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TO THE I=>lainde:al*e: r 'WEDNESDAY, September 14. 1898 ^ f, , JHolr It Was Enjoyed andMade the Most Of t>y Anarchist / |^s,*W SdlilUBgk ; •. ' .-t'Ljir'* T"r %<l • TMK MiklY RUES II SiEEPlli Cm. 'WUle la Offee SffellllKB 8u«l All iu Lsb«r Brnan'i Appropftatlom u< C? |(dft «o Laygf Deltelt tor th» Tannef yUmlHlitraiion to He Ate Ktti glept In Boreas Ii*om». «! Springfield, III., Sept. 6.-George ©chilling, secretary of tie state labor s ffcureau vyjder the last administration, Sijwas perhaps the most unique of the many political microbes which gener­ ic tatted in the nurturing warmth of the £ 'Altgeld sun. That he was an anarch- I lstv and proclaimed it with pride; that > jhe Was "agin the government," no mat- 1 tier what its form, were his sole qualifi­ es jeations for the secretaryship of the la ' • IBor board. In accepting the position 1 i>e violated the fundamental principle f* * ©f his social existence, but the wounds &'• / Itn his soul were monthly healed with jihe salve of the auditor's salary check, jffhe letter files and other records of fthe labor bureau give interesting in [eight into the character of Schilling nd the workings of the bureau under s management. His feelings with egard to his position under "the tat©" are indicated in a letter to Prof, dward Bemis, of the Chicago univer ty. The letter, under date of August 8, 1893, three months after his ap- intment, is as follows: *'X)ear Sir: Yours of the 17th re fcelved. Will eend to you by express jfcopy of report asked for. The duties *>t my office have been very congenial up to date, and I am enjoying life un- |der 'the state' much better than |a philosophical anarchist perhaps {should. I believe you told me once that {you had never read Proudhon'a 'Prop- rty.' If this is correct I should like "I". Sgri . Ro present you a copy If yon will ac- WV: kept it. Truly, ti&v if-JS' IS W "GEORGE A. SCHILLING. Secretary. I He certainly did enjoy life under '"the state," far the state furnished jiUm a home as well as employment. He ilived In the two small rooms-which [constitute the office of the labor bu­ reau in the state house. His desk and wis bed were in the rear room; a bed (quilt stretched across the windows (provided an ample wardrobe, while, the office vault was his kitchen. Here he kept his rye bread and pretzels, his jug of sour wine, and on a little oil stove he fried his sauer kraut, whose fragrance aroused but refused to as­ similate with the native-born profan­ ity of the railroad commission, across She corridor. Life under "the state," twith the state paying the expense, per­ mitted him to taste of those sweets bom of a government for money bar- ons, and for the first time in his life George rode in a sleeping car. He ynade many trips between Springfield find Chicago, apd, judging from his expense account, he always traveled' In a sleeping car. He did not, how- ever, tip the porter, for no such charge appears in his accounts. His friends Bay that he never wa& in a sleeping car, fend hold the accusation as an Insult to his nature. They say he couldn't be forced into a sleeping car unless he Was blindfolded and backed in. That watchdog of democratic virtue, the Springfield Register, will probably flm! in this accusation another "assas­ sination of private character," but here is the record. George has ac- jknowledged that he rode in sleeping jcars--rode scores of time« and charged f'the state" witti every ride. Some­ times he would forget it for days to- (gether, and then, recalling it, he would knake out a bill for five rides at a time. (George was honest in money matters. (He didn't charge "the state" with any {sleeping car rides he didn't get. He (spent all of the bureau's appropriation pnd left a large defioit for the Tanner (administration to pay, but he account­ ed for all of it. He evidently had ItroUble with some of the democratic (•'grafters" associated with him, and twas compelled on one occasion, at least, to call to account a m&mber of ithe board of examiners for falsifying [hia expense account. The following tetter tells the story: • '••November 24, 1803.--William Mc­ Donald, Esq., Member State Board of Examiners, Braidwood, 111.--Dear Sir: (Enclosed find the treasurer's check for $144.99 as per bills rendered. I have this nay ordered new vouchers and sub- (vouchers for. the members of your board which will make matters more (explicit in the future. Hereafter I do plot wish to O. K. any bill for hotel or ptixer expenses unless accompanied by jButnvoucher signed by the party with |rhom the bill was incurred. ! "For instance, one of your hills I no- jtice has $3.40 for railroad fare for meet- jbig at Braidwood at which place you reside. "While the bill was no doubt in­ curred, still were any newspaper re­ porter to go. through the expense ac­ count and ask me to explain I would) {be unable to do so, and I would not wish (to be caught napping. Very respect­ fully, "Q. A. SCHILLING, Secretary." It Will be observed that the false charge for railroad fare was paid by '"the state," as Schilling sends McDon­ ald a check **as per bills rendered." He pcoows the charge is false, but he per- jmlts its payment. He is troubled, not SO much at the commission of a petty jtheft by a fellow democrat, as the fear Of its discovery by some "newspaper reporter." He is alarmed only at the -prospect of being "caught napping." Schilling was, as he claimed to be, a philosopher, and his moral philosophy embraced the belief that only those £re committed which are disoor> esre^t» " N* He was eepeoisrtly. Heviroua at this time that the pttblld should not lose ebnfidence in the department's "work and reports"--particularly Its reports, for he was then preparing the depart­ ment biennial report for 1894, the sub­ ject of which was "Taxation," and the object of which was not to seek the truth on the subject, but to establish Schilling's theo-y that the poor bore the greater burden of taxation ̂He had several experts at work, preparing tar blcs and figures to prove his theory, and all were instructed to gather such facts as would fit the theory. The fol­ lowing letter to his chief helper indi­ cates his method: 'January 8, 1895.--C. F. Seib, Esq., Recorder's Office, Chicago, HI.--Dear Seib: The tabulated list of property handed me by Miss Johnson, arranged progressively from $250 per lot up­ wards, shows no discrimination in taxes between smaller and larger holdings. I think we must pursue some other test in order to discover the discrim­ inations practiced against the smaller holders. This method is to classify property belonging to the North, South, and West sides respectively. "My judgment is that all properties on the South side are assessed much lower than on the West side, where the bulk of the poorer classes live. This classification tnay involve considerable work, but we must have it or else the data we have gathered will be of no consequence. ' • » ' "While you are in Chicago I ask that you secure the taxes on the following properties for 1894: "Taxes paid by the West Chicago City Railway company; North Chicago City Railway company; City Street Car com­ pany, gas companies, sky-scrapers and other large buildings and depots, buildings occupying school lands. "The other point I think we can show is: That all properties owned by the working classes in their respective neighborhoods does not increase in value like the holdings of the rich, particularly in the business portion, and therefore the unearned increment constantly flows to the rich, "this proof can be found when we tabulate the sales of downtown property with that in the workingmen's neighbor­ hoods running same back to 1870. Trqly, * "G. A. SCHILLING." To another statistician la his em­ ploy-he writes: "March 5, 1895.--Dear Sir: I here­ with inclose copy of table of the ten tenants of the school lands showing the amount paid into the school fund and amount received by them from subtenants. "I am anxious to have the details upon which these totals are based. I showed the table to the governor this morning--at his request--and he thinks the corner of State and Madi­ son, put down at $100,000, is a little high. "I am. therefore, anxious for you to make out a list of sub-tenants and amount they are supposed to pay. You can readily eee that I naturally feel nervous about publishing a table that will in all probability be assailed and then be without the evidence upon which it is based. "Give me as complete a statement upon this subject as it is possible for you to make. I cannot afford to be caught napping with this advanced story, because, if they should succeed in impeaching the correctness of these figures the stockholders of the gas liuat and street cars would have no trouble in convincing the public that the figures given in the gas and str car charters are likewise faulty. Very truly, "O. A. SCHILLING." Tables prepared by one of his statisticians he refuted to use, be­ cause, while they constituted a truth­ ful exhibit, they did not agree with the theory of oppression of the poor. After heroic and expensive work and long delay in publication, when the fig­ ures and tables had bees culled and trimmed to his liking, Schilling launched his essay on "Taxation." The utter worthlessness of his conclusions, and the true value of his statistics are shown in the criticism of his friend, L. G. Powers, commissioner of labor for Minnesota. The following is a cofy of Powers' latter to Schilling on the sub­ ject: "St, Paul, Minn., Nov. 26,1896.-rHon. George A. Schilling, Commissioned of Labor, Springfield, 111.---Dear Mr. Schilling: In compliance with your request and my promise of the other day I call your attention to a few of what I deem your improperly drawn conclusions from your primary tables. Your comments assert that in Cook county there is a great discrimination in favor of the rich and against uie poor. In your analysis in central south Chicago of land owned by 1,198 persons and summarized on pages 244 to 248 I note these facts: "First. You have here for each of three years enough cases to make the taw of average work. The land owned by these individuals averages not far from 100 feet front for each man. It is a little less, however. Employing.this as the average I find that 61.13 per cent, of the land owned by 21.45 per cent, of the owners paid for each of the years 1892,1893 and 1894, 66.67 per cent, of the taxes. This is the percentage for 1892 and likewise the average for the three years. This shows that the larger holders, those possessing more than the average holding, paid 9.13 per cent, above their just share of taxa­ tion, while the smaller holdings, those below the average, were relieved of 16.62 per cenit. of their just share of taxes. An examination in detail shows that the richest holders, those paying taxes upon qver 500 feet, had their taxes increased most, while those be­ tween 25 and 75 feet all paid less than their just share of taxes, according to your figures. This shows that for the larger part of land in 1892, 1893 and 1894 your deduction about the rich is not justified but is thoroughly refuted. "Turning to what you call your pri­ mary tables, beginning on page 401.1 find on page 403 an exhibit of the sales of 80,297 pieces of land. The average of each sale is a little over $10,000. ;f|e: land sold in .amounts over tW,080 paid taxes according to the equalization board of 19.93 per cent, of their value. Those under $10,000 18.51 per cent., all of 19.64. Here we find the rich losing 1.4 per cent., and the poor gaining 5.7 per cent. These figures cover very many years. An examination of your figures or summaries by years shows a great discrinination in favor of the rich 20 years ago. This, according to your figures, seems to have been cor­ rected in the latter years, especially in 1893 and 1894. The lands worth over $10,000 paid taxes in 1893 and 1894 upon 16.34 per cent, of their value. Those tender$10,000upon 11.02 per cent., while all together paid taxes on 14.57 per cent. In these two years the poor gained by unequal taxation, according to your figures, 24.04 per eenWaifcdthe rich lost 12 per cent. "Your arguments and figures In sup­ port of the single tax really rests upon the summary given upon page 102. Your vacant lots, nominally 98 piece* sold actually includes 34. Your cheap residence property, nominally 80 piece of such property, actually contains not over 15 pieces of residence and 66 va­ cant lots, or mor| than you actually calculated in your vacant property list. As a matter of fact in your deal­ ing with vacant property you have evidently picked out 34 lots that were at a very low rate out of a total of 168 given in 1893 and 1894 with a per­ centage of less than ten per cent. There were only 13 lots in these two years sold for over $10,000 that were assessed by the equalization board at less than ten per cent, of their selling value, while there were 155 selling less than $10,-000 that paid taxes upon less than ten per cent. of their selling value. Only 1.3 of the richest pieces of land were assessed these low rates, while over one-half of the cheapest were assessed these low rates. "Your comments on page 102 relat­ ing to discrimination between rich and poor are contradicted by what you yourself have shown on page 99. Your statement of laild, vacant property and all shows a greater taxation for the rich on page 99. To make out an­ other case you have on page 102 com­ pared land sold with land, estimated, lands wrongly labeled 'Cheap Resi­ dences,' but actually almost wholly made up of unimproved property with a few--34--aetual sales of unimproved property. "These are some, a few may I say, of what I deem faulty deductions from your primary tables and a faulty use of figures. Your figures from one end of the book to the other show no dis­ crimination between rich and poor. They do show, however, the influences of corrupt political influence, favors shown on the part of the assessors of Cook county by reason of political fa vorltism by which the corrupt and dis­ honest man, rich and poor alike, are able to get an advantage over their honest neighbor, whether rich or poor. You have a mass of valuable figures which, supplementing the report of •he tax commission in Illinois in 1886, ought to have had great weight in tax reform. I fear that by calling at­ tention as you have to inequalities that do not exist in your figures you have lost the power of aid in making the reform in taxation in Which we are all interested. I hav« written plainly, just as I feel. If I have made any mistake in these deductions I should be pleased to have you pom* them out, or any error in my deduo- ns therefrom. Yours very truly, "L. G. POWERS, "Commissioner of Labor." This was, indeed, an awful blow, coming from such an authority, and Schilling, in evident anger,' wrote on the margin of Powers'letter: "This is a lie!" Hie report for 1896, dealing-with franchises, was not published . until long after his successor was in office. His conclusions on this subject are probably aB correct as his taxation theory. For a time he busied himself with inspiring newspaper articles, lay­ ing the blame for the nonappearance of the 1896 report upon his successor. Secretary David Ross. That good-na­ tured Scotchman stood It for a long time, but he finally addressed himself to Schilling, telling him that if he ever heard from him again on the subject of the 1806 report he would publish a bit of his record on file in the office. From that day Schilling disappeared from public view in IXinois. In ad­ dition to his treatise on "Tsxatton** he left behind him as a monumsnt of his four years' work a bad odor in the office vault and aa oil stove for frying sauer kraut. PAUL HULL. Broom Factory at the Industrial Jloato for the Kind 8oorce of Szfenae. ^ SAKE Oil STOfiY «F MNUfACTSfUNG. rutr "Itif-lMHrtfBS" Bltsi Wark* m»m Vsvc Lost tor the State la Bto«« Maklss u Avtrase of f800 Per MoBtk (or Tkrec Y*»r«--Condi­ tio* Whcs Tssaer Wemt la. The celebrated Douglas Shoe, without question tie most strUah and best ing alma on the market, can be found at . Do yoa know that E. Lawlus, Tailor, has taken measures for six, seven and eight suite & wet k Good gr od< low Prices from fl.80 to $12. Keep you» hand on your pocket book until yoa see E. Lawlus. 49 tf The-chief Burgess, of Milesburg, Pa., says De Witt's Little Early Risers are the best pills he ever used in his family dnr- Jag forty years of house keeping. Thej care constipation, sick headache and etomaoh and liver troubles. Small in eiz bat creat in rssuit. By J. A, Story. Lssrr j;sr oniem fo? oinaini Deaohsa " The Kalier'i UsTorltc Poet. It is interesting to note that Ernst von Wildenbruch, who recited a poem of his own on Bismarck at the service held in memory of the great chancel­ lor at the Royal opera house, Berlin, on Sunday, is the German emperor's favorite modern poet. It was in his favor, it will be remembered, that the kaiser once set aside the award of the experts in the triennial Sehiller memorial foundation, and if the prize had been destined for the poet who might do most to glorify the Hohen- zollerns, it was assuredly von Wilden- bruch's right. His "Hohenzollern Dramas" have, no doubt, greatly stim­ ulated patriotic feeling in Germany. Wildenbruch is not, however, a patri­ otic playwright alone. Among his most celebrated dramas is one on the subject of Harold, the last of the Sax­ ons, and another on that of Chris­ topher Marlowe. Nor has he confined himself to the drama. His novels-- notable among which^are "Der Melster •on Tanagra" and "Der Zauberer Cy- prianus"--are hardly less famous than his plays; while his "Hexenlied" and his patriotic poems have had : thou­ sands of readers in all parts of the fatherland.--London Chronicle. Chicago, DL r Sept. 6.--The atate of Illinois can save money by closing its Industrial Home for the Blind and paying for the keep of its inmates at a first-class hotel. Any Michigan ave­ nue boarding boose will take the pop­ ulation of the home for less money than the state pays for their bed and board. While the industrial home is, in theory, self-sustaining, the net per capita cost of feeding and housing its inmates is more than double that of sny state charitable institution. The financial condition of the home for the past year is immensely better than it was for the last year under Altgeld, but to-day the cost of feeding and em­ ploying the 56 inmates is, in «ven fig­ ures, $1,200 per month, or about- 75 cents per day. The chief expense to the state Is in furnishing the inmates employment at broom making. Each inmate pays the state three dollars per week for board and room. At this rate the dormitory loses an average of $400 per month. In order that the inmates shall be self- sustaining, and not objects of charity the state employs them at broom mak­ ing, on the state's account, allowing each worker to earn a maximum of one dollar per day, at piece work. This makes the inmates more than self-sus­ taining, but the state looses $800 per month in the broom business. It is the same old story of the state engaging in the manufacturing business--its goods are necessarily inferior in qual­ ity, and must be sold at less than the cost of production. If the state would close Its broom factory and fed and house end clothe the present number of Inmates free of cost it would save money over present conditions. \ The Institution had birth In 1893, When the legislature appropriated $100,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of a dormitory building and factory. This appropriation was in furtherance of the act of 1887 estab- lishingsucha home. The board of trus­ tees appointed by AMgeld organized in August, 1893, and then visited vari­ ous institutions for the blind, investi­ gating the matter of employment and style of building best adapted to the blind. A siU at the intersection of Nineteenth street and Douglas Park boulevard was purchased in November 1893, for $15^500. Building began In January, 1894. Inmates were received In January, 1805, with the dormitory partially completed and the factory finished. . {The dormitory lea substantlsl build­ ing of brick, faced with pressed brick. It Is.four stories in height and is de­ signed to honse 150 inmates. The third and fourth stories have not been fin­ ished, and. the capacity of the building BSTer bees, woi! than 60 inmates. The factory is 100 feet from the dor­ mitory, adjoining the C., B. & Q. rail­ road tracks. It is of brick, four sto- riea,""M)xl00 feet in size, and is designed to accommodate 180 workers at broom- making. The home is not supposed to be a uhaiitable institution, snd is not un­ der the supervision of the state board of charities. Like the state peniten­ tiaries and the university, the trustees are directly responsible to the gov­ ernor. "The board made its first re­ port to the governor in December, 1894, showing that there had been ex­ pended at that time $70,299.85 on ground and buildings and $80,002.3? on salaries and expense, leaving $23,177.36 unexpended out of the $100,000 appro­ priated and $1,479.52 interest allowed by' the treasurer. They estimated a deficit of $3,715.75 July 1, 1895, and asked the legislature for $85,000 to complete the dormitory and employ the Inmates to July 1,1897. The legis­ lature of 1895 appropriated $37,000, of which $7,000 was for completing the third snd fourth floors of the dormi­ tory, $10,000 for working capital in the broom business and $20,000 for or­ dinary expenses. The trust eesf made no published re­ port for the year 1896, anil how the re­ ceipt* were expended will never be known, for the office books do not be­ tray it. This Is scarcely remarkable, however, for In the 11 state institu­ tions I have visited to date not one set of office books nor reports kept dur­ ing the Altgeld reign tell the truth. The report of the home for 1894 showed a balance December 14 of $23,- 177.36. During the next year there waa received from the state treasury $20,000, making $43,177.36. The report of 1896.show® a balance December 14, :895, of $13,463.19, so that there was eMpended during 1895 $29,714.17. Of this, $15,000 In even figures can be ac­ counted for in deficit on maintenance and the broom business, but what was done with the other $15,000 cannot be determined. • The report of 1896 showed a deficit iiuthe factory and dormitory accounts of $12,043:76, with a balance on hand December 14 of $10,308. The greatest leakage in the finances of the home, and the most unfathomable bookkeep­ ing occurred between the democratic defeat of November, 1896, and the dis­ charge of the Altgeld superintendent in September, 1897. The present board of trustees was appointed by Gov. Tan­ ner in June, 1897. In Its report to the governor in December, 1897, the board says: "We found the institution in the For Sale. Feed warehouse and Coal sheds, sito- nted at West MeHenry, III., together with a well estabHshed Feed and Coa trade. For further particulars apply at once to W. A Criety, West McHenry, or J. E. t'risty, Bincrwood. 111. 38ti Sick headaches, biliousness, eonstipa- tion and all liver and stomach trouble* can be quickly cured by using those famous little pills known as Da Witt'* Little Early Risers. They are pleasant to take and never gripe. By J. A. Story. Leave your orders for canning peache* and get them direct wiiiflipsii ~ 0»»4tCiiap#U, fole charge of A. W. Killets, superinten­ dent. The policies of insurance hud lapsed aud the institution was deeply in dept for supplies and material for the factory. The books were kept in such shape that it was practically im­ possible to get an intelligent statement of the business transactions. The board met every week and held special meetings to get at the bottom facts. The former board of trustees we never had the pleasure of meeting, with the exception of Mr. Henry C. Zutter- meister, the president, who came and by special invitation. We employed an expert bookkeeper to examine the books. The pay rolls were three months behind and several accounts were long past due." To settle the most pressing claims $3,546.24 was paid1 before September 1, while the investi­ gation was proceeding. The Tanner board had retained Superintendent Killets in the hope of getting an ac-« counting from him, but he was unable to explain the books, and he was dis­ charged September 1. At that time the board had arrived at this state­ ment: Accounts payable, . $7,192.62; due on pay roil, $1,469.87; paid on ac­ counts due, $3,546.24. Adding to this the cash balance of $10,308 December 14, 1890, the gross cost of running the home from December 14, 1896, to Sep­ tember 1, 1897, was shown to be $22,- 516.73. As a credit there appeared stock on hand, $2,778.01; accounts re­ ceivable, $1,639.72; cash on hand. $60.16. There was also tied up in the defunct bank of E. S. Dreyer, the former treas­ urer of t he home, $3,234.74. This credit shows the net cost of running the home for the eight months from December, 1S96, to September, 1897, to be $18,- 032.84, *>r above $2,000 per month. Since that time the net expense has beeit under $1,200, for the same number of inmates. In their report the trustees say: Whatever the promofors of the insti­ tution may have anticipated when they founded it, the present board of trustees is satisfied that it is impossi­ ble to run the institution on anything like a self-sbpporting basis, although a great improveoneiit can be made In that direction. 1 We believe a mistake was made whew blind persons, male and female were brought together un­ der one roof, and the results show it. Several have got married and others were preparing to marry. In order to check it the trustees made a rule that all Inmates must live In the home, ex­ cept those who had alreadj* married. There are also a number of men and ail the women who should be provided for in some way other than at an in­ dustrial institution. It is not justice to the blind who are good and faithful workmen to be responsible in a meas­ ure for those whose labor is almost worthless." The report also says that special appropriations are now being UBed tor ordinary expenses, because the appropriation for ordinary ex^ pense was not sufficient. A large num­ ber of applications for admission to the home are on file, but none has been admitted for over a year, as there is no place to house them and no money to pay for their keeping. The education, and, if needs be, the support through life, of the blind by the state is a most besutiful form of the highest Christian charity, but the experience of the Illinois Industrial home shows that the state is paying too much for a false sentiment. As self-sustaining workmen their main­ tenance has cost the state double what It would have cost had they been treat­ ed as subjects of charity. As a das* the blind always have been a public charge, and the fact is no discredit to them. The s'.ate now educates the blind in nearly '-very Intellectual field, and if they cannct then support them­ selves the state should keep them In comfort, but the proposition is evident­ ly false that the blind can support themselves by manuajklabor in compe­ tition with the t>eeingv Fifty "self- supporting" blinri workmen have lost for the state in bi oommaking an aver­ age of $800 per month for over three years. It would h,ave been more profit­ able to the state, and will be In the fu­ ture to pay them 50 cents per6day for lifting dumbbell®. If the state will' close Its broom factory to-day and feed, clothe and house the inmates of the home free of cost hereafter, it will save about $6,000 per year. PAUL HHLL. Mu-of-VaP How Its Financial Affairs Wero Conducted by Thieving ' ^Zltemocrats. ^ ' - : : • : < : FALSIFYING iNSTITUTIOrS ACCOUNTS. Bookkeepers and Treonnrtri In­ structed front SprlncUeld to Keep No llecord of Borrowed Money or It* Payment That VVoold be Filed In the Public Archive*. Matchless tl ur--every sack gnaran- tagd, at Owen & Chapell's. Entire wheat flour--recommended by -physicians, at Uwen & Chepell's. The ladies should not fail to see thoe* nobby Waist Sets at Simon Stoffel's. Cotton Bats, the best stock in town it Simon Stoffel's. / Get yonr husking Gloves, at Bimon stoffel's. Prices way down. CALOWCLL S DOMSTtPATIOW. I i:«Melkl>ir on fk During quarters the various exer­ cises and emergency drills are gone through with, including sword prac­ tice, bayonet drill, physical exercises for straightening the figure and ex­ panding the chest, boarding drill, fire OTIII, collision drill and many others. A huge mat, weighing perhaps 500 pounds, Is brought up on deck, heaved ever the side, and held there within 60 seconds after the order Is given. Should a Spanish ship ram one of ours, this mat would be thrown over the aperture made In the side, and held there by the pressure of the water. Again, lines of hose are run out and connected, a wheel is turned, -and a strong stream of water floods the deck Immediately. In a very few seconds 20 streams of water can be directed upon any part of the ship. Suddenly the band plays a lively march, and the order for the run around is given. Jackie likes this. It is his exercise. It 1p to,-him what wheeling is to a lands­ man. It is his opportunity of moving a little faster than usual. In double- quick time each section runs in an ellipse for five minutes, the line of eeilors being usually barefooted at time of the day. They dodge in and out of the sunlight and shadow, laugh­ ing and showing their gayety of feel­ ing.--Walter Russell, In Century. The Meanlnsr I* Plain. Tesst--When a woman says she's In a hurry and can't atop a minute, and then talk* for an hour, what do you suppose she means? Cphnsonbeak--'Why, she means she can't stop talking.--Yonkers States­ man. The handsomest assortment of Shin Waists to be found in the county. Thf ladies ebould not fail to call and set them at Siroou StoBel's. THE ladies are invited to call at the store of 8imon Stoffel and wt thf Sept. sheet of Metropolitan Fashions. fining Peaches direct from the finest orchard in Michigan. Leave order? >arly for one half and one bushel baskets. Just received word from the shipper* that the best canners are ready to ship now. Owen A ('hapell. Normal* 111., Aug. 22.--Among all the tender krod touching beauties o$ the Illinois soldiers' orphan home, the most refresiling spectacle presented to the observer is the financial reports of itie Altgeld managers, from 1893 to 18'.<T Their open truthfulness is, indeed, beautiful to contemplate. In compar­ ison with the bookkeeping of nearly everji other state institution during the same period these accounts are a four^ year-old orphan to a fourth-term bur­ glar. They are absolutely truthful as to the nature and amount of cash re­ ceipts and expenditures, and in this they are unique afrd worthy of all praise. During that period in 1895 and 1896 when, through the operation of the Alt­ geld syHltem of finance the state treas­ ury was empty, all those institutions which receive their funds quarterly were compelled to borrow money to pay current expenses. It was considered bad politics to borrow this money opeii- ly on account of the state, for that would ilisclose the fact of the empty treasury and the hollow mockery of the Altgelu economy as exhibited in the tax levy. To cover the matter from the public eye the trustees of each institu­ tion were instructed from Springfield to borrow the necessary funds and each bookkec|>cr and treasurer was instruct­ ed to loiuve no record of the loan or its payment that would be filed In the pub­ lic archives. Instructions were gener­ ally followed1 and the accounts and pub­ lished reports fail to show the total"* cash rvceipts and expenditures by the amount of the loans. The expenditure on account of interest was necessarily recorded, but in the published reports for the fiscal year of 1896 the tell-tale item is shrouded under the head of "Expenses not classified." In the quarterly reports of the state bOaftl of charities this expenditure on account of interest was, with this sin­ gle exception, never recorded, as "inter­ est on loans." In the soldiers' home accounts it was called "rebate on bonds." In the blind asylum acco1 it was called "interest on overdral. showing that the rate of interest paid was about 36 pef cent. It was some­ times called "interest," and sometimes "discount," but none except the irea urer of the Normal home had the brav- ;ery to call it by its right name. While these' loans were made between July, 1S95, and April, 1896, so well was the fact concealed that as late as January, 1898, the %>ringfield Register, the dem­ ocratic organ, declared that the demo­ cratic administration had borrowed no money--and the poor, old imbecile prob­ ably believed it was telling the truth. In view of all this wholesale lying and falsifying of public accounts by democratic officials to cover the error of their chief, the accounts, of ex-Treas­ urer A. J. Barr, of the soldiers' or­ phans' home, are as beautiful to con­ template as the face of the first-born. His report,-included in the published biennial report for July 1. 1896, shows* receipts in February, 1896, of $26,500 from "loan," applied to the ordinary fund. It shows receiptsfrom the state treasurer for the same fund of $13,125 in July, 1895, and no further receipts from the treasury until April 30. 1896 --a period of above pine months. With­ in the next 15 days, from April 30 to May 15. the receipts from the state treasury for ordinary expenses are $39,375, or three quarterly appropria­ tions past due. By properly recording tlie loans in the receipts the total is raised to $78,750 for the year, or $26 - 250 more than the appropriation. If Treasurer Barr had obeyetj/instruc­ tions from Springfield he^would not have recorded the amount of the loan, but would have shown It as being re­ ceived from the state treasury. Then, when he received $39,375 between April 30 and May 15, 1896, he would have entered $13,125 as received from the treasurj' and used ,the balance of $26,- 250 to pay the loan. This would have made the receipts of the ordinary fund correspond with the amount of the ap­ propriation and would have concealed the fact of the loan. Treasurer Barr's statement further shows that $414.25 was expended on ac­ count of "interest on loan." The financial showing of the sol­ diers' orphans' home is noteworthy only by comparison with the ingenious lies of 11 other state Institutions which borrowed money and falsified their accounts to hide the fact. Mr. Barr has the peculiar distinction of be­ ing the- only democratic treasurer of a state institution whose accounts tell the truth about borrowed money. The conduct of the home under the democrats was marked' by that de­ structive economy which character­ ized the Altgeld administration. The buildings have gone to rack in the last five years, and extensive repairs are needed at once. During the first two democratic years the management saved above $16,000 out of the ordinary expense fund and returned It, onAlt- geid's order, to the state treasurer. As an indirect result the pr&ent man­ agement is using money out of the or­ dinary fund for imperative repairs. How long Illinois will need a home tot soldiers' orphans is a question the wise men have been unsuccessfully answer­ ing for several years, and the war with Spain and the prospect of a new generation of orphans still further in- SCHOOL SHOES. The finest stock of Children's School, Shoes ever brought to this town, can b*- found at Simon Stoffel's. A large, line of clothing samplee U select from, at M.J.WALSH'S. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Cam Piles. Scalds. Barns. volves the problem. The soldier of the rebellion is long-lived and prolific. He was mustered out 32 years ago, and he now averages close to 57 years of age, but there are two orphans here 20 months old and 15 under five years old. There are soldiers' orphans yet ̂ to be born in Illinois, and the state wilt : need a home for them as long as de~ - signing young women continue ̂ o mar­ ry susceptible old soldiers with pen- sions. Thirty years from now there will be children in this home whose fa- J thers fought in the war qf the rebel­ lion. The population of the home has been increasing, and the wisest statis- £ tician cannot tell when it will reach f the maximum, its winter population ' is about 450, which is decreased aboat 100 during the summer months. It Is-no* strictly a home for soldiers" orphans, but rather for soldiers' chil­ dren. The children of any indigent sol­ dier may be sent here. Above 100 of the children are full orphans. Above 200 have no father, and about 90 have both father and mother. One little '1- #i£ * : -- 8m tbo Necktiea at Otto & Uha* «Ufe Get a shirt waist eheap at Owen £ Ohapell's. . •„ Ksmember the great closing oat sals oi Duorner goods at Owen & ChapeU'a. girl complained to me that she has no place to visit this summer, and she thought it strange, too, because she had two fatheis and two mothers. 3 Her parents h.*d divorced and each >;-< remarried. There are a few children here who-should be in the reform schools at Pom lac or Geneva, and a ^ -yp few who properly belong in the feeble- minded asylum at Lincoln. c The health of 1 he children is remark- '*°t ^ ably good, and their sturdy bodies and cheerful minds evidence that they are well fed and well treated. Physically >||; they could not be better off, but in other respects the institution Is not .. .V' ideal. ' It is a "back number.** The" ; buildings are constructed on the re-" J&jH formatory rather than the home plan. • The life and discipline of the children „ is necessarily military rather than. 3-'"; family, and the home idea is lost. They sleep in large dormitories, and march.- to their meals in a general dining-. room; The results would be far better If the institution had the plan of the „. Geneva reformatory for girls, where the family idea is excellently carriedt- affrf out by the division into flats, each flat* ,, or ward, constituting a complete homo for a family of 20. - The schools are thoroughly and well ^ conducted. The school year consists {'Sfv of 40 weeks* work. A manual training school has been in operation for two- years, and the work promises good re- suits. The training school building is * , •%£ an architectural abortion, and belongs. , «; to the family of institution buildings erected by Altgeld. Like all the rest of them, it is in the indescribable, un- \ classified, Altgeltized c«stellated-Tu^ 11. dor style, and is as unsightly andim- - ^ practical as any the political architect^ / ever designed. , ^ The home of the soldiers' orphans I*. T; sftdly in need of repairing and remod*:*,U ^ ellng. But whatever be its physicals " #'J faults no criticism can be made of thoT-^ personal qualifications of its present superintendent. It must have been or*' -I* dained from the beginning that Tki»? I Clements should be the foster father ^ | of the Illinois soldiers'orphans. Th» only investigation of his methods neo _ ^ •%,• essary is to watch him for an hour anjtv day he is at the home. Every time he w&i walks across the lawn there is a 12« • •• year-old orphan clinging to each of hie arms, an eight year-«^d orphan hold* - *•". ing to his coat tail and a four-year-old orphan trying to-eWmb up each of hia i^s'- legs. . i PAUL HTTXJL. % Yl-Si ISacat. REMARKABLE YEAR OF TRADE The Year of 18D8 Exceed* by Manx - ' miliona Anything In the Ht»- ,. tory of the Nation. . , The bureau of statistics at Washing*, ton has just issued the statement of v ^ the country'® foreign trade for April' and for the ten months of the fiscal, £"y year, and the document makes a re­ markable showing. The. record ha<$ , i-.lready been mentioned in telegraphic* # > advices as the most remarkable in thefc , history of the United States. In the past ten months the country has sold • and exported more than twice as much merchandise as it has bought from abroad. To be exact, the total mer- chandise exports for the ten months were $1,025,426,681, while the, imports were $511,181,186, an excess of exporta ^ of $514,245,495. ' This is far ahead of anything of the* ^ sort in recent years. In 1892, which,, ^ " like the present year, followed a pe^r'-J* ^ riod of crop failure abroad, the excess-"-. ^ of jsexports over imports amounted to $202,875,686. Last year made a stil^. || more favorable showing, the excess o4>i -3, ^ e x p o r t s e s t a b l i s h i n g a n e w r e c o r d , b u t ? - * the excess was only $287,613,144,wherevr^v" ^ as for the present fiscal year it is es* timated\)y the bureau of statistics the^ji^ excess for the full 12 months endings with June will probably be $600,000,000^^ In 85 years prior to 1876 there were^<«| j only 16 years in which the exports ex^Sfj v; ceeded the imports. Since 1876 thereof T' have been only three years in whicht-'.^J . the export* have not exceeded the im-lfs*} ports, but never previously has thoe5! excess been half so great as that which^ the present year is expected to showj^ J b- The year 1879, preceding a period o^| great prosperity, was a record one Ini|-- our foreign trade for a long time. bu%| ; the excess of exports oyer imports^ * that year was but $264,661,000. For the ten months so far in thc^ . present fiscal year the exports of agi* A i(cultural products alone have been* more than $100,000,000 in excess or those of the corresponding ten months of the preceding year, and they will exceed by many millions the agrieul-j turat exports of any year In the coun-i try's history. The failure of the cropst ' ' of foreign countries has resulted ;*' • *' the rushing out of immense quantities^ of our cereals to fill depleted gran- ^ aries abroad. While exports have in- creased, imports have decreased. The result ing immense favorable trade bai- »nce conservative predictions agre can mean but one thing--prosperlt ?. t0(>thisiiC0imtrj;^N;_Y;i>Sun;^^^^^ ft: NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT SONS C J VETERANS, C. S. A , OMAHA, SEPT. 12-16, 1898. For this occasion, all agents of the North western Line »ill sell round-' ^iekcts to Oinaha, Sept. 10-11. at red oped ^ ••ates, (rood until Sept. 21. Apply to <*gents for full particulars. tMN .; , Bob Moore, of La Fayette, 14., «*y« j| that for constipation he has tamd Da" Witt's Little Early Risers to be perfewt. They never gripe. Try them for stWpMli ~ and liver troubles. By J. A. Story. ̂ Children's Sohool Hat* and Caps* itn* '.Nwnd.ataiaMtmoK**. ~ ^ > • . .