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'MM" - - -- -- ABOUND A BIG STATE. y-. JS? ®, OWEFC^.LAT^ONOFILUNOW r3(i»w to DH1 wttb An t hru--Kl^ln Girl Want* 05,000 for a Broken Heart--DMth •F G«n. John A. IOKUI'I StotW--Mttk Market In the Dairy Belt. '" " * ". t • Anthrax. Anthrax has again made its appear- K% -aaoe in the State, and the State £oard o£ Lire-Stock Commissioner* publish the following concerning it; The disease is fatal In a majority of easea Horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and all Warm-blooded animals are readily affected by it, and it is peculiarly dangerous from tbe fact that it attacks mankind by inoc- culation. All dead anitnai carcasses should be burned at once, 'ihe disease is caused toy a certain form of bacterial life known as the bacillus anthracia. 1 he bacillus Is rod shaped, and can only be seen with the microscope. Within the living animal these rods take up oxygen and yield up •arbonic acid gas, wbich accounts for the condition or the blood of acutely affected animals--blackness, imperfect coagulation •and speedy decomposition. There are three forms of the disease: the apoplectic, acute and sub-acute. In the apoplectic, death is sudden. A horse may drop dead in the harness, or a cow may die while she is being milked. In the other types the progress of the disease is slower. In the sub-acute the animal may re­ cover. The pathological appearances are veins engorged with black, tarry-like blood, bloody-colored water in the chest ^jtad. abdomen, a red spotted appearance the intestines, the spleen Irregularly engorged with black blood, giving it a peculiarly mottled appearance. In many cases the lung9 are completely clogged with blood. The large lymph glands are much enlarged. The liver in many cases is congested and greatly Increased In size and weight. Medication is very unsatis­ factory. Local tumors may be treated with strong liniments or carbolic acid lo­ tions, and ten or twenty drops of this acid may be given to large animals in drinking water dally. In the sub-acute cases, iron preparations, sulphate of sodium, carbolic acid and stimulants may be given with beneficial results. External tumors should have free incUions and application of dis­ infectant lotions. The following rules prepared by Dr. M. R. Trumbower, State Veterinarian,should be carefully observed; 1. All animals that die with this disease should be immediately burned, not buried, H»r the reason that burial of such car- | ; Casses preserves the germ of the disease, fis it has its primary residence in the silL ^ , K ; 2. No dead animal should be skinned, or . In any way handled by persons with sore, wounded or scratched hands. _ 3. Dogs cr hogs should not be allowed ? n«ar a dead animal, as they readily con- uli i tHict- the disease by eating the blood or 7' X flash. 4. All animals--horses, mules, cattle and hogs--should be removed from the Infested region to upland pastures, clear of any timber or stagnant pools of water. If this la not available, they should be closely housed In darkened stable3 to exclude the flies. Work horses and mules, when out, of ' the stable, should be covered by a sheet from head to tail to protect them from the flies. Flies frequently are the carriers of the contagion from diseased or dead ani­ mals to healthy ones. < | J _j !By a strict observation of these rules the disease may be controlled to a very great /• ' : extent, possibly completely eradicated. ifci-X-: - Big Milk Contracts Let at Elgin. p!) The Illinois Condensing Company, of P v Elgin, contracted with dairymen for the milk supply for the ensuing six months. They "paly 12 cents a gallon for the months of Octobir, November -and December, and 11 cents for Jan­ uary, February and March. At the condensing' factory 250,000 Quarts a day were contracted for, and at the bottling .factory 80,00 \ Tho company pays th^ sa'tie price at the Carpenterville and Algonquin factories. At the former 26'J,000 quarts are used daily. The , s Sllgin Butter Company made a contract tor about 50,000 quarts dally at the " fame price. • Breach of l*romlso Case* at Elgin. ; Suit has been brought in tha Circuit Court at Elgin by Miss Emma G. Mc- Cutcheon against Conrad Hubner for $6,000 damages for breaeh of promise. Both of the parties are well known, the defendant being a member of the firm of H. Hubner, Son & Co., boot and shoe dealers, and a young man of wide acquaintance. The plaintiff is a young woman of attractive appearance, and wa at one time employed in the • watch factory. The case premises to Was a Sister of Gen, John A. Logan. J Mrs. Anne Rogers died at Murphys- fenro from an overdose of morphine Which she t.cok. Mrs Rogers was a sister of Gen. Jchn A. Logan. It is ;Hot known why she tank the fatal dose. Her friend * claim that it was to relieve a pain in the head, from whieh she was suffering. Others think it Was intent'onal suicide. She was CO years oid, and has two brothers living !• --Col. T. M. -Logan, of Memphis, and James V. Logan, of Olney. , Kecord of the Week. TaE Indiana pynod of the Evangeli- ! eal Lutheran Church was in session at B^catur. LAFAYETTE PECK, of Rocdhousa, Jtas killed by lightning whila visiting tit the country. GJVEKNOR ALTGELD of Illinois is in ^New York to consult physicians re­ garding his health. DANIEL SCULLY, who for nearly a quarter of a century was a Justice of the Peace in Chicago, died of pneu- ' monia. ALVA ROBINSON, 17 years old, has ; been bound over to the Grand Jury at Mount Vernon, on a charge of horse ; stealing. I SUPERVISORS at Charleston will bring suit against the county officials for ten .\earj back to recove. alleged shortages. BECAUSE the Chicago and Alton : 'Railroad will not give them a new de- tot, businessmen of Joliet have boy- " cotted the ri ad. ! BYRON W. PJEET, 72 years of age, a ' "JBreminent and well known citizen and : resident of Desplaines. shot and killed himself while suffering from a cancer ' on his face. FREE METHODISTS, in conference at i Peoria, decided in favor of ordaining #omcn as evangelists by a close vote, i THE Madison Car Company, Madi­ son, which has been reorganized, re- ^ > su/necl ope atins, furnishing employ­ ment to about 6d0 men. CITY MARSHAL DONALDSON and M. E. Tobias were shot and badly wound- '• ed by John Jurik, who-e wife they f"' Were taking to the jail at Kangley. v A 5-YEAR-OLD son of Charles Her- ; steit, a farmar < f Shillop Wallv, fell . . . on a broken bottle, cutting the arter- ,, *tes in his arm, and bled tu death. " IN a suit at Bloomington, Judge Tipton ruled that druggists were not compelled to sell to colu. ed people. THREE more members of the gang %j thieves were captured in a Chicago ; Opium den were arrested and a large quantity of \ aluable goods recovered. ~ H. B.MORGAN, Postmaster at Peoria, refused to deliver out of-town news- papers not bearing postage of a caut a copy. Instructions from Washington Hv>(jte,ought him to time. THE school year at the Institution to* the Bind at Jacksonville opened with an unusually large attendance. The ma ter of an addit;on to the buV.d- fcurs will soon have to be considered. $ f; RICHARD LAWRENCE died at Charles- ton from the effects of a dose of mor­ phine. FINANCIAL troubles drove Frank Talbot to end his life by poison at Rushvillo. ZEBULON M. HALL, one of the old settlers of Chicago, died at his home, aged 73 years. SYVANS REYNOLDS, aged 17, acci­ dentally shot and killed Ray Kolston, 18 years old. near Melrose. NATURAL GAS has been struck on the farm of Henry Moll at Assump­ tion, at a depth of 111 feet. AT Fairbury the Christian Church congregation dedicated its new edifice, which will seat 500 persons. MATHIS Becker,. a ccal miner, was instantly killed in the mines at As­ sumption, five tons of rock falling on him. SHELDON BRICK C\, of Champaign and Urt-ana. has made a gift of $500 to the Julia I. Burnham Hospital of Champaign. W. F. MOORE was captured at Joliet, from which place he disappeared in 1^90 after securing about *12,000 on forged notes. BURGLARS blew open the safe of the Nagel Bros.' Milling Company at Bush- nell. The work was done by experts, who got little. MICHAEL KNOBLOCK, while riding his bicycle on the street railway track at Decatur, was run down by a trolley car and killed. THE 5-vear-old daughter of Jere­ miah Donovan, c f Bloomington, choked to death by getting a coffee bean fast in her windpipe. IN a dispute over a game of cards at Upper Alton Constable H. C. Stee'er shot and probably fatally* injured Charles Higley, of St. Louis. BY the arrest of James W. Bone Chicago ooliee believe they* have broken up a gang of confidence men who operate on the railways. CHARLES SODA, of Chicago, beat his wife with a scantling, and wa« only saved from lynching by his neighbors by the timely arrival of the police. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND feet of lumbar belonging to the Globe Com­ pany, Chicago, was destroyed by a fire believed to be of incendiary origin. TRUST deeds for $1,700,000 have been executed by the lines in the Illinois Steel Company systam to secure bonds to be used in cancelling indebtedness. BURGLARS made a raid at Cropsey, The stores of J. B. Van Petten and C. E. Hayward were robbed, and Rev. Mr, Fairman was relieved of hia horse and buggy. NELLIE EVANS tried to rid herself of life by jumping into the lake at Chi­ cago, and, being prevented, repeatedly tried to throw herself under a locomo­ tive's wheels. MAYOR MILES, of Peoria, vetoed the ordinance allowing tho saloons to be open until 7 o'clock Sunday even­ ing. on the ground that it conflicted with the htate law. D. H. HAWLEY, of E^in, in the course of a disagreement with his brother Fred, struck the latter* a blow on the head with a hatjhet, inflicting probably fatal inju- y. ELMER and Arthur Sheckler, boys living near Freeport, while hunting hazelnuts, discovered a tin box con­ taining $103, whi h proved to be the property Of Albert Bliss, of Davis. MRS. KATHERINE TANNER FISK, of Chicago, formerly of Rockford, who is posses-ed of a rare contralto voice, has signed a two-year contract with the Lillian Russell Opera Company. AT Marshall, during a fit of insanity, Mrs. Absalom Wiser threw scalding water on her husband, and he died from the effects. Mrs. Wiser had been in the asylum. She will be taken there again. MRS. A. F. HULLGREN left home at Rockford Monday night, first kissing her three little children, and has not since be(en seen. It is believed she became crazed on religion and com­ mitted suicide. SUPERINTENDENT LOWRY, of the Elgin Insane Asylum, will ask for an appropriation of $14f,000. and will ad­ vise, amonsr other things, the erec­ tion of a hospital for females and the furnishing cf fire escapes. AT the annual meeting of the Old Settlers of Montgomery County, held at Hiilsboro, the principal address was delivered by Juige J. J. Phillips. Speeches were also made by Prof. T. M. Ingles and Dr. B. Haines. THE seventieth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mr.j. George Clouser was celebrated in a grove near their residence, about five miles from Mahomet. Several hundred people were in attendance, and it was the greatest wedding anniversary ever held in Fiatt county. TAYLOR FANNING, a wealthy farmer who lived near Lynnville, got drunk and was driven home bv his wife. When she reached home she was not string enough to lift him frcm the wagon. She made him as comfortable as she could and left him until morn­ ing, when she was horrified to find him dead. SUPERINTEDENT OF INSURANCE DURFEE has given out the following list of in&urante companies which are do­ ing business by correspondence in this State contrary'to law: Indiana Under­ writers, of Indiana; Fcrt Wayne Fire Insurance Cc mpany, of Fort Wayne, Ind.: Citizens' tire Insurance Com­ pany, of Evansville, Ind.; German- American Fire Insurance Company, Washington, D. C.; Lafayette Fire In­ surance Company, of xs'ew Orleans, La; National City Fire^Slnsurance C mpany, of Washington, D. C.; Washington Tn; urance Company, ot' Indiana, and the t irst National Fire Insurance Company, of Fredericks­ burg, Va. The last-named comp oy is causing the insurance department much unnecessary work in replying to queries regarding the stability of the^ company. The above are all known as "Virginia wildcat" comoanies and can­ not legally do business in Illinois. WESTFIELD, the Chicago clothier arrested in Aurora accused of having stolen gocds in his po tession. was placed under bonds of $i,000. He was arrested on another warrant sworn out by another merchant, and one or two more wan ants await him. Gov. ALTGKLD has issued a requisi­ tion on the Governor of Col rado for tne extraditu n of William J. Carpen­ ter, wanted in Chicago for fo ger/, who was arrested at Satida Colo.: also on the Governor of Mis ouri for Henry Desper, who is wanted at Mount Au­ burn for abduction, arrested at Lick­ ing, Mo. THE Rockford council, by a vote of eight to five has passed a resolution authorizing the city attorney to draw up an ordinance placing a license of &.">00 " j er annum* on dealers in cigarettes. The ordinance will prob­ ably pass. THE Illinois Institution for Deaf Mutes began its work at Jacksonville with an attendance of over four hun-. dred, the largest in the history of the school. Di.ring the vacation many substantial improvements have been made and the facilities for work greatly increased, while there have been several new teachers added to the facultj, which is the best in the country. hH Mm mmmm DEMOCRACY'S RECORb SHOWS PROMISES UNFULFILLED. Fralts of Theirs Month* of CleT«huidlim Pitiable Fllfht of Mugwump Editors-- Xuattoa Reduced Under Proteetloa-- Prtee of SogM HM Advanced. Reeord of Shame, Grovor Cleveland, in a speech deliv­ ered in New York on Jan. 20, 1890, de­ clared "ours is not a destructive party." In another speech on Sept. 26, 1892, he asserted in his usual dogmatic style that "tariff reform" coald be accom­ plished "without disaster or demoli­ tion." Let us see how these statements tally with the facts. It is two years since Grover Cleveland made them, and already the country has learned by bitter experience that the political organization for which he spoke is "a destructive party," and that the eco­ nomical principles it expressed cannot be carried out "without disaster or de­ molition." Let the record speak for itself. The bank clearings for 1893, which indicate the volume of business, fell off to the extent of teii billion do lars, as com­ pared with those of 189:'. Seventy-five railrcad systems, representing one- sixth of the railroad mileage of the a family, especially whon work is not so plenty as it was a couple of years ago, to receive only fifteen or sixteen pounds of sugar for a dollar, but this is a Democratic "ob'ect lesson"-that will hasten the return of protection. Don't Elect This Kind. The President said, ' There are pro­ visions in this (the Gorman tariff) bill which are not in line with honest tar­ iff reform, and it contains inconsisten­ cies and conditions which ought not to appear in tariff laws or laws of any kind." The President has baen pledged, at least he has always said so, to "honest tariff reform." Ris failure, therefore, to veto a bill ' not in line with honest tariff reform"' shows that he violated his promises to the people. If the Gorman bill "contains inconsis­ tencies and conditions which ought not to appear in tariff laws or laws of any kind." was it not plainly his duty to prevent such 'inconsistencies ana conditions" from ever becoming a law? He had the power, yet he tacitly con­ nived at their enactment He con­ sented to legislation for the people which he knew to be faulty, and which, he sa.ys, should not exist "in laws of any kind." This is the kind of Presi­ dent that was elected by the .Demo­ cratic party. O.t Too Poor to Bajr Wheat, - In 1887 every person in the United States consumed 3.92 bushels of wheat. In 1892 the consumption was 5.91 bush­ els per capita, an increase of two bush­ els during a quarter of a century of protection. People could live well in those days. But a year later, when WHAT IT COSTS THE COUNTRY FOR ONE SESSION. (MMK lyuimijMUji ABRAHAM LINCOLNS first spcech on i he tariff question was short and to the point He said he did not pretend to be learned in political economy, but he thought that he knew enough to know that **when an American paid twenty dollars for steel to an English manufac­ turer. America had the sreel and England had the twenty dollars but when be paid twenty1 dol­ lars for steel to an American manufacturer, America had boih the steel and the twenty dollars' That was ihe sum and substance of the tariff question as he viewed it LINCOLN AND THE TARIFF country, went into the hands of receiv­ ers in the first year of the C eveland administration. The gross receipts of 121 i*ailroal systems declinea more than $8,0( 0,000, or 14V per cent. Fi\e hundred and ninety-ei'jht banks were compelled to close their doors. The number ot business failures advanced to lti,t)50, an increase of 50 per cent, in one year. For six years preceding the second inauguration of Cleveland the aggregate lia ilities in all failures did not rise much above $2300,000,000. In 1893 they exceeded $331,000,000. We do not know what meaning Grover Cleveland attaches to the wo ds. "destruction," "disaster," and "demolition." In the figures we have given an ordinary person will see evi­ dence in abundance of widespread dis­ aster directly traceable to the triumph of the economical policy with which Cleveland's name is identified. Let us supplement these figures by others which still further emphasize the fact that the first year of the present ad­ ministration has been one of "disaster" and 'demolition." During that year the sales of textile goods feL off from $70,247,882 to $48,893,875, adectease of 37 per cent. The following is the per­ centage of decrease of sales in other industries: Iron, 38 per cent; furni­ ture, 26 per cent.; shoes, 18 per cant.; hats, 194 per cent.; hardware, 19 per cent! This decrease, of course, means the loss of employment to thousands. Take, for instance, the woolen indus­ try. Twelve months after the Presi­ dential candidate of the free trade party had declared that "tariff reform" would not affect injuriously the busi­ ness of the country, one-half the woolen mills in . the land were shut, and those in operation were running on half time. Such are some of the fruits of the first twehe months of Clevelandism. What other disasters are in store for the country no one cai tail. Down with the Trust*. The Gorman tariff bill is the law of the land. Let it been orced. It will be re me ml ered that immediately prior to its passage in the Senate, Senator Morgan introduced a series of ieso!u- tions dete"mining the illegality of every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement or contract between two or more persons that would restrain law­ ful trade or free competition, or in­ crease the price of any marketable commodity. The penalty is fixed at a fine ranging from $100 to So.ODO, and imprisonment for a term varying from three to twelve months. The At­ torney-General is directed to institute proceedings through the several Dis trict Attorneys of the United States. Let him begin. Let him begin with the 6ugar trust. Let him follow this up with the whisky trust. ' The Plight ol a Maffwnmp. The pitiable plight of the mugwump editors during the uncertainty that ex­ isted as to the President's pleasure re­ garding the Gorman tariff bill is aptly illustrated by the following parallel: BEFOBE. It may be said with entire truth that record less creditable to Congress or more ! unsatisfactory to the country can hardly be recalled in the experi­ ence of recent years. . . . Had Congress paved its record from this blot and passed a natlsfactory tariff bill the other shortcominas ot the se-sion would have been overlooked. --N£w York Herald, Au­ gust 27, ltftH. AFTEE. The country will draw a lone and deep sigh of relief that the McKlnley tariff was (aid in its crave in the iarknees of midnight-- tit hour for its iaglori- ous interment! . . . \11 citizens may rejoice in tfce relief which will now be afforded even by the Germanized edi­ tion of Mr. Wilson's bill.--New York Herald, lugust 28, 1894. Democratic Ketief from Taxes. The price of refined sugar has ad­ vanced to the consumer as the direct result of Democratic taxation. The good old McKinley days when twenty- four pounds ot granulated sugar could be bought for a dollar have passed into obscurity. It will be hard upon many the threat of free trade had begun to spread over the country, they could not buy s:> much bread, and each per­ son consumed only 4.8ii bushels, a bush­ el and more less m a single year. The Recoil of Grovei's Words. "With materials (raw sugar): cheap­ ened by their freedom from tariff charges, the cost of their -product (re­ fined sugar i must be correspondingly cheapened." And vice versa. The President did not cheapen raw sugar when ho had the power. He increased its cost and "correspondingly,"or more so, he increased the cost of refined sugar. Was this "justice and fairness to the consumer?" Was it "justice and fairness" to the refiner, who had "the doors of foreign markets" shut in his face? Was it "ju-tice and fairness" to "American labor" in the sugar refiner­ ies, which is thereby prevented from tecurin-jr "continuous and remunerative employment?" "Tte millions of our countrymen" are interested. Something is wrong. They must be "constantly guarding against the treachery and hialt-hearted- ness in their camp." Who was treach­ erous? The Democratic majority in Congress. Who was treacherous'and half-hearted? The Democratic Presi­ dent, who failed to do his duty and veto a bill that he exposes as being rotten to the core. "The million of our countrymen" must kill this "com­ munism of pelf. * Afraid of the Democrat*. Two hundred millions of dollars in gold were tied up in the national banks of the United States last July. With undisturbed protection this money would have brought hippiness to many a home through the employment of labor. BLut the people were afraid to use their money when threatened with the vagaries of a "communism of pelf" party. WhHt Protection Dl I. The amount of duty collected per capita of our population was 3.03 in 1*«!', when the McKinley tariff went into effect. It was only in 1892, when that law was in undisturbed oper­ ation. Thus "the burden of taxation" was reduced by almost one dollar for each and ever^ one of us undet our best era of protection. A^Frettjr Good Proof. During thirty-thrae years of Protec­ tion, lf*K)-s>3, "the population of the United States increased by 35,500,000 people. Is not this satisfactory evi­ dence that Prote ction is a good thing for the country ? Leave well alone. Thl* Was Good Enough. During thirty-three years of protec­ tion, 18«0-18t)3, the total savings of the people in the United States increased by $1,03\873,403. Is not this satisfac­ tory evidence that protection is a good thing for the country? Leave well a one. Germans Like It. Of the bodies cremated in New York State last year £0 par cent, were those of Germans. Tale End of "Tariff Reform." Salaries of Senators. Representatives and Tltelr Clerks Foot Up a L>rjt« Bum-- Various Contingent Funds for the Com­ fort of Lawmakers. May 8oon Reach V5,OOO.OOO. Washington correspondence: great deal of fun. and that is the item of jacking boxes. Every Senator and every Member s entitled, when he g. e* home, to have three boxes made in which io pack his booKs and papers. These boxes a-e made under contract. Each set consists *of .two laige bixes and one small one. Those in the Sen­ ate are made elaborately. The co t of making the e boxes is not so much. Those for the Senators cost about $1,20 >, those for the Hou e cost about $4 0i 0, but their actual cost is but «a trifle compared with what it costs the postoa ce department to transport the boxes and their contents A BELGIAN MANDARIN, The session of Congress jmt olosed ! ?bo,Jt the c?u°tr>*- Unier tbe frank> i&.q tu , "»g law each Sena was perhaps the most expansive Con­ gressional experience that the country has ever had. By this is meant not the cost of what Congress did, nor the appropriations that it made for the general administration of the govern­ ment, but for the actual cost of the two houses them elves. It i-» an interest­ ing study to watch the growth of ex­ penditures that the two houses of Con­ gress are willing to appropriate foi\ when the expenditure is for their own personal recompense,. comfort and pleasure. The expense ih soma of the collateral channels is simpi}'appalling, acd it is something that will one day cause a wild spirit of lesentment throughout the country-. There i* too much money spent at the annual ses­ sions of Congress and entirely t x> much recklessness in appropriating the pub­ lic funds for the" purpo.e, Tho-great waste of money is naturally in the di­ rection of salaries. Bc'oh wings of the Capitol are loaded and overloaded with employes. There are clerks to dothis, Clerks to do that, and clerks to super­ vise the other clerks. The fight and scramble and constant wrangle and furious contention is to get on the pay roll. The earlier Congresses rarely cost as much as $l,C00,Ov>0 per session. Here Is what the fifty-thir.d Congress appro- Friated for the last session of its term, t must be remembered that this is the short session, covering practically but three months, which expires March 4, 189o. The bulk of the ap­ propriation, however, covers the whole period of the fiscal yea?, for most of the salaries are i nnuaL COST OF A SENATE SBB8ION. Senators' salaries. $ Senators' mileage Compensation of offioers, clerks, mes­ sengers Clerks to Senators, not otherwise pro- vided for y£.... Contingent expenses. Miscellaneous Items... M0,000 4i,000 496.313 30; (tOO 17,000 fffr.lOO 671.000 97,000 108,0110 2>,t CO 71000 19,8,0 38,000 Tftfol fnr fionsis „ J %V • • • JI 05v 818 HOUSE OF REPBisKNTATIV^r" ^*" *^ Bslarles of members ...f 1,800/00 Mileage of members litO.OOO Officers,clerks,messengers in the serv­ ice of the House Clerks to members and delegates Contingent expenses Official reporters of debates..... Kxpenses of Congressional library.,,. Expenses of botanic garden Expenses of capitol police Total for House .$2,606,700 Expenses for both honses $<.? 0,818 This dees not include $18,000 appro­ priated by the two houses jointly for the salary of the Public Printer and his clerks and the miscellaneous ex­ penses of the Public Printer's office, nor dees it include the enormous ex­ pense of printing the public documents, the Congressional Record, and all man­ ner of public printing ordered by Con­ gress. There are thousands of i-eoplo employed in the printing office of whom it is impossible to get any rec­ ord. They are employed on piece work, and it is impos-ible to estimate what will be needed to pay them. There is not a department of the government that does not include in its estimate* a smaller or greatar amount for the printing of its own de­ partment, and that brings Up the cost of the printing bureau to figures which it would be impost-ible to follow out. Great Expense tor Clerks. The grossest ite n in the Senate and House bill of expense are the charges Senator aud member can frank anything he pleases that is trarsportable in a postal car. When these Cong; essional b xes are filled, they weigh frtm 100 to 300 pounds. All that is necessary to secure them trans­ mission through the mails is to paste on them one corner of a Congressional envelope with the members frank made with a rubber stamp. During the last days of Congress every postal car that went out of Wash­ ington was jammed to the roof with this dea head, dead-weight stuff. On two nights the Pennsylvania Road sent out two extra postal cars which contained nothing but th s class of deadhead matter franked by mem­ bers of Congres!. The Botanic Ga'den, while nominal­ ly a public institution, is really kept up for the sole benefit of members of Coi gress. It co^ts nearly ifcO.OOO a year. Senators and members are the sole beneficiaries, for tne reason that thev* alone can procure cut flowers, plants, cuttings, or bulb< lorpropaga- gation. _ The C pitol p >lico i a neces­ sary adjunct, although why it should cost $3 ,000 a year to properly guard "tha Capitol Building it is hatd to say. And from year to year it is growing. Every Congress finds tome new neces­ sity, some new comfort, some new per­ quisite or some other new way of spending money. If it is not ore thing it is another. If it is not a new $100 clerkship it is a new horse and wagon or an additional bureau or a better packing box or a larger collection of printed books for distribution or more garden seeds or more root* and plants. Taking the appropriations as made for the next short session of Congress as a basis, we may soon expect to see each session of Congress, no matter which party is in power, for they are b;>th alike in that respect, cost tho Ameri­ can paople something like $5,000,000. As it is to-day, it is the mostexpen-ive legislative bedy in the face of the earth. There is nothing to equal it ani-whorn The !S St Sv"travagatlt monarchies of Furope, while they squander money upon their royal fam­ ilies, and in proper maintaining of royal dignity, are exceodingly chary of their legislative expenses. The Brit­ ish Parliament does not co t one-third the amount expended by the American Congress. •4 % SHOWERS IMPROVE PASTURES. I*te Corn A'so Promises s L*r(«r Yield Titan Had Been Anticipated. The reports of thj condition of the crops throughout the country received and compiled by the weather bureau at Chicago are as follows: li.inois-- temperature, except In central por.ion, above normal; rainfall above Had bansblne bolow. Ftost in northern por- tiou: no damage. Corn maturing fast; chinch bugs damaging some sections De­ cided improvement in pastures Ground lu excellent condiiiju fur plowing and seeding. Indiana--Showers have improved past­ ures and gardens in most sections and seeding is progressing rapidly. Corn is maturing slowly and is fllliuj well; much in sboclc and most corn free from fiost. Wisconsin--Kalu has been general in all sections. Grass shows a remarkable growth and tali feed la abundant. Pota­ toes improvipg. Corn turning out better than was expected. Cranberries nearly all picked. Considerable wheat and rye sown. Minnesota--Temperature above normal. Nights cooi, with irequant frosts, which only damaged garden truck. More rain needed. Fall plowing progressing rapidly. 1'otaioes being dug; yield light. Iowa--Corn generally safe from frost. Mure than the usual amount of plowing has teen done. Pastures and late potatoes show marked improvement. t-outh Dakota--Hlzh winds have delayed thrashing during the week, but it 1< nearly finished now. Frost has killed all vegeta­ tion that had not matured. Kansas--Abundant rains in south half of the Stale aud lighter rains In the north half, with much cloudy, cool weather, have greatly improved pastures, gardens, mead­ ows and orchards. Plowing for a large acreage of wheat. Feeding begun. Nebraska--Very llttlo change in crop conditions. Bain much needed for fall plowing and seeding. Frost did little dam­ age. Oklahoma--Weather cool and pleasaut, Copious rains fell every where, with tho ex­ ception of limited areas in the north por­ tions of central section, where the ground Is too dry for plowing and chinch buss are damaging forage crops. ,£ome wheat sown. Late crops dolnsr well. Grass will make good late hay and pasturaxe. Missouri--Plowing »nd seeding progress­ ing »ull, with soil in good condition except in some southern counties, where they were retarded by heavy rains. Pastures, tur­ nips, late potatoes and considerable late corn greatly improved. Arkansas--Weather very unfavorable. Cotton seriously Injured by rust, rot. shed­ ding and worms. Opening slowly aud pick­ ing not general yet. Corn will be a trood crop. Potatoes, pastures and fall gardens fine. % for clerk hire. It long ago tecame byword that there often were more clerks sitting in the Senate in their employers' chairs than there were Sen­ ators. It is true. When Senators feel that they can atTord to appoint their sons, their brothers, their brothers-in- law and any other male members of their family to act a3 their secretary and draw 'the pitiful $li0 a month, they ought not to be ashamed of their presence on the floor, and perhaps they aro nor. There are Senators, and many of them who have not only placed their sons on the pay-roll-, but who have installed wives and daughters as their private secre­ taries and stenographers, thus keeping the amount allowed for clerk hire all in the family. And among the Sena­ tors %vho have thus provided for their dependents are those best known to the country as leaders. There is no way of getting at the name* of the people who draw those salar.'e*, but it is an open secret that fully one-half the Senators have their sons or some membjr of their family on the pay­ roll. Perhaps nobody should blame the Senators'of either party for thus aiding in the support of their depend­ ents, for they have an illjstrious exam­ ple in the Vice President of tbe United Stages, whose first orticial act after taking oath was to app:int his son his private secretary. While the House of Representatives is in a general way more costly than the Senate, that fact must be attrib­ uted to its greater* membership, but the House is !earnine"fast. Fcr years it has been trying to have a corps of clerks, on 3 for each member, like those appointed by the Senate- It is only within the past year that the Senat3 wou'd con-ent to this, but finally through means of a deal it was accom­ plished. It is thejuGnptliest innovation that the House rrats made ia its ex­ penses in many years. It involves, in fact, so much motey tfcatevery method of disguising the real expendituie is employed. There are 'M > members of the House, of whom about not be­ ing chairmen oi committees, are en­ titled to this clerical benefit. Under the new rule each meicberPhota chair­ man, is entitled to $10 ) per month dur­ ing the session for clerk hire. Care was taken in the wording of the reso­ lution that the members shall not ap­ point a clerk to draw that salary, but that be should draw that sum him­ self and use it as he sees fit in hiring clerical help. This serves a double purpose. First it keeps a lot of names off the pay-roll, where it is not desir­ able to have them, and agjin, if a Con­ gressman does not want to employ a clerk, not nsed ng one, he can d aw i J,reat confusion, anno need: "Morton, the money and put it in his own pock- ^ tassett, 69; Wcodford, 40; But- et, and it is an open secret that many terfield 29; Russell, 10. Blis s 40*, and of them do it. Nothing since the ta-, Arkell, I." The nomination of Mor- mous back-pay scandal years ago has ton wa^ made unanimous. Charles T. grated so unpleasantly upon the Con- Saxton was nominated for Lieutenant gressional sefase of honor as this petty 1 Q0vern0r on the first ballot. A feature means of adding to the ( onsrressicnal tjje xneeting* was the enthusiasm perquisites. As will te seen, the up- j cauged Vvhen J. Sloat Fas?ett was men- propriation for thij clerical help is ^ioned a3 a candidate, but it ended •9«,000, but that is intended simpl.* to ; a demonstration, for Fassett was cover the short term < f Congress. ! nQ^ jn evjdenee when the votes MORTON IS NAMED. New Vork Republican* Want the Ka-Vtee President for Governor. Ex-Vica President Morton was nomi­ nated for governor of New York by tbe Republican State convention at Saratoga on the first ballot. Gen. B. F. Tracy in an extended speech placed in nomination ex-Vice President Morto n. Col. Baxter of t lmira placed in nomination J. Sli at Fassett. Si'as B. Dutcher of Kings County nominated Gen Stewart L. Woodfoid. John S. Wise of New York, formerly of Virginia, seconded Morton's A. Nash cf Cat­ taraugus, named Gen. Butterfield. Ex- Congressman Parker of St. Lawrence Countv presented the name of Juige" Leslie W. Russell. Cries for a vote followed and the chairman ordered the roll to be called by coun­ ties. Before Ontario was reached Morton had been nominated, and when the vote was finished the clerk, amid X.BVI F. MOr.TOS nomination. E. mm Euring the session of Congress irst ended there was expended mjre thau •200,000i To le e.'.act, The racking Kos Item. There are other expenses in toth branches of Congress which seem equally large. For instance, tfce itam of contingent ex enses, £103,0 0, is composed largely of stationery, $•" 1.C00 being appropriated for that alone. Thete is another item in the contin­ gent account which always makes a were counted. The platform denounces re­ cent tariff legis ation and the present administration in general. HERMANN KLUMPP has teen recog­ nized as consul t f tfce German Empire at >ew Orleans and Hans Giese as consu' of the German Empire at Tacoma, Wash. v' • J.: lb tsiMattc Career ot m ton OfcisL While the young American bicy­ clists. Messrs. Allen and Sachtlebea, were crossing the Desert of Gobi, they heard mucb of a mysterious and powerful official called tbe Ling Darin. No one conld tell who off what he was. Finally, as they emerged from the desert, starved, ill, and ragged, they were met by a neb- ly dressed mandarin, according to the story they tell in The Century. , Ho greeted them cordially in clear bufc broken English, and, mounted on waiting horses, they were attended into the city ot Su-chou. ' it was tiome time before the idea flashed across our minds that this might in­ deed be the mysterious Ling Da about whom we had heard so mudfc.. 'Yes,' said he, 'that is what I am called here, but my real name Splingard.' He then went on to tel| us that he was a Belgian by birth; that he had traveled extensively through China, as the companion of Baron Riehthofen. arc! had thus be­ come so thoroughly acquainted with the country and its people that, on his return to the coast, he had beea offered by the Chinese Government the position of custom mandarin afc Su cbou, a position just then estab­ lished for the levying of duty on the Russian goods passing in through the northwest, provinces; that he had adopted the Chinese dress and mode of living, and had even married many years ago, a Ch nese girl educated afc the Catholic schools in Tientsin. "We were so absobed in Miis ro­ mantic history that we scareely no­ ticed the crowds that lined th* streets leading to the Ling Darin's palace, until tbe boom of a cannon recalled us to our situation. From the s>mile on the jollv face beside us we knew at once whom wecculd hold responsible for this reception. Tho palace gates were now thrown open by a host of servants, and in our tasa^ and tatters we rolled at once from the hardships of the inhospitable desert into the lap of luxury. MA surplus is not always so easily disposed of as a deficit--at least we were inclined to think so in the case of our Su>chou diet The Ling Dar­ in's table, which, for the exceptional occasion, was set in the foreign fash. ion with knives and forks, fairly teemed with abundance and variety. Them was eren butter, made from the milk of the Tibetan yak, and condensed milk for our coffee, tho first we had tasted since leavinx Turkey, more thau a year before. The Ling Darin informed us that a can of this milk, which he once pre­ sented to Chinese friends, had been mistaken for a face cosmetic, and was used by the ladies of the family. Tho Ling Darin's wife we found an excel­ lent and even artistic cook, while his buxom twin daughters could read and Vrite their own language--a rare ac­ complishment for a Chinese woman. "As guests of our highly respected and even venerated host, we were visted by nearly all the magistrates of the city. The Ling Pari in was never before compelled to answer so many questions. In self-defence he wa9 at last lorced to get up a $tsro- typed speech to deliver on each social occasion. The poo pie, too, besieged the palace gates, and clamored for an exhibition. Although our own clothes bad been sent away to bo boiled, we could not plead th «s as an excuse. The flowing Chinese gar- ments which had been provided from „ i-r| "J the private wardrobe of Ling Darin * 4J ' fluttered wildly in the breeze, as wo ;• i rode out through the city at the ap- • ijr pointed hour. Our Chinese shoes. 4 < ^ ^ also, were constantly slipping o.?,and \ as we raised the foot to readjust *'J them, a shout went up from tho v crowd for what they thought was i ̂ some fancy touch in the way of rid- ' ^ 1 ing. Wheeling/xi China. '-Vi ^ '4 "Hi' & nitj/n CI r,"Messrs JOHN MORROW kilted JamesO Neill at Dallas, Tex. In tfe CeniJtiryr'Messrs Allen tad Sa htleben, writing of their wonder­ ful bicycle journey across Asia, say: "On dashing down into a village, we would produce consternation ot fright, especially among the women and children, but after the tirst onset, giggling would generally follow, for our appearance, especially from the rear, seemed to strike them as ex­ tremely ridiculous The wheel itself presented various aspects to their ignorant fancies. It was called the 'living-machine' and 'foot-goiug car­ riage,'while some even took ite for the 'live-wheel cart,' or locomotive, about which they had heard only the vaguest rumors. Their ignorance of its souice of motive power often prompted them ta name it the •self- moving cart,' just as the natives ot Shanghai are wont to call the elec­ tric light tbe selt-coming moori.' In one out-of-the-way village of Northwestern China, we were evi­ dently taken for some species of cen­ taurs; the peop'e came up to examine us while on the wheel to see whether pr no rider and wheel were one. We became so harassed with impor­ tunities to ride that we were com­ pelled at last to seek relief in sub­ terfuge, for an absolute refusal, wo found, was of no avail. We would promise to ride for a certain sum of money, thinking thus to throw the bur.ien of refusal on tbeiuselves. But, nothing daunted, they would pass round tbe hat. Cn several occasions, when told that eggs coald not be bought in the community, an offer of ah exhibition would briny them out by tbe dozen. In the same way we received presents of tea, and this means our cash expenses were coosideiably curtailed. The inte.est in the "foreign horses" was sometimes eo great as to stop business and even amusements. A rather notable in­ cident cf this kind occurred on one of the Chinese holidays. The fiatc- decked streets, as we rode through, were filled with the neighboring peas­ antry, attracted by some traveling theatrical troupe engaged for the oc­ casion. In fact, a performance was just then in progress at the open-air theater close at hand. 1 efore we were aware of it we had rolled into its crowded auditorium The women were sitting on improvised benches* fanning and gos»iping, while the men stood about in listless groups, but suddenly their attention was aroused by tbe counter attraction, and a gen­ eral rush followed, to the great detri­ ment of tbe temporary jeddlew^ stands erected for tbe occasion. Al­ though entirely deserted, and no doubt consumed with curiosity, the actors could not !cse what tbe t hlnese call "lace." They still continued i their dialogues to the empty seat* 1 r'iftaf* *1*31 m. • ' • ^4 ^ \ \r * _v * «§