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1$ . vfforda a wondekral apeetaide to tbe foBWfn farmer -tfho travels akm* jfl» highways. H« be- -eomes surprised jit the waste of val­ uable feeding material, for in every field may be seen shocks of corn fod- -der that bavetiHen over, the snow, wind and rain destroying it, while that Whtefe is left frott destruction Is leaf- les* and stalk* "ttoreti. 71m farmer -contents ftltnfceff by ' hknling this worthless fod<fef to the barnyard to be trampled by cattle and converted Into manure, but he loses the fodder as a food and as an aid to the supply of bay. It is not as valuable for the ma­ nure heap when exposed as when cut -or shredded, for when reduced it ab­ sorbs the liquids more readily and will also decompose sooner. As the fodder is equally as valuable as the grain If properly cured and prepared some esti­ mate may be made of the annual loss , to farmers when it is stated that the corn crop, at 26 cents per bushel, is worth $500,000,000, and the fodder fully as much, but more than one-half of the fodder is wasted in the fields by exposure, entailing a loss every year <>« $260,000,000. If converted into milk, : butter and meat this waste material would brlngto the farmers $500,000,- 000 per an nil in.1' Such a toss would not be permitted b$r manufacturers, for at the great slaughtering establishments everything is saved and sold, even to the hair, hoofs, blood and horns, but the farmer, who should be economical If he wishes to succeed, throws away • one of the most valuable products of bis farm that simply requires care in harvesting and storing to be utilised. More stock can be kept when the entire : corn plant is used, and better manure * for the farm can be made by putting the fodder under shelter or even stack- teg it In a manner to prevent loss from exposure during winter.--Philadelphia 1 Itecord. ' '!••'{ < Keen Hem «%t Work. f - The best way to get eggs from hehs to keep them at work scratching. It ig a mistake to overfeed, as the hens Will then cease to lay. When confined IfL yards the hens become addicted to feather pulling and other vices, due to Idleness. They should be fed not often- er than once a day if very fat, and a variety should be given, using but lit­ tle grain during the warm season. An Excellent mode to induce _ them to scratch is to throw a gill of millet seed In cut straw, leaves or other litter, as they will work diligently for the small , seeds. When liens lay double-yolk eggs, soft-shell eggs, or very large eggs,: they are then in very fat condition, and f food should be greatly reduced. 'UP- Crops ffored. Aw« In Winter. When carrots or turnips are stored . outside they cannot always be reach­ ed when desired for use, and it will therefore be advantageous to store some of them in bins In a dry cellar. If packed in perfectly dry sawdust, oats, com or even dry earth, they will keep well and can be taken out of the bins at any time. It is the alternate freezing and thawing that damages all root crops stored away in winter, but as the packing material keeps them at an even temperature this liability is avoided. The oats or corn used for this purpose will not be injured and may be fed while using the roots in the It#?* i-':; Cktep ud Pp1enet»c " In a recent report to the Australian Government on "Preventive Inocula­ tion Against Tick Fever," by Frank Tidswell, chief assistant medical offi­ cer of the Government, In speaking of Animals that possess natural immuni- vtjr, be says: "It must be admitted that some doubt exists In the case of sheep. The American observers came to the con­ clusion that sheep were not susceptible, but they only report one experiment In which blood was injected into a lamb. By similar experiment on two5 sheep in Queensland, £>r. Hunt set up fever in both. One recovered and one was killed In a dying state. Post­ mortem examination did not reveal the characteristic lesson of tick fever, and the examination for micro-organisms .was indefinite. The blood from one of the sheep injected Into a bullock, 'pro­ duced no well-marked disease.' The evidence Is; perhaps, no more than suspicious, but it is possible that tick fever, like tuberculosis, occasionally oc­ curs In sheep. As Dr. Hunt remarks. ,tgte subject merits further studfs* > " T'lanta for Honey Pees. "** The plants that serve as forage fSr koney bees are, for March, the willows, •oft maple, elm, alder and dog-tooth Violet. For April the above and the Juneberry, crimson clover, dandelion, gooseberry, currant, apple, pear, peach, cherry, plum and rhododendron, though some years they may not bloom until 7Jlay, much depending on the section of country and climate. During May those mentioned for April will be re- enforced by the holly, tuHp tree, rasp­ berry, persimmon, grapevine, black­ berry, alsike clover, strawberry and white clover. Along in the summer, beginning the latter part of May or the first portion of June, the magnolia, cow J«a, catalpa, daisy, alfalfa, milk weed, incumber, melon, sweet clover, corn, .. buckwheat and numerous flowers keep 'j# *S> the supply until late in the season. tbe nsort graceful, eapeelalljtheweep. lng or white elm. .which aboundsJn the Berkshire hills la Maasacbosetta, and has been so often. mentioned, by the and story-tellers. There are, however, many other varieties all of vrideb can be soma--ftiHy grown In America. The red or slippery elm la a small and not luxuriant tree, and is not valuable for landscape work; but the wahoo dm, though small, la a rapid grower and a picturesque tree. The Engttah elm la also a beautiful tree, and spreads finely, and for some effects the small, compact and upright "pur­ ple-leaved elm" Is very useful. There are also the Scotch wetting elm, much like our own, and many other varieties, which are curiosities, like the "twisted elm," with variegated leaves.--Ex­ change. CletBiag Boosts, .4; The proper way to clean aroo#t Is to first carry everything out of doors, roost poles, nest boxes and loose boards. Cover with oil and apply a match. If the wood takes fire It can be put out bF throwing sand on it Now rake out all fowl dirt, and give the In­ side a good coating of whitewash. Do this once a month. If we do not have time for all this, then get some liquid lice paint. Put on a good coat. This should be done just before the fowls go to roost at night. Probably the fowls will not Hke the smell, but drive them all tn and abut the house up tight for an hour or two. This will not only kill the red and gray mites, but all the body lice on the hens. In about ten days (after the lice eggs previously laid are about all hatched out) repeat the operation, when we may reasonably know that our hens and roosts are free from lice and will stay so for a month or two.--Otsego Farmer. OCCUPATION^ f4' 'i„ hit , > , »,v< " " * % Li"* Amtriemm t*U« to Splenetic r«nrerT-P\p«ta for Bww, * v.* • * •tff • B^?.. 'V:«« r* th' ,,,. . i* ... % % • •' fc.:*'./" \ • K*? f • ^. v • fc. V ...*•! < iW ' & 75 HOW TO WALK. --St. Paul Pioneer Press. Prejudice Asainst Goata, Goats can be raised wherever sheep will do well, and cm brushy land they live on weeds and brush, leaving the grass for other stock. More attention is now being given to them In Texas than formerly, ~but very many more could be raised to advantage, especial­ ly where the undergrowth and brush are encroaching on the pastures. For­ merly there was nearly everywhere in the United States a prejudice against the meat of goats, but that is disap­ pearing. When such meat is properly dressed and prepared, it is, to nearly every one, quite as palatable as mut­ ton, and there are few dishes better than a fat, juicy kid, well roasted. Nearly -any farmer could keep enough goats to supply him abundantly with fresh meat throughout the year, and that, too, not only without cost but with decided benefit to his land.--'Tex* as Stock and Farm Journal. •'^f^'CowpeM for PUts* In a Southern feeding test'hogs were turned Into a field when the leaves of the cowpeas were all green and about one-half of the peas mature. While the leaves remained green, they were eaten readily, but during the latter part of the test, which lasted for six weeks, only the peas were eaten. The bogs were fed In addition salt and wood ashes. At the prevailing price of the peas and pork, It was calculated that the cowpeas returned about $11 per acre. This was not a large return, but It must be remembered that the land was greatly enriched by the grow­ ing of the pea 8 and the manure from the pigs. r j £*quaah tn Place of Pnapkial, *.? There are now many varieties M squash that are even more productive than pumpkins, besides being better for pie and even for stock. There has been a great Improvement on the pumpkin Itself as regards quality. Whichever Is grown it pays to get the best. Those with large open spaces In the middle and filled with seed should no longer be planted. However large they grow, they produce less weight per vine than some of the smaller pumpkins that have thick flesh and comparatively few seeds. Bnjrinflr Better Oooll. Merchants all over the country are reporting through the medium of newspaper correspondents that not only are their customers buying more goods, but also that they are buying better goods. A St. Paul (Minn.) mer­ chant said, for Instance: "Women who last year were buying 25-cent stuffs for shirt waists and dresses, are now getting dollar materials." It is the buying of higher-priced goods which in part swells the volume of trade for 1899 beyond that of 1898. It is the better quality of goods which jto represented by these higher prices which in large measure marks the ad­ vantage which the people of the coun­ try will have in 1899 beyond that which they had in 1898. Last year the prosperity which came In with Protection was of sufficiently great proportion to give all the people of the country who were willing to work all the necessities of life, and Io many cases to settle up the debts con­ tracted in Tariff reform times and to make them square with the world. The additional year of prosperity, of increasing prosperity, since then, has meant such an increase of money that the luxuries of life, in quality as well as In quantity and variety, have been brought within reach. * * •* •? The Bngilch Black Cqrrast, A good many people like the peculiar flavor of the English black currant when eaten raw. But many more like It when cooked with plenty of sugar. It makes an extremely rich preserve. If merely canned the peculiar flavor Is nearly as decid<*d as when the fruit is eaten raw. The currant worm does not attack the leaves of black cur­ rants. Before the use of hellebore to destroy the wgrm, It was planted much more extensively than It has been of late years. There Is little demand for this fruit now. ' - 'i Root C ropa for Poultry. . It would not be wise to feed only l*ots to poultry. Yet if the farmer Will use only one-fourth of the grain he gives daily and substitute cooked roots he will reduce the expenses materially and get more eggs. The cheapest food J* that which will make hene lay, and &e way to make hens lay la to keep L thera in good health. It is impossible to have a flock in good laying condition when only grain is given. Such foods aa ^ carrots, turnips and potatoes are not } rich in egg-producing elements, but ibey perform a service which renders «11 the food more valuable than hay. " Let the fa truer give his cows nothing feiut corn, and the supply of milk would •bon be reduced. From a dietary stand- fbint the use of cooked roots la recom- Vended, and they wHI enable the. The D.ssipated Bee. He was a dissipated bee. A rounder of wide renown, Who came bumping home unsteadily When twilight settled down; He'd rather revel the whole night through When the flower inns shut up shop, But he couldn't find his way, he knew, So, at home he had to stop. Now, this bee, depraved, had a hfird ql^T head, 2# Though swelled with potations deep;/'1 He was ever loath to go to bed ^ And by day he loved to sleep. So he wooed and won a firefly fair, For he thought die would lend her light So he could prowl through the ev'aiag air And paint the town at night. He dreamed of a life of lasy ease, Ot visits to see the play, Where spiders swung on the high trapesp and centipedes led the ballet; W? Where bald old beetles of morals Leered down from the upper tier,. ;• And little lady bags 'tween the acts^-l Passed round the brown root beerb! ^ But vain were the hopes of this boovy bee, For his bride proved far too fly To lend her lamp when he sought a spree And the summer moon was high. , Oh! she proved to be a fiery spouse, This flying spark of light. / » Instead of securing his hoped carouse, She ni^de him work all night! -Puck, Southern Timber. The timber lands of the South are be­ ing rapidly purchased by Northern syndicates and manufacturing compan­ ies . • When a thing should be done, too many people believe that "the dty»M or "the railroads," should d» **- The "Robber Baron*^*-^ ' In the days of Grover ClefetMud the puddler in an iron mill found his wages shrinking until they got down to $2.40 per ton, says the Outburst. When William McKlnley came Into power and the Republican prosperity dawned over the land, like a welcome sunrise after long dar* night of anxiety and commercial distress, the aforesaid pud­ dler found his stipend rapidly increas­ ed until it reached $3.75; and two weeks ago the "robber barons"--as Bryan calls the owners of the iron mills--gave htm a further raise to $4. Another set of "robber barons" who manage the great Pennsylvania Rail­ road has recently established a perma­ nent pension system for faithful em­ ployes who have grown too old for the active service of the road, and so the terrible work of the "robber barons" goes on, while the labor agitator, who sucks, his fat living from the sweat- earneid wages of the honest workman, rends the air with cries of "tyranny," because dynamite and lawless destruc­ tion are not encouraged by the govern­ ment under which we live.--Colfax (Wash.) Gazette. W 11 Not -'ee. Senator Vest of Missouri will not see or believe that any prosperity has come to .the farmer in the past two years. He said in an interview at Toronto. Canada, on Monday: "Republicans- claim prosperity as due to the tariff policy, but farmers have received no particular benefit from the prosperity, and areas dissatisfied as ever." Facts from all sections of the country, espe­ cially the great farming West, dis­ prove the sentence above uttered by Mr. Vest. Millions of mortgages in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri. Iowa and the Dakotas were in 1898 paid off by the increased sale of their products, and millions more will be paid and canceled before Christmas chimes are rung from the gold the 1899 crops will bring, them.--Fremont (Ohio) Journal. The Value of Confidence. It Is possible, of course, that busi­ ness may be somewhat unfavorably affected by the political battle of next year, this being a not uncommon ex­ perience In the year of presidential contest, but the danger of this will be reduced to a minimum If events shall be such as to create general confidence in Republican success. Let the finan­ cial and commercial interests of the country feel well assured of another Republican. triumph and the national campaign will have 'ittle effect upon business.--Omaha Bee. Rmitnn to Celeb'"»te. Labor Day this year should have l^ad an extra big celebration. It stands for more than it has stood for for a number of years past; for more, at least, than it has stood for since the free-traders got in their knock-down blow at Ameri­ can industries in 1892. It is the year's holiday which is especially dedicated to the wage-earners, and the wage:-, earners of the country have plenty of reason to celebrate this year. They have had more work for which to cele­ brate and more money with which to pay for their celebration. i; Trnata in Knqrland. tj'- - > English manufacturers apparently do not need Protection to father their trusts. 'Although England is a Free- Trade country, the large' number of trusts Is being rapidly increase. Even so conservative a paper as the London Economist advises that "It is absurd to keep going a hundred inefficient competing agencies to do what one efficient consolidated agency can do aa well." It seems that trusts do not de­ pend for fatherhood upon Protection, despite Havemeyer's assertion to the contrary.--Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger. Tin Plate Prices. Every one knows that tin plate has advanced considerably In price within the present year. The Democratic the­ orists claim that the advance In the United States is due incidentally to the tin plate trust and primarily to the tariff, it being their theory that a pro­ tective tariff is a promoter of trusts. Now let us look at the prices which the Welsn tin plate manufacturers re­ ceive. They now obtain $1.45 a bo* more than they did in January last. This Is a greater advance than has been made In the United States. We respectfully ask our Democratic friends to explain this. If the protec­ tive tariff and the trust caused the ad­ vance In the prices of tin plate In the United States, what caused a greater advance in price in Wales, where there is no tariff at all? We pause far re­ ply.--Toledo Blade. Wlint Hollow-Headed Polittcinna ftajr. This Is a Republican year--and the bank clearances and commercial ^agency reports show that fully 50 per ceut. more business is being done in :the United States to-day than was done during the reign of Grover II. And yet you will now and then run across a hollow-headed politician who will tell you that it would be well for this coun­ try to go back to the dead-sea stagna­ tion of those hard old free-trade and free soap Democratic days.--Darling­ ton (Mo.) Record. • A Vigrhty Nation. Oswald Ottendorfer says that this country is no longer the ideal America to Europeans that it was. It must be confessed that it has changed in some of its features. At one time It was the Mecca of the poor of Europe, who mi­ grated hither because It offered a wel­ come to the home seekers. Then it was also the market for European products. Now we are a mighty na­ tion, invading the markets of Europe and growing prosperous at the expense of older countries.--Seattle (Wash;) PoSt-Intelligeucer. Hard U|» for Argument*. With Montana wool bringing from 18 to 18% cents, it is hard for the Demo­ cratic papers of the State to work up an argument against the Republican plan of protection to home products. Vei'y little has been heard from them recently regarding the "free entry of raw uatetials for manufacturing." and "tariff for revenue only."--Boulder Age. Bad for ralamlty Croakers. Scarcity of workmen and high prices for common labor now characterize the industrial situation throughout the Northwest. Such conditions are not conducive to the agitation of calamity theories. Prosperity is silencing many political demagogues. -- Minneapolis (Minn.) Progress. l ow to Produce a Panic. A Democratic victory next year would bring the prosperity promptly to an end aqd precipitate another panic like that which Cleveland's election in 1892 caused.--St. Louis Globe-Demo­ crat. . n i t , i , ' -- -- -- - $ Answered. Front Peiilmore Cooper and other au­ thorities we have gained the impres­ sion that the Indian is a stolid, severe individual, with no sense of the white man's humor, but one red brother ehowed himself quite a civilized Joker the other day in the United States Court at St. Paul. He was a witness in a bot- iy contested case, and a lawyer was after him in the most approved style to cast discredit on his testimcnjK%After apparently frightening the Indlairwlth the awful consequences which would follow the slightest deviation from the t^uth, the lawyer solemnly said: "Now, sir, I want you to tell me the exact truth, without any shuffling or evasion. I want you to look ms square in. the eye and tell me how you get your living?" The Indian looked straight at the law­ yer and, with that grave air familiar to all acquainted with the red man, simply said: "Eat." . The court room roared, and tjie lav. yer let the witness go. fhosM Poldlera m They Are An ingenious F^en^hman has discov­ ered recently that the average man uses up twice as much energy in walk­ ing as IS1 actually required. A number of experiments have been made along these lines In the French army. Vari­ ous styles of walking have been tested by long marches and with the aid of the biograph. The result of these ex­ periments, ooverlng--several months, has been published under the title, "How to March," by pr. Felix Reg- nault and Commandant de Raoul. These jE^tentlfjts begin their book with the ftsf^^n^iercsy that an erect, soldierly, bfearlng entails the greatest expenditure of physical ef­ fort ind ie the least adapted for long marches. On the other hand, they ar- gne totting meri*iuisume, uncon- acloudisj, . stooplo^l^ralk, , which, tbOQgh Afvltfvard, enWpfec them to per­ form their, work with ftie least possi­ ble expenditure of forct^. The easier method of ' walking In Which the body. Is allowed to stoop more or lesT'lv known as the flexion march. The body is Inclined further forward in the flexion march than in ordinary vttil&ng, .and the leg when taking the ground is more bent at the knee. The l̂ g leaving the ground Is therefore more Inclined. It follows that the leg taking the ground in this way jars the body lees, and at the same time the posft&fe the other leg en­ ables one to pUBh hishself forward with greater force.'̂ , ' One of the ipost striking of the prac­ tical testa of tbp new theory was made when the new march was practiced among a company of French soldiers for several months at Nantes. They were first instructed In the flexion march for thre^ - months before the tests were fnade. ; A detachment was then marche^I in' the presence of Gen. Fay. The men carried their rifles, bay­ onets, 100 rounds "fcf ammunition and food for one ma&i along a very hilly road a distance fit "twelve and a half miles at the rat? of seven miles an hour. In thla twt sot a single man fell ont of line. m __ A BIG COMPILATION Qtit NOIS NEWS. VLU- Beer In Mortar. Three hundred years ago, in England, It was customary to add beer to mortar fb produce the required consistency. It was asserted that the beer rendered the uiortar more durable than if it were made with water. It is certain that the workmen often.tasted the beer, perhaps to convince themselves that it^ WM of the proper strength and flavor. Sixteen Indicted for Murde^--Rare Pain tin* tu ̂rittstfteld-Nebo Swept by a Blr Fire--UnlreraaHsta Elect (ificcra-EUvator* Burned at Cairo, The grand jury at Marlon, after spend­ ing three days hearing testimony, return­ ed indictments against eleven negroes and five white men for mnrder. They are charged with firing into an Illinois Central train loaded with negro miners And their families at the tiVedonia mines on June 30, when Mrs. Carr was killed. All but three negroes and one Italian have been arrested. These fpur fled the country ^oon after the riot. Nine uf the prisoners are confined in the county jail guarded by State troops. Three of them are serving time at Springfield for vio­ lating Judge Allen's injunction concern­ ing the operating of the Brush mines, which are in the hands of a receiver. The new &Mttan of the Bronte iiovels, for which Mrs. Humphry Ward la writing Introductions, will be called the Haworth edition. It Is said that there are already 12,000 subscribers for the first year of Lady Randolph Churchill's quarterly, the Anglo-Saxon Review. t Lilian Whiting has presented to the Boston Public Library some valuable autograph letters written to the late Kate Field by George Eliot, Anthony Troilope, Charles Dickens, Walter Sav­ age Landor, and the two Brownings. Charlotte M. Yonge is said to have written and published one hundred and twenty books. She Is now 76, and Uvea quietly in her Ivy-clad home near Win­ chester, England. The large returns from her books have been mainly de­ voted to missionary work. Frau Magdalene Thorn sen, the moth er-in-law of Henrik Ibsen, the Nor­ wegian dramatist, and herself a novel­ ist, received from King Christian of Denmark on her 80th birthday recently the golden medal of merit. She also received the Norwegian medal of pec- otnpense. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's "Story of a Bad Boy" has been translated into French, where It is in its fourth edi­ tion. The title page announces that the book has been Indorsed by the min­ ister of public instruction, adopted aa a school reader, and selected in Pails for distribution as a prize. Mr. Le Queux's much-talked-of forth­ coming novel is to be entitled "Secrets of Monte Carlo," and it will contain among other things an account of the systems employed and frauds perpe­ trated upon the bank In that famous resort. Mr. Le Queux's local color is in this Instance to be relied upon, as the author makes his residence in Monte Carlo part of the year. s MEANEST MAN OF ALL. He I<lres in Chicago and Is the Cham* plon of Closeness. There are lots of mean men In the world. There is one in Boston who will never tell any one the time of day; there Is one In Colorado who never lights a cigar In winter because his breath upon the frosty air gives the same satisfaction, and there is another In Pillsbury, Wyo., who never has a fire In his house because the smoke might wear the chimney out But the mean­ est of all men lives right here In Chi­ cago. The other night he catrie aT&ng "Rkn- OOlpU BllCVl oua o,b (I. oiut" walk stand whereon were displayed such trinkets as collar buttons, shoe laces, combs, and pocket mirrors. He took up one of the. latter, and the pro­ prietor's eyes bHghtened at the pros­ pect of a sale. "How much?" asked the Meanest Man. "Five cents," answered the proprietor of the stand. The Meanest Man looked the object, carefully over. "I'll give you three." The other shook his head. The Meanest Man held out. "Too much," he said. Somehow, between the two outstretched hands, the pocket miroor fell and broke into several pieces on the pavement. The Meanest Man picked up the remains, retaining one fragment of the glass. The proprietor lamented. The Meanest Man passed on up the street. At the corner he stopped, and, holding/the little piece of mirror before him, ran a small comb through his whiskers. "A man doesn't need a whole pocket glass for a small beard," be muttered.-- Chicago Inter Ocean. : Odor Htlll Perceptible. The odor of musk which was mixed with the mortar when the So&hia Church In Constantinople was" built is still perceptible. People talk of dlhers as "breaking into society," as If It were done with dynamite and a pick, instea# «f with luncheons and prlsea. Finds He Owna a Kare Picture. It has been discovered that Rt. Rev. George F. Seymour, bishop of Springfield of the Episcopal Church, has In his pos­ session, hung in the parlor of the Epis­ copal residence, the original painting ot Carl Guthers. one of the greatest of European artists of the dsy< of the "Ecce Homo." Mr. Gutherc has a great reputation in Munich, Rome, Antwerp, Bruges and Paris and is in charge of the panel decorations at the Paris expo­ sition. The "Ecce Homo" is considered his greatest picture and is valued at $100,000. * fiv Illinois Man Is Murdered. The body Of Frank C. Jones was found floating in Five-Mile Creek, near Bir­ mingham, Ala. There were bruises on the head and neck. The man's coat and hat were found on the bank, along with a bundle of letters. These letters show­ ed that he had resided at Daphne, A}a., and had relatives in Ransom, 111., his former home. He had l»een a member, of ^company A, Fifty-third Illinois Volun- teersi under command of- Col. Heit. The coroner's jury decided that he had been beaten by unknown parties before fria body was thrown in the water. Unlveraallat Meeting Knda. The Universalist State convention closed at Elgin. These ofllcers were elected: President, F. A. Winkelmsn, Chicago; Vice President, R. J. Hsight. Woodlawn; Treasurer, H. H. Massy, Blue Island; Financial Secretary, F. Sears, Chicago; Trustees for three years; Mrs. A. M. H. Ellis, Chicago, and G.'T. Repply, Oak Park; Trustees for t^eo years, Charles M. Russell, Elgin, and Dr. J. S. Cantweil, Chicago; Trustee for the Ryder fund, three years, A. H. TM* go, Hoopeston. * 1 1 htrty-two Bntldtnca Bnrn. The entire business portion of Nebo was destroyed by fire the other night. Thirty-two business houses and resi­ dences were burued, the loss exceeding $40,000. The Bush block, a two-story business house, with the opera-house on the second Boor, is the only business house which remains standing. The fire started from the explosion of a gasottae stove in a restaurant. y"fV Killed In a Foot-Bolt Game, a. '1 Joseph Burns was killed in a football game at Belvidere. The high school teams, of which he was a member, weve practicing on the fair grounds. Burns was managing one of the teams and was in his senior year. His family are well known, and his violent death will doubt­ less cause the cancellation of all the games scheduled there for this season. f Bis: Cairo Elevator I nrna. The Halliday Milling Company's neW elevator, containing 250,000 hushels of wheat, burned at Cairo. Adjoining mills were saved with difficulty. The loss is over $200,000, partially covered by in­ surance. The blase was caused by .'an overheated bearing. Mr. vcel , Mr. afcf'Mrs. He na - eelebrahld' theii^ ceatiy. Only one free rural stall delh will be established out of this fan. Rosie Desete, 10 years old, iX*4 of burns received While lighting a firs witb i kerosene, at Kankakee. J. C. Lardy, a fruit commission chant, will erect a large cold storage warehouse at Ludington, ' w Linnea Thurgren, the 0-year-old daafb' ter of Gust Thurgrea, was killed by't Santa Fe engine at Galesburg. / The Wsrrensburg canning facto^f | packed 1,480,000 cans of corn thia wS& J; son, the product of 1,200 acres. At Kankakee. J. McGovern, 30 yean' old, employed at a circus, suffered a sku& fracture throagh the falling of a teat pole. The plant of the Peoria Rubber and Manufacturing Company has been sold to the American Bicycle Company for $320,000. Carl Ebert, of Chicago, who was riot- ing his son, Rev. H. Ebert, at 2ioa Church, in Sterling, was accidentally killed by a fall from a tree. The Bingham postoifice was robbed the other night, the safe, which was small, being carried ont of the office. The amount of the loss is not known. Mrs. Annie Brooker, the first white woman to reside in what is now Oceana County, and who had lived at Pentwater since 1855, is dead, aged 75 years. A warranty deed transferring the Riverview factory from Edwin Gould to the Diamond Match. Company for $45,000 was recorded at Kankakee. Henry Miller Wbiteman, President Of the First National Bank, ex-State resentative and a wealthy citizen, died at Biggsville. He was 74 years old. S. G. Wilson of Illinois has been ap­ pointed by President McKlnley to the consulate at Madgeburg, Germany, made vacant by the promotion of Henry Dted- erich. The American Straw Board Company has been awarded a verdict of $15,140 against the Chicago and Alton Railroad for the destruction of Its mills at Lock- port by fire four years ago. The Pana Electric Light Company's property has been sold to H. J. Froelicht, S. • K. Gregg, J. Rawlins and others of Chicago for $75,000. This takes in the Pana Telephone Exchange and other real estate. New Grand Chain has the unique dls» tinction of being the only town In the State that has a negro for Mayor. In the recent election Fred Runnels beat his white Democratic opponent, James Jones, for the. office. Three well-developed cases of small­ pox exist near Makanda, Dr. Sullivan, of the State Board of Health, caused all who had been exposed and the vicinity In which the disease exists to be put under strict quarantine. -m 1 The statement of the State banks for the quarter ending Sept. 8, 1899, shows total resources and liabilities $195,829," 927.41, against $108,058,082.08 for July 1; loans and discounts, $112,859,424.81, increase $7,101,392.90; due from State banks, etc., $9,962,355.05, decrease $1,- 583,315.91; due from nation ̂ bunks, $18,700,337.21, decrease $10,146^005; total capital stock paid in, $17,796,000, increase $1,090,000; time deposits, $52.- 128.915.27, increase $1,230,*#.58; Indi­ vidual demand deposits, decrease $2,737,901.58. • -te'i ^•v Via; it Brief State Happenings A pearl button factory will be lished at Dallas City. 4 It is said that Ottawa parties wittnta*t a glass factory at Peoria. c Oct. 12 a reunion of American war erans will be held at Monmouth. At Decatur, Earnest I.arrick was fatal­ ly injured by being thrown from a trijiii. The assessed value of lands in Ful,ton County ranges from $3 per acre in Wat­ er ford township to $15 per acre in Can­ ton. Peter Tiederman was killed by falling coal and slate while at work in the Hip- pard mine at Belleville. He was 00 years old. " Charles J. Lindemann of Chicago, mem­ ber of the Stale Board of Agriculture, died in the Liland Hotel at Springfield, of peritonitis. Mayor Carter garrison of Chicago and Mayor Zeigenheini of St. Louisi have agreed to enter a corn-husking match at the Peoria corn carnival. Joseph B. Greenhut contributed $1;00Q to the soldiers' monument fund at IV oria. and a similar check was sent by Fritz Triebel, the sculptor. The Swift packing house interests in Chicago have' bought two more cattle ranches in Texas which contain 200,000 acres and upon which 300,000 cattle are now grazing. The following presidential postmasters have recently been appointed for this State: William T. Thorp, Litchfield; Da­ vid Herriott, Morgan Park; Kichard It. Puffer, Odell; Bgsvid F. Wilcox, Quin- cy. The bara of George Monroe, on section 20, Mt. Morris Township, was struck by lightniug and burned. Ten hogs were killed by lightning on the farm of Al­ bert aad George Schwenebeck, in Fen- ton Township. German Lutheran ministers In confer­ ence at Mount Olive have decided that life insurance is sinful because it is a "species of a game of chance." It is claimed that a former City Coun­ cil of Decatur' granted a franchise for ninety-nine years for lighting the city, and that it has just come to the knowl­ edge of the people. An exchange says that two men who had gotten up on the roof of the Wood­ men's hall at Argenta, in order to learn the secret work. \^ere chased all over the town. The shoes of one of the men were captured. The Standard Distilling and Distribut­ ing Company has come into possession of the Great Eastern Distillery of Peo­ ria, which was recently bought by Henry Woolner of that city. After a shut-down of nearly lire months the big glucose factory of the United States Sugar ltetinery has start­ ed up agaiu in Waukegan. The buruing of its feed house on May 14 urcessitatc^ a stoppage. Si sit e th» u the burned build­ ing has not only been rebuilt larger :yid better, but the capacity of the factory lias been enlarged so as to be able to handle 20.000 bushels of corn per day. instead of 15.000 bushels Shortly its capacity w»U be up to 25,000 busheis. "M Tut- uwliiatiuu of Sooth Hail of the Francis Shimer Academy, affiliated with the University of Chicago, was cele­ brated at Mount Carroll. The dedicatory address, treating of the influence of Christianity upon education, was deliv­ ered by Dean Eri Baker Hulbert, D. D., LL. 1)., of the«University of Chicago. Among the guests from out of town were Dr. William R. Harper and Thomas W. Goodspeed, of Chicago. South Hall con­ tains what io said to be one of the finest chapels in Northern Illinois, besides the sleeping-rooms of the students aad a fine gymnasium, and was built by subscription. At Springfirtd, Chsriee Lenhwa, *n In­ corrigible lad, 14 years old, set ^ ̂ the clothing of Carrie CartwrighV 12- year-old daughter of Henry Cartwrfght, proprietor of the Green Tree and before the flames could be extiogaisheu the gtrl received burns which resulted io her death five hours later. The children were playing in the yard a* the rear of the hotel and the little girl had wrapped herself in red, white and blue paper bunt­ ing which had been used in decorating the hotel for carnival week. After he had been warned against the act, yonng Lenham applied a lighted match to the paper. Mrs. Cartwright was seriously burned while trying to save her daugh­ ter. Lenham boards with his father at the hotel. He was arrested a few months ago for stealing $60 from Mr. Cartwright and on another occasion for assaulting a boy with a singletree. Young Lenham was locked up io jail on a charge of mur­ der. The fifty-mil? automobile race between the carriages of Dr. E. V. D. MorriR aad F. B. Snow of Wyoming started at Galesburg on the mile track, and proved unsatisfactory. The award was given to Dr. Morris. One of the provisions of the race agreement was that the complete disabling of either machine during the race should result in a forfeiture on the part of the owner. The race proceeded smoothly until the twelfth mile, when, owing to the breaking of a sparker of the Snow machine, the automobile was so disabled it could proceed no further, aud Snow gave up. The judges announced Morris as the winner. The Morris ma­ chine went in all fifteen miles in 42:18. It made the best mile of the day in 2:32. The Snow machine lead most of the time , until the ninth mile. Two thousand dol­ lars was up on the race and Snow says that Morris is entitled to it. Saow tributes the breaking of his machine to an accident on the way there. Somonauk is to have a new bank, a permit having been issued to organise the Farmers' State Bank there. The capital stock is to be $25,000. 'The or­ ganizers are- Louts Scheiilecker, J. N. Aa- toine and C. H. White. Two officers sent from Santa Ana to bring two men from Orange to the jail there had a desperate fight with the pris­ oners, one of the latter, Herbeit Glover, of Springfield, receiving fatal injuries. His partner. Leonard, was uninjured. The prisoners commenced the attack. One officer was slightly injated. men are burglars. - ? Edward A. Bradley, president of the First National Bauk of Aurora, aad one of the most prominent citisens of the town, died of paralysis oMe heart, aged 09 years. \ . Pn feedings instituted by Cosaty Attorn*')" Stead against John Schick, a justice of the peace at Peru, for the re- ; oovt'iy of moneys paid Schick at various- times ssrttaes by prisoners in bis court Schick admits keeping money from the county, but says he kept it in hen of fees due hint, for services to the coonty. Sev­ eral hundred dollars is involved, and the suit will he a precedent. * A . - v I4*- ^ 4 ^ ., A /. i*f i V . I1*.- -i . . . h..L2. ><iV. esUbHshi; 'esatsit