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7M,T# AT HMWIA&"1 '«<= Fes pri^"t SFc THtXTbK 5JCn ("Hr *r*T of t«i«* ••*iAjr Hockcv^ •NN^n fl^WrmsjT^ active of the ILLINOIS STATE OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. .Business. Portion of Liberty ville Goes / Up in Smoke--Troubles of a Decatur Reformer -- Free Fight Follows a JEockfor4 Wedding, Libertyville Fire-Swept. Fire destroyed fourteen buildings, com­ prising the business section of Liberty­ ville, Lake County, at 1 o'clock Saturday morning. The progress of the tire was stayed only when it had burned to the •outskirts in one direction and buildings in the path of destruction in another had l>een blown in the air^y dynamite. Loss Jby the fire will reach §70,000. Follow­ ing is a list of the merchants and business «nen whose buildings were destroyed: Bicycle factory, reported destroyed; Com­ mercial Hotel; H. B. Eiger, store; Joffee & Joffee, store; J. E. Launier. store;.II. >C. Paddocks, printing office; M. Pester, store; piano factory; Savey & Austin, Store; G. H. Schauch & Son's hardware store, and postoffice, origin of the fire; Xx. ' H. Schauch's . three warehouses; Twiggs & Taylor, store; W. G. Triggs, dwelling. After the fire crowds of home­ less citizens gathered-around the ashes of their town and waited until day broke to plan for the future/ The fire was the first in seven years' and found the town wholly .unprepared. The population of the town 5s about 1,000. Th6 buildings for the .most part were frame and afforded good fuel for the flames. ^ Mast Pass in the Studies. ' Thg Thirty-ninth . General . Assembly pass-ed a law providing for the examina­ tion of teachers for school certificates in the first and second grades, and stipulat­ ing what studies they should be examined in. Physiology and hygiene were not mentioned in the list of studies required. In reply to an inquiry, Assistant Attorney General Newell has rendered an opinion as follows: "All applicants for teachers' •certificates are required to pass an ex­ amination in physiology and hygiene, so far as the same applies to the effects of alcoholic beverages, stimulants and nar­ cotics upon the human system, notwith­ standing the act passed by the last Legis­ lature of this State. The act of 1S89, which went into force July 1, 1890, re- •quires that all applicants for teachers' certificates shall be examined in physi­ ology and hygiene, as above set forth." Indict Baiighman and Others. The Fulton County grand jury, in ses­ sion at Lewistown, brought in indictments charging Baughman, Brown and Henry with burning the court house last Decem­ ber. After the grand jury brought in these indictments Judge Orr said that in view of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the cases of the Chicago de­ tectives and prominent citizens of Canton, charged with conspiracy to loot the Ful­ ton County treasury out of $2,500 reward •offered for the arrest of these men after they were in custody, he would appoint a special State's attorney to take the place of P. W. Gallagher of Canton, the regu­ lar State's attorney. He appointed Kin- sey Thomas of Lewistown, who was form­ erly State's attorney, to take charge of these cases and to help the grand jury make a thorough investigation. Sweet Bells Out of Tune. Charles Sc-hleiker and Miss Alice Ham­ mer, organists of St. Paul's German Lutheran and the First German Churches respectively, were married at Rockford, but a fight between the groom and the bride's brother followed the ceremony at the church door, the parties being sephr- jited by an officer. The bride's mother wanted her to be married at the church where she played, but the young couple picked the groom's pastor on the quiet, Mrs. Hammer and her son not hearing of it until it was all over and just reaching the church in time to see them come out. Then the trouble followed. Wanted for Criminal Libel. •C. M. Lane, an attorney who has been trying to prosecute Decatur gamblers, dis­ tributed on the streets handbills in which he said State's Attorney Isaac R. INI ills, Mayor D. H. Conklin, Sheriff Jerry Nich­ olson. and Marshal William M. Mason were catering to COO gamblers, worse than burglars. These officers issued a warrant charging Lane with criminal libel. W as Hanging by His Heels. Belshazzar Kreig, aged 65, a German farmer, residing northwest of Virginia, was found dead hanging by his heels in the most secluded place in Stewart Reid's •orchard. He had a quarrel with his son about a road through his field, The ver­ dict of the coroner's jury is that Kreig committed suicide by hanging himself in the tree top. The rope broke after he was dead, and in falling the man's heels caught in the fork of the tree, in which condi­ tion he was found. He leaves a wideb­ and three children. State ̂ News in Brief. John Durrsten, of Scales Mound, was killed by the bursting of a stone burr in a feed mill. Mrs. Eliza Breeze, widow of the late •Chief Justice Breeze, died at Carlyle. •She was S7 years old. • A Quincy woman named Dora Ileil- wagon shot her faithless lover, Henry Boding, and her rival. Rosa S^vearingen. 'They are in the hospital and the doctors say their wounds will prove fatal. John Skinner, a prominent Blooming- ton business man, died, aged 30, from malarial fever, while the funeral of his father. David Skinner, was being held. He leaves a wife and two children. At Peoria County Clerk Charles Rudel foegun suit against Duncan McPhail of Peoria and Benjamin Cover of Lime­ stone, both police magistrates, for dis­ obeying the law requiring marriage li­ censes to be returned to the county clerk within thirty days after they are issued. The cases will be fought hard. The county clerk is determined and says the law must be obeyed. «• Morris Rosenfeld, president of the Mo- line Wagon Company, aijd one of the lead­ ing manufacturers of the West, is very Jpw with Bright's disease. His life is -despaired of. Gov. Altgeld refuses to allow the ap­ propriation of $1,200 for C'4 lonument to Gen. Thomas Ford at Peoria to be used •until the citizens of that place provide money to take care of the lot. Tiie Secretary of State of Illinois is now sending out anti-trust blanks to all cor­ porations. Twenty-thousand will be sent •out, but it is not expected that half that many replies will be received. Over 100 members of the Funk and Stubblefield families of Central Illinois were present at a recent reunion at Bloomington. The Fulton County Reunion Associa­ tion, in session at Canton, decided to hold the next* meeting at Lewistown. Louis Frautz, a fireman on Sec. 6 of the Drainage Canal, was driving in a buggy -•on the towpath of the old canal. A steam- barge frightened the horse, which backed into the . canal, which is only five feet •deep. The Worse struck Frantz with his front hoofs and knocked him senseless. The fireman was drowned, though the 'horse and buggy were taken from the •«anal without trouble. • , tA. ' • ' » • ' • Chicago schools opened "with an enroll ment of *1 To,000 pupils. Vaccination ia. being! eiiforced. - •<• General John C. Black, of Chicago, ad­ dressed the veterans of the Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry at tKeir reunion in Free- port. v Governor Altgeld restored the rights o£ .citizenship try Henry, At well, of Bloom- iiigton, who served three years in the lietiifentiary lor grand larceny. At freeport the grand jury has indicted Frank J. Harris, ex-plofossional base-ball player, for murder. Harris shot Charles Bengel. The defense will be insanity. t Governor Altgeld has ordered an elec­ tion in the Eighteenth,.Congrpssional Dis­ trict for Nov. 5, when a successor to the late Congressman Remaftn will be elected. At Decatur burglars gave several fami­ lies in the aristocratic part of the city a bad scare. Nine houses w®re entered, but little plunder wa^ secured in any place. Big Bend reunion was closed,- 5,000 peo­ ple being present. The parade, headed by forty-five young women, followed by fifty or more decorated carriages, was the feature of the day, James H. Black, cashier of the Cen­ tennial National Bank of Virginia, died. He was b()rn in Scott County, in 1839, and served through the war in the Third HU-, n.ois"Voiuriteer Cavalry. - William J. Miller and Miss Eliza Hohi- mer stood on a cooking range in front of the* grand stand at tiie .Menard County fair at Petersburg and. were married. They were presented with the range! • " Barney Howell, of Kimniundy, was awarded by a jury in the Circuit Coiirt judgment for $550, damages sustained by the building of the, Chicago; Paducah and Memphis' Railroad oil the street adjacent to: his residence. - " It has b<?en discovered that tb<5 Stock Yards companies at Chicago have sur­ reptitiously-tapped the city water mains, and steal about 40,000,000 gallons of water a day. In the meantime, residents of that district, who pay big water taxes, have suffered from lack of water. The Illinois State Board of Health was advised of the appearance of fifty new cases of diphtheria at Hamilton County, and asked for instructions necessary for combatting the disease. Secretary Scott forwarded instructions. The outbreak in that county seems general.. Several deaths have occurred. Joshua S. Copland, the oldest resident of Massac County, died at his home. Mr. Copland was born in the year 1812 and was a continuous resident of what is now Massac County since 1S10, living on the same spot for about sixty years. He was aiso the oldest Mason in the county and the father of twenty children. Benjamin Riser, Jr., son of ex-Coroner B. W. Riser, was recently married to a young lady at Bloomington. Tuesday night both were lodged in jail. They are accused of stealing two horses and a buggy. They confessed their guilt. They went to Peoria, where they stole from a business street a fine horse and buggy and drove to Lilly, Tazewell County, at such a gait that the horse became ex­ hausted. They unhitched the jaded steed, turned it loose and hitched up hi its stead a fine gray, owned by a farmer, and drove, to Bloomington, a distance of twenty miles. The §tate Treasury is not bankrupt and without means to bear the expense of keeping the wheels of government in motion, as lias been stated. It is true that there is less money in the treasury than usual, owing partly to the fact that the Thirty-eighth General Assembly made a smaller tax levy than usual, aiid partly to the fact that emergencies arose, last year necessitating the expenditure of something like $400,000, largely for the . pay of militia men for strike duty. There is now something like $200,000 in the State Treasury, and State officers will soon pay in about $200,000 that has been collected as fees. Then there will come between $250,000 and $300,000 from the Illinois Central Railroad. The reports of State coal mine inspec­ tors now being .made to the State Bureau of Labor show that the wages earned by miners for the year 1894 to 1895 are, not as large as in 1892 and 1893 and much leso than in 1S93 and 1894, before their wages were cut by operators. An important cause of this is said to be the loss of trade resulting from the strikes of 1S94. In­ troduction of machines has also reduced the receipts Of the miners. The average cost of mining in 1S94 was less than for the three preceding years, except in the first and fifth districts. A State officer of the miners'*union says.that unless the miners' wages are restored to last year's figures there will be a big strike on Oct. 1, the reduction having been from 10 to 20 cents a ton. Miners are organizing everywhere to demand this restoration. C. R. Swastoul, with his wife, was held up by a masked robber near Evans- ton. Swastoul made a good fight, and in the rough-and-tumble melee his wife used her finger-nails upon the robber's face un­ til he looked as if he had had a battle with tom-cats. But he got away with a gold watch and chain. With a detonation that startled thou­ sands of theater-goers, .and with a force that snapped solid bars of steel, the en­ gine used to supply the Government Build­ ing at Chicago with electric lights ex­ ploded at 11:10 Wednesday night. In an instant the 300 employes at work upon the early mails were fleeing for the only night exit to the building upcSn the Adams street side. One man. among the night force kept his head and sprung in front of the panic-stricken clerks, opposing their exit at the inner door. This was Superinten­ dent Jampolis, whose office is almost above the engine-room. ' "Return to your places and protect thO mails," shouted the superintendent. Then he drew, to­ gether the great double doors and locked them. The employes, terror stricken, huddled together a moment, and then when no more explosions followed and the walls of the building did not tumble they hastened through the well-known halls, in total darkness, and closed and locked the doors to the rooms where the mails and moneys of the building were Ideated. Nobody was hurt. Judge William F. Bryan and wife, of P&oria, observed the-fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, the affair being cele­ brated in an enjoyable way at their home. Judge Bryan moved to Peoria with his wife forty years ago. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroads are charged with having deal­ ings with Omaha brokers on Chicago business. It is understood that the mat­ ter will be bi'ought at once before the Western Passenger Association. The Burlington and Northwestern. are the' complainants. Courtney Miller, aged id years, while attempting to jump on a moving freight train on the Illinois Central Railroad af Springfield, fell beneath the wheels and was so badly injured that he died a few hours later- Jacob Klein, 70 years old. a Cairo brick manufacturer, was crushed and burned to death by hot brick. He attempted to brace the side wall of the fire brick kiln, which was threatening to fall. .Suddenly the wall-of redhot brick fell, pinning liis lower limbs to th*e ground. He struggled to release himself and called piteously for held. His assistants were powerless to lend hivfi aid, and he slowly perished in their presence. - • . COLD WEATHKR FOR MIDS rMMER. PAYMENTof the NATIONAL DEBT SURPLUS i f r e e yeo*/ N^ '^eons; 7s TniJJion Dollop Omerlcan WealW PAYMENT SO iTlillion Dollars PAYMENT 25 million Oollors PAYMENT 25 ftlillion Dollars BELOW ZERO so million Oollors BELOW 2ER0 75 Trillion Bolters BELOW ZERO European Weather Average Qnr,ua\ Overage Genual DECREASE OF DEBT ADDITION TO 0EBT .ft GHpHfiQ'j $65,582,365 THE " NECK OF TOIL. It is pleasing and instructive tt> watch what Mr. Cleveland calls-the "iron heel of capital" impinging on the "neck of toil." For several weeks now, at al­ most every industrial center in the country, employers of la'bor have been raising the wages of their men. They have been doug it freely and unsolicit­ ed, under no sort of pressure from or­ ganized labor, and of their own volition merely. The reason is that business has revived, that the commercial out­ look is full of encouragement, and tiiat being able to improve wages they pre­ fer to do so. Under like conditions the American employed has always done the same thing. The converse of this proposition would appear to be that labor, when evil times overtake employers, should af its own initiative reduce wages. That is to say, labor should recognize the true nature of its relation to capital as promptly and as rationally as capital recognizes its relation and its obligation to labor. This is not a popular view of the subject, but it is common sense; and although labor does not admit the fact, it is the principle which determines the decrease in wages precisely as under other opposite conditions it operates to raise wages. When Mr. Cleveland started out to experiment with the tariff, and thereby plunged every manufacturing industry in the United States into such uncer­ tainty that business could no longer be carried on with confidence or safety, the wage scale declined in every direc­ tion and ceased entirely in many. Ev­ ery demagogue and every anarchistic newspaper in the country took the mat­ ter ui>. It was too good a chance to miss. The oppressors of labor were closing their mills or cutting down the wage scale with tbe merciless avarice that always marks the attitude of cap­ ital toward labor. Had net Mr. Cleve­ land called attention to the "scenes that were being enacted at Homestead" in the name of capital, and was it not a fitting time for every friend of toil to rally against the encroachments and extortions of the richV Then there spread over the whole United States one vast ^tornado of frenzied rhetoric and unreasoning denunciation whereof the echoes died away only last spring. And now the objects of it all, or at least those who have survived the abuse and the injury heaped upon them, are eniergi'ng-hfto the cleared air and re­ suming work with cheerfulness and amiability, and raising wages right and left wherever the opportunity offers.-- The Sun, New York. is a decline ot something like six-sev­ enths in the price of sheep. IIo\\y ara the wool growers or the people going to make up for this loss? In the reduced cost of clothing? No. In the general lowering of prices on the necessaries of life? No. /In the increase of pr'ces on farm products or the advance of wages to workingmen? No. How, then, is the slaughter of American sheep, because it does not pay to keep them for wool purposes, a benefit to anybody?---The Commonwealth, Fond du Lac, Wis. A Costly Capture. 3,250 million Pounds Export for tW crop vatae^cCTi; ending Ou.no 30: I89ircmd IB95 3,000 fltilliOTI Pounds 22.5 Dollars 2;iso Million Pounds 200 =8201.755.65 2.921 Ik UnderRcKinley TarijJ 2,SOO TnUlion '•Rxinds Ooiiars Uncle Sam's Wild Chase. Gollon in ilis"Markets of tnc li/orJd77 UJelgVib \Wuo 2,2-50 •minion Pounds 2,0001. million Pounds ••l/150 M!!k Round 1.500 THiHIon Pounds 1,250 rriilli Poun •i.OOC; •million ppMnae UJVial a d v a n t a g e siA j e U ' i r t j t h e "markets and shxmkuig ilie pockel-took ? 115 million Dollars 25 Trillion hollars •'•106, "million A Free Wool Boon. Here is an item of news which comes from Pennsylvania: "Washington County has been the chief area of the wool growing industry of this -State, and among the chief areas of the Unit­ ed States. On Saturday. June 15, 2.000 head of sheep were shipped from Wash­ ington County to Pittsburg. They av­ eraged 50 cents per head in open mar­ ket. One lot of 05 Merinos was offered, at ..$30. Three years ago such sheep were worth $2 or $2.50 per head." P. S.--Milwaukee Journal please copy. What advantage is free wool to^the people of Washington County? Here Democratic Backsliding. Some of the free trade papers have been trying to prove that last month's treasury deficiency of $9,210,000 means that the close of the current fiscal year, eleven months hence, will show a sur­ plus. The expert figure jugglers can fit anything to their own satisfaction, but they are no longer able to gull the public. Their day has passed. The New York Herald, however, is not such an expert juggler as some of its contemporaries. On July 30, speak­ ing of the figures given out by the Treasury Department, it said: "They show unmistakably that all sections of the. country are beginning to recover decidedly from the late com­ mercial depression, and that, under or­ dinary conditions, the new tariff will yield the government revenue sufficient for the economical administration of all its affairs. The calamity howlers will have to retire and subside." A couple of days later, however, it was compelled to say that: ' "Government receipts for the month just ended--the first of the fiscal year- fell only nine million, two hundred and ten thousand, one hundred and ninety- six dollars short of the expeditUres." The deficiency of "only nine million, two hundred and ten thousand, one hundred and ninety-six dollars" in a sin­ gle month is at the rate of $110,522,352, a year. This may,be. as the Herald says, a. "comparatively small figure," yet it was only arrived at, as the same authority tells us, "by a very palpable reduction iii the expenditures for some days past," The admission is made, however that "the moneys withheld in this way must be paid out later on," which it* perfectly true,' although we do hot see Very Comfortable Sumtner Temperature 'UA/ (J2-3 75 mi llion Dollars / '"'ec/. SURPLUS 50 inil/ion Oollors SURPLUS 25ftiilliori Obllors SURPLUS -ZERO 2.5 mill/on Dollars BELOW ZERO 50 million Dollars BELOW ZERO 75 Tnillion Oollors BELOW ZERO GTerribltj GoldWev<3 QveracjeChmuGV uverc^c Gmiuai SURPLUS DEFICIT $6M,8453830 $663314,155 how this proves that "the expenditures henceforth will be lighter." The change wrought upon the views of the Herald within two days can be briefly noted as follows: July 2S. The new tariff will yield the Government revenue sufficient for the economical administration of all its affairs. / ugust 1. The income of the Gov­ ernment--after the end of the present dull month--may be more than suffi­ cient to meet the current expenses. This is a bad case of backsliding dur­ ing camp-meeting season. Domestic Sugar Production. A plant or beet sugar factory costing $400,000 will use, say, 300 tons of beets a uay. during a "campaign" of 100 days, each ton producing an average of 1G5 pounds of sugar or a total output of 4,050,000 pounds. This is probably considerably over the average mark, because it. has not resulted in the past in this country. But even on this basis it would take S00 beet sugar factories to produce the requisite 4.000,000,000 pounds of sugar for home consump­ tion. „ The average beet yield is probably twelve tons to the acre, often more, and sometimes less, but on this basis it would take 25 acres of beets per day, or 2,500 acres, to supply one factory during a "campaign," say 2,000,000 acres per annum to give up sugar enough for our own supply. The labor in the factory on a ton of beets is from $1.50 to $1.75 per ton, or. say, $450 per day; $45,000 in a cam­ paign in one factory, to say nothing of the amount paid out for labor in the field to grow the beets, in 800 factor­ ies it would be $30,000,000. The coal, coke, limestone, bags and oil, per ton of beets worked cost $1.37, or $411 per day; $41,100 in a "campaign" and in 800 factories $32,880,000. The freight on the material is 24 cents per ton of beets, or $72 per day, $7,200 in a "campaign," and for 800 factories our railways would receive in transpor­ tation charges $5,700,000. These are only some of the considera­ tions which enter into the question of producing out own sugar, giving em­ ployment in our own country to labor in divers directions, and especially in the coal, coke and limestone industries, also indirectly increasing the demand for other goods. Furniture Falsehood. We have been told that a big Wisconsin factory let a good workman go rath<^ than pay him»over 87% cents a day. Charles R. Sligh says the cabinet makers in Eng­ land average $1.10 a day. How a pro­ tective tariff does protect the American workingmen against the pauper labor of Europe! God bless the rich; the poor can beg.--St. Louis Furniture News. Of course, the foregoing is entirely devoid of truth. Nobody will for a mo­ ment believe that any cabinet maker in the United States works for 87% cents a day. or even for $1.10, the Eng­ lish rate. In order to settle the ques­ tion we have called on a leading furni­ ture factory, and there learned that tbe lowest rate of wages paid to cabi­ net makers in this country is $16 per week. One of the men with whom we talked said: "I receive $3 per day or $18 per week. That is the average rate of wages, but no men work for less than $10." The St. Louis organ of the furniture trade made a very wild statement in a very careless manner. It will be re­ membered that, not long since, the Evening Post of New York clamored for free varnish, free glue, free nailo and free lumber for the furniture man­ ufacturers, entirely forgetful of the fact, which we showed, that there was more money invested in these indus­ tries that furnish "raw material" to the furniture people than was invest­ ed in the entire furniture trade of the country. But it is the free-trade policy to "rob the many for the benefit of the few," and it would almost seem as if the furniture people had "put up" lib­ erally in order to secure utterly false and irresponsible attacks upon the pol­ icy of protection from editors, both ir the East and in the West. A Free Trade Trick. Paste This in Your Hat, While our free trade friends are plum­ ing their feathers over what they choose, to call an increase in wages, let them bear in mind that it is not an increase of wages, but a restoration of wages; and there is one point in this connection that should not be overlooked, and that is that, in most eases, the restoration has been only, partial. In but few cases where the wages of mill- hands have been raised are they as high as they were in 1892. Don't forget this.--Ga­ zette, Trenton, N. J. - Hard on the Girls. The falling off of 25 per cent, in mar­ riages under Cleveland and low tariff is not at all surprising. It has been difficult enough for the average young man to feed and cloth one person.-- Journal, Kansas City, Mo. WHO IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY, ANYHOW? The biography of Robert Louis Ste-» Venson, which is in course of prepara­ tion by Sidney Colv[n, will not appear for twej^ears or more. Two neat phrases are flitting about ^the literary world. The first is due to Mr. Zangwill, who lately spoke of ft number of contemporaneous writers as "falling into the sere and Yellow Book." The second, in Blackwood's, classified decadent literature as of three kinds-- "erotic, neurotic and tommyrotic." There is a good deal of guessing as to who is the ̂ 'Literary Hack" whose con­ fessions were printed in the Forum. Some say that it is John Gilmer Speed, others that It is Brander Matthews playing off; but a writer in the World cannot agree with this latter opinion. Mr. Matthews, he say?, ha& a large in­ come from his father's estate and five thousand dollars a year as a Columbia College professor, besides the goodly sum he ijjakeg with his &en. , . Mr. William M orris toakes high "art pay, if we may accept the calculations of the British Printer, One of the latest publications of Kelniscot^ P^essjte an edition of Chaucer, of" which only four hundred and twenty-five copies were printed on paper and • seven on vellurii. Every one of these has been sold, over forty-two' thousand dollars being realized for the ordinary copies and nearly five thousand dollars for the velluhx impressions. M. Zola has finished a third of his long novel, "Rome." He says that it is giv­ ing him great trouble, there is so much "reading up" to be done. The book ia to deal with all the Romes--that of an­ tiquity, that of the Middle Ages, and that of to-day. He adds, concerning his new series, "The Three Cities," that "Lourdes" symbolizes the city of the Middle Ages, with all trie simplicity of its faith; "Rome" represents the city of modern evolution; and Paris--"well, Paris is the future." It is an interesting fact that all of the leading publishing houses in New York are presided over by young men. Says a New York exchange: "If you see a gray hair in a Harper's head it is not from age. J. Henry Harper--who is virtually the h^ad of the house, his cousin, 'Brooklyn Joe,' having long since retired from active business--is not more than forty, judging entirely by appearances. The two Scribner sons have not a gray hair between them. Charles Scribner, the-senior member of the firm, is still in liis early thirties, and his brother, Arthur, is c®en younger. At the Appletons' you w\ll find some slight inclination to baldujt'ss, but that is arnonfr the younger members of the firm. 'Mr. Willie,' who is the head of the house and the senior of present generation, has some gray among his brown curls, but he is a young man. You need not look for gray hairs or baldness either £jt ilae- millans'. Mr. Brett is not more than thirty, and vet,lie'; is not only the head of the American house of Macmillau & Co., but he is the house itself, every one else about the place being employes. At the Putnams', too, they are young men. Mr. Haven Putnam, the elder brother, may have some gray hidden away under his brown hair, but it does not show. It is in the beards of his younger brothers that you see the srra.v bail's. At the Century strike a lot of gray hair, but most of it belongs to Mr. Chichester, who was gray at twenty. The Century men are still young men. He Put Up His Gun. One of our best practical farmers re­ lated to us "the other day how he came to change his mind about killing birds. He said he formerly took a great deal of pleasure with his gun and dogs. About six months after coming to the territory he told his wife he would go out and kill a few quail. It was about 4 o'clock; so calling his dogs he started out on his; own farm. He soon shot three quail, and his wife, knowing that if he got thoroughly interested in the pursuit of game he would be oui till long after- supper time, persuaded him to return to the house and they would have supper, when he could go again. "All right," said the farmer; "I will dress these and we will have them for supper." liis wife remarked on the fullness of the craws of the birds, and. on opening one it was found packed full of chinch bugs! Out of curiosity they counted and found over four hundred dead chinch bugs in the craw of one quail! Said the farmer, relating the circum­ stance to us: "I just cleaned up the gun and have not shot a bird since, and if you'll come down to my place of a morning or even­ ing and see the birds coming to my barn, you'll think they know their friends. No, the farmer shouldn't kill the bird that kills bugs." --Chicago Tribune. Where the Bear Is a Pet.^ Amongst the Ainu of Japan the bear is kept as a kind of pet. But for the fact that the people do not pay rent, it might, like the Irishman's pig, be de­ scribed as the "gintleman that pays the rint." Brought to tiie hut as a cub, it is allowed the run of the wretched hovel until it has reached such a size that it becomes more than able to take care of itself. Then a log cage is built for it, and there it is diligently fatten­ ed until the family can no longer resist the temptation of a feast, when it is slain and eaten amidst great rejoicings, the skin being used either for clothing or as a blanket. Fresh from the Grill. „ v Amongst birds of prey there is.none so "cheeky" as the Kite. The Brahma kites of India, or, as the sailors call them. "Bromley Kites,", have a-teu eye for a titbit, and show any amount of daring in securing possession of it. Once, whilst the steward of a'ship was carrying a steak from the cook's galley to the cabin, a kite pounced down on him, picked up the savory meat with its foot, and was away almost before the unfortunate man could understand where the gravy with which he was so, plentifully bespattered had come from., Knglaixcrs WiMuen Inventors. One in every fifty of the total pat­ ents granted in, Great Britain last year was applied for- by a woman and one- fifth of these latter related to dress. <,,