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SplLv .mww- MiSSIHi i .• 'i , - Delay la maki 1s»M -A*ed Man Novel i Auwcr *fcw* Asa. necessary repairs to , , „ spaBs the HHnols atlVaMlfc' Occident Joha Ci«ri*gi»o, John Ahren andSyde Olil were 1 Th*4nSiaie sec­ tion of tKe^M&**ilf:Rpan f«l' through, dumping tbt fe«r taen, a team of horses and tJTO fe» $1 of gravel itoto the river, *>• * •* f»t below.' The men suc- eeeded la iWhnming to the shore. Those f<t " ' «en who were injured were walking close ' to the rear wagon. Phillips, who drove i;i 4 the team palling the first wagon, escaped, as did also his team, but the toad of 4 gravel went down. He had Just passed the span when it broke. ?V »•" - Belleville Miner* May Strike. |̂jPor some time past mines in the Belle- •file district have been shipping large quantities of coal into districts where Onion miners are on strike, notably in | Kansas and Oklahoma. National Preai- [': * dent John Mitchell of Indianapolis of the United .Mine Workers, of America, held a conference at Belleville with offi­ cers of local unions, ct the end of which it was decided to call oat the miners in & tie district If the operators do not agree to discontinue shipping coal to districts where union miners are on strike. There are about 100 mines in the Belleville dis Wet. •• • : Hlg Tottni Wife Desert* Him. V A Mrs. Ernest Mier, aged 16, the child , Wife of Ernest Mier, aged GO, of Red "Bad, has deserted her husband with $600 I of his money. They were married in St. Louis a few days ago, and after return­ ing to their home in Burksville Mier told his wife where he kept his money and •est her after $5. When he awoke the second morning afterward his wife was missing. Then he went to the attic and found his money gone. Mrs. Mier passed through Red Bud in company with a Strange young man. The old man Is half " ~ crazed over his double loss. j$j •>?« fetch, •ad ~r"[ Wife Betray* Her HnsbandL •: A iDr. Jacob W. Smith of Marshall was S - ^nRrested on a charge of murder. The crime was committed in Bath County, lay., twenty-two years ago. The man :fh killed was Henry Craig. At the time of ;5:' the killing Smith was only 16 years of b . . gfee. He came to'Clark County a nam > i her of years ago in destitute clrcum- stances. He married and Is now involved . hi litigation with his wife, who informed the Kentucky authorities of his location Requisition papers have been procured mtid Smith has been taken to the scene ,s£ his crime. . 1 f | ' Areola Girl Com mite Suicide. ' Carrie Lents, aged about 22, daughter •f S. R. Lents, ticket agent for the 111! I ttois Central at Areola, committed sui­ cide by shooting herself through the heart. She was apparently in cheerful ti spirits early in the day, and assisted her 1,- • mother and sister in getting ready to go vt© church. After they had departed it g "Appears that she went to her room and, Jiarring the door, took a large revolver :and shot herself. At the coroner's in- fuest nothing developed to reveal the . - : 4£Qse of her act. y.". ------ A^;;, Wioots Poo of Judge Hnglui, „|a|I Charles Wilder, who seems to have "" been a student *of dime-novel heroism and a smoker of cigarettes, followed and •hot Arlington Hughes, son of Judge Hughes of Mattoon, inflicting a wound ja the abdomen which is pronounced mor- t t»L Despite his wound, Hughes held ' Wilder until b£lp came. Wilder is in Jfiil. He offers no excuse for following ffijgughes or for the shooting, other than that he wanted to know where Hughes , was going. .. f •" Liarore Young Woman D»e», * *-, '• Miss Hannah Bartels, probably the 4fcrgest young woman in Illinois, died of " fatty degeneration of the heart at her „ home at Bunker Hill. She was 23 years i, aid and weighed 575 pounds. The casket * " *Which inclosed her remains was two and v it i half feet in width. Brief State Happenings. . '*!< W. M. Drennan, ex-Mayor of Girard a prominent Democratic politician, led after a lingering illness. ,7 4 T " J W. S. Smalley, a drug clerk, was struck v hy an engine on the Panhandle tracks and £ 4ied on the way to a hospital. Robert Ingersoll, a soldier of the Sixth ^ v Illinois regiment, was publicly married 1 %> Miss Bertha Milde on Market Square, l£\~ 'liollne. f,.|SV Dr. C. C. Brooke of Chicago and Abble " '€>• Jones of Peoria were married by Rev. k *£~ W. S. Cochran of Grace Presbyterian iVl.. , ' Church at Peoria. Pj*' Albert Jonowich of Downers Grove, 5-V ̂ " #hose offense was serving beer to Presl- %lf4" ' ' fent Gallup of the Village Board, was & ^ined $100 by Justice D. G. Graham, but '% - "the fine was suspended by President Gal- tv v;*, »«>• ^ > , Joseph Rogovitch, a saloonkeeper at ^ ' 4Bouth Chicago, left recently for Europe . • a , ^ |o assume the title of count and take poe- '^(ission of large estates in Hungary left to him by the death of his father, Count l^erdinand Rogovitch. i - Rev. W. H. H. Moore, one of the old- <.^a+ MafKoJict ministoni in TlHwrvl* JU<I his home in Normal. He had been . Sick three years as the result of a falL y -1 ' fie was one of the last of the generation , ^ #f circuit riders who preached the gospel " • .•'•.-.-to the pioneer days of Illinois. He was i 1:4. ? ^"|)orn at Shelbyville, Tenn., in 1814 and > ...i^i'iained a liberal education by his own ef- forts. Coming to Illinois about 1840, he e circuits and filled every position in ne Methodist Church, having been pre- iding elder for many years previous to retirement. : The corner stone of the new Methodist | ' i Episcopal Church in Austin was laid in $ j \ " " t h e p r e s e n c e o f a l a r g e c o n g r e g a t i o n . P r e - * 4 • " * tiding Elder C. E. Mandeville formally *, ^ ^placed the stone in position. 7J' >1 The Government steamer Ramona , a containing six persons in lih/-ijuincy Bay. All were thrown into the and three drowned. The dead are: ' " ' ' 15,0^D Wehkamp, Lulu Broy, Mary Mc- i„ , -Carthy. The other three occupants-- «;#eor«c Lambur and Thomas Dowd of .fkr iJuincy and James Driscoll of St. Louis-- 'i;f, *5>ere saved by clinging to a beer keg from ?j|he overturned boat. A new and fatal disease has broken ont the cattle herd of James Marlow, one ile south of Ma How. The first symp­ toms are shown in a desire of the animals o rub their necks against something, en they refuse to eat or drink and their roats swell until death e&sues within wenty-four hours, '4 - V Anthony Donnersberger, son of Joseph ^ • jDonnersberger, president of the South '"T |Psrk Board, and J. A. Baehe, principal Jo ^: :-.|>f the Riverside High School, flaked ^ V k their lives by plunnaur into the lake at > #ifty-sixth street, Ghieagor and rsseufag 11 ,'^JBUmbeth McMillan, wl» had thrown her- ' "• "• wtit Into the water with the intention of ¥ |w; W#S' Jti 15. ., wereliinfled At llonst Vernon, the grocery and feed stores of T. J. Belcher sad the meat mar­ ket of Matt Ms were destroyed by fire. Los«il^~ Tbe divorce record of Peoria Coonty has been broken, sixty-five petitions for divorce having been filed for trial at the ensuing term. Dr. George Churchill, principal of the academical department of Knox College at Galesburg since 1855, died ot cancer, aged 70 years. Two-cent fares became a reality In Chi­ cago when the Ghienco General Railway began the sale ot twelve tickets for 25 cents on its bra neb llffcs. Mrs. Teresa Gotts et <3kMifc<p> has been held to the grand jury charged with training faefi, atpovg them her lS-jear- old son, to commit burglaries. Capt. John L. Crowell ot Chicago re­ turned from the Capo Nome gold fields with a sack of dost fehd #gnill nuggets which he says are worth $4,000. Barney Lomax, a brakemaa, fell from tbe cars near Duquoin. Berth legs were cut off and he died. A switchman at Mounds, name unknown, was also run down and killed. Five armed men walked into B. Whit- ten's saloon In Chicago at 9 o'clock the other morning and held up and robbed Whitten, bis wife and three customers, obtaining about $10. Mobile and Ohio freight train No. 10 was wrecked at Brydeo. Several un­ known trampc were killed. The demol­ ished cars contained merchandise con­ signed to Southern points. Second Lieut. John EL Baker of the First Wisconsin regiment and Miss An­ nie Lavin, whose parents opposed their marriage on religious grounds, eloped to Freeport and were married. A most notable social events was the marriage of Miss Lucy Myra Mathews, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Ma­ thews of Carlinville, to Haydon Shaw Gates, a commission merchant of Inde­ pendence, Mo. Adjt. Gen. Reece, on reoommendation of Col. L. E. Bennett, commanding, has ordered the removal of the militia at Car- tervitle, the scene of the recent mining troubles. Col. Bennett Is satisfied that the sheriff can ecmtrol the situation. The Western Boulevard Association dias been organized by citizens of the sub­ urbs oh the West Side of Chicago. The object of the association is to promote the building of extensions of the city boulevards into the country towns. The Chicago House Wrecking Com­ pany has purchased the buildings of the Transmlssisslppi Exposition at Omaha, and everything that remains on the expo­ sition grounds after Nov. 1, when the Greater American Exposition closes. William A. Jones, a conductor on the Chicago- and Alton Railroad, was assault­ ed and robbed of $40 and a gold watch in Chicago. When he recovered he saw a man running. Detectives Milks and Bran- ton captured the fugitive, who gave the name of Edward Hynes. The money and watch were found in his possession. The assessment for Tasewell County as returned by the board of review is as fol­ lows: Full cash value real estate, $31,- 005,085; personalty, $7,791,292; total, $39,396,977. Assessed value real estate, $5,051,215; personalty, $1,531,824; total, $6,583,215. This is an increase of $612,- 417 over the assessment of last year. A cablegram received by relatives at Belvidere announces the death of Albert J. Adams of yellow fever at Havana, Cuba. Adams was in charge of the or­ ganisation of military branches of the National Y. M. C. A. in Cuba, with head­ quarters at Havana. He had charge of the same work at Camp Tanner a year ago, and was later at Ohtokamuga Tampa. Fifty men are completing, three miles from La Salle, a shaft to lead to what will be the greatest American coal mine. The coal lies fifty inches thick at a depth of over 400 feet. The mine will produce 3,000 tons of coal daily, and employ 1,400 men when in fall operation. The coal land is owned by the Spring Valley Coal Company, which has five other mines in operation close by. Hall township will produce when the new mine is started 1,000,000 tons of coal yearly and will be the greatest producing district of the size in the world. The new shaft is twice as large as the ordinary shaft and has an escape shaft as large as the entrance to most mines. State President John ML Hnntec and State Vice-President W. R. Russell of the United Mine Workers of America have had a fruitless oonference with Manager W. C. Armstrong of the De­ catur and Niantic Coal companies. The miners' officials are endeavoring to have the scale of 55 cents per ton paid at De­ catur and Niantic, but Manager Arm­ strong refused to pay it. The result may be that there will be a strike, although the miners' union is hardly strong enough in the mines in question to bring on a successful one at present, as many of the miners are not members of the union. The fourth of the series of hard-roads conventions in Illinois was held at Quin- cy, with a good attendance. The morn­ ing was devoted to exhibitions in road building by road-machine men, an unim­ proved street being used for the purpose. session held in Tur= ner Hall and addresses were made by Gen. B. G. Harrison, the road expert of the Department of Agriculture; W. H. Moore of St. Louis, president of the State and Interstate Good Roads Association, and others. A permanent good-roads as­ sociation was formed, with George R. Stewart, chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, as president^ Lyman Mc- Carl, secretary; E. J. Parker, treasurer, and a vice-president from each township In the county. t A child's mismanagement of a gasoline stove caused a disastrous fire in Harvey. Two residence®, with their contents, were entirely destroyed, and the Rev. Uriah Warrington and Samuel Russell, togeth­ er with their families, wen made home­ less. Charles Wilder, who is in Jail at Charleston for the shooting of Ariie Hughes in Mattoon, manifested no con­ cern when told by the sheriff that his victim had died. He has retained John S. Hall, a noted criminal lawyer, and an exciting murder tsjal is in prospect at the October term of court. Oltfi QF THE ont EXCEPTIONAL. PI IOF Famine i» MrMtsrtl Steel mad Iron •a Ulsairttioa of the Phenomenal Coaiittasi Attending the Heetorn- i tlsa of a Protective Tsri& 1 The famine in structural steel and Iron la perhaps tfce.tnoat striking among the phenomena afte&daat tfpon McKin- ley prosperity. Nothinfflfcce It was ever emmnrftHug suicide. ' - y MMi The plant of the Harrey Wool Extract Company was destroyed by fire. A small building owned by Bliss & Laughlin aa4 occupied by the F. C. Austin Manufac­ turing Company for the storage of pat­ terns was also destroyed. William R. Hennig of Chicago has com* pleted his nine months' term hi the* coTan- ty jail at Ottawa and has-been set free. His physical condition is such that he will not enter into active business at once. He has suffered from diabetes and i« so reduced in flesh that many of his meat intimate friends wooid not recog­ nise him. . He started at ooce for Canada on a hunting and fishfac expsdltioo to iarfceaith. , before known in this country, and cer­ tainly not in luty other country. Here we have every iw>ft and trteel producing plant in the United States working to its utmost diRiwitjri awl fet a big shortage In the supply* K> grefct la the demand in the nuuiy lines of con­ struction. Because of the Inability ot the mills to fill orders, or even to meet the time requirements of contracts al­ ready entered into, we are told by the New York £(enUd that In New York the structortf work upon many big office buildings is at a standstill, and public schools tl^at were to have been opeaed for the fall term will re­ main uncompleted; In Philadelphia work upon warships for foreign powers Ss at a halt; in the West the agricultural implement makers are at their wits' ends for material and are renewing their demands tor steel for next year's delivery, and from every section con­ tractors and builders are calling for im­ possible thirty and sixty day deliveries of mill products. The shortage in structural material, says the Herald, Is so serious that con­ tractors are vainly offering bonuses to the manufacturers to push their Work. It Is but a short time since structural Iron and eteel were advanced $5 a ton, and It is predicted that there will be another increase within a few days. Ac­ cording to the experts, tbe railroads are the most seriously affected by this re­ markable state of the iron and steel market, and already American agents are at work in tbe English market ob­ taining options upon Scotch steel. The demand for mill products Is increasing dally, and those who are responsible for the supply frankly admit that they are unable to cqpe with the abnormal situation. Contractors and builders are growing desperate and are dally beg­ ging those who bold them in bond to release them from obligations the fulfil­ ment of which has been made impossi­ ble by conditions for which they are not responsible. From Chicago it to reported that rail­ road tonnage is on a scale n&ver before equaled, and If still mounting higher. As for the Iron and steel trade, the ex­ ports for June actually fell off owing to the great home demand. The domes­ tic requirement was so enormous that material could not be spared for foreign shipment. The demand has caused the resurrec­ tion of mills believed to be dead. Old plants KnvA KOAI* i«IC fvl' chiefly from competitive causes, have been reopened and put In operation. If a manufacturer wants material three months hence he must buy now and pay the prices that are current. The clamor for materials is In no way relieved. There have been large sales of pig Iron for delivery In 1900. Iron bars cannot be bought under four months' delivery from the mill. Vessel owners of Chicago having •olt- able bottoms for the transportation of iron and steel cannot fill orders. Two years ago prices were 45 to 50 cents a ton for the haul from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. Now the rate for ore from Duluth to Lake Erie is $1.30 a ton, and will go higher. In Philadelphia the big shipyards, notwithstanding the boom In their In­ dustry, have been compelled to lay off hundreds of men because of delay In the arrival of material. Extensive building operations have been baited and others abandoned. Charles Mc- Caul said: "To my knowledge certain big building concerns within the last few days have tried to'contract with local companies for structural eteel, to be delivered a year from now at pre­ vailing prices. The proposals were re­ fused." Tbe Phoenix Bridge Company Is lia­ ble to a penalty of $50 per day for fail­ ure to complete tbe big bridge over the Schuylkill River at Gray's Ferry. The delay is due to the steel famine. Tbe director of public works has decided not to enforce the penalty. Pittsburg manufacturers of iron and steel say they see no relief for New York contractors. Tbe demand is so far ahead of the output that It will take many months for the trade to catch up. The Carnegie Steel Company, It is said, will not take orders for structural steel for delivery under twelve months. Last week $38 a ton was paid for billets. Two years ago the price was $14. The pig Iron manufacturers will not quote prices for delivery this year. The iron and steei industry, it will be remembered, is protection's biggest and healthiest child. It is an industry which free traders twenty-five or thirty years ago declared could not be built up by a protective tariff. Yet to-day the. Uni­ ted States leads the world In the pro­ duction of iron and steel. Big as the industry has become, it is not able to supply tbe requirements of the great home market in these times of McKin- ley prosperity. As an index of the gen­ eral conditions that have grown out of the restoration of the American policy, the iron and steel situation la Interest-. Ing and instructive. Democracr and Trusts. " Protection is a Republican policy, the Democrats have formed the habit of denouncing it, and they think they must keep it up, with or without reason and sense. And so, with the splendid record of protection staring them in the | face, and being unable to point to a single fact that is not to its credit, they I wildly re-echo Havemeyer's flippant ut­ terance with some such scheme as this , In their heads: The people like the | protective tariff; let us try to make them hate it by circulating the absurd lie that it is the mother of trusts. { The hypocrisy of all this Is quite as ! comical as it Is revolting. It shows i what a poverty stricken old concern the Democratic party Is. Free silver is dead. Flag bauiing as an issue is ! worse than no issue at alL Fantastic i yarns about trusts and the tariff are ! the only remaining resort. The De- j mocracy gr&bs at this grotesque ban- pm apd flowtob^ifctewrtieaHift .* of sit the ga^ aM #lU it, preĵ nfu to re- tain tM;|»eî iiity, theic work- •hops, their KXNaent dollars, tholr ater- ttag AjBevkxalsaa and their respect for tjha iiig of their country -Rochester (N; Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. XMttclejr i*w Heceipts. The have been forced to ceaoe asserting that the Dingley law is a failure as a revenue producer. After Its enactment there was a con­ tinual Democratic howl for some months that it was wholly Inadequate to'itipply revenue sufficient for the gov- eenmettra uieeds. The friends of the law replied that it would more than meet tfce expectations they entertained of It after business had adjusted Itself to the new tariff regulations. How their prediction has been borne *ont Is best shown by the Statistics of the receipts from customs during the last few years, which are as follows: 1892 $177,452,864 15 1886 1894 1895 1896 1SS7 1898 1899 > • • n» s*« '*.* • - a * 4 «i - •. »'* • r1a • ' • • «e ; ;%-^*«a a '*§• :* /[* • 203,355,016 73 131,818,530 62 152.158,617 45 100,021,751 67 176,554,126 65 149,819,594 25 206,141,224 63 It will be observed that the figures for the fiscal year 1890 are the largest In the list, surpassing even the total for the phenomenal year of 1893, which was the highest previous record. This, too, though we were at war with Spain during the earMer part of the fiscal year of 1899. But, large as were the customs receipts during the past year, there Is an almost certain prospect that they will be exceeded In the coming year. The receipts for the month of July were nearly $2,000,000 more than a year ago and the Indications are that August will show an increase of $3,000,- 000 or $4,000,000, the receipts for the first nineteen days being about $3,000,- 000 In excess of the same period last fspv^atHwaukee SentUteL " AA ' ^ "Why do yon suspect he meditates treason to the free silver cause?" "He is growing conservative--speaks of It as the 'misdemeanor of '73.'"-- St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Trnne««ni Commercial Crane. If we believed that the creation of trusts would be a permanent feature of our economic system^ we might share In the alarm expressed by some timid persons. We do not; we regard them as a merely transient commercial craze, which wHl die of exhaustion. The commerce of this country is alto­ gether too great to be kept under con­ trol by any ooe set Of itm* acting upon a stogie industry. The trade of the United States has passed that stage just as it has parsed the stage when the wheat product of this country can be cornered.--Seattle (Wash.) Post-In­ telligencer. Benefits tbe Worklavnaa. It -would be as foolish to blame par­ ents who have reared a child in the best possible manner for his turning to evil ways after be has grown to man­ hood as to blame the tariff for building up a splendid American industry, giv­ ing employment to 30,000 American workingmen, because avaricious men secure control of H and enter into a wicked combination. Combination or not, the tin plate trust can make no money without employing the working- men and paying them for their labor. --Tacotna (Wash.) Ledger. ' ' filth Wiihinn Much time can be gained by women, in washing dishes If they will put thei» dishwater over the fire to heat before they sit down to eat Then, as soon as done with your meal and all leave the table, gather up all the dishes, placer them in a large dlshpan or a small tub, stand them up on their edge as much as' possible, shave some bits of soap, sprint kle through them. Now take your ket*: tie of water, almost boiling hot, hold up high, pour over the dishes until they ars' all covered with water. Now attemji to somethiug else that is crowding you. When you get ready to dry your dishes have a couple of good, dry towels. Lift them from the water, dry and put away. You do not need to spend half an hour rubbing at them. Of course the towels will get the worst of It, but soap and water will soon make them all right. ,v '•v- • j Vftnch Shartcalm, One qtifirt of flour, one-hs!f teastwwh- ful of salt, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two tablespoonfule of butter, one pint milk. Sift the flour, salt and powder together, rub In the butter cold, add the milk, and mix Into smooth dpugh, just soft enough to han­ dle; divide in half and roll out; cut with large biscuit cotter, lay in pairs, one over the other; lay on a greased baking tin and bake in hot oven twenty min­ utes; separate the cakes without cut­ ting, as cutting makes them heavy. Have two dozen peaches cut in thin slices; use half of them to cover the bot* torn halves of shortcake; sprinkle plen­ tifully with sugar and bits of butter; lay on the top halves with the crust downward; use the rest of the fruit over them, and sugar and butter plenti­ fully. Serve, with cream.--Chicago. Record. ;i To Ke«p Fg*e for Three Months. "It is Impossible in some sections of the country to get perfectly fresh eggs during the winter season," says Mrs. S. T. Rorer, Ln the Ladles' Home Jour­ nal. "To gu.frfd against this In summer time, wbon they are cheap, pack them tn lime water and they will keep in good condition for three months. Pour one gallon of boiling, water over a pound of lime; when settled and cold pour it carefully over the eggs which you have packed, small ends down, in a stone jar, and stand In a cool, dark place. Eggs may also be packed in salt; anything that will doss tbe pores of the shell and prevent evaporation will preserve eggs." to Be through ||£-lfcnr . . , % * • is at* a j , *"'•# when the hero of Manila reaches country. Dewey is five feet seven and the loving cup stands six feet. .v_ 8HA« WAS A BOY SOLD!BR. Enlieted at (ho Age of 18 and Was la Many 6?e«t Battles. Col. Albert D. Shaw, the new com­ mander of the Grand Army of the Repub­ lic, lives at Watertown, N. Y., and was among the first to enlist in the oid "fight­ ing" Thirty-fifth regiment of that city. He was 18 years old at the time, a farm­ er's son, and had never seen a soldier In uniform before. He fought at Arlington Heights, Sulphur Springs, Second Bull COI,, A. T>. SHA W. Jto Canse for GrtimbUa** How t» Paper Whitewashed Walla. It Is difficult to make paper stick to walls that have been made smooth by frequent 'Xiis sisoot!* finish may be scraped off or the surface may be changed with a coat of pasts. If you decide to use the paste, make It ln the following maimer: Put one pint of tlour In a saucepan and beat Into it <#ne quart of cold water. When smooth add two quarts of boiling water," stir­ ring all the time. Let this boll up once, then strain and cool. Brush this paste over the walls, and allow It to dry. When you are ready to paper, wet the walls, spread paste on the papery' and hang it in the usual manner*--Ladies' Home Journal. How to Keep Butter tor Winter, Mix a large tablespoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of powdered white sugar and one of saltpeter. Work this Into six pounds of fresh^made buttter. Put the butter in a good new stone crock. When you have filled the crock cover with a layer of salt and let It r until cold weather. n' Remedy for Bedbnn* ? . One ounce of kerosene oil, 2 ounces of household ammonia and 1% ounces of spirits of turpentine. Put in spring oil can, mix thoroughly while using. In­ ject into all crevices and where bugs are apt to collect. Also, under edges of base boards or cracks In the walls, etc. First Farmer--Help was never so scarce before, nor wages so high. If that's the result of "McKinley Prosper­ ity" I don't want any more of it Second Farmer--Oh, I don't know. Everybody 'round here has paid off his farm mortgages, and I noticed you got a new piano over at your house last week. Don't seem to me you've got any kick comln'. . The Deep* Fall Breath. The year 1899 may be considered as the time of our "second wind." Last year we took a deep breath of protec­ tion prosperity and eclipsed all previ­ ous records. This year there was noth­ ing to do but to eclipse 1898, and we proceeded to do It We have taken in the full, deep breath which always car­ ries the runner In a race to victory. Our commercial rivals may as well drop out, for the close of 1899 will see the United States the winner by a good margin In the Industrial contest. Two of a Kind. The devil rebuking sin and Mr. Hav- emeyer, the president of the sugar trust, rebuking trusts, are two of a kind. When the devil is recognized as authority In ethics MS\ Havemeyer may be recognised as authority on trusts. Not until then will Intelligent American votes be influenced against a protective tariff by the railing against trusts by the president of one of the greatest trusts on the American oon- tinent--Freeport (IIL> Journal. Kenpotnible. The tariff Is undoubtedly responsi­ ble foa? the tin mill trust. If there had been no tariff there would have been no mills to form the tryst.^--Steuben- Gleanings. Salt and liquid almonds will refltovs egg stains from plated spoons. Jelly is more easily made If the julcs Is kept standing over night before cook­ ing. A few drops of glycerine put around the edge of a jar 6f fruit will prevent mold. Rough Irons may be made smooth by rubbing them on a board plentifully sprinkled with salt. Mice love pumpkin seeds, and will be attracted to a trap baited with them when they will pass by a piece of meat. Stale bread may be freshened by dip­ ping the loaf quickly into hot water and baking for a few moments in a quick oven. To keep fiatlrons clean and smooth, rub them first with a piece of wax tied in a cloth, and afterward scour them on a paper strewn with coarse salt A thin coating made of three parts of lard, melted with one part rosin, and applied to stoves and grates, will pre­ vent their rusting during the summer. If every pot or pan or any utenall used in the cooking of food be washed as soon as emptied, and while still hot, half the labor and a great deal of time will be saved. The best way to remove sand and grit from small fruit, when washing Is nec­ essary, Is to lay the fruit loosely, in a clean basket and dip the basket into fresh, clean water. " It Is said that if a lamp wick is soak­ ed in vinegar twenty-four hours before being placed In the lamp, a cleaner flame will be insured. Wicks should be changed often, as they soon become clogged and do not permit the free pass­ age of the oil. Great care should baby's finger-nails. brittle, and should ' i . - . • , .< . . . , ' . , 1 . . . . . . « .A . Vf . . . : that there are no rj in its clothing very painful, fore the nail An excellent^ cent's worth half a pint oj tl em one ni xture and shakej fchesandi be taken of va They are often carefully cut ao ges to catch as this Is g while he- Eon, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antle- tam and Fredericksburg and the historic charge at ChanceikrrsviUe. But as a worker for years past in the ranks of the G. A. R. he won his principal claims. He has been in the oonsular service. In 1S72 Col. Shaw married Mary Sherwood Keith of Chicago, 111. They have three I children--Henry L. Keith Shaw, Mabel iveitn Shaw and Minnie Scott Shaw. CONDITION OF CROP& .,86.7 made of 1 borax and .«U; pour over water; let the it into a bottls The oil nour- j nses thehalfc Corn PromleSs Heavy Yield--Govern­ ment He port fcr September. The September report of the statisti­ cian of the Department of Agriculture shows the following averages otsssdltion on Sept 1: - Corn ...........85.2 . wheat *t'»»•.»..•#'•• • *irtf.. .70.9 O a t s . . . « • » * « « < • : • . • * v • V * . . . 8 7 . 2 Rye .. ..»•»•»••'«»# •»*»»»,».. Buckwheat ......... . .. .. & Potatoes' Barley . There was a declipe to, the average con- dltf&K of corn during August amounting to 4.7 points, but the condition 00 Sept 1 was still 1.1 points higher than on Sept 1, 1898, 5.9 points higher than at the cor­ responding date in 1897, and 2.9 points above the mean of the September aver­ ages for the last ten years. There was a decline during August of 3 points in Ohio and Missouri, 2 in Illinois, 9 tn Kansas and 14 in Nebraska, and the averages In tbe Southern States are newly ail some­ what lower than on Aug. 1. On the oth­ er hand, there was a slight appreciable gain, represented by about 1 point, in Kentucky, Indiana and Iowa. The condi­ tion of winter and spring wheat consol­ idated is 70.9, as compared with 86.7 on Sept. 1, 1898, 85.7 at the corresponding date in 1897, and 82.5, the mean of the September averages for the last ten years. Now ffcaisee fil elvili«tion.-4fcafYaHC It is odious hi the * pf justice news. France will suffer, for this infamous Vt. ̂ j. Tribune. Justice has hen humiliated, militarism ha World-Herald. Dreyfus is vindicated in the the civilised wotid and Franc [trial.--Boston Transcript The reconviction of Dreyi ject France to the just eont civilised world.--Omaha Bee. There is no dissembling thtSi France stands face to face wital est crisis since Sedan.--Boston script. France must right this speedily or submit to the honest people the world over* City Times. There is no such peril for that fact that, under the laws, the Itmocent ars not safe ̂ York Times. Hie French army, to vindicate "honor" both courts trampled the forms of law, is crucified Kansas City Star. The desthllke stupor with verdict was received in the foreshadowed its reception by ths at large.--New York Herald. The meaning of this rerdiet la France is to-day a national unworthy the reaped of chri&i --Memphis Commerdal-Appsal. The crime will oati aloud aot 1 reparation, but io years < be feared for not in vain.- It is appatent that Dreyfus' innocence had 1 strong he would have bei|i the same.--Kansas Clty f By the Judgment at stands self ̂ condemned pH tames behind the age 1 ̂4 v sentials of ct1rilisatkra> Record. The .'Dreyfus case la only of what has been enacted to a;j( less extent in sA ae&ntriss* courts. They are relics of thei --New Orleans Pkoyune. The general staff of the have earned the contempt honorable soidiees in every all right-thinking people li out--Cleveland Pkrin Deal? If Ffcanc* he as besotted," and ss degonseats aa soma of ' Insist the Dreyfus affair will and a mailt stupendous tsagedy ushered in.--Washington Post Who can criticise the atarvling Paris for accepting the vsesttoia aasassin whan aesssdnation tihBt f than death itŝ f Is policy of the Government 1 rimes. The only way in which ' escape the contempt of by each a prompt and effective of .public sentiment as shall doing of this fcal wrong.--ftt Paul Pion­ eer Press. t The JDreyfoa Utfamy means that, far the time being at lasa '̂ttti-ttffitacr caaftki in France has IKlcal arm of the' a humiliating a republic*--St. Ffancf johM thl' egory of aaaoq the weak and a son whose decrees -PhftMfcipiiis PMs* Nothing ean hs* in France, than &ml honor prostituting votting crimes of and aonspinley defenseless brother in honor might be preserved.--Detroit Press. DEATH OF A VANDERBILt* Hand of the Family, Corn^llns, Passes Away Suddenly. Cornelius Vanderbilt, multi-millionaire, the head of the Vanderbilt family, died Tuesday morning at his home in New York. Mr. Vanderbilt was suddenly taken worse at midnight Monday night, thres hours after he had returned from New­ port Physicians were hastily summon­ ed, but the patient grew gradually worse, despite their t efforts. The end came shortly before 0 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Vanderbilt's death was caused by a stroke of paralysis, the second which he suffered. The first attack was in Jul" 189$. The only members of the family pres­ ent were Mrs. Vanderbilt Reginald, Mr. Vanderbilt's youngest son, and Gladys, the youngest daughter. Alfred, tbe fav­ orite son, recently left for a tour of the world. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., the eld­ est son, whose marriage to Miss Jennie Wilson two yenrs ago displeased his fath­ er, was not at the dying man's bedside. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the eldest son of the late William H. Vanderbilt and grandson of Cornelius (Commodore) Van­ derbilt He wss born on his father's farm, Stateu Island, N. 1., Nov. 27, 1843. ' HEAVY GROWTH IN TRADE. Bis Increase in Commerce with New Possess lona. The War Department has made public a statement of the trade between the United States and all of her colonies un­ der military control and with Cuba as well for the seven months of 1899 ending July 31, making comparison with the year 1898. The exports from the United States to Cuba for the seven months were $14,116,- 993 in 1899, against $4,485,937 io 1398. The imports into the United States from Cuba for the same period were §U9,976,- 956 in 1899, against $12,474,770 in 18518. The exports from the United States to Porto Rico for seven months were $2,- 299,221 in 1899, against $509,110 in 1898. Imports into the United States from Porto Rico during the same time were $3,379,944 in 1899, against $2,253,800 in 1898. The exports from the United States to the Philippine Islands from Jan. 1 to July 31 were $308,109 in 1899, against $65,730 in 1898. The imports into the United States from the Philip­ pines for the same period were $3,274,134 If Oom Patd Sn^'^ilAsttiir-cafe^" deah shhve all will be ibrglren.-l<ools- vilie Post The Boer ia too shiswd aot to perceive tbe necessity for ultimate compliance.-- Cape Times (South Africa). The principals in the South African troubles have almost reached that point where talk ewfe.--Indianapolis NeWs. Oom Paul hasn't put the lawn mower on his face yet so we guess he doesn't really mean to fight--St Paul Dispatch. Oom Paul does not hesitate to Inti­ mate that Presidents have some divine rights as well as mooarchs.--Washington Star. We shall prefer to believe that Mr. Chamberlain is, playing to tbe galleries of politics for his own ambitions purpose.-- Brooklyn Eagle. The gratifying thing about Oom Paul is that all this advertising Is not likely to bring him to this country to lecture.-- Kansas City Journal. Now Great Britain appears in the light of a man who has been tricked into a bad ii&fgjftifrf ciaiiluug the s%uta ui uaS ed and agreed to.--Indianapolis Journal. The only ground on which Great Brit- sin can now justify war with the Trans­ vaal is that her imperial policy make* it necessary for her to control that State. --Boston Journal. Tbe Anglo-Saxon Alliance will certain­ ty lie in abeyance while Great Britain proceeds to steal the possessions of soma thick-witted but honest Dutchman near the Cape of Good Hope.--Wisconsin State Journal. If our national pride should be satisfied with anything less than.complete confis­ cation of everything worth stealing and President Kruger*s head on a charger to boot, we shall fael that we haw misin­ terpreted the "imperialistic spirit --l*M~ don Leader. ' ? Attendant--Another ultimatum*, your honor, bound in morocco, from SvfeJr seph Ohamberiaia. Oom Paul--Throw on that pile of unanswered ultimata in the cornev and wire Sir Joseph our Na wishes for the Queen's health.--Minne­ apolis Journsl. • j. No matter what an anachronism ths Government of the Transvaal may bey no matter how joet the grievances of_ths UWanders may be, the s-oes with the power, and the ility of Great Britain is to usputes with the Transvaal resort to arms.--Indianapolis The sort of statesman^ »Or the snbjecriou of more. jkoplo of the cape is of ;,%*j statesmanship that lo*>t ua , try sane uaan knows teresta of the empire d« «mity and peace between ] fish, and that it is Booth Africa on any. 5ik.. •