript. ^ - r-- ^ , - A Hero. • . A few years ago a fire broke out in ' a charming little Swiss village, says an exchange, in a few hours r quaint frame houses were entire destroyed. The p.or peasants ran arou wringing their bands and weepin over their lost homes and the b nes of the burned cattle. One poor man was in greater trouble than bis neighbors, even. His home and cows were gone, and so also was his scjn, a bright boy of si* or seven years I He wept and refused to hear any words of comfort. He spent the night, wandering sorrow- , fully among the ruins, while his ac­ quaintances had taken refuge in the neighboring villages. Just as daybreak came however, he heard a well known sound, and look­ ing up he saw his favorite cow lead­ ing the herd, and coming directly after them was his bright-eyed little boy. "O, my son! my son!" he cried, "are you really aiive?" "Why, yes, father. When I saw the fire I ran to get our tows away to. the pasture lands." "You are a hero, my boy I** the father exclaimed. But the boy said: »0, no! A hero is, one who does some wonderful deed. I led the cows away because they were in danger, and I knew it was the right thing to da" ••Ah!" cried the father, "he who does the right thing at the right time is a hera " Old Books. The most ancient books eict&ttt the earthen ware tablets from Nine- ; vafc. They are usually nine inchee by six, and an inch thick, though the sizes vary greatly. Each is covered with cuneiform characters, often very minute. The impressions were first made, after which the plates were baked in a furnace. 0 THERE is no more expensive laxitrf in the world than getting even.