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BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLINOIS NEWS. r On® Neighbor Kttla Another--Iln at Boektord-Oreatljaeaes Became of Hog Cholera--Cenfcrlt, the Kaaeootafc SCar- Ucrur, to Hanx Nov. 30. '|Ml Eodlnt of Old Gradre. lohb Van Valkenburg was shot and instantly killed at Burand by Herman Theil, a well-known young man. They had bad a grudge against each other for year*, and Van valkenbur* came Into the restaurant intoxicated and be- «aa calling Theil vile names. There was a BCU RE and Theil pulled a gun, which exploded, killing Van V al ken- feu rg instantly. Theil was taken to fiockford earlv Saturday morning and place 1 in the county jail. He says the •hooting wa^ done in self-defense. The •flair created much excitement, as both parties are well known. Wmrehome and 200 Car* BWMA Sunday night fire start3d in the freight waiehou-e, .50 feet long, of trie Bridge and Terminal Railway in East St. Louis. The fire spread ta the mass of freight cars on both sides of the N ctiiU OUtiitiU it/soii OUt) iUil frant of material. The warehouse Was filled with hay, cotton and grain. The fire department from St. Louis found no water, as there is not a plug within a fourth ot a mile of the scene. Over 20 J loaded and empty cars were burned. From the tim j the alarm was sounded freight engines and crews •irere busy hauling card into safety. This alone prevented a much heavier loss. The loss will reach $50 i,000. The freight in the warehouse was mostly consigned to the Jacksonville and Southeastern Railway. The cause Of the fire is unknown. Hoc* Dying byThoaaindA. During the summer and fall large droves of hogi weie shipped into Cen­ tral Illinois and sold to the farmers and stock raisers. The scheme of feeding cheap grain ti hogs promised big returns until cholera appeared and during the last week or two thou­ sands of bead have died. The di-ease has, however, not been confined to the imported swine, but has been commu­ nicated to stock hogs throughout the oountry. and farmers unjf)stockmen are experiencing heavy losses. Many formers think the disease is not the Old-fashioned hog cholera, but some Other dise ise, which no one appears to know anything about. Half Century of Vrnfnlnew. • Th« religious circles of Jacksonville Were enlivened Sunday by the exer­ cises at the Christian Church, which iyas fifty years old. The first pastor, Elder D. P. Henderson, gave a his­ torical sketch of the early days of the Church, depicting its trials and vicissi­ tudes. His a idress was heard by an immense congregation, which occu­ pied all the available space in the large edifice. Rev. S. B. Moore, the present pastor, spoke in the evening on the present condition and work of the society. A memorial service also held. Autumnal Delight*. Punkin pie* is glttln' ripe. Mlfice meat's bein' stored; , Cider's glttln' kinder bard. V Hum meat's glttln' knored. Folks is shuckin' oat the* corn,. Taters mostly done; ,. Haulla' apples to the house-- ;• ( Apple butter's fan. ; Green things glttln' mighty skiing ' Purty nigh all sold; Time fer hugtcin' stoves an' gala. Nights is glttln' cold. George Centrll Sentenced to Hang. In the gt Clair Circuit Court George -Centril, arraigned for the murder of Fred Kahn Aug. T, was sentenced to •be hanged Nov. 30. Centril expected a life sentence, and was dumfounded when the death sentence was imposed. Ti e crime was an atrocious one, and the wife of the murdered man assisted in the bloody work. She is now in "delicate health, and will stand trial lor lifer life some months later. ' ^ - r Bockford Firm Bnrned Onfe The wholesale grocery house of F. yG. Shoudy & Co., at riockford, was gutted by fire Sunday. A heavy stock fcad just been put into the building, including a car loai of matches, and the supposition is that mice chewing On the matches was what started the blaze. The loss on the building is About $ i,000, with n) insurance. The loss on the stock is |AO,OJO, with .insurance of $25,000. Record of the Week. . : THE postoffice safe at Lebanon was .blown open by burglars and 18(H) in money, with an indefinite amount in Stamps, etc., secured. A YOUNG married lady of Vandalia, ' Jtfrs. Fred Morton, took morphine with suicidal in ent. The timely aid of a physician saved her. UNCLE JIMMY KEARNEY died at De­ catur, aged 70 years, as the result of injuries received by being knocked down by an electric oar. MAYOR MOFFITT, of Decatur pro­ poses rigidly to enforce the ordinance against boys being on the streets after 8 o'clock at night. ROCK ISLAND 'sassiety" unanimous- . |v pronounces the wedding.of Amy Sweeney to Fred Standish Kenfield, of Chicago, the swellest event of the sea- aon. * FRANK TREVITT, of Towanda, tied a rope aroand his neck and, fastening the otherend to abed post, jumped out Of the window. He was 40 years of age •nd a farm hand. , WAT. F. MOORE was sentenced at Jol­ iet to the penitentiary for eleven years ; Sir forgery. He iorged eleven oupli- <0ate notes and sold them to banks in , Wilmington and .loliet, and be ore they became due he fled. He returned •jitter two years and was captured. THOMAS LAWSON, a farmer, of Tis- kiiwa, wa3 instantly killed by the col­ lapse of a bridge over which he was driving. A LARGELY signed petition asks for the pardon of Gustave Menkhausen, the St. Clair County wife murderer; •nother, equally large, opposes it. Miss MYRTLE K IHKPATRICK, the „ jjrbana young woman who created ' euch a sensation by concluding not to niarry the young man of her choice . after all arrangements had been made for the wedding, changed her mind ;a?ain, and was married to the young than, William Woolver. PATRICK J. MURPHY, a young man Of Joliet, was struck by a Chicago and .Alton train near Lemont, and his re­ covery is impossible. GRAND CHANCELLOR J. A. MCLLEK, It. of P., of Illinois, was banqueted by lodges No. 173, 425. and Division No. 41, Uniformed rank, at Cairo, upon hi' re­ turn from the meeting of the Grand Itrdge in Springfield. ABOUT a mile ea^of Berlin a well- dressed young man. apparently 20 years »ld, was found near the ra lroad track lift a dying condition with a bullet in llis head and a revolver by hi < side. A •ard in his pocket read: "i am Harvev Young, of Kinde htok, Pike Countv, is toalr U koowa oj tou. Ir% , ^ " cr ~ "IS v.vsWW Ne# for $75,0M. GxoBGE F8A NCISCO, wanted at Quin- cv for embezzlement, was taken to that place from Windsor, Ont. Mm DOLLIS JUMP and Ciirly Hod- son, both married, eloped from their homes near Virginia. Both leave chil­ dren behind. CHICAGO commission men have o&ueed the arrost ai Watorville, is an., of William J. I:arnes, who swindled them out of $1,000. GEORGE BURNS, who had lived in Bloomington nearly forty years, died, aged 70. He was a native of County Wicklow, Ireland. MRS. NANCY HANKS, of Wabash Township. Clark County, died, aged ;0 years. She hid lived in the county continuously since 1885. GEORGE 3. ROBINSON died at Syca­ more at the age of 70. For three years he was president of the board of education. He leaves a widow. M. MAHLER'S shoe 6tore Elgin was closed on a,n execution in lav or of telix Rothschild, of (Chicago, for •1,000. Assets, W,C03; liabilities,$5,0J0. WHILE Leonard Poland was loading a rifle at his home near Clarion, a cart­ ridge exploded and struck his lw-$ear- old sister in the forehead, killing her instantly. CGI.TTl4ji.ii jt iiO i'tiueil6 iMWti dispttbCU- es, John McGrath, the notorious Chi­ cago footpad, has not been pardoned. He is serving a twenty-five-year sen­ tence at Joliet. ALOIS STEINHAUSER, of Portland avenue, Chicago, was struck and killed by a train on the outskirts of Washing- t n, D. C. He had been a Sergeant of the Twenty-first infantry. THE Illinois Auditor of Public Ac­ counts has issued a permit to W. S. Phillips and Wm. M. Gregg to organ­ ize the Gallatin County Bank atRidg- way with a capital o *2",000. WM. STEADMAN escaped from the Joliet penitentiary. He is 5 feet 10* inches in height, of dark complexion, with dark hair and stubby beard. A rewrd of $50 is offered lor his capture. THE verdict of SCO') against City Marshal Millard Hedrick and Banker R. H. Smith for the killing of William Faton at Marshall has resulted in a motion by the defendants for a new tri'aL LOUIS COLLIER, proprietor of the Hindsboro livery stable, had his skull crushed by a heavy bar of iron in the hands of A. B. Kansinsr, a young farm hand. Collier is in a dying condition. Hansing has fled, but is being pursued by officers. BY a decision of Judge Vail Marshall has no city ordinance and no protec­ tion against the violators of the law except the State law. It will be some time before new ordinances can be adopted and published, and meantime the city administration will be a dead letter. A SMOOTH-TONGUED stranger giving the name of Edward Welger and repre • senting himself to be a St. Louis com­ mission merchant passed a worthless draft for $.30 on Judge Henry J. Decker, a wealthy and prominent citizen at Mascoutah, and disappeared with the money. THE Winnebago County Bible So­ ciety held its fiftieth annual meeting in Rockford, electing- T. B. Robertson President, C. L. Williams Secretary, and H. F. Penfield Treasurer. The re- cei ts of the society during the past year were $928, and during the last fifty years $48,545. HENRY GOSSETT died at Decatur, aged 54. He was one of the crew of the Monitor when that ship attacked the Merrimae. In one of the subse­ quent lights Mr Gossett's sight was all out destroyed py. the explosion of a shell. He lived in Lecatur since the war. and when able worked at the car­ penter's trade. AT Rock ford, in a justice court, Thomas Ryan sued Edward Collins and wife, of Durand, for $68 for clothing purchased of him last spring. The clothing was never removed from the package and the defense set up that Rj an's agent used hypnotic influence to induce Mrs. Collins to purchase. The defense won the case. ENTRIES for the coming fat s tock and horse show to ba held in Chicago in November and December are leijg received at the offii 9 of Secretary Gar­ rard at the agriculture depa' tment at Springfield daily, the most important recently being that of Col. Cassatt, vice president of the Pennsylva^i 1 Railroad, who will enter his celebrate ! stable of hackneys, the same that se­ cured first prize at the horse show in New York. The Ijams stables of Ne­ braska are also entered. The show promi-es to be the most sucoessful one ever held in the west AT Freeport, Sunday night, Tom Beverly and Otto Herbig made an un­ provoked attack on August Altemeier, aged 25, beating him with stones. Altemeier died lat >r from his injuries, and his assailants are in the county ail charged with murder. Both have been in many scrapes before, and are tough citizens. Talk of lynching was frequent, and a mob of .,0l» actually gathered for that purpose. But the Sheriff had provided ample guards at the jail, and, as the mob had no leader, no serious demonstrations were made! Altemeier was the son of a promi­ nent cit.zen, and leaves a wife and child. THE first w man ever naturalised in Sangamon County is Mrs. Alice Tuds- bury, widow, a native of England, who was given her first citi enship papers Wednesda . The husband of Mrs. Tudsb rv died shortly after securing his first papers. Under the law the widow was entitled to the fe rnd or final papars and they were duly issued. Mrs. Tudsbury at one3 went to the second voting pre inct in the Thi d Ward and registered. The fir t Japanese to receive naturalisation Sapers in Sangamon County is Henrv lid-una, who was granted his final papers just in time for him to be registered as a voter. ARTHUR DENNY finished a two-year term in the Joliet penitentiary Wednes­ day and at noon he was on his Way to Ralls County, Missouri. He is wanted in Missouri in several counties for high­ way robbery. THE Supreme Court declared the amendment to the building and loan association law adopted by the Legis­ lature in 18 »1, by which societies and associations coming under this head were exempted from taxation, who ly unconstitutional and leave j the socie­ ties in the same relative position as any other corporation doing business in Illinois MADE desperate by los es, Frank Jones, of Chicago. Snatched a handful of money from a book-maker at Haw- th irne and kept the crowd at bay with a rav.or until knocked down frcm be­ hind. THE disappearance of Horace Clark, the 7-year-oli son of Charles D. Clark, of Peoria, remains a mystery. The lad wandered from his home Saturday. Hundreds of people have been search­ ing the country for miles around ever since. His parents are now inclined to believe that he has been stolen, as a band of gypsies left suddenly Saturday. Mr. Clark has offered a reward of and Mayor Miles offered a reward of " " - - v - _ v - <OW HE IS PROTECTED BY F DEMOCRATIC TARIFF. Owtnutm Pover ot Cite Gamma-WUson Law M Regards It* Effect (Jpoa North­ ern Agricultural Interests-Bloltfi 8 ml tlx 'Still Forsfilikg Ufiittii amoant of money deposited by $i,ti35.- 873,453, tbe avenure amount of money due to each depositor bv 9154.42, while the average amount of deposits has in­ creased by ^21.8-i per capita of our population. There could be np surer proof of the progress of the country and the prosperity of the people un­ der protection than the facta hers gleaned from the records of theWr­ ings,banks. _ L*1m» DM the Beet. The claim that the protective policy robs labor for the benefit of capital is shown to be false by results. Under protection labor has steadily gained on Taaao taHffblli. available freight j car oit the Union P*olfiebai been put , into service, bringing the sheep from {idatho, Washiagftmp, M 4itanaand Wyo­ ming to the paoraitg houses at Omaha, *ndl the Unioq Fftfcific was compe lei to borrow cars the Kocthwestern, sending them to IdahoT to fill with sheep. Wtlt Bear Stndjr- ^ Reference has been made to the fact that the new or Gorman-Wilson tariff law reduces the duties on all important j capital hi"thTdivi^ionT^ their "united « nfrt "I . ' ^Us i earnings. In 1863 labor received *44.50 sevete blow to American farmers. 1 - - 0 The Troy Times hascai efull v compiled the following tab'e showing the duties under the old or McKinley act and those how imposed by the new or Gor­ man law. The items are from the oticial copies of the two laws and are absolutely correct in each case: MoKJaley Uw. Gorman law. Houses worth SO per ct $30 per head I16U or more.. Moles Cattle more than l year old Cattle 1 year old and less. Hogs Sheep more than 1 year old Sheep 1 year old and less....... iMtde) Barley malt.... Barley, pearled. Buckwheat. Com or tnalzjfe. Corn m«al.i'Z. Oats.... Oat meal........ Rye .^».; Rye flour.. . Wheat Wheat floor.... Batter Cheeae.,. Milk .........^ Egra Beans Hay Hops Onions Peas, green*,#.. Peas, ariedi.... Peas, split Potatoes Castor beau... Flaxseed, ate... Garden and ag- ricult'l seeds. Vegetables, n. P Straw Apples,green or ripe Apples. etc Honey Grapes. ..... Plums WalnntB, not shelled Walnuts, shel'd Beef, mutton and pork Lard Poultry, live... Poultry, dres'd Tobacco, leaf.. Tobacco st em'd Tobacco tillers, nnstemmed.. Tobacco fillers, stemmed Wool, tir.-it. class Wool, see. class Wool, third el's tlo per bead |9 per head $l.&o per head |1.50 per head V e per head iX)t' OUl* 45o per hus 2c per lb 15c Per bus 15c per bus 20c per bus ? ISo per bus ; lc per lb 10c per bus Ho per lb 2Sc per bus 36 per ct fie per lb 6c per lb 80 per sal So per doz 4 « per bns H per ton 15c per lb <0c per bns too per bus 20c per bus 60c per bus 25c per bus 50c per bus aoe per bos SO per ct M per ot 3D per ot 2Beper bos ?o per lb 30o per gal 60c per bbl So per lb SOper lb Gorper lb ?0 per lb ao per lb 9c per lb to per lb $2 per IV ta.75 per lb 60c per lb Sperot per ct ... X'jm per ct V':'# perot wperct V » per ct SO perot W t>«' «• 40 per ot 30 per ct SO per ct SO per ct SQ per ct W per ct lf> per ct • St per ct SD per ct 90 per ct 9) per ct 40 per lb 4c per lb 9c per lb So per doz . SO per ct $3 per ton 8c per lb 90c per bus 90o per bus Not specified f.Oc per bus 16c per bus 28c per bus SSo per boa perot Sperot perot : p) per ct 90 per ct 10c per nal ~ 91) per ct Ifee per lb per lb Ifc per lb 90 per ct le per lb M per lb So per lb $1.50 per lb S3.S) per lb COc per lb GOoperlb SCO per lb llo per lb Free 120 per lb Free per ct Free The most superficial examination of this table will prove the destructive power of the new ta iff as regards its effect upo;i Northern agricultural in­ terests. It includes the principal prod­ ucts of the entire Northwest. The Canadian agriculturists are near neigh­ bors to the Northwestern tillers of the soil, and in direct competition with them. The Canadians have the ad­ vantage of low-priced land and labor, and the ample and cheap rail and water communication gives them as ready access to tne markets on this side of the border as that en'oyed by the Americans. If they can p oduce their staples at less cost than their American competitors and have e^ual facilities for transpor­ tation, it is obvious that without a duty sufficient to counteract the differ­ ence the Americans must give up the home field to their foreign rivals. And a long step has been taken in that direction by the adoption of the new Democratic tariff. Proof of this is afforded by a simple table, taken from a Milwaukee paj er, comparing the prices in Wisconsin and in Canada. The figures below may be relief on, ps they are taken from the latest report of the Milwaukee market, and in most ca-es repre-ent actual transactions. The figures given are the highest and the lowest rate in each instance, and the quotations are as nearly as possible those of grade for grade: Amerloan prices. Buckwheat, bu...( .65 & .68 Barley, bu 52 (3) .63 Barley malt. bo... .62 & .64 ("lUiO 1 RffUBLIC n Kay. ton .10.00 Oats, bo........... .HI Rye, bu .48 Batter, lb......^.. .18 Means, bu l.To Eggs, doz 17 Potatoes, bo 64 (<a 82 .49 ® .9S 1.80 & .18 (3» .bo Canadian prices. $ & .44 .44 (4 .48)6 .60 & .63 8.00 ('« 9.00 ; .25 & .80 & .46 .11 & .90 1.40 «* 1.60 .14^(3 .16 .60 .o2,S? The above table gives only a few of the many articles produced alike by American and Canadian farmers, but they terve to clearly establish the fact that with the duty largely reduced Canadian products almost without an exception can be sold here at figures defying Successful competition by our farmers. The duty is lowered from one-third to one-half--from 3;is to 5) per cent.--on theso and other articles in the agricultural schedule, while wool is made absolutely free. The farmer is to have no cha :ee to meet the cheap wool producers of Europe, Asia, Australia and South America, and cannot even sell bis mutton to a good murket, for the Gorman law cuts down the duty on beef, mutton and j pork, as well as on poultry. These figures will bear study. The farmer should ponder them well, and cipher out just how the Democratic Congress has protected him. and in ISU0 $51.50 oul of each hund<ed dollars' worth of not products, while capital had $55.50 in lv« 0 and $45.50 in 1--90. Labor advanced from $289 to $*S5. or 70 per cent., while capital went from $3t>l to $408, an advance of only 40 per cent. This shows a differ­ ence in favor of labor of 30 per cent. About It* Sine. Since the Atlanta Constitution be­ gan to make fun of Sec etary Hoke Smith's talk about Georgia politics and to hold the administration responsible WHAT NEXT? Shew *erk ta ll&vo m ' Balldtn?! The lofty buildings now in existence in our cities are as infants to grown men, as compared with the edifices in contemplation, says Damorest's Maga­ zine. Among other massive fabrics, a New York news; aper company has be­ gun the erection of an office building, which is to contain forty stories, and is to rise to the height of 400 feet. Swift and powerful pneumatic ele­ vators are to furnish access to the many floors. Each elevator is sup­ posed from its construction to be abso­ lutely safe; its fall, were sucb an event possible, being rendered harmless by air cushions at the bottom. A build­ ing of such a height manifestly could not rest upon regularly construc ed walls of masonry. Therefore the archi­ tects have devised a system of inter- .TAKES THE EAKTH. \ i f i . ALL ABOUT PENS. for the recent "Democratic slump in that State, he has procured the ex­ clusion of the paper from the mails on the pretext that it violated the lottery law by oflering prizes to subscribers and trying to increase its circulation by what is called the "c ub method." As this c>uld not le dona without the co-operati m of the po-tmaster general it looks like an administration pro­ ceeding. It is about thd size, of the administration. Tariff Reform. 7 RiCE. 'Melican man he soon Chinaman. ailee E«mee Importers Advertise. The following notices, taken from advertisements of im orters of foreign goods, are given a national applica­ tion: O wing to reductions in the tariff, we offer greater bxrxains than ever. Owing to the reductions in the tariff, Maine and Connecticut roll up unprece­ dented majorities for the party of wo- tection. " -R Our prices are lowered with the Democratic chances for carrying any State where industry formerly thrived are also considerably lowered with the tariff. Oreat redactions on accou»t ot n»<# tar: ff bill Yes, great reductions in work and in opportunities of employment; great reductions in wages and in ability to buy the cheap things so industriously advertised. Oreat resumption ot industry. Oar store Is crowded dally. I Our industries are not helped when 1 the importer's store is crowded. It is the whirr and rattle of the loom an f the spindle and the hum of productive ; machinery that helps our industries, j Activity in the importer's shop means ! activity pf industry in Europe, net in America. S . Growth of Savings Banks, f:- Can you give tne in detail the growth of oor savings banks from 18G0 to the present time, including the number ot depositors and the average amoant deposited? C K C%>ABK. Hannibal. Ma During the thirty-three years of Erotection, from 186U to 1893, the num-er of savings banks in the United bolting of the interior fabrio so that the whole framewoi k is entirely inde­ pendent of the outer walls, the mass of the Hoorsand supporting columns rest­ ing upon deep sunk bases in the cellar. Thus the outer walls bear, only their own weight, and even in case "of fire, could fire attack ,eo impregnable a mass of steel and iron, the outer skin would in nt> way suffer should the in­ ner portions of "the edifice fce entirely destroyed. On the other hand, should the walls fall, the interior--the or­ ganic portion of the fabric--would still ^remain intact, excepting such portions as might have been attached to the jouter walls. We scarcely consider what forty floors mean. We have 'heard cf the cross on the dome of St. 1 eter's, and the top of the pyramid of Cheops; but we have always looked upon such points of altitude as some­ thing just within "the limit of falle. Now that we are to have actual build­ ings to whose fortieth floor we are to be borne by an elevator, we can only pity the Arab guide who "dashes down Graph renes and up Cheops, for a sin­ gle piaster." Discouraging. It is said that Voltaire while a young man, eager for instruction, wai per- petuall; asking questions. Despreaux on one occasion, with impatience and considerable harshness, reproved him for indulging in this propensity. ...... .. , Voltaire never forgot the reproof, now attempting to induce the an(j profits by it to 6uch an extent jrs of the United States to that a< years went on ho not only gave up his habit of putting questions, but became more and more averse to an­ swering such as were put to him. In time he came to rb:e abruptly and leave the company of a persistent ques­ tioner, without the faintest suggestion of an apology. He is said to have greeted an inhab­ itant of Geneva, who had furnished him with the idea and model of the in­ terrogating bailiff in the "Droit du Seigneur," with the remark: "Sir, I am very well please to see you; but I wish t.> inform y- u before­ hand that I know nothing about what ^ou are going to ask, whatever it may First Prove Them Frauds. ' "Punish the pension frauds," shouts the Detroit !• ree l-ress. Certainly, but prove pensioners to be frauds ba fore the punishment is inflicted. How Many? How many postmasters in this State have been enrolled in the Hoke Smith corps of footpads to sandbag the un< suspecting old pensioner." Everything Going. The D ices of farm products have been gradually dropping out of sigh The gormandizers have gobbled them up- • 'Tariff Reform.- ftwraln); Union Hoke Smith, the rebel Colonel's son, in charge of the National Pension Bu­ reau, is * postmasters become spie3 upon the acts of the dis­ abled Union veterans, with a view to prevent Republican applicants for pensions from taking active interest in politics! There seems to be no end to the methods of his malignant hatred of heroic loyalty. Recently a letter was f-ent to the postmasters of Ohio, and probably to other States, which tne Commissioner of Pensions has since denied, but the Cincinnati Com­ mercial Gazette has received a copy of the letter, sent 10 a postmaster who is not a Democrat, ana has published a fac simile thereof that is now creating great excitement. Here is a copy of the letter: OFFICE OF COMMIBBIONEB, 1 DEPAKTMENT OF THE INTEHIOB, 1 BUREAU OF PENSIONS, f WASHINGTON', 1). C., June fi, ISJ*. J Postmaster, . Ohio: DEAR SIR--Communications in respect to pensions will be held as confidential if re­ quested, or It the nature of the, communica­ tion Is such thsit it ought to be so held. Very truly yonrs, WM. LOCHBEN. Commissioner. The letter was written upon the official letter-head of the commissioner of pensions, was inclosed in an official envelope and was mailed in Washing­ ton, D. C. The face side of the en­ velope has the "Penalty for private use $300" printed thereon, and it was _£ent through the mails without post­ age having been paid thereon! All these facts prove that the pension commissioner's denial of the letter having been sent out is a falsehood. The Commercial-Gazette rigrhtly con­ cludes that if the commissioner has thus prostituted the postoffice depart­ ment it is more than likely that he has invade i all other departments of the government, and constituted all gov­ ernment officials spies upon the disabled veterans! Let every comrade read that letter and c nsider its statement that, "Communications in lespjct to pensi ns will be held as confidential," and he will have all necessary proof of the undying hatred and unending hos­ tility of Hoke Smith to and toward all Union veterans.--Des Moines Register. Onqdlan Milk Coming. It is true that we did not import much fresh milk from Canada under the McKinley tariff, but the protec­ tion of 5 cents per gallon to our farm­ ers prevented the foreign farmers from supplying some of our markets. The free-trade tariff now admits for­ eign milk free of duty, and all along the Canadian border we may look for more or le-s Canadian milk coming into the United States. Every quart of thi3 foreign milk will take the place of a quart of American milk. Those American farmers who live nearest to Canada wi|l be deprived of a part of their market and, must sell their milk further South in competi­ tion with other American farmers. This will tend to cheapen the price of milk to the farmers, and they all know that they get preciously little for their milk as it is. Stamped" Among Sheep. News from Nebraska is t@ the effect that there is a stampede among sheep owners to rush all their sheep to mar­ ket because they cannot raise wool ••4',' v"y- States BAA ,7*2. t^de clause of th^Gor- "It will certainly lighten man^Ta?* iff burdens that now rest heavi y upon the --President C eveland. When Shall We Three Meet. A?atn? #**» ^ol Made t* fierfwttoa Cattl Sljarp-pointed bodkins, made of bronze, of steel, or of Iron, were the first pens, and they were used for cutting out letters and hieroglyphics in the limestone, sandstone or stea­ tite of Eastern countries. Such pens were also used for Syrian tablets. made of soft clay, and after receiv­ ing inscriptions were dried in the sun or baked in the Are, In the far East and in Egypt the earners hair pencil soon took the place of the metal bodkin. With the pencil letters were painted on the skins of animals and the back of trees, in much the same manner that the Chinese draw them on paper at the present day. In Persia, Greece, and Syria, wax and leaden tablets came into use, and the stylus became their popular pen. The stylus was made of bone, ivory or metal, wit.b one end pointed and the other flattened. The flattened end was uset) to erase errors made in writing.. The use of parchment and papyrus, however called for a nr re flexible VlAn t.hon oithor tKa Kf»H1rin nv* 4h* stylus, so reed pens were indented. F0? making these pens a peculiar kind of reed was used, which was shaped to a point, and split, similar to the pens now in use. In A. D. 553 it was discovered that quills made much better pens than reeds. The quills of the goose, the swan, and the crow were used princi­ pally. Several centuries later, when writing paper was introduced into England, the auill was still the fa­ vorite writing instrument. However, the quill pens had been greatly lm- Eroved, and those from Russia and lolland were excellent* in the earl f part of the present century there was a demand for some­ thing better and more durable than quill pens. Accordingly a great many experiments were made with horn, glass, tortoise shell and finally with steel, silver and gold. It was soon found that pens made of horn and tortoise shell soften under the action of the ink and were not so good as quill pens. Nor were the silver pens very good. They were too elastic and too easily worn at the points. In l ^03 steel was tried in Wise's ••barrel" pens, but being poorly made aud very expensive, they were not a success. At Birmingham, England, 1q 1820, the manufacture of steel pens began in earnest,and they proved to be excellent. The first gross of steel pens sold In Birmingham brought $30 at wholesale. They were soon manufactured in great numbers, and have oeen get­ ting better and cheaper all the time, until now we can buy for a trifle the best steel pen made. Europe has al­ ways excelled in the manufacture of steel pens, and America is noted for the manufacture of gold pens.--Phil­ adelphia Times. BUTTED EACH OTHER*}/.*. cabl» and Iwafeafcin' ail tfe« < out from *t#een ttw bark- arter that and I'll 1 returned that evening and be cheerfully gave me all desired infor­ mation, and when 1 rode away be called after me: "Mighty sorry to her pat j& to 8Q much trouble, bat we've got to foilep Cnstnpv yo* kP'OW WhS!l Ts&ff3 JS-Cli!!!- writing nn As-1 |a» when the chill goes u" aud The tablets were | the fever comes on, then we drap all formalities and try to act naterai (r everbody. "-*Free Press, Bow Two' Negroes In Slavery Dajri' VtM to Settle a Trifling Dispute* "One of the most novel conflicts 1 ever saw between two be ligerents of the human race," said Milo Stafford, of New Orleans, to a writer for the St. 4 Louis Globe-Democrat, ' took place between two negroes on my plantation a few years before the war. A dispute had arisen between them over the possession of an old pair of trousers, and they were just on the point of beginning hostilities when I arrived at a point where I could take in the scene without being observed by them. 1 suppose most people will call it brutal, but I determined to let them go ahead and pound one an­ other for}a while, thinking the mat­ ter might just, as well be settled be­ tween them then and* there, as I knew if I interfered they would have it out at some future time. 1 was not prepared, however, for the moje of warfare they selected. Immedi­ ately they clasped their arras around each other and began butting their heads together like a pair of sheep. That they were in dead earnest was evinced by the terrible force of the blows, which sounded as loud as a well-executed clap of the hands. There was no attempt at boxing, only butting, and so effectually was it per­ formed that in a very short time the beads cf both antagonists were cov­ ered with blood. After continuing the fight for about five minutes b.tb broke away and sat down to rest and recover their breath preparatory to renewing the encounter, as neither siirnifled his willingness to give up. Thinking that the affair had gone far enough I stepped from where I had been concealed and demanded that they patch up their differences in a more 1 eaceable way, and warned them that if any renewal of hostili­ ties occurred they would be sum­ marily dealt with. This warning had the desired effect au l half an hour later I saw them working side by side, chatting with each other c rdially, as if their tecent fight had noplace even in their memories." A Famons Carpenter. Hot many people knew that If. Carnot, the late President of the' Freiich Republic, was a carpenter by trade. It is true that he did not, in his mature years, practise the trade ot a carpenter, but in his youth he had been taught that handicraft,and no doubt might have exercised it if it had been necessary. The family of Sadi Gamut's mother came from the little town of Chabanais, in the Charente, a department of Western France. Though they were people of means, they believed in Jean Jacques Rous* seau's doctrine that every child should be taught a handicraft, in or- riar that -in V. may make his way in the world, not be a burden upon anyone. In pursuance of their mother's be* lief in this principle, younsr Sadi Carnot and his brother were put at work every summer, when they went to Chabanais, to learn the trade of carpentering and joining. It was no mere play, for they were put in the midstof working carpenters and their helpers, on actual "jobs," and had to do their share of the work. Madame Carnot not only insisted upon this, but gave the boys no pre­ ference over the other workers, while they were with them, in the matter of food. They had to eat at the same table and partake of the same piain fare. ) In this way both boys became aft last practical carpenters. At the same time they learned to enter into the feelings of the laboring people, and to appreciate their situation; and there is excellent reason to believe that the liberal opinions of the late President rested in large part on his practical acquaintance with the working people. It is worth noting that these work-, ing vacations of young Sadi Carnot were a most agreeable time to him. lie remembered the days spent at Chabanais with feelings of delight, and always went there for rest when occasion offered. His mother, who is still living, looked forward with great pleasure to the expiration of her son's seven years of presidential service, when she expected to take him to Chabauai?, as If he w«re a boy again, and give him a "good rest" there. It is quite possible that, if the assassin's hand had spared him, he might have found, at the carpenter's bench a delightful relief from the cares pf state. ' 8C ' ' 'J ' > : - * • { . • &n Arkansas Custom. o It "Was on the Washita River, in Southern Arkansas. 1 had been told where to stop to secure information about a certain piece of land. I reached the place to find it a very dilapidated log cabin, and in front of it sat a long, lean man, who was so yellow in the face that i at first took him for a mulatto. He was stretch­ ing and yawning as I rode up, and he apologized for not getting up by say­ ing: " 'Scuse me, stranger, bat it's aboat time fur my chill." 4 'Much ague around here?" "Heaps of iU" •'Do you live here all alone?" ' 'Reckon not. The ole woman is in thar, but she's got a chill Sal is my oldest, but sne's chillin', too. Rube is bey and the mewl shed, and he's got it bad to-day, Yo' kin see Danny out by the log heap, and Susan may be up on the roof. It's our chili- in' day and ever body has got to cbilL" * I expressed my sympathy and he» gan to ask after the land, but he held up a shaking finger and said: "Stranger, don't know what the custom is elsewhere, but riclft 'round yere when a feiler has a chill he makes it his business 11 be chilly,and to 'tend to nothin' else but shakln'. 'Dee 1, it's all he kin 'tend ta Sorry to disapint yo', but from now to 4 o'clock 1 shall hev my back agin this] in di£ A Honkonjt Robbery* •n extraordinary and daring Yi»jbk» bery was that which took place at . the Central Bank of Western India, Hongkong, in 1865, when the thieves succeeded in getting clear off with gold and specie to the extent of nearly £50,000. The robbers must have beep jit work lor some weeks before they entered the bank's treas­ ury. Their princ pal labor was in constructing a tunnel of sixty feet from an adjacent drain to a spot ex­ actly below the floor of the bank's treasure vault. A peri endicular shaft of ten feet of sufficient diameter was iheu made to permit of the passage of one man to reach the granite boulders on which the floor ot the vault rested. These gave way through being uu> dermined; and a flag being forced upt entrance to the vault was at once ob­ tained. Two boxes were removed containing gold bars or ingots marked with the link's stamp, as well as all ; the paper money, some bags of dol­ lars, and a box of 10-cent pieces. No fewer tb$n between twenty and thirty men were arrested on suspicion. One of them bad $6,000 in his posses­ sion and two bars of gold bearing the bank's mark. The robbery was effected between a Saturday and Sunday; and the first thing that roused suspicion was the fact of a little boy trying tosell a bar of gold to a hawker in one of the bazaars in Hongkong. A gentleman who was passing asked where he got the gold, &nd the boy replied that it had been found at a certain place. He gave the youth what he asked for it--namely, $1--and then informed the policy--Chambers' Journal Litres Liost in the French WMP» ^ - A Paris Journal, "Anna'.es d'Hy­ giene Publique," has lately printed an article on tne loss of life in France caused by wars in the course of a cen­ tury. At the beginning of the revo­ lution, in 1789, the standing army numbered'about 120,000 men. In the course of the year 1793 the foot­ ing was increased to 1,300,000, ot whom about 1,200,000 marched off to the various battle-f elds, in lT&tt there w<i3 hardly one third of this legion alive. Ten years later--that is, after the wars in Belgium, along the Rhine, in Egypt and the Vendee --there were 677,588 soldiers in the French army. In the period between , 1800 and 18<5 the wars of the consa^ late and the empire cost the country, according to Thiers, 2,00J,000 men. and according to Charles Richet* 3,000,000. The years of the restora­ tion and ot the July Government were comparatively peaceful for France. Under the second empire France had again heavy losses by the Crimean War, the Italian campaign, the campaigns in China and Mexico^ and, finally, in the Franco-Prussian war ot 1870-71. In the oriental cam- ; palgn of to 1856, 96,615 of the 30.^,000 soldiers who took part in it were buried in foreign lands. The Italian campaign cost the country 10,200 men, and 1.000 of the 8,000 sent to China in 1860 never returned. There are no trustworthy reports as to the^osses in Mexico, but in thf * ranco-Prussian war 135>,000 French* men were killed and 143,000 wounded. TBE largest family in the world la that of the King of Siam. His ma­ jesty has two official wives, eighty* eight wives of minor oraer aorf seventy-two children. BUSIES of the true pigeon-Woof color are so rare that it is estimate* tney are worth ten times their we&fet diamonds. •&« is® '/.LfctSSv. ;,;a«Ss®s '-Mm <hm