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AROUND A BIG STATE Hoi little fellow--howdy do? . : i Long time since I've looked on yon; But I know your eyes are tfae some bright blue-- April eyes,, where the sun slips through; You kissed me oft, and you loved me, too-- --*" • ----• V Ho! little fellow--howdy do? " • fiRIEF COMPILATION pF ILLI NOIS NEWS. MODERN DEMOCRATS DIFFER .FROM THEIR DADS; Young Preapliera Must Eschew To­ bacco--One Man Killed in a Burling* ton Wreck-One of Schweinfurth's "Ansels" Is Dead. Buncombe About Markets of the World and Free kaw Material-- Cleveland Administration Ignores Its Just Debts. - Ho! little fellow--howdy do? %- Beem to see, as I sit and view iYour picture there--on the mantel shelf, The arms, the charms of your own dear . self; Tour kiss was sweet, and your love was true-- Ho! little fellow--howdy do? - Ho! little fellow--faraway! Dream sometime of the world I say, When the dark drifts over your eyes of blue And the angels look through the lice at you!'. Dream that I love you, and love me, too-- Ho! little fellow--howdy do? : - NO CERTIFICATE. The clock striking 9 sounded like a knell to the two old people sitting in their dull, hopeless misery, one on each side of the table, like strangers, the" first time in forty years. It was not •death, this uninvited guest,±hat had Ob­ truded its unwelcome presence, but something worse--disgrace, and its baleful shadow obscured the light of heaven. And the night without was as drear as their hearts within. The woman took a flat tin candlestick from the table and lighted the bit of candle it held. "You'll be coming up soon, David?" •she asked wistfully. "I'll rest on the settle here to-night," he said sternly. "David, you'll not be the one to sep'- rate us that have been joined together a lifetime? I couldn't abear that man, I really couldn't." "Wait a bit, Rachel. Maybe to-mor­ row it will seem clearer, but to-night I must -tliinlsu-and try for wisdom to see God's hand in this." "You'll wind the clock, David, and put Malty outside?" She was making a brave fight for strength, and it is on the plain and homely duties of life that we find the firmest footing. Rachel knew this, and solaced her breaking heart with trifles. "And if you have a poor turn in the night, you'll call me?" she asked. "Yes, mother." She turned away with a sigh that rent David's heart, but waited with her hand on the stair door. "There's a shroud in the candle to­ night," she pointed to the guttering wick. "I wisht there was--I wlsht to heaven there was, and 'twere for me," said the man, bowing his head until the wisps of soft gray hair fell over his troubled face. "Good night, David." The pitiful note of supplication in her voice did not fall unheeded on his ear. "Why, Rachel, I most forgot--good night, mother." "He,called me mother!" said Rachel to herself, when she had reached their room, and, setting the candle on the lit­ tle stand, she sank on her knees by the bed. "God have mercy," she prayed, "and .lay not this sin at our doors!" Then she lay down, removing only her shoes, as if to be ready for any emergency, but she did not, could not, sleep. The pillow next to her was empty--for the first time. She closed her eyes and listened to an occasional movement below--a groan --words of supplication--cries for de­ liverance from the awful thraldom of this grief. She could not see the ten­ der, plaintive lines of that dear old face softening into tears or hardening Into the rigid lines of duty. She slipped from the bed and felt her way down the familiar stairs. "Husband!" she called; "are you sleeping "No, mother." Again the most^beautiful word in the English language smote her ear like a blow. "David, haven't all the blessed years that are gone meant something? Isn't our love worth more than a bit of white paper?" "Hush, woman! Tempt me not to break the laws of God and man know­ ingly; it is enough that we have sinned through Ignorance. Oh, God!"--he lift­ ed his voice in inspired supplication like the prophets of old--"if Thou canst forgive, it is not for man to blame!" Rachel took advantage of this mo­ ment of apparent softening and kneel­ ing by him laid her head on his shoul­ der. "David, let me stay with you?" "Go back to your room, Rachel; we much each bear this cross alone." "May I kiss you, dear?" "No. no, woman! Who knows that it might not be a sin? Until we can see our way clear out of this dark shadow, we must lire apart as strangers." "There is a way, David, to set it right." "And to confessiour sin to the world!" "That is your pride, David." ".Tust so. woman. My pride is a life of integrity, and it's had a sore fall. I had much to lose." "While I have only you. ,God-help me! I have forgot the Creator more than the creature. My^unishment has come!" He heard her crying as she went away in the darkness, but said no word to comfort or recall her. She could not know that his grief was equal to hers. But it had that grfrnite fibre which gives a jman courage to die at the stake - for his principles, and inspires a dog­ ged resolution to suffer found often in ' weak natures, and sometimes called obstinacy in the minor events of life. It was the first call to martyrdom that David had heard, and it excluded all other voices. But Rachel--she could never be sure that she had fallen asleep and dream­ ed it--thought that her husband came and bent over her, that a tear fell on her forehead, and that he patted her gray hair with a loving touch. The next morning repeated the an- " guislf of the preceding day and night. Suddenly Rachel asked: "Hare yon thought of the children, David; what it means to them?" f; *"Aye, woman, and a sore thought it has been. Whether or no to, tell them of their parents' sin, beset me like a machination of the evil one. But I put it away. God gave me strength for that And t^is day I will cotisldef In what way to acquaint them with their misfortune." Another blow for the loving heart of Rachel Her boy, living with his little family far distant, had his mother's sensitive, nature; the trouble might.-kill him. The girl, Drusilla, was like her fath­ er; martyrdom would be a crown. In her stern renunciation she might never see either of them again. As the day wore on there was much to be done. God's broken law must be patched up by one of his commissioners --the minister could help them out of their present difficulty, but for the past not all the tears of all the angels could make that whole and clean again. These two who for rorty years had believed themselves man and wife--> whom no man had pot asunder--were to be married again. It all came about through a lawyer's letter disputing their title Jointly held to property owned- in a distant .State, and requesting them to forward a copy of their marriage certificate, auti prove the validity cf their claim. . Once in a hundred years such a case happens, but that St should have come to those God-fearing, law-abiding, In­ offensive people- who were as simple and innocent as children, seemed unac­ countable. David took the matter to heart as a personal sin. . . Their minister was accustomed to all sorts of sinners, but that any two peo­ ple, as simple and guileless as these two babes in the woods, had gone through life as law-breakers puzzled him great­ s- He would have laughed, but the aw­ ful earnestness of this domestic tragedy struck him with tragic force. When he saw Rachel in her bridal finery of for­ ty years ago, the little old man in the coat that had been laid away for his burial, both trembling with an excess of emotion, he felt impelled to save them from themselves. "We have a heap of trouble, sir," David began simply, and without any circumlocution he told his story, which Rachel accentuated with her tears. They had never missed the certificate; it had not been given to them by the minister who married them in the old home, back east, and the lawyer's first letter acquainted them with the omis­ sion. "We can see now that it should never have happened, but we didn't really sense it till the lawyer man wrote again and told us we were not married until we could prove it by witnesses or cer­ tificate!" And David wiped his flushed face with his wedding handkerchief. A small folded paper fell from its folds, which the minister picked up mechanically and passed to Rachel. It was yellow and creased, but when she unfolded it she gave a great cry! "Husband! It's the certificate! You had it all the time and never knew it. Thank God!" "I thought it was a receipt for the fee I gave him--honest I did, wife, and ain't ever looked at it since that day. It's the hand of Providence that's give it back. And we're married and have been all those years? That's the bless- edest piece of paper I've seen in my life, and there ain't enough money in these United States to buy it." "We'll frame it and hang it where we can see it every day," suggested Ra­ chel. "Hooray!" cried the little old bride­ groom, out of whose face all lines had escaped, except those of love and ten­ derness, "I must kiss the bride!" And as the minister turned his back on the scene, he pondered long on the text, "The meek shall inherit the earth." --Detroit Free Press. Silk Dresses from Spruce Wood. When a silk dress can be made of spruce wood, some alcohol and a small quantity of ether, every workman's wife ought to be able to afford one. The idea of manufacturing silk from ordinary wood pulp is original with Count de Chardonet, a citizen of France. The pulp is dried in an oven and plunged into a mixture of sul­ phuric and nitric acids. Then it is washed with water and dried by alco­ hol. The product is dissolved in a mix­ ture of ether and alcohol, and the result is collodion, the stuff that is sometimes used to make an artificial skin. This collodion, which is of a sticky and viscous consistency, flows through a tube that is perforated with hundreds of very minute holes. Through these holes it issues in threads so fine that six of them are required to form threads of the thickness necessary for weaving. The threads pass thr )U^h water which absorbs from them the ether and alco­ hol. They are then ready for the loom, being strong, elastic and brilliant as the silk spun by silkworms. Before being wound, however, they undergo a special treatment to render them non-combus­ tible. He Knew Enough. The esteem in which the sailor's call­ ing is held in Massachusetts coast towns is indicated by a true story that comes from Gay Head, a primitive com­ munity on the island of Martha's Vine­ yards- A teacher was wanted at the village, and a sailor, with Indian blood in his veins, applied to the town committee for the position. He had to pass an ex­ amination by the committee, and trem­ bled at the ordeal, being sadly unlearn­ ed in book lore. • t. • The chairman began the examination. "Mr. , what is the shape of the earth ?" "It is round, sir," the candidate an­ swered. "How do you know?" "Because I have sailed around It three times." "That will do, sir!" He received his "certificate" as a teacher without another question be­ ing asked. Injurious Weeds. In some of the schools Germany the pupils acquire a knowledge of the weeds wyhicli Injure vegetables. The weeds are pictured on wall maps in natural colors. Mustn't Use Tobacco. At the Jacksonville meeting of the Illi­ nois Methodist conference 'occurred the admission of fifteen young men"to the ministry or deacons' orders. Bishop Joyce made them a ..fatherly address and created quite a sensation by asking each one categorically if he had ever used to­ bacco and if he would solemnly promise to die before using it. Each one liad to say yes or be rejected, and they ail as- Bented. Humane Legislation. The Illinois Humane Society has done, suid is constantly pushing, a grand' work in suppressing cruelty to animals, and in punishing those guilty of such cruelty. Its work also embraees protection to chil­ dren, and greater power in this line was given jt by. legislation enacted by the last General Assembly. The hist nee which led to this legislation occurred at Rock- ford, last year. An itinerant accordeon player forced a little girl, 7 years of age, to king, play and dance upon the streets: ail day long, and at Qi30 at night the pair w£re performing in a saloon. Officers of the Winnebago branch of the society caused the man's arrest, and this instance was used at Springfield to urge the. pas­ sage of a bill 'which g^yes to the society to care for and protect any child nmk>r 14 years of age who may be compelled by parents, or others-to pursue. similar voca­ tions. Chicago"?)fhces of the society are at 500 Wabash avenue, John G. Shortall, president. The society's work last year was done at a cost of $8,(127.39, and re­ ceipts were $9,448.S8. An,ambulance is maintained for free service in carrying sick or disabled animals, and officers are constantly active in suppressing and pun­ ishing cases of cruelty. Earnest co-opera­ tion throughout the State is desired. First Funeral in "Heaven." The first funeral of an adult from Schweinfurth's "heaven," south of Rock- ford, since the place was established, took place Thursday afternoon. The ser­ vices were over the remains of Miss Lil­ lian Raymond, 30 years of age, who died as the result of an operation at the city hospital. She had been an inmate of the "heaven" and was the teacher of the little children there. ^>eliweinfurth and four angels who were in Roekford to pick out the Casket and engage: an undertaker seemed very much affected over her death, but refused to discuss the matter, saying: "The funeral will be simple, our idea of the resurrection being so vastly different from other people's." The woman was very close to "the throne." About a year ago when Chicago parties were pressing Schweinfurth hard with damage suits, he transferred by bill of sale to Miss Ray­ mond and her brother, who lives at the place, all of his personal property, and it still stands in their names. The first death in "heaven" was a baby several pears ago, which Schweinfurth announced he would resurrect, but later decided it was not best to attempt to do so. Bad Wreck on the The Chicago, Burlington and Quiney Railroad sustained the wjprst wreck it has had for years, just east of-Alton, at 1 o'clock Thursday morning. A west­ bound train broke in two and as the front part slowed up at a water tank the rear- part ran into it, causing a car of naphtha to ignite. There were twelve cars of naphtha and petroleum in the train and all were soon burning. The tlames shot up hundreds of feet. Three cars exploded with tremendous force. The house of Thomas Craver, near by, was set on tiro md destroyed and Mr. and Mrs. Craver barely escaped with their lives. Samuel A'elch, twenty rods distant, a village lire- man, was covered with burning oil and burned to death. Other firemen were badly, but not fatally, burned. The loss to the railroad company is $12,000. Houses a quarter of a mile away were scorched by burning oil. C. O. Carlson, locomotive fireman, was thrown from a tank and injured about the head. Oil cars were strewn along the track for half a mile, the track twisted, telegraph poles down, ties burned, trees blasted and the whole scene one of ruin. Female barbers are not having much success. Gentlemen will not go to them bec&usfe they dislike to be cut by a lady. Illinois to Admit Women. An exciting session of the Methodist conference was held at Jacksonville, the subject of women representatives in the general conference and the election, of delegates to that body being before the members. A resolution which virtually acknowledged women as members and required those opposed to them to secure a majority against their admission was voted down, and another of different tenor was passed. Then a resolution instruct­ ing the delegates to vote in favor of the admission of women to the general con­ ference was submitted, and after a heated discussion was passed. State News in Brief. George Rogers, who lives west of Jack­ sonville, heard some one in his room, and as he rose to see who it was he was. struck on the head by a burglar, who crushed the skull of his victim. The scoundrel escaped after taking a watch and revol­ ver, neither of which was of much value. In the Circuit Court at Percy was be­ gun the $10,000 damage suit brought against Saloonkeepers Eiuil Berger and Thomas E. Baker, by Mrs. 'Ihomas Browning, for selling her husband, ex- Mayor Browning, liquor the evening be­ fore his death. Ex-Mayor Browning was found dead on the Mobile and Ohio track, near Percy. Sept. 2. 1894. One arm was cut off. head and.shoulders bruised, and the body otherwise muti-ited. Three trains had passed over the body before it was discovered. Several persons, who were known to be Browning's enemies disappeared at the time. Among Brown­ ing's effects a letter was found giving the names of six men whom he warned to let him alone. The letter was placed in the hands of the-Grand Jury-. * The newly refitted flour mill of the Mc­ Lean County Milling Association at Bloomington has burned with a loss of $27,000, insured for $24,500. Incendiar­ ism is suspected. Edgar C. Willoughby, 3G years of age. committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head at the home of his fath­ er, Francis Willoughby, a farmer, living just north of Roekford. Robert Miller, formerly a Chicago com­ mission merchant, was arrested at' El­ gin on complaint of his brother. J. C. Miller, of Chicago, and was committed to the insane asylum there. Arthur Johnson, 5 years of age, while crossing the Illinois Central track at Roekford to meet his father, was killed by a passenger train. Fifty plow grinders employed at Deijre & Co.'s works, Moline, struck on account of the introduction of burs instead of plow shares to dress the grindstones. Other shops are not affected. Lester C. Buchanan, a young Chicago lawyer, was secretly married to Nettie Iveeber by Rev.1 Huusberger, of. Milwau­ kee. Buchanan senior objected, not to the marriage, but to the secrecy; so the cere- j mony has been again publicly performed. Youiiir Buchanan is probably the only man Who has thus married his own wife. At Bloomington new* corn marketed brought 25 cento. Mrs. William Bowles, of Roekford, has reveived word she has a heritage in Trin­ ity Church site, New York City. Deere & Co.'s grinders and polishers, who struck at-'Moline against the intro­ duction of machines to dress down the grindstones, are now holding out for higher wages,. their first request havifig been conceded. The restoration of 1893 yvagesy-tlve company refuses, clainiing.it i& now paying more than competing shops in other places. The State Board of Equalization ad­ journed because of the absence of Chair­ man McKnight, -who is at Buffalo, Owing to family bereavement, and several other members, who went to Chattanooga to witness the battlefield dedicatory exer­ cises. It is thought, that the per cents agreed upon by the committees will raise the assessments of lands, lots and personal property of Cook about $50,000,000. Report has been made to the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners of cattle held at the Union Stockyards, Chi­ cago, during the past week, as follows; Number inspected, T67; passed in the yards, 100; held for post-mortem examina­ tion, 57; passed on post-mortem examina­ tion, 22; condenjoed as being unfit for food and ordered tanked, 35. Three cases of tuberculosis were found, one of cahqer, on<e of bruise and three of emaciation; The village of Plainfiehl, north of Joliet, is greatly worked up'over a series of burg­ laries, Entrance into the Plaintield bank was attempted, but the men were mani­ festly disturbed, and abandoned'the work. The high school buildings was entered and plundered., Sidney Price's tailor shop And residence.were broken into and about' $65 in cash was secured; together with a hew coat. Mr. Price, was awakened by the nOi'se, and fired several shots at the -robbers'. . A ' The Peoria, Decatur and Eastern Rail­ way agent at Lincoln, after making up his report, left his office for a few mo­ ments and 'on his return found that a package containing $140 had been stolen. Suspicion pointed toward Frederick Wolfe, who runs a transfer line and has the contract for hauling the mails, and ho was placed under arrest. Lie gave bail promptly, but his bondsmen became frightened and he is now confined in the county jail. At Hoisington Church, a few miles from Roekford, while special services were be­ ing held, a severe storm came up and the pastor attempted to get the audience out of the churqh. The people had not reached the door, however, when the church was struck by lightning. Mrs. Darwin Whitney was severely injured and Mrs. Henry Stanby and Mrs, John Johnson rendered unconscious. All the persons in the congregation were thrown off their feet by the force of the shock and some children were injured by flying splinters. The Methodist conference at Jackson­ ville has adjourned As a whole the body has done good and careful work. Caro was taken in the selection* of a faculty of twelve mop for the conference board of instruction and examination. Rev. H. M. Ilamill, the great Normal Sunday school man, suggested a course of instruction in the history of Methodism, its doctrines and policy, and is was adopted. There was music in the air when the subject oS dancing came up. An overwhelming vote was cast against the "uuholy amuse­ ment." After devotional Exercises by Rev. C. Nash, of Olney, Bishop Joyce took the stand at the Southern Illinois Methodist conference at Metropolis. J. W. Van Cleve., of Mount Vernon, .was elected sec­ retary; J. Y. Reid, of Duquoin, statistical secretary ; and William Carson, of Bridge­ port, treasurer. Presiding elders from the districts reported, showing a very healthy increase in membership and wealth over last year. The reports also show that $41,500 had been expended in building new churches. The anniversary of the Freedinan's Aid and Southern Edu­ cational Society was held and the large audience was addressed by Dr. P. A., Cool, pastor of the First M. E. Church. Scdalia, Mo. Dr. Cool took Dr. Hart- zell's place on the program, the latter not being able to attend the conference. An aged and unidentified woman dropped dead at 43d street and Went worth avenue, Chicago, probably froir the heat. She was acompanied by a dog of ragged coat, who behaved like a mad beast when his mistress sank down. When the police essayed to remove the body the dog sprang in their way and snapped viciously at them. A dozen times he was driven back only to return to the charge as furiously as before. The wo­ man was finally loaded on a stretcher, and the faithful brute followed close in the wake of the patrol. At: the station he made the same demonstration erf affec­ tionate protection, and this time the police, who began to understand the case a little better, permitted him to cuddle up to the dead woman. The remains were removed to the morgue, the dog still in the wake of the clay of his mistress. All efforts to drive him off proved futile and he was finally permitted to mount guard beside the slab on which she lay. The Illinois Building at Atlanta is nice­ ly located. It is between the Massa­ chusetts State Building and the Confed­ erate Relics Building at the north end of the park. Across the avenue from it is the Alabama Building. Illinois' building is not yet inclosed. The contract does not call for its completion until October. A feature of the structure will be the broad piazza running all around it. There will be more exhibits from Illinois than from any other State. Speakii*^ of the building the Atlanta Constitution says "If the State exhibit is to be judged from ihe State Building it will be a handsome- and a complete exhibit. The commis­ sioners have expended a great deal of thought and time on the Illinois feature of the Exposition. For some reason Georgia and Illinois have been much like sister States in reality for the last few years. Chicago and Atlanta, too, have, beeji drawn very closely together, and there is in consequence a lot of good feel- -mg-between both States and cities."- - The steamer Reindeer, of the Missis­ sippi Towing Company's line, with Alfred Hollingshead, captain, and George Car­ penter, pilot, ran on a snag opposite the mouth of the Wisconsin River. The boat will be raised at once. . '• Charles Fitzpatrrck, a member of Com­ pany F, Sixth Regiment, Illinois National Guard, Moline, who was sunstruck dur­ ing the sham battle at Camp Lincoln, Springfield, has become violently insane and was taken to JacksonvflJ'e. He had been discharged from the iifiane hospital at Elgin in 1891 as cured after six months' treatment.: *" 7 ... / _ Plans of Kinsley and Brooks, desper­ ate colored criminals, to escape from the Marshall County jail were frustrated by a white prisoner, who wrote a note to Deputy Sheriff Broaddus, telling him the colored men had a steel saw in their pos­ session made from a caseknife they had secreted when served their meals. John Cook, superintendent of the Knox County alms house, has been arrested on a charge of cruelty, preferred by William Butts, a former inmate. Butts alleges that Cook blacked his eyes and beat him unmercifully. Cook denies this, but ad­ mits ha-ring had a scuffle With Butts when he> was trying to take. Butts to the soli­ tary for refusing to wash dishes. Free Trade Fallacies. The free raw material idea received an impetus in 1S54 because of Secre­ tary Guthrie's recommendation in his finance report of that year. The condi­ tions, however, then and now were dis­ similar. At that time we had a sur­ plus which the Secretary was endeav­ oring to get rid of, while we now have a deficit Mr. Guthrie proposed a free list modeled upon that of England. His'theory was that English manufac­ turers had an advantage over our own because they obtained from abroad certain raw material free of duty, and he desired to remedy this, as lie claim­ ed, by an economic panacea. For in­ stance, under the tariff act of 184(3, wool was diitied at 30 per cent., and the Secretary proposed a 25 per cent, rate on all wool then costing over 10 and riot over 50 cents a pound--the coarser .wools. The Ways and. Means Committee bill proposed a 15-cent flat rate and no grade to be free. The fact is that all the free articles were then used in the arts, but t'oai was not there, tallow/was dutiable,, and so were tin arid terne plates and barley. In fact the English, free list scrupulously avoided listing agricul­ tural products free, except wool. In his report as Secretary of' the Treasury in December, 1855, Mr. Guthrie returned to what was evident­ ly a favorite theory of his. He sug­ gested a reconstruction of the free list so as to include all the raw materials used in our manufactures, as proposed in his report of December, 1854, his reasons being the same--to enable our manufacturers to compete with those abroad who enjoyed, free raw materi­ al. He was careful, however, not to include in his free raw material cate­ gory anything, except coarse wool, that was the product of our agricultur­ ists, grown on our soil. His policy was not to-, place any such agricultural products on the free list, as none of them were placed there in his proposed bill. In other words, aside from certain grades of coarse Wool, his-MR did not propose to give the manufacturers free raw material at the expense of our farmers, as was <lone in the law of 1894. Mr. Guthrie said: "If the free list shall be adopted, establishing free trade in the raw ma­ terial, our manufacturers using this raw material, thus placed in equal competition with the manufacturers of other countries, will gradually and more and more possess themselves of a home market, exclude the foreign ar­ ticle and reduce the revenue." Now, suppose they did? Suppose all these things did happen, what would become of the great Democratic theory of the value of the markets of the world for our raw products, and what would become of that other Democratic theory of cheap goods if we excluded the foreign dutied arti­ cle? We can understand what the learned Secretary would have us infer, but from the modern free-trade stand­ point the success of his plan would demolish two very old and musty free- trade theories. In 1824, when it was proposed to let in the coarser wools, Mr. Wright of Ohio said: "Only say in plain words, to the people, that you intend in all practicable cases to prefer the raw ma­ terial from abroad to that raised at home, and the people will soon speak io you in a language that you will not be able to misunderstand. Laws are not for manufacturers alone, they must be for agriculturists also." (An­ nals of Congress, IStli, 2d, page 1740.) Its Just Debts Iunored. Tho glutting expedients of the treas­ ury department to preserve from month to month the fiction of solvency are something heretofore unknown in our governmental financiering. It may be that by the aid of a Republican Con­ gress this sort of progressive fraud can be kept up without ultimate disaster, but it is a dangerous experiment. It can only be done by securing a better income before the bottom falls out. The hope is held out that with the in­ creased purchasing powers of the peo­ ple the income of the government from its various sources of revenue will soon put the treasury on a self-sustaining basis, but. new devices must be employ­ ed at every turn to preserve appear­ ances until the volume of receipts shall nreet the demands of the situation. The statutes are strained iii every direction to accomplish the end. but there must be a culmination of the strain, and the prospects are that it will come before the conspirators are ready for it. If they can keep up the deception until after the fall elections their object will be accomplished. If the overdue indebtedness of the 'government had been paid at maturity the balance sheet for July would have shown a shortage that would have spread consternation through the ranks of the faithful. There is no doubt of this whatever. There is the amount of twenty millions due to importers for refunding duties illegal 1 y exacted, and the seven millions of sugar bounty vot­ ed by Congress at its last session; these are items of account which do not be­ long in the column of assets, and it is a fraud upon the people to keep them there. And there are an infinite number of claims of contractors which have been approved but Which remain un­ paid because Mr. Carlisle commands that the money shall be kept in the treasury. Where the law cannot be construed to serve the purpose it is done by might. - But a settlement lias^got to come, and when it does come there will be a neces­ sity for some extraordinary apologies <>n the part of the treasury officials, for the people will demand to know why they have been trifled with in, that man­ ner. Q Protection in Eu^land. Manufacturers of matches in tho United Kingdom appeal to their cus­ tomers to buy only English matches, by placing a little pi-inted slip inside the cover of the box, asking the people' to "patronize home industry,'-use English matches and employ British labor." Large signs bearing the same views can How be seen throughout the country districts of England. This Is exactly what fee Republican party' urges-- namely, that the American people •should patronize American home indus­ tries, use American made goods, and employ American labor. The English and American manufacturers thus have precisely the same ideas. Following the plan of the English niatch manufacturers, we find in an­ other line of goods the following an­ nouncement on the outside of a cover of a package of British goods: - • * * * » • * « * « * IMPORTANT. * * Why Support the Manufactures of * * Other Countries When You * , * Can Obtain as good an * •*" Article * * MADE BY HOME INDUSTRY? * * * * * * »• * * *. * * This is the appeal made by a London -and-Nottingham cigarette manufactur­ ing concern which finds that its offer to give a "tube to each cigarette, matches and photo in each package" is not suffi­ cient to secure all the trade it desires. Possibly the English dudes prefer American made cigarettes and do not find that they "can obtain as good an article made by home industry" in England." The belief in a. policy of pro­ tection, however, is taking very- gen­ erally throughout the United Kingdom. The. Administration's Wool Policy. President Grover Cleveland \Vas in­ augurated in 1893, and the wool clip of that year was 504,OOOjOOO pounds. Dur­ ing the two years of free wool agitation it Ml, in 1S95, to*264.000.000 pounds--a decline ̂ luring. Mr. Cleveland's .admin­ istration of 100,000.000 pounds. The declared policy of the administration was made known at once in March, 1893. Among other features recom­ mended was the removal of the wool duty, which was accomplished later by the enactment of the Gorman tariff, The flock masters immediately became alarmed, the free trade price of wool was at once anticipated, and wool dropped between March, 1893, and March, 1895, measured by the standard grade of NN Ohio, from~a~ltttle over 30 cents to about .15 cents: The wrool growers, believing that there was no •future for the wpol industry, sold theiP flocks iu countless numbers to the butchers, so that the clip of 1894 fell off to 328.000.000 pounds and that of 1895, just clipped, to only 204,000,000 pounds --a decrease, therefore, in the two years since Mr. Cleveland's inauguration of 100.000,000 founds. To make tip for this deficit in the American clip we have been compelled to import wool to take the place of the American wool destroyed. Instead of only 55,000,000 pounds of raw wool im­ ported in 1S94, we imported 203,000.000 pounds in 1805, and for the fiscal year of 1890 will probably have to go to for­ eign nations for 208,000,000 pounds of raw wool. This takes no account of the imports of shoddy, rags, waste, etc., which are entered as manufactures of wool. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S94, which was the last fiscal year un­ der the McKinley law, we imported only 173.774 pounds of shoddy, rags, waste, etc., but during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1895, and almost all of it in ten months after the passage of the Wilson law, we imported 14,772,090 pounds of shoddy, waste, etc., an in­ crease of over ,1.000 per cent. These larger imports of shoddy were made necessary, first, by the destruc­ tion of the American clip, and second, by the low duties upon manufactures of wool and their ad valorem feature which permitted undervaluation and compelled American manufacturers to increase their use of shoddy. Never in the history of the wool business in America has It been necessary to use so many cheap admixtures in order to prevent our manufacturers fi'om being driven out of their home market by the shoddy goods admitted under the ad valorem rates of the Gorman tariff law. Eastern Free Farms. Speaking of free farms, the New- York Herald says that "those who till the plots in Long Island City work hard and prosper." We are glad to know it, also that "they raise fine veg­ etables;" This increased competition with the business of the regular farm­ ers may account for the extremely low prices that have recently been ruling for farm truck, concerning which the regular farmers have been complain­ ing loudly for some weeks past. The Herald evidently anticipates a continuation of the hard times and the idleness of labor under the present administration, which it helped to elect, because it tells us that "next year the association will have more land, more men and better facilities for farming." It is also stated that the idea is being taken up by other cities, which indicates that the pros­ perity we have lately been reading about in the free-trade papers cannot be so widespread as the free-trade ed­ itors would have us believe. . We are inclined, however, to doubt the success of the free trade and free farm venture, since we Avere told on July 21 that "iu a few weeks they (the city farmers) will put iu their early cabbage." As a matter of fact, Long Island "early cabbage" had been on the market three weeks before July 21. However, it is established that free trade means free farmland the promise of a continuation of the free farm inovement, with more idle men working on the free farms, is an­ other link in the chain of evidence that poverty and idleness have come to stay as long as the present administra­ tion lasts. Get the Farmer on a Wheefi Get farmers to ride wheels and the •oad question is settled. It Is a typical American scene: The harvest time, that is now under full headway in most of the States of the Uniop. has its spare monjents for the thrifty farmer, though it is a very busy seasou. But even in these spare mo­ ments the agriculturist is busy with his thoughts. The road making is over • "for now." On one side of this primi­ tive highway, great, rough ridges of sod_ and clay have been plowed out of the bottom: of the ^oa&side ditch and scraped up to make the roads. The farmer's cattle often coming home that way know better than to walk in these heaps while the other side of the road is smooth. So does the country swain, riding home from meeting or country^ side dance with his best girl. In short, so does everybody: How, then, are these rough ways to be made plain? But just wait. The farmer looks inno­ cent enough, and to judge by his roftd making, you wouldn't think he knew much. - These teamsters and the gen­ eral public may think that they can travel these highways for uoyring, and that they have what city folks call a "cinch" on the downtrodden son of the soil. As soon as harvest time is over that other side will be heaped up so much higher and rougher that the way­ farer, or he who's a horseback or,in a vehicle, will be glad to take the side he now despises. The teamster with a thousand of brick will help tp make one or t'other of these sides smooth before fall. If not, the commiserating and pulverizing qualities of Jack Frost, or a good covering of snow, may fix things before next spring. Now such horrid; slipshod business as this is not at all characteristic of this farmer on tho farm. If you go and look you will lihtl that he has all the latest improved farm machinery, good horses, blooded cattle and sheep, aud is in general a rather go-ahead sort of a man--always excepting that awful, awful road in front of his place. When he "gets around to it," I am sure he will see that this cry for good roads is not all in the interest of those bicycle people. Anyhow, what is the matter with the agriculturist getting a wheel for him­ self?--L. A. W. Bulletin. RECOLLECTION^ OF GOTHAM. The Flying Dutchman Recalls Many Incidents of Knickerbocker Days, "Are you not Capt, Vanderdecken?" I asked as I took his hand heartily, writes Brander Matthews in "A Prim­ er of Imaginary Geography," in Scrib- ner's. "So you know me?" lie returned, with a mournful little laugh, as he motioned to me to sit down again. Thus the ice was broken and he took his seat by my side and we were soon deep in talk. When he learned that I was a loyal New Yorker his cordiality increased. "I have relatives in New Amster dam," he cried, "at least I had once. Diedricli Knickerbocker was my first cousin. And do you know Rip Van Winkle?" Although I could not claim any close friendship with this gentleman I boasted myself fully acquainted with his history. "Yes, yes," said Capt Vanderdecken,1 "I suppose he was before your time. Most people are so short-lived nowa­ days; it's only with that wandering Jew now that I can ever have a chat over old times. Well, well, but you have heard of Rip? Were you ever told that I was on a visit to Hendrick Hud­ son the night Rip went up the moun­ tain aud took a drop too much?" I had to confess that here was a fact I had not before known. "I ran up the river," said the Hol­ lander, "to have a game of bowls with the Englishman and his crew, nearly all of them •countrymen of mine, and, by the way, Hudson always insists that it was I who brought the storm with me that gave poor Rip Van Winkle the rheumatism as he'slept off his intoxi­ cation on the hillside under the pines. He was a good fellow, Rip, and a very good judge of schnapps, too." Grover to Tax the Growler. Mr. Cleveland has considered several means for augmenting the financial re­ turns, among which is the beer tax. The natural way for the recovery of the receipts is a tariff that will pro­ duce sufficient sums to replenish the treasury. That tariff cannot be too soon re-established. The treasury is paying the price of the loss of protec­ tion. Protection to American indus­ tries is, from experience, likewise pro­ tection to the tuition's finances. A rea­ sonable tariff is the only solution of the disastrous problem brought on by the obstinate enforcement of Mr. Cleve­ land's theories. - Protection is an issue that cannot be dodged. Its suspension has demonstrated its necessity to the government as welj as'to enterprises and to the people.--Daily Saratoglan, Saratoga, N. Y. Muskrats as Household Pets. Mrs. Sarah Howard, of Houlton, has two queer pets--a couple of muskrats that come up the drain into her cellar and thence even into the kitchen. They have now got so tame that they eat out of the cat's saucer and show no fear of that individual, who on her part does not deign to notice them, though her kittens sometimes cuff the rats. One day they got straw and pieces of tho broom and made a nest under the cup­ board. They will come close to one's chair and smell one's hand when reach­ ed down to them. When eating milk, they sit beside the saucer, thrust both paws into the milk, and then lap it from their paws, sometimes taking a half hour to consume a small saucer of milk. Poor Thing! Mille Augustine Brohan, the celebrat­ ed French comedian, who was extreme­ ly humane to all animals, one day, at table, found a fly caught on her plate. She took it up tenderly with her thumb and finger, and called her maid. "Marie," she said, "take this fly--be careful, now. don't hurt him!--and put him outdoors." The girl took the fly aml' went away, but presently Mile. Brohan saw her standing near with a troubled expression on her face. "Well. "Marie," she said, "did you do as I told you?" "No, mademoiselle, I've got tho fly still; I couldn't venture to put him outdoors--it was raining, and he might have taken cold." The man who thinks it right to steal is a thief, no matter whether he robs anybody or not. . If a man expects to amount to any­ thing,1 he must accomplisih it in spite of bad luck, i When a woman gets married she can't attend to much else. Ho! little fellow--howdy do? Same little fellow that once I knew? Never a change for all thcl iars-- Same sweet laughter and same bright tears ? Oh, for a kiss frcim the lips of you! Ho! little fellow--howdy do? "