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t >'v :?k'; 4r*g**"f'v ; 'J*/ t 3 > , f* I OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. Jtaat Train Kills Two Ibn-KiptaW of Maintaining Stats Initltatlogt--J adg« , Smith Obliged by-ill HeMMd to BMlfn- Old Man Tortnredi ,l>wth« from Railroad AeMAinla, 1'he fast paper train from Chicago West Friday morning struck two men a Qrile from Joliet. They were com­ fortably dressed and looked like cattle- -Owners. In searching their clothes a ®ook was found on one body inscribed: "~This book belongs to Joseph Strevel, fta^erville, 111." Among the effects in "the other's pockets was a typewritten eopy of a will, from which it appears likely the man was Stephen J. 8'nanley of New Haven, Conn. , 1 Report of Uonrd of Chnrlt!#*. The fourth quarterly meeting of the ' State Board or Cha ities and l\e forms Iras held at Springfield. The report • Of the secretary shows that the total ,5?o-t of maintenance fo.- the eleven charitable institutions in the State for the past quarter was 8.03,-»14.08. The Average pumber of inmates was 7,67 •n<l tha average cost per capita $35,20. There are at i resent f, i'M inmates, of Whom ^,229 are females. The follow­ ing amounts were allowed for the cur­ rent year: Northern Hospital* $37,OUO; Eastern, $7-4,00J: Central. $41,000;* Southern, $33, 00; Criminal Insane, $75,000; Deaf and Dumb, 5n.'5,000; Blind •11,"?5J; Feeble-Minded, $21,250; Sol- • uiers Orphans' Home, $13,500; Fye and Ear, $7,50J; Sold.ers and Sailors' - Home, $33,750; making a total allow­ ance for the coming quarter of $308,- j»0. It was decided to hold competi­ tive examinations for internes for each insane asylum in the State in Chicago April, 18s*5. > 8»tni"*ted with Oil and Burned. A diabolical deed was perpetrated in the northwest part of Hichland County Friday night on the person of an old recluse by the name of Clem Miller. He lived alone and was supposed to have considerable money aoout the house. About midnight five desj era- d' es broke into his house and tortured the old man by saturating his body, feet and head with oil and netting it on fire. He declared that he had no money, but he was so badly beaten and bruised that his life is despaired of. City Marshal Jeff McWilliams', of Ol- ney, is after the scoundrels, with fair prospects of running, them down. Ex- ,,0'tement is running high, and if the men are oaught they may be lynched. Smith Tenders His Resignation. Gov. Altgeld has accepted the resig­ nation of Judge Arthur A. Smith, of GtTlesburg. Judge of the Tenth Judi­ cial District, to take effect Nov. lr. The reason assigned for the resigna­ tion is overwork and ill health. Judge Smith was elected to this bench Feb. 18, 180", and has served continuously ever s nee. Under the law a special election will be called to fill the va­ cancy. Where the unexpired term is under one year the Governor could fill it by appointment. N»w Cn»l Fields Discovered. ; While boring a well one mile north­ west of Yorktown, Bureau County, on the farm of W. M. Hilger, a four-foot vein of coal was discovered. The ccal is of No. 1 quality, and, as there are no mines in that vicinity, it will add greatly to the welfare of that com­ munity. Mr. Hilger will commence mining operations at once. A shaft will be sunk. The coal is about eighty feet below the surface of the earth. Van Auk en Dtarharjred from Cus'ody. A. M. Van Auken, the Chicago rail­ road promoter accu-red of forging the name of President Ingalh of the Big Four t) a $30,000 indemnifying bond to Quincy capitalist*, was discharged from custody for want of prosecution. Piesident lngalls did not appear to tes­ tify. Van Auken still insists he is C. M. Hobbs. of New York. During the afternoon he obtained money and left for Chicago. " • Record of thi i HENRY HALL, aged 68, died at Mo- line. Lours WILLIAMS, a farmer, near Vandalia, dropped dead. THE new Odd Fellows' building at Seymour was dedicated Thursday. THE arf&ual reunion of the Ninety- third Illinois Volunteers was held at Lincoln. THOMAS SIDNEY HCJBBARD, aged 80, an o'd Greenville resident and pioneer, died Thursday. THE Rev. G. S. Williams, of Bristol, Tenn., refuses the call to the Baptist Church at Decatur. JAMES COLEMAN, attorney, fell into an areaway at Elgin, and received in­ juries irom which his recovery is doubtful. JUDGE GROSSCUP. at Peoria, ren­ dered a decision in the L~ nited States Court confirming to the city the title to Morton s^uara AT the yearly meeting at Chicago of the Columbian Museum trustees Pres­ ident Ayer reported an attendance of more tbau 2,000 a day. THE Grand Ledge of the Knights an I Ladies of Honor at Free' ort has adjourned Peoria was chosen as the place of meeting two years hence. THE Effngham cauning factory clo-ed for the season. Two hundred &nd fifty thousand cans of tomatoes were put up and &ix car loads marketed. MRS. ELIZABETH ZANG, who. after separating from her husband, a wealthy Denver brewer, had become a tecluse, was found dead in her home at Chi­ cago. HERMAN GEINGEP, a farm laborer, was murdered for his money by un­ known persons at Upper Alton. It'looks very much as if a murderous band' of robbers were systematically operating in that vicinity. MOLINE is being flooded with coun­ terfeit silver dollars. They are finely executed, of good color, and al nost perfect milling. They have a false ring and are a trifle light. Ao arrests have yet been made. THE little town of Groveland, in Tazewell County, was the scene of a robbery Sunday morning. The gen­ eral store of McKibben <!fc O'Brien, in which the postolEce is also located, was entered, and the safe was blown open. The thieves secured $250 in cash and a draft for .flotf. Part of the money was postoffice funds. THE new Presbyterian Church at' Assumption was dedicated. ROLL A W>. :AVER, aged 9, was thrown from a hoz 9e and killed at South Moline. FOUR highwayiren were arrested at Fulton while in the act of holding up some boys. FULLER WALLACE, 30, a farmer, was run over by an engine at La Grange and died. A WELL-KNOWN farmer, John Fred- erickson, living pea - Durand, hung him-elf. HERMAN RICHER committed suicide in the jail at Fairbury. He was wait­ ing trial for tha murder of his mother. JOHN BEOKEP, of Joliet, a railway bridge contractor, was accidentally shot at ievi e, dying instantly. Jfcie was a married man. AT a political speaking near Karbus Ridge in Hardin County Joe Smith was shot and killed by Silas Vinevard. Both are young men. GEORGE W. CSAMPLIN, member of the Chicago Bca-*d of Trade and a prominent club man. died at Hot Springs, Ark., of paralysis. THE fifty-fifth session of the Mili­ tary Tract Medical Association began at quincy with 100 prominent physi­ cians of three States present. MISS GERTRUDE MAGILL was mar­ ried at the rc^ilence of he * brother, Mayor H. A. Maglli, in North CI nton, to Dr. James Doyle Moore, of Decat.r. C. T. Boos DIED in St. Louis from the effects of a surgical operation for the removal of a cancer. He had served Effingham fouiteen years as alderman, and was the senior partner in the Boos Block Factory. RICHARD H. ULRICH, a Joliet shoe' maker, wa? ground to death bv a Rock Island train just east of that city. Ul­ rich, wh> was a deaf mute, stepped in front of the train in avoiding a freight train. CARL BUITTEL, P0 years of aga. at­ tempted to commit suicide at Morri­ son. He had been quarreling with his young wife at breakfast, and in a fit of rage committed the deed. He is not expected to live, as the ball passed clear through his body. FULTON peop'e are in constant fear of incend arism. The other morning a bomb two feet long, containing a big charge of dynamite and a firing charge of gunpowder, was found at the front door of a furnit. re store. The fuse had burned nearly to the bomb and gone out. r AT Jersey ville W. V. Reed, one of the gang arrested for stealing cattle and other property some time ago, was bound over to await the action o the grand iury. He gave bjad and is now at liberty. He claims to have been coaxed and led into the stealing by his uncle and Aner i eed, both of whom' are in jail. AT Jacksonville Captain E. L. Gil- ham died after a lingering illness of nearly a year. He was one of the first children born in this | art of the coun­ try, his father coming here before the red men had forsaken their old haunts He endured all the privations incident to frontier life and was a brave, aclive man. He acted as a i rivate in the Mexican war and was a'captain in the war of the rebellion. A. L. DRUNN an 1 wife, hailing from St. Louis, have b en making a tour of Illinois and Indiana o i bicycles, Ach­ ing a new method of dressmaking. Near Vandal a, Drui n became angry at his wi e because she could not keep up with him, knocked her off her wheel an 1 b?at her shamefully. She was fou* d in an J luost : ense'ess co ^ditlon by the nadside. Later- she w; B sent to St. Loui -. Dunn wa * arrested. THE suit at Marshall of John Eaton against R. H. Brown Edward Brown, Millard Hedrick. Sheriff t Allenhurst and Mayor T. W. Clark for dam­ ages for the killing of his son. William W. Eaton, on the niijht of April 20 last, resulted in iudgment against R H. Brown and Hedrick L r $000 and costs. They were the only ones who did any tiring. An effort is to be n ade to indict them by the grand jurv. A motion has been made for a new'trial. Young Eaton was shot ,'ust after taking a decov package which had been placed on an indicated spot in rest onse to a threatening demand for $200 on the mother of the Brown boys. Notwith­ standing the strong circumstantial evidence against him, the majority of the citbe^s believed him to have bean the innocent victim of a diabolical plot. CHARLIE, the -1-year-old son of Lars Larsen. of Moline, fell into a thirty- one foot well. Some wemen lowered a bicket atta hed to a half-inch rope, and the little fellow clung to it un:il most to the surface, when ho fell to the bottom. Again the rope was lowerel and again he seized it, only to fall after being drawn up a few feet. Some men were attracted by the wom­ en's scream?, and, lowering the rope, they encouraged the plucky .ittle boy to take hold once more. Carefully he was drawn to ti e* top. where it wa< necessarv to pry open the little fingers that had with the ed©'rgy of despair clung so tightly to the ro( e that they could scarcely be loosened. The boy- was thoroughly chilled and badly bruised, but otherwise n it much the worse for his unusual experience. PEORTA police officers at the City Hall were astounded the othe,- night on searching a ragged begsrar brought in there to find $4,lo<> concet ed about his clothing. An o'd mrn nad been begging for scraps from a restaurant near the City Hall, and the proprietor became tired and reported him to the police. He was arrested, ani gave his name as Francis Le .nis of Medim his age T>3, and his occupation that of a farm hand. The offl(e:s began tj search him, and brought for.h from his rags a $ AM) bill. The old man be­ gan to cr.-, but the officers jersistjd and found money all over him. '1 here was a $l,0JO bill, a •'S-.OO note, several $100 notes, and the rest in smaller de­ nominations, making ijy.lati in all. The old man was much distressed, an 1 wanted the discover/ kent from his friends for fe,ar they would rob him. The money will be deposited in bank to his credit. RECORD OF A PARff. DEMOCRATIC SHOWN I N C A P A C I T Y IN FIGURES* T- | •' ii -j ! Oflletel Report* of the TrwMoty De­ partment Show that the Democrats Can­ not Manage the Flnnnof* of the Conn- try, bnt that Republican* CM. H»r» I» Mie Proot - '• The following* table gives fey yeawr from 1^5(> to date the excess of govern­ ment revenue over expenditure and of expenditure over reienue: ISxcess of »er- Excess of ex- Year ending enue over pendit are over Jane so • expenditure. reveaae. people believe, but of the prairie and mountain States, of the farmers whose eturdy thrift has erected a mights'em- Dire of civilization, ani the business men|whose prosperity depends ufftra the success of Western agriculture. over 30V IBM... 183* 1859... 18»J 1861; 1B#3............. 1864;.. 1865.. ISrtJ. 1867^ isw..., 186# 1870... 6} t 1.16»,WM i IT,6 1*, 681, #11 T,"*'6.9.W »,<W0,7U M,774.363 AFT,"4 ,434 MS,840,619 i7,m,03 13S.<m.3U • 38.V97.TM 48,078,469 101,6"l,91ti 1871.. 91,146,7.54! 187J........i...»w.. 9-i.68H.904 187(. 48,392,989 1874.. -J,844,883 1875..... 13.376.6-8 187C 39,<TTL,?U 187?...., 30,3^0.677 187M ............ :«0,79i»,461 1879... 6.879.MX) 1880....j 05,.653 1881.... i0i>,069.404 1882...;..........., 14i,f 43.810 1N83.........,V..... 13 ,87'.),4t4 1884......,, 104,->93,625 188' f3,4«J,m 1886 9S.y.>66«8 1887... 1 H.4"1,Oj7o .... 1888 1 m,3»l,-.73 1889.... 87.7i>l,0»» 1890 85,' 40."171 1891» 26,8*8,641 189'* a,M4.4"3 1898 2,342,674 1894 69,vO t,260 The figures in the 'oft-hand column, with the exception of those for i8>d and 18,Y7, show Republican govern­ mental capacity. Those in the right- hand column are r>n index of Demo­ cratic governmental incapacity, tor while the Republican* were in power during 18til-\ 5, when there was a neavy excess of expenditures, tha, ex, ess was due to the rebellion whic i the Southern Democrats started and the difficulty and cost of suppressing which were made greater by their copper­ head Democratic allies in the North. In 1857 the Democrat! tried their hands at tarlti-tinkering again, so as to force down the wages of, free Northern workmen and bring tho^e men nearer the level of the half-pauperized labor­ ers of Europe and the slave labor of the South. Of course, Mr. Buchanan signed t.io bill, for he had expressed himself previously t> the effect that there was no reason why an American should get more than a European. In the wake of that bill came hard times and a bankrupt treasury. There was a terrible panic followed b/ the re­ bellion. Then the Republicans assumed con­ trol of the government. They began the double task of re toring the L nion ' and of giving work and wages to tbe people. They put down the rebellion, i and after thai expensive job was ended > they were ab e to show an excess of re- [ ceipts oyer expenses from 1^00 to 18VM. J They carried on the government and ! they paid oil' three-fourihs of the huge national debt. While the Republicans ; were in power tha^ debt decreased K. steadily, it has increased since the 1 Democrats took hold. j Wh.le Mr. Cleveland was Fresident, i from lt£5 to l^.*, those are in one ' sense Republican years, because Re- j publican policies reg ained in force, j Thpre was a tariff which ga e ample I protection to American industry, and the Democrats not having the Senate could not tamper with it. The busi­ ness world was not distressed by the passage of the Mills bill by the House, for it knew it could not become a law. But when Mr. Cleveland was elected the second time the Democrats secured a majority in Senate and House. Thereupon* they passed a tariff bill which, while it does not meet the wishes of Messrs. Cleveland and Wil­ son, for it doej not cut duties savagely enough, was ie-ponsible for a deficit of nearly seventy millions during the last fiscal year. .1? rom present appearances the deficit for this fiscal year will be something like a hundred millions. Not < nly is the revenue less than the expenditure now. but the industries of the country are in a wre ched state. The wheels go round ver / slowly when they go round at all i rivate re venues have shrunk, and were it not for the fact that private individuals are com­ pelled to economize while a govern­ ment is not, t iere would be a general excess of expenditure over revenue. The official reports of the Treasury Department show that the Eemocrats cannot manage the finances of the country, but that the RenubiLanscaa. The latter, during their long lease of power, kept a balance on the ri-jht side of the ledger, and had abundant time left in which to attend to other mattera. They resumed specie pay­ ment. They passed homestead laws. They put an end to polygamy. They built up American manuiactures. The Democrats have mismanaged the finan­ ces of the country. They have dealt a heavy blow to its industries. They have done nothing to benefit it. Hap­ pily there are only two and a half years more of Democracy. Then that great party which knows the arts of government--wh'ch was born to rule --will resume control of the destinies of the nation and re-establish pros­ perity. 4 work, a further increa-te of 000 a year under protection. In 18 >0 these workers received $380,- 000,000 in wages, or $2*9 per hand. In 18H0 the pay roll amounted to $2,282,- 000,000, equal to $485 for ever man,' woman ana child so employed. In 1*90 The Oranr* for Protection. - the wage earners of the country, under The tariff policy of the National protection, ha i nearly two billion dol- Grange was announced in 1892 in these lars a year more1 m >nev'to^ Spend than words: "The grange has a tariff policy; I in I860 under tree trade, Th:s was good it is the principle of equality as found for business, for manufacturers, mer- in the Declaration of Independence, chants and storekeepers, and guaranteed to us in the Constitu­ tion. . «• . Hence, the grange has iHoitedlv insisted that all tariff laws shall 'protect' the product of the farm as well as the product of the lactory." All honor to theVfctronsof Husbandry. Let them vote as they teach. In the political campaign in Ohio in 1883 for the election of a Governor, etc., the Democratic State Executive Commit­ tee issued a circular sayinsr: "The wool-producing interest ha? a perfect right to demand of the United States Government: 1. That it shall receive as much consideration and en- cou agement as are shown to any other interest whatsoever. 2. That as pro­ tection, by means of taxing importa­ tions of raw wool, has thus far proved highly beneticial to the farmers of Ohio, as evidencel by the continuous increase n the numbers and values of their flocks, this protection shall Knellfih Crockery Trad*. It is yet premature to how Worcester industries will faro under the new American tariff b 11, l>ut one of our proudest manufacturers has re­ ceived a vaiaed concession of 25 per cent, duty on tbe value of exported goods. The porcelain trade, which is in a sad condition is most liberally treated. . . . Generally the reduc­ tion will" be of great advantage to English trade.--^Worcester Journal. Give American Principle*. It cost "a trifle of two millions ster­ ling" (S10,t>00,0< 0 to interpret the Gor­ man tariff so that goods in bond before its enactment might subsequently be admitted free of duty--"no small sum to pa, for a principle." It costs $t?,000,- 000 a year to pay a bounty to Hawaiian sugar producers, while the bounty con- OUT. N Till v u Ud UtiAS'i WHAT IS A WIF6T tfc* Teacher Accepted Ofce DellntthNfc Didn't Take Warning. pretty school teacher, for a little divertisement, bad asked Kef class for the best definition of "wite," and the boy in tbe corner had promptly responded: "A rib." She looked at him repr achfully and nodded to the boy with ,<dreamy eyes, who seemed ao^jbus to say something. "Man's guiding star and guardian angel," he said in response to the nod. '•The helpmeet," put in a little flaxen-haired girl. "One who soothes man in adver­ sity," suggested a demure little girl. "And spends his money when he's flush," added the incorrigible boy in the corner. There was a lull, and the pretty, dark-eyed irirl said slowly: "A wife is the envy of, spinsters." "One who makes a man hustle." was the next suggestion. "And keeps him from making a fool of himself," put in another girl. "Some one for a man to find fault with when things go wrong," said a sorrywr.ui iitUe maiden "Stop right there," said the pretty school teacher. "That's the best definition. Later the sorrowful little maiden sidled up to her and asked; "Aren't you going to marry that handsome man who calls for you nearly every day?" "Yes, dear," she replied; "but with us nothing will over go wrbng. He says so himself." AT A RECUITINQ Avm American Economist, New York. not be withdrawn as long as the pro­ tective policy is pursued by the United State s." This was good doctrine then for *11 parties. It is good now. This I« Democratic Eronomj. The official statement of appropria­ tions voted by the Mfty-third Congress at it* special and first regular sessions is made public. The total is $391.156,- 10>. The figures compare as follows with some preceding appropriations: Fllty-thlrd Couffreas 1891,160,008 Fifty-second Congress, seoond sea- Slon 819,011,846 I' ifty-oecond Congress, first session 3 4 71'i,l«6 Fifty-first Congress, second SESSION 31 I,7M?,(I78 Fifty-llrst Congress, flrnt session... V87,72a,488 » In addition to these figures about i $101,030,000 .Is included as permanent ! appropriations. The present, or Fifty- third Congress, is I'emocratic in both ; branches, in the Fifty-second Congress j the House wai Democratic. The Fifty- ' first Congress, falsely called "The Riil- • ion Dollar Congress," was Republican ! in both branches. The Fifty-third, or j Democratic Congress, has thus far dis- | tanced all predecessors in the matter | of appropriations And this is the j economy to which the Democratic par­ ty was pledged! A p/ Family ft tract w?Fh American sugar producers is repealed. Democratic "principles" are costly to the American people. Need we have them any longer^ The Sn-e Way to Do'ttv .During the first eight nidfrths of this year the bank clearings at principal cities in the United Stat s were over eleven billion dollars l^ss than in the corresponding eight months of 1892. It will take some timb'to make good suoh an enormous loss of business, but the only sure way is to vote for protec­ tion Congressman in November. They Don't Want To. Why is it that some people cannot see that every dollar's worth of im­ ported gi.ods means a dollar's worth of American labor displaced? JOSEPH KERN, a Qvincy traveling man, is missing, and his brother-in- law, Isaac Le-em, has offered $50 re­ ward for knowledge >f his whereabouts. Of late Keru has been traveling for Keith & Co., of Chicago. He is a man about 65 years old. A STARTLING st^ry wavrevealed by a confession of the Jersey County c it- tle thieves. One of them voluntarily stated that a plan had bdfen formed to rob the northbound express train on the St. Louis. Chicago and St, Paul I'.ailroad between McCluskev station and Jersey ville.frHe said that all plans had been made and six iren were to do tbe iob STEPHEN WHITE, of Bluemound, was held up in broad daylight at Cham- Eaign by two highwaymen. The rob-ers were behind the bars within one hour. UPON the alarm of Albert Sticker, who had baroly escapcd with his life irom overpowering gas in the subway at Taylor and touth Canal streets, Chi­ cago, Frank Maloney braved death in ev>in? down into the pit and bringing up the discolored and almost lifeless b)dy of William Kane, a laborer. The alarm and the rescue were just in time to enable the injured ones to escape death, but they are still very ill. RIGHT of citizenship has been re­ stored by Gov. Altgeld to Dan Hix'ey and Albert Mickler, of Morrison; Geo. Benedict and George E. Davis, Chi­ cago. John Linng, Cook County. TUN months ago Sam :el N. Cliffor 1, a wealthy grocer of -^2 West Adorns street, Chicago, killed a man The man was a robber, and with two others tr ed to rob Mr. Clifford. Om of the. jobbers fired several shots at Mr. Clif­ ford and the killing was purely in self-defence. Mr. Clifford brooded over the affair so much that he became de­ pressed, and in his melancholy did not want to live. Since that affair he has made three attempts to kill himself Wedne&day night he was successful Where Farmer* Are Hnrt Noit. The farmers of the country, and par­ ticularly the farmers of the West, should keep in mind that the new tar­ iff law aims a direct blow at one of their principal interests. The funda­ mental feature of the measure; the basis of the entire scheme of jobbing, treachery and disaster, is free WOOL The bill does not make a horizontal and impartial reduction of duties. Al­ most every s hedule in the shameful measure except wool has been repeat­ edly reconstructed for the purpose of buying votes. The bill wa%the result of barter from begin aing to end. But amid all the bargaining and scheming, all the purchasing and selling, wool, the great staple of the We-tern farm­ er, has been singled out for. destruc­ tion. There are to day, in spite of the rav- asre9 of Clevelandism, about thirty millions of *heep west of the Missis­ sippi The wool clip of the United States last year was three hundred and sixty-four m llion pounds, and the total value of American sheep over one hun­ dred and 1 wenty-five millions of dol­ lars. Wool is indispensable to our in­ dustrial independence. The oblitera­ tion of this mighty source of natural Canadian Lumber Company* The lumbermen around the Bay of Fundy will now cut their logs long enough to make lumber to suit the New York market, which requires Ion are r stock than goes to England. And in doing so they will be in a posi­ tion to take aivantage of either of the two markets. There will probably be less lumber sent to the British market next year if the American market ofiers inducements to shippers. It is stated that much timber now cut into piling at practically no profit will Jaereafter be converted into scantling for the American market. The American mill owners here, who cut Maine logs, will of course not profit by the change. Their lumber j costs them more than the provincial j article costs, and they will have no j cor esponding advantage in the market. --St. John Correspondent of the Morth- weste n Lumberman. Want Onr Wide Markets. We may now hope to see some re­ vival in a number of the British in­ dustries which sutTered most.under the Mcivinley ban. It is pointed out that on certain classes of woolen dress goods imported to the value of $18,000,OX) last year the duties were $1^,259,000, but will now be rather less than half that sum. It may follow that the United States will continue to buy suoh goods to the extent of $*',000,000 a year, in which case the value of the stuff imported would be $24,000,000, and the duties only $12,000,000. Thus, on this one class of goods a much wider market should be opened to our manu­ facturers.--London Financial News. The Plar*lltie« that Talk. Maine s 38,000 Republican plurality for Governor, her pluralities for Re­ publican Congressmen, ranging from 8,"00 to 10,000, exceed anything ever known in the history of the - - ^ . „ , . , in the history of the State. wealth meanspermanentdestructionof i There is a direct relation between such cne of the main resources of the agri- ( pluralities and the ignorance, incom- Pl'iln Truth*. THE Treasury deficit for October promises to bj about $ >,000,000. Gold is going abroad and there is talk of another bond issue.' THE prices of hogs have fallen $1 per 100 pounds since the reciprocity treat­ ies were abrogated. The farmer loses .iust that much on one item of his pro­ duction alone. THE free trade papers which exult because a^dollar will buy as much of the necessaries of life as $1.10 or $1.25 would two years a {o fail to mention that it will buy twice as much labor as it would then. DEMOCRATIC papers assert that dollar under the Gorman bill will buy of the necessaries of life about as much as $1.10 or .>1.2r> under the McKinley tariff. But what is puzzling thousands of American working people is where to eret the dollar. SEPTEMBER' may be recokoned as an unfavorable month for comparison, as it was the first under new duties, but in dry goods alone the imports and withdrawals from warehouses in four weeks of September were $13,401,416 this year, against $7,t>0^,879 in 1893 IN the first two weeks in October the imports at New York, excluding sugar, increased 46 per cent, over last year, while the exports decreased 10 per cent. This is precisely what was predicted of the new law. That means gold exports, and already they are in sight. POPULISM comes high in Colorado, where the rule of Gov. Waite has had the effect to oonsume not less than $3o0,000,000 of values in the State. This is the testimony of the Denver Business Men's League composed of 5,00 ) business men, partly Hepublicans, partly Democrats, and partly recent Populists. THERE is tree silver coinage in Mex­ ico, and as a natural consequence the purchasing power of a silver dollar there is less than that of an American silver dollar in the United States. Neither nas froe silver coinage nor the silver stan lard brought any great wave of prosperity to Mexico. THIS Democratic administration starts with a deficit of $74,000,000 the first year and the construction of a tariff which, even with the help of stamp duties and an income tax Which they have revived, will not pay the ap propriations they make. As *a finan­ cial failure the poll :y of the Demo­ cratic party may be depended upon. Chinese Farmers. The farmers of Chiua do not live upon iheir farms, writes Frank G. Carpenter. They have squalid houses bunched up together with fences ol mud about them, and there are no signs of comfort anywhere. The houses areof sun-dried brick plastered with mud and roofed with long rows of reeds, which are tied in bundles and laid side by side on the rafters and then plastered with mud. These roofs roach about a foct beyond the walls of the houses, and you have usually to duck your head if you wish to get under them. The huts of the poorer classes are often not more than fifteen feet square. There are Do windows facing the street, and the only sign of life Is a thin wreath ni blue smoke that curls up out of the mud chimney of the shape of a gal­ lon crock which stands on the roof. It would be very bad taste to look over the lence of a Chinaman's house, but 1 was forced to see Into some of th6 yards as I stood up in my cart when riding by. Dirt and squalor reigued supreme. There was no grass and no flowers. Gayly dressed bovs find girls ran. in and out of tbe gates: They wear clothes of the most horri. ble colors, and the brightest of grceu is the favorite. The little babies have their heads shaved in spots, and the girls and women lather them­ selves with rouge and powder. Thev stick paper t'owers in their hair, and they hobble on their heels, turning their pitiful little feet upward s^nd not touching their toes to the ground. All of the women carry canes, and I eaw many little girls who made their way over the rough roads with their faces full of pain. Their feet seemed to be resting on iive coals. There is no uglier costume in the world than that of these poor peas­ ant women of north China. The ahirt-like gown which falls from the neck to the thighs shows no sign of the bust, and below this ugly wadded drawers of highly colored cotton or silk fall to the ankles, where they are tied on just above the brilliant clad, but horribly deformed, feet. The hair is combed straight back and put up in all sorts of ways. They look by no means clean and, though I am among tbe most susceptible of mon,l have yet to see the ihine.e maiden whom X think I could love. "A Onde-Conceit." We hear much of the Scotchman's thrift, his caution, his perseverance, bis dogged resolution, his faculty for pushing his way in tbe world, and undoubtedly these are strong repre­ sentative constituents in his compo­ sition. But I think it may be as­ serted without fear of challenge that the keystone of his mental structure and disposition |is self-esteem. The Scot's primary form of prayer has been waggishly described as "O Lord, trie us a gude c mceito oorselves," and the answer t J the petition, when put up, is, it must bo confessed, sel­ dom denied. The thing may be hid­ den in reserve, overlaid by shyness, dignified under gravity of demeanor, but all the same it is there, a sort of inward conviction of that superiority in mundane affairs we have just- noted. } ou may soften it down by naming it self-possession or self-contldence. If you will, but draw a Northern Briton sit. \ •- The Cost of a Fencing Outfit. A fencing outfit for women is rathet elaborate and a trifle expensive. There are the foils, $4; tbe mask; , . _ j #150; the buff doeskin gloves, $3; tbe into conversation in any rauk ot life | blaclv sU ;'e shces, $5, and any price DM Allnrementa That Catch tk* 's Be Soldier. It was a recruiting office. A trim. i" looking, white-gloved, blue coat guarded the entrance over which floated the stars and stripes, ains, wondering what formalities were cone through at the door, a New , York Kecoid *aaorter stood near and watched. ' ?:l A seedy-looking man with three aw - •BUT days' growth of whiskers turned and stared at the Bag a moment, thev " started to eater. The representative r»f the army stopped him with theia* quijr?: "Where are you going?** "See'bout'nlistin'." "No, you're not. You don't thitk I'd let a man with a chin like that go in and see the sergeant, do yert He wouldn't know whether to pot yer down in yer papers as bearded or not Do you think this place is * barber shop because there'* stripes om the flag? Make yerself decent and come back." Tbe mau went away and tbe soldier itood and waited until another pre­ sented himself. This man aerostg# t-he sentry rrith the inquiry: •- '•What's it worth to jine':w ("Kin yer read? Yes? Then read that pretty story underneath those Chromos," pointing to the recruitimr placard, with beautiful colored print of the uniformed soldiers ol all ranks. The man read it over and learned of the 9i3 a month promised and the alluring suggestions of rapid promo­ tion, wnen the soldier looked him over and evidently dec ded that.he was a 1 good one.'* Turning, he mat» tered:\ "»id ain't much." •'Thirteen dollars," echoed the ni« •• * / tion's representative, "yes, and f'l5 ' 1" when you've served Ave years, and feed and yer lodging thrown in. And ^ *'7 then what's to hinder yer bein' a ter- > rU geant soon, and then you've tlU; and M you can get to be Captain if you go « abput it right: go right up and see ^ the sergeant" And he pu hed bim through the door and turned to re* new his business of wiunowing wheat from chaff. * Dining on Tablets. Wonderful things are going to he i • done by the development ot synthetic * chemistry between now and the year 52,000, ifPror. Berthelot, the French savant is to be believed. The food and drink-producing animals and ; . vegetables will not then be encour­ aged to exist for human life, but food and drink will be manufactured di« rect and to order by man bim-elf, and served in highly concentrated tablets, vest pocket size A person may then carry about him two or three table d'hote dinners complete from Blue Point oysters or Little Neck clams to crackers, cheese, and coffee, and tobacco, and with all hit wine and cognac included. This change will be brought about, it it said, by tbe remarkable progrese b ing made In compounding food and drink from their constituent ele­ ments, carbon, hydrogen, and nitro­ gen. It has advanced so far already that the preparation of beefsteak •, *'*1? from it? elements is assured, and ^ nicotine, the essential principle ol tobacco, has been produced from coal tar. Life indeed would not be worth the living should the professor have his way. The leady-made (ablets of foot and drink would be horribly alike to the eye, the taste, and tbe under­ standing; eating and drinking would * be purely mechanical; good fellow. ship and wit. and imagination would depart, aud existence would be ut­ terly material and dull.-- Boston Globe. • 1 1 " • * The Mosquito at Buslnesiu The little insect drops gently and daintly down on to the spot it baa selected for its attack, and the de­ scent of so light and airy a being is likely to leave tbe victim unconscious oi its presence, unless he has actually seen it settle. Then the proboscis ii pointed downward, and the tiny lint that form its tip pressed against the flesh. The bristle* within the gut- * terlike sbeatb being then pressed to- gethe; into one solid boring imple- uient. their common tip is forced down on the flesh, and as they enter the wound, the trough in which thef were lying separates from them in tbe middle, ana becomes bent toward the Insect's breast, the two little Hps all the while holding on tight The greater part of the length ol the stilettos is then plunged into the victim's fle$h, and tbe blood is drawn up the line interstices of tbe cont- posite borer. The wound, though six Instruments are concerned in making it is extremely minute.-* Cur Household Insects. ^ 'Tariff Reform.' cultural States of the West. The Republican party is pledged to ' restore protection to American wool i and to bring back prosperity' to Amer- j ican farms. The farmers of the West- j ern commonwealths can rest assurod i tharfr the fighc for honest protection will go oi^ until American flocks are de­ fended from ruin by effective dutrn^. ^ The came ot Republicanism cause net only of the Eastern wag^t earner, employed in the great indus­ tries of the large manufacturing States, as the Democrats would have petency and un-American policy of the present Democratic administration. CiOO'l fop All of U*. In 18tV\ after fourteen years of free trade, there were ]/iI2,oOO w rkmen emploved in our manufacturing in­ dustries. In lS.o they had increased to i', 05-1,000, a gain of 74,OOja y ar. In 18:0 tney numbered ?,740,000, or an increase of 5 ',000 a year. In 1890 there were 4,712,000 hands employed, an in­ crease of 196,000 a year, and in 18D2 there were over c,J00,000 hands at below the gentle, and the strength of the sentiment will soon make itself apparent The history of his coun­ try, his sanguinary and patriotic struggle against the hated Southern in days of yore, his extraordinary success in every part of the giobe, the roll of great statesmen, dis­ tinguished viceroys and proconsuls, soldiers, divines, liteiati, merchant princes, be is entitled to boast of--all these are so many bays in tbe gar- land of laurel he is ever ready to en­ twine round tbe national brow, tj minister to his own self-satisfaction. --The Scottish i.eview. Louis Napoleon at Play. At the Tuileriev, Madame received fae-in a salon hung with tapestry. Through a half-open door 1 heard a child's voice; it was that of tbe Prince Imperial, who was playing in thQ next room. Soon we heard the noiso of a saw and a hammer, and as I listened. Mme. Bizot led me quietly to the door of that room. "Look," she said, speak-ing low and opening the door a little wider. Then I saw the Emperor seated on the carpet and making toys for his son.--Some Years of My Life.--Mme. Octave Feuillet. S:ng a song of tariff, A bottle full of rye. Four hundred odd amendments Baked in a pie. ; When tbe pie was opened The birds began to sing. Singing for Protection From tbe Free-Trade King. Hereafter. One American tribe believed that at death the soul had to pass over to the other world on floats made of cob­ webs. On this account the spider was held in higti veneration, it being accounted a Highly dangerous act to kill or injure one. WHAT a lot of things from each other. people bide one cares to expend for tbe dress it* | self, which may be of flanuel, cloth, i or silk. Armed cap-a-pie, tbe mod* | ern girl is ready to par y, thrust* I feint dodge, take raps and give i them, drive her foe to cover, or g.ace- I fully succumb 10 her own defeat un­ til with a tierce stamp of the foot and a salute w th tbe foil the en­ gagement is over. This is immense. Jy irocd disc pline for women to learn to take defeat good humoredly, and to engage in any sort of contest with­ out carrying either a grudge or too evident sense of triumph away. To locx arms With an adversary after a defeat in argument and to walk away together in friendliness is training for which fencing lessons, or any other bouts of skill, aire of great use­ fulness. . Nicely of Touob. 3^ It is a common opinion tbSir chinery works with an exactness and steadiness of movement not to be ac­ quired by a laborer's hand. This ie not really true The workman can suit his stroke to the needs of the case a? no machine can do, and tide is proved in the trimming of rooflnc* slates. The splitting process is per- t formed with great nicety by means of chisels but the shaping is more re­ markable, and cannot be properly executed by any who have not bee* : trained to it from youth. The work­ man sits on a stool with a pad on on* knee and a led ire by b s side lie lays the slate on the p; d on his knee^ and allowing the part to be cut res)KY on tbe ledge, strikes it with a heavjp knife, and separates it instautane! tusly with the greatest aocuraqp* ^ vim