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collar and klok-'th&n over the bound-; ary either Into Canada or the sea--the' latter preferred. Society guarantees freedom of speech, but It is freedom, within society, not fredom to assassin- McHEI^RT.' r- - - ILLINOIS ate ^•guarantor'. « 3 1 i " • 9 ' v / 1 The sudden death of James W. Scott, Fortunately there has been no ad- of the Chicago Times-Herald, removes •ance in the price of good mackerel. from the newspaper world onq of its ; ----ggg most picturesque as well as consplcu- 1 Kerosene oil is going up. And It ous figures. Though several years exhibits all its old-time propensity for short of ;>0. he had attained a leading taking servant girls along. , position among the creators of news- ) , ..JSSS-! papers in a city only second in popu. John Bull is a 'jolly Old dog. His lation in the country, and easily first bark is worse than his bite--especially in that restless energy and constantly when the other dog shows his teeth. ' expanding view which arc believed to • be peculiarly characteristic of Amen- J Mr. Rockefeller knows that however ca- Few men in the profession liavo high he pushes the price of oil the attained to anything like the same people will continue to make light of it. prominence and success, Jetf ving behind them so few angry points of friction. His loss will be mourned by a very large circle of personal friends, both within" and without the profession, and his place In the social and business life of the bustling, restless, generous, dar­ ing community, where for twenty years he had made his home; will be hard to fill. He had jiSst effected the consolidation of the Herald, built up on lines of his own laying down, with the older Times, built up by the late Wilbur F. Story, and doubtless enter­ tained ambitions as to the Jtature of the paper known but little, u. at all* to o t h e r s . ; ' • i . ; v « . • * ; EXPOSE THE LIARS. sense will do for-any country.1 It Is the fundamental principle advocated by the Republican party for the develop­ ment of the home interests of the peo­ ple of the United States. . It is wholly a mistaken idea that the Republican party is committed to a policy having in view merely the development of Manufactures or the building up of special interests. Thorough protection will care for every general interest of the country.--Burlington (Iowa) Hawk- eye. . * The Cost of Democracy. Various estimates have been made of the cost to the country of the Fifty- third Congress and of the present free trad'e administration. It is difficult to arrive.at a true estimate of the loss that the people have suffered through their folly in November, 1S92. This pe­ riod of our history has been concisely described by Messrs. Clapp & Co., the New York bankers, in their weekly circulars. On November 11, 1S92, they said: ^ "The recent election shows the people want to speculate." Four months later. Oh March 17, 1893, shortly after the inauguration of Pres­ ident Cleveland, they said: "The shadow of general liquidation THE STATE CAPITAL.! J, VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. £ TRICK OF THE DEMOCRATIC TRADE LAID BARE, r WHAT ILLINOIS' 1$ DOING. An Impartial Record of the Work1 'Accomplished by Those Who TW«W>. Our Laws--How the Time Has Been.' Occupied ̂ During the Past Week. Export Values of Our Manufactured Goods Decrease Under the,New Tar­ iff--A New-Yorker's Prophccy that Was Unfortunately Only Too True. Doings of State Dads. ... There was not a majority present at?, Monday's session. A half-hour was da- voted to reading bills a second time and advancing them on the calendar. Senator Berry, in the absence of Lieut. Gov. GilL presided. Senator Harding introduced, at the request of Senator D. A. Campbell, a bill amending the law in relation to fra­ ternal societies. The measure is sanc­ tioned by forty-three societies, represents ing a total membership of over 300,000. It was made a special order. It was draft­ ed to embody all the desirable features of the several bills ^introduced in the Senate about fraternal associations. The House convened at 5 o'clock, with, about sixty members in their seats. Pe­ titions favoring the passage of the Mer- riam bill repealing the acts creating the Catholic bishop of Chicago a corporation sole were presented by Merriam, Johnson of Fulton, Kitzmilier, Dudley, Daugherty, and Dunham. The House advanced tot second reading all the House bills on the calendar on the order of first reading. 1 The Senate investigation Tuesday of Chicago department stores resulted in the sentence of commitment to jail of F. H. Cooper, of Siegel, Cooper & Co., for al­ leged contempt in refusing to tell of hie firm's private business. The only bill passed by the Senate was Senator Craw­ ford's providing for converting Thirty- fifth street boulevard, Chicago, into • thoroughfare. The House spent most of the morning and afternoon sessions de­ bating an amendment to the garnishee law. The law now exempts from garnish­ ment $50 due for wages. It was desired to allow action for 25 per cent, of this amount where Che debt was contracted for the supply of necessaries. The bill is asked for by grocers and opposed in behalf of workingmen. Mrs. John A. Logan peared before the Senate Appropriations Committee to make a statement in support of a claim for $10,000 each due to Isaae R. Hitt and the estates of John A. Logaa and W. W. Wiltshire. The claim is fam attorneys' fees and expenses attending, the refunding and collection from the United States Of money advanced by Illi­ nois under the act approved Aug. 5, 1861, for carrying on the war. Mr. Cody haft succeeded in having favorably reported from the House Committee on Judiciary his bill forbidding barber shops to keep open on Sunday. Senator Bogardus' bill to make attempts at train robbing punishable by death was defeated in the House Wednesday morn­ ing. The objections to the bill were that it might bring the acts of disorderly strikers under the category of train rob­ bery. and thus make them punishable by death, and that it would make petty thefts and assaults when committed on trains or street cars likewise subject to the death penalty. The House bill to prevent the entry of horses in races under false name% known as the "anti-ringer" bill, passed the Senate by a vote of 30 to 0. In the Senate Mr. White, fromthe committee to visit State charitable institutions, made a report on the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary at Chicago. The re­ port in part says: "The general appear* auce of the infirmary was anything but inviting, and as a whole was not credita­ ble to the State. An air of untidiness prevailed, and there was an absence of everything that goes to make up a com­ fortable home. The furniture is old, out of repair and wholly uninviting all through the building. The chairs, the beds and the bedding, and the table furniture are such as one would expect to find only in a poverty-stricken home. There is hard­ ly a chair in the institution that would be called respectable in the ordinary fam­ ily. There are now in the institution 142 patients. With suitable furniture 100 could bo accommodated. The average for the last year has been 140. The gen- ' eral appropriation asked for is $54,00QL Who is to blame for the condition found, your committee does not pretend te say. The professional care is of a high ' character, and there is no good reason why the institution should not take high rank among similar institutions of the nation." The committee recommends the appropriation asked. The Senate Thursday refused to order Frank II. Cooper confined in the Sanga­ mon County jail, thereby leaving Sena­ tor Salomon's department store investigat­ ing committee suspended, as it were, in midair. Mr. Cooper refused to answer certain questions put to him by the com- iiittee. Chairman Salomon thereupon had the obstinate witness brought before the bar of the Senate. By a close vote that body decided that Mr. Cooper" must an­ swer one of the questions, but Thursday it refused to punish him for declining to answer. Consequently, while the Senate is on record as sustaining the committee in its contention that it has the right to ask certain questions, it is also on record as declaring by a more decisive majority that it will not give Mr. Salomon's com­ mittee the power to compel answers from unwilling witnesses. Among the bills passed by the Senate were Senator Bo­ gardus' providing for the treatment and cure at public expense of habitual drunk­ ards, and the House bill appropriating $130,000 to establish the Illinois western hospital for the insane. By a vote of 121 to 4 the House passed Representative Schwab's resolution for a vote of the peo­ ple on the question of changing the con­ stitution so that three amendments may hereafter be submitted to the people at any one time. The House spent most of the day debating the compromise revenue bill. Senator Littler's amendment to the anti-trust law, designed to permit com­ binations of employers where the cost of production is made up mainly of wages, failed of adoption in the Senate by a vote of 18 to 18. Secret of Venice Glassmaking. It is pretty generally known that the curious "aventurine" glass of the fa­ mous glass works at Murano, Venice, Is a trade secret. It owes its name, it is stated, to the fact that it was discov­ ered through aonie brass fillings having chanced to fall into a pot of molten glass, and the process was rediscovered after Dr. Salviati revived the glass in­ dustry at Murano. The best aventur­ ine glass Is a coppery brown, and con­ tains miuute spangles of crystalline copper. In the opinion of H. S. Wash-, , ington, it is produced by melting glass 'and a reducing agent, such as sderite, ^together with enprous oxide.--St. i,oms Globe-Democrat. . Destruction oi'. ForoSt Trees. Mrs. Seliger uotes, iu ,the Hartford Daily Times, that when criminals are sent up to the House of Correction, they are employed in cutting down the old trees in the inciosure. la other (cities the criminals are employed in breaking stone, or similar work; but It does seem strange that they should bo employed in the destruction of forest trees when the public feeling is gener­ ally the other way. The usual thins to do would be to send to the House «£ Correction those who cut dowu forest teeaii without good reason. 1 New Jersey can be more kinds of a queer State than any in the Union, iAlligators have been discovered at Cape May. LI Hung Chang is too smart even for the American interviewer, and therein be shows that he is smarter than nine- tenths of the men in highly civilized nations. To all who have felt superior in pro­ nouncing Chopin "Shopang" it will be a shock to learn that the correct pro­ nunciation is "Kopeett"--Russian and not French. This country has $3,000,000 invested In the manufacture of corks and turns out $4,000,000 worth Of " corks annu­ ally. When it comes to business your Uncle Samuel certainly is a corker. No one seems to be able to under­ stand why kerosene should take such an upward shoot, but we suspect that the Standard O-il Company could throw some light on the subject if it chose to do so. THE WEIGHT OF IT, ' The esteemed London Chronicle says •5>an alliance between Japan and China would be atf wrong and cannot be al­ lowed. Thete is nothing further to be said. This setttles the matter. J. Bull has spoken. falls over the doorstep of national prosperity." Three months later, on June 30, Clapp's circular said: " "The credit panic appears to have crossed the continent, and scarcely four mouths have passed and a billion of representative money has disappear- Here are empty offices seeking men --and no takers! Meat inspectors, flsh ciilturists, car messengers, and sta­ tisticians are wanted in the depart­ ment of agriculture, at salaries of $000, $720, $1,000, $1,200, and $1,400, and they cannot be found. The only objection to the jobs In the eye of the average office seeker is that they in­ volve a little work and require some knowledge. In their 1893 souveuir, they show that the seventy-five railway receiver­ ships rendered necessary that year in­ volved^ an indebtedness .amounting to $1,212,217,033 and the total liabilities of banks suspended was $210,998,808. The business shrinkage in textile trades was almost $40,000,000, and ill other industries over $90,000,000. Adding the record of the trade fail­ ures they found that the disaster brought upon the country by the free trade party during 1893 was "equal to about 25 per cent, of the annual pro­ duction average for the country during the past decade." Our artist has explained the extent of the disaster for the two full years from March, 1893, to March. 1S95. Ac­ cording to the record of the bank clear­ ings the shrinkage in business was live billion six hundred and sixty-live mill­ ion dollars, during the first six mouths only that this new tariff has been in force, below the amount of business done during the first six months when the McKinley tariff was in operation. It is rather difficult for an American to understand what is the trouble be­ tween Sweden and Norway. The two are confederated as regards the kinu, the common executive of both, but each has its own legislature, aud is sup­ posed to enjoy "home rule." Sweden Is the larger, and, in a conflict, could probably overrun Norway. But to wljat end? None that one can see readily, except the object might be TO consolidate the two kingdoms more completely into one. The most dis­ quieting aspect of the trouble is the disposition said to be shown by Russia to take a hand in defense of Norway. Why she should do this is even more inscrutable than the quarrel itself. It seems taking a very acute stage when a kind of emergency commission ad­ vises the king to get his navy and army in readiness for use at once. Now what will Russia advise? Prisoner Makes a Confession. A secret investigation, which has been conducted at Carlinville by Chicago and Alton detectives, a Pinkerton man and Sheriff Davenport, relative to the murder of Engineer Holmes, resulted in the ar­ rest of Ben Myers, a stone cutter by trade, living at Carlinyilje, and Jack Frost and Ed Bryant, of Burnside, Pu­ laski County, Ivy. At the coroner's in­ quest Myers broke down and made a written confession. He stated that he had planned the job, and that Frost aiin Bryant had done the shooting. They had made overtures to Hayward Simmons, a farm hand, to enter into the job, but he refused. Frost and Bryant, who did the work, are smooth-faced boys. It is be­ lieved that there is one more principal at large.- The funeral of the murdered en­ gineer was held at the First Baptist Church, Bloomington. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, together with the Order of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Firemen, had charge of the funeral, escorting the remains to tln> church and to the Evergreen City cem­ etery. Many were present from distant points, including prominent railroad men. Three brothers and as many sisters of the dead engineer were among the mourners. A Wild Engine. If it is true that Dr. Nansen has planted the Norwegian flag at the North Pole, «r-sigh of relief will go up from the weary soul of man. The Nortfir<-Poie has been more kinds of a nuisance than any other spot on earth. If somebody has actually found it aud staked it down, its power for mis­ chief will be vastly decreased. The elusive pole has been, indirectly, a pernicious will-o'-the-wisp, demanding the sacrifice of human lives from every generation. Its latent ability to make trouble has been greater than that pos­ sessed by any easy boss in the history of the world. The North Pole, in short, has been for centuries an interna­ tional hoodo. Until it is clearly proved, however, that Dr. Nansen has stolen a march on the pole, and scored a beat that will take the wind out of other adventurous spirits, there is no wis­ dom in premature rejoicing. The tele­ graphic facilities between here and the North Pole are not yet in a satis­ factory condition. England Wants a Change, Cheap food is excellent if you have the money to buy it; but a threepenny loaf is of vei'y little value to a man with only three halfpence in his pocket, and of less value still to the man who has nothing. Free trade has given us cheap goods, and it has taken away employment from English workers to an alarming extent. If we were all con­ sumers, living on an income derived from an investment in consols, free trade could not be too highly praised.-- To-Day, English paper. It is said that a publisher on one occasion failing to get any response to liis numerous duns concluded to pub­ lish an obituary notice of one of his subscribers on the supposition that he was dead. An exchange intimates that it may have to do the same thing if some of its subscribers continue to ignore their bills. It is a curious ques­ tion, but why is it that, many people will neglect and sometimes refuse to pay their subscription bills when they pay everything else? It is singular, too, that they will take from the post- oflice their paper and continue to re­ ceive it long after the time for which they have paid, and when the publish­ er sends a bill return a saucy latter stating that their subscription expired several months ago or longer. Their answer is never couched in polite terms, but they all seem to take the action of the publisher as an insult and in their reply betray their own convictions of conscience in trying to frame an answer which will throw the blame not on themselves but on the "only innocent party in the trans­ action. Progress by Protection. Interest in the cotton States in the International Exposition to open in At­ lanta, Ga., on Sept. 18 next is spread­ ing. The indications are that the ex­ position will be particularly instructive to Southern people, because it must show to how high a degree of skill and advancement American manufactur­ ing interests have progressed through the instrumentality of a protective tar­ iff. The more this fact is impressed upon the South the better will it be for the entire country. Will "The Times" Explain? Through the New York custom house we received 105,000 square yards more of- foreign carpets during the first half year's operation of the Gorman tariff than 4n tlie corresponding months a year earlier. . These larger imports un­ doubtedly are one of the benefits* to the American carpet manufacturers that the New York Times is always telliug us about. Those blatant blood-tubs--in a Pick- wlckian sense--John Most, who crawl­ ed under a woman's bed to hide from the New York police, and William Mowbray, who "left his country (En- gland) for his country's good," have been in Boston talking to sympathiz­ ers and advocating anarchy, that bless­ ed state in which "nobody will want anything except to "be let alone." Mr. Mowbray thinks the only salvation is in working men resolving that they "will not be robbed any more." It would be much more effectual if everybody, workers and idJers, would resolve--and stick to it--not to rob any more. He bluntly proclaimed that he and his friends have uo purpose to "patch up the conditions of the present, but to break them to pieces." What we need is somebody to take such blatant blackguards as this by the That Rooster in Trouble.