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lARODND A BIB STATE. BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLINOIS S t ' tragic Affray in McLcon County--In­ teresting: FigureH on Small-Pox in -"V: Eastern Fsrqup^^ja- teed tby Crooked Bankers. ^ ' B-v Tonuk Farmers Fi^ht to the I)eoth. |L:' 111 Anchor Township, thirty miles ^ : northeast of Bloomington, Saturday eveti- j) . ing. Charles Mooherry, a young farmer, Y • started across lots to ft neighbor's house, . ' (taking a sun with hini for the purpose of *'#! shooting rabbits. His psith lay across &"'V Chas. Iiinshaxv's farm/ and on its bor- | dors he shot a rabbit. Just then llin- r hhiiw came toward him. angrily calling < - to hirn that Jie was trespassing and had 110 ri^'lit to hunt there. It mt'Ris there hud bet?n trouble between thy families. , and Moobe^ry, anticipating trouble, took the loads from his gun and laid the'.gun down, saying, as he relates: "Now, if we must fight, let's light like men*" Both grabbed clubs, and Ilinshaw was killed, ft, I- I Moo!terry went to Blooniingion with a deputy sheriff and gave himself up. Ho rf'H l,\ is unmarried, the son of a wealthy fanner , and bears an excellent character. The I . ; ! dead man was the son-in-law of Super- g ^ | visor Worley and was also a uiau of fine fi- i, reputation. , , . Banker Give $300,000. Five ,of the leading bunks of Chicago are now extensive land holders in the southern part of Illinois as the result of , the loans of State funds l lade by the late State Treasurer. Kufus Famsay. accord­ ing to the statements of i arsons interest­ ed in the matter. These banks are the Corn Exchange Bunk, the National Bank of Illinois, the Chicago Na' ional, the Fort Dearborn National, and th» Metropolitan ' National. The real estate left on their 5 hands is about 3.000 acr« s of farming land in St. Clair County. In exchange i for these Illinois farms, actording to the statement of Carl Moll, c.sshier of the National Bank of Illinois, tue fiyc jjjanks paid into the State treasury .between $50,000 and $60,000 each. f • Neglected Vnccin ition. Secretary .T. W. Scott, of the State Board of Health, quotes' the following from the report of Commissioner of He&'th Reynolds regarding smallpox in Chicago during IS94: "A total of 3,062 eases of smallpox, with 1.(121) deaths dur­ ing the year, is the lesson of neglected vnccination. Almost 45 per cent.--that is to say, 1,373 of the whole number of eases--showed no evidence of vaccina­ tion, and of this number 902, or more than Of* per cent., died. The average mor­ tality itf all cases vaccinated and nnvac- cinated was 33.0 per cent., but of those who exhibited some evidence of vaccina­ tion only 127, or (5.8 per cent., died, and 1,157, or more than 93 per cent., re­ covered. ' <1 IS"- Fnilm^^rif'-ilhe Knston j., The Easton imnk has failed, and merch­ ants and farmers thereabouts are losers. Last spring a Mr. FnrreH of Tennessee went to the place and proposed to start e bank. The citizens fell in with the idea as it would tend to boom the town. Far- pell's son was made cashier, and every­ thing went smoothly until last week, when one of the merchants there drev a check on the bank, and it was returned marked "no funds." The drawer knew his ac­ count exceeded the amount of the check, and an investigation showed lhat the bank was short $15,000. Furre'l prom­ ises to make the shortage good <is soon as he can dispose of real estate. 1 ' • x-t'l ^ y I ' u ' i j : Soldiers' Home Needs $395,000. The trustees of the Illinois Soldiers and Bailors' Home at Quincy will ask the Legislature for an appropriation of $395,- 000 for the home. The money is needed for the following purposes: Greenhouse, $3,000; storehouse for vegetables, $2,500; reconstruction of water service, $2,500; assembly hall, ,$8,000; annex to the hos­ pital. $18,000; repairs find improvement.*. $10,000; paintihg, $2,000; roads, walks, and bridges, $5,000; improvements of grouuds. $3,000; library, $1,000; ordinary- I expanses for the next two years, $340,000. Record of the Week. Mrs. Emma Gordon Da vies, aged (17, died at Moliue. SteplAl Trowbridge, father of Mrs. JudgeJD. B. Sliprwood, died at Elgin, ->r*ged 90 years. The Western Brewery of Belleville, - owned by Adam Gintz, has been sold to a New York syndicate for $125,000. Illinois Senatorial apportionment law < of 1893, contested from Lee County, is I to be tested by the Supreme Court. Henry Bockstruck. for many years the only merchant at Viinburensberg, has failed. Liabilities are reported in great ; excess of assets. f Governor Altgeld has isued a requisi­ tion for Samuel Hartsig, under arrest at • Jersey City. Hartsig is wanted in Chi­ cago for larceny. Officer Brundage, of Chicago, rescued Florence Anderson from a burning build­ ing on Dearborn street. She^hgid been overcome by smoke. ' Suit was filed at Itockford to set aside the will of Mrs. Lucy llosmer, who left $12,000 to cue daughter and less than $(500 each to the other heirs. r The Central Illinois Horticultural So­ ciety at Champaign elected H. Augustas, President; C. G. Winn. Vice President; I andiJL/ T. Vineyard^ Secretary, Minnie Shoese, member of a Chicago gang of female footpads, whose stealings ; aggregate $200,000, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for robbing a fanner. • / The Queen's Lake Club House, near Mascoutah, owned by Peterson & Hol- fret, burned. The fire originated in a • barroom. The loss is about $3,000; no in­ surance. Calvin Geiger, a prosperous farmer near Noblesville, was put behind the bars for assaulting his wife Wfith intent to kill and slashing one. of his horees with a large knife. Dominiek Raggio, indicted for murder by the grand jury, is said to have died at Chicago. The police are suspicious that the corpse of another is being na lined off foi*Raggio's. Mrs. Caroline Breek, horn in Germany and one of Cass County's early and prom­ inent settlers, died at her home, near Jnles. She had lived in the community ;; upward of forty years. I A 4-year-old son of Julius Steenrod of Sycamore was serously bitten about the head and face by a vicious dog. Many i gashes had to be sewed up and hopes are ; entertained of his recovery. Friday night fire destroyed the business part of the Town of Savoy, four miles •outh of Champaign. Loss, $10,000; in- tmranee. $4,000. E. L. Dunlap and R. Messersmith are the principal losers. The State Board of Public Charities held a meeting. Reports in the hands of the Board show that of the appropriations to the several State institutions there are unexpended balances aggregating $236,- 000 to turn back into the treasury. The Illinois Board of World's Fair Commissioners closed a contract with H. W. Rokker, of Springfield, for printing iwpvw iu(ilca oi ilie',1 repori., which win make a volume of over 500 pages. The •mount to be paid for the work is $4,883. W. H. Oat obi as died at Van&iHa. George Farnum, aged 30, died at Mo- line of heart disease. " " Benjamin Cantrall and Miss Fannie Adams were married at Illiopolis, : The cil|- of I«ewistown will place a& electric lights ujion her streets at once. Frank S. Branneher, & Vusiness man of Lincoln, and Miss Ella l iyan were mar­ ried. «' jhn Poehlmann, (*5 years r' age, fell from a con I wagon at Springfield* break­ ing his neck. Gov. Altgeld has appointed C. D. Ram­ sey, of Dixon, a State fish warden for Left County for four y^ars. Peo;>|(. of Salem celebrated the laying ot thc^CIiioago, Faducali and Memphis Rail road track into their town, Al>el Hanson, a farmer* residing at El Hot, died from, injuries received from » horse which he was breakingg. Three boys broke through the ice in the laisin at Chicago while skating aud then rescue was w itnessed by thousands. Six well-developed cases of diphtheria have bteivdiscovered in Lewistowu, and tii£ houses have been quarantined. Vi"t<>r Ph.dps, son of the foreman of the *l"ari$j shoe factory lit Dixou,ffefl frotn tlys iee-honaie Chute and waa fatally injured. J. H. Fe rguson. a farmer of Sherland, was sandbagged and robbed while on his way home from Hnrrison. He is in a critical condition. J. W. Crowford, son of the late Joseph Crowford. the most wealthy., man in Lee County married Miss Mary M. Rose-, bough at Divon. V i A frustrated attempt was made to blow up the Lincoln planing mill by drawing off water from a boiler while fires were going in the furnace. has been declare^ on the new nickel-in-the-slot machines in Rockford, and Chief of Police Hargren issued an order to suppress every one in the city. The half-frozen lunatic found in th. wood " near Marshall has been identifier as William Huntwork^ an inmate of the ifigo County Asylum at Terre Haute, Ind. Miss Annie E. Davis, age<l 34 years, u'orth $50,000, died suddenly at Decatur. She barely had time to make a will. Mrs. W. .T. Hamilton, aged 52 years, died the name day. Charles Otto, of Itoek Island, while brooding over having to serve on the jury which had to report for the January term, committed suicide by, pending a bullet into his brain. Rev. B. Y. George, for eleven years pas­ tor of the Presbyterian Church t>.1 Lew- iston, has resigned owing to a division in the chuiich caused by the bank failure of a year a^t>- A new ordinance in Freeport prohibits liquor selling by druggists under penalty of $25 to $200 line, and druggists are in arms, as it prevents wine sale for sacra ; mental purposes. Several women and their male compan­ ions, arrested and fined $100 each in Can ton for disorderly conduct, have been placed in jail at Lewiston, they hot being able to pay their fines. Through overheating of a register a blaze was started in the Centralia Cen­ tral High School Building, badly frighten­ ing the occupants, but doing little damage, as prompt action sf.ved the building. Calvin C. Ross, who has a .family at Louisville, Ky., and who claims to be a railroad man, is in' the Dec:i*.ur jail charged with obtaining money from near­ ly every minister in that city by false >i pretenses. „ Peter H. Wahe, a native of Germany, died of laryngitis at the Sylvan Liquor Cure, Moline, where he was takii'.fT treat­ ment. He was 44 years old. He had previously taken the cure, but lmd fallen and was again attempting to reform. The City Council of Rockford, after a lively session, by a vote of 1.0 to 3, re­ scinded its former action appropriating $1,500 for the introduction of kindergar­ ten work imp the public scaoois, the ie- gality of the appropriation being ques­ tioned. C. M. Shaw, a grocer of Ottawa, who was closed by the Sheriff, made au assign­ ment to City Attorney Wheeler. Judg­ ments to the amount of $2,000 were en- offojntjj; liisii in addition t^o the $1,200 judgment of the National City Bank. James Ogilvie, the old man who left Schweinfurth's Rockford "heaven" a cou­ ple of weeks ago and threatened to sue the pretender for $3,000 of borrowed money, made up witll George Jacob and returned to the heaven to spend his de­ clining days. While boring for water on the farm of Supervisor Curt F. Wright, near Varna, Marshall County, at the depth of Jprty- two feet, the drills were throvHrtJut of^he hole, accompanied by a roaring noise, anH the air was impregnated with gas. A light was applied and a flame shot up twelve feet in the air and is still burning. There are vast coal fields all over the county, but this is the first evidence of natural gas. State Live Stock Commissioner Piatt reports to tlie board the appearance on his farm, near Monticello, of a disease known as "cornstalk." One hundred and sevon head of cattle, have ben affected, seven of which have died. The State Veterinar­ ian visited the farm and found that the disease was caused by turning the eatth; on to :i field that was too dry and hafa. He ordered newer and more moist pas­ turage for the cattle. T. B. Smith, who fell down a stairway at Chicago, and died as a'result of his in­ juries, was identified by his son, M. D. Smith, of Gurnee. Two years ago the family of T. B. Smith buried a body they supposed was his. The man buried was sandbagged on Clark street and died in a iiolice station. The body was identified by O. W. Young as T. B. Smith. A few days after the burial the real T. B. Smith walked into his home> He resided with his family until a few days ago, when he went to Chicago and met the fatal acci­ dent. a At Quincy. Sheriff Roth discovered that three bars in the corridor of the jail had been sawed in two and preparations made for the escape of five prisoners in ;sur derers' row. Two prisoners are under in­ dictment for murder and one for robbing a bank at Mount Sterling. A ten-weeks' free course of agriculture began at the Champaign University on Monday. Ko tuition charge is made'to students. Field agriculture, animal hus­ bandry, veterinary science, vegetable phy­ siology. agricultural chemistry and prac­ tical horticulture are the subjects on which instruction is given. Fred L. Buck, of Elgin, who shot his •wife in a most brutal manner on the af­ ternoon of Nov. 23, 1803, and has since been in the County Jail, Tuesday pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Judge Hel­ ium to twenty-five years in the peniten­ tiary. His wife was a sister of Theodore F". Swan, a well-known merchant. Three months ago August Altemeier was stoned to death by a gang of Free- port roughs, seven of whom were arrest­ ed on a charge of murder. The jury ac­ quitted five, and found Tom Beverly and Otto Herbig guilty of the m»«w*BeT. erly was sentenced to hjHHHBBlerbig gets eighteen years in jj^^^^^Hitiary. Beverly is 24 years old 20. NO WORK FOR LABOR. MR. CARLISLE WOULD LIGHTEN ; m ;m BURDEN?^-; % >\ J, fa Plain Word* the Leading l>lsclp1e of Groverisirt Desires that American Labor Should Take a Rest--A l)cmo- cratK ĵQurnal &peakj» the Truth, . John G.'s Plan. While President Cleveland was very timid In his references to the tariff and tariff reform, or free trade, in his last message to Coiigress, his Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. J. G. Carlisle, bobbed up as a semi-apologist, and his remarks, coming as they do from a leading disciple, are interesting. He said: 'The raw materials used in the pro­ duction of commodities for the use of the people in their homes and in their various industrial pursuits should be free from taxation, in order t',iat the burdens of labor may be lightened." Mr. Carlisle is extremely frank and honest, much more so, in fact, thiln the gentleman who sits at the h'/ad of the cabinet meetings. Mr. Carlisle be­ lieves that raw material should be free from taxation; so do Kiany other free traders, but they do not Hudy the rea­ son why raw material should be free with anything like the frankness of the Secretary of the Treasury, who gives the reason "in order that the bur­ dens of labor may be lightened." Of course, when our raw materials are free from taxation and are free from a tariff duty, they will be Import ed from foreign countries, where labor costs next to nothing, being brought, over here in most instances as ballast, free of freight charges. "The burdens of labor" may be lightened in this coun­ try under such circumstances, and ev­ ery dollar'r worth of raw material that we get from abroad must mean so much less raw material supplied in this country, unless American wage earners consent to take the miserable pittance that is paid to the men aud the women who work in the European piines or to work longer hours for the same money that they are now receiving. But in this case "the burdens of labor" would not be "lightened." They would f" be intensified. So that it is clearly not the intention of Secretary Carlisle that American raw material should be used In making American goods. He wants to Import raw material from abroad "in order that the burdens of labor may be lightened" by affording less employ­ ment for labor in this country. In other Words, he desires that American labor should take a rest. clip for 1895. owing to the wholesale slaughter of sheep that has been taking place during the last six months. As far as the woolen maunfacturing trade is concerned, the total supply of Amer­ ica^ manufacturers during the year ending June 30, 1894, was 118,832,871 pounds less than in previous year. The supplies were as follows. 1894. Domestic clip, . , f l e e c e a n d ; . . . . pulled 325,210,712 348,538,185 Imports for year ; t " s. ending June 30 53,152,t>55 I n b o n d e d ware bouse. V *' June 30, pre­ ceding year... . 56,255,561 lcs,433,sac 38,479,728 T o t al supply * .for year 436,618,831 555,451,702 " If Yon See It in the Sim It's So." The Wilson tariff was enacted on Atigust 28. The wool schedule takes ef­ fect to-morrow. At a time when Mr. Cleveland is scurrying about to find money to meet the ordinary expenses of the government, the wool schedule comes as a reminder of the fatuous and fatal .policy of Mr. Cleveland in throwing away revenue and then being forced to borrow money. Free coal aud free iron would accompany free v.'ool, if Mr. Cleveland could have his way. Thus he industriously knocks holes in tlie constitution, the Democrat­ ic platform and the treasury. The Democratic party is broken, the treas­ ury is on the road to bankruptcy, the constitution, as expounded at Chicago, is a rag to tread on; but we have got a bastard protection, and the income tax. The tariff for revenue only and the money it would have produced we have not got; but Mr. Cleveland likes to borrow. Besides the wool schedule another REMAINS OF THE PEMOCRATIO DONKEY. IN5AN1 rY AS AN EOlDilMld Cnrions Mania Which Years Ago Swept Over a Texas Town. "You will doubtless feel incredulous when X tell you that a Texjis town was once affiieted with-an-^pldemic of In­ sanity." The/speaker was a guest at the Grand Windsor and his remarks were addressed to a reporter for the Dallas News. "It was early in the '70s, In the beautiful little town of Point Isabel. I resided there at the time and l know, of course, whereof I speak. Among the 400 inhabitants of the 'Point,' as we used to call it, was a Montenegran named Speero, who went Insane over religion. Speero insisted that the second coming of Christ was at hand, and that the event would be her­ alded by the appearance at daybreak ?f a white deer on a little hill near the :emetery. Speero, li^e so many of his countrymen, was a Jack at all trades. He could shoe a horse, build a boat, uake a suit of clothing, cobble old shoes md shingle a roof. Thus useful his tumble resideuee became a sort of reu- lezvous, and when it became known hat he claimed prophetic po wers all his acquaintances flocked around him. He told about 'Jesus and the bees,' and several other parables which, though not related in the Bible, enter strongly into the religious tradition of the people if Eastern lands. Several of the more lonstant visitors who first pitied the ondition of Speero gra$ttially began to believe that he was inspired and Anally embraced his doctrines, some of which svere not strictly orthodox. An Italian, who was a prosperous grocer, closed up his store, paid all his debts and insisted >u giving all his goods to the poor. A Spaniard named Camisa lost his head ind commenced preaching hurricane sermons from the housetops. Others t>ecame similarly afflicted, and twenty >r thirty began to show premonitions >f the prevailing epidemic, which con­ sisted in looking for the white dee* walking through the streets lh a gloomy of a very great number of experiaettii made to determine this point in dispute the result has been invariably that no appreciable difference in the yield has occurred ifctween the largest seed aud that of a moderately small size. If the tubers are not ^uite ripe, it makes no difference if they are cut in halves, if the s»ed is no bigger than a small hen's egg; the yield will be about the same either way. Besides, the large seed is apt to be hollow and defective In other ways, and every defect Is la­ in variably reproduced in the product.-- New York Times. THr MONKEY IN TH JiSV, Russian Barley Coming In. If our farmer-; w5ll lcok into the re- pofts of the Treasury Department they will And that Russia is now importing bajley quite largely into the United States. This was made possible by the reduction of duties in the grain sched­ ule under the Wilson law, now opera­ tive. It does not appear that prices have been materially lowered by these Imports, therefore no resulting bene­ fits are as yet enjoyed by the purchas­ ers of the foreign article; but it does appear that the growers of barley in the United States are materially hurt in that the home market for the home product is taken from the home pro­ ducer by the foreign producer to a more or less injurious extent. It may be contended by free traders that expected benefits to users of bar­ ley will come after awhile, when the market price breaks under excessive - supply through importations from Eu­ rope. The inquiry then would be whether the American grower would continue to produce barley at European prices. There would probably be a general cessation of production of this cereal, and the second inquiry would present itself, viz: how long after the destruction of the American producer would it be before Europe, having possession of the American market, would advance prices to suit her own views? What would become of the American users' interest in the hands of the European producer? Nothing but a return to protective dutieS could reinstate the equilibrium then so seri­ ously disturbed. Our grain growers, we fear, have two more years of severe trial ahead. The question of how to meet them should be most carefully weighed by every jjyaner in the country. Fithian VvuniM Knglish Gold. The Fithian ship bill, as originally in­ troduced into Cortgress, simply author­ ized the purchase of any vessels built In any foreign country and their regis­ try free of duty as vessels of the United States. A subsequent amendment to the bill provided that such ships should not be used in our coastwise trade. It has not yet been explained how any such vessels when flying the Amer­ ican flag, when bought with American money and owned by Americans, can be prohibited from trading between any one coast port and another in t.h*> United States. It would be deeideSiy unconstitutional to attempt to restrain the movement of any ships that migl't be flying the Stars and Stripes in Amer­ ican waters. The object of the. amend­ ment of the bill looks like a blind to deceive those who objected to the orig­ inal measure and who are now engaged not only in our coastwise trade, «=but also in our lake and river commerce. After tlie Banquet and Now 0* Leas Wool Used and Produced. Tho December bulletin of the Nation­ al Association of Wool Manufacturers contains its annual estimate of the wool clip of the Unit(|ti States for the \ear 1S94, which shows a decrease # 23.327,426 pounds in this year's clip of tieece and pull wool, as compared with the clip of' 1893. Of scoured wool there tiroo oIoa n rtf 10.811.1)08 pounds. Undoubtedly there will be a mnc i larger falling off shown in the part of the mongrel tariff will go Into cffect to-morrow. It is theppA-ajgyaph lixiug the duty on dolls arfCTuoll heads at 25 per cent, ad valorem. This ap­ pears to be 10 per cent, more than the ia.te under the culminating atrocity. It is a useless piece of protection. Wash­ ington is full of dolls stuffed with saw- i!ust. Atfleast, they were so stuffed be­ fore the Tuesday after the first Mon- daj in last November.--New York Sun (.Dem.), December 31, 1894. Individual Wealth. New York Weekly World of March 21, 1894, claimed that the in­ creased per capita in wealth in the United States rose $591 In 1850 to $093 In 1860, an increase in ten years of $402. But in the subsequent thirty years it increased only $6 to $999 per capita. WILLIAM L. PACKARD. Wilmington, Yt. The foregoing statement Is not cor­ rect. The per capita of wealth in the United States was only $514 in the year 1860, and not $993. It was less in 1860 than the writer claimed it to be ten years earlier--in 1850. In the subse­ quent years it has Increased to $514 in 1860; to $780 in 1S70; to $870 in 1880, and to $1,038 In 1890. These figures are taken from the various census reports, and they show that the wealth, per capita, of the United Status has more than doubled itself during the thirty years between 1860 and 1890, increasing from $514 to $1,038 per capita, a gain of $524 per capita. So much for the liar ttf The World. No More Soap. , When Count Teleki and lieutenant \on Ilohuel were on their long and dan­ gerous journey into Eastern Africa, they had with them a pet monkey, Hamis, who afforded them endless amusement, and also, as is the way w'th such pets, proved a frequent trial to their patience. One of his most an­ noying exploits Is thus related by Lieu­ tenant Von Hohnel: An eagle, attracted by the ape, who wrs playing in the tree under which the count's tent w as pitched, swooped down and settled upon a branch without a sign of shyness. Hamis, little guessing the danger he was in, was for plucking a feather or twro out of the visitor's iving, treating him as he. was in the habit of treating the fowls we some­ times had in camp. Count Teleki seized a gun, however, aud a shot brought down the would-be thief. As usual, Hamis paid lis by ingrati­ tude. The eagle wyas no sooner dead and deprived of his long wing feathers than the ape was down from his perch, intent upon mischief. He had a good look at his dead en­ emy, as he did at everything new and strange, and then hopped into his mas- tor's tent and seized what p£rhat«Hyas for the moment that mswrfer's greatest irensupe, hls last bj.t-of soap. The count saw him and shouted. "Leave that alone!" but too late. Ha­ mis was at the top of the tree, with the precious soap in his teeth. We called him by all the endear&g names we could think of, hoping to entice htm away from the branch he had'chosen, which overhung the brook, but all in vain. Not fancying the taste of the soap, he dropped it into the water, and it was hopelessly lost. The brown flood bore it away, although half a dozen negroes dived after it for a long time. Quill pens were made.in the fifth cen­ tury. There Is no record of their earlier use. Theodorlc, the Ostrogoth king, is said to have been illiterate and unable to wrfte his own name. A golden plate was made with the letters of his name cut through It. This was placed over the document he was expected to sign, and he traced his name through the open spaces with a quill. The churches in the new town of Enid, Oklahoma, have no bells yet, and the town fire hell is rung every Sun­ day to announce the hour of iwligious service*. '.V'-v' The Snow Blanket. The value of a mautle of snow in pro­ tecting vegetation in the fields in win­ ter is fully understood in farming <Jjs- triets, and the cause of the protective effect of the snow is an interesting sub­ ject of scientific inquiry. In Germany, where no snch subject is ever allowed to escape Investigation, Dr. Abels has recently made some im­ portant observations on the thermal properties of snow. He has found that tholooser the snow the greater its power to protect the ground beneath from the effects of external changes of temperature. Snow generally offers about four times as much resistance to such changes as a sheet of ice of the same thickness offers. When snow becomes closely packed, therefore, it is less ef­ fective as a protection to plant life than when it lies loosely upon the sur­ face. "• Other experiments show that while a blanket of snow protects the ground beneath from the chilling effects of the winter atmosphere, yet the surface of the snow Itself, especially In clear weather, is colder than the air, so that snow tends to lower the temperature of the atmosphere, and where broad areas of country, or extensive moun­ tain slopes, are covered by it, impor­ tant climatic conditions may be pro­ duced by the influence of the snow. mood aud flying into a passion when -- ^ tnybody denied or doubted that Speero | More Experience with Wheat Feeding was a prophet. In time the people of sound mind became alarmed and for­ bade the|r children to approach Spee- ro's sanctuary. "A climax was finally reached. Spee- "o had a vision that lie must take his >-months-old baby and baptize it in the River 'Jordan. Mrs. Speero, whose 4iind had not given way, objected. Speero insisted in proceeding according to revelation, and Mrs. Speero yelled and alarmed the neighborhood. Speero and one of his insane companions slip­ ped the baby into anoyster skiff, pushed the frail craft out into the Laguu.t Marde, set their leg-of-mutton sail and squared away for the Holy Land. A !>arty of rescuers was made up. They started in a lighter belonging to the lUo Grande Ball way Company and overhauled Speero's boat as It was ap­ proaching the bar on which the sea was breaking. They overpowered Speero :ind his companion and brought them and the baby back to Point Isabel, where Mrs. Speero was found walking up aud doWn the beach tearing her hair and crying about her baby. The sane men of Point Isabel now took im;ne- iliate action. They repaired to the cus­ tom-house and organized. An old poli­ tician who wrote obituary notices when prominent citizens died offered a set of resolutions designed to end the craze. Then the meeting adjourned to round up the insane and corral them in a box car. Speero was the first run in and then the trouble commenced. Camisa. n learning that the prophet was a jrisoner, drilled himself Avith a butcher tnife and started to carve the crowd, but Constable John Wh^ttaker succeed­ ed in arresting, disarming aud binding him. There was no trouble in man­ aging the others. Several of the unfor­ tunates were sent to the lunatic asy­ lum. but Cameron County was hot with Speero for being the originator of all the trouble and he was sentenced to the penitentiary at Huutsville on the charge of assault with intent to mur­ der, to which he pleaded that he was a prophet sent to announce the second coming of his master. The attention of the Austrian Consul having been called to his case, that authority inves­ tigated it, had Speero released and sent home to Montenegro. The action of the citizens broke the backbone of tlie epidemic and Point Isabel has since then been free from afflictions of every sort save an occasional gulf ,1mr; cane." Henry Sievers, of Weston, Neb., give« the follQwing results of his trials of wheat as ik feed for hogs: "Jan. 11 be­ gan feeding wheat to my liogs. I had It ground as flift as flour and had one hundred fall pigs, to which I fed 400 bushels of wheat and 1,000 bushels of corn, making four bushels of wheat and ten bushels of corn to each one. When I formerly fed corn alone to pigs I had to feed twenty-five bushels each to make them weigh 300 pounds. When I sold on Oct. 24 the hogs averaged 328 pounds and brought $6.42^4 Per cwt. • Bound Dozen Points of B4 8b5wn by Human Ba To see the monkey in tl^; have only to study the fatcei, and habits of babies. Such is the of an article contributed by 8. S. BjHjte*.. man to tlie Nineteenth Century. actions of chile?Ten are. indeed, he like "ancient monuments of prehistoric times. The human infant is an inter­ esting object of scientific research, and even a cross baby should be calm-.* ly contemplated by the philosophie mind." Here are some of the numerotti illustrations which Mr. Buckmatt 'ghritfr- to show how survivals of our Simla*': ancestry may be found by any nuraerjr philosopher: 1. Monkeys are snub-nosed (simian). So are babies. - 2. Babies have pouch-like cheeks. To ̂ judge from ecclesiastical monuments, ^ this characteristic is supposed to be r- specially angelic. It is really monkey- 1 , 1 like. Baby cheeks are the vestiges of K cheek,, pouches, possessed for storing away food, as ill oerc-opithecus, a mon- , key In:which this habit of storing be observed at the London Zoological Gardens, if visitors feed it 3. At the base of the vertebral column ;| % babies have a deep circular depression.1 ^ cjj* -r«X This is the mark of the monkey's tail. " 4. Babies (as Dr. .Louis Robinson showD) have superior arm power and * <• *. very short legs. So have monkeys. 5. Babies, in catching hold of any*, thing, don't use their thumbs, bat #,• ' clasp it between the fingers and palm. This is the action of monkeys in going from bough to bough. 6. A baby can move any of Its toes. Independently, and it can move then*. one from another so as to make a V between any of them. As it grows, older it loses this power and also th#' power of turning its afikle, but that it; has such power over its muscles whenf young points to ancestors who used. S their feet more than their hands as or* * - • gans for picking up small objects, an<|- '--0 who relied on their hands and armv for supporting their bodies. c , >' 7. Babies go to sleep on their stom- s ^ ^ achs with their limbs curled up' unde* >v >•' ̂ '1st X t1,-; ; t>," "J them--a survival from our fonr-footedi u ancestors. 8. Babies are rocked to sleep--an imi­ tation of th swaying to-and-fro of th*. branches where our monkey ances­ tors lived. Even our nursery ditty* "Itockaby Baby on the Tree To®/V . p« points back to the arboreal age. • 9. The stair-climbing instinct of y' This gave me twenty-eight pounds of bies" llke the troe" c,lmbin* ProPe,ns!ty . V i 'Z fri1JZZ of boys, points back to an arboreal age. pork and fifteen bushels of corn saved to pay for the four bushels of wheat consumed by each hog. At the^price re­ ceived the twenty-eight pounds of pork brought $1.80 and the fifteen bushels of corn saved, at 25 cents a bushel, amounts to $3.75, making a total of $5.55. The cost of grinding the wheat was 71/. cents a bushel, or 30 cents for four bushels. Deduct this from $5.55 and it leaves $5.25 for the wheat each hog consumed, equal to $1.311(4 a bushel for the wheat. The hogs were health­ ier and in betterebndition than I ever had them before. I have fifty-five pigs, that came the first week in May, and they now weigh 265 pounds. If all the fanners in the corn belt would follow this system it would help out the poor farmers in the West where they now raise notliiug but wheat I mix^d the meal with water of the temperature from the well."--Field and Farm., Hose for Car Heating. It has been found that when the ordi­ nary rubber hose is employed for heat-, ing railroad cars by steam, owing to the tendency to swell inward, disintegra­ tion of the inside surface ensues, aijd the particles given off clog the values. It was first believed that this could be overcome by heavily compounding the rubber with mineral, but experiment demonstrated the error of this idea. lirjwr. iyAnn/1 An fha tyoo fU^n employed, but the swelling between the wire and th^ incidental chafing de­ stroyed the hose. The result was the conviction that a finer and better mate­ rial must be used Irrespective of cost. It is claimed for a recent grade of rub­ ber made for this purpose that 90 per cent of it will wear two seasons and possibly longer, providing it is properly Sit away and care4 for during the sum-. er months. • t Tlroad-Tired Wasrons. While the subject of good roads is be­ ing agitated in every part of the coun­ try, those most interested in the subject are doing their best to make bad roads still worse by using narrow tires on their wagons. Heavy loads are drawn over our mud roads on these narrow- tired wagons,Vand deep ruts cut into them, that in wet Weather make them almost and sometimes entirely impas­ sable, says^thf American Farmer. I have a son; of a pity for a man who urges his team along a muddy road, all the timelgrumbling about the badness of it, wlpn he might reduce the labor of his tfeam from one-third to one-half by using wide tires at very little addi­ tional cost to himself and to the great saving of the team and temper. It is to be hoped that the first legislation looking to the improvement of the roads of the country will be in the way of encouraging the use of wide tires, for one narrow-tired wagon will do more damage than a dozen with wide tires if the roads are at all soft No Rude Awakening for the Dudes. j I doubt not through the ages one In­ creasing purpose runs, and that is why : I have always felt sure that there must be some reason for the "astroruary and ascentrlc" behavior of people who turn up the bottoms of their trousers In dry weather. The New York exquisites who copied the fashion from London will be disgusted at the vulgar origin of the practice, for I understand that it had its rise in the inventive brains of some bank clerks, who used tog It down to the city on those bad old "razor back" buses. They found that their nether garments got frayed by rubbing against the woodwork under the seats untikpne day one of them exclaimed, "Go to,"and let us turn up our trousers." . And they dftk. And having turned them up It didn't seem worth vdiile to turn them down again\ so tbeVustom be­ came crystallized.--London Figaro. „ One of California's Sylvan Giants. "Goliath," one of the largest of the famous "Bi£ Trees" of California, measures 23 feet in diameter at the ground, and 20% feet eight feet higher up. "Goliath" Is perfectly healthy and one disputes the philosophy of wide solid throughout It has been estimat- tires, and no one seems to have any that this forest giant, denuded of its good reason to offer why they should branches, would weigh 100,000 tons, not be used. Our farmers simply fol- and that it would "saw" 2,000,000 feet low precedent, and go on using narrow 0f clear lutnber. The branches and tops tires because their fathers did.before ^0uld make not less than 100 cords of them. Lumbermen and freighters use Wood. JJpller estimates the weight ot wide tires almost universally, and save money by doing so, but it seems tjjat farmers do not care to economize In , thiff'direction. The condition of our I roads costs us more than jfny other sin- | gle item of waste in this country, and the common me of wide tires would re­ duce this wtif&e of energy to a large ex­ tent.--Baltimore American. ' It _ 1 rt--. •. Size of Seed Potatoea. , V*y! There is perhaps more difference of j opinion in regard to the best size for its leaves alone at two and one-hall tons.--St Louis Republic. Rest for the Horse. ± frenchman lias invented a street ar or omnibus driven with gearing :10m a treadmill attached to the rear of the vehicle and supported" on wheels ! The horse, therefore, rides while h< ivorks. , " se ed potatoes than about any other part [ i, st P*rt of the a ., nr th. form Somepeo- e*ed dainty food when boded in its own of the business of the farm pie thing the biggest tubers will pro­ duce the largest crop; others.,jhink the small potatoes equally as good. It Is true that the larger the tubers are the larger is the cost of the jseed, and the cost is less as the size decreases. Five KnaliAla oaarl rt a 1o virrn* thon nn will plant an acre, while twenty bush­ els of larger ones will be required. But Dainty Morsel The tail of the kangaroo is the flesh animal. It is consid- _ ed da.inty skin, which afterward may be drawn oi like a glove. The general opinion of women seem* t« be that me tleir bodies ex while it old a woman 1 e&rs. we neve: every part ot hearts. can tell how back of btt 10. The fruit-stealing instinct is a sur«* yival from monkeydom. 11. Children are fond of picking at anything loose--because monkeys pick off the bark from trees in order t»* search for insects. 12. Children are very fond of rollings! This points to the time when our ances­ tors had hairy bodies tenanted by, parasites, and allayed the irritation by- rolling. , •;% He Couldn't Find the Place. "Well, boys," said old Bob, "I do no$ know why it is, but as a matter of fa<*t I am reminded of an old-time story of an old-time ignoramus, that is, o far as school learning goes. 11 old gentleman of the utmost of character, but keen sysi r; "uri business matters, from early education sometimes mistakes in his use of language, though largely engaged in shipping, bfr was profoundly ignorant of geogra "He came one day--it was in Ne York--with a letter in his hand, whick he had just received, into an insurance office, aud asked to see a chart of th# " Mediterranean. It was promptly un* ^ ^ rolled, and after spending a long tim» 1 in apparently unsatisfactory examina* • 'Jij tion, the curiosity of the president of ;• tlie office was excited and he offered ^ his aid to assist him in his trouble. t " 'Why,' said the old gentleman, have just got a letter from one of my ; -% captains, who states that he has expe- 5; ^1 rienced a violent hurricane, and con- $ sequently put In great jeopardy. Now, yf- I know Great Jeopardy is a port in th® " k , * ^ Mediterranean, but I can't find th*. « plagucy place on the map."--Bostoij. Herald, J"' Both "At Home." ' S/ ; A story has been current amonff f students In Aberdeen which showeo that, up to a comparatively recent datey " ancient prejudices were retained by th#" • old Scotch professors. It related, say«T , Tit-Bits, to the late Principal Pirie, who had a weakness for the refinements at %, rife,- - , " Just after "at home" cards becamo " fashionable otie of the dryest specS* mens of the old professional regim# was surprised to receive a missive^ which read as follows: ' 7?l "Principal and Mrs. Pirie present their compliments to Prof. T , an4| hope he is well. Principal and Mrst Pirie will be 'at home' on Thursday / evening at 8 o'clock." • This was something which evidently. *• required an answer, but the recipient of it was qufte equal to the occasion*. He wrote: ^ "Prof. T returns the compliment# of Principal and Mrs. Pirie, and inp , forms them that he is very well. Profw ; T Is glad to hear that Principal ami Mrs. Pirie will be^at home on Thursday' evening at 8 o'clock.Prof. T-*-- also be at home." ; # > Train Stopped by » Turkey. The east-bound passenger train o»s: ^ the Lancaster, Oxford and SontheQ* j ^ Railroad was held up by a turkey • hen the other day. As the engine waa jjfc' „ ^ puffing up grade it passed under th«* ^ - 4 limb of a large tree on which several^ - 5 turkeys were roosting. The exhaust * steam from tlie stack was so strong^ that it knocked a large turkey hen frou|| her perch. In falling she alighted oi» the bell rope and rang the bell. En- , gineer Spear stopping the train.-? - - ' Philadelphia Press. -•••'ft :"m >».' v'vi-.'-'i UK- vj The Great Citleft of the The latest enumeration of the popuf lation of the earth shows that it con- ? tains two hundred and seventy citie* | having more than one hundred thou* ; sand inhabitants each; thirty-five hav^fl ing more than five hundred thousand; and twelve having more than a millkuu" I • Three of the twelve are in the United f / States. So, while onr country omttia#" less than five per cent, of the total pop^f ty-five per mi of tibe cities of Am rank.*