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W H E W T H E C O W S C O M E H O M E . The light on tho mountain falls aslant; The birds in the bush are still; The cricket; chirps in the pasture plant . When the cows come over the hill. The Nw.ilifiwp'HTcle above the eavos; A pale star mounts the sky; The squir^ls rustle the golden sheaves When the cows are passing by. Over the valley the shadows creep. Darkening the green of the pine; I>owo in the garden the honeybees sleep, Missing the breath of the kine. The tinkle of bells,is sweet to my ear, Bill sweeter the words of-a song -- That the singer is slowly bringing near As she follows the, cows along. She sings of a lover whose faith is fast * Wherever his footsteps roam; And her cheek grows red when we meet at last, ...« As the cows are hearing home. --New Bohemian. FAIRBAIRN'S START. Fairbairn's a successful man--os- . pecially since his wife's money has en­ abled him to write at leisure--and lie's clever, but Tdo iliink be lacks resource. See here, this is from the morning paper.; ' . .." 'JA ssile of autograph letters'Wa$ held yesterday at.the rooms of Messrs. Leth- bridj-e,: White & Co.. when , some high ; prices were recorded. "A small lot of six very early {uid in­ teresting letters written; by Charles'" Dickens when he was reporting for the Morning' Chronicle fetched $400:- two --short notes by Lord Tennyson, written prior to his marriage in 1850. aud hav­ ing reference to 'In Memoriani.® sold for $61; a four-page letter written by John Ruskin in 1842 was bought for $30.75; three early letters written by John Fairbaim and the title page of the original manuscript of his famous novel. 'The Vision of Present Things,' were secured'by Mr. Watchet. after a brisk competition, for $70. A batch of twenty short notes and post cards by Mr. Gladstone fetched $42. and a few minor lots were disposed of." - That's how things stand to-day with Fail bairn: anything of bis sells--iu- eluding his autograph. But four years go his position with the public was very different, and 1 am going to tell you how small a- thing was really the turning push .Whi-li veered the needle round on' 'itu?',«fi:i 1. ami then set it fair foi' his futjftref^F Fairbaim and I both barristers after we left both found it ueeessar; and-butter work for j<j editors considered our ing fot. ;This went on for a when, by the death came into a workiu pill. From that ti scope for my literary; advertisements for t] But Fairbaim h to the grindstont ure to do his best; engaged to Eliuoj An inuf [man eoun t being Whose pay- vea rs. 1 latent ample writ in his nose the leis- then got er father, north tired frijj § and cro<?»* proportion an absurd can t to mine: s and dm- ere strong in reasonableness. crotcbe oxam's lid's horse- wliieh besides being »lc and slippery, are Fon one's trousers: an ainion of successful Luthors and an entire those not eminent. But the man was a curiosity in oth­ er ways.. He would speud large sums on his hobbies, the collecting of old silver plate and autograph letters, and yet I believe he was almost parsimoni­ ous about his household expenditures. They were afraid to tell old Hay and -^ell-1 contempt I remember one he showed us was a little scrap written by Charles ti. when a boy to his guardian, the earl of New­ castle, who had ,been chi<|aaj^ 5»ixn for not taking his lhedieine: "My lord„ I would not have you take too much phisiek; for it doth allwaies make me worse, and 1 think it will do the like with you." ran this letter, and I nearly sent Ilay into a lit when I suggested he should lend it to me for i'ae simile production, with: the addi­ ction, "Take Pinkerton's Pills. Charles P." (Mr. Hay died last year and his daughter recently gave me Charles 11.'s letter. You may like to see it an un til re 1 before it goes on the hoard- ings.) • . Later in the evening the old gentle­ man showed me some recent acquisi­ tions. and among them <was an early letter he had bought, at a high price, written by George Meredith. "That's what 1 call an author, sir!" lie exclaimed, as he gazed at bis pur­ chase; "I haven't read him and I don't know what he writes about, but it's good enough proof for me of his posi tion when I have to pay in bank notes for his letters." And tho old man glanc­ ed disparagingly in Fail-bairn's direc­ tion. Thii* remark' at once suggested to me my imui of action. I thought it out as 1 went home and the next day,set to work. ' -. ; •First, 1 went to a well-known London dealer in autographs and bought .$125 worth of letters. I • added to these-^- whieh included one by Carlyle and two of Thackeray's-^a couple of notes writ­ ten to iiie some years ago by Fairbairn and. which 1 had- hunted up among my papers. ' •> •' '" . I then went to one of the literary salesrooms and gave in all the letters- including Fairbairn's--with a commis­ sion for their sale at the next auction. At the same time I obtained from the manager the names and addresses of half a dozen regular attendants at their auctions, and. calling a hansom, went to see each of them. My formula was the same in each case. 1 said: "At Blank's sale next TiiesdjufcjrfMMfe of John Faii-b£i3£^iEfltiMPMfll^K I)llt t] "" * the inter- author of 'Lucy Armitage,' slid--er--or. why. surely you know hi in'r" But none of the six men did, so I told each of them privately to bid for these two letters of Fairbairn's for me. I named my price limit at $50 for "bidder "A" and at $75 for bidder "F," letting my limit to the four others increase by $5 from $50 to $75. They all thought 1 was mad. I suppose, but as 1 paid the. necessary deposit they agreed to bid for me. 1 had put my plan in shape, and now set about the most effective denoue­ ment ol" it as regards old Hay. Two days later I received from the sales­ rooms a printed catalogue.'which con­ tained particulars of the letters 1 had given in for the sale, and which did not mention my name as the owner of them. With this in my pocket. I went over to East brook in the evening, as I sometimes did. for a game of billiards, and. during the game, turned the talk on to Hay's hobby. "By the way. I was so interested with those autographs you chowed me last Monday that i am thinking of making a collection." Hay pricked up his ears at this, and at once assented to my request that he would give me the benefit of his experience. "1 got this catalogue to-day from Blank's." I went on. as I took it from •my pocket. "You might look through it and mark what you think likely." And I gave the catalogue to him and took up my cue. Hay had not looked long at the list before he exclaimed, "Who is this? John Fairbairn. two early letters? Who's John FairbairnV" (That was a ad Hay chimed in. only to be cut out by lby iiftli string with $70. With a thump on the table Hay look­ ed at the auctioneer and gasped $75. A "final glance round, the mallet fell,' iind Mr. Hay had bought two of the despisdtt John Fairbairn's letters! Of course this settled the whole thing, for Hay was the last man ever to gc back on his own judgment. As we went out together he said to me: "You1 must forgive me for what I said the other evening about Mr. Fair­ bairn. I had no idea he stood so high. But you can't have a surer test of a man's position than the price his letters fetch." ---•---> • I murmured a polite rejoinder, and said: "J'our mistake was quite pardon­ able, Mr. Hay, for Fairbairn is one of those quietly brilliant men who are really right up at the top of the tree, but who make no fuss of self-advertise­ ment." "Yes. yes; it mhst be so. and I inusi make amends for my mistake. Will yoq come and meet him at dinner on Fri­ day V" On the morning after the dinner Fails bairn formally proposed for Miss Hay, and her father at once consented. 1 i She gave my ai-tlst the necessary sitv; tings for "l$gouglit Up on Pinkerton's, Pills," one of the best posters I have ever used, and the marriage took place withim three months. Tho income from his wife's money was not for long needed by Fairbairn, for the report of the sale of his letters brought him into prominent notice, and his owii clever work cemented his success. , But you can now see why I started by saying that Fairbairn lacks re­ source, because lie might have thought of the plan himself; but, then, he is merely a talented man--lie has not the genius which is at the call of a writer of advertisements for Pinkerton's pills. --Sketch. GOT IT IN THE NECK. DEMOCRATIC SLAUGHTER OUR SHEEP INTERESTS. OF Clips of California, Texas, Montana) and Oregon . Supplanted--Lost the Sale of 84,000,000 Pounds of Amer­ ican Wool. - Capturing the Markets. The excess of raw -wool imported in 1895 over the average importations of the years 1891, 1892, 1893, and 1894 was over 115 MJO.OOO pounds. The-increase in the importations of "manufactures of wool" in the first full year of the present law over the average of the years 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894 is nearly $28,000,000, equiv­ alent to nearly 84,000,000 pounds of tariff, American manufactures are de­ pressed aud many factories are closed, mid. consequently, tliere-is not the same demand front manufacturers for loans that there would be, except for foreign competition, encouraged by the Gor­ man-Wilson tariff act.--Hon. < Jeo. W. McBride, U. S. Senator. A Court Decision. In an action for the value of hounds killed 1)3' a train, the opinion of the court says; "The plaintiff's ~ ^ I?. rtrajb • going west, toward, anooga, and the dogs were going t, toward Knoxville. They were all oh the same track and going in opposite directions and under these facts a head­ end collision was unavoidable." And again: "It is insisted by the plaintiff that while the whistle was sounded it was intended for the whole pack and not for the three dogs that were run ovi r. This, however, seems to be a mere opinion of the witness, as he was a quarter of a mile away from the place when the whistle was sounded. In ad­ dition it would, we think, be requiring toe great diligence for the engineer to whistle for each particular dog, and more especially as lie had no means of informing each dog that any special whistle was sounded for hinir^ Upon these facts it appears that the receiv­ ers were running their train up.'u rheir own track, on regular schedule time, and had no other track at that place upon which they could inn. On the other hand, the plaintiff's dogs were running on the railroad's track 'nstead of the fox's track, which simply cross­ ed the railroad." On these facts it is held that "the dogs were guilty of the grossest contributory negligence and were only entitled to such, considera­ tion as trespassers have under the law." --Case and Comment. about their engagement, for Elinor told i soycntli time of asking.) hi--who was quite frank with >ut his means--in what light her regarded authors who had yet And so the affair was very awkward­ ly shaped, and Fairbairn, who uow lived near me at Iventley--he had given up the'Temple--was perpetually ask­ ing me what he ought to do. He didn't like keeping his engage­ ment dark, and he didn't want to run the risk of being told by old Hay not to go to his (Hay's) house any more. This was at the time when "shilling shockers" were very popular, and, to give Fairbairn a leg up, I suggested he should write one for me, full of In­ terest--after the style of "Dr. Je'<yll and Mr. Hyde"--but should let the magic medium be finally revealed hi the last chapter as Pinkerton's f'Hls instead'of the powders brought in *\\; R. L. Stevenson. But Fairbairn would have nothing to do with it. (Subsequently, I had a prv- el written for me on this plan. U -^put splendidly, and some of the revU?r-rs --who, I am told, don't always reud 'lie books they review--never spotted 'lie idea, and the thing was a hug-i rlic- cess.) One afternoon, after about {.free months of this clandestine eat^tge- ment, Miss Hay was calling on my »-ife, who was in the secret, and, when ask­ ing us to go to dinner at Eastbrob£. said to me: "I do wish, Mr. Mildmay, you would think of some plan to make fath­ er think more of Johu; ,it is so wretched." "Miss Hay," I answered, as a thought flashed on me. "Let us make a com­ pact. If I succeed in making your fath­ er think highly of John as an author, will you sit to my artist for 'Brought up on Pinkerton Pills'.'" A first-class black and white poster, you know, a hundred-dollar fee and free pills for life." She laughed, but I assured her I meant it, and finally the compact was made. Fairbairn's fiancee was 20, and she had confided to my wife that she couldn't touch the money that came to her from her mother if she married without her father's consent under the age of 25. ;».•• otM vMv On the following Monday I went to dinner at Mr. Hay's, ^e only other guests were Fairbairn and a Miss Pet- res--a friend of Elinor's. * * After dinner the old man got show­ ing us some of his things, and Fair­ bairn, at my advising, played up to old Hay and admired his autograph letters wlien he pulled out bis port- •* folios;" to "Why. you know Fairbairn. Mr. Hay --he dined here last, Monday." "What? Him! Who the devil wants his letters. 1 should like to know?" "Your stroke, sir," I said, "and let me tell you that Fairbairn is a long way higher up the ladder than I fancy you think he is--from your remark." "Nonsense!" replied the old gentle­ man, as he slammed the red into a bot­ tom pocket. I went on with my stroke, and, be­ fore I left, we arranged to meet at Blank's. As the safe progressed I secured some of the minor items marked, and my Carlyle and Thackeray letters were bought by Hay himself, who bid for them after asking me if 1 intended to secure them. The prices fetched were more than 1 had paid for them on the preceding Tuesday. It was very funny to watch the auc­ tioneer as he announced. "Two early letters by .Tolm Fairbairn." He did not .want to give himself away as a connoisseur, and so his voice lacked the smack-of importance which it had when he announced some of the other lots. On the other hand, he did not want to appear at fault as an auc­ tioneer, and so between the two nega­ tive wants Mr. Quilter looked fairly puzzled. But this was©lost on Mr. Hay, who was examining one of his purchases, but as a bid (if $10 was quietly offered by one of my agents I whispered to Hay. "Fairbairn's letters are being offered." "Twelve dollars." came sharp from another of my six bidders, and "$15" from another on Hay's left. The old gentleman looked puzzled. "Twenty." called out my "F" man, who sat on the other side of tho table; "$25." ';$30" and "$40" were quickly- reached before old Hay could get back the breath lie had lost in his first gasp of astonishment. .Leaning toward him, I whispered, for 1 saw he was bit: "Shall 1 bid?" "No, "vio; leave it to me," he muttered, as he flopped his head in a dazed way. 1 his beats me, but they must be worth having, or Potter and Ilaymau and the others wouldn't be so keen." "Fifty dollars" was reached, when to' ™y immense surprise M r. Hay called out "$55," and as he was at once taken up and passed by my man "C." I leaned back in my chair and. fairly luxuriated in the scene. The ordinary habitues of the salesroom were completely non­ plused; but Hay did not notice it; he was too much .engrossed. A bid of $G5 had come froni my fourth limit man Suspicious of "Dein Feet." "Yes, boss, I'se frozen ma feet, dat's wot I'se done, sliore 'nuff," said a col­ ored longshoreman to an inspecting physician in one of th3 big city hospitals. "That's hard luck. How did it hap­ pen?" asked the visitor. "Well, it was jes' this way, boss: I was waitin' 'long the watali pretty late one night, one er them cole nights we had a while ago. Tuesday, I think it was. Let's see--to-day is Sunday. Yes. 'twas las' Tuesday. I got pretty- cole in my feet and they felt kinder queer, but I didn't thing nothin' of it. 1 was spectin' a steamer in, yo' see, an' didn't think much 'bout ma feet. Xex' day they was kinder queer like, but I didn't bother 'bout 'em. Thurs­ day 'twas that they got sorter sore, an' Friday they was wus. Felt pretty bad Friday. Come Saturday I couldn't stan' it no longer. They hurt scan'-, lous, an' I says to ma wife, 'Josephine.' says I, 'I'se gwinter to take off ma shoes an' see 'f tlier ain't sump'n the matter wiv 'em feet. An' it's jus' as I'm telliu' you, boss. They was bofe froze." --New York Prese. Prohibition in Pittsburg. A practical prohibition movement has been started by the women of Pitts­ burg. About 200 women, represent­ ing nine denominations of the evangeli­ cal churches of Pittsburg ai;d Alle­ gheny, unanimously adopted ihe fol­ lowing resolution: "We pledge ourselves not to use any refreshments containing alcohol in our.homes, t>r patronize ca­ terers who insist on using liquors in their Ices and desserts. We urge Chris­ tian ministers to preach upon this sub­ ject and also upon card-playing and questionable amusements, which are so demoralizing." The secretary was instructed to forward a message of ap­ preciation to Miss Morton, sister of Sec­ retary Morton, to Mrs. Cleveland and to members of the cabinet. GOT IT IN THE NECKc raw unwashed-wool used iu the con­ struction of these goods. That is to say, the wool grower has- lost the sale to American manufacturers Of 84,000,- 000 pounds of wool heretofore sold to them, by reason of the loss to the home manufacturer of about $28,000,000 worth of woolen goods, requiring in their production 84,000,000 pounds of raw wool, previously manufactured here, but now manufactured in Europe aU^L^A^nier'ca- a Quantity MMu,'States of California, and Oregon. The feature, however, that is most striking and the one causing the most regret is the increase in the importa­ tions of shoddy, waste, rags,* etc. The increase in the importation of these wool adulterants in the year 1895 over the average of the four years of 1891, 1892. ISO:?, and 1894 (all but four months of which were under the Mc- Kinley law) was over 19,000,000 pounds. This was almost as clean as scoured wool, and required in its production over 58,00(1,000 "pounds of unwashed fleeces, equal to the annual wool crops of Pennsylvania. Ohio, New York and Mk-higan or the Western wool grow­ ing States of Utah. California and Texas. The total increase of foreign wool imported in the raw state, in the shape of cloth, or in the form of waste, rags, etc., amounts to over 270,000,000 pounds, a quantity greater than the entire American wool clip shorn in the summer of 1895. These figures are the result of the first full calendar year of the present law. What has been gained? A paltry increase of $10,000 in the exports of woolens while our home mills have lost business rep­ resented by an increase of $47,000,000 in imports of all sorts of "manufactures of wool."--Justice, Bateman & Co. Railroad President's Remarks. Railroads are not prosperous unless communities which they serve are pros­ perous. Communities are not prosper­ ous unless employment is given to the day laborer, mechanic and to wage, earners in general. Restricted manu­ factures mean restricted employment; lack of employment means disaster to the family; the aggregate families, of course, mean the entire nation. If a small committee were to look into the necessities of a certain family's case and found that there were mem­ bers of the family who were able and willing to work, but no employment could be found, that committee would attempt, I believe, to find the idle members employment, and if they were rational men would not begin by try­ ing to induce the machine shops of that town to shut down. The illusive thought of benefits accruing to the la­ boring man by his being able to buy- cheap is fallacious, for the reason that idle hands cannot buy. M. J. CARPENTER, President Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. A Deserted Democrat. A famine of statesmen.--New York Evening Post. Of course there's "a famine of states­ men" in the Democratic ranks after the three years' experience of Democratic j_F,ntr NY. EvtNiNii post; The Difference. Can jrou tell, me, Colonel, what ia the difference between capitaL^|nd la­ bor?" was askefl of a retired officer of the engineer corps. United States army. "I flatter myself that I can, sir." said the Colonel. "One day before William II. Vanderbilt died he was run down by an unruly team at Fleetwood Park. His injuries did not amount to a scratch, sir, but they caused a panic in Wall street, and the newspapers pub­ lished two to four columns about it. At the same instant a brick inarfon fell from tjie top of a wall he was bulld- and broke his neck. One-twentieth of a column answered for him. That, sir. is the difference between capital and labor." The Books Were Confiscated. The Prussian police in SchleswU have averted what they no dbubt re­ garded as a serious danger to the mighty German empire. They have dis­ covered and promptly confiscated a number of books which bore on their scovers the national 'flag of Denmark. TiK; contents of the books were not less dangefous than the covers, for they consisted of nursery stories and instruc­ tions in cookery. The American HOB. I live iu the corn country, the choice and select acreage of the world, a sec­ tion of country that has done more to refute the old ethnic, prejudice against the hog than all other influ­ ences combined. The hog has had a hard time in this world. From The dawn of history everything has been against the hog. He was degraded by the. laws in nearly every ancient state, aud is yet regarded as a by­ word and a hissing among the people. Even to-day you iusult a man by call­ ing him a hog, though in many cases It is the hog's reputation that is at stake. ' A few years ago, on the complaint of German and French farmers who had pork to sell, the American hog suffer­ ed a rank injustice. On the ground that his health was not good lie was shut out from the market places of Europe, though the excuse was false, because he was and is to-day the most superb specimen of physical comfort there is in the earth. But being in the pork business themselves they lied about him and shut him out. Wre all got mad about It and appealed to Con-: gress and to the President;, but dur­ ing the Cleveland regime we had the accident to have for Secretary; of State a venerable survivor of the Crustacean period of Delaware politics. So that Administration closed with nothing done for the American liogr--Hon. J. I'. Dolliver, M. C„ of Iowa. AROUND A BIG STATE BRIEF .COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Death of a Peculiar Old Fello^Who Lived iu a Dug-Out ^it Red Bud- Illinois and Wisconsin Milk Ship­ pers to Organize. •y The Hermit of Red Bud Dea(i. Lawrence Ward, hotter known vis the "Ground Hyg," who had lived in Red Bud for the past twenty-five years, is dead. He was noted far and wide for having lived in a. sort of dug-out. which he made himself. He earned a livelihood by rais- MYmLi Mb- Mm • i 'J imc men ,t$rb hermit- Who Got Our Gold. Country. 1894. 1895. L^nited Kingdom.$12,822,895 $47,212,30(i France 3.004,312 10,450,397 Germany 3,503.570 " 9,455,139 Austro-IIungary 48,584 144,199 Belgium 228.400 590,108 Other Europe . . 1,821,221 2,581.499 South America. . 1,444,900 3,717,574 British North America ..... 480,441'. 1.353,785 China 1.342,985 1,510.472 Japan 12,055 0,083 Otiher Asia and Oceanica 1,814,524 2,913,071 Other countries. 577,370 2,328,593 Totals $27,701,328 $82,275,00(1 This shows only the payments for wool, carpets, cloth and dress goods, as the official statistics do not give details of the amounts paid to different coun­ tries f>>r rags, shoddy, shawls, kuit goods, yarns, ready-made clothing, or "all other" woolen and shoddy goods. Balance of Trcds In Favor of the United States Cfl|094q $ 130,'999,175 S|2S.OOO,OOQ liijavoroj the U.S. tlJO,000,000 ln|avoro}lhaU.S (?7S,000,OOP In/ovOT-qfthcUS. $50,000,000 tnjavoroj the U.S. • 25,000,000 # Injavoroj the U S £6,149,211 o ^°ilhs"aefor"1 ^iN^RefoiJ y^monTotip j ing hogs and .poultry; fcbich h.e invariably traded for provisions; clothing, etc- ' , he never ha ving been known to-purchase ' .any­ thing. . With money." W hence l ie i-anie. . or his age. no"one was ever able to "learn. Hi1 absolutely refused, to. divulge-aiiy in­ formation regarding his relat ives or his nativity, and. as 410 .mail of any'description was received for him. i t was impossible to find oti t . He was between 05 and 70 years of age. I t is supposed by many that he had money hidden aVvay. D seii with His Own Medicine. Henry .Maul, a farmer residing near Millstadt . had an experience with white caps Saturday fl ight , and as a result he now l i es in a precarious condit ion. His recovery' is t-onside;vd exceedingly doubt­ ful . Maul (hn*j acquired an unenviable reputation as a wife beater , and has been repeatedly l ined and imprisoned for the offense. The .punishments administered heretofore appeared to have had no good effect upon him. and Saturday Maul be­ came angered at his wife and prepared' to administer another heating. The neigh­ bors heard of the trouble, and the report spread throughout the town, and in a very short t ime a mob of masked men inarched to Maul 's residence and took him to the woods, where he was whipped into insensi­ bil i ty. al ter which he was carried l ioine. where he now lies miableito see, speak or hear. Olt icers are trying to locate the mob leaders, but as the sympathy of the community is against the wife beater i t is found a very difl icult . matter . f Says He Confessed to Murder. A sensation was sprung at Carlyle at the preliminary hearing of Frank Rate- man. who is charged wijh the murder of Henry Bellwood. Foster , the first man arrested, wrote a let ter to Sheriff Lem­ ming. Under the assumed name of C. A. Ness, purport ing to tel l who murdered Bellwood, and that man was Michael Fos­ ter . His arrest followed. Bateman was later apprehended, and Foster , a close fr iend of has, told the story of how Bell­ wood was kil led, as he said i t was related to him by Bateman, who stated that he alleged that l ie murdered him with a coupling pin and procured $500 in cash, which he buried, l ie warned Foster , i t is said, not to repeat this "disclosure under penalty of death. Bateman protests his innocence. Speaker Reed on Progress. In my judgment, upon wages and the consequent distribution of consum­ able wealth is based all bur hopes of the future, and all the possible in­ crease of our civilization. The prog­ ress of this nation is dependent upon the progress of all. This is no new thought with me. Our civilization is not the civilization of Rome, a civiliza­ tion of nobles and slaves, but a civili­ zation which tends to destroy distinc­ tion of classes and to lift all to a com­ mon and higher level.--Hon. Thos. B. Reed. Will Unite Against Swindlers. A call has gone out for a big meeting of farmers and milk shippers at Russell to organize the milk shippers of northern Il l inois and southern. Wisconsin into an associat ion for mutual protection against irresponsible milk dealers in Chicago. Farmers who ship milk into Chicago com­ plain of heavy losses through the custom of doing business with Chicago dealers on a fai th and monthly payment plan. I t has been an easy matter for irresponsible men in Chicago to contract for a farmer 's milk on a promise-of monthly payments, receive the milk and sell i t as long as the farmer would ship without receiving rec­ ompense, then drop the old vict im, hunt up a new victim at another stat ion and repeat the game. The Vote of Labor. The convention of American manu­ facturers iu Chicago has adjourned, but the i'esults will continue with the coun­ try for some time. When manufac­ turers of the land meet and, irrespec­ tive of party, cry out for. a protective tariff in the interests of the industries and laborers of the country, it cannot fail to have its effect upon the people's vote next fall.--The Mail. Lowell, Mass. statesmanship since 1893. What Dem­ ocrat wants to shoulder such a load of responsibility? This "famine of states­ men" in its own ranks is the cause of the great Democratic editorial interest in the ranks of Republican statesmen. The one receiving the most abuse just now is Gov. ^pKinley, and whenever Democratic editors unite in attacking any prominent Republican it is sure proof that they dread his power and popularity. Senator Wairen's Biblical Study. If the McKinley bill of Republican fame was a "hoodoo," your own Wil­ son bill lias certainly been a "Jonah/' and it seems to me a most conspicu­ ous, indigestible, and soul-stirriug Jo- nab at that. If I may be permitted to make comparisons, I believe that the Jonah of Biblical times was a sweet morsel in . the bosom of that .ancient and respectable whale when compared with,the nauseating, rantankerous Wil­ son bill in the distended stomach of the corpus delicti of Democracy.--Hon. Francis E. Warren, II. S. Senator. Protection Acninst Japan. Indian cheap labor lias already nearly destroyed jute manufacture iu Scot­ land. Is Japan to produce a similar result for our carpet making industry': If even a high tariff has not availed tc keep out European fabrics made with cheap labor, what kind of a tariff will be required to protect us from Japan' --Globe Review, San Francisco, Cal. A woman marries a man not because she loves him, but because she is #oor. 8enator McBride on Capital. Our present tariff policy places be­ fore the capitalists both the temptation and the opportunity to force issues of Government bonds in which to invest their idle capital. Under the existing Democratic Prosperity. Iliero wee a couple of Democratic victories in New York and Philadel phia yesterday in the shape of big busi ness firms assigning. This sort ol thing will continue until the Repub­ licans get into power and re-enact the McKinley law, the panacea for all 11 nancial ills. Only one year more tc wait for that happy day.--The Tele graph, Harrisburg, Pa. Labor Must Have Protection, This country wants dear labor. It i.v our boast and our pride that we have been able to hold our wages higliei than those of all the world. But to hav< dear labor we must have protection. We must safeguard ourselves from pauper competition, or we must "eui wages.--The Press, New York, Those "Good Times" Again. January bank clearings reflect the reaction from the activity of last fali in ii total smaller than for any of the •three preceding months.--Bradstreets'. And this Is a record of the great im­ provement in business that was to ac­ company the birth of the new year. State News in Brief. Ida Ivnapp, a handsome 10-year-old Rockford girl, tired of a life of dependence and went to Chicago in search of employ­ ment. She wandered about the streets all one bitterly cold day, and toward even­ ing fainted from hunger and exposure. The police cared for her until she was of­ fered a lioiiie by a wealthy philanthropic lady. William Hahn, a West Chicago tele­ graph operator, has disappeared. One railroad man claims to have seen him at Clinton, Iowa. There is apparently 110 cause for his disappearance, and his mother. Mrs. Jacob Woehrle, is distract­ ed over his absence. Huhn is 20 years old. • He is five feet tall, weighs 150 pounds, and has a cork leg, his right leg having been taken off by the cars here many years ago. A reward of $25 is offered for information as to his where­ abouts. Alfred C. Fields, of Chicago, confessed that he beat Mrs. Ellen Randolph to death, aud that then, having thrown her body on a bed, he had set lire to the mat­ tress, hoping to cremate the corpse. For this job he had received $25 in cash and was to receive $50 more from Edward M. Mcintosh, his roommate. This is an outline 9,f, the story Fields told Lieuten­ ant BarrSrt 'iifter six hours of persistent plying of questions. Mcintosh is also under arrest, but thus far has refused either to confirm or to deny the Fields confessions. Both men are negroes. John W. EiehingeV, a Decatur druggist, made an assignment. Liabilities, $10,000; assets, $8,000. An experiment in cheap fares was tried by the Decatur Electric Railway'Com­ pany 011 the opening of the new transfer house, Thirty tickets were sold for $1, being 3 1-3 cents a ride. Thirty-nine thou­ sand tickets were sold. It is believed that the result will be the placing of tick­ ets on sale at this rate. The new transfer house is probably the han'dsomest street ciu: station in the world. It is tin the cen­ ter of Dincoln square, is of stone, two stories Itigh, and cost $5,000. •Ambrose Plamondon, for many years well known in Catholic and business cir- elesjat Chicago, died of pulmonary trou­ bles. Of late he had been near Hot Springs, in an endeavor to recover his failing health, but two weeks ago was brought home. In the big. literary debate between ora­ tors from Belleville and Mascoutah, in which several State and national ques­ tions were settled to the satisfaction of the great audience, Mascoutah carried off first honors by a* score o? 0 to 4. The decisions j.-ere ma.de as follows by Profs. Martenso'n and Kenning: Maspoutafi-- Essay, 2; debate, 4; total. 6. Belleville-- ^Declamation, 1; oration, 3; total, <1. Johfl Hostetteiv aged 19, of Carlyle, died of lockjaw, Caused by the explosion of 11 gun in his hands three weeks ago. On the Bluff Line Railroad Brakemau Daniel J\ -Noonan was killed while un­ coupling a car from the engine. 'His home was in Alton. J. Cj Collins was found besidfe the Northwestern tracks 011. the Ivenosha di­ vision north of Rockford, 'his body being terribly mangled. There was an exodus of Macon County farmers to Iowa Wednesday on. two spe­ cial trains for Webster City, Sac City, Eagle Grove, Rockwell City and other points. There were about thirty- farmers in the Macon County party. "Another had thirty passengers from Sullivan, some from Monticello, Assumption, Cerro Gordo and Maroa, representing a elelegation of over 100 people. Many of the farmers have Nsold their land at $75 to $90 per acre, and have bought in Iowa large farms at $30 to $42 per acre. Land in Macon County rents at $5 and $0, in Iowa at $2 to $2.75. One .Decatur agency lias sold 3,730 acres for $133,700; another agency 4,300 acres for $103,400. "• Morose because his middle-aged daugh­ ter iio longer obeyed him as when a Child and angered and crazed 'because'he had been taunted wit'll his dependence and or­ dered to leave the roof'which sheltered' him.;, old- Gottlieb Dietetic, of Chicago, shot his daughter, Mrs. Henry Ohner, and then, turned the weapon On himself. The shooting took plac6 in tihe rear of ' the home, and both the would-be slayer and .suicidefand his vie im are now lying in the county hospital in a critical condi- i tion. The Woman will probably recover, but the father's chance for life is sma'll. The old man's deed was witnessed by Sev­ ern 1 neighbors, but it was .'accomplished before any of them could interfere. A let­ ter to a friend declares the act was pre­ meditated. William Dougherty's longing for -pork got him into trouble at Chicago, and he is now locked up at the Desplaines street station charged with larceny. While in the a<« of carrying a stolen pig from the Fulton market, No. S Fulton street, he was surprised by Watchman William Burmeister. who attempted to arresjfcli'ini. Dougherty dropped his burden anjl ran. The watchman Chased him, but when he found he was losing groUiid he opened fire with a revolver. A biiMet cut off the top of the fugitive's right ear and he fell to the ground. Whan his room was searched another pig was found snugly- stowed away beneath tihe covers of the bed. William Harris, who was in the room, was arrested by Detective Tracy and locked up at the station. Girard Chote.au, an alleged horse thief, who, according to the doctors, has been feigning insanity, attempted to commit suicide at tihe Springfield jail the other morning. He made a rope by tearing up a blanket and plaiting the -strips together, but it broke under his weight. Choteau has since been in a cataleptic condition, into which he appears able to throw him­ self at will. His case is a puzzle to the authorities, who firmly believe the man to be insane,, although the physicians de­ clare bi'in to be perfectly rational. When he was firs't locked up Choteau lay in a cataleptic fit for fourteen days without moving and without eating or drinking. He was prodded with pins and submitted to other tests, but they had no effect on li'ini and he lay in the jail like a dead man. Finally one of the doctors blew pepper in lliis nostrils and the prisoner came out of the cataleptic condition fighting mad •and prepared to thrash the physician. lit has been learned that Choteau is wanted at Evansvillle, Ind.. for murdering a rail­ roadman in 1894, and lie admits the kill­ ing. He says it was in self-defense. Twenty bead of cattle from the Elgin insane asylum were slaughtered Wed­ nesday at Nash's slaughter house at the Chicago stock yards under the snpervds- 'ion of Chairman Bartlett of the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners, Dr. Trumbower, J. Jarowiski, Chief meat in­ spector of the city; Dr. Gehrman of tihe city health department, and about fifty students from the several colleges. C. W. Baker, representing the Chicago Live Stock Exchange, was also present. The cattle were from the dairy of the insane asylum, and some time ago the commis­ sion became convinced they were suffer­ ing from tuberculosis. Every arrange­ ment was made in the slaughter bouse and the cattle were soon under the knife, and the investigation ami examination fol­ lowed. Eighteen out of the number were found to be affected in some manner with tuberculosis and were tanked and the others allowed to pass. The car in which the cattle reached the slaughter house was disinfected and sent back into the country. . Nothing is feared for Chicago because of the presence of tuberculosis among many of the cattle of the State, because it is said that the cattle in the dairies from which the milk for Chicago is received are carefully- inspected. William H. Pearson, known as the youngest expert telegraph operator in the West, held a long conversation with Manager Stonier of Iiolston's Lake ave­ nue morgue, Chicago, in which he practi­ cally made all arrangements for having his body embalmed, told hdm he was going to commit suicide, then went to the home of his cousin, and, locking all the doors, adjusted a gas tube to a burher, turned 011 the gas, lay down on his bed, and put­ ting the other end of the tube in bis mouth, quickly ended bis life. He coolly inform­ ed Mr. Stonier he intended to kill Ilium self,- and wanted to be brought to that morgue, and it is said he selected the slaib on which he wanted lliis body to lie. Mr. Stonier telephoned to the police station, giving a description of the man, but it was found 011 investigation he had given a wrong address, and aill efforts to find him1 and prevent the deed were unavailing. The startlingly sudden death of his wife last November is assigned as the cause. She had been 011 a visit to ber Ohio home, and Mr. Pearson had gone tp the depot to meet her 011 her return. Instead, he re­ ceived a telegram saying she had died on the train frrfm a sudden attack of pneumonia. Since that event be had been despondent, and many times said there wis no use in living. The deed was plan­ ned and carried out with ohe utmost care and deliberation. Isaac Berman, a depositor in Kopperl's bank, is missing from bis home at Chi­ cago. His friends fear that despondency over the suspension of the bank has driven him to commit suicide in Joliet. Examination of the .. books of R. J. Moore, former secretary of the Centralia Building and Loan Association, hius been finished and be is &M;,nd';to be she!*, $14,- 282. He r 3iStitry and no clew to this whertabmjws has been found. His bond will cover the loss. The local bonds­ men have an indemnifying bond from Moore's uncle, W. J. Trimble, of Chi­ cago. Thursday two masked robbers beat and robbed A. E. Greiser, a Peoria grocer, as he was Closing his store for the nigbt. He had placed bis day's cash, $75, in his pocket, when they- entered and knocked him down with their revolvers and beat him about the bead, fracturing bis skull. Tb'ey took his money and escaped. Joihn Frederick Kums, an actor from Rockford, died at th© insane asylum at Elgin. His case was brought into prom­ inence a few months ago by his sister making charges against the management of tlie institution of abuse and neglect, which resulted in Miss Lathrop, of the State Board of Charities, making a per­ sonal investigation.