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ftUNOre. The night -!e!sh!ns rxpediU^ MW Itwtte lore- maklng, the roads^iaHtand well pack ed, and a glorious moon shining \dfewn m THE GOLD STRING. w» minstrel's heart was daintily strung, And em pearled like a shell of the saa; Sweet rang the chords be swept as be sung, Ja the pride of his minstrelsy. And amid the strings of the harp some­ where, Just where could never be told{- For all were gilded to see and fab{ There nestled one string of gold. And whatever tones the poolHsfought Prom the wires he waked/from sleeping, Into the music all unsought A thrilling sound came creeping . high above the pulsing beat, The surge the song and the shiver, .With a sound more clear and a note wore sweet ;v " The golden string woald quiwsr|| tLnd souls peered oat from their piiaon ' bars 1:^" ' the worldlings stopped to listen %nd thought of something beyond stars, And dull eyes 'gan to glisten. the fend those whose grief had choked them •- ' broke ; At the sound of fhe harp into sobbing; ' in every heart an echo woke ^ From the gold string and its throbbing. ^ ) •. vAnd mortals thought that one sweet note 4Had slipped through the great pearl m' • portal j ! -•- t)own the dim depths of space afloat fej'.' To earth from the choir immortaL % ? / . • ' • • • • • • • • • the fountain drops plash with a 4*. . - liquid chime l '.;'v On the brook which flows to the sea, f»c; {;jM we are but drops in the stream of • fi-' Time ^ As it sweeps to Eternity. ^ • • • • • • • • • S feo there came a dawn in the early spring, ^ f . When never a song remains unsung, §.>> jWhen birds swing lightest on the wing fp . And the gray world again feels young. •/' A meadow sparkled with morning dew, f/y Twittered the birds in their wild wood bower, fhey rustled their little throats and grew ?Yr1 - Half mad with joy of the passing hour, lite nightingale piped his lustiest lay ... (Now was the time for a tune or never), £/*- v,»he sweet song rose and died away, \ But the minstrel's harp was stilled for- ever. - ;•&>'" • ^ iThebreese, all wanton, swept tbe Strings, ijv * • But they echoed back ho token, « , " > Sknd the mourners sobbed as the sun went Wu',, down, For the golden string lay broken. ^--Robert P. Gibbs, in the Boston Journal. : fiAM OUTWITTED HIM. /"•Farmer Kendrick had brought In an j armful of snow-covered logs from the woodpile at the north end of the house, || ttirowlng them down on the stone • ^ .hearth with a noise like a small earth- 1 » ^uake, when Carrie Brown started up. ,« ,5 "Five o'clock! Oh, I had no idea it i v'lpras so late. I must be going home." f:_ \ "Allow me to accompany you, Miss *;C" Urown." v '• "^ou"U let me see you home, Carrie?** \V/ i Captain Logan and Fred Jones both ft ' ipoke at once, but Carrie shook her 1v,', tiead. U • : "I prefer to walk home alone," she p taid gayly. - " "About the sleighing party to-morrow *-"J Sight?" asked Fred, anxiously. •** • ~ "I--I have promised Captain Logan," ' • ' mid the village beauty, a rosy tint snf- v •, fusing her cheek. ' "But, Carrie, I it was set­ tled jbetweetygi > two weeks MgoP* |^a frown. forgotten Captain Logan's Ptoned voice broke the si- exact no promises," he said, gal­ lantly, "but if I am not punctual to the l*our and the spot, Miss Brown may iiraw her own conclusions." And Carrie went home. " She was very pretty, this bright-eyed |>Mew England damsel. Fred Jones had loved her ever since they were children Altogether, and Captain Logan, who had ' Come down to spend the Christmas holidays with his cousins, the Ken- <, "4ricks, had become so fond of those bright blue eyes and golden hair that ke had prolonged his visit to January. " 'Pon my word, she's a regular beau- 8aid the captain, staring through tiay window panes at the recreat­ ing figure of Miss Brown. |;'i> Fred Jones looked quickly up at him, pjSr »s if he would have liked to knock him :w®ver 41110 tlie fireplace, but he refrained *'irom any such demonstration. "A beauty," went on the captain, "and i£s a thousaiid pities she should t , l»e wasted on any of the country bump- " kins who vegetate among these wilder- ^•siiesBes. Sam, you young villain, are those boots of mine blacked yet?' "No, they ain't," said Sam, crossly. ; "Well, what's the reason?' 'Cause I ain't had time." you find time then, quickly, too," said the captain. And Sum glow­ ered after him as he went gayly up the stairs. "Just wish I had the firln* of him out," said the boy, gloomily, "it's 'Sam, do this,' and 'Sam, do that,' and 'Sam, Where's the warm water?' and 'Sam', what the deuce do you mean by letting my .fire go out?' and not a cent has he guv me yet--no, nor so much as a pleas­ ant word. I wonder if he means to Stay here always?" "You and I are about equal in our pSi love for him, Sam," said Fred Jones. V hvnghing. "I heered him talkin' to Hiss Carrie about goin* sleigh ridin* to-morrow night," said Sam, shrewdly. "I'd jeg* like to frnt 'Kicking Tom' in the shafts I would If it weren't for Mids Carrie, He don't know ngthin' about horses, that there militia'cairflMloi/t." And Sam chuckled. v < "I, say, Sir. Jones, why don't you get beforeh^ud with him? Miss Carrie don't really car* for him, she's only dazzled like." Fred Jones frowned slightly; honest Sam was not exactly the kind of Gany­ mede he cared to have meddle with his love affaire. "Miss Brown must choose for herself, Sam," he said, and Sam went back *to work, secretly wondering hew a yow*£ lady, gifted with ordinary sense, . 'ts • whltely, as if a rain of silver were deluging the whole world. "Couldn't be better weather," said the captain. "Sam, where are the sleigh bells?" ^ "Otinno," said Sam. "There's them old Jlnglers In the garret that used to belong to Deacon John Kendrick, that was In the revolutionary war, and there Is the two cowbells that Mary Jane might scour up with ashes " "Pshaw!" said the captain. "Do you take me for Rip Van Winkle? There's & pretty little string somewhere, for I saw them when Mrs. Kendrick went out day before yesterday." "I hain't seen nothin' on 'em," said 8am, stolidly. "Come, come, Sam, don't make your­ self out any stupider than you are by nature," said the farmer, laughing nev­ ertheless, for the captain's airs were test wearing out his welcome, and he secretly sympathized with the much- abused Sam. I guess they're out in the barn. You had better go with him, captain, If you expect to find 'em. Our Sam is dread­ ful thick-headed when he chooses to be." "Come along, my fine fellow," said the captain, collaring Sam and march­ ing him off In the direction of the old red barn. "We don't need any lantern in this moonlight, that is one comfort" Where are the stairs?" demanded the captain, as they entered the barn. Ain't none," said Sam. "It's a lad­ der." "Up with yon, then," said Logan, but Sam shrunk back. I wouldn't, not for $50," said Sam, "Old John j Kendrick hanged hgjtiself from the middle beam fourteen years ago, and folks say he stands up there with a rope around his neck every moonlight night" "Stuff and nonsense!" cried the cap­ tain, In accents of contempt "You cowardly lout stay where yon are, then, and I'll go myself." He sprang lightly up the rounds of the ladder and disappeared through the trap door. "Where is it?" he called. "The ghost? Right under the middle beam by the windy w;as the place where " Blockhead! I mean the string of bells." Look for 'em yourself, said Sam, sulkily.. "I don't know where they be, and, what's more, I don't care." •"I'll settle with you, my fine fellow, when I come down," said the captain, threateningly, as he groped about in the dim light which came through a cobweb draped window at eitber end of the barn chamber. "Don't hurry yourself, cap'n," rejoin^ ed Sam, in a jeering tone. As the captain plunged into a dark corner there was a jingle, and the string of bells, suspended from a nail, hit him directly on the neck, so like the grasp of death-cold fingers that he could but start "Oh!" said the captain, nervously. Here they are. Catch 'em, Sam! Hello! Where's the trap door?" And it took the worthy captain fully sixty seconds more to realize that the trap door was closed apd fastened on the lower side. He rushed to the win­ dow and threw it up, only to see Sum speeding up the hill. "Hal-lo-o-a!" yelled Captain Logan. "Come back, you scoundrel--you ill- conditioned lout--you imp of evil." Sam turned around and executed that peculiar gyration of the fingers in connection with the nasal organ which Is supposed to express the extremity of scorn. "YouH find the ladder on the barn floor, cap'n," hooted the young rebel, "an' don't be afrai<T ^ttie ghost; it's very harmless if you let malone." "But Sam, Sam, come back. I'm to be at Mr. Brown's at half-past 7 o'clock." "Don't worry r bawled Sam. "Mini Carrie won't wait long before Mr. Fred'll be on hand." The captain danced up and down on the floor in an ecstacy of rage as Sam disappeared over the crest of the hill. He knew very well if he possessed the lungs of Boreas he could make no one hear. He sat shivering down on the hay, starting nervously at the sound of horses' feet below, and thinking how disagreeable a bar of moonlight which streamed down from a crack in the roof resembled a tall white figure standing under the center beam. He could almost fancy the rope around his neck. Pshaw! And the captain jump­ ed up again, with starting dew on his temples, even in the freezing atmos­ phere of the barn chamber. What is to be done?" he asked himself. An echo, if echo has any com­ mon sense, would have answered: "Just nothing at alL" Sam had outwitted him: And pretty Carrie and Fred Jones, with his red cutter and a great chestnut horse! Tbe Captain was wild at the thought; sure­ ly he was vanquished. \ j "I won't waft another moment/Tor him," said Carrie Brown, coloring up, with tears in her blue eyes. "Go on, girls, I shall spend the evening at home." "There's plenty of room for you In our sleigh, Carrie," coaxed her brother. Bessie Andrews will be glad to have you along." t "No, she won't either," pouted Car­ rie. "As if I would spoil all her fun! No, If X can't have an escort of my own I'll stay at home and mend stockings, and I never will speak to Capt. Logan a^afn." Charlie Brown was on the point of arguing the matter with his sister, when the door opened and in walked Fred Jones. "Not gone yet, Carrie? Where is tho Captain?" "I don't know," said Carrie tartly, "and I don't care. Am I Capt Logan's keeper?' "Will you go with me?' "Yes, I will," said Carrie, her eyes lighting and shy smiles dimpling her face. "Of course," sa,ld Fred, "I can't «»x pect to make myself as agreeable :>s the city captain, but "The Captain! The Captain!" cried Carrie, a little irritably. "I'm-'sick of tile sound of his name. I never want to' see him agai|j. What a nice now cutter this is, and how easy the .wolf robes are!" -« ? "Carrie," fehispere* Mr ^r,Tn_# said Farmer Kendrick. It waspMt 10 o'clock at bight and tho old genttafaan had come out as usual before retiring to rest to see that the dumb members of his family were all straight and comfortable. "I do be­ lieve that's old John Kondrlck's ghost come to life again, poundln' like all possessed on the barn chamber floor!" "It's in-ee! It's m-ee!" bawled tho Captain. "Unfasten th$ trap door and let me out!" Slowly the, farmer lifted the ladder to its place. With rheumatic awkward-^ ness he climbed the creaking rounds|. and undid tl o hook from its clasp. How "In all creation came you here?' he demanded. "Why, I thought von were out a-slelghriding with the gals." It was all.the doings of that villain, Sam!" gasped the infuriated Capta.'u, his teeth chattering with mingled rage and cold. "I won't stand this sort of thing. I'll leave the place to-morrow." "As you please," said the farmer, to whom the prospect of losing Ms guest was not unpleasant "I'm dreadful sorry this should have happened, though. I'll talk seriously to Sam." "So will I," gnashed the Captain. "I'll break every bone ih his body." But Sam had taken particular care to go over to his grandmother's, six miles across the snow fields, to spend the night and the only person the Cap­ tain saw was old Mrs. Kendrick sitting by the kitchen fire. "You've lost your choice, Captain, she said, good humored 1^. "Dorcas Smith has Just gone by on her way home from the sleighing party, and she says Fred Jones brought Carrie Brown in his new cutter, and they're en­ gaged." The Captain left the next day and Mrs. Fred Jones h&s never seen him since. And when the affair came off Sam got a piece of wedding cake big enough to give him dyspepsia for a week.--Boston News. MONEY BAmn MEN WHO COUNT THEIR WEALTH v : 8Y MILLIONS v < feat Twelre Member* of tiA Bonn Rated u Millionaires! and These Not aa Rich as Popularly 8up- •»om4--Majorltjr^ro Poo*i LITERARY FINDlL Sometimes Even Now an Apparently Worthless Book Provea to Be Rare. . Probably the days are gone by when a man could hope to discover in a six-penny box an early quarto of a Shakspeare's play or a rare tract on America, but for all that literary "finds" of more or less interest continue to be made by keen book hunters. Dr. Garnett of the British Museum, tells how a tradesman at Oswestry had in his possession books to which he at­ tached no importance, but which a lady informed him must be very rare. They were submitted to the authorities of the British Museum, who gave a high price for them. One was Sir Anthony Sherley's "Wits New Dyall," published in 1604, of which only one other copy is known to be in existence. As a rule, offers of rare books come from booksellers, who do not always say bow they become possessed of them. Among the private people who offer books to the museum for sale are a large proportion who think that a book must necessarily be rare because it is 100 years old or more. Before the great catalogue was made finds were occasionally made in the museum it­ self, and even now a volume will occa­ sionally be found which has special in­ terest And value on account of its bind­ ing. In other cases a book wiH be found to be in a binding made up of leaves of some rare work far more val­ uable than the book Itself. Whiskers and. Hair. • Men with long, thin faces (should i&ents. have round beards, if any. But if a man's face is abnormally round and fat he should wear an "Imperial," as the narrow, long variety of tbe Van Dyck beard Is called. There Is ono good argument against the beard which ought to have some weight. It nearly always robs the head of hair. It is very seldom that a man can maintain a luxuriant growth of both after the age of 40. Perhaps this may be one reason that whenever long beards have been worn the hair has been cut short and whenever the head-locks have been permitted to be long, the beard has al­ most entirely disappeared. It is a mis­ take for short men to wear the beard too long. The head should be a little less than one-seventh the length of the whole body, and the capillary addition to its size throws it quite out of propor­ tion. On a very tall man, inclined to leanness and angularity, a long beard Is almost equally a mistake, unless bo should happen to be so bountifully sup­ plied by nature that he can have it of width proportionate to its length, and so thick as to convey an idea of almost superabundant fullness. He will prob­ ably pay for this, however, by being very bald on the top of his head.--Ar­ gonaut Capital'City Chati:;̂ & Washington correspondence: has com* to be aa accepted fact among the people at large that the United States Senate is niude up of a body of men of great wealth and that no one can be chosen to fill the important office un­ less he be a person of immense riches. Such a notion has established a preju dice in the minds of many against the members of the Up- i-* per House, but it ji entirely uncalled for. It is difficult to count 20 men of af­ fluence in the Senate to-day, and not more tty&n a dozen millionaires. Accord­ ing to aft Vjfjashington writer, the great majority/ are dependent almost, if not wholly, ufron their compensations receiv- ed from Uncle Sam. A glance at the wealth of the members will not make uninteresting reading. Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, whose term is about to expire, is one of the wealthy men of thje .Senate. He made his money in meats, having been exten­ sively engaged in business as a butch­ er in former years. Mr. Smith, the ju­ nior Senator from the sandy State, is one of the million­ aires now in the ser­ vice. He is a manu­ facturer of patent and enameled leath­ er in Newark. Mr. brice. Smith's wealth has not been publicly es­ timated, but it is known to be more than a million. He is one of the quietest and least ostentatious men in the Senate. Senator Camden, of West Virginia, is al­ so a very wealthy man. Senator McMillan is one of the wealth­ iest on the Republi­ can side of the chamber. No one knows just how sherman. much he is worth. Mr. McMillan began life humbly, and the great fortune that is now his has all been gathered by the most diligent effort. Most of his money has been made in the manufacture of railway cars and steam vessels for the lake trade. He is one of the most charitable men in public life, and gives aWay great amounts each year. Sherman and Brice. Ohio has two wealthy Senators. Mr. Sherman has acquired much of his means latterly in Washington, through shrewd operations in real estate. But Mr. Sher­ man's wealth is not to be compared with that of his colleague. Senator Calvin S. Brice, who lives in New York and Washington. Mr. Brice is most liberal with his means and p r o b a b l y s p e n d s more money than any other man n in the Senate. H dresses in the lates fashions and d wotes considerable attention to his gar- stoeta, aai h* ta w** well established as a tta» of Wtrgf BMans. Mr. Perkias, of California, is one of the wealthiest men in the West He his money in the beginning by fortunate ventures in whaling vessels, having been at one time a sailor before the mast The nearest calculation that caa be made of these men's financial affairs gives a total of just twelve men of mil­ lions in the Senate to-day. These are Aldrich, Cameron, .Tones, McMillan, Per­ kins, Proctor, and Sherman among the Republicans, and Brice, Camden, Mur­ phy, Smith and Gorman among the Dem­ ocrats. There are new eighty-six Sen­ ators sitting in the chamber, so that these millionaires form "out a little over 14 per c4t of the total membership. ^lUNDER OF A CHURCH. . Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the Head p the Boston Christian Scientist*. Rev. Mary Baker Eddy is the founder and recognized head of the Christian Science Church, which denomination has just erected a magnificent structure In BKV. MABT BAKEB EDDY. Boston, costing over $200,000. The Bos­ ton church was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the first meeting held on April 19, 1879. Mrs. Eddy was born in Concord, N. H., in 1825. Bhe married Colonel Grover at an early age, but he lived only one year. In 1866 she met with a severe accident and her case was pronounced hopeless by the physicians. One Sun­ day morning, when her death was hourly expected, she suddenly became aware ot angelic presence and ministration, re­ quested those with her to withdraw, but soon, to their bewilderment, she walked into the adjoining room. Her friends thought she had died, and that they saw her apparition. Since that time she has been a believer in the principle of divine healing, which she has preached for nine- teen years. In 1887 she married Dr. Asa Gilbert Eddy. FARMERS' ALLIANCE IN 8ESSION CLEVELAND'S FINANCIAL MEA8- By the Close Vote of 101 to 134 the House Refuse* to Indorse the Pres- ident's pian for the jt^ ̂̂ tfca national Tremmrr. • - •*" 1 1 y • Lost in the House. The last hope of financial legislation foe the relief of the treasury at the pres­ ent session of Congress went by the board when the House of Representa­ tives Thursday afternoon, by a vote of 134 to 161, rejected the administration bill to authorise ail issue of $500,000,000 gold bonds. The bill was beaten before it reached its last parliamentary stage. This result was reached after three days of spirited and at times heated debate, and at the end of a seven-hour session. From 11 until 3:30 o'clock, when the bill with the pending substitutes was reported to the House from the committee of the whole, amendments were offered in rapid succession, most of which were voted down as fast as they were offered. Many of them were designed to load down the >bil1, and the votes thereon were in no . sense test votes. The Bell amendment, ;for Instance,/to make the bonds payable in gold and7silver, was defeated by the decisive vote of 76 to 106, while the bill Oiwft® defeated by 134 to 1C1. Both the Reed and Cox substitutes, with the amendments thereto, were rejected after the bill was reported to the House. When the Question came up oh the third reading and engrossment of the bill the whole opposition concentrated. While the vote was being taken, which result­ ed in the refusal of the House to order the third reading, .the interest centered in the vote of Mr. Reed. He sat quietly in hla •seat during the first call, and did not an- ®wer to his name, but on the second call *ie voted for the bilL As soon as the re­ sult was announced Mr. Reed offered an explanation of the attitude of himself and those of his colleagues who had voted for the bill, but objections were made. He afterward explained, however, that he had submitted a proposition (his own lain stitute) which he considered would meet the situation. The Democrats had re­ jected this, and then he and many of his colleagues, although opposed to features of the bill, had voted for it in the hope that it. would pass and be amended in the Senate. Mr. Springer then moved to re­ consider the vote by which the third reading was refund, but this motion was laid on the table, 135 to 123, and the bill was killed. • Of those who voted for the bill ninety- two were Democrats and forty-two Re­ publicans. The negative vote was given by ninety-seven Democrats, fiftfrf^i -Re­ publicans and eight Populists. I FLOODED WITH OLD Sti Pennsylvania also gorman. has two Senatorial representatives who have great wealth. Quay and Cameron. Mr. Quay has acquired bis money through shrewd speculations, and is rank­ ed quite high among the men of afflu­ ence in the Senate, though he may not have a million at present. His col-' iteague, Don Cameron, is probably the only man in the Senate who inherited his trealth. The bulk of his wealth came from his father, the late Senator Cam­ eron. This singular exception to the rule points the fact that the American Senate is far different from the English House of Lords, which is filled with hereditary millionaires. Senator Proctor-, of Vermont, is one of the Senators in very easy circumstances. He is one of the richest men in the New England delegation JOHN P. JONBa. Spanish Pretender*. --Sefiator Castclar is responsible for this story of a queer meeting of all the Spanish pretenders: During the Paris Exposition of 187s the late Duke of Aosta, who had been King Amadeo of Spain, was introduced to the ex-Queen Isabella, and called on hrer at her pal­ ace. In the ante-room he passed, going out the Due de Montpensier, Isabella's brother-in-law, who had helped to de­ prive her of her throne, whom the elec­ tion of Amadeo had prevented from se­ curing the crown for himself. On en­ tering the drawing-room he noticed a military-looking young man, whom Isa­ bella led to him, saying: "I want to present to you my cousin, Don Carlos." They shook hands and were talking, when a chamberlain announced the Marquis de Molius, Embassador to his majesty Alfonso XII., Isabella's son. Whereupon the Duke of Aosta took his leave, as the puzzle was getting too complicated. Liquid Fish. '* Fish are reduced to small pieces, mixed with a suitable quantity of wa­ ter and cooked in a close vessel by means of steam, the temperature being; raised to ISO degrees--170 degrees C Wliep all the soluble parts have bee extracted by the water the liquid ii first passed through a sieve, and aft' skimming off the fatty matter it co stitutes the fish essence, which ma; be used as food, either alone or in con junction with other nutritions sub­ stances. The waste parts of the fish, together wi4h what remains on the sieve, are used for manure, after being first mixed with a suitable amount of lime, clay, or similar diluent--Scien­ tific American. , in Congress. Sena­ tor Hale has wealth, though most of his financial fame is re­ flected from the for­ tune of his wife, the daughter of the late Zach Chandler, of Michigan. The lat­ est New England man to join the ranks of the men of affluence is Senator* Aldrich, of Rhode Island, who has, during the past year or two, reached the^ million mark. Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, ik classed as one of the richest men on the Republican side. He has made great sums in the manufacture of flour: A neighbor &f Mr. Washburn, geographical­ ly, is Senator Mitchell, of Wisconsin. He ha*, up to a recent time, been classed as a man of millions, but the panic ef 1803 ha-s, it is understood, reduced his in­ vestments. t"he two Nevada Senators, Jones and Stewart also had frequent reverses. At present both are wealthy. Senator Wolcott, of Colora­ do, is reported to be wealthy, and is known to be owner of considerable min- ing land in the West He is prob- ^ v . ably the best dress- / ed man in the Sen- \ vt ate. hill. Few Southern men have fortunes. A1 most without exception the Senators from south of the Mason and Dixon's ne are poor in comparison with their Northern colleagues. Mr. McCaffrey, of Louisiana, ptobably jSB ranks as the wealth- W. L. DOUCLA $3 SHOE NOSaUKAKII And other ap«clsltl .league, Murphy, who has iqide a Vast fortune from brewing. Gorman Five Times a Millionaire. Senator Gorman is act generally known to be a millionaire, yet the fact is now well established that he has pass­ ed the five million mark. This is due to his wonderfully sagacious business Resolutions Passed Denouncing the Issue of Bonds. The Supreme Council of. the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union met in annual convention at Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday. The hall in which the meet­ ings are held showed, among other fea­ tures of interest, a large picture of L. L. Polk, the first president of the organiza­ tion, and under whose leadership it mado its greatest progress and exerted its great­ est influence. United States Senator-elect Marion Butler, president of the National Alli­ ance, called the council to order and pre­ sented Mayor Badger, who delivered the address of welcome. The Mayor, in his remarks, referred to efforts of a malig­ nant character to create prejudice be­ tween the laborers of the city and the la­ borers of the country, and hoped that the influence of the alliance might be direct­ ed toward a cessation of all such schemes. President Mowborne, of the North Caro­ lina State Alliance, welcomed the council on behalf of the State. Responses were made by H. L. Loucks, of South Dakota, ex-president of the organization, and I. E. Dean, of New York. At the evening meeting of the council the following resolutions on the currency question were adopted: 'Whereas, It is currently reported that another bond issue has been determined upon by the President; and 'Whereas, In our opinion existing stat­ ute laws do not authorize such issue, neither do present emergencies require it; and 'Whereas, The power is now reposed in the general government to meet such pressing contingencies by the plain terms of existing laws; therefore, "Resolved, That this national council of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, in regular annual session assem­ bled, enter our solemn and most earnest protest against such issue. "Resolved, That instead, the adminis­ tration be urged to employ the option al­ lowed by law and pay out silver as well as gold when coin is demanded for the treasury notes. "Resolved, That if this does not . end the present emergency, the government be requested to issue, non-interest bearing full legal ten.ffer treasury notes." CROP STATISTICS* Quantity and Value of the Wheat and Corn Crops Last Tear. The corn crop in the United States last year was worth $554,719,162, which is the smallest valuation since 1885. The average for the ten years from 1870 to 1879, inclusive, was $504,571,048, for the ten years from 1880 to 1889 it was $668,- 042,320, and for the five years from 1890 to 1894 it was $675,872,820. The wheat crop last year was worth only $225,902.- 025, which, with the exception of 1893, when it was still lower, was less than that of any year since 1870. The average value of the wheat crop from 1870 to 1879 was $327,407,258, more than $100,- 000,000 more than the total for last year. The average from 1880 to 18S9 was $371,- 809,504, more than $150,000,000 above the total of last year, while for the last five years the average was $321,886,335. These figures will surprise people. That the low price of wheat was not due to overproduction in this country is Shown by the fact that the entire erop in the United States in 1894 was only 460,267,416 bushels, while the average for the previous five years was 470,678,- 028 bushels. The total for 1892 was 515,949,P00 bushels, and for 1891 it was 611,780,000 bushels. The average value of wheat a bushel last year was 49.1 cents, while the average for the previous five years was 67.5 cents; for the ten tfears from 1880 to 1889 it was 82.7 cents, and for the ten years from 1870 to 1879 it was $1,049. The statistics of the crop by States, «which have just been compiled by the Agricultural Department, furnish a very interesting comparison. The following shows the greatest wheat producing States in the Union and the quantity and value of the -crop last year: State. Bushels. Value. Ohio ....,.*....48.444,471 $23,737,921 Indiana.. 48,(544,084 20,076,269 Minnesota 37,752,453 18,498,702 Kansas 35,315,259 15,538,714 North Dakota .. .38,035,900 14,463,437 Illinois 33,312,370 14,990,567 California 30,376,705 17,314,722 Missouri 23,353,920 10,062,186 Michigan .......20,232,058 10,520,670 Pennsylvania . ..18,848,700 10,555,272 The following table shows the States- producing the largest crop of corn last year and the quantity and value of ea«t: WILL TRY GOTHAM OFFICERS. Ltexow ̂Committee Will Empty lis Dragnet Before Justice Williams* •^Considerable ftSterfcst centers about Justice Pardon C. Williams, who will try the New Yoi?Ie officers indicted for brib­ ery and extdrtion by the LexoW Investi­ gating Committee. Justice Williams is a tall, broad-shouldered man upon whom the weight y of 52 summers and winters rests but lightly. He was born in Ellis- burg, Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1843. He educated himself by working his way through Clinton Institute and St Law­ rence University. In 1863 he was admit­ ted to the practice of law, and in five years had taken such high rank in law and politics thai he was chosen district attorney of Jefferson County. In 1884 he became a justice of the Supreme Court in the Fifth Judicial District of New York State, and has since presided at sixteen murder trials. Judge Williams has two N C. WILLIAMS. *BS. •. B. Stajuf" Illinois ..... Missouri ,.. Indiana .... Iowa Ohio Texas ...... Tennessee .. Kentucky Bushels. Value. 169,121,491 $65,957,381 116,011,654 46,404,062 96,888,377 35,848,609 81,344,030 36,604,805 71,973,737 * 30,948,707 69,338,676 38,829,(559 68,000,316 26,543,523 67,892,297 29,772,611 Some peculiarities will be noticed this table also. Iowa got mora^fSr"her corn than Indiana, although sh/produced 15,000,000 bushels less. TexasCgot $2.- 000,000 more than Iowa, although she produced 12,000,000 bushels less, Ind $3,- 000,000 more than Indiana, although she produced 27,000,000 bushels less. Texas sold her crop for $12,000,000 more thnn Tennessee, although there was a differ­ ence of only 1,300,000 bushels in tho quantity. '• III COUNCIL AND COUlVTt The Brooklyn Trolley Magnates Are Still Hampered on All Sides. VER four weeks have passed since the inauguration of the Brooklyn trolley strike, and the 5,000 men who went out for something better than starvation wages are still out and are as determine ed as ever. To bi- sure, the companies have succeeded is securing help froift all ever the country by offering steady werk aad big wages, but the new men are inexperienced and incompetent, and hundreds of cars have been damaged and daughters and af i whist •/ son. and is very fond Valentine H. Ketckam assigned at To ledo, O. The liabilities a*S not know* but. Will exceed $100,000, mm i'1 Monday crowd sf 12,000, composed of strikers an_ their friends, assembled at the City Hall They were kept moving by tho police, bu the best ef order was maintained. Thi strikers accomplished their object--t show the Commen Council, then in set sioa, aad the city officials their strang­ le the evening another great meetin was held, which was addressed by n$ot n&n. jested in the small vQiagO Of Kaneville, 111., because of the astoaiaLlag success of the celebrated s t a m p c o l l e c t i n g "chain." It has brought into promi­ nence two worthy dwellers in Kane­ ville, Mrs. Edrta R. Oarmin, better known to thousands of benevolent stamp contributors as fld- na Brown, and tho hard working fourth class postmaster of Kaneville, Mr. _. Shoellhorn. Sana Brown, who is a native of Jeffer- New York> cam® to Kaae-- IniL 2r yearB a*°- Here she be- TP*®* Oharles Garman. A min ?5h er,betrothed k Miss Mettie Gar- fliSd R, crjwle, having been af- spinal trouble for the last J Tk ?• °r BiDC® 8he waa 6 years ^ n"law becoming greatly attached to the young girl, and having heard of a cripple in Sycamore, 111., who set out to. collect 1,000,000 cancelled stamps, from the sale of which he hoped to get money to purchase a cork leg, con­ ceived the idea of making a similar col­ lection with a view to getting money .jo pay for Miss German's treatment intm hospital. Miss Brown wrote to friends at her old aome in New York for assistance in swell- iag the collection of canceled stami There one of her friends suggested the collection by geo­ metrical progression. Miss Brown approv­ ed the idea, and con­ sequently the first letter was launched by the New YdHs lady la Edna R. B r o w n ' s n a m e , which is on most of the letters now go­ ing the rounds of the whole United States, as well as Canada and Mexico. the plan never dreamed of th§ results that this original letter has brought about After the start the good-natured public took hold with a will, and canceled stamps are pouring into the Kaneville post offiat,. Miss Brown, who has now become Mtk. Garman, is receiving from 10,000 to 15,- 000 letters every day, and already has on hand millions of canceled stamps which she does not want and has no idea how to dispose of. ; Postmaster Shoellhorn, meanwhile, has the distinction of handling more mail daily than any other fourth-class post­ master ever did. One day recently he turned over 20,000 letters to Mrs. Gar­ man. As Kaneville is - not on any rail­ road, the mail is brought once a day by stage from Sugar Grove, eight miles away. Before the "chain" got in work­ ing order only a handful of letters arriv­ ed daily; now there are bags of them, and the trouble continues to grow. Where it will end no one knows, but the postmaster and Mrs. Garman devoutly wish to ham the thing stopped at the earliest possibil moment. , So far as is known there has been no offer for the canceled stamps. The whole > outbreak seems to have been the result of a mistaken idea that there was a market somewhere for these worthless bits of paper. It is estimated that if the "chain** could remain unbroken Mrs. Garman would receive in round numbers 1,076,- 877,000,000,000,000,000,000 letters. If each letter contained 10 canceled stamps Mrs. Garman would receive 11,845,647.- 000,000,000,000,000,000 stamps, iucluf- the stamps on the envelopes. Tlifc' cost for the complete chain would' be $64,612,620,000,000,000,000,000. Of course the chain could not be completed*. but if two out of every three responded Mrs. Garman would receive 2,251,800*- 000,000,000 letters and 24,769,800,1 000,000 canceled stamps at a cost $135,108,000,000,000. POSTMASTBB WJLHOKW. The originators ef >4* 1 toil JUDGE HOWELL E. JACKSON, Who Will Soon Retire from the 8i|* >.-• v preme Bench. A bill has been introduced Into th# - • United States Senate looking to the r$>v tirement of Howell E. Jackson as asso* ciate justice of the Supreme Court of tho- United States, on the ground of illnesk and Judge Jackson will probably soon sever his connection with that benefit, Howell E. Jackson was born at Parii, Henry County, Tenn., April 8, 1832. Hav­ ing received an academic education, hfc entered the West Tennessee College A| Jackson, from which institution he grad­ uated in 1849. In the following year hs JUDGh, JACKSOIT. entered the University of Virginia as completed the course there. He studi« law and was duly admitted to the ba&t first practicing in Jackson. Then, ijp 1858. he removed to Memphis. He was appointed receiver of West. Tennessee under the Confederate Sequestration a at the beginning of hostilities in '61. A ter war he returned to Memphis ani to the study of his profession. In thQ; 70's he returned to his old home in JacKp' son. In 1880 he was elected to the Legis­ lature and in 1881 became United Stat Senator. In 1886 he was appointed ei cuit judge of the United States from ti sixth judicial district. He became a: ciate justice of the Supreme Court of t! United States in 1893, filling the vacan caused by the death Of Judge L. Q. Lamar. f Telegraphic Brevitlc Ralph Of Ruby, American vice and uty confui at Belfast, Ireland, is dead, The tin-plate plant of the Oliver Irotf^' .v, and Steel Company at Pittsburg, Patg! Jfarted up. p George Chapin, of the Chicago liquc# firm of Chapia A Gore, died at Santa - Barbara, Cal. ' ' ; , V' Gov. McKinley announces he is not candidate for Senator Brice's seat lea' ing a clear field to Foraker. J. E. Holman, of Kokomo, Ind., has people killed and injured through their J disappeared in_ Indian carelessness and ignorance. Monday a •v*<l<Wn»*i»lative8 fear.V" - in 8tocka at lowest prices. are for the wants of >uf ctt totners. ast iavors we shall hope to merit an< same. 1895