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n. laiutlcalcr • t I^VWI SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. • itcHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. IF dryness be indeed A safeguard, s against the grip the editorial writers . certain contemporaries are safe. THE increased frequency of child „ stealing, train robbing and attempted . assassination, emphasize the lax en­ forcement of criminal law3 and the easy-going administration of justice. Two or a trade never could agree. Chicago is complaining of the English sparrow because, in the words of the Herald of that city, he "is voracious antagonistic, presumptuous apd im­ pudent." "s - - * tj • J . TnE man who is always organizing - charitable institutions is notto be re­ garded as a model of benevolence. The deacon who passes thp plate doesn't always feel called upon to put anything in it. THET womem can no longer poroplaln because the men spend3 so much time at the lodges. Their lodge business seems to be playing out. There is, however, a kick coming to the men because their wives devote so much time to church affairs. WREN^ you get married, go to house­ keeping. Men who have Shomes of their own are more thoughtful and devoted to their Wives than men whose homes are in boarding-houses, and women who have household cares to see to are less likely .to yearn for the voting privilege, and they are less apt to become coy. , • it-' WHEN two women from the same town happen to meet in a strange place they rush into each others' arms, and kiss each other, though probably in their own home they wt're not on speaking terms. Why do they do it?. Is it a rule among the sex that a fypwing acquaintance at home should, become a kissing friend abroad? A MAN has only one chance of win­ ning fame, and that'is by becoming great himself. A woman has three: to do something herself, to marry a great man, or to have a son who be­ comes famous. Sometimes two women are made famous by one man: his mother and his wife, for both al­ ways have a good deal to do in "mak­ ing" him.e THERE is a kind of a man who is very polite to your face, but who talks about you after you are gone. There is another kind of man who grumbles about you to your face, and lets you alone when you are absent. The last sort of a4man will last longer, with all his faults, than the other man, with all his pplitehess. > AN educational exchange wants to know whether teachers should get angry. As an abstrftct proposition, backed by a sweeping scriptural in­ junction, they should not. Judged from the standpoint of mortal frailty and the doctrine of total depravity, they have a little better right than .. almost any other class, to get mad- * der than blazes. THE country's desijrable farm lrfnd has been largely taken. Population and wealth, and the demand for farm products, increase at a rapid pace. Farms and farm products from this time on are bound to be in increas­ ingly sharp demand and meet with augmenting prices. Now, of all periods in the history of the United Staoes, is the time for the farmer to hold fast to his homestead. IT is idle to send FCQ this country stories that Emperor Wilhelm of Ger­ many is insane. There are plenty of people who have seen him within a few weeks, and who know that he is no more insane than Frederick the Great was. Frederick was eccentric and so is Wilhelm, and Wilhclm's only folly is in. trying to copy Ficd- erick in this democratic century. There are evidences that the young Emperor is yielding a little under the pressure of national opinion. Such incidents as occurred when Bismarck passed through Berlin recently are opening the.young sovereign's eyes to the need of making himself popular rather than severe and autocratic. . • I THE Supreme Court of the United States will soon have another lottery case brought up to it on appeal, the case being that of certain officials of the JJew Orleans company recently bouhd over for trial by the Federal Court in South Dakota for sending unmailable lottery matter there. The defendants have made their ap­ peal on the ground that the case should have been tried where the al­ leged offense was committed, and they torill hold that the law^vliich gives the South Dakota court juris­ diction is unconstitutional. The Constitution, however, provides that when crimes are "not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or p-aces as the Congress maj by law feave directed." The tare question to- be decided by the court, therefore, is whether the of­ fense wr-* committed in the State of of Louisiana or was a continuous of­ fense terminating in South Dakota. RECENT dispatches from South America indicate that hostilities may break out between Chili and the Argentine Republic. The cause pos­ sibly has reference to long disputed questions of boundary, and perhaps to some incident connected with the recent revolution. Chili appeal's to be making enemies on all sides by her aggressiveness, injustice and pride. Her people would do well to recall the history of Paraguay. That now in­ significant State was once as arrogant as Chili. The Paraguayans were drilled into a compact military ma­ chine by half a century of autocratic rule, and their well disciplined army of 80,000 men wafs quite as formidable as any force that Chili could send into the field to-da>\ The Paraguayans fought-stebbornlyti3i,ittbey had maute too ni|my enemies, and the alliance of flrazil, the Argentine Confedera­ tion and Uruguay succeeded in effac­ ing Paraguay for a time from the list of nations. The Chilian Republic is largely composed of territory coveted by Argentine or snatched from Peru. Least of all South American States can Chili afford to provoke a hostile alliance on the1 part of those whom sbfi has plundered or insulted. THE foreign world is greatly ex­ cited by the discovery of new fraud in the imitation of celebrated paint­ ers, and Americans who are contem­ plating purchases abroad should be careful. Not long before Meissonier s death he mistook a copy of one of his pictures for his owii*Jiandiwork. If the swindler can deceive the practi­ cal eye of the master, how much more readily may they ensure the rich merchant or banker. THERE are civil war and cholera in China; there are famine and epidemic influenza in Russia, there are politi­ cal commotion and yellow fever in Brazil; there are squabbles without end in all the republics of JSouth and Central America; there are op­ pressive apprehensions of the out­ break of a gigantic international struggle in Europe. As for Africa, wherq irjost ofkhe natives are black, few of them live in concord. So it goes the world around. The griev­ ances of mankind crowd each other. Let not the people of the United Stdtes crow. We have provender in plenty: we are free from the plagues that afflict some other countries; we enjoy peace and are not menaced with war; we have politics that keep our minds active; we have enlivening sports of many kinds at all seasons of the year; we have'Hpreachers by the thousand to warn the wicked; we have papers that are worth reading: we have sciences and arts and dramas and books and laws, and lots of othef desirable things useful to the body and the soul. Yet iet not the Amer­ ican people crow any more or any- louder than it is .proper that they should. A BLOW struck in a Pickwickian way seems to be quite as possible in England as speech uttered "in a Pickwickian sense." A few months ago during the trial of "Miss" St. .John against her husband for divorce, the counsel of the husband, referring to charges of cruelty preferred against him by the actress plaintiff, remarked that ' "if the defendant struck the plaintiff it was because she had wilfully provoked the blow." Here was a sensation, truly! Here was a vindication of the right of the British husband to rule and subdue the^wife! But the Judge--evidently in tlie language of Gilbert "a good Judge, too"--interrupted the attor­ ney for the husband by saying, "No wife's words or insults justify a blow, which constitutes legal cruelty." Here was sensation number two. Have British husbands lost the right to beat their wives? The spectators applauded the Judge, which appro­ val on the part of the spectators rather nonplussed the husband's at­ torney, who saw the necessity for a Kick in sailing his defensive craft, and I'nid. "If such is the case the de­ fendant denies having struck hie wife." Th'it is the very acme ot liuinor as encouragcd and inspired by British legal procedure. He attempts to justify the blow, and when he finds that thi? blow cannot be justified by English law, lie takes refuge under the broad and humorous mantle of of Dickens and says, in effect, if he struck her he did so only "in a Pick­ wickian sense.'1 Theater goers of a yenr ago were prone to think that the court scene where Col. Mulberry Sel­ lers dallied with the jury was much overdrawn, and W. S. Gilbert's court scene in "Trial by jury" has been lausrhed at as a funny impossibility, but really this genuine scene, taking place In an important London court, crowds the manufactured and ficti­ tious scenes very c|osely. Will Abandon Walls ana Windows. liichard Mansfield has issued in­ structions to nis manager to discon­ tinue the use of lithograph and print­ ing of all kinds for use in windows and on walls and to confine all adver­ tising exclusively to the newspapers. He is firmly convinced that this is the only proper way to reach all classes of theater-goers. • 'The influence and tre­ mendous power "of the press as an ad­ vertising medium is making itself felt more and more every day, both kin business and theatrical circles. A Mian who does not read the newspa­ pers never attends the theater," says Mr. Mansfield. "The weekly ex­ penditure for printing, at a low aver­ age, is SI 50, which makes for a sea­ son of forty*weeks $6,000. In the event of 100 companies adopting my system, whiah is £ small fraction of the number of companies on the road,^ it would give to the newspapers^ throughout the country a clear reve­ nue of $600,000, which 1 am satisfied woukl bring greater and more satis­ factory results both to the* theater­ goer and to the attractions. THE NEW PROGRAMME, CIRCUMSTANCES COMPEL THE „ DEMOCRATS TO ABOUT FACE. laerMM of Exports ,la November--Soma Admirable Appoint meats--Silk Man­ ufactures--Press Opialaaa snd Tariff lHaetratloas* WxiEjf a man's nose is 'as red as a beat," hQrusually is one. Adoptlag New Tactics. It was ever thns with the Democratic party--policy and not principle is the rule. Here is a clear and interesting statement of the -situation, - from the Sew York Tribune: .The Democratic programme is apime what changed since the "tidal waye^ of 1890 swept the party into the control of one House ot Congress an-J the possession of in­ creased power in several states. That was heralded as a free trade victorv; as a popu­ lar condemnation ot the principle of pro­ tection; as an indorsement oQthe adminis­ tration of Grovtr Cleveland, anil a loud call for his renomination and re-election. All the Mugwump contin­ gent, and a great majority of the regular Democratic newspapers in the country, so interpreted it, and with bois­ terous demonstrations of enthusiasm so bailed it. They sot up a "lojjic of tne Sit­ uation" on the strength of u which point­ ed so unmistakably and absolutely to tlie choice of Mr. Mills, the great tree trade advocate, as Speaker, amf the subsequent renonunation and re-election ot <»rover Cleveland, the great free trade <>>-<?<•••>. as President, that lor a lime both events ap­ peared too certain to admit of argument to the contrary. The business seemed al­ ready done. Conuross was as good, as or­ ganized, with Mills in the chair, and a revenue tariff passed by the House, and Cleveland as good as elected, with a poli­ cy in operation nhat would presently abolish the odious cuStom-houses and ush­ er in the beneficent income tax. But there was another election. And that eleetion brought about another situa­ tion, with a different logic attached it. Out ot that logic Mr. Crisp hecaine speak­ er. Then the Mugwump contingent kick­ ed; Mills skulked; 1*rover Cleveland betook himself somewhere to think it over, and the programme of the party, not to sav the whole order of nature, suffered a change. There is not any Mills in, the Speaker's chair; there will not be any free trade im­ mediately, and it looks very much as if there would not be any second term, or re- nomination even, of Grover Cleveland. Reason why '.'. The scare of 1890 is over. A year's experience of the Mc­ Kinley Dill has brought general prosperity Instead of the disaster predicted by calam­ ity-howlers. The more discreet and shrewd of the Democratic managers had the sense to see that the tide had turned, and in the late election were wise enough to avoid discussion of the tariff in most of the states, w hereby they succeeded in sav­ ing themselves from a sudden and com­ plete upset Where they kept up the old free trade cry, as in Ohio, they were badly worsted. So with the opening of Congress the programme is changed. The Mugwumps and free traders are sent to the back seats, and the practical politi­ cians, who never lose sight of the main chance, are in command. Their programme now is to avoid fight­ ing in the open on any question. The game will be not to commit themselves to any definite line of pohcv$m either the tar­ iff or silver coinage. Instead of anew tar­ iff bill, which last year they so loudly and constantly asserted their purpose to bring in and pass and go to the country upon in 1892, they will content themselves with nibbling at the McKinley bill, pecking away at the details, making what capital they may by fault-firming with its separate provisions, and proposing quack remedies for such imperfections in it as thev think they have discovered. In brief, the new programme is to do as little square fighting as possible, but to keep up a sorl ot miscellaneous skirmishing, and bend all their energies to manoeuvring for a posi­ tion in 1892. The success ot J'aminany in this state and in the organization of the House has established Tammany tactics as the rule of the party for the presidential Campaign; and Tammany tactics have al­ ways beert cohfiiul to conducting cam­ paigns by tricks and expedients instead of upon principles and doctrines. What Tammany wants is not the triumph of anv principle--it cares nothing for free trade or fre<i silver--but simply power and plunder. It made the present Speaker; it controls the present llouse: it sits in the sad­ dle. Its programme is agreed upon, and we shall see whether it can carry it out. The Democrats Cheating Tiioiuselves. The cool assumption that the extraor­ dinary Democratic victory last year was se­ cured mainly by the tariff question has been so often repeated bv free traders that they begin to believe it themselves. That is one of the penalties of such a falsehood. The man who uses the untruth finally be­ gins to believe in it, and to biise his own calculations on it, and-'to lay all his plans as if it were true. '1 hen he receives a well- earned threshing, though, if he had not cheated himselt, he might possibly have at­ tained success. This particlur falsehood is now made the basis of all calculation by free traders respecting the next presidential election. Because they won in 18tH), on the tariff question in certain states according to their idea, if that issue can be made sub­ stantially the only one victory must come in 1892. It is highly gratiiying to find men cheating themselves in this way, be­ cause their chances of success might be much better if they should adopt different tactics from those which untruth inclines them to prefer. Mr. Cleveland went down in 1888 largely because lie and his friends had cheated themselves in the same way regarding the popularity of his tariff cru­ sade. If the free traders have their way the same experiment will be repeated in 1S?2, again based on belief in falsehoods which have teen told so often that the falsifiers themselves believe ihem. Tne truth about the matter seems to be clearly exhibited by the voting this yeai. Tlie tariff issue was carefully avoided in New \ ork. and the Democrats won. It was persistently made by both parties in Ohio, and the Democrats lost. If there has been in «ny state at any time since the presidential election of 1888, a clearly de­ nned and distinct issue on the tariff ques­ tion, it was in Ohio, snd the majority there tor Major McKinley was greater than ifoe majority in 1888 for President Harrison. The nomination of Mr. Mc­ Kinley made the tariff the one question which overshadowed all others, and it brought him a larger vote than the state had ever given to any other candidate. It would be strange, indeed, if something of the same tendency of public opin­ ion should not appear in the adjacent states, Indiana and Michigan, while in other Western states except Iowa, where the liquor question turned the scale, the Republican party appears to have assured majorities. The story that the farmers of the West were going by the thousand in every s'ate for "tariff reform" was told so often previous to the contest of 1888 that Mr. Cleveland himself was probably more amazed than anybody else to see the over­ whelming majorities cast in Western states against him. The tariff policy of the Republican party was adopted with deliberation prior to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and secured his success. Yet he did not re­ ceive a majority on the popular vote. In 1864, when he was re-elected the civil war absorbed attention, and in 18t>8 and 1872 the memories of the war and problems of reconstruction insured the election of Grant. In 1876 tne tariff question was adroitly handled by Mr. Tilden in connec­ tion with the question of resumption, the flatter being the more prominent, and he was barely beaten. In 1880, for the first time in twenty years, the tariff became the more prominent issue, and a scanty plu­ rality of the popular vote for Gen. Garfield was tne result. In 1884 personal antag­ onisms to Mr. Blaine affected the verdict to some extent, and yet, after allowance lor the larger fraudulent majorities for Mr. Cleve­ land in Southern states, the popular vote for protection appeared relatively greater than in 1880. In the election of 1888, al­ lowing for the suppression of freedom at thp South, the plurality for President Har­ rison and protection was larger than had ever been given for that cause. Local issues, the diversion of the Farm­ ers' Alliance, and the neglect of Repub­ licans to vote, gave Democrats their vic­ tory in 1890, and there was not a single state in which the tariff issue was as dis­ tinctly made as it was in Ohio this year. Down to the > ear 1890 the protective poli • cy had been growing in popular strength fox thirty years. Ohio would indicate that it Is still growing. It Democrats pre­ fer to pin their faith to elections of last year they are welcoaxYorh^'i-lit- 1 • ; 4 . . Seme Admirable Appointments. The appointment as Mr. Elklns as secretary of war is one which will great­ ly strengthen ihe administration. He not only has wide influence as a party leader of unrivalled authority, but he has also the practical qualities and force of character which are required for con­ ducting one of the great departments of the administration. Mr. Elkins is one of the few men in public life who have a thorough knowledge of the coun­ try as a whole. Born in Ohio, ac­ tively engaged in mining and stock interests in the far West, having important business connections in the East and being identified with the de­ velopment of the resources of the New South, he has a comprehensive acquaint­ ance with the practical requirements of every section of the Union. He will he in the largest sense a representative of the nation, rather than of any state or section. His judgment on all public questions considered by the cabinet will be sagacious and free from sectional narrowness. His executive ability is of the highest quality, so that in the War Department he will be a worthy suc­ cessor to Secretary Proctor, who hAs left behind him a remarkable reputa­ tion for efficiency and mastery of de­ tails. Mr. Elkins has not been honored with this appointment on the strength of his claims as a politician. A lawyer by pro­ fession and a successful business man, he has had comparatively little leisure during his busy career .for what is ordi­ narily known as the business of politics. He has held important oflices, such as United States district attornes' and rep­ resents^ ve in Congress for two terms; but while he has never shirked the re­ sponsibilities of public duty, he has or­ dinarily preferred to keep out of poli­ tics so far As possible and to devote his time and energv to his mining and rail­ way interests. While he is moist favor­ ably known froth New York to San Francisco as A keen yet conservative business man, he has exerted great iri- lluence in the national councils of his party. » The Pr«*iden»'« appointments for six of the new judicial circuits are to be commended ae satisfactory in every re­ spect.. By selecting two eminent Dem­ ocrats, Mr. Putnam, of Maine, and Mr. Dallas, ot Pennsylvania, when he was at liberty to appoint six instead of four Re­ publicans, he has givenNyjractical dem­ onstration of non-partisanship which will be heartily applauded by all impar­ tial minds in the country. Three of the selections. Judges Shipuian, Woods and Taft, involve promotion on the bench, and this is civil service reform of the most practical kind. Gen. Golfs- ap­ pointment is a conspicuously pood one. Every one of the judges is well known for uprightness and ability.--Sew York Tribune. Exports la November. ^ The large and steady increase in the exports of domestic products from the United States continues to belie the rash prophecies of the free traders. The exports of breadstuff's for Novem­ ber, 1891, amounted to $24,588,979, as compared with $7,(>82,004 in November, 1890; for the five months ended Novem­ ber 30, 1891, the total exports of bread- stuffs amounted to $rjo,7j47,i500, against $44,(579,477 during the wrresponding period of 1890, and the™otal for tho eleven months'ended November 30, 1891, wa? $194,077,007, as compared with $12(5,719,100 for the corresponding pe­ riod of 1890. The comparative exports of various items were as folios for the month ended November 30, 1891 and 1890, respectively: Nov.. 1191. Nov., 189a Barley .' $2-12,46S Corn 1,384,811 Cornmeal CS.4S7 Outs 470,017 Oatmeal . '67,618 ltye 04O.4;a $19,fiS>> 754.000 78.945 1M.800 ' n.'jsy 2K.100 3.8(J4,.r>44 .S,87ti,068 Wheat 15,716,095 Wheat flour. 5,749,098 In November, for the first time in many months, the total value of the ex- por|jt of beef, hog and dairy products exceeded those of the corresponding month of last year; the total for Novem­ ber 18^1, waB $9,441 ,!X>8; for November, 1890, it was $9,440,817. For the eleven months ended November 30, 1891', the total amounted to $108,829,919, as com­ pared with $118,190,027 for the corre­ sponding period of 1890. The exports in detail for the month of November, 1891, as compared with November,^f890. were as follows: ' Nov., 1891. NOT. , 1890. Cattl« ....-12, Isa8Kl $2,274,642 Hogs 24,728 31,620 Beef, corned 782.621 7S4.248 Beef, fresb 1,892,727 ],ia).97a Beef, salted, pickled, etc... 823,899 512,648 Tallow 866.958 815,165 Bacon 2.497,801 2,W6,7'>6 Hums..... 742,412 560,828 fork, iresh, salted or cured 816,504 417,7S2 I-ard 2.628,662 2,144,510 Butter 125.100 146,soy Cheese 276,284 632,190 tSuch figures as these must rasp the feelings offree traders who were so quick and vociferous in predicting that the new tariff law would ruin our exports. An American free trader always has the wrong {|dea of a protective tarift--it builds tip American trade, and never teijrs dowp. For reliable witnesses on this point the free traders may call the British manufacturers, who are howling about the rapid increase of American industries, which naturallv checkB the demand for British goods in this coun­ try. About Southern Industrial Progress. The Manufacturers' Record of Balti- niore contains a long list of enterprises in which are noted three new iron fur­ naces in Texas, iron pipe works in Vir­ ginia to employ 400 hands, the organiza­ tion of a $5,000,000 company in London to develop large iron and coal proper­ ties in Virginia and Tennessee, a$1,000,- 000 company's purchase of 8,000 acres of West S'irgiuia coal lands, and scores of Othe/ concerns of small capital whose manufactures are based on iron and steel. It is a wonderful record of the mate­ rial progress of the South, and the pnculiar feature of it is that it is due largely to protective tariff. None of the enterprises above mentioned could be started or succeed but for protection. It is proposed nevertheless, by a Demo­ cratic House to pass bill* at this season to put iron and coal and cotton ties on the free list. In that event not only these new enterprises, but thousands of similar ones that have sprung up over the South in the last ten years, will be driven to bankruptcy. Yet the solid South has sent a solid array of Demo­ cratic free trade congressmen to Wash­ ington prepared to do this injury to the progress of their own section. If the industrial wealth in the South has any power in politics it will be heard in the national capital this winter pr V:- list y ear the value of our manufactures of, 8ll£ ^ WM $00,000,000; the value_ of French manufactures was a trifle over $100,000,000. It is the opinion of the most observant of our silk dealers, importers as well as domestic dealers, that the next twelve years will make the United States the equal of France in the production of silk fabrics. In England and other European factories the speed of spin­ dles ranges from 2,500 to 4,000 revolu­ tions per minute; go into a Paterson mill, and there you can have it demon­ strated that the spindles perform from 12,000 to 15,000 revolutions per minute. And this is the case also in the other silk weaving establishments of the Union. Ttiere is no longer a monopoly of this high-speed spindle, there is" the DufFv & Whorrell, the Atwood and the Machinists' Association spindle, all positive marvels of revolutionary pow- ^r. These spindles save l£bor on a vast scale by various deft and unique auto­ matic contrivances and attachments, the moat notable of which is the "take up." Take then, that oth­ er American invention, the great •belt spindle invented and built by Atheron and .others, of Pater­ son, obviating, as it does, the use of bands, the one belt touching all the flanges of the spindles, and turning them uniformly. So different, indeed, is the American machinery from the foreign that when a weaver or spinner from over seas enters an American mill he is dumbfounded and does not know what tlii&'and that piece of splendid machinery, #ith its lightning-like move- pent, is. To enter nearly any silk mill in this country even the inexperienced eye is at one© struck by the economy of space, by the complete utilization of time, the perfect division'of labor, and the consequent harmony of movement among machines and operatives. In 1874 we made about $20,000,000 worth of silks, and imported nearly $23.00.0,000 worth. Last year we made $<>0,000 000, and imported, less the duty, about $34,- 000,000. With velvets and plushes soon to be added to the home list, that $34,- 000,000 will shrink pretty small. In 1S74 we had about 25,000 operatives engaged in silk manufacture; now we have over 50,000.-- New York-Independent. Press Opinions and Tariff IUustratloas. Speaker Crisp has three definite claims to the respect and admiration of his party, to-wit: He was born in En­ gland, he served in the Confederate Army, and he is indorsed by Tammany. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Reed observes that the Demo­ crats in Congress are bound to do every­ thing they ought not to do. Which re­ calls the remark of Mr. Punch's little girl to her little brother: "Go and see what the baby is doing and tell him he mustn't."--Bosloii Herald. One hund^cl and twenty-seven years ago England seized the first eiglvkjmles of cotton grown in the South.'anPSle- clared that itB production should cease For the present year the estimate of the cotton crop is something over 8,000,000 bales of 500 pounds e&c.h.--Manufactur­ ers' Record. ***% Had Mr. Mills met his defeat with the courage and courtesy that always char­ acterize great men in misfortune, he would have done much to prove his fit­ ness for the chair, but,he has chosen to vindicate his enemies and to put his friends to confusion by his petty churl­ ishness in refusing to accept the leader­ ship that all conceded to him. Consid­ ering hiB recent actions, the conviction wiitbe very general that the majority in the) House bas been most fortunate in escaping Mr. Mills' leadership.--Phil­ adelphia Titnes (Dem.). There have been recently published from a number of unbiased writers de­ scriptions of the Harney Peak tin mine3 in South Dakota by which it appears that by the end of 1893 these deposits will probably be so far developed as to supply all the tin required forufie in the I'nited States. The present tin product of the world is between 55,000 and 00,- 000 tons annually, of which over 50 per cent, comes from the Straits of Malacca, and is known as straits tin. The impor­ tations fdf tin into this country amount to about 17,500 tons annually. The use of tin will be largely increased by the manufacture of American tin plate which is springing iftto existence under the McKinley bill.-^KrcAaw/t'. For the past three years free traders have constantly reiterated their pet theory that American farmers could not sell their products abroad unless thev protective tariff was overthrown. Another case of fiction vs. fact. For the five months ending November 30, 185X), American exports of breadstuffs were $44^579^77. For the corresponding pefff!^^^ tbese exports were . $!-">,747,:!op. The increased duty on Inirlcv 1ms de­ veloped the American barley industry, and yet it does not seem to have hurt the consumer. Our imports for the ten months ending October 31, 4^, vere f\9So,793 bushels, bu t fo r t he t i r s t ten months of 18yi we impprted only ^709^00 and yet our barley imports (>ti cents testing against gramme. the Democratic Anaarlean bilk Manufacture. Of all the manufacturing indusi which this nation is so justly prou' , one stands more conspicuous for its" cess than silk, though it came int* , field with great tardiness and cautio' The truth is, native capital rather trem, bled at the thought of putting itself in competition with the Old World houses whose looms had a skill derived from the experience of perhaps 3,000 years. We have at hand the semi-centenary of domestic silk manufacture; that is to say, we have been only fifty years mak­ ing silk goods, and vet we "stand at this hour the Becond nation of the earth in this branch of industry. We have beaten the East, we have beaten Swit­ zerland, G«rmanyi England, every Eu­ ropean nation, except France, and we are approaching, her with rapid strides. per bushel in value in October, 1890, and only _ _ 49 cents per bushel in valti« in < (ctober, 1KJU. The Nevr York World very proper­ ly- rebukeB some of the partisan zealots who are taking the Chilian side, and abusing the President for his strong and dignified references to the Itata case and the Valparaiso outrages. It takes pains to praise the Chilian passages in the message as in the hignest <»gree patriotic. We aretrfad to notice a general agreement of all the influential journal of both parties on this subject. What is wanted is non-partisan treatment Of diplomatic questions by the American press. Let the business of maligning the President and accusing the secre­ tary of state of fou! play in foreign re­ lations be confined to English hirelings, and to journalists without a country.-- Newport Tribune. ONLY A BUG ON THE QUAD. But It Put Baltimore Out of the World for Half ati Hour. The Baltimore quad in the Western Union office had been keeping four op­ erators in New York and four more in Baltimore very busy when it suddenly refused to work. There were no other instruments available and connection with Baltimore was completely lost. Messages were piling up on the table, and the traffic chief, whose business it is t# eee that there is no delay to dis­ patches, was almost distracted. Elec­ tricians were sent for and thev began a thorough examination of the instru­ ments. After an hour's search the source of e trouble was discovered. Is proved e a croton bug. It stood on the in- ment which regulates the passage of ectric current from the dynamo to e in such a way as to connect front and hind legs the positive OKLAHOMA TERRITOHY. negative curr are necesssj The he curr it • to dm busine. and Baltimore fo hour'.--New York' of the bat- fated by ' ad, of oils had thereby rarilv in- ew York half an nd Prosperity QSTS Been Phenomenal. ' T?he first white settlers were-admit- tcd to tlie tract lying along the Cimar­ ron and Canadian rivers, in the heart of the Indian Territory, and now known as Oklahoma.on April 22,1889, and in August. 1890, a train load of wheat was delivered at the elevators at Chicago, as the tirst fruits of the food exportation of a thriving popula­ tion of 60,000 people. As the recent report of the Interior Department shows, the dry weather of 1890 had been generally disastrous to the grow­ ing crops of the country, as the re­ sources of the newly founded commu­ nity were almost exhausted. Such were the circumstances under which Oklahoma made its first contribution of agricultural products to the markets of the country. fcinc© then, as the Governor's report shows, the crops have been prosperous and industries of various sorts have flourished. The following statistics are taken from the report of thp In­ terior Department: ' 'Corn, cotton, and other crops have yielded lxmntifiiily, and the country- is admirably adapted to raising fruit a nd berries. The agricultural statis- t ies show that during the current year there Jjave been under cultivation in wheat about, 28,000 acres; corn, 85,- 675 acres; cotton, 30,086 acres; oats, 1.770 acres; Hungarian grass and mil­ let, 5,125 acres; sorghum, 14,9,'10 acres; potatoes, 2,000 acres: rye, 1,317 acres. Hesides these there were cultivated castor beans, tobacco.flax, buckwheat, peanuts, etc. Several hundred thous­ and fruit trees and vines have been planted, and many acres are already set out in berries. "From February. 18$0, to February. 1891, the value of the wool marketed was $24,259, and the value of the ani­ mals fattened and sold was $51,237."' The land ceded by the Creeks and Scminoies amounted to only 1.887,S01 acres. To this was added, by the act of May 2, 1890, the tract to the north­ west, called No Man's Land, which was about twice the size of the orig­ inal tract. On September 22, 1891, another tract, comprising ne#w»ly 900,- 000 acres, was opened for homesteads, having been acquired from the lowas, the Sacs and Foxes, and the Potta- watomies and absentee Shawnees on the eastern border of Oklahoma. There was a great rush of settlers and before sunset every available quarter section was taken. The towns of Te- cuniseh and Chandler were created ai|d are known to the business world, and 2,718 farms were allotted tc Indians, comprising 338,863 acres. JTo the original tract of 1,887,801 acres have been added 6,531,805 acres, and it is - practically certain that 6.022,000 acres will soon be added from the Cherokee lands. The census of 1890 showed that Oklahoma contained 61,701 people,in­ cluding 5,337 persons in Greer County, claimed by Texas. It is now thought that there are 80,000"people in Okla­ homa. : - Sponges. Sponges are among the most curious Of nature's works. As seen by us and put to the useful purpose of absorbing moisture, thev may be described a the dead bodies oi skeletons of zoo- phvtes--creatures half plant half ani mal--which grow upon rocks in differ ent parts of the ocean. Sponges grow to a larger size within the tropics,and are found to be more diminutive, and of a tinner texture, as we approach the Polar circles. "In their general appearance they resemble many kinds of plants, but in £heir Internal organ­ ization they differ entirely from every vegetable production; being composed of a soft flesh, intermixed with a tis­ sue of fibers, some of which are solid, others tubular; and the whole being interwoven together into Jlv curious and complicated network. Although sponges, in common with the greater number of zoophytes, are permanent­ ly attached to rocks and other solid bodies in the oce;rn, and are conse quently destined to an existence as stationary as that of plants, yet such is not the condition of their earlier and more transitory stages of their development. The parent is chained to the same spot from an earlier period of its growth, and on the young the active powers of locomotion have been conferred, appare^y for the sole pur­ pose of seeking for itself a proper hab­ itation at some distance from the place of its birth: and when once it has made this selection, it fixes itself unalterably for the remaining term of its existence. •pproachin^her with rapi WATTS--"I am atr .^Mpat Yickers is a little given to thai ^ '.glne Lord that he is not as other nun." Potts--"He doesn't thank the Lord. He thanks himself."--Indianapolis Journal, • Truth-Telling an Art. Telling the truth is an art, but not nearly so difficult an art as telling lies. It is within reach of any man's power, if he will take time and pains, to relate the thing that is. It takes a man of imagination and strong memory to bring forth th'> thing that is not. Besides, the liar cannot carry his lie all over the worid and'back to the creation. At some point or other he musit place it onto the universal truth, and to do that neatly nl must be a good workman. But this isonly a part of the greater question as to vice and virtue gener­ ally. Virtue is for all who lo\ it. In order to become an accompli*.led villain a man must have latural aptitude, careful training and im­ mense powers of application. And at any time the villain may be ruined, as a villain, by the unexpected com­ ing to life of conscience.--All the Year Round. On Hie MlnU. Pat was a hod-carrier. Long prac­ tice had made him an expert at tread­ ing the mazes of unfinished building, but it had also made him somewhat careless in his movements. He had just stepped from a ladder to one of the landings, and after set­ ting down his load of bricks with a sii^h of relief, he stnfigh'enef} up. Whack! his head came smartly in contact with a heavy beam. When the foreman passed, a lew minutes after, he saw Pat sitting on i keg, holding his head in both hands. "Hullo, Pat," he called. "What's jn your mind?" '• fiie whole top av me head, sir. Dh my! Oh my!" AROUND A GREAT STATE, BRIE? COMPILATION OP NOIS NEWS. l , i - . ILLta Met at the Paternal Hearth--Pretty UtW Wtverlj Devastated by Fire--Fatal Ac­ cident to a Hunter---Old-Time • Prtnteaa Will Kntertain. THE woman suffrage movement in this country is forty years old, and there are some women who have :ourage to admit that they helped to itart it. From Par and Near. AT 3pringfield Col. Ja ob Wheeler ex­ pired suddenly while conversing with hfe v family. At Nashville W. B. Brown's infant child fell out of a high-chair into an open fireplace and received injuries frty'm which it died. SI*AKKS from the blacksmith shop set fire to the Kenwood Bridge Works at Grand Crossing, and almost resulted in a total los9 of that plant. MIKK FITC^H, a peddler, who had se­ cured lodgings at Od Richvlew, was. found dead In the street, his holy hav­ ing been literally cut to pieces. Js'o cine. TIIF?KK was -a notable family reunion^ at Marlssa of the descendants of Rob'-rtr Hamilton, who was'driven from Scotland during the persecution in that coun try 4n lTlil. Two hundred «ind fifty of his descendants were at Maftssu;. some of whom journeyed all the way from South - Carolina to attend the reunion. JOHNSON', a netfro, who claims Cairo as his home, was arrested at Quiney after an exciting chase by Sergeant Cox and Patrolman Daniherst He surren­ dered after three shots had been tired at him. Upon his person were found a cvn^lle, burglar's tools, and money and other articles stolen from Judge Lock- wood's house. . \ . HAMII.TOX THOMAS, a farmer of Fay­ ette, while ont hunting, by the acc dental discharge of a gun had his arm biown off at th$ shoulder. Being unable to at­ tract any one by his cries he was obliged to lay in the woods ail day. He man­ aged to crawl to a fodder shock a quar­ ter of a mile away, where he sought shelter for thi> night and where he was found the next morning by one of his neighbors in an insensible condition. He cannot recover. THE beautiful city of Waverly has lost nearly one-half its business houses by fire, which broke out in Fleming's drug store, probably from tho explosion of a barrel of gasoline. Fortunately but a light breeze was blowing at tho time or the destruction would have been much greater. The" principal sufferers are: Fleming Bros., drugs, S">,000: Smedley, meat market, $5,000; Langton, grocery, :?6,000; Meacham, clothing, 815,000; Star, dry goods, 520,000; Wem* pie Bros., bank building, $2,000: and several smaller firms, the entire4 loss ag­ gregating $60,000 or upward, with par­ tial insurance. January 18 the Old-Time Printers' As­ sociation of Chicago will fittingly ob­ serve the anniversary of Franklin's birth, and at the same time participate in a reunion at which it is hoped many former associates will be present. In­ vitations will be sent many men of na­ tional reputation, who in public and private life have identified themselves with the fraternity, and who have evinced friendliness for the craft. Among those who have received invita­ tions are Senators Voorhees of Indiana, (•allinger of New Hampshire, and Chil­ ton of Texas. Men who in former years worked at, the case in Chicago, but who now are publishing in interior towns, will also be invited, and it is beiieved the reunion will result in the most nota* ble gathering of the kind held in years. The addresses of welcome will be m^de by the President, A. H. Brown. Dr. Burroughs, who for two decades been intimately associated with t printers of Chicago, will pronounce t invocation; Opie P. Read will b«; hea on "The Country Editor;" A. C. Cameron will make some remarks about Ben: Franklin: Wm. Penn Nixon wiil speak of the "Press;" Mayor Washburne will f< spond to tho toast "The City of Chi­ cago:" and J. S. Thompson to the "Old- Time ̂ Printers." Other speakers will be present, Secretary M. Kearns will read the regrets received, and the event will, in every way be an appropriate celebra­ tion of the birth of America's patron saint of .printers. MME. AOAI.I\E BONXE, of Paris, France, has oeen making inquiries by letter of Mascoutah parties concerning her sister, Mrs. Exstein. from whom she had not heard for twenty-five years. George Exstein was the son of a tier- man nobleman, and married his wife, » young German peasant girl, against the wishes of his parents. He was disowned, and came to America, without means and a stranger, and settled upon a farm near Mascoutah. He was prosperous from the start. The outcasts were hap­ py in their comfortable home in the land of their adopted country. A letter came from the fatherland for George Exstein, bearing the official seal of a prominent man in Germany. It was said that for­ giveness had at last been offered to the disobed ent son, and he with his family was askod to return. BA that as it may, the letter was never answerod, and the family continued to live on the farm. About twenty years ago a neighboring farmer was passing the Exstein home one cold winter s day. He noticed that there was no smoke coming from the chim­ neys of the farm house, and he also heard the stock calling loudly for food. The farmer became satisfied that some­ thing was wrong, and alighted to in­ vestigate. The sight that met his eyes when he opened the door was terrible. There upon the floor was the corpse of the woman for whom George Exstein gave up his people and his inheritance. Near her was the daughter, also cold and rigid in death. Upon the bed in the same room was found George Exstein. the once petti d son of a Ge»man noble­ man. dying a terrible death. The cause of the sudden death of father, mother, and daughter is not positively known, but it was thought at tho time that the family was poisoned in some unknown manner. There are three modest tomb- stoues side by side in the graveyard near Mascoutah that mark the la<t resting places of tbe outcast Exstein family, and the sister in Paris has but just learned of tho tragedy. <*. Six aired people near Jacksonvillo died of the grip in one day. I)f. Rich­ ard t'. Cunningham, of Lebanon, one of tho oldest pnysicians in Illinois, also died of tho samo disease. Over 500 cases of grip are reported in Morgan Caunty. ArorsT INDAI, of Belleville, has re­ ceived information of tho death at his home in Austria of his father, who threatened him with dlslnheritanc^nvo years ago because of his displeasing matrimonial alliance, and drove the young man, who had married a poor maiden, to America with his bride. The elder Indal, notwithstanding his threat, left them $75,000.. WHEN a Chicago street-car conductor asked an unknown oid lady for her fare she was found to be dead. COM MBUS DOWNS, the noted crook who escaped from jail In Benton a few weeks ago by overpowering the jailor, and who at the time was under a three yeais' sentence for horse stealiug, has been captured. He was shot twice while resisting arrest. t AT Alton, Henry Swigelson was ar­ rested on a charge of burglary. Swfgef- son. it is claimed, was one of a gang who robbed the Toledo, l'eorla and War­ saw Railroad office in Warsaw of JM.500 worth of tickets. The erllM hap­ pened some months agu "i*