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More illiterate hod-carriers reach the top of the ladder than men with col­ lege educations. ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOSER OR STARTLING, FAITH. FULLY RECORDED. •Burglar Very Badly Treated by a Quincv Woman -- Fire at Cairo -- Strange Woman Commits Suicide at Peoria -Mingle Hangs in February. • Battled with a Burglar. Mrs. Andrew* Sherneck of Qrincy had ft fierce battle with a burglar, who at-! tempted to rob her home. Awakened by a dog, Mrs. Sherneck jumped out of bed and thrust the family store of money into the empty stove. Hardly had she turned from the store when the bedroom door was broken in by a masked man. who felled her to the floor with a sand­ bag. Mrs. Scherneck recovered conscious­ ness to find the burglar still ransacking the bureau drawers for valuables. Using a pistol as a club, she attacked the-burg­ lar and after a fierce battle succeeded in pushing him downstairs. Quickly fol­ lowing she turned on the electric light, and, seizing a fiatiron, she struck the burglar a heavy blow full in the face just as hew as preparing to renew the conflict. The man fell like a log, and, believing he was dead, INIrs. Scherneck fainted. Cairo Badly Scorched. One of the most destructive fires Cairo has seen iii years occurred op. a recent night, and by-daylight $50,000 worth of property in Cairo's business'., center had been destroyed. The lire started in the basement of the European Hotel building, ,which was completely gutted. The City National Bank building, on the south, lost two upper floors, while the two lower floors of the building were flooded with water. The top floor of the Mobile and Ohio building, adjoining on the north, was burned off, and. the two lower floors were damaged by water. In the build­ ing adjoining this Wood & Bennett's wholesale grocery stock was heavily dam­ aged by water. Nothing Left to Bive For. A woman, 45 years of age, slightly crip­ pled, fairly good looking and well dress­ ed, registered at the Union Depot Hotel in Peoria as Mrs. Marsh, Chicago. She was assigned a room, and nothing being heard from her again, the room was en­ tered through a window a few hours later. She was lying on the bed dead, and beside her an empty bottle, which had contained prussie acid. She left a note requesting that her body be buried in the old Peoria cemetery. State Department Breaks a Record. The "receipts of the department of state at Spi'ingfleld for the month recently closed were $15,219.33. For December, 1890, the amount wras $10,001.03. For the last quarter of 1897 the receipts were $50,353.80, as against $20,543.09 for the last quarter of 1890. The total amount received in this department during the last year will approximate $300,000, and is the largest in the history of the depart­ ment. Murdered for His Money. The dead body of John George Doering, 73 years oid, was found at Belleville. His throat was cut from ear to ear and clear back to the vertebrae. His skull on the right side was crushed completely in and his eye put out, while on the left side his skull was badly fractured. The motive for the murder was evidently robbery, as Doering was reputed to be worth consid­ erable money. Mingle to Hang Feb. 11. Judge Creighton of the Sanga^^ap Cir­ cuit Court overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of James Mingle, who is under sentence of death for the murder of the 15-montlis-old child of Mary Bris­ coe. The motion for a new trial was ar­ gued, and after overruling it Judge Creighton sentenced Mingle to die on the gallows Friday, Feb. 11. Brief State Happenings. Hog cholera has killed 200 hogs own­ ed by Plato farmers. At Aurora John Scharfe", aged SO, was struck by a switch engine, receiving fatal injuries. Mayor Chambers of Areola has issued an order prohibiting the shooting of air guns and target rifles in the city limits. St. Mary's Catholic Church of Galena received $20,000 as a bequest from Mrs. Catharine Hoffman, an octogenarian. At Streator, the wife of O. S. Oleson was fatally burned by the breaking of a lighted lamp. She died in four hours. The employes of all three of the coal banks at East Peoria, considerably more than a hundred, struck for an advance of 10 cents per ton. William Claggett's house at Lexington was burned, the family narrowly escap­ ing with their lives. Loss, $3,500; insur­ ance, $2,200. Supposed to be incendiary. A hazelnut became lodged in the throat of Nettie Delp, the 4-yeKr-old daughter of Adam Delph, South Chicago, and be­ fore it could be extracted the child chok­ ed to death. The wedding of Miss Minnie Bishop to Congressman Vespasian Warner occurred at Clinton. Miss Bishop has been for a number of years principal of the Clinton high school. A huge catamount was shot and killed near Belleville by the Meyer brothers of that city. The cat was lying in wait for the men and it took four loads of buckshot to'kill it. It weighed fifty pounds. Much interest is being manifested over the proposal of a Galesburg company to connect that, city and Monmouth by an electric car line. The . distance is sixteen miles. Two routes are being surveyed, and if both towns agree the line will be constructed at an early date. Charles Gibson of Davenport, Iowa, was arrested at Qiiincy for attempting to kill his "brother, Harry Gibson, whose home is in Davenport, but who of late has been farming near Quincy. The quar­ rel arose while both brothers were intox­ icated. Mrs. Susan A. Hill of Rockford was killed at the crossing of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway at Austin. Mrs. Hill, who was 70 years old, had been vis­ iting her daughter, Mrs. L. IL. Hurd. The employes of Rock Island arsenal, whose wages were readjusted in a man­ ner unsatisfactory to the men, held a mass meeting. The sense of the gathering was that the new arrangement be opposed in a systematic and organized manner, and that the matter be taken up at Washing­ ton in a manner that it is believed will enlist the interest of the Senators and Representatives in the men's behalf. The revenue collections from thefifth internal district for the month were $2,- 487,701, the largest normal month in the history of the office. For the calendar year they were $19,104,553, an increase over the previous year of $5,319,505. Further investigation of the unlawful quail shooting in Jefferson County shows that the game laws have been violated in hundreds of instances, and evidence is in the hands of the officials which indicates positively that thousands of quails have been shipped from the county since the quail season closed, the first of the pres­ ent month. State Game Warden H. W. Loveday of Chicago is personally direct­ ing the war on the quail hunters. Ulysses S. Villars of Lake Bluff has been missing since Dec. 22. Albert Hill* aged 14 years, of Niantic, accidentally shot himself. At Kewanee, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grim Celebrated their golden wedding. Clarence E. Saekett has been appoint­ ed postmaster at Garden Prairie. Samuel Stage, a hunter from Salem, was found dead in the woods south of Nashville. At Louisville, Charles, 0-year-old son of Elias Erwin, was fatally injured with firecrackers. At Sycamore, W. Jones accidentally tipped a boiler of scalding water over two boys. One is dead. At Areola, George Couley, a farmer, or­ dered a lunch in a restaurant and was waiting to be served, when he fell dead. At Newman. Miss Frances Wells tried to commit suicide with strychnine because her employer found fault with her cook­ ing. The grocery business of Means & Shields of Aurora was closed by the sher­ iff on judgment notes held by Trask & Plain of Aurora. The special election held in Mattoon on the proposition to establish a city court gave the constitutional two-thirds vote, with 82 votes to spare. The explosion of a gasoline stove in the south barn of the Rockford City Railway Company started a fire which destroyed tlie structure. , Loss, $12,000. - Judge James H. Stewart of Monmouth, aged 79, oue of the. oldest attorneys in- the State, died at Eustis, Fia., where he had been visiting his daughter. A match shoot of fifty birds for a purse of $100 between E. E. Baker of Kewa­ nee and Victor Studley of Neponset was won by the former. Score, 45 to 37. The Economic Fraternal League of Vaudalia has filed an application with the State superintendent of insurance to transact a fraternal insurance business in this State. George Wendell, a Democratic member of the House of the XXNINth General Assembly and a large land owner, died at his home near New Holland. He was aged 52 years. The Guarantors' Finance Company of Philadelphia, Pa., has tiled with the sup­ erintendent of insurance an application to transact an insurance business under the laws of Illinois. Rockford lias passed an ordinance tax­ ing all foreign fire insurance companies 1 per cent on their gross receipts in the city, the money to go to the maintenance of the fire department. An important educational conference of the United Presbyterian Church Of North America convened in Monmouth. Five colleges and two theological semi­ naries are represented. The will of John Dunn, former secre­ tary of President Stuyvesant Fish of the Illinois Central, was filed for probate at Kankakee. The proceeds of two insur­ ance policies for $5,000 each are left Irene Dunn, adopted daughter of the decedent. A third policy for a similar amount lapsed three days before Mr. Dunn died. The widow is left $1,000, with 1,700 acres of Mississippi land, said to be worth little, and a library valued at $500. S. S. Tanner of Minier, president of the Illinois Grain Dealers' Association, ai^.d others of the association charge that there are incompetent weigtimasters in control of affairs in Chicago, and rtliat the grain dealers are unable to ascertain the nances of.the men thus employed. He.^ixys that their signature on the grain receipts re­ semble a scroll and cannot be deciphered. The committee will demand an explana­ tion, also the removal of the alleged Un­ scrupulous parties. Sick and despondent, Mrs. Ernest An­ derson of Chicago sent her husband away to his work the other morning with a cheery "good-by" and, locking' the door after him, turned on all the burners of her gas cooking stove and went back to bed to die with her two little step-daugh­ ters, Edith and Myrtle, 8 and 0 years old. All day the ill-smelling gas hissed through the jets without attracting attention from the neighbors, and when Anderson re­ turned home at night he found his family cold in death. Mrs. Sarah T. Cress committed suicide at Peoria. Her body was found in a cis­ tern in which there was only a foot of water. The little child of her daughter, Mrs. Robert O. Campbell, died in great agony a feM* months ago and the mother was almost crazed with grief. Her hus­ band took her to Chicago, and one night she caused a sensation by jumping from the second-story window of the Oakland Hotel, where they were stopping. She was not seriously injured and returned to Peoria about a week ago. Her mother brooded over these things, and the suicide was the result. One man was killed and eleven were hurt in three railroad accidents that oc­ curred near Chicago within eighteen hours recently. At Salt Creek, a • Chicago- Hammond and Western train tumbled from a bridge into the water and six per­ sons received more or less serious injuries. At Palos Springs, Ind., a Wabash pas­ senger train was wrecked and five men were hurt. Among the victims was Sen­ ator Humphrey. The "cannon ball" train ran into the rear of a suburban train and overturned several passenger coaches. John W. Packwood, a switchman for the Erie road, was killed in the Chicago yard-s by a switching engine. The Gardner-Wilmington Coal Com­ pany, operating mines at Gardner, seems to have satisfactorily solved the prob­ lem of capital and labor as applied to the coal fields. For a little over two months they have been running their Gardner mine on the co-operative principle. The company furnishes the land, machinery, two engineers, firemen, pit boss and sup­ erintendent, and also attends to the dis­ posal of the coal. For this it receives 25 cents per ton for all coal taken from the mine. The total amount received from the sale, after this 25 cents per ton ,and the expenses of operating is deducted, is divided among the miners in propor­ tion to the amount of coal mined by each. J. Roy Hammett, a student at North­ western. introduced his wife to his par­ ents at Tuscola as a surprise. Mrs. Ham­ mett was Miss Concliita Ivelley, a teach­ er in the Goethe school, Chicago. The couple will spend their honeymoon in Mexico. Representative Prince has extended to President McKinley an invitation to at-' tend the1' annual encampment of the Union Veterans' Uni°u *° be held at Rock Island next August. It is expected that the President will make a tour of the West about that time,, visiting the Omaln exposition en route. Adjutant General Reece has issued an order for an election for colonel, lieuten­ ant colonel and major of the Sixth Infan­ try, to be held at Moliue Jan. 13. The election of Jonathan J. Ashworth to be second lieutenant of Company E, Fourth Infantry, has been confirmed. EXPECTED REVENUES. CALCULATIONS OF THE TARIFF'S FRAMERS. NEW Only a Fair Average Between High and Bow Water Marie Is Needed in Order to Produce the Necessary Rev­ enue Under the Dingley Baw. It's a Success. In estimating the workings of the Dingley tariff as a revenue producing measure some facts and considerations should be taken into account that do not readily present themselves to mind, but which are of the highest value when properly weighed. The Democrats have been pronounc­ ing the tariff law a failure from a rev­ enue point of view, and the Republi­ cans ,hate seemed for the most part to be in doubt as to its fiscal operation. Almost the only tiling that seems to be sure and undisputed by" either Demo­ crats or Republicans is that the law has proven entirely successful as a measure in the interest of protection. But as to revenue? The. American Economist has been at some pains to search for light on this subject, and from the eminent tariff expert, Mr. W. B. Howell, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, some statistical information hats been obtained that will not fail to be received as pertinent and convinc­ ing. The actual receipts from customs during four months, viz., August, Sep­ tember, October and November-- amounted to $34,474,322. The eollec- that the fable of the body and its mem­ bers finds a close counterpart. When the gr&t manufacturing industries are idle, there is less demand for the prod­ ucts of agriculture, and the labor mar­ ket is overstocked so that wages are generally depressed. On the Other hand, the employment d¥ an unusually large number of men in manufacturing industries tends to increase wages in other industries. To argue at this late day that protection affects only the protective industries is to ignore en- tlrely the bittef lessons of the past four years.--Boston Advertiser. Claims of American Shipping. The protection of American shipping must not be put in jeopardy by any weakening of the policy by which it IS to be protected and revived, however important the diplomatic advantage that would follow such a ^weakening. Protection to American shipping is not advocated to place a diplomatic wea­ pon in the hands of this government, nor to wring concessions from other governments, but because protection is necessary to the upbuilding of our mer­ chant marine.--Seaboard. Effects of Procrastination. The anticipatory imports of wool and woolens and sugar--rendered possible by Democratic procrastinating talk and the debating of amendments which the opppsers did not desire or expect to have adopted, and other tricks of delay practiced for the express purpose of enabling outside confederates to rtfn in enormous quantities of goods under the schedules *of the Democratic Wil­ son-Gorman bill--"have prevented the Dingley tariff bill from producing as A CASE THAT CALLS FOR CONSULTATION. .FREIGHT CHARGES PAID EVERY TEAR 8VTHE UNITED STATES TOTOREIG/V SHIPS&3CIQ000,000. rKOTEGTI 0 N s TONICS AORICULTUML NEWS I •' '• why not turn over a new leaf and feed THINGS PERTAINING TO FARM AND HOME. THE Money Can Be Made by Boarding City Horses-The Use and Abuse of Wind­ breaks-- Mow to Renovate a Prairie Pasture--Brief Farm Hints. "Wintering Horses. Farmers within fifteen to twenty miles of the city will find it a profitable business to winter city horses. The usual charge is $0 per month for horses haltered up, and $8 per month wheu kept in box-stalls. Those having plen­ ty of straw, fodder and hay will find I the skim milk so as to get all out of it | that tliere»is in it? What is the use of letting anything got to waste that can be avoided, even if wheat is a dollar? Save all we can. If we had a hole in our trousers' pocket, and every day a penny dropped out, how long would it be before we had that h$le sewed up? There are dozens of holes on the farm that leak out more than a penny, but only because we cannot see the pennies roll out we go composedly along the even tenor of our way as if we had pennies to burn. Let us recollect that every time we feed ice-cold milk to either pigs, chickens or calves we are losing pennies, and forthwith resolve we will do so no more. It is a good plan this method of disposing of it much-kto occasionally look over the farm and more profitable than hauling it to the ,)see if there are any unseen pennies go- city. A large quantity of manure is"- made, and this should be hauled arid spread as fast as made, over the tim­ othy meadows. The manure, if proper­ ly handled, will pay for the feed and care of the horses, and the money re­ ceived for their board will be clear gain. The Lancaster County farmers, who fatten beef- cattle for market, say they are satisfied if they can get mar­ ket price for' the corn and hay fed to the cattle,, and the manure pays for the labor; Wintering horses is much bet­ ter than' feeding cattle, as there is no money outlay. It requires a cash cap­ ital of $500 to $600 to purchase and feed twenty to twenty-five head of cat­ tle, as they must be heavily grain-fed from the time they are put up to fat­ ten, until sent to market. In selecting horses for wintering, care must be taken to get only healthy ones. The boarding horses should not be put into the same stable with the farm horses.-- Baltimore American. iug to waste.--Stockman and Farmer. Uncle Sam, M. D.--Your condition demands heroic tieatment, but the National Cong; ess of Phys cians must prescribe the proper lemedy. much revenue by many millions as it would be-doing but for the unpatriotic and fraudulent action of the Democrat­ ic Senators.--Chicago Tribune' Use and Abuse of Windbreaks. The best use of windbreaks is to plant them around dwellings and other farm buildiugs. There can be no doubt that they are great alleviators of the cold winds, whose force is broken and whose cold is moderated by contact with living trees. Some warmth comes from the tree even in the coldest weath­ er*, as is evident from the thawing away of snow around tree trunks. But there are places where the windbreak may cause an increase of cold even while breaking the force of the wind. When there is only a slight breeze blowing, it often comes from a wariper atmos­ phere, and may thus when unchecked prevent severe freezing. When the sky is unclouded the cold of the upper at­ mosphere settles in valleys and behind windbreaks, while it is moderated on hills or .other places where the wind has free course. Renovating a Prairie Pasture. Ou a failing prarie pasture, reported upon from Kansas&statlon. the seeds of several tame grasses were sown af­ ter cultivating the surface with a disk harrow. The tame grasses were crowd­ ed out by the prairie grass, and it was concluded that the proper way to reno­ vate native postures is to take off the stock, harrow the surface early in the spring and leave the pasture to itself. Clltferuhu.m for Cows. ier 1 by skilful s^ters ^ ^ girls ' cheeked, brlgh.t;Sand dangling tem tions, it wHl be seen, show a gradual increase each month, as follows: August $6,987,702 84 September 7,943,100 28 October . 9,713,494 02 November . 9,830,025 00 As is well known, the importations during the four months were not nor­ mal, owing to the large importations in anticipation of the passage of the - ~ . -• , iniu , .ine ___ present tariff. Had the importations | ?5fnt* "^nulactin'frs.°^lui,c0lin' jhU® I international^ Bk^sone fond of Corn and Cob'Meal. Corn meal is very heavy . feed, and unless cut hay or straw is given with it the meal is apt to cake in the stom­ ach. Not even the animals with strong­ est digestion are able to digest whole corn meal, especially given uncooked* as it usually is. Cooking swells the meal, and if cooked dry it is filled with air spaces, which keep the meal from massing together in the stomach. When corn is ground on the cob, the cob being lighter, also prevents ; tlie massing.- There is also some nutriment in the cob and its superior digestibility makes it better for feeding to animals that chew the cud, ami are thus enabled to eat more and less digestible food. Thus corn and cob meal mixed with cut feed is better for fattening cattle than is whole corn meal. But' horses cannot get enough nutriment in their feed If tire cob is used. Corn and oats ground together are better. Hogs, also, should have corn and oats. Sheep are rumi­ nant animals, but they have such strong digestion that they do better with grain not ground, adding some wheat bran or whole oats to make the feed lighter, and also to supply some other than the carbonaceous nutrition in which corn meal abouuds.--Ameri­ can Cultivator. i°m immense lace caps the ice at gi Give Reciprocity n Trial. rore | ornamentS, flying jeW miles < Mixed Feed for Horses. The Dairy Commissioner of the Do­ minion of Canada says: "I have found the best results to be obtained from us­ ing such grains (a mixture of peas, oats, barley and corn; or a mixture of peas, corn and bran) ground fine, and soaked for not less than thirty hours before they are fed. I think hogs should be kept so as to permit, and even to cause, them to take a good deal of ex­ ercise until after they weigh more than 100 pound# each. In the growing of young pigs it is important that they should receive a daily allowance of skim milk for six weeks or two mouths after they are weaned. Skim iniik is the great flesh-forming or muscle and bone-forming food; and If the young pigs are stunted in these regards at that time tlrey cannot be developed into the best class of hogs, no matter what breed they may be of. In my judgment it is highly important that the quality of Canadian hogs, in regard to propor tion of leatf flesh and firmness, should be maintained and improved, if the best customers for hog products are to be secured and retained."--Ontario Farmer. Reciprocity lias been proved to be Dr a speed. On the Maas, ia • gkating one of the popular principles of the her of Rotterdam lies a ia ndbro Republican party, having received a; It | gort known as Shkkeiv rs v>y very general indorsement by the mer- took j into notoriety in rec^ contests."W been as large during the period stated as they were in 1892, the revenue which we would have received under the rates of the present law would amount to $102,710,000, or $08,236,278 more than the actual receipts. It may be urged, however, that this is not a fair comparison, as tlie year 1892 was a very prosperous year, and the importations were accordingly large. Take, therefore, the year 1890, when business was suffering from depres­ sion. Had the importations during the four months been as large as they were the same four months of 1896, the re­ ceipts under the present law would have amounted to $57,072,283, or $22,- 597,961 in excess of the actual receipts. Taking the average of the importa­ tions for the same four months of 1892 and 1896, and applying the rates of the act of 1897, the estimated receipts amount to $09,574,152, or an increase of $35,099,830 over the actual receipts. The total excess of Expenditures over receipts during August, September, Oc­ tober and November, 1897, amounted to $35,084,177.23. It will be seen, there­ fore, that had the importations been as large during the four months as the average of the importations for the cor­ responding period of 1892 and 1890, the receipts would ..have been $15,053 in excess of expenditures, and had the im­ portations been as large as they were in 1892, the receipts would have ex­ ceeded the expenditures by $22,250,254. When the great volume of anticipa­ tory importations has been only par­ tially reduced,' there is no basis for ac­ curate estimates of what the importa­ tions will amount to when normal con­ ditions shall have been restored. One thing, however, is reasonably certain, and that is that, whether or not the country reaches during 1S98 tlie high water mark of prosperity which pre­ vailed in 1892, it has risen out of tlie slough of depression in which the busi­ ness interests floundered from 1893 to the close of 1896. A fair average be­ tween the high and low water gauges of the two periods named will place us once more on safe high ground and wTill realize the reasonable expectations of those who framed the present tari££ law in full confidence that it would prove successful alike as to revenue and protection. try. During the present period of com- t cut are lieid there. Any ^ exercis< mercial expansion made evident by our f her most exhilarating . . resting ex large gains in exports it Is likely to be thout j y,ardiy find a more i^ <qnr.ng a w more popular than ever. All tlie cir- man. cumstances seem favorable for givingjullets tlie reciprocity policy the fullest possi- be got. ble trial, and it is hardly likely that; shots Congress will disappoint the expecta­ tions of the people in this regard.--Mil- hardly nnu »• --ehad during ence than is season the trip to Hol^IJ®^ Pler fori leaves the Rh* cteamer pious* waUkee Sentinel! Comparatively a INTere Trifle. Whatever may be the result, it need not hold business back, and it will not. That tlie vast energies of the people do not hang upon tariff bills has been amply demonstrated in tlie past. A few millions of deficit in the treasury are but the merest trifle in the vast stream of industrial and commercial energy that sweeps on in its irresisti­ ble course, impelled by the necessities of 70,000,000 of consumers at home and a great and growing demand for our products abroad.--BO'ston Globe. A Plain Duty. The duty of Congress is plain. It must cut the garment according to the cloth. It ought to make sure, by pains­ taking work upon tlie appropriations, that the expenses of the government for the next fiscal year shall not exceed the revenues to be reasonably antici­ pated from tlie operations of the .Ding­ ley law as it stands and from SfrHi new internal revenue, legislation as may be adopted at the current session.--Louis­ ville Commercial. Beaching Out for Foreign Markets. It wa3 not until tlie restoration to power of the party of protection and a stable currency inspired them with con­ fidence to rehabilitate their plants that American manufacturers found them­ selves in a position to go ahead at full speed. Now that the home market is secured to them, they have taken heart of grace to reach, out for the foreign market as well. Our English friends Nels Lindstrom, a well-known farmer j will find the competition from this side of Knox County, was fined in justice! the Atlantic a more serious factor in court at Galesburg for beating two school-;. lheh. reckonings every year.-Oswego boys, Lorcn Rambo and Ellery Morse, -v v i with a rawhide whip.; He claims the ; boys insulted his two daughters in the i --~~--~ ' same school. Lindstrom Trent into the i Mutually Interdependent, schoolroom, drove .the pupils out and In these days of interstate trade the whipped the boys with the assistance of business relations of different indus- the teacher. tries and different sections are so'close Funny Whether True or Not. William Dean Howells has adopted the rule that all applicants for his auto­ graph must first furnish satisfactory proof that they have read his books. A Chicago girl recently wrote to the great novelist for his autograph. By return mail came a single typewritten line, "Have you bought my last.book?" To which the young woman replied, i sincerely hope so." The autograph came promptly, r4" ' ' . - Visionary and Baseless. The calamity howls of the opposition press in. relation to the financial con­ dition of tli* government are as base­ less as the fabric of a bad dream.--Min­ neapolis Tribune. In a Terrible Stew. The steamer CJvXfc Ur,v through pie very little grass and will not eat cloVW' hay to do any good. I do not know how well balanced the ration we are feeding is, but I do know that cattle aud horses eat sorghum better than any other forage I ever fed. We are now adding one-fourth bulk of corn meal. I drill the sorghum with a wheat drill, using one and oue-lialf bushels of seed to the acre. As long as I keep cows I shall raise sorghum as one of the foods.--Hoard's Dairyman. Supplies of Horse Radish. There is 110 reason why auy one who has even a umall patch of land should be without borse radish at any time from late fall till spring. Once planted in fairly good soil it brings a crop ev ery fall without any labor except that of digging it. The root is good any time after the leaves are frozen down in fall until new leaves start ill the spring. It is best to dig the whole bed over every fall and put all the sizable roots in the cellar and keep them moist. There-will be enough small roots left in the soil to make all the growth the land can bear next year. If fully grown roots are left in the soil they be­ come stringy and rough after the first season. Unless grown for sale a small bed of horse radish is therefore better for family use than a large one. Cutting Hay for Sheep. While it is true that sheep have so good digestion that it is not necessary to grind grain for them, it is better that the hay they eat should be cut into small pieces, not to help digestion, but that they may eat it without waste. The sheep is very dainty about its food. It will pick at long hay, pull it about and get more or less of it under its feet. Then it will almost starve rather than touch what has been soiled. There is enough iof saving of the hay to make this worth while. If it is clover hay, what the sheep does not eat readily may be fed to cows, putting a little salt or meal on it, to give it-better relish. Set the cutter so as to. cut 12-inch lengths. Tlie sheep with a deep feed­ ing trough will not waste any, and will do as well with half tlie weight of hay as is usually fed uncut. Potatoes as Food. It is surprising that now when pota­ toes are dear, as compared with what they wrere the past two years, that they should continue to be as largely used as ever. The nutrition in the potato is nearly pure starch, find it contains very little of tlie strength-giving nutrition that people require to do any kind of work. Even of starch there Is only 15 to 18 per cent., tlie remainder being water. It is a profitable crop for the farmer to grow, for in no other can lie sell so much water at generally so good a price. Starch is also difficult to di gest, and its excessive use in potatoes, bread and cakes is more often the cause of indigestion than any other cause that can be named. The fact, however, that much salt is used on po­ tatoes makes them probably more eas ily digested than slarcli in other forms. Bice on Calves and Ticks on Sheep. When putting stock up for the winter every animal should be examined, and what vermin is found on it should be destroyed. During the summer,, while stock is at pasture, the animals will re­ lieve themselves by rubbing their bod­ ies on bare soil wherever they can find it. There is no cheaper insect exter­ minator than road dust. Wherever stock has access to the public highway it will lie in the road and roll, so as to expose all parts of the body to the dust. Sheep in summer \yill lie in the fur­ rows, as we have often seen them when put in to pasture dowu a field that is being plowed. That destroys most but not all the ticks. In barns and stables there is no such chance for stock to rid itself of vermin. Most of the lice and ticks will, after a few days, settle on the animals that are thin in flesh. Rub grease freely about, the head, neck and shoulders, where the vermin will be most plentiful, then feed liberally so as to put some inside fat under the skin, which will prove the best preventive of any return of these parasites. Feeding "Skim-Milk. There is just as much nourishment in a pound of skim milk at a temperature of zero as there is in a pound of milk at 90 degrees, but the Calf or the pig will fail to get the same Amount out of the frozen milk as it will out of the warm milk, simply because Its digestive ap- Gronml for Onions. & If the frost does not prevent so doing plow the plot of ground for onions and leave it rough, so that the frost can peu- etrate it. When a warm day comes spread fine manure, and plenty of It, on the plot and work it well into the soil with a harrow. As onions are put into the ground very early in they year one cannot prepare for the crop "too soon. The main points are to have the land worked deep and fine and to use decom­ posed manure that is free from stalks, straw or other litter. Pays to Make Good Cheese. ~ It requires about twenty pounds of milk to make a pound of butter and eleven pounds of milk to make a pound of cheese. More labor and care is nec­ essary to make cheese, however, but good cheese brings a high price, espe­ cially when the parties making.it are known as reliable and make a special­ ty of a choice article. . Value of Drainage. When the land is well drained the water in the soil goes down and the frost penetrates deeper, thus assisting in pulverizing it. When the spring conies the air gets down and the soil becomes warmer and better fitted for plants. • An undraiued field is always cold, and is a loss to the farmer, as such soils will not give satisfactory crops. ILLINOIS 1A WMAKEBS The Illinois Legislature on Tuesday re- sumed the special session that was inter­ rupted by the holiday recess. Not more than half the members were present the first day. At the suggestion of Speaker Curtis, the House resolved itself into committee of the whole to discuss the revenue Reform question. The Chicago citizens' bill was read a second time and was matfe a spe­ cial order for Thursday. Mr. Saylor of Cook introduced two rev­ enue bills, providing that all public fran­ chises shall be assessed 1 per cent on their cash value, and limiting to 1 per cent the assessment on all property at its fair cash value. Both bills were referred to the Committee on Revenue. Gov. Tanner sent to the Legislature a special message with reference to the State asylum for insane at Peoria. He relates that this building stands over an abandoned coal shaft, which has partially caved in, endangering the permanence of the asylum. The Governor stated that he*could not approve of^'the expenditure of any more money on the present build­ ing, but if the Legislature would author­ ize .him to spend the asylum funds he Would have the building torn down and re-, erected on the same °site at a point 200 yards distant from its present location and out of tlfc way of crumbling mine shafts. In the House the message was. sent to the Committee on Appropriations. The Sen­ ate received the message, but took no ac­ tion on it; . The Governor sent the foliowing nomi* nations to the Senate, which were con­ firmed: Member of the State Board of Health, Dr. R. F. Bennett of Litchfield, to succeed Dr. Julius Kohl, term expired; member of State Board of Pharmacy, Fred Lueder of Peoria, to succeed Albert Zimmerman, term expired; administrator for McHenry County, Charles B. Whitte^ more of Huntley. " The House senatorial apportionment bill was advanced to second reading in the Senate without reference to a commit­ tee by a vote of 39 yeas to 1 nay. Sen­ ator Curley voted in the negative. Representative Murray of Sangamon in­ troduced a bill providing for the riayment^ of taxes on mortgages on real- estate by the mortgagee. Representative Nohe in­ troduced a bill providing for the assess­ ment, by the State Board of ] of the proportion of the capii resented by property or busi ed in Illinois by all compan' tions or associations incorpo the laws of other States, in tb ner as is now provided for th of those incorporated under Illinois. Representative Sayl ed a bill providing that the ation for all purposes shall per ceut of the fair cash valui erty assessed; also a bill prov! all franchises shall pay a t&x of of their fair cash value. In Revenue Committee Senator presented a bill for consideratio ing a new feature in regard to assessment. Senator Templeto the County Court to determine th' assessments. Little of n routine nature was either house on Wednesday. The in committee of the whole, dev« time to a discussion of features of the revised Berry bill, but without result*' Further consideration was postponed un­ til the following Tuesday. In the Sen­ ate Senator Templeton introduced a "rev­ enue bill, leaving to the discretion of the County Court what the rate of assess­ ment shall be, and Senator Fitzpatrick introduced one taxing insurance compa­ nies 2 per cent, on gross premiums col­ lected in Illinois. Senator Sparks of­ fered a joint resolution, which went over under the rules, declaring as the sense of the General Assembly that the Illinois Senators and Representatives in Con-' gress do all in their power to pass Sena­ tor Mason's bill to regulate the of corn, and wheat flour, making pulsory to plainly stamp or i>ra product, so that the people ma| what they buy. In the House on Thursday the Rowe revenue bill, which had been made a spe­ cial order, was postponed until the fol­ lowing Wednesday, upon Rowe's motion. The Mclnery bill, taxing all gas and elec­ tric light companies 2 per cent, of their gross earnings in excess ->f $50,000 per annum, came up on second reading. Mc­ lnery offered an amendment making the tax 4 per cent, instead of 2. The amend­ ment was adopted and the bill was or­ dered to third reading. Mr. McGinnis introduced a bill taxiug telephones $10 each per annum. The Senate passed the House bill appropriating $7,000 to engage additional counsel to assist the Attorney General in defending the inheritance tax law before the United States Supreme Court. The emergency clause, however, was stricken out. Senator Littler intro­ duced a sine die adjournment resolution; for Jan. 21. It went over after a motion to suspend the rules and consider it had been defeated. The Senate passed the joint resolution concurring in the Gov­ ernor's recommendations on the Peoria insane asylum, but the House postponed consideration until Tuesday. The appor­ tionment bill went through the Senate by a vote of 35 to 10, and is ready for the Governor's signature. The Senate Com- mittee on Elections ordered a favorable report on Mr. Crawford's primary elec­ tion bills, together with the amendments prepared by the "author. tion. Georgia Philosophy. , No matter how big de fish is, folks won't be liappy ez long ez dey thinks dar's bigger fish unkotched. Dar's so many hills on de way ter heaven dat folks misses de place entire yy buildiu' railroads 'rouu' dem. De reason people won't go ter church in rainy wedder is kase dey religloii ain't waterproof. Doan' look down on folks kase dey's lesser4dan you is. De wind is so small dat you can's see it. but It mos' ingin- erally raises de debbil in a cyclone.-- Atlanta Constitution. Expensive Cruiser of France. Tlie French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc is estimated to have cost about $4,000,000, of which perhaps $2,OQO,OOGi was fob- auxiliary fittings, such as armor, gun mountings and mechanism, torpedo gear and special fitting. Russia's Rapitl Growth. Russia has the most rapidly increas­ ing population of any country In the world. The growth during the last 100 years has been a fraction less than 1,000,000 arnually. „ People Talked About. A queen who insists on going bare­ footed is her majesty of Madagascar. All the same, she wears the most ex­ pensive Of Parisian toilettes. Prince Bismarck has been heard to say that he would rather find a eure for rheumatism than have all the title^ of Europe conferred upou him. A sentinel having addressed the em­ press as fraulein, the German emperor has ordered a portrait of her majesty to be hung In all the barracks of Ger­ many. *