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'HE TARIFF WORKS. SOMETHING ABOUT AMERICAN TIN PLATE. pfS •Son?® Striking Figure* Which Dtmooratte Papers 1>« Not Publish--Farm Prod­ uce aml th* Tariff--Tha Cowl If »!)»*- <Iity of IteElprocitr. £ < ; : Soma Striking Flforal, Taurine the eleven months from Octo­ ber 3i, 1890, to August 31, 1891, under the new tariff law, there was an increase in onr foreign trade of $74,7t>8,t}39 over the value of the foreign trade duringthe tame eleven months of 1889-90. Then, what becomes of the Democratic asser­ tion that protection diminishes the for­ eign trade ? > Daring these eleven months the por­ tion of merchandise admitted free of •duty was 47.78 per cent, of the whole, as against 34.27 per cent, during the eame oeriod of the year prior. Then what becomes of the Democratic asser­ tion that the McKinley bill "raised the duties all along the 1 ne ?" Since sugar was put on the free list and until August 31,1891, a period of flvs months, the total value of imports of merchandise was $359,725,209, of which $200,533,497, or 55.75 per cent., Was admitted free of duty. The Demo­ cratic Mills bill proposed* to admit free only 40 per cent. For the full year ending September 30,1890, under the old taritt the receipts from customs were $237,f»9S,492.45. For the full year ending September 30, 1891. tinder tne new taritf, the receipts from customs were $l9G,302,0(i6.9f.>, a decrease of $41,396,425.49! Then, what becomes of the Democratic prediction that tbe McKinley bill would increase taxation and swell the so-called surplus? The customs revenue during the last ear under the old tariff was $3.80 per tead of population. During the first year under the new tariff it is $3.07. The exact per capita reduction of cus­ toms revenue is 73 cents. If, therefore, the tariff is a tax, it is now just 73 cento less a tax than it was before the Mc­ Kinley bill went into eflect. During the eleven months ending August 31, 1891, under the new taritt, our exports of merchandise were $49,- -089,323 greater than during the same {>eriod of the year before. This is near-y two and alialf times greater than the average annual increase during the twenty years prior to 1891. Then, what becomes of the Democratic assertion that protection diminishes the export trade, and shuts us oat of the world's markets ? During the month of August, 1890, our exports of agricultural goods amounted to $35,748,480 or 64.54 per cent, of our total exports. During the same month of this year they amounted to $51,748,432, or 72.45 per cent, of the whole. Oureexports of manufactures, on tbe other hand, during Augu<st, 1890, were $14,248,799, or 25.72 percent, of all, while during the same month of this year they were $14,758,351, or only 20.06 per cent, of the whole. Then, wnat be­ comes of the Democratic assertion that protection aids manufacturing interests only and injures those of agriculture ? Since the reciprocity treaty with ura­ cil went into ettcct on April 1 last, and until August 31, our exports to that country amounted to $6,303,182, an in­ crease over the eame period of last year of $1,169,592. And yet the Democratic convention of New York flippantly pronounced reciprocity a "humbug !" The price of granulated sugar in Sep­ tember, 1891, was 41 cents a pound, as againt-t 6§ cents during September, 1890. Tne free sugar clause of tne McKinley bill means to the people of the United States a saving of not less than $75,000,- 300. The price of cotton cloth in Septem­ ber, 1891, was 8| cents a yard, as against H cents in September, 1890; of printed cottons, 6 cents, as against 6-}; of iron nails, $1.80 per 100 pounds, as against £1.85; of steel nails, $1.85, as against |2.05; of steel rails, $30.77 per ton. as tgainst $31.50; of binders' twine (an av­ erage of four grades), 8 1-16 cents a pound, as against 12$ cents; of Bessemer pig iron, $16 a ton, as against $18.10; of cut^ nails, $1.55 per 100 pounds, as tgainst $1.85; of middling cotton, per pouiid, 8.54 cents, as against 12.17. then what becomes of the Democratic lie about the McKinley bill having raised prices, the pet lie on which the Democ­ racy won the congressional campaign a fear ago? The validity of the McKinley law is at present before the supreme court for fcrgument. One of the points made by the importers is that the reciprocity clause is unconstitutional, and that tbe sntire law is vitiated thereby. The point made by their counsel, which is backed up eagerly by the Democratic papers, is that tlie reciprocity provision is an unlawful delegation of legislative power to the President--that it is giving aim authority to decide alter a specified iime whether certain named articles Imported from a certain class of coun­ tries shall continue to be duty-free as at present, or shall pay certain specified iuties. It is evident that whatever leg­ islative power is granted is hedged -tround very closely. In passing on matters of this kind su­ preme courts are exceedingly conserva­ tive and are governed to a great extent fry usage. If they find that it has been ihe custom to make such "delegations »f legislative power" they will decline to go into the possible merits of the Soint raised by the importers. Such as been tho custom. The records of ihe State Department will show a procla­ mation made by President Cleveland «arly in 1885 that evidence having been lubmitted, which appeared satisfactory !o him, that Spain had abolished certain incriminating duties, the discriminat­ ing -customs duties imposed by the United States on imports from Cuba and Puerto Rico should be taken oft'. Thus i Democratic President, acting under die authority of Congress, took action which lowered the duties which had Deen collected on Cuban sugar, etc. By another proclamation made by Pres­ cient. Cleveland in 1886 it was declared ihat he had become satisfied that tbe >bjectionable Spanish differential duties had not been completely suppressed-- ihat he had been mistaken in his previ­ ous belief--and that therefore the sus- Sensionof the retaliatory discriminating uties of the United States was revoked *nd those duties restored. And there­ by the duties on Cuban and Puerto mean products were increased. Such delegations of power are on a tmall scale. But by the non-intercourse ict, passed shortly before the war of 1812, the President was given a broad measure of discretionary power con­ cerning its suspension in whole or part. That law gave bim almost unbounded power over the entire commerce of the country. Yet its constitutionality was never seriously challenged, although President Madison made a poor use of ihe law. In the face of these and other prece­ dents, the supreme court will decline to consider tbe matter, and those Demo­ crats who dread reciprocity and hope .that the supreme court will remove it from tbe field of politics, and the next presidential campaign will be wofully disappointed.--Chicago Tribune* ft BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 26.--To (he Editor: I went to a Democratic meeting in Bos­ ton to-night. Gov; Russell, the Demo-' •cratic candidate, spoke. In his speech he accused tbe Republican party of raising the price of farm products through the McKinley bill. He actually feared that such was the fact. Then he •read a long list of articles produced bv This tit tbe list that the Democratic Governor read: INCREASE BY H'lHSLEY TAklKfc I'rlce per 10U pounds. ARTICLES. lftO. 18S1. 9ctoSc per pound. 10 per cent, to Si> per ct. 2c per lb, no increase 16 to Se per PWUML sOjwrcent to 23 per cent, ad valorem 10c to 15c a bushel. 10c to 16c a . bushel. *98 KtolcVX) 11c to 2e per / pound. 187 Bacon, Eastern...--86 60 Bacon California. 9 Ml •Beau, Kaatern 8 <V»M Beanr, California., a CO L a r d , K a a t e r n 7 8 0 Lard, OaUforma... 8 £0 Beef, live weight-- ..•» : .Montana 2 OT>. '* Colorado l * Wyoming 2 South Dakota.-. 2 11 . New Mexico 2 - Idaho 2 17% North Dakota 3 W Flour-- Wyoming Montana North Dakota... South Dakota... Arizona New Mexico Nebraska ^ * rfl Minnesota. 2 44 Oklahoma 2 OA Corn- Montana l 27 * South Dakota,... 69 North Dakota.... 1 14 M issouri 77 New Mexico 1 27 '". Kansas „ 77 ' Onts-- South Dakota.... 98 Minnesota (fa Kansas New Mexico 1 48'4 Indian Territory «&':>? Oatmeal-- - California 3 2 Pork-- Eastern per brL12 00 M 0C Callfo'aper brl.16 00 ttW t , I was simply astounded to hear the city Democrats cheer the Governor when he demanded that Canadian wheat, corn, barley, rye and hogs should come in free! I showed that it was Dakote, Minne­ sota. Nebraska and Kansas that over­ produced and ruined the Eastern farm­ ers. I showed that the McKinley tariff would keep back 150,060,000 bushels of wheatr rye, barley, potatoes, oats and make it go out by Quebec. It is doing it. With bountiful crops the United States farmer is getting good prices, while the Canadian farmer is starving. When the Canadians come down to Washington to plead for an outlet for their farm products next month Blaine and Harrison will say: "No reciprocity with farm products. We had to carry our own Dakota be­ cause she was our own child, but we haven't got to carrv your great North­ west Territories. We haven't got to carry Manitoba, Assinaboin, Alberta, and a section 800 miles long and 400 miles wide, as big as eight Dasotas, be­ cause it isn't ours." Then the Canadians will talk about utilization and reciprocity. But, farmers, we don't want even an­ nexation till you are fully on top once again, and the Republican party won't have it. Fancy a Democrat getting up in Illi­ nois and askiug his audience to vote against the Republican party because it has brought prosperity to the farmer! Yours truly, MEYILLE D. LANDOX. "ELI PERKINS. Tariff Illustrations. The average annual increase of our ex- potrta from 1870 to 1890 was $20,750,425. For the first eleven months under the McKinley bill the increase in exports over those of the eleven months pre- vious w as $49,087,323. Solely because of the increased pro­ tection aft'omed by the McKinley tariff a cutlery factory in Ottumwa, la., now employs 500 hanTHmW-™-̂ employed under the old tariff. Labor is benefited by protection, isn't it? A prominent citizen of Warren Coun­ ty, O., lately contracted for 300,000 tin cans for sweet corn, to be made entirely of American materials and by American labor, at $1.87 per hundred. Last year the same man paid for cans made from imported tin plate $2.25 per hundred. Tin, tin, American tin! The facts are constantly refuting the free traders' theory that ihe McKinley tariff prevents our selling to other nations. During the twelve months ending August 31, 1890, we exported manufactured products to the value of $150,577,041. For the year ending August 31, 1891, we sold American manufactured products to other nations to the value of 170,569,311. Tha Battle Grand of '93. The New York Press prints an article which assumes that that state will be the great battle ground in the national con­ test of 1892, for the reason that the state is indispensable to the Demo­ crats. The article is as follows: Under the new apportionment law passed by Congress, the states which voted in the last election, if they vote next year for the same party, will cast their electoral votes as follows: REPUBLICAN. California Colorado Illinois Indiana...... Iowa Kansas Maine Massachusetts ...._ 16 Louisiana. Michigan 14 Maryland........ 1 DKHOCBATHX 9 Alabama 4 Arkansas 24 Connecticut 16 Delaware IS Florida ....... 10 Georgia 6 Kentucky .. 11 .. 8 .. 6 .. 8 ... 4 .- 18 ._ 18 Miunesoto Nebraska.......'. Nevada New Hampshire-. New York .... Ohio , „ t Mississippi.... .... ft; Missouri ... * - 4 - 86 ._ 28 Oregon 4 Penusylranla............ 82 Rhode Island 4 Vermont 4 Wisconsin.. 12 - 17 New Jersey 10 North Carolina 11 >outii Carolina 9 Tennessee, 12 Texas 15 Virginia 12 West Virginia t> • *> -- Total .175 Total........ ...........24 9] Six new states have been admitted to the Union, all Republican on national issues, with electoral votes as follows: Idaho „„.S,South Dakota.. . .4 Montana .....„„._3| Washington .....M...„.4 N orth Dakota..............S j Wyoming- ....3 Total--.. *20 With this showing the basis of calcu­ lations for next year is 269 Republican electoral votes against 175 Democratic votes. On the strength of pulling Rus­ sell though by a scratch iii Massachu­ setts; ot chafbging the method of elec­ tion from the state at large to the con­ gressional district plan in Michigan, and of local elections in Indiana going Dem­ ocratic, the Democratic leaders in na­ tional politics are already claiming all those states, together with Iowa and New York, where Democratic govern­ ors have just been elected. This result would take 93 votes from the Republic­ an column of 2l>9, leaving 176, and add 93 votes to the Democratic" column, making 268. It is an easy calculation, but there are many obstacles in the way of its ac­ complishment. In the first place Michiaran's electors will not vote as a unit. The Republic­ ans will surely carry the electors at large, the three congressional districts they carried last fall, and the one they have just carried at a special election to fill a vacancy caused by the death of a Democratic congressman. In the Fifty- first Congress there were only two Michigan districts represented by Dem­ ocrats. On the most liberal estimate eight electoral votes out of fourteen is all the Democrats can expect to obtain in Michigan by their return to the ancient and obsolete custom of selecting electors by districts. In the second place Massachusetts demonstrated on Tuesday, by elect!ni the entire Republican state ticket, ex­ cept governor, seven Republicans out of eight governor's councilors and Re­ publicans to the number of two-lhurdt of the legislature, that it is out of the question to think of any Democrat car­ rying the old Bay State for President. Giving the Democrats eiaht votes in Michigan and all in Iowa and Indiana, this result may possibly be realized: Indiana, electoral vote* iiiit JJ Iowa; electoral votes. „ u Michigan, electoral votes.. g Total. ... ..... n The result of the transfer of these votes, omitting New York from the cal­ culation, would be* Republican, 197; Democratic, 211; necessary to a choice, 2Z>. The thirty-six electoral votes of New York added to the Democratic column would then elect a Democratic presi­ dent, with 24 votes to spare. Held in the Republican column they insure Re- Sublican success with 10 to"spare, even Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, ISew Jersey and Connecticut all choose Democratic electors. If Indiana and Iowa are Re- ?ublican the Democrats may carrv New ork, New Jersey, Connecticut, Michi­ gan (8 votes j, and all the sure Demo­ cratic states, and still lose! In other words. New York will be the pivotal Democratic state, without which a Democratic President cannot be elect­ ed. The great battle of 1892 is likeiy to be won within ten miles of the Press office. And what Republicans should set about doing at once is to find a man who, as a presidential candidate, can moat certainly carry the Empire State. American Tin Plato. It seems to arouse tlie temper of the Democratic press when the statements made that tin plate is being made in this country. The New York Eveni ng Post vfhich seems to be opposed to the manu­ facture of tin in the United States, takes the lead in denouncing American tin plate a humbug. To the Post the New York Press answers: It cannot deny that the "tcrno" or dull tin roofing plates are made in this country, but it asserts that owing to the difference in price between the Bnstish and American product, "the Laufman American roofing tin might as well be made on the planet Mars--except for political purposes." It will doubtless astonish Messrs. P. H. Laufman & Co., of Apollo, i'a.. to dis­ cover that they are steadily manufacturing large quantities of roofing tin plate solely for "political purposes." Their represen­ tatives in this city, 11. R. De Milt & Co., of 288 Water street, are selling the Laufman tin right along in competition with the inferior British product, and are prepared to meet any reasonable demand for ordinary grades of the goods. How surprised they will be when they realize that they are doing business merely for "political purposes.'* The Post asserts that the grade known as "bright" tin plate is 1KM 112 made in this country, "if at all, only for campaign pur­ poses." It assorts that the cheapest kind of this tin plate costs $7 per box, while the Welsh plate of the same grade costs only >5.30 per box. The Press unhesitatingly brands this statement as false. The Amer­ ican bright tin plate is more heavily coated with tin than tho British nroduct, to which it is superior in every way. Cirade for grade, it is actually cheaper to-day than the foreign tin plate. Now, as to the assertion that 110 bright tin plate is made here cxcept for "campaign purposes." The Press herewith reproduces several sample letters out of dozens at hand on the subject, addressed to the United States Iron and Tin Plato Works, Demmler, Pa., or to their New York representatives, Messrs. Ely & Williams, 38 Park Row: AMKRICAK METER COMPANY, 508 TO 514 W*ST TWENTY-SECOND STRKET, SKW YORK, Sept. 12, 1891.--MesHre. Kly A Williams, ,S8 Park How: GKNTI.KMBX--Replying to yours of September 10. The twelve boxes of tin plates were used for the purpose for which they were purchased. Up to this tim« we have not heard any com­ plaint in regard to thearticlea made trom them. Yours very truly, WILLIAM N. MI I ^TEO . Treasurer. & H. HTKN*ELD, TIN PLATE AND METALS, ETC., NOB. 25 AND 27 EAST NlNTIl STREET, CLN- CINNATI, O., Sept. 9, I MM.-- United- ittak* Iron and Tin Plate Company, itemmltr. Pa.: GENTLE­ MEN--In reply to your fHVor of the 4th inst. I would state that the pistes I have been getting from you 1 consider very good--in fact, botter than what 1 expected them to be--and have given very good satisfaction wherever I havo sold them, exccpt thutthey look a little too blue in color, which I expect you may overcome without moch trouble and expense. Yours respectfully, E. H. HCKNFELU JOHN W. SPRATT, STOVES, FUKNACKS, TIN, CoprEn, SHEET IRON WARE. KTC., NO. 6S PUB­ LIC BQt'ARK. WATKKTOWN, N. V., T-epi. 21, 1801.-- Ely & Williams: GENTI KMKN--Yours of the 16th InsU received making inquiry as to my views of the tin plate sent me of your manuf acture. I find it superior in every way to the plate that we are getting Irom abroad. It is so't and easy to work, well nnd evenly coated with tin, with­ out the specks and flaws that are generally in imported tin that we get now. The men in' the shop speak very highly of it in comparison with the plate that tney have been heretofore using. Hoping that you will meet with the ut­ most success in your new enterprise, 1 remain, respectfully yours, J. W. SPRATT. DEMMLER BROTHERS, TINNERS' SUPPLIES, Nos. 526 AND 526 SMITHFIELD BTREET, NOS. 78 AND 75 VIRGIN ALLEY, PITTSBURG, Pa.. Sept. 28, 1891. UnitedState$ Iron <t- Tin Plate Manufacturing Com­ pany--GK.NTI.EMEN: We have used several lots of your I'nlted States tlu plate during the past three months, and must say it is well and even­ ly coaled; and by actual test we tind it more durable and less luclined to rust than any tin plate we have had in year.". Yours truly, DEMMLER BHOTHFRS. The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association of Philadelphia has just published the result of a care­ ful investigation into the tin plate man­ ufacture, from which tbe following sum­ mary has been prepared: Three establishments are now making tin plates, or terne plates, or both, from their own black plates, their present united capacity being 3*J0 boxes per day. One es­ tablishment has made tin plates from its own black plates, hut has been stopped while its plant was being enlarged. Seven others are getting ready to roll black plates and convert them into tin plates and terne plates, and will soon be fn oper­ ation, their daily capacity when in opera­ tion -hoinfr -'.faiTi lwives Three others are ISRAMMAR IN DRTESS. tion being 2,0*>5 boxes, now making tin plates or terne plates Irom purchased black plates, their daily capacity being from forty-five to fifty boxes. One establishment, which now rolls black plates, proposes to make both tin plates and terne plates in the near future. One establishment has made terne plates experimentally, but has not yet per­ fected its plant And two enterprises have been projected for the manufacture of tin plates and terne plates. THE DRAGOPTOF HOLY WRIT. A Sample of the Mythical Speotoa at Philadelphia. Among other interesting things now on exhibition in Philadelphia, says the Buffalo Commercial, is a Heliosaurus, supposed by naturalists to have been extinct for 200 years, and regarded as the "dragon" of Holy Writ. The only description given by naturalists has been derived from information ob­ tained through the finding of the petri­ fied animal in an upper Btrata of stone in Tilgate forest, in Sussex and Kent counties, England. The Philadelphia specimen is about five feet long and was captured last June in Egypt. It is covered with a thick skin having the appearance of scales, and along its back is a row of conical bones, resem­ bling the fin of a large fish. The ani­ mal has the general appearance of a large lizard, its tail being aDoutthe same length as its body. It has five long talon-like toes on each foot, and posses­ ses two rows of teeth, which it is always ready to use. The dragon is a vicious animal, aDd, when touched with a stick, will rear itself almost perpendicularly on its tail, while its small eyes will give forth a baleful light, accompanied with a hissing noise, very similar to that made by a snake. The eyes are dark, aui- rounded by a blood-red iris. 'J A Valuable Specimen. The largest specimen of leaf of 'ffeM* old ever found was found near Walla alia, Wash. It is valued at $300 for the gold in it alone, but to-day five times that amount would not purchase it. The delicate tracery of the fern is as fresh, beautiful and crystalline in ap- Eearance as ever nature turned out of er laboratory, and it is fully a foot square. H«w and Hamrntftna Question Oecnpylng t the Iffaie Easterner*, uljto hate a man who 13 nngrraw- matical in his dress,*' a gentleman said at one of the clubs not long since, and the remark was received with approval by his hearers. "It is worse for a man to be ungratnmatlcal than for a woman?" one of the company asked after there had been a little comment on the first proposition. "Perhaps not," was the answer; "though of course the grammar of feminine attire is a thousand times mpre complicated than that of male habiliments, and there is more free­ dom allowed." "But on the other hand," another put in, "women are better adapted to master the subject, and the fact that there is more free­ dom given them makes it the more inexcusable when they do make a real blunder." What a real blunder is wps then discussed, and one of the speakers said that he had that day met a woman in deep mourning wearing russet shoes. This was universally allowed as a gross and perfectly inexcusable gram­ matical blunder. Another related how a Chicago lady had this summer appeared at a picnic in the mountains in a gown of blue satin trimmed with real lace--"at the start, that is," he added. "Before we got home it was also trimmed with pine-spills and dry leaves and bugs and all sorts of trash, caught in the lace" It was the opinion of the company that this also was a grammatical blunder. Black trousers with a light coat, or a dark waistcoat with an otherwise light suit were pronounced ungrammatical; and the same was said of a stilt hat 011 the tennis courts, although it was alleged that on the club grounds at Kali ant this summer this thing had been seen. The drift of the talk might have been formulated in a way not unlike that in which one would have formu. lated a similar talk upon the use of language. It was implied or stated that in dress one must consult pro­ priety, use, and elegance. The for- mer would forbid the wearing of a 6atin frock, lace trimmed, to a picnic because the circumstances of a picnic make such a garment entirely inap­ propriate; just as in another way the wearing of a robe do chambrc in a parlor or a tennis suit to a reception would be wholly inappropriate. The fact that these different garments have their individual appropriateness must be recognized and respected. The lady who appeared in the draw­ ing-room in a bathing suit would be guilty of so gross a breach of the grammar of dress that it would prob­ ably be regarded as running into posi­ tive impropriety. The same principle applies to the wearing of dress suits in the day time, and yet here the principle of use comes in so that for a waiter or a Harvard student on Class day it is not ungrammatical to appear in evening garb in the blaze of day. Use is hardly more than another name for fashion. It is the mode of the day that determines this. To wear the small clothes and full bot­ tomed wigs of our grandfathers to-day would be most ungrammatical, and yet in the old time it would have been equally an error to appear without them. Tl^is is a constantly Ifuctuat ing rule o&Svhich it is true the prin­ ciple remains the same, but of which the application varies constantly. Everybody recognizes it, and every­ body is more or less influenced by it. It is needless to point out that to be too far behind or too much in advance of the changing fashion is to be de­ plored, but it is just here, it may be remarked, that this principle passes into the next, that of elegance. Elegance is indefinable, as it is the highest branch of the art of dress. To be lacking in elegance may be classed as a blunder, but it is only those gross violations of elegance which it is fair to put in the category of grammatical blunders. Vulgar and over-extravagant displays of jew­ elry, for instance, may be. taken as an example of this sort of blunder. On the whole the t alkers at the club gave themselves credit for disposing pretty effectually of the whole subject, but they had not therefore the right to suppose that the number of gram­ matical errors in the dress of their generation would be any less.--Boston Courier. A. Coat of the French Standing Army. ' The French army estimates for 1892 amount to 676,821,577 francs, about 37,000,000 francs less than the sum voted in 1891. The total bur­ den 011 the nation on account of the War Office, including military pen­ sions and pensions granted by the Le­ gion of Honor and the cost of con­ structing strategical railroads, amounts to 875,633,104 francs a year. Adding the expenses for the navy, amounting to 263,190,812 franes, the expenditure on French national de­ fense is annually 1,138,823,910 francs. The German budget for 1891-92 is 596,168,416 francs. On the other hand allowance must be made in the French estimates for the cost of the gendar­ merie and items of secret expendi­ ture, as well as the military expenses of Algeria and Tunis. .The German budget is, in reality, nearly 30,000,- 000 higher than that of France. In live years the German budget has in­ creased by 88,330,685 francs. In France the number of officers, sur­ geons and military functionaries is 27,181. In Germany the correspond­ ing numbers only amount to 26,575. In Germany the total strength of the army is 499,785 men; in France it is 510,601 men, showing a difference in favor of the latter of 10,816 men. $ Man. Too, Are Uncomfortable. "Men are becoming as bad as women for the adoption of strange and uncomfortable fashions in cloth­ ing," said a Fifth avenue custom tailor, "and they need dress reform preached to them almost as much as the feminine sex. Take the high col­ lars that are in vogue, and which are worn higher than ever this fall. They almost strangle one and chafe the skin until it is sore. Between the heavy, hot beater hat and the tight collar, baldness is becoming ramp­ ant in our cities. The high, tight collar has as much to do with causing baldness as any otherone thing. Then the modern style of fitting the clothes forces us to make them tight and snug all around, and this prevents one from really enjoying life. Tight natent leather shoes sweat and pinch ;the feet until walking Is a painful ex­ ercise. Every time I see a dude with all of the latest styles of modern clothes I pity him, and wonder that he submits to such voluntary torture. I can assure you that if his clothes fit him he is miserable. The old ad­ age that 'if a man's clothes don't fit him he is uncomfortable' has been re­ versed."--New York Times. Cartons Dream Lam. . Mage Meredith has been looking over the books carefully and finds some interesting interpretations of dreams, as follows: To dream of a lion--Portends future dignity. Captive, lasting friendship; surprised by one, treachery on the part of a friend; to kill one, suceess, rapid fortune; to overcome one, great success; to hear one roaring, danger. Fruits in general--Rejoicing, gain, profit. To eat them, a sign that the dreamer will be deceived by women; to throw them away, troubles caused by the envy of others. - Roses--Always a happy omen. Full bloom, health, joy, ana abundance; faded, success, prompt but dangerous; red, satisfaction; yellow, jealousy. ThorrfS*-- Pain, disappointment. iJTo be pricked by them, loss of money. Myrtle--Declaration of love. Orange blossoms -- Approaching marriage. Violets--Wearisome toil. To gather them, quarrels; to eat them, losses in buisness. A ship--Fulfillment'of wishes. In danger, unexpected good fortune. A shipwreck--Peril to the dreamer. To take a bath--Approaching mar­ riage. Too hot, separation; too cold, (Wief. , A church--A heritage. To pray there, deceit; to speak aloud in, do­ mestic quarrel. The moon.--Love. Shining bright­ ly, continual pleasure; overclouded, sickness, danger of death of some person beloved by the dreamer; at the full, wealth; new, awakening af­ fection; on the decline, deceit; red, renown. Stars--Happiness, Pale, affliction; shooting, death of a relative. A corpse--News of the living. Drowned, love quarrels. A woman--Deceit. Fair, love; ugly, scandal. A child--Pretty, pleasure and joy; ugly, threatening dangers; to see it running, difficulties in business. Bread--Profit to the dreamer. White, lasting affection; black, in­ constancy. Butter--Great surprise. To make it, a legacy from an aged friend. Cheese--Vexation, followed by timatc success. Cakes--Meeting with good friends; great joy. Ragout--Mischief made by talka­ tive women; scandal. Soup--Return of good health and excellent fortune. Thread--Intrigue. To split a secret betrayed; to entangle It, confusion in affairs; to break it, failure. Paper--Tidings of a friend or rela­ tion. Colored, deceit; painted, brief happiness. An opera--Pleasure, followed by pains. A theater--LOBS of money and friends. ^ ; A fituoui Turraro's Feat* The death of Cayetano, the famous Spanish torrero, reminds me of magnificent feat which he once per­ formed, not in the arena, but out in the country near Saragossa on an estate where I was visiting at the time. He was strolling across a meadow with a couple of friends when their attention was attracted by an old and infuriated bull which was galloping toward them with low­ ered head and erect tail. Cayetano had no weapon, not even a cane, but he seized a dust coat which one of his friends was carrying over his arm. As soon as the bull got close to them Cayetano bade his companions make their escape while he engaged the animal's attention. Using the coat as a cappa he drove the bull crazy with fury, stepping aside with the deftest agility at each of the ani­ mal's charges. In this manner he caused the bull to turn sharply in the midst of his onward rushes, until finally an ominous crack was heard arid the bull fell in a heap with its backbone broken by the sudden wrench it had been given by the ani­ mal's abrupt swerve. This is a rare and difficult feat on the part of torreros, and it was probably the first time that it had been performed out of the arena.--New York Recorder, $'*'• •" * * * V v German Electricians. : Germany seems to stand ft£ the front in electrical science. Mr. J. Allen Hornsby, and electrical expert, and one of the World's Fair Com­ missioners to Kaiserhof, said before he left Berlin for St. Petersburg: "Germany is ahead of the United States in the artistic lighting of theaters and residences, and also in the manufacture of dynamos, which get light and power simultaneously from the same alternating machine. It is ahead also in having brought a definite issue in practice, the three- phrase alternating system of trans­ mission. Europe is ahead of the United States in almost all directions of electrical science, but America is far away ahead in practice. In America we use every invention our people make. While here. I have been forced to use a candle in the finest hotels, though there is on ex­ hibition a better light, more beauti­ ful and cheaper than anything we liiipwof in America." I A Croup of Kingly Olantp. TO# most remarkable feature of tlie assemblage of royal and imperial per- sonagesat Copei|jjagen recently is their enormous stature. With the excep­ tion of the Prince of .Wales, of his son George, and of his son-in-law, the Duke of Fife, who seem like three pygmies among giants., all the men, including the Czar, the King of Greece, .the King of Denmak, the Crown Prince of Denmark, Prince George of Greece, and Prince Walde- mar and Christian of Denmark, are over six feet high. Towering over them all, however, is the Crown Princess of Denmark. Her'stature is absolutely gigantic, being over six feet three. IT IS surprising how many good things a man reads in the course of an evening that should teach a lesson to his neighbors. » - k v v . ; / . - " NO ROOM FOR OLD MOTHER. A Dream of th« Day* Whea Yond ftafta Inspired Mer. ••Going north, inadan/?" r "No, ma'am." / "Going south, then?" , " ' "I don't know, nia'am^ v '. "Why, there .are . only two . torays "I didn't know. I was never oh the cars. I'm waiting for the train to go to John." "Johnv There is no town called John. Where is it?" "Oh! John's my son. He's out in Kansas on a claim.** "I am going right to Kanas my­ self." "You intend to visit?" -• •> "No, ma'am." V-v'j;' She said it with a sigh burdened the stranger was touched. "John sick?" "No " The evasive tone, the look of pain in the furrowed face, were noticed by the stylish lady as the gray head bowed upon the toil-marked hand. She wanted to hear her story; to help her. "Excuse me--John in trouble?" "No, no--I'm in trouble. Trouble my old heart never thought to see." "The trkin does not come for some time. Here, rest your head upon my cloak." "You are kind. If my own were so I shouldn't be in trouble to-night." "What is you trouble? Maybe I can help you." "It's hard to tell it to strangers, but my old heart is too full to keep it back. When 1 was left a widow with three children, I thought it was more than I could bear; but it wasn't bad as this " The stranger waited till she recov­ ered her voice to go on. "I had only the cottage and my willing hands. I toiled early and late all the years till John could help me. Then we kept the girls at school, John and me. They were married not long ago. Married rich as the world goes. John sold the cottage, sent me to the city to live with them and he went West to begin for him­ self. He said he had provided for the girls and they would provide lor me now--" Her voice choked with emotion. The stranger waited in silence. "I went to them in the city. I w e n t t o M a r y ' s f i r s t . S h e l i v e d i ao great house with servants to wait on her; a house many times larger than ,the little cottage--but I soon found 'there wasn't roam enough for me--" The tears stood in the lines on her cheeks. The ticket agent came out softly, stirred the fire, and went back. After a pause she continued: "I went to Martha's--went with a pain in my heart I never felt before. I was willing to do anything so as Aot to lie a burden. But that wasn't it. I found they were ashamed' of my bent old body and my withered face-- ashamed of my rough, wrinkled hands --made so toiling for them--" - The tears came thick and fast now. The stranger's hand rested caressingly on the gray head, "At last they told me I must live at a boarding-house, and they'd keep me there. 1 couldn't say anything back. My heart was too full of pain. I wrote to John what they were going to do. He wrote back, a long, kind letter for me to come right to him. I always had a home while he had a roof, he said. That his mother should never go out to strangers. So I'm going to John. He's got only his rough .hands and his greht warm heart--but there's room for his old mother--God bless him The stranger brushed a tear from her fair cheek and awaited the con­ clusion. "Some day when lam gone where I'll never trouble them again, Mary and Martha will thinkof it all. Some day when the hands that toiled for them are folded nnd still; when the eyes that watched over them through many a weary night are closed for­ ever; when the little old body, bent with the burden it bore for them, is put away where it can never shame them The agent drew his hand quickly before his eyes, and went out, as if to look for the train. The stranger's Jeweled fingers stroked the gray locks while the tears of sorrow and the tears of sympathy fell together. The weary heart was unburdened. Soothed by a touch of sympathy the troubled soul yielded to the' longing for rest, and she fell asleep. The agent went noiselessly about his duties that he might not, wake her. As the fair stranger watched she saw a smile on the careworn face. The lips moved. She bent down to hear. "I'm doing it for Mary and Martha. They'll take pare of me sometime." She was dreaming of the days in the little cottage--of the fond hopes which inspired her, long before she learned, with a broken heart that some day she would turn, homeless in the world, to go to John.--Atchison Globe. A Blow-Pipe Among Rnrglait' Some months ago correspondence was carried on by experts as to whether it was possible to open a safe by the aid of a blow-pipe, using compressed oxygen. A man calling himself "Mr. Grant," of Antwerp, registered at a hotel in Hanover, the lower floor of which was occupied by the Bank of Saxony. He was ac­ commodated with a room overhead. One fine morning "Mr. Grant" disap­ peared, and it was discovered that he had penetrated into the bank offices by breaking up the floor and descend­ ing by a rope ladder. After having attached an India rubber tube to one of the gas jets he blew a current of oxygen with it from a retort brought with him, lising the blow-pipe, and succeeded in melting an opening through the door of the great steel safe used by the bank for holding smaller ones. He was in the act of operating on the smaller inner safe when he must have been disturbed, for he decamped. The safe contained some $250,000 in gold and notes, besides securities. The heat caused by such a flame will melt any metal; even the hardest platinum cannot stand it. It is too evident that owners of safes where valuables are storred need to be cautious about their neighbors' tenants. London Bankers' Magazine, v ' IF marriage is a failure it Is pre­ sumed that an engagement is only a temporary embarressinent. """• ' 1 * X f 4 « ' •*'<1 • ' y" • a . BRlHEf COMPILATION ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. The Deadly Gaaollne 8tor«-Bfc» ffceTap* of Hh Head Off- Highwaymen at £a«fc» MnvMe -- Murder In Tlfaww CMmljr* 5 Seared by a Wild Man. -s -; -, :3 l ; • V'i SH*' IP ' y - .V ' •' I "if Imprisoned by Flames. The Spr'ngfield city fire department was called to the foal mlnp known as the Old Ncrth Shsft. where the wood­ work cn the* inside of the mine about '-'00 feet east of the main shaft had taken fire ir.un a la np expl« d ng, imprisoning seven men. Two of theui fought their way through tho smoke and flames to the entrance and were taken out half dead. The ot' ers turned back and were supposed to have met death by suffoca­ tion. Tbe firemen work* d desperately to subdue the flsnet and thn oilier five neeii were found and brought to the sur­ face. unhurt, though badly bl nded ami strangled by smoke. MB.b. EMII.T BATES, of Chfcaaro, >3 years old, was fatally burned by the ex­ plosion of a gasoline stove. I.N two weeks the English sparrow will be an out aw and the sellers of gl ass •yes will begin to reap a harvest AT Metropolis Col. R. A. Peter and wife celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. The old couple are in good health. Gov. FirBn Issued a requisition on the Governor of Iowa for Andrew Scott, who was arrested in Davenport, Iowa. recently. He is wanted in Bock Island for extensive burglars. A SON of I. Roberts, of Winchester, while returning from a hunting trip on a roadcart, let his shoteun drop, one of the hammers striking on the cart. The gun was discharged, blowing the top of his head off. AT Salem an inquest was held by Coroner Likin on the body of I.esl.e White, who died suddenly at his home at Alma. There were rumors of foal play, but the investigation proved that his death was the result of heart failure^ AUGUSTUS PATTEIISOX was stopped by two masked men near Jacksonville, and at the point of a re olver com j elled to give up what articles of value he pos­ sessed. Two other citizens--Thomas Denby and John C'eary--also mourn the loss of valuable horses, supposed to have been stolon by the same men. JAMES CHARI.SE>.-, a terra < otta work­ er, was hurled to death from the nine­ teenth story of the new Masonic Temple building. Chicago. He fell to the first foor on tho inside, and his body was crushed into an unrecognizable mass. Charlsen ar­ rived a mouth ago from Scotland, and secured employment with the North- wetern Terra Cotta Company. THE following telegram was received at Lansing. Mich , by Dr. Baker. Secre­ tary of the State Board of Health, from Port Huron: K.>tate t'oard of Health: A family with two cases of smallpox stopped and returned to Canada. The rost of tho emigrants out ot the same car are on train Xo. lt», going west. Con­ ductor Holmes. E. S.' Pettit, Chief of Police." The Chicago authorities were te egraphed to he on the alert, and quar­ antined the train. A COI.I)-BLOOI>EI) murder occurred in Massac county at the residence of Died- rick Schwarting in Benton precinct A dance was in progress in .a barn, and wh!le standing in the door a young man named Kd \\ ilkins was dragged out by the coat-tail and stabbed by a cousin named William Weaver. No quarrel had occurred .that anyone knows of, hence the deed seems to ba entirely un­ provoked. Wilkins was a most peace­ able yoting man, only 19 years of ag*. Bis murderer ts about the same age. A wii.n man is terrorizing the inhab­ itants of London Township in the vicin­ ity of Chanev l orJ, on Beck's Creek, in the OVaw bottom, Fayette county. He was seen for the second time by a party of tie haulers. He appears to be of medium height with features resem- b Ing those of a mulatto or a half-breed Ind an, and is in a state of perfect nudity. Ho is as fleet on foot as a deer. The people of that vicinity are organiz­ ing a searching party with a view of capturing him. THE Grand Lodge of Illinois, I. O OL F., e'eoted officers for the ensuing year, as follows: Grand Master, M. W. tSchaefer, Belleville; Deputy lirand Mas­ ter, F. S. Conway, Chicago: (Jrand War­ den, llenry A. Stone, Vandalia; Grand Secretary, George M Adams, Biooming- ton; Grand Treasurer, Thomas B. Needles, Nashville; Grand Representa­ tive, R. W. S. Wheatley. Duquoin. A resolution was adopted instructing the grand representatives to tne Sovereign Grand Lodge to vote and work against - - tho proposed amendment to the consti- tutlon. making boys of 13 years eligible " for membership in the order. Ab Governor has granted an imme- Jp* diate pardon to John Dal.el, who was ' sentenced at the June term, 1890, of the , Cook County Criminal Court to five i years in Joliet 1 enitentiary for man- 1 • slaughter The pardon is granted in 5^ view of tho fact that the prisoner is in ^ the last stages of consumption and begs ( to be allowed to spend his last hours v with his wife and child. The Governor . issued a requisition upon the Governor ' of Pennsylvania for John R Paul, who is wanted at Chicago for, assaulting and ^ throwing vitriol upon Hubert Dickinson ' on Sept. 1, and who is now under arrest ' _ at Philadelphia. Gov. FIFEK announces Nor t6 aft" Thanksgiving Day. % CIIAUI.ES EL CHUBB, a young man from Southern Michigan, who has been operating a fruit evaporator at Trenton* is missing. He is said to hare left debts to the amount of $2,000. GOVKKNOK FIFKK issued a requisition on tho Governor of Michigan for Charles Bain, under arrest at Adrian and wanted at Chicago for robbing Helen C. Brown of a number of dresses. A 0A1.1.AXT veteran of Jacksonville,' Col Thomas Lawsou, died at his home. ». He served his country with ability nnd >• "J. ^ biavery during the war of tto rebellion. ^ He leaves a wife, but 110 children. FII:E broke out fn the county jail at Shawneetowu, and three of the inmates escaped. GOVERNOI: FIFEK has appointed Oscar O'Neil, of Waterloo, as Public Adminis­ trator of Monroe Couuty, to till the va­ cancy caused by the death of George Frick. " AT Lincoln, the Grand Officers, mem- ' .1 bers, and visitors to the Grand Lodge, 3 Independent Order Odd-Fellows, were ^ present to. inspect and accept the new ' , Odd-Fellows'Orphan Home that is near* •* tng comp'etion i"he ? arty numbered ' about 1.100, 2(0 Rebekabs being of the number. • JLBS. TU9MAS. J,. SOX THWORTH, Of •• Maicoutab, Was awarded $5;000 damages 6 S y from Ernest Saurwein, a saloon keeper, for having caused the death of her hue* land. Av Quincy Harry Mitchell, traveling salesman for a Chicago marble company, was arrested and taken, to Hannibal, Mo , charged with bigamy. He has » wife in Keokuk, Iowa, whom he married some seven years ago. He was iu Han­ nibal last May, and meeting a young woman named Jennings, who had Just been left $3,000 by a relative, is said t« have paid her attentions, and after a week's courtship married her without going through the formality of getting a divorce from his Keokuk wife. v ^ *• J i.;,, „ . 'v.-. . v:?:m ' 4' * ^