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I Jk 6 ' L L - * - (IFF*'-' -^&lPROTECrioJf0l TV ill I Kor <W- AMER /CAA/ I f V __-t£JL°K. i^>- ILLINOIS INCIDENTS, SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY .RECORDED. Cairo to Have a Magnificent School Bnildine--Work of the Teachers* As­ sociation--Geo. M. Pull'maa, Jr., Re­ ceived Into the Episcopal Church- Cairo's Hiirh School Building. A high school building is to _be "erected at Cairo, 111. The building is 137 by 97 feet, exclusive of the end projections for the entranced and stairways. It will front toward the east, and have entrances from all three streets surrounding the structure. The design is the renaissance, style of architecture, having the base" to the first story window sill of stone, with 'the superstructure of pressed'brick and IIIGII SCHOOL BUILDING AT CAIRO. Stone trimmings; Heating and ventilating apparatus are in ihe basement, and' so ar­ ranged that a supply of fresh air of the proper temperature will be delivered in each room separately, if so desired, once every ten minutes. On the first floor are the chemical and physical laboratories, superintendent and board rooms and four class robms. The same number of class rooms is on the second floor, together with the main assembly hall and library. The halls are abundantly wide!, well lighted and give access to all parts of the build- ing. • ' Favor Free Text Books. The Northern Illinois Teachers' Asso­ ciation concluded its session at Rock Isl­ and. Streator .was selected as the place of the next meeting. The resolutions ex­ press the belief that it is the unanimous opinion of thoughtful teachers in northern Illinois that the local option free text book bil'l now pending in the General Assembly is in the direction of educational progress; that it is the logical sequence of wise leg­ islation already in force, and is in the in­ terest of all the people and ought to be en­ acted into law, and the representatives in the Legislature are respectfully urged to vote for its passage. The followingoffi-., cers were elected: President. J. A. Les­ lie, Ottawa; vice-president. Miss Emma Todd, Aurora; secretary, Miss Mary Es- trikin, Rock Island; treasurer, John T. Bowles, De Kalb; railroad secretary, O. F. Phillbrook. Roehelle. Executive com­ mittee--W. H. Hatch, Oak Park; John Piper, Oregon, and W. F. Itocheleau, Streator. Pullman's Son Confirmed. At the chapel of St. John the Baptist, near Elkhart, Rt. Rc'v. George F. Sey­ mour, bishop of Springfield, officiated at the rite of confirmation'Satttrday "evening. The class consisted of George M. Pull­ man, Jr., of Chicago, and John Dean Hill, son of ex-Mayor James Edgar Hill of Lincoln, who were presented by Rector H. W. Cunninghaiii, secretary of the dio­ cese of Springfield, while Richard Ogles- by, Jr., presided at the organ. The ser­ vices were short, but impressive, and were 'attended only by relatives and friends of the young communicants. The chapel is situated just opposite Oglehurst, the home of the Oglesbys, and was erected as a me­ morial by the family of the late John D. Gillett, the father of Mrs. Oglesby. Mr. Stevenson Goes to Nashville. Adlai E. Stevenson and has son, Lewis G. Stevenson, departed on Monday from Bloomington for Nashville, Tenn., to at­ tend the centennial. Mr. Stevenson ex­ pects to sail from New York for England with Senator -Wolcott and Gen. Paine, his colleagues on the bimetallic commis­ sion. He will be accompanied to Europe by his daughter, Miss Letitia, who will visit Mr. and Mrs. James S. Ewing at the United States legation at Brussels, and later will visit London during the queen's jubilee. State News in Brief. At Galesburg, James Whalen fell from a S^nta Fe train and was cut to pieces. C. J. Munson, a grocer of Decatur, was closed on an execution for $1,200. After­ ward he made an assignment. His stock is worth perhaps $2,600 and his liabili­ ties will not be less than §3,000. The trustees of the Illinois institution for the blind held their first session at Jacksonville, and appointed Prof. Frank H. Hall of Wankegan superintendent, to take charge next fall. Mr. Hall was the predecessor of the present incumbent, Dr. Short, and has a fine reputation as an edu­ cator of the blind. ---$ The ninety-fifth birthday of Mrs. Mar­ tha Smith Hoopes of Bloomington was celebrated Sunday. Mrs. IJoopes, who is the mother of B. F. Hoopes, a prominent business man, Of Bloomington, is in ex­ cellent health. She was for many years a resident of Westchester, Pa., and has lived in Bloomington since 1SG5. In twenty years the Chicago North Side police have had reported to them -but one case in which a piano had been taken from a residence by thieves, and that one case they are now trying to trace down. Miss Isabella Becjecher Albert, a stenog­ rapher, lost the piano Monday. Miss Al­ bert was about to move from her resi? dence, and a man appeared on/ the scene in the guise of a real estate agent. He had a customer for the place, he said, and he asked permission to show the house. Miss Albert gave him the keys and went to her work, depending on a friend to watch the house. Fifiteen minutes later a van was driven up to the door and a fine upright piano, worth $300, and two oil paintings, valued at more than $200, were brought downstairs and hauled away. Gustavus. Hess is dead at his home in Somonauk. Mr. Hess was. 73 years of age, and started in business in a general store iu 1853. In 1S63 he associated with him his two sons, Henry and Edward, and under the name of Hess Brothers they conducted a large business. George Mixler, one, of the best-known citizens and pioneers in western Illinois, • and a resident.of Rock Island since 1837, died Sunday, aged 82. He was a class­ mate at Yale with some of the most prom­ inent citizens of the country in after life, including ex-Secretary of State William 'M. Evarts of New York. At Peoria, the Democrats elected every candidate on the city ticket and four out of seven aldermen. .-The Republicans may contest the election. They claim irregular voting in the Third and Seventh wards. The marriage of Miss Esther Munroe, daughter of Senator and Mrs. G°eorge H. Munroe, and Jesse J. Shuman is announc­ ed to occur soon, at the Senator's home in Joliet. Miss Munroe is fi charming 'Syoung lady, a great social favorite and her wedding will be a distinct social event. Mr. Shuman is connected with the super- jtendent's at the steel works. He lsTtsson of Wi C. .Shuman of Chicago and lOqegjKW of the late Andrew Shu­ man, editor of the Chicago Journal. Elijah P. Ramsay, son of the late treas­ urer of Illinois, and Miss Mary Goetchihs were united in marriage Tuesday at the bride's home in Brooklyn, N. Y. She ie very wealthy. The couple will reside in Chicago, where the groom is in the broker­ age business. The affair has created, quite a commotion in Cfirlyle.. T|ie village election at Saint Libory was hotly contested, and when the votes were counted it was found that Stephen Knueve and George Behrman, opposing candidates for president, had received aa equal number of votes. To settle the-mat­ ter the two candidates have agreed to draw straws and the man who gets the longer straw will get the office. It has been developed that Chris Strock, alias William Gleason, wanted in) Chi­ cago for the theft of bonds and for whom a large reward is offered, was arrested at Port Townsend, Wash., six weeks ago Tor shop lifting. Strock was sentenced to three months in the county jail, but after serving five weeks was released. Two days afterward news came of his being wanted in Chicago. It is thought he went to Alaska when released from jail. Gustave Hoffman of Chicago met Fred Warns, a fellow boarder, and the two be­ gan to discuss the airship matter. Hoff­ man main^Hned that there had been no airship excepj; in the imagination of ex­ cited people and Warns said be had seen it. At first the boarder wished to support his belief with bets, and then, angered, he asked if Hoffman meant to call him a liar. Hot words followed and within two minutes Warns picked up an ax helve and brought it down oh Hoffman Vhead, frac­ turing the skull. Warns was arrested to await the outcome of his victim's in­ juries. ; -• - * ' Unseasonably cold weather has created; the,gravest fears among the fruit growers in this section of the country. Through Illinois and Indiana and the southern part of Wisconsin the cold has been especially severe, and the reports are anything but reassuring. The records of the feather department show that the temperature was 14 degrees below the average for April. C. E. Linney, superintendent of the weather and crop service report, sent out a bulletin which takes a cheerful look at the situation. He is inclined to the belief that the fruit buds in Illinois are not far enough advanced t^)e hurt by the cold weather. The heaviest damage was inflicted in the southern section of In­ diana, where the fruit was farthest ad­ vanced, and in the great fruit belt which includes the counties along the Ohio river and extends north for fifty miles. It is estimated that nearly all the fruit in this section is killed, but time may prove that this estimate is incorrect. Mrs. Anna Beaman, aged 75 years, who lives alone at her home on a large tract of land east of Decatur, was visited by robbers Sunday night and relieved of about $700 lb money after being treated in a most brutal manner. Two white men and a negro entered the house about 8 o'clock. They were masked and carried revolvers, with which they threatened to kill Mrs. Beaman if she did not tell where her money was concealed. When forced she revealed her hiding place. The rob­ bers took $670 in gold pieces and about $35 in other currency. Believing that, more money was concealed in the house, the robbers bound Mrs. Beaman's hands together and tied her feet to the bed post and then threatened to set fire to the bed. There was nothing more to get, and they left the place after torturing the woman for four hours. Mrs. Beaman managed to untie the ropes which held her, and early in the morning notified the neigh­ bors. She had been clubbed on the head and body and was badly bruised. The po­ lice have no clew to the robbers. Capt. Stuart of the Government secret service at Chicago has received from the Appellkte Court a decision which is of great importance in criminal practice. He had occasion to take'money from a man who had been systematically robbing the postal department. The man was sent to the penitentiary. His lawyer then brought suit against the inspector, in trover, to recover the money which had been taken from the prisoner. The law­ yer argued his case on the plea that the bills taken from his client had not been proved to be the identical bills which were stolen from the Government. Gen. Black for the Government insisted that it was not necessary to prove th$ identity, but only to prove that the money found was the fruit of the crime. The court took the same view. This makes a precedent in the Illinois statutes. It is not neces­ sary for the office to prove the identity of the stolen goods in order to get them re­ turned to the owner, but the goods or money found on. his person which are the fruits of the crime are rightfully the prop­ erty of the man against whom the cririie was committed. Judge Payne of Chicago sentenced John Lattimore, colored, to hang May 28. Tb« date is the same as that set for.the execu­ tion of William T. Powers, also colored, and both will swing on the same gallows. When the court had fixed the date of the execution, Lattimore bowed and remarked "All right," and followed a court bailiff from the room to the jail. He muttered curses on.:his prosecutors all the way to his cell, and when once behind the bars he swore and cursed viciously for a fe\V minutes. In passing sentence upon Latti­ more, Judge Payne said if the condemned man had confessed his guilt and thrown himself on the mercy of the court there might have been some hope of saving his life. "But you pleaded not guilty and denied your guilt on the stand, even after your confederate in crime had confessed and told all about the murder," said his honor. "Well, I could not confess to what I was not guilty of," interrupted Latti­ more, sullenly. Lattimore and John Ruck- er, who went to the Joliet penitentiary Tuesday to serve a sentence of twenty-five years, killed Louis Marvic, a boarding house keeper on the drainage canal, near Summit, Nov. 29, 1896. The purpose of the murder was robbery. The colored men saw Marvic display money in a road- house saloon near Summit and drank at his expense. Then they waylaid him on a towpath while he was on his way home and crushed his skull with a rock. Both were arrested the following day and Ruck- er confessed. The alumni of Illinois University have joined to prosecute ex-Treasurer Spalding, president of the Globe Savings Bank at Chicago, and he was saved from going to jail only by the efforts of Dartmouth Col­ lege alumni, of which Spalding is a mem­ ber. John Lane, the .inventor of the "iron ceiiter" in metals and the method <of sil­ ver plating on iron, is lying at the point of death at his home in Chicago. Mr. Lane is 73 years old. He was born in New York State in 1825, and his father made the" first iron plow ever used in the United States Elijah Her rod, a piohefer, farmer resid­ ing three miles from Martinsville, died from paralysis. He was well and favor ably known throughout the country. He leaves a large family of grown children He was ,87 years old. At the hour when Chicago children were returning from school'and in certain sec­ tions filled the streets a great black dog, the property of Frank Rice, Pfirk avenue and Robey street, became mad, and as ie ran through- the streets in the vicinity of his home for a numberofblocksbit seven youngsters and one man. In two cafieB the injuries were quite severe. Those bitten received prompt attention, and all will probably escape Berions results. MANY MILLIONS MORE. INCREASE OF $140,000,000 IN CIRCULATION. Treusury Figures Show Money to Be More Plenty--Bad Ye ar for the Free Silver Cause--General Business Re­ vival Now in Evidence. All in lOO-Cent Dollars. Special Washington correspondence: People who assumed last fall that the United States has not enough money will be interested to know that the money in circulation to-day in the Uni­ ted States is nearly 140 million dollars greater than a year ago . The treasury figures show the circulation .April 1, 1897, to be $1,669,000,694, and that of April 1, 1896, $1,528,463. In all the news from Japan about the adoption of the gold standard there is not a word to indicate any com­ plaint on the part of the people. The Japs, who were pointed to by the silver •people during the late campaign as the shrewdest business people of the world, are- now adopting the gold, .standard without a mtirmiu* apparent­ ly from anybody. Probably there are no silver mine-owners in Japan. This has been a chilly year all around for the. silver cause. The population ; of the nations which, have rejected the sliver standard in the past ten years is ihore than three times as great as that .of all those taking this step during the ten years previous. From 1885 to 1895 the nations which adopted- the gold standard were: Egypt, Roumania, Austria-Hungary and Santo. Domingo, having an aggregate population at that time of 50 million people. The nations which have abandoned the silver stand­ ard iii the past year are; Bolivia, Costa Rica, Chili, Peru, Japan and Ruesia. with an aggregate population of 180 million, to say nothing of China, writh her 400 million, which has gone a long distance toward the adoption oi tie gold standard. - The South and PnjteoJion. The Democrats. v»*>.en they want the products of tLo'.r sections protected, speak of the rates proposed as a "rev­ enue duty." Nevertheless, they are perfectly willing to accept tlie rates of the Dingley bill, which everybody knows and recognizes as a thoroughly protective measure. The Texans make no objection to the Dingley rates on wool, the Louisiana and Florida people approve the rates on sugar, and those of South Carolina applaud the rice tar­ iff and want a duty placed on cotton, and so on through the South. In all these cases they insist that the particu­ lar duty they ask is only a "revenue" rate. Nevertheless they know that the figures named are a part of the protec­ tive system of the Dingley bill. Prosperity Cannot-Come at Once. Members of Congress are receiving complaints from various sections that the business revival is not as rapid as expected. It should be remembered, however, that nothing so unsettles business as the pendancy of a tariff measure affecting importations of arti­ cles of all classes. The manufacturer is unable to enter intelligently upon manufacturing operations, and the dealer is utterly unable to place orders with the manufacturer until the rates of duty upon goods are determined. Thus there can be no activity in the manufacturing lines until the tariff bill becomes a law, and without activ­ ity in these lines the prosperity which other industries would feel therefrom, of course, cannot be realized. Manu­ facturers are all willing to know just what rates the Dingley bill will, when it becomes a law, impose upon goods coming into competition with them. Until they know this they cannot enter upon large manufacturing operations, nor can business men give them orders until they know what the rjites on for­ eign goods are to be. It is this fact, and this only, which is retarding the business activity expected under the newr administration, and those who feel disappointed tli.it it has Wot come to the extent they hoped should take this fact into consideration. When the fac­ tories are able to start up at full time with full wages the farmers and others dependent upon the business which comes from manufacturing activity will feel the result. Country Flooded with Foreicrn Gools. Millions of dollars' worth of for­ eign goods still come into the New York market every day. Importers are still bringing shipload after shipload, upon the claim that they were ordered prior to April 1. and can thus come in under the Wilson low rates. This means that the country is being so overstocked with foreign-made goods that months must elapse after the adoption of the Dingley law before manufacturers 'will find a home market for their products. This is the expla­ nation of the delay in the revival of business activity of which some un­ thinking people are complaining. Com­ menting on this, the Washington Post (Democratic) says: "It is an undeniable fact that there has been a great im­ provement in business since the elec­ tion, but people who expect complete revival of business before the tariff rates and schedules are settled are in­ sanely optimistic. Doubt as to tariff schedules is always demoralizing to manufacturers." The Populists and the Lobbyists. The saddest lot of people in Wash­ ington just now are the Populists; the maddest lot are the lobbyists. And when you get the saddest and the mad­ dest people co-operating they make some noise at least. That is what's the matter with the "statesmen" who are nagging Speaker Reed because he refuses to appoint committees in the House. The lobbyists want committees appointed fro "that they can begin their usual work upon Congress in behalf of their various jobs. Why the Populists want them appointed the reader can infer. It seems scarcely probable, however, that the combined pressure of lobbyists, Populists and the section of the Democ­ racy which is co-operating with them will be successful in driving Speaker Reed to the selection of his committees or the announcement of them before the c'.cse'of the session. • The Most Anrjons 5.»t. The most anxicus lot of people in Washington mr.v is made up of the representatives of the great interests desiring to' control the final shapings of the tariff bill. The sugar trust and other great organizations which were successful in manipulating the Demo­ cratic bill in their interests are hover­ ing about, still hoping to get some crumbs of comfort" out of the Finance Committee of the Senate. TheJ- admit that the b$l is far less advantageous to them than the present law, and their only hope is for some amendments by the Senate Committee or the Senate, but they add that there is little proba­ bility of that. However, with the enor­ mous interests at stake they can afford to tight to the last, for it is generally recognized that no tariff bill before Congress for many years has struck so hard a blow at trusts and combina­ tions as does this one. A. B. CAR SONS. Another Convert to Gold Standard. The associated press dispatch from Lima, the capital of Peru, printed in our news columns yesterday, said: "The Peruvian Government has sus­ pended the coinage of silver at the Government mint, and lias issued a prohibition against the importation of silver coins after the tenth of May next," Thus another mile post, in the world's progress has been reached. Since the first of the year Russia. Ja­ pan and Peru have in quick succession abandoned the free coinage" of- silver. These; nations, scarcely pretending to keep abreast with American progress and enlightenment, haye come to see in advance of many of our own people the simplest; truth that the old ratios between gold aud silver cannot be maintained with free Coinage. » The coinage has been suspended in order to protect the silver already coin­ ed and in the hands of the people; With a limited amount of half-dollar dollars in circulation a nation, with a fairly good credit can maintain them at an equality with gold In'the market. Peru, by her Ration' \7i suspending sil­ ver coinage and prohibiting the im­ portation foreign silver coin, pro­ claim? io her people that she is going *•3 protect the integrity of her currency and make every dollar of it "as good as gold." She Is not only following the ex­ ample of all the greater nations of the earth, but such of her sister countries to the south of us as Brazil, Chili and Bolivia.---Macon Telegraph (Dem.). Good News for American Labor. deney to reduce to a dead level the wages of the entire world, for the prod­ ucts of the cheaper labor are .; thus brought into competition with the products of the dearer labor. Free trade would inflict greater injury upon this country than any other, because we have further to fall. A general' re­ duction in wages would bring about readjustments of values that would be destructive to the property owners, pro­ ducers and debtors. We need, there­ fore, a tariff wall to protect us against the products of cheaper labor else­ where.--Hon. F. G. Newlands, M. C.t of Nevada. / Gold Increasing. Among the countries that lost gold last year were England, to the extent of $50,000,000, France $12,500,000, and Holland $5,000,000. The United States gained in gold $92,500,000, Russia $110,- 000,000, and Austria $10,000,000. The world is getting new gold from the mines so fast, and piling it up to lie un­ used in Government and private valuts, that the time is here now when its value, as compared with the" staple products and with wages, will begin to be materially lowered. The process will from now on be gradual, but it will be certain. As we have said "several times before, the good times in this country in the next decade or score of years will be both actual and apparent --the latter for somepurposes as bene-' ficial as the former, and for other rea­ sons dangerous. , Tlie apparent pros­ perity will be due to the falling value of gold, and to t<he reduction in interest rates, and the consequent comparative rise in all prices. Watch and see if the prediction does not come true. It must do so in the uature of things.--Salem (Ore.) Statesman. WEEK OF CRUEL WAB. END OF THE TROUBLE BELIEVED TO BE IN SIQHT. Britain Takes the Initiative in Inter* vention by the Powers--Asks Their Co-operation -- Favorable Answers Given by Germany, France and Italy. Idle Labor in New York. . The following estimate given by the New York Journal on Feb.'13, 1897, is a fitting tribute to the effect of free trade upon American laborfduring the declining days ot the free trade admin­ istration. It gives the number of un­ employed persons in New York City as follows: Painters 4,000 Carpenters .............. 4,000 Plumbers Steam fitters Granite cutters Architectural iron workers Housesmiths Granite polishers BluestQne cutters Pavers .. -- Asphalt workers Stone setters . . • Dock workers Masons Masons' helpers Bricklayers and helpers.." Cement masons Miscellaneous building trades... . Laborers Clothing trades Cigarmakers Cabinet makers .*s ;. ... Piano makers Miscellaneous indoor trades, in­ cluding clerks and bookkeepers. 2.000 2,000 2.000 1.000 2,000 1,000 500 400 500 800 1,500 2,000 2,000 5,500 800 7,000 15,000 10.000 8.0<H) 1,000 1,(300 loioo 90,000 Half Century's Experience. For half a century this country has attempted, by fits and starts, to pro­ tect its ships in the foreign t^ade by the English system of subsidies. What lias been the result? Whenever We se­ riously begin that system England dou­ bles the subsidies paid to her ships com­ peting with ours. If that is not suffi­ cient to enable them to beat us, then she increasesjtheir subsidies still more. In a little while, it has been found, the American people get tired of this kind of warfare, they look more and more fixedly at the outgoing money from the national treasury, forgetful of the ben­ efit the nation derives from owning its own ships, keeping their earnings in our owrn country and giving employ­ ment to our own people in all parts of the country. The next thing is the re­ peal1 of the subsidy; then we see the ships that have depended upon the subsidy laid up, their owners ruined; building stops; foreign ship-owners come in and gobble up, the freight, for­ tified and intrenched by their own Gov­ ernment aid, and Americans are driven out of the business. That has been our experience during t'ue last half of the present century. A Word A'bovt Wages. We have an industrial system in this country wWfli makes it the object of attack fivin ail other countries. Our wag*>3 arc much higher than ^n any other country, and the^unit of all val­ ues here is the daily wag($*- It enters into and forms a part of the value of all stored labor in the shape of product^, buildings and other property. Dimin­ ish the daily wage and you immediate­ ly diminish the value of stored labor, for new buildings can be erected and things produced at a much less cost. Cheapened transportation has a ten- Hellenic Spirits Drooping. It is a week since the outbreak of war between Greece and Turkey was announc­ ed. And it was precisely a week after the campaign was formally opened before anything decisive was accomplished on either side. The victory of. the Turks at Mati and the subsequent evacuation of Tyrnavos and Larissa by the Greeks is probab]y the beginning of the end. The evacuation of Larissa leaves an open road for the Turk­ ish invasion for nearly half the distance to Athens. This does not mean that the march to Athens will be an easy affair or speedily accomplished. The Greeks fight desperately in retreat, and when^they have iost one fight they, are ready to"tight again; Under these circumstances--with the reserves reaching the. front and the whole population aroused aud armed-- even the Turkish,victory at Larissa will .'simply mean more hard .lighting along the new line of defense which Prince -Con-, stantine's forces have taken up. An Athens correspondent .believes that the - situation is not yet desperate for Greece. A brave people that will, fight as they have fought during the past week are unconquerable in a mountainous coun­ try like - the, Greek peninsula, except" as the.result of a long campaign with over­ whelming forces. . If Etihem Pasha's army follows the retreating Greeks to the Which Do Yoiti Prefer? Protection and prosperity are synony­ mous terms, just as free trade and fail­ ure seem to accord with each other. This nation has adopted protection for its land industries and they have pros­ pered beyond those of any'other nation. We have turned our ships on the sea over to the free competition of foreign ships, and they have been sold off or laid up until they are almost unknown in the ports of the world. But once we protected our ships, just as we <lo our land industries, and by the same in­ strument--the tariff. Protection caused prosperity then, just as free trade has caused failure now. How much longer shall we suffer free trade to destroy our shipping, to perpetuate a monopoly in carrying our foreign commerce for foreign ships?* When the tariff does for American ships afloat what it does for our industries on the land, as it did in our earlier history, then everything American will prosper. Prosperity will not stop at the seaboard as it does now. A Forty Pound Suit of Clothes. A suit of clothes i weighing , forty pounds would be a novelty. Yet it is apparently the sort of suit which Prof. Wilson contemplates for the average American individual. He argues, in his newspaper articles at so much per col-* uinn for the New York Herald, that the tariff placed on wool by the Dingley bill will add at least 20 per cent, to the cost of a suit of clothes. Since an in­ crease of 20 per cent, iu the price of a suit of clothes means an increase of probably $5 in its cost, and the pro­ posed duty on wool is 12 cents' per pound, Mr. Wilson must calculate that forty pounds of wool would lie used in the manufacture of a suit of clothes. This is a fair sample of the misleading and absurd propositions upon which the free traders build their theories and sotqetimes get into office. Why the Wheels Don't Move. Manufacturers are all waiting to know just what rates the Dingley bill will, when it becomes a law, impose upon goods coming into competition with them. Until they know this they cannot enter upon large manufacturing operations, nor can business men give them orders until they kuotv what the rates on foreign goods are to be". It is this fact, and this only, which is retard­ ing the business activity expected un­ der the new administration, and those who feel disappointed that it has not come to the extent they hoped should take this fact into consideration. When the factories are able to start up at full time with full tvages, the farm­ ers and others dependent upon the business which comes from manufac­ turing activity will feel the result. Kffect of Diversiflel Industries. Diversification of industries increases the demand for protection. Southern men have, during the recent tariff dis­ cussions, demanded protection on prac­ tically every product of the South. Mississippi asked for protection for cotton and lumber, Louisiana for sugar and rice, Florida for oranges and to­ bacco, South Carolina for rice and cot­ ton, North Carolina for various miner­ als. Georgia a fit Alabama for the prod-' nets of their factories, Texas for cotton and wool, Tennesse for iron and coal, /Kentucky ft)r hemp and tobacco. Vir­ ginia -for iron and tobacco. With a continued increase in diversification of industries the protective sentiment in the South will increase as it has in the North. OHAZI OS MAN PASHA. Bryan is still keeping up his fight on the Cleveland wing of his party. He attacked them viciously in his Jeffer­ son's birthday speech. He knows that the continuation of this war between the factions of his party is the life of his personal notoriety, and is willing to sacrifice party to self every time. Doctor Dingley Doses JoliriMie. Pharsalia line of defense they will be still farther from their base of supplies and in a country whose every inhabitant is a deadly enemy. But what is more likely to happen now than anything else is the intervention of the great powers. No doubt these powers have.^nore respect for the Greeks than they had a week ago, and it has not been a part of their plan from the beginning to allow either Turkey or Greece to win a decisive victory. It is difficult from the tangle of conflicting telegrams to under­ stand the exact position of aff&irs. Fol­ lowing the Greek defeat at Larissa, Lon­ don opinion is almost unanimous that the end is in sight, and this view is probably shared by thepowers, as they are already moving to intervene. It is believed that intervention Willi first take the form of a suggestion of armis­ tice. to which the combatants would no doubt agree. It is stated that the British foreign office has sent an identical letter to each of the powers asking for their co- eperation, and that Germany, France and Italy have already returned favorable an­ swers. As a condition, however, Ger­ many insists that Greece must promise obedience in the-future to any mandate from the powers. News from the front is of a character unfavorable to the Greeks, and as a result a gloomy Reeling is prevalent at Athens. The reverses of the last few days, say dis­ patches from the Hellenic capital, have caused a growing feeling favorable to the cessation of hostilities. When the news of the fall of Larissa and the retreat of the Greeks was received in. Athens a council of the ministry was hastily called, and as a result it is assert­ ed a demand was made upon King George to make an immediate change in the com­ mand of the troops. The order to retreat, issued by Prince Constantine, is held to have been inexcusable, and his purely de-' fensive tactics are blamed for the?loss of Damasi. There is a revulsion in popu­ lar feeling toward the royal family, a#d sensational, news may soon come from Athens. From Constantinople comes the news of concession to Bulgaria, which may quiet the malcontents there. The Sultan is re­ ported to have promised that cou-ntry three more berats when the war is Over. Edhein Pasha has been partly consoled for being superseded by 6sman. The Sul­ tan has softened the blow by conferring upon him high decorations. The com­ manders of the six divisions of the Turk ish army now at the front have received similar honors. DASHINCT GREEK COMMANDER. General Smolentz and His Brilliant Victory Over the Turks at Reveni. Gen. Smolentz's brilliant victory over the Turkish forces near Reveni is regard­ ed as the first jewel in the crown of the former Grecian minister of war. Smolehtz just missed capturing Edhem Pasha, com­ mander of the Turks on the frontier, and pushed 'him in flight toward Damasi. The dashing Greek (has,been promoted from his late colonelcy, and is now a full-fledg- ed commander, who has had good experi­ ence in battle. When he recently de­ serted his portfolio for the field he was GENERAL SMOX.ENTZ. placed in the command^of 14,000 soldiers at Reveni, which is near the strategic eity of Larissa. Edhem had moved forward toward that ancient town in the hopes of taking it, and ultimately pressing on to Athens, but he was most disastrously checked by Smolentz. The new general in his fighting showed that the lessons he learned in the militarv^schools of Eu­ rope were not thrown away. He is a native Greek, and is just 45 years old. ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS ! Considerable routine work .was done itt the Senate Friday and a large number o-fi bills of minor importance were advanced^ on the calendar. The following bills, argong others, were passed: Appropriating "$358,000 for the erection of new buildr ings and for the maintenance of the west­ ern hospital for the insane at Rock IsK and; creating a jury -commission in Cook County; raising the salary of the Cook County election commissioners from $1,- oOO to $2,500 per annnm and ..the chief clerk from $3,500 to" $4,000. Senator Dresser's joint resolution asking Congress to pass a bill granting 5 per centum of the "land sales for military land warrants to the public land States was adopted. The House concurred in the Senate joint resolution giving the assent of the State of Illinois to the General Government to acquire by purchase or condemnation pro­ ceedings the lands necessary for the wid­ ening of the Chicago river pursuant to the act of Congress of June 3,189G. The Sen­ ate Torrens lan& title bill was postponed until Tuesday morning. The bill prohibit­ ing removalof waste or lubricating pack­ ing from the journal boxes of engines, tenders or cars without authority was amended so as to make the penalty a fine Of not more than $100 or imprisonment in the courity jail for not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or both fine and imprisonment. Both houses adjourned • to 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. - In the House Monday Mr. Merriarn pre- sente?d; the report of the special committee, appointed to inspect the executive man­ sion. The report recommends an appro­ priation of $30,000 for repairs, and was referred. The anti-department store bill, the valued policy bill, and the franchise bill were advanced, as were also the Cook County salaries bill and the civil rights- bill. Mr. Buekuer secured unanimous consent to have his civil rights bill ad­ vanced to third reading. It extends the ' civil rights act to ice, cream parlors, soda fountains, saloons, barber shops, bath­ rooms, theaters, skating rinks, concerts, cafes, bicycle rinks, elevators and all pub­ lic conveyances and \o all other places of public accommodation and amusement. The following House bills were advanced to second reading: To prohibit the print­ ing, posting and distributing of any libel­ ous circular or other written on printed paper; to prohibit sensational or false advertisements in newspapers or other­ wise; to prohibit truck stores. Mr. Mer­ riarn called up his bill fixing the salaries of the judges of the Supreme Court at $7,500 per annum and authorizing each of the judges now in office to appoint a clerk at $2,500 per, annum. After some discus­ sion the bill was made a special ofder on second reading for Thursday morning. The Seuate did nothing. In the House Tuesday the Torrens land title bill, passed by the Senate, was pass­ ed with the, emergency-clause--yeas, 125; nays, 3. The bill is a copy of the l^w passed two years ago, except that it strikes out the provision which vested the Registrar of Titles With power to pass upon titles. This provision was de­ clared unconstitutional by the courts, on the ground that it vested a ministerial officer with judicial functions. The bill to give preference to old soldiers who have passed civil service examination, was passed. The Healy lunacy bill, re­ lieving the counties of the care of insaae and turning them over to the State, passed the Senate. That body concurred in the House amendments to the Torrens land' bill. Senator Stubblefield's bill making it a misdemeanor to sell or offer to sell any flour, meal, canned fruits, canned vegeta>- bles or other articles designed for food having upon the covering'any other than the true name of the contents or of the manufacture, was passed. In the Senate Wednesday one of the Cook County revenue bills was passed by; a vote of 29 yeas to 12 nays and the oth­ er was advanced to third reading. The bill passed provides for the listing of personal jiroperty and the fixing of a standard of taxation at practically 1 per cent, of the fair cash value. ,The bill ad­ vanced to third reading provides for the appointment of a board of supervisors of assessments. The bill providing that prop­ erty shall be assessed at one-fifth of its fair cash value was passed. The follow­ ing bills, among others, were passed: To prevent fusion; McCloud's child labor bill; appropriating $30,400 for repairing the executive mansion; appropriating $50,- 000 for extraordinary repairs and pro­ tection of the Illinois-Michigan Canal; ap­ propriating $50,000 for the participation of the State in the Trans-Mississippi and' International exposition, to be held in Omaha in 1898; appropriating $200,000 annually for the improvement and ordi­ nary expenses of the University of Illi­ nois at Champaign; creating a State board of pardons. The House adopted the re­ port of the Committee on Elections in the case of Kerby against English, nu- sea'ting Mr. English, a Democrat. The bill providing for a salary of $1,500 per annum for Chicago Aldermen and $1.50 per meeting for Village Trustees, and limiting the meetings of such trustees to one a month was passed. In the House Thursday Mr. Kerby,, Itep., was sworn in as a member, in place of Mr. English, Dem., unseated, from the Forty-seventh District. Mttl Bartling's valued policy bill, was ad­ vanced to third .reading, as was also the bill to increase the salaries of the judges of the Supreme Court to $7,500 per an­ num, and after a short but animated de­ bate was advanced to third reading. In the Senate Mr. Leeper's bill giving own­ ers of Chicago elevators right to sell ancfi mix grain, contrary to the recent decis­ ion of the Supreme Court of the State*; was killed; The committee libel law bill sustained an amendment specifically re­ pealing the libel law of 1895. The fol­ lowing amendment was also adopted? • "Provided, That where a suit is brought against a newspaper for slander or libel iii a county other than in which the news­ paper is published or the defendant re-< sides, the pl£;atiff shall, prior to the be­ ginning of such suit, file a .bond for costs,' to be approved by the clerk of the court; and in ail such cases where the plainti® fails to recover the trial judge shall as­ sess as a part of the plaintiff's costs rea­ sonable attorney's fees for the benefit of the defendant." The bill was then ad^ vanced to third reading." To Those About to Marry. Well may the omens make you falter. For "altar" rhymes with "halter." Precarious is the married life, For "wife" rhymes with "strife." Be very wary whom you catch, For "match" rhymes with "scratch." % Look not for quiet in the house. For "spouse" rhymes with "rows." Reflect, when conjugally looped. That "Cupid" rhymes with "stupid." And don\ blame me for telling you That "woo" rhymes with "rue." --Pick-Me-Up. Drunkards In Ashantee. The Ashautees hold that drunkenness forms no excuse for crime; but, by way of preventing as far as possible any un­ toward results happening through in­ toxication, any one who feels that way disposed is under an obligation to streak his forehead with dash&s of red paint. This danger signal warns quiet people to keep clear of the decorated one. • i '*