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house in TARIFF BILL PASSED, MYSTERY IN A SEWER. Wood Stronger than Steel. According to some recent experi­ ments, when the comparison is based on equality of weight instead of equal­ ity of size, several kinds of wood are actually stronger than steel. Com­ paring a bar of "struck steel" and bars of pine, ash and hemlock, of a given weight and length, the pine will sus­ tain a weight half &s great again, the ash more than twice as great, and the hemlock almost three times as gr<?at a weight as the steel. But, unfortunate­ ly, the wood in each case occupies ten or twelve times as much space as the metal does. r Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the congh at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. 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It Is a monthly journal pub- HHL lished at the storm center of potlti- cal events; heralds to its friends the movements of the enemy, and fear- BBf lessly defends the people against the •• encroachments of the money power. ft The price of subscription Is only 25 cents a year. Address COIN PlJB- L1SH1NQ CO., 362 Wasbloiton Boakrard, Chicago,H» CURE YOURSELF! /CUHJES\ I Uie Big Q for uun*\vral /in 1 to 5<Uy«.\ I discharges, / VJ irritations or ulceration* f Ml to itntiare. of Q1UCO Ql UiembraQM, Painlew. and DoTast?S [THEEVAHS CHEMICAL Co. GGPT or PEISONOUA. VOINCWIUTI.O.r' "J MM fcy Dranisb, \ V. S. y r or sent in plain wrapper. Made oalr by The (Tiarlee K. Hiiee Co., Fhila. e> A package makes 5 gallous. W. L. DOUGLAS DOLLAR SHOE BEST IN THE WORLD FOR 14 TEARS this shoe, by merit alone* has distanced all competitors. INDORSED BT OVER l,0t)0,000 WEARERS as THE BEST in style, fit and durability of any shoe ever offered at $3.00. IT IS MADE Iff ALL THE LATEST SHAPES and STYLES and of every variety of leather. ORE DEALER IN A TOWN given exclusive sale and advertised in local paper on receipt of reasonable order. Write for catalogue to W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mjiss. The Best Saddle Coat. LI Keeps both rider and saddle per- fectly dry in the hardest storms. Substitutes will disappoint. Ask for 1897 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker-- it is entirely new/; If not for sale in C your town, write for catalogue to ^ A. J. TOWER. Boston, Mass. FIELDS - GREATEST GOLD-COPPER CUMP KNOWN. Stocks Advanced in 1896 from 100 to 1S00 PerCent. OTllliltS MADE MONEY -- SO CAN YOU! tar-Maps and. prospectuses supplied by A. W. McOOliGALu, Ashland Ulk., Chicago. n a Ai R F ALU NG OUT ST0PPE D Growth | -.GUARANTEED... I Within I Promoted I OR MONEY RETURNED. | two wteks Price. $1 bottle, sent anytvhere. AUSTRALIAN HAIR VITALIZES CO. R A. TOfJfT, Agt. for U. a, 1534 Tlilrd AV., New York. J)K. TAFT'S ASTHMALKN'E C U R E D N e v e r r n r r Seii3yi ur address. "We will mall atrial bottle y Ur p DR. TAFT BROS.. 45 Elm St.. Rochester. N Y. | |||LL No. 15-'J7 IS 15 a week and expenses, or commis­ sion ; Ladles or Gents. For particulars write quick to C.J.Lane,Marshall,Mich. Banana Lieaves. Eannua leaves serve many useful purposes, for of them are made tougli paper, from the thinnest tissue to the thickest cardboard, clothing, hots and brushes, mats and hammocks. Mill­ ions of pounds of banana fibre, mis­ named Manila "hemp," are each year brought to the United States or taken to Europe, and spun into cordage from the fineness of silk up through the size of twine to the bigness of mammoth cables; and many a dainty handker­ chief and bit of fine lace has been woven from the fibres of banana leaves by the deft fingers of the woman of South -America and of the far East. Reforms Need More than a Day To "bring tliom about, and are always more complete and lasting when they "proceed with steady regularity to a consummation. Few of the observant among us enn have failed to notice that permanently healthful changes in the human system are not wrought by abrupt and violent means, and that those are the most salutary medicines which are progressive. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the chief of these. Dyspepsia, a disease of obstinate character, is obliterated by it. "Beware of black' animals" is con­ sidered sound advice by a magazine writer, wrlio devotes six pages and nu­ merous illustrations to warnings against and awful examples of black animals, leopards, cats, ravens, beetles and undertakers' horses. Lane's family Medicine Moves the boweJs each day. In or­ der to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Pneumatic pressure is used to oper­ ate railway gates in a recent patent, the air being divided into two sections and holding a taut thread to run be­ tween the teeth to dislodge foreign substance. OLD PEOPLE AND THE GRIPPE Please remember that Glenn's Sulphur Soap presents all the advantages of sulphur baths at a cheap rate. HlH's Hair and Whisker Dye, black or brown. 50c. Twelve average tea plants produce one pound of tea. Mrs. "Winslow's SOOTHING SYRUP for Children teething; sottens the eums, reduces inflammation, allays lain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. : : ••< IT IS A MUCH MORE SERIOUS DISEASE WITH THEM THAN WITH THE YOUNG. A Remedy that May Be Used. ' . From the Republican, Princeton, III. Among the well-known farmers of Bu­ reau County, Illinois, is William It. Lamb, of Milo, who, with his wife,.* Mrs. Jane Lamb, is numbered among the pioneer settlers. This- family, now well along in years, is the center of a large relation­ ship, and they stand well in, the county. Mrs. Lamb, now 77 yearsof a fie, has experi­ enced. two attacks of the grippe, and her recovery in a . comparatively short time has been the topic of much discussion among the people of Bureau County wher­ ever she is .known. To ascertain the facts in the matter a representative* of this paper called at their country home, located oue mile west of Milo, last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Full­ er, a daughter of Mrs. Lamb, met the re­ porter at the door and gave him a cordial welcome. At her age Mrs. Lamb quite naturally feels much pleased that she is enjoying such good health as to be able to wait upon her h usbarid. who is now 83 years old and quite feeble. Mrs. Lamb said: . "I had. always enjoyed good health dur­ ing my life until the year 1S90,' Then I had an attack: of the grippe. During the winter of ;i893-'9-t I. had a second attack which left me in a very much enfeebled condition. , My lungs and back wetf? weak, and I had a very troublesome cough, which at times Was. so severe that I thought I should strangle, I tried till the doctors in this neighborhood and some from other towns, .but none seemed to give me any relief or even stiiy. t^e pr<fe gross of the disease. ̂ - ...' J "My suffering at tithes Was: severe and fir was the general opinion of my neigh­ bors and acquaintances that I could last 'but a few. weeks,* some thought hot. more than one or two days. I tokr'my daugh­ ter, Mrs. Fuller, that I was satisfied I had the consumption and that nothing could be done for it. She only laughed and said: 'Mother, it can't be that you have the consumption--it may be only a heavy cough. < You remember I was read­ ing of some of our frieuds over in La Salle County the other day Who were greatly benefited by the use of Dr. Will­ iams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and if you will try them I will have Mr. Fuller buy a couple of boxes when he is in town to-day." He brought two boxes, and I com­ menced taking them. In one week I felt much better, and after taking three boxes I felt entirely cured', and am now able to do about as much work as my daughter. Why, the other day when the men came from town with a fifty-pound sack of flour in the wagon, I picked is up and carried it in the house." Mrs. Lamb further said: "I feel assured that my recovery is entirely due to the taking of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." Mrs. Fuller and her hus­ band both said they were entirely satis­ fied that it was Dr. Williams' Pink Pills that had saved Mrs. Lamb's life. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements neces­ sary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregulari­ ties and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes'(never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Com­ pany, Schenectady, N. Y. "OLIVER OPTIC" PASSES AWAY Death. «f William T. Adams, Writer of Juvenile Stories, at Boston. „ William T. Adams ("Oliver Optic") died Saturday at his home in Boston. He has been very ill ever since he returned from a voyage to Jamaica, about a month ago. Mr. Adams was 75 years old, and for half a century almost he has written stories for boys. He was possessed of a consid­ erable fortune, all of Which he earned with his busy pen.. It is said that more than 1,000,000 copies of his boys' stories have been sold. Mr. Adams' success began with the first book he published. He began to write WILLIAJI T. AI> AM3. To Be Measured. "I shall have to take little Emerson downtown this afternoon," said Mrs. Posting to her husband at the break­ fast table. "What for?" "To Be measured for a pair of spec­ tacles."--Judge. ^ 5*" bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy ca- CASCARETS etimu.ate liver, kidneys and bowels. Nev- tharUc. cure guaranteed. 10c.-25c. er Sicken, weaken or gripe. 10c. How's This! p We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. ,T. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan­ cially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TKUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O WALDING, RINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists.. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Too Cold. Philanthropist--Yours is the first hand organ I have seen for some weeks. Got too cold for them, 1 sup­ pose? Organist--Eet ees so, signor. Zee peoples keepa windows shut and notta pay us to mova on.--New York Weekly. No-to-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, make-; health and manhood. Cure guaranteed, bOc and $1, all druggists. Spanish Illiteracy. The Spanish system of public edu­ cation is miserably inadequate. But little over a fourth of the adult popula­ tion can read and write. Scanty in­ struction is given to 41 per cent, of the children of school age, and few of the teachers receive over $125 a year. JUST try ft 10c box of Cascarets, candy cathartic, fln- est liver and bowel regulator made. PICKED UP ON BROADWAY. A True Incident,--A woman was picked up in the street in an unconscious con­ dition and hurried to the nearest hospital. On examination her body was found to be covered with sores caused byjthe hypodermic injection of morphine. This mere wreck of a woman had once held an honorable and lucrative ad of taking rest and medical treat­ ment, she resorted to the stimulus of morphine. » The hospital physicians discov­ ered that her primary trouble was an affection of the womb, which could readily have been cured in the- first stages. " ' . If, when she had felt those se­ vere pains in the back, the terrible headaches, the constant sense of fullness, soreness and pain in the pelvic region, she had used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ pound, it would have dissolved and passed off that polypus in the womb, and to-day she would have been a well woman sitting in her •= office. Why will women let themselves go in this way ? It seems passing strange that a woman 1 ike this one; so highly educated, and so well placed, shduld have de­ pended on morphine, instead of seeking a radical cure. There is no excuse for any woman who suffers--she need" not go without help. Mrs. Pinkham stands ready to help any woman; her address is Lynn, Alass. Write to her; it will cost you nothing. In the meantime get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound at the nearest drug store. The following letter from one of your sisters will encourage you : -MRS. BERTHA LEHRMAN, NO". 1 Erie St., 27th Ward, Pittsburg. Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham. "I can hardly find words with which to thank you for what you have done for me. I suffered nearly seven years with backache and sideache, leucorrhoea, and the worst forms of womb troubles. " Doctors failed to do me any good. I have taken four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compounds and one box of Liver Pills, and used one package of Sanative Wash, and now can say I lam well and have been stead­ ily gaining flesh; am stouter and heartier liow than I have been for •years.. I am recommending your Vegetable Compound to my friends. Again 1 thank you for the good health I am enjoying." boy stories in 18(53, and almost up to the day of his"death there was scarcely a day that he was not engaged in mapping out tales of adventure or writing them. His first story was "Hatehie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue." His stories described the life of the boy out of doors, in the woods, fields, under the open sky, on the river or elsewhere out in the air. Prior to his taking up story writing he was an editor, and he was the founder and editor of Oliver Optic's Magazine for Boys and Girls. In 1846 he married Miss Sarah Jenkins, who died in 1885. Mr. Adams' daughter is the wife of Sol Smith Russell, the actor. GOES TO SAMOA. William L. Chambers, New Chief Jnstice of the Islands. William L; Chambers, the new chief justice of the Samoan Islands, appointed to that place by the United States, Eng­ land and Germany, is a native of Geotgia and a former law partner of ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert. Mr. Chambers left Georgia and settled in' Alabama in the practice of law when a very young man. He lived in Alabama until his appoint­ ment as Samoan commissioner four years ago by President Cleveland. His ap­ pointment. is not a matter of political in­ fluence, but follows upon his worthy ahd efficient service as commissioner. When Mr. Chambers arrived in the islands four years ago he found affairs in an almost hopeless tangle. He promptly set to work WILLIAM L. CHAMBERS. to bring order out of chaos, and he ac­ complished his task so well that when he returned to the United States, England and Germany sent formal notices of their appreciation of his services to the State Department. Mr. Chambers was induced to return to the islands as commissioner. When a vacancy occurred in the post of chief justice President Cleveland prompt­ ly named the talented Southern lawyer for the position, and this appointment was readily confirmed by England and Ger­ many. While serving as commissioner in Samoa Mr. Chambers became intimately acquainted with Robert Louis Stevenson. PICKS UP SIXTEEN SURVIVORS. Rescue of Part of the Crew of the Unfortunate St. Nazaire. News comes that the British steamship Yanariva, Captain Weston, which left Newport News on March 10, bound for Glasgow, arrived at Greenock, Scotland, Sunday night. The captain reports that on March 12, while in latitude 3T, longi­ tude 71, "he picked up a small boat con­ taining sixteen survivors of the steam­ ship Ville de St. Nazaire. They had been without food and water for four days, and were in a state of extreme exhaustion and were bordering on madness. The officers and men of the Yanariva did all in their power for the unhappy victims of an ocean liorrpr, and finally learned their piti­ ful story piece by piece. They say that four boats were launch­ ed, two containing twenty-nine each, the third seventeen and the fourth six. The boat picked up by the Yanariva was one of the two that took off twenty-nine, but hunger and thirst. The last the survivors saw of the other boats was on the day the vessel foundered, when they sighted two of them lashed together and empty. For some time after the rescue the cap­ tain of the Yanariva kept an officer at the masthead, sweeping the horizon with a glass in the hope of getting some trace of the other boats, but there was no sign of them. FIFTY FAMILIES ELESS. Bic Fire at Portsmouth, Va.--Many Buildings Are Burned. A fire that burned from 12:30 to 6 o'clock occurred at Portsmouth, Va., Sun­ day morning, making fifty families home­ less and causing $100,000 damage. At 2 a, m. the steeple of the Catholic Church, three blocks away from the main fire, caught, and in less than half an hour the edifice was in ruins. The flames spread from the chur<?h to a, row of residences on High street, and flying sparks caused a small blaze in Newton, about a mile away# It was six hours before the fire at Portsmouth was gotten under control. The Catholie Church was erected at a cost of §60,000, and the total loss on all property destroyed probably will reach, over $100,- 000. Several firemen and a number of spectators were more or less injured by- falling timbers and flying embers. Told in a Few Linei. Col. L. C. Baker, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company at St. L^uis, is i dead. The 300 strikers of the Enterprise silk mill at Paterson, N. J.,Vho went out for an increase of wages of 30 per cent, re­ turned to work. The old scale of wages for wkich they struck will be Daid them. THE OINGLEY MEASURE GOES THROUGH THE HOUSE. Receives 205 Votes Out of 348-Re- publicans Present a Solid Front- Amendment Adopted to Affect All Future Imports-- JVively Scenes.. Vote Is 205 Against 122. Washington special: Amid great enthu­ siasm on the floor and in the galleries, the House of Representatives Wednesday passed the Dingley tariff bill, and the duties imposed by the bill are now in force and the Wilson law is a thing of the past if the last amendment attached to the bill before its passage m the House fixing April 1 as the day on which its provisions should, go into effect shall be held to be leghl by the courts. The Re­ publicans presented an unbroken front to the opposition. All the rumors that dis­ satisfaction witli particular schedules of the ..bill might lead some of them to break over the party traces proved unfounded. On the other hand, five Democrats braved the "party whip "and gave the bill the*ap- proval of their votes. These five Democrats are interested particularly in the sugar schedule. Three came from Louisiana and two from Texas. One Populist, Mr. Howard, of Alabama, voted for. the bill- Twenty-one othW members 6f what is denominated "the/opposition'/* Consisting of Populists, fusionists and gilverites, der dined te. record themselves either for or against the measure. The Grosvenor amendment which'provided that the pro­ visions in the bill be immediately enforced was passed by a strict party vote.s The vote on the final passage of the bill stood--yeas, 205: nays, 122; present and not voting, 21. giving the bill a majority of S3. Speaker Reed added to the climax of this ten days' struggle in the House by directing the clerk to call his name at the end of the roil call, recording his vote for the bil|r< As the hour for voting arrived the ex­ citement iucreased. Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee* was recognized for five min­ utes to close the debate for- his side. HP briefly reviewed the "extraordinary" methods by which the bill was being brought to a vote. He charged that amendments were cut off because the leaders of the majority feared that they might be crushed by»their own cohorts. "I defy you now," he said, "to give us^ an opportunity to amend the sugar sched-H ule, which was framed to protect the big­ gest trust in the country. And to-day you crowned the infapiy of the bill by making it retroactive." Mr. McMillin concluded by having read at the clerk's desk the words of Speaker Reed, then in the opposition, on the occasion of the passage of the Wilson law. "With those words," said he, "I let the bill go forth to the just execration of a robbed and out­ raged people." o . Mr. Dingley then took the floor and closed the debate in a ten-minute speech. He spoke of the extraordinary circum­ stances which produced the exigency which Congress had been called in extra session to meet. The Ways and Means Committee had labored faithfully for months to adjust duties to present condi­ tions. There might be some little dis­ satisfaction with rates. He assured his colleagues and the country that he felt confident the bill would accomplish the purpose for which it was framed. . The debate being at an end, the commit­ tee rose and the bill, with pending amend­ ments, was reported to the House by Mr. Sherman, the chairman of the committee of the whole. The roll call on the pass­ age of the bill was then taken, and was followed with intense interest, and the Republicans applauded vigorously when the Speaker announced ,tlie result. The galleries joined in the demonstration. TAKE OUT A MILLION. How , the Bucket Shops of Chicago "Work" the Country. John Hill, Jr., chairman of the com­ mittee on gambling of the Chicago Civic Federation, has been at Eldora, Iowa, before the Hardin County grand jury. It is claimed he secured some valuable in­ formation affecting the bucket shops al­ leged to be running in that part of the State. It is claimed it has been proved to the satisfaction of the grand jury that a cer­ tain produce and stock exchange of Chi­ cago is doing a bucket shop business. It is claimed there that the institution--act­ ing for the Chicago concern--took $3S,000 out of Hardin County "in one week last January, and h^.seoured from the peo­ ple of Iowa over $1,000,000 during the last, four months. A large number of prominent business men, farmers and young men are among the principal losers. Mr. Hill has the names of many losers, as well as evidence in the cases. He claims that agents of the bucket shops are traveling over Iowa systematically organ­ izing the business, and that the tnai^, evidence is to the effect that two former employes prove that the business is only carried on the books of the company and not in the open market. In an interview at Eldora Mr. Hill said few people had any adequate idea of the extent to which the State of Iowa is being drained to enrich the bucket shop proprie­ tors of Chicago, and that his mission now is to secure evidence throughout the coun­ try districts that would convict those men and drive them out of the business, which, he asserts, has no conneq^on whatever; with legitimate market quotations or spec­ ulation in actual transactions on the Board of Trade, but is a system of gam­ bling in which the operator has every ad­ vantage, no matter how prices may fluctu­ ate, and the patron is inevitably a loser if he stays in after the initiatory stage of the game. Public sentiment in Eldora is largely against the bucket shops, and much con­ demnation 'has been poured out against the commission company by press and pul­ pit. One minister there directed one of his sermons as an attack upon the local concern. Young men there have been drawn into the place, and some of them have lost about all they had on wheat. A suit has been commenced in the courts by W. F. Beck, an attorney, charging fraud. One of the reasons of the grand jury continuing this investigation was in order to obtain positive proof whether- the commission company is an authorized agency of the Chicago institution. The Chicago house has leased wires from the Western Union Telegraph Com­ pany running through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa. It establishes agencies in small towns where no other bucket shop or legitimate house is represented, its ob­ ject being, apparently, to avoid compari­ sons of prices with the quotations of other houses. '; "K ' Told in a Few Lines. A hundred masked men destroyed four tollgates in Garrarcf County, Kentucky. The gatekeepers were threatened with death if any more .toll was collected. Gen. W. H. Terry, famous as a brig­ ade commander in Pickett's division, and until recently commander of the Confed­ erate Soldiers' Home at Richmond, Va., is dead. Whittingill Bros., dry goods, assigned at Louisville, Ivy. Liabilities and assets about $60,000 each. The firm also had branch houses at Madisonville, Ky.~, and Huntington, W. Va. <-- Partly Decomposed Remains of a? Man Discovered in -a Basin. ° Murder, shrouded in as much mystery as that which enveloped the case of Dr. Crd- liin, is the sensation now agitating the minds of the officials of the Cook County (111.) asylum at Dunning, the police, and others who are or may be inteaegted in the crime. \- From the catch-basin in the main seWer draining the grounds of the county insti­ tution, fifty feet from the main driveway and about 150 feet from the poorhouse, the headless body of a man was taken. In addition to the head the right, forearm w a s a l s o m i s s i n g . • . i . ; . ' v . < When taken from the basin the corpse was in a state of advanced decomposition. The trunk above the waist was but a mere skeleton, aud the internal organs of the body had entirely disappeared. Below the waist mortification was almost completed, and there Was nothing left to disclose whether or not identifying marks had ever been placed upon the body. The appear­ ance of the cadaver indicated that the head and forearm had either been torn or washed away, there being no signs of decapitation or severance by means of a knife or other instrument. ^ hen taken from its resting place the body was floating in ten feet of water, •andi the physicians who viewed it almost immediately after its release, are of opin­ ion that it had beefn imprisoned for con­ siderably-more than six months.' No the­ ory as to the cause of, the death has been advanced by; officials at the Dunning asy­ lum, and the jury of the coroner, tinder • the direction of Deputy Reynolds, return­ ed a verdict to. the effect that the un­ known person probably came to his death by drowning. ?v - ; .. The»iubtive for the crime is a mooted question, but that it is murder none of the officials doubt, although Superintendent Lange and his assistants have no theories to advance. A survey of the grounds, an examina­ tion of the conditions and general charac­ teristics of the surrounding territory lead those familiar with the situation in and about Dunning to advance three theories of murder. First, that the victim was an inmate of the poorhouse and was disposed of by other inmates, either of the alms­ house or insane ward. Second, that he was an inmate of the poorhouse and was killed by some keeper or keepers, and, third, that the "body was brought to the place from a distance and dropped into the catch-basin. WARDEN OF JOLIET PRISON. Major R. W, McClaughry at the Head of the Big Illinois Penitentiary. Major Robert W. McClaughry has re­ sumed his old post as superintendent of the .Toliet penitentiary. Few penitentiary wardens in this country know as much of penology as the major. He is the sou of a farmer and spent his early life on the farm in Illinois, upon which he was born. As a mere lad he entered Monmouth Col­ lege, and was graduated from the insti­ tution at 21. Then he took his seat as a teacher of Latin grammar, and^resigned the position to join the Union army. He raised a company of his own and entered the war as a captain of volunteers. Soon afterward he became a major and his ca­ reer in the war was honorable and gallant. After the ,w)ar he tried the stone quarry- MAJOK K. W. il'CI.AUG11KY Jng business, and made a success of it, but gave it up to study law. He aban­ doned that study when he was made warden of the penitentiary in 1871. His work in this line has gained him consid­ erable prominence among those who are interested in the prison question, aud his opinions are eagerly sought for by men in this calling. Major McClaughry, after leaving Joliet, was employed in a Penn­ sylvania reform institution. Under Mayor Washburne of Chicago he was for two years chief of police, and became noted for the vigor with" which he attacked gambling, more especially the notorious West Side racing track, which he closed up forever. He was later appointed sup­ erintendent of the Pontiac reform school, which position he still held when Gov. Tanner returned him to his old post at Joliet. Major McClaughry is 62 years old. UNCLE SAM'S PAY ROLL. Table Showing the Number of Govern­ ment Kniployes. The following table, just out, shows the division of the employes of the Govern­ ment under the various departments, and the total compensation paid to each de­ partment: Executive office, 21... $ 35,200.00 Civil service commission, 62... 91,340.00 State Department. 122 144,980i00 Treasury Department, 15,103.. 11,971,227.00 War Department, 14,967,...^. 9,951,699.02 Department of Justice, 704 1,344,909.00 Postoffice Department, 8,465... 8,826,4oS.38 Navy Department, 1,252.. «-.... 1,322,399.53 P o s i t i o n s r e g i s t e r e d u n d e r Navy . Department regula­ tions, 5,063 3,835,734.58 Interior Department, 9,713..., 8,804,407.07 Pension examining surgeons, 4,120 638,600.00 Department of Agriculture, 2.2^,1 1,713,565.70 Department of labo$, . .. 127,320.00 Commission of fish «ria fisher­ ies, 183 ISO,440.00 interstate Commerce Commis­ sion, 142 195,020.00 Smithsonian Institution, 292... 243,716.16 Library of Congress, 39 51,720,00 Superintendent-State, War and • Navy Building, 25 24,920,00 Postoffice service,- 104,811^ 38,665,025.10 Government printing service, 2,852 ..5. 2,509,830.97 Custom house service, 5,103. .. 6,333,027.30 Internal revenue service, 3,282. 3,298,266.31 Total executive civil serv­ ice United States,. 178,717.$99,3S9,S27.28 Of the total number of persons employ­ ed in the civil service 91,609 are unclassi­ fied and are not subject to examinations for appointment. The total number of the classified service, who cannot be dis­ charged without good cause and cannot be appointed without competitive exam­ ination, is 87,108. Of the classified ser­ vice 4,120 are examining surgeons for pen­ sions. The remainder are divided by sal­ aries as follows: $720 or less........ .19,745 $840 or less.......................... 8,617 S900 or less...... 1,666 §1,000 or less..... 10,605 $1,200 or less ; 18,179 J1,400 or less 6,770 1,600 or less. 4,701 $1,800 pr less. . 1,563 S2j000 or less.,.. 1,570 $2,500 or less..' 3,131 More than $2,J*)0. BIO All-Importanfc Mrs. Toplofty (anxiously)--I wonder what President McKinley's policy is going to be? " / Mr. Toplofty--In regard to what, my dear? ftlrs. Topi of ty--Why, t heater hats, of course;--:Kew York Evening World. 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We have also been giving Hood's Sarsaparilla to our youngest ; child, who was weak, languid a nd losing flesh. We could soon see a marked change. He ate better, slept well, and / in a little while was like a new hoy. He has continued to improve, arid to­ day is lively as a cricket; and the neigh- - " bors say he can talk more than any man around the place." THOMAS; WII ITK. Park Quarries, Freedom, Pal N, B.--Be sure to get Hood's because Hood's SarsaparilBa Is the best--in fact the One True Blood Purtfler. Sold by all drugghts. $1, six for $5. HOOd'S PillS fvUh'iroad's i "A Fair Face Cannot Atone for An Untidy House." Use WEHAVENO AGENTS but have sold direct to the consumer for 24 years, at wholesale prices, saving them the dealers' pro­ fits. Ship anywhere for examination be- Ever T* : warranted. fore sale. thing war: 100 styles of Car­ riages, sty las of Har- , nasn. TopBuRglesaslow 'haetons as low _ . Spring Wagons, Surrey Harnus--Pricc $15.00. 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