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mmorn state pays DU PAST WEEK. ........ &£ *. «U THE , Wonld-Be BigamUt la Arrested at • the Instigation of His Deserted Wife «"®onght a Orewume Place to Die-- . Oalena Gets a Spanish Cannon* •* Herman Padl Hoffman, alias Pa«l ThesSing, married pretty Llllie White at Mason City six years ago. He afterward deserted her in Florida and now lies in jail charged with desertion, just as he Was about to marry another girl at Jack­ sonville, Fla. the wedding cake having already been baked for the event. After their marriage the Hoffmans went to Florida and lived at several interior points. It is alleged that he deserted his family at Orlando some three years ago. At Lakeiand he got into some trouble and bad to flee with the sheriff after him, ac­ cording to the police report. Mrs. Hoff­ man went to Jacksonville and secured a living for herself and two children as best *he could. Recently her brother met her husband on the streets. Hoffman at first denied his identity. Later he admitted that he was her husband, but refused to do anything for his wife and dodged out Of sight, Mrs. Hoffman had the police Informed and a watch was kept. He was located and taken by the police after a lively chase. As the officers entered the front door Hoffman darted upstairs. The yonng girl to yhom he wps to be jnarrio^ aided him. They opened a window and Hoffman, getting out, was lowered by the hands of his "intended" till her arms were extended to their full length, when he dropped and ran. The police soon caught him. Mrs. Hoffman means to press her ekgrges of desertion. Peeks Death In a Morgue. Jeter Junius of Chicago sought a morgue in which to commit suicide. He then drank embalming fluid and died with­ out haviug regained consciousness. Ju­ nius was a peddler. For several months he had been without regular employment. He had been engaged to do odd jobs at on undertaking establishment and several times he had helped to carry bodies in to the basement morgue. Mr. Birens left Junius in charge of the establishment at noon while he went out for a short time. During his absence the peddler went to the morgue and drank nearly a pint of embalming fluid. When the undertaker returned he found him unconscious and an ambulance was summoned. Junius was taken to the hospital, where he died. tm was 42 years old and unmarried. Spanish Cannon for Galena. A huge steel rifled cannon taken from the Vizcaya has been secured for Galena by Congressman R. R. Hitt and will be placed on a mound in Grant Park, along' aide the bronze statue of Gen. Grant and will be in position by April 27, when Post­ master General Charles Emory Smith of Washington will visit Galena and be the orator on the occasion of the annual cele­ bration of Grant's birthday. The cannon is of five and a half inch bore, weighs five and a half tons and is eighteen feet long. It was made at Bilboa, Spain* .in 1894. Illinolann'a Trip la Fatal. John A. Beckman of Pullman, who re­ turned to Skaguay from Dawson over the Ice a few weeks ago, died there of ex­ posure. His family were, on their way to meet him, and he intended to take them in over the trail. He had a hard trip out and was not strong enough to stand it. He was buried by the Knights of Pythias. Car Company Raises Employes' Wage*. Notices have been posted at the plant of the Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company stating that the men would be given an increase of 5 to 10 per cent in their wages. The company is said to have orders ahead for 1,700 cars. About 200 employes will be benefited. Brief State Happening* At Mattoon, ci^ht slot machine opera- tore were fined $100 each. The miners of the Mount Vernon mines have quit work pending a settlement of the wage question, Thaddeus G. Algerman of the Twenti­ eth Kansas regimentfi reported wounded in the fighting near Manila, is a Peoria boy. George E. Brown, aged 24, who myste­ riously disappeared from Seymour, Ind., several days ago, is believed by detectives to be the man whose body was found in a box car at Armour's plant in the Chicago stock yards. „ Bertha Willis, # popular young woman of Galesburg. died there the other day. She was to have been married at once to Julius Skockel and was buried in her wed­ ding garments. The funeral took place at the hour appointed for the wedding. The sale of the Leland Hotel property in Chicago has been closed. Bryant H. Barber of Polo is the purchaser. Mr. Bar­ ber pays $650,000 for the ground, $225,000 in cash, and a consideration for the lease­ hold. The Indiana and Illinois Southern Rail­ way has been formally transferred to the Illinois Central, and will hereafter be op­ erated as an independent division of the Matter road. The Illinois Central now has a'direct line into the Indiana block coal ields. Even death could not separate John and J."C. Cameron, brothers, of Morris, who have been constant companions for the best part of a century, and the two ex­ pired within one hour. The Cameron brothers, who were aged 70 and 83 years, settled in that section forty years ago. They always remained bachelors, living In their farm house near Morris all that time. Unusual affection seemed to link the two and one was seldom seen without the other. Each was unhappy when they were separated and their likes and dis­ likes were shared in common. Only a brief sickness preceded the deaths, dissolution being principally due to the infirmities of age. Tbe two were buried side by side. . Dr. Gray Taggart died at Galesburg ef pneumonia. He was aged 33 years. Dr. Taggart graduated from the Northwest­ ern Medical University of Chicago in 1804. Two months ago he was married to Miss Bertha Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Davis. Gov. Tanner has approved Representa­ tive Lxoe's bill amending the law in rela­ tion to the soldiers' orphans' home so as (o authorize the trustees to find suitable home*? for orphan children admitted to the Institution. The bill also opens the doors , ef the home to 'the orphans of soldiers in the Syanish-American war. . Tho State Board of Chacities has elect- Mi John T. Peters of Springfield secretary to succeed Dr. Fred H. Wines, who has been appointed assistant director of the census. \ William Steele of Mortis has developed I peculiar disease in his Mt eye which Chicago specialists pronounce diphtheria ef the eye. It is claimed to be the fourth case on record since the discovery of anti- toxin. Conrad Wicks, a brakemaa for the Chi­ cago, Rock I slaw) and Pacific Railroad. Was crushed to death white making a «oupJtng between two passenger cars near ||e Rock Island statiwo la Chicago the sri1 Carthage will hare paved itnttn A new M. E. Church is to be built at Sidney. B. L. Bauscher, 73 years old* employed aa a night watchman at 106 Twenty-third street, Chicago, was killed by in electric car. Fred Schottenfels, 18 year*, old, son ot Dr. Etnil Schottenfels of Chicago, died of poisoning. It is believed he committed suicide. John Newman, a laborer, who lived at 2529 100th Btreet, South Chicago, dropped dead on the street. Heart disease was tne cause. At Mount Carmel, Dr. Sereno W. Schenck was married to Miss Mabel Wil­ kinson, only daughter of ex-Mayor R. T. Wilkinson of that cityi George Henry Wilmarth of Aurora was elected president of the senior class in the University of Illinois over James Clement Ketchum of Champaign. The body of Emma Hemmilwright, one of the victims of the Armour felt works fire at Chicago, was taken from the ruins of the building the other, day. Mrs. Christina Feldt, who figured prom* inently as a witness in the Luetgert case, was married to Albert Link of Crown Point, Ind., by Judge Tuthill in Chicago. D. F. Dumser, Elgin, fell from the rear platform of a north-bound train at the Twenty-sixth street station of the South Side elevated in Chicago and was killed. John Cook of Chicago was killed by a South Side elevated train on the loop at Wabash avenue ftfid Van Buren street. He was employed as a porter by the Union Loop Company. . * Chesterfield was visited by a disastrous fire, which destroyed the Chesterfield Min- itor printing plant, Forth & Son's grocery store and the office of Dr. N. A. Crouch. Very little insurance. Nearly all the wheat through central Illinois, from Danville to Havana, consid­ ered the best portion of the State, is dead. There was a large acreage sown last fall. Farmers are discouraged. The Quincy Chamber of Commerce has inaugurated semi-monthly stock sales at the city market. At a recent sale the highest priced horse brought only $10, and a cow and a calf sold for $2. A fire, which started in the second-story flat of the building^ at 323 Chicago avenue, Chicago, rented by Mrs. Mary J. Fisher, drove the occupants of the three flats into the street and caused $1,000 damage. In the hovel contest for school trustee between James Mansfield, Republican, and his wife, Democratic, in Rio town­ ship, Mrs. Mansfield received 64 plurality, the largest given any candidate on the ticket. Stephenson Post, No. 30, G. A. R., of Springfield, has unanimously determined to present to the department encampment at Danville next month the name of Capt. John B. Inman for department command­ er of Illinois. A mac supposed to be Joseph Ponda of Calumet* Mich., committed suicide in the toilet room of the union depot at Chicago by shooting himself through the heart. In his possession was found a ticket to Co­ lumbus, Ohio, $50 and a slip of paper bearing the name of Ponda. A traiz.p about 24 years of age was found in a critical condition on the farm of Ed Wunderleich, near Reynoldsville. He craw l«d into a haystack one night re­ cently to sleep, and during the night the stack was destroyed by fire and he was horribly burned. Wunderleich had refus­ ed to gh 9 the tramp permission to lodge in the hay. Eighteen hundred miners in southern Macoupin County were idle for several days. The Consolidated and Madison companies refused to grant the hoisting engineers of shafts at Mount Olive, Staun­ ton, Gill^ypie and Clyde a raise to $70 a month, Qiyht-hour days, and 30 cents an hour for extra labor. At Sorento and Coffeen tie raise has been given and the shafts a#e in operation. Staunton expe­ rienced a coal famine. Mystery surrounds the identification of a man who committed suicide in the Wag­ ner Hott>l in Chicago by inhaling illumi­ nating gaa. The man called at tbe hotel and regiuiered as Joseph Smith, giving his residence as Chicago. In the After­ noon the proprietor of the hotel forced an entrance u> the room and found the body of the guest lying in bed. Several gas jets in the roojn were open and it was evident that death had resulted from asphyxia­ tion. August Barthel, a prominent attorney of Bellevce, has separated from his wife. He has given her all the property they had--aboct $14,000--except their resi­ dence, which he retains. Deeds of separa­ tion and transfer of the property have been signed and recorded. One of the wit­ nesses to the deeds was Chris Hilgenstein of Freeborg. The other day Barthel went to his lav office, but suddenly returned home. The kitchen door was locked. He burst opea a door and discovered Chris Hilgenstgln with Mrs. Barthel. Barthel told his Tpife that all was ended between them and made the settlement then and there, compelling Hilgenstein to witness the signlug of the deeds. Twenty-five hundred dollars in spurious coins and currency and a complete set of counterfoiting apparatus were seized by Captain Porter of the Government secret service in a flat on the secoud floor at 198 Ontario street a few days ago, and Chas. M. Benaett, leader of an alleged gang of counterfeiters and forgers, was arrested. An accomplice leaped from a second-story window in the building when the raid was made and escaped. Several others are believed to be implicated in the making and passing of the spurious money. Cap­ tain Porter was amazed at the magnitude of the plant. The spurious moneys, man­ ufactured in pieces from 10 cents to $10 bills, almost filled a trunk and the appara­ tus which was recovered is said to be of the finest make. The counterfeit turned out could have scarcely been detected ex­ cept by an experienced eye. The paper money I) said to be almost without flaw and the silver coins are so nearly perfect that hundreds of the spurious dollars and smaller pieces are now believed to be In circulation. A strike was recently declared at the Rock Island arsenal, 300 machinists ftoin* out because the commandaut, Maj. S. E. Blunt, declined to accede to certain de­ mands made by the men as to the regu­ lation of shops and wage scale without advices from the ordnance department. The Tuscola Journal's correspondent re­ ports a find of silver ore on the farm of James Morris at Brusby Fork, stating that a Western expert pronounced tfce ore worth $400 a ton. Morris refused $30,000 for his 20-acre farm and is to re­ ceive a third of the profits for the mining rights. Shelby County has a gold mine. Sam­ ples submitted to expert miners and later tested by an assayer in Chicago proves that pay dirt has been found. Arrange­ ments are now under way to develop the mine. The Shelbyville Mining Company has been formed. Municipal elections in Illinois resulted in Republican victories at Springfield, Woodstock, Vandalia, Galesburg, Elgin, Peoria, Decatur, Champaign, Rock Isl­ and, Monmouth and Mattoon. The Dem­ ocrats carried Ottawa, Pana, Kankakee, Freeport and Quincy. Rockford and Au­ rora elected non-partisan tickets and raized results are reported at Pekin and IT KEEPS PACE TRIAL DEVELOPMENT. Fnel Output of the ftalted States Haa Increased Until It Now Amonnta to Twenty-five Per Cent, of the World's Total Production. The announcement that the rapid in­ crease in exportation oif coal from the United States is causing uneasiness among British coal producers and ex­ porters lends Interest to some figures on the coal production of the world and especially of the United States, just is­ sued by the Treasury Bureau of Statis­ tics. From these it appears that the coal production of the United States is now nearly five times as much as in 1870, that the exportation has In that time increased from a quarter of a mill­ ion tons to over four million tons, and that the United States, which in 1870 supplied but 17 per cent, of the world's output, now furnishes about 25 per ?ent. The part played by coal in industrial productiveness explaln^-the phenome­ nal increase of fuel output noted In these statistics. Just as no other coun­ try can match the industrial growth of the United States under the policy of ISrotection, so no other country shows such a rapid increase in coal produc­ tion as does the United States. Great Britain's average annual coal product, as shown by, a recent and widely quoted statistical publication of the Swedish government, in the five-year period, 1871-5, amounted to 127,000.000 tons, and in 1891-5 amounted to 185,000,000 tons, an increase of 45 per cent, in the average annual output. Germany's av­ erage annual coal product in the period 1871-5 was 45,000,000 tons, and in the five-year period 1891-5 was 97,000,000 topis, an increase of 115 per cent. The average annual coal production of Frauce in the period 1871-5 was 16,000,- 000 tons, and in the term 1891-5, 27,000,- 000 tons, an increase of 70 per cent. The average annual coal production of the United States in the period 1871-5 was 45,000,000 tons, and in tlAs period 1891-5, according to our own figures, was 132,000,000 tons, an increase of 193 per cent. The average annual output of "other countries" not individually spe­ cified was in 1871-5, 34,000,000 tons, and in 1891-5, 79,000,000 tons, an in­ crease of 132 per cent. The total aver­ age annual output of the world in 1871- 5 was in round numbers 266,000,000 tons, and in 1891-5 520,000,000 tons, an ancrease of 95 per cent. Omitting the United States, the annual output in 1871-5 averaged 221,000,000 tons, and the average in 1891-5 was 388,000,000 tons, an increase of 75 per cent. Comparing the growth of coal pro­ duction of the United States with other parts of the world in the periods named, the record stands as follows: Growth of Coal Production of Leading Coun­ tries, Comparing Average Annual Output In the Period 1871-5 with that of Period 18915: Increase, 1871-5 to 1881-3. Per cent. Great Britain .. 45 Prance 70 Germany ...115 Other countries (omitting U. S) 132 World (omitting United States 75 Wr-rld (Including United States 95 United States .....193 Both the area of coal production and quantity produced have increased greatly in the United States/ In 1870 the number of States In which coal was produced was but 20, while in 1897 the number was 32. In 1870 the produc­ tion of anthracite coal was reported only from Pennsylvania, while the cen­ sus of 1880 reports production in Penn­ sylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia, and aiore recent reports show a pro­ duction of anthracite coal in Colorado and New Mexico. In the South the in­ crease has been especially rapid. Ala­ bama In 1870 mined but 11,000 tons of coal, And in 1897, 5,262,000 tons. Ken­ tucky, which in 1870 mined but 150,000 tons of coal, produced in 1897, 3,216,- 000 tons. Tennessee increased her out­ put from 133,000 tons in 1870 to 2,500,- 000 tons in 1897, and Virginia, which produced but 62,000 toas in 1870, pro­ duced 1,364,000 tons In 1897. The following tables show the coal production of the United States and prices in the Philadelphia and Balti­ more markets at five-yes.? periods from 1870 to 1898; also the exportation of coal from the United States during the same period: Quantity of Co»l produced In the United States, 1870 to 1897. Anthracite, Bituminous "was the going of one road after another ) into the bands of a receiver. Now near- j ly every week brings the report of the WmS iwnti^°*f W or P>ore new rail* *6ad companies. The published reports of the roads already iu existence show increased earnings and a growing vol­ ume of business. The general prosperity of the rail­ roads goes to make a part of the mass of evidence, easily obtainable, which proves that the prosperity which results from a protective tariff is by no means limited to those persons who are en­ gaged in industries, the products of which are subject to tariff duties. Pro­ tection means prosperity for the whole country. The industrial system is one of interdependence and the prosperity of one branch of industry mesas the prosperity of many other#; "LICK ME AND I'LL BE QOOO.' Total tons. tons. 17,199.415 82,883, 41.860.055 70.481.42fi 70.50] ,024 102,124..VW 78,011,224 114,628.266 94,899,496 141.410,973 106,222.516 147,860,380 Average Annual Price Per Ton of Anthracite (at Philadelphia) and of IMtuminous (at Baltimore) Coal, 1870 to 1898. Anthracite, Bituminous, tons. 1870 15,684,27-" 1880 28,621.371 1885 31,623.529 1890 36,017.042 1895 46 511,477 1897 41.637.S64 dollars. dollars. 1870. .........«... 4.3» 4.72 1880. 4.53 3.75 1885. .... 4.10 2.25 18!*>. K.93 2.60 i8sr>. 8.30 2.00 1898. 3.50 1.00 Exportation of Coal from the United States, 1870 to 1S07. Anthracite, Bituminous, Total tons. tons. tons. 1870. .... 121,<9S 106,820 227.918 1880. 392.626 222,634 615,260 I880. .... .58H.461 683.481 1.271.942 1890. 7D.Y753 1,130,068 1,931.821 1895. .... 1,3!>7.204 2.374,9y8 3.772,192 1898. .... i,S26,5S2 2,682,414 4,008,996 Panics and Panic*. Trade reports from all over the coun­ try continue to tell of remarkable busi­ ness activity, with prices strong and steady, collections good and an Increas­ ing demand In all lines of trade. One correspondent to a trade paper sized up the situation as a "buyers' panic." That is the kind of a "panic" that a protec­ tive tariff always brings about. In 1893. under the free trade administra­ tion of Mr. Cleveland, with Its tariff re­ form Wilson-Gorman law we had an­ other kind of a panic, the kind that has always followed upon every experiment made with free trade or any approach to it by this country; a panic when banks failed, factories closed, business tnen went to the wall and Idle workmen walked the streets. It is safe to say that the people of the country prefer the "buyers' panic" of 1899 under pro­ tection to the sort of panic we had in 1893 under partial free trade. Interdependent Prowperlt*. The railroad news of 1898 and 1899 under the DIngley law offers a striking contrast Jo the sort of railroad news which was all too common in the years of tariff reform and the Wilson-Gorman Then the regulation railroad news Fewer Fallnres. One of the commercial agencies gives the amount of the failures for the first three months of this year, as compared with the figures for the same period iu the three preceding years. The figured are as follows: 1899 *26,680,00011807 ...... .*48,008,000 1898 31,710,000| 1896 57,252,000 These are statistics which the "calam­ ity howlers" do not quote and do not re­ fer1 to, for such statistics record plainly and pleasantly the existing prosperity of the country. The difference between the early months of 1896, when the Democratic party was preparing to for­ mulate its demand for a debased cur­ rency, when money was scarce and dear, because publlti confidence in the soundness of the currency was shaken, and the opening months of 1899, when money is abundant and cheap and busi­ ness men are filled with confidence, Is like the difference between night and day. No Further Meddlina; Wanted. Nothing is more certain than that the people have had enough of Democratic tariff reform to last them for more than a generation. While the remem­ brance of the panic years from 1893 to 1897 lasts none but theorists and oth­ ers who have nothing to lose will con­ sent to further meddling with the pro­ tective tariff policy. Few others will care for more experiments with silver. Good gold money has become plenty enough since Its standard was estab­ lished, and it is rapidly becoming plen- tier. The gold mines of the world are now turning out more value each year than mines of both gold and silver pro­ duced together seven years ago. Their output is increasing. Even the advo­ cates of fiat money can now get as much gold as they will work for.--Ta- cotna Ledger. Prejudice Afcalnat Pubaldtea. The system of discriminating duties was on trial for a good many years, and it is notable that in those years there was an encouraging Increase in the number of American vessels carry­ ing the American flag. Whep the pro vision for discriminating duties was re­ pealed we began to lose our hold on ocean traffic, which went into the hands of Great Britain, a country which for two hundred years had en couraged by subsidy and bounty the upbuilding of the greatest merchant marine in the world. In this country prejudice was excited against the sub­ sidy system because in two or three cases there were evasions of contract, and in other cases It was charged that undue lobby Influence had been exert- ed.--Exchange. It la a Healthy Advance* Beside the present wage Increases in mills, mines, iron and steel works, the cheap skyrocketing antics of Wall street operators are insignificant, since they create, no values save purely fic­ tional ones. Wages are the bottom gauge to wealth and prosperity.--Bos­ ton Globe. Noticeably Silent. The wages of employes In the vari­ ous tin-plate factories of the country have been raised recently, and since then free-trade papers have been no­ ticeably silent about the "ridiculous Idea of making tin plate In this coun­ try."--New York Press. Hl«hly Reprehensible. The robber tariff is still bowling along, increasing wages of working- men and" committing other highly rep­ rehensible acts against the peace and dignity of the Democratic jiarty.--Kan­ sas City Journal. A Palace Erected Through Spite. It seems that the New Palace in Ber­ lin Is to be made sanitary by the drain­ ing of the swampy land upon which it is built. To do this it will be necessary to deepen the whole bed of the-Havel, great difficulties will have" to be\ sur­ mounted and the expense will be Enor­ mous; but this seems to be the ofcly. way in which the palace^can be made habitable. ( It is said that this palace owes its origin to pique. Frederick. the Great was riding by the site one day wh#n his adjutant told him the report was cur­ rent that he had no money left slpce his wars were ended. King Frederick was nettled, and replied, pointing to the swamps around them: "I will show them I am not so poor as they think. I will build a palace here." He was aa good as his word, and, at a tremendous outlay, built the palace, but he neglect­ ed to prepare the grounds by proper draining, and so the palace baa always been damp and unhealthful, in spite ot the beauty of the surroundings. An Interesting Bank Note. On# of the most Interesting notes in possession of the Bank of England is one for £1,000, which was given by Alexander Cochrane, afterward Lord Dundonald, in payment of a fine in­ flicted upon him some time before the battle of Waterloo. Cochrane, after destroying the French fleet in the Aix roads, was accused and convicted of a stock-jobbing fraud, and part of his sentence was the payment of a fine of £1,000. Cochrane, whose sentence was years afterward annulled, bitterly re­ sented bis punishment, and when. In July, 1815, he tendered the note In pay­ ment of the fine he made the following pathetic indorsement upon it: "My health having suffered from long and close confinement, and my oppressors having resolved to deprive me of my property or life, I submit to robbery to protect myself from murder, in the hope that I shall live to bring the delin­ quents to Justice." If we had no feelings ourselves we should not take so much pleasure In finding out those of others.--Rochefou­ cauld. Bow. Preacher Eecoaab Made Three Converts for the Church. In the interests of Christianity and to raise money for his missionary work the Rev*. Cyrus Escomb, a traveling evangelist of the Dunkard faith, par­ ticipated in three prise fights, of two, four and seven rounds, respectively. In each he was victorious, and with each victory he saved, or thinks he saved, a soul. Thd Rev. Escomb has been holding revivals at the various cattle camps near Bellefourche, S. D., for nearly a year. About the middle of January he went to Bellefourche. The citizens re­ ceived htm kindly, but the cowpunch- ers from the neighboring ranges, con­ cerning whose spiritual welfare be was especially solicitous, were not Interest­ ed in religion. His opportunity came In an unexpected way. "Chuck" Per­ kins, foreman on the "Star V" ranch, had been kicked by a vicious broncho and was indulging in considerable pro­ fanity. The Rev. Escomb overheard and rebuked him. "Chuck" instantly became abusive. The minister, nervous and irritable from his long, uphill struggle with the cattlemen, threaten­ ed him with a whipping. 'Lick me," said "Chuck" Impressive­ ly, "and I'll jlne yer church!" "Big Mike" Crane, another of the Star V" gang, and Charles Ranson, a local tough and bully, heard the con­ versation and "wanted in" in the game on the same terms. It was Crane who suggested a cash donation of $25 in aid of the clergyman's work of evangeliza­ tion for each fight he won. It was probably the clerical cut of the pastor's garments rather than any­ thing in his appearance that made the men so confident, for when they came to strip they could not help noticing that he was decidedly in the heavy­ weight class, and picked their best fighter to meet him first. Crane was their selection. The fight was fought In a corral outside of town, where there was no danger of Interruption. A big crowd gathered to watch the result. Not much skill was displayed, but what the contestants lacked In science they made up In strength, courage, and determination. To every one's aston­ ishment, the Rev. Mr. Escomb forced the fighting from the start. Crane held his own during the first and second rounds, but came up groggy in the third, and was ignominiously knocked out in the fourth. Ranson made a better showing. He lasted seven rounds and mauled his antagonist severely. The latter won more by sheer endurance and Indiffer­ ence to punishment than by superior skill. Ranson entered the ring at the beginning of the seventh round badly blown and much annoyed by the flow of blood from a cut over the eye. The Rev. Mr. Escomb saw his advantage and, availing himself of his superior weight and reach, rushed his man rap- Idly about tbe ring, beat down his guards by pure force of muscle, and finally landed a blow on his jaw under which he went down and was unable to regain his feet. ' • Perkins confessed himself beaten be­ fore he began fighting, and devoted most of his time to dodging the rever­ end gentleman's sledge-hammer fists. The latter was considerably battered, but Perkins, who had at first consider ed himself sure of victory, completely lost his nerve when he saw Crane and Ranson fall, and would, as he after ward admitted, have kept out of the ring altogether had be been able to do so creditably., He went out after two easy rounds. The Rev. Mr. Escomb held his men strictly to their agreement, and all promptly paid their money and pro­ fessed Christianity. Perkins and Crane took tlielr defeat in excellent part, and tbe minister expresses all confidence In their conversion, despite the unusual manner In which it was effected. Ranson is sullen and dissatis­ fied. He claims the clergyman fouled him, and It is doubtful If he will make a valuable or lasting addition to the evangelist's flock. Tbe latter Is an old Vermonter, pass­ ed his boyhood on a farm, spent several years in the Wisconsin lumber camps, and bore the reputation in his youth of being an almost invincible rough- and-tumble fighter. He is now about 45 years old and weighed In at the ring­ side at 197 pounds. Crane is 32 years old and tips the beam at 219. Ranson weighed 153 and Perkins 180. Kenai peninsula. Consisting merely ot battalion drill. One more trait of the real sailor Is his self-reliance, which makes him fit for facing emergencies single handed. But the Russian bluejacket has none of this. He Is not a machine in himself, but only a little bit of a machine which cannot work without the other bits. He is huge in stature--a giant compar­ ed with our men--but In his winter overcoat it Is Impossible to distinguish him from a soldier. Unhandy, seasick and reliant only on drill discipline, he is utterly unfit for active service.--Lon­ don Answers. A THRILLING FIGHT All Imagination. Doctors frequently practice a curi­ ous little trick on their patients. In some diseases medicine is not only use­ less, but actually Injurious. Yet when a man is paying money for medi­ cal attendance he expects to see some sign that he is getting due value in the shape of bottles and pill-boxes. The doctor in that case has no option but to deceive. In typhoid fever, for Instance, no known drug is of any use. The mi­ crobe must be left to tire himself out. But to please his patient the knpwing doctor always prescribes a bottle of colored water. It Is called a "place­ bo." In other cases It Is usual to give bread pills. There are many extreme­ ly nervous people to whom any kind of medicine would do harm. So the doctor gives them a couple of good- sized bread pills and says, "These will give you a sound night's rest," or "These will remove your headache." And the remarkable thing Is that they do. In fact, with bread pills the medi­ cal man can produce quite a variety of effects. Russia's Seasick Navy. Any man who believes in the Russian navy should keep his eyes off the Rus­ sian bluejacket. A real sallorman has fingers bent up like fishhooks, from the lifelong habit of gripping things. The Russian sailor carries his hands like a soldier and cannot possibly be "handy." A sailor's gait ashore has a slight roll. This arises from the need at sea of keeping up the windward side of a roll­ ing ship. And the rolling gait marks one of a sailor's finest qualities--bal­ ance. Unless tbe body poises and bal­ ances to meet every motion of a ship the result Is seasickness. Now, the Russian bluejacket does not roll in his gait ashore, but marches. Neither has he any sense of balancing at sea, and seasickness in the Russian fleet is a source of actual weakness and danger. The Black Sea squadron can only pttt to sea In the three calmest months of summer, and the so-called BMMiivetS" take place aahoce oa With Knives Between Two Italian*.Ml' a High Platform. "I witnessed a knife fight between a couple of Italian sawmill hands the other day," said a resident of the Pearl river district, who Is interested in the lumber business, "and It was the most dramatic, desperate and thrilling spec­ tacle I ever laid eyes on. Neither of the men -was particularly large, but they were lithe and sinewy, and quick as lightning. How the row originated I don't know; they had been growling at each other for some time, and on this particular day things came to a focus while they were eating their lunch on a raised platform just over the log hoist. The platform was perfectly clear, and If the scene had been arrange ed for a play It couldn't have been bet­ ter. I heard the engineer call, and looked up to see the two men, bent nearly double, and wheeling around each other in rapid circles. Their evi­ dent purpose in crouhcing was to guard against a wound in the intestines, and there was something Indescribably fe­ rocious and cat-like in the attitude. They kept their left arms thrown out as fenders, clutched their knives close to their breasts, and glared silently Into each other's eyes as they passed and repassed in the quick, deadly maneu­ vering of the fight. I was so thorough­ ly spellbound I never thought of inter­ fering, even had such a thing been pos­ sible, and, after what seemed an in­ terminable period of suspense, and was realty, I dare say, only a few moments, the fighters crashed together with a swKt Interplay of blows, and one of them fell from the platform. Before he could get up or the other could get down we had them disarmed. Both were badly punished, cne having nine body wounds and the other fourteen. How they struck so many blows in such a brief passage I can't imagine. They have talked matters all over from ad­ joining cots, and are at present sworn friends. It was the most exciting show I've seen for a long time, but one goes a great ways."--New Orleans Times- Democrat LAW AS INTERPRETED. Statutes making it unlawful to play baseball on Sunday are held constitu­ tional in State vs. Powell (Ohio), 41 L. R. A. 854. A set-off of judgments was Tefused in Cleveland vs. McCanna (N. D.), 41 L. R. A. 852, where one judgment was claimed as exempt and the set-off would defeat the exemption laws. The offer of a reward for "the arrest and conviction" of an unknown pej- petrator of a crime is construed, in Has­ kell vs. Davidson (Me.), 42 L. R. A. 155, so as to entitle a person to the reward when he obtains the facts to secure the arrest and conviction without personal­ ly making the arrest. Insurance of a lessor's interest In premises on which the lessee also has procured insurance for the lessor's ben­ efit, as hid lease required him to do, is held, in Sun Insurance office vs. VaTble (Ky.). 41 L. R. A. 792, valid as to that part of the loss which remains after the application of the policies taken by the lessee, where they fall to cover the whole loss because of a stipulation for prorating. An injunction to prevent members of the supreme lodge of a fraternal bene­ ficiary association from excluding any property qualified State representatives, from the right to vote is held to be with­ in the power of a court of equity in su­ preme lodge of the Order of the Golden Chain vs. Simering (Md.), 41 L. R. A. 720; but an injunction against the per­ formance by officers of their duties, on the ground that their election was In­ valid, Is held not to be a proper remedy. SWISS BANKERS Operate According; to Blow but Bare Method*. Some of the methods of banking In Switzerland are sufficiently antiquated, according to our standards. For in­ stance, it requires fifteen minutes In which to make a deposit at a bank. Every banking house has numerous chairs outside the railing, and the vis­ itor is expected to sit quietly and culti­ vate a spirit of patience-while the ma­ chinery is getting under way. A customer who wishes to make a de­ posit goes to a window and hands in his money, together with a memoran­ dum of tbe amount. The employe be­ hind the railing counts tbe money and prepares a receipt for it, adding his sig­ nature by W'ay of preliminary. A small boy takes this receipt upstairs and submits it to an official, who stud­ ies it and then ponders for a while as to whether it will be safe to take the money. If be decides that the banh can undertake the risk he passes the re­ ceipt to another man, who prepares a duplicate slip and makes several en­ tries, and finally signs his name. As soon as another man has exam­ ined the receipt and added his name, it is taken downstairs and turned over to the depositor. There is one satisfaction the money is thoroughly deposited. Real Old Oak for Street Paring. There is a lot of live oak stored in the navy yard at Brooklyn. It was pur­ chased by the Government during the civil war for the construction of war vessels. Steel having supplanted wood, the oak Is now worthless for hulls. 2t will be used to pave atreet^ in &oot of the Officers' quarters. " ' Ten-Mile FUn. A photograph film ten miles In length is somewhat of a novelty, even in this age of big things. Three of them are now being made for use in a cinemato­ graph. Tbe cost is about $1,000 a mile. The experience of tbe society reporter of this paper is that it always makes a man mad to announce that he Is to be married, but a woman never seems to it ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS Three sessions were held on Friday morning, afternoon and evening--some­ thing very unusual indeed. Tbe Senate passed the House bill introduced by Drew providing for free employment agencies in the city of Chicago under State control. The bill had twenty-six votes, just enough to carry it. The House passed the bill introduced by Young of Cook modifying the Chicago police pension law so, that tbe widow of a pensioned policeman shall draw half the amount to which her hna- band was entitled when living. The Honse passed Newcomer's bill creating the office of State supervising architect. The office is to be filled by appointment by the Gov­ ernor at a salary of $5,000 a year for s term of four years. The supervising ar­ chitect is to have direction of the eott- «truction of all public buildings erected by the State. Speaker Sherman worked the House on Saturday from 9 o'clock in the morning until nearly 3 o'clock in the afternoon-- worked it on the advancement of bills. There were no roll calls--just a reading of bills a first and second time and shoring them along for third reading and passage or death. It was practically the last day of grace for first and second reading of House bills. Measures of every conceiv­ able hue and texture were pushed along. Every man had his chance to get his pet measure taken up. If he has let it die a natural death in belief that the session will be extended nobody is to blame hut^ himself. The Senate was not in sesahML THE SUNFLOWER. 1 "• ',iJ Many Almost Uninspected Uaea Atf it Common Garden Plant. ' ' In this country the sunflower has never been an object of general attrac­ tion. In fact, many people have con­ sidered it vulgar, although it has beau­ ties worth admiring. Old-fashioned folks, with a liking for it, have planted it as an ornamental adjunct to back yards and back-yard fences, and every­ day, practical people have found in it* seeds useful sustenance for hens. Here the catalogue of its good quali­ ties seems to end. Certainly It has not been looked upon as a plant whose sys­ tematic cultivation would increase the yearly profits of agriculturalists, as an authority upon the subject, who speaks from practical knowledge, asserts that it is. He says that the sunflower Is a staple production in Russia and China, and that millions of bushels of the seeds are harvested In those countries yearly. He strongly advocates its cultivation where conditions are favorable, by the farmers of our country, and gives a list of the valuable products which can be / extracted from it, as follows: . ^ 1. Oil from the seed. J 2. Tbe seed cake; this is tbe residue left from the seed after the oil is ex­ tracted. It could be used as a food for cattle. Also the heads and seeds, if chopped up together, can be used as -: ensilage. 3. The seed alone Is an excellent food for poultry. 4. A yellow dye is made from tbs •>' blossom. & 5. The flower piroduces very fine K honey and wax. In England one or | two farmers made nearly two hundred dollars a year from honey alone. ' l1". .3:^. ; 6. The fibre from the stalk& By ^ treating it like flax, fine, silky fibre can '• ijfjf 1 ^ be obtained in large quantities. The ' : e ? ' Chinese use it to a great.extent in thetr silk fabrics. 7. Potash from the stalks. 8. The stalks are used as fuel, .if**": "jJ ' I •« " Hi '« V Rata that Climb Trees fbr FooiiL 4 The expedition sent from England under C. W. Andrews to explore Christ­ mas Island (south of Java) has re­ turned. Among the curious things in its report Is a statement that the forest is so dense that the natives never pene­ trate more than half a mile froiu shore, and that ordinary rats, evidently from wrecked ships, have multiplied on the island, where, unable to find suf­ ficient food in the ground, they have taken to climbing trees for fruit and other things. 4 : ' H Propeller from a Fish Tail. The inventor of the propeller, wheel studied the motion of a fish's tall when swimming. The volutions of the pro- 4. peller's blades are exactly like the mo- tions of the fish's talL • %"f% Arab Mustc. ' , 'J ~ A rat)-music has been described as the , •/ f|> singing of a prima donna who has rap- . 4J tured her voice in trying to sing a duet with herself. Each note starts from somewhere between a sharp and a flat, but does not stop even there, and splits < f| up into four or more portions, of which no person can be expected to ft more than one at a time. 1 V * One Spot Avoided by Sparrow*. In the fourth edition of YarreU's "British Birds" Professor Newton^ F. R. S., gives In a footnote the curious fact that in the village of Shepstor, a moorland village of Devon, England, the pparrow is never seen. This is the sole exception known to the professor to the sparrow's universal di&tributit|^. in England. ••M Fewer Blondes. Fair-haired people are said to be be­ coming less numerous than formerly. The ancient Jews were a fair-haired race; now they are, with few excep­ tions, dark. So It is, in a lesser degree, with the Irish, among whom 150 yean ago a dark-haired person was almost unknown. Paderewakl'a Home. Paderewski lives In a house tliat Is a veritable museum of musical relics. Articles that have belonged to all the great composers are everywhere, and the faces of their departed owners gase upon you from the walls. Flowers there are in profusion, for admirers send to the famous pianist great bunches dally. The whole of one wall in one room Is occupied by the enor­ mous laurel wreath presented to him at Leipsic. * j§ * - . fc. . -^^3 Keeping It in Family. ^ There is a bank in Tokio. JapMU with a capital of $r>.(KX>,000 and a re­ serve fund of $3,230,000, which adver­ tises the following board of directors: Barou H. Mitsui, Gennosuke Mitsui. Genyemon Mitsui, Takayasu Mitsui, Hachirojiro Mitsui, Takenosuke Mit­ sui. Yonosuke Mitsui and Tokuyeinoa Mitsui. The first named is the father and the others are his sons, fcwry share of stock belongs to the family and it is announced tliat they aanme rn unlimited responsibility for all the IIabutting of th* 1 m 11 k nil*