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,,Jm! Eft* pv' .. ..' "v • Mlrcf WORK VATDKK. 91 s. w. ron An* so yon kinder wanter know w'y I broke off withSsl? It warn't because she wtni't a good an' mighty port? gal; l'ot tSm ato't a blessed star in Heaven chines brlgbtff that her eyes. An* bar clxdn am Jest like peaches on the tree* erParsdiae! > r;. . v. As'her smile is like tha sunshine iftt upon a flower bed, .. 1 . An* tar hair Uka sprout ia' sunbeams on tha garung of bar head, Aa'herlaffislikeasingln' brook that babbles ftS it pMSM Thro' the stuck-up tiger lilies an' the party smellin' grasses. An' 1 told her that I loved bar, much aa tarty times a day, Bnt she hadn't much time to bothar, an' ktpt on with her crownhay. Wan X plumped right down afore he;, plumb upon my very knees, aid, "Git off mj rio-rao, an' you're nunplin' up mj frieze. An* I tried to falk of Bora an' tilings, an' told bar I iron Id die Unless she smilt*! upon my soot. JSba simply said, -Oh, my I J Tob'tc toaa my party tidy ddwa, an' hain't ya got no eyes I Yeu>e planted them big feet o' yourn on ar tapestries I Atf she wove in big flamingoes, snipes, an' turkeys on her rugs, An' she pointed yultef poodles on her mother's 'lapses jugs. An' she painted purple angle* on magenta- colored plaques, Ad' five orange-colored cherubs, with blue wings behind their backs. '» An'Wen I talked of km an' stuff, she'd talk of - • ? rugs an'lace, An* ax mo would I take my feet from off thet Chiny vase. I'd say, "My heart's love, oh, be mine! be minel ^:"'v ' i wholly mine?" _, "You've got y silk skein er twl say, "You've got your elbows mixed in that mine." Now I'm goin' to Arizony for to do a cowboy's *" work, Driven forth from civil'zation by the cuss or fancy fork; Bat her smile will alius hautit me, alios in my visions play, . ....... Iffcmed in latest styles of ric-rac, with a back . : J: aroun' of crowshav. BY WAY OF PARADISE. * w. T' • i - *•; --: . <. 4 BY OUVE HAKI'F.lL ' ^ was at the beginning of Uie season at a fashionable watering place, and the "arrivals" Avere coming thick and fast, ;. \ though they were so far, mostly people from far-off places, for the great New York never goes out of the city. before the 19th of June, and thus the hotel registers were not so interesting as usual, and there was a general air of expectanoy hanging over all the present guests. Two ycfnng gentlemen were standing on the piazza of the United States Hotel, when they noticed two ladies, walking slowly along the wide piazza, and they were both striking in appear­ ance, though remarkably dissimilar. One was somewhere about fifty years old, dressed in a most careless, dowdy .fashion, with a pasty complexion, and keen, sharp eyes, that restlessly turned in every direction. In one hand she carried a bundle of newspapers and in the other, a hunge umbrella, and she walked with a stealthy, eat-like move­ ment. The other was a young woman scarce out of her teens, dressed in a dark blue wollen costume, that fitted her lithe figure perfectly, and with the neat­ est of white linen cuffs and collar, boots, gloves, hat, and parasol, all of the neat­ est make and style, and with no orna­ ment except a tiny watch xsliaia. She turned toward these two young gentle­ men, and they saw a lovely face, with large dark eyes, that looked straight out from under her straight brows, and they took note of the intense red of the lips, and the dazzling fairness of the teeth, that just showed between. -Her face was womanfy and sweet, yet there was a sort of consciousness of power about her, and they watched her, as she moved gracefully along, with firm, even steps, and both felt interested in her. They returned to the register with a new interest, but could not dis­ cover the name of the lady, not knowing the number of her room. For several days Edward Harvey and Harry Stratton kept up a watch for the fair unknown, catching occasional glimpses of her, bnt finding their pres­ ence quietly ignored by her. She al­ ways seemed to have a purpose in view, though she never seemed to be doing anything, and whether she was walking or sitting, never had either a wearied or expectant look. One day Harvey's interest in her sud­ denly ccased upon the arrival of his fiancee, and he forgot all about her. Not so Stratton, who not having yet ever been in love, was at liberty to flut­ ter round this flame as miicli as he liked. He did not know her name, though he could hav. found it out if he had been willing to employ a servant as a sort of privileged spy, but he was content to see and admire her from a distance, for he certainly did admire. He never knew whether she was uware of his ex­ istence yet or not. He\ was willing to let the fates decide. --y One afternoon he was sitting on the •jride veranda, and listening to the band, and at the same time watching his un- luown lady, who was seated among a immber of other ladies. They all looked worn and tired, but she had a fresh, firm look that set them all in the shade, though there were some there who were noted beauties. The ancient wdrnan was also of the group, her beadv eyes wandering restlessly about, and her roll of papers still larger than usual. Presently the young la'dy in blue arose, not hurriedly, but as if she had remained as long as she wished, and quietly retired, apparently to her own room. Few noticed her. Then the old one rose with much commotion, and went off the scene. Stratton paid little attention to the xwt of the ladies, though he would have been welcomed pleasantly, for he was not only handsome, young, of good fam­ ily. but also very rich. After a time his attention was arrested by hearing one lady say to another, "I really don't know which one it is, but I know it is one of the two. She incites for several papers, and we must be very careful what we do or say, for ahe is unsparing in her revealing of our little follies. I just hate these women reporters and writers; now the men re­ porters are just lovely. You can hood­ wink them and make them do what you like." "I wonder which of the two it is?" "I don't know. It is curious that Heir names are alike, isn't it. I fancy it must be the old one. She looks ihe traditional authoress, doesn't she." Stratton rose hurriedly and walked off with n cigar, and oa he walked and smoked, he soliloquized: "Never! Bhe one of those horrid masculine creatures! no, indeed. How I should hate to be married to a woman who wrote for the papers. Books or magazines wouldn't be so bad; but newspapers, bah! it cannot be she." And fate in the shape of the head waiter placed them opposite each other at tables and he took special notice of her hands and searched in vain for the traditional fnkapot. Instead* he saw A ,c , Ar.." ... , * * . . S _*W A\ . soft white hands witll rosy, wall for nails, and he notieed, too, that she wore no ring or other jewelry. Her sole ornaments were flowers. ' "I wonder if she is poor," he tbanght, and then he remembered that the studied simplicity of her toilet was probably not due to poverty. She ate her dinner with appetite, choosing the simplest food, and she quietly ignored his presence, so com­ pletely that you would hove said that she saw him now for the first time. But she knew him perfectly well by name by reputation, and knew things of him and his family that he supposed un­ known, and she knew, too, that he was greatly interested in her, and she was rather pleaded and greatly amused by the knowledge. Days flew by and he still had not been able to obtain a formal introduc­ tion to the lady that he now began to admit to himself he was in love with, and he began to feel quite unhappy over it, but his mind was somewhat re­ lieved by the discovery that it was the other Miss Allen who wrote for the newspapers. He saw the grand society women coax and wheedle her, and per­ suade her to give an adequate descrip­ tion of their toilets and jewels, and she received all their civilities with smirk­ ing denials of being the writer in ques­ tion, though her denials were inteuded to prove the contrary. He despised writers more than ever. When there was a hop or a garden party, or any other special gaiety, the yoitng Miss Allen was there, under the wing of an elderly friend, and she always looked lovely and thoroughly feminine and charming, and he longed to have the privilege of dancing with her, but do his best there always seemed to be an invisible barier which he oould not surmount. She adored children, and they in turn idolized her, and she was often to be seen with a crowd of them around her, listening to the wonderful stories she told them. "I know she tells them out of her own head," said one little girl. "I've never found them in any book. They are just splendid." One day Harry Stratton mounted his horse and went off for a ride, and he rode until he was tired of himself, the horse, and the road, and was returning towards the hotel, when he saw Miss Allen walking slowly along the path which bordered the carriage-way. Just at that momenta little girl from the walk on the other side of the car­ riage-way sprang forward to join her be­ loved friend, and in the same instant a gush of wind blew a bit of white paper directly across his horse's eyes. The animal reared and plunged, and in his wild fright struck the little girl with his hoofs, and being perfectly un­ manageable he would probably have killed her, had not Miss Allen sprang forward at the'risk of her own life and snatched the child from under his feet. In another instant she was back to the path with the insensible child in her arms, and sank to the grass under her burden, for she turned strangely weak as she saw the furious beast resisting all restraint, bound off towards the lake through the road where there were hundreds of other horses and carriages full of women and children. She thought that surely Mr. Stratton would be killed, and a new kind of pain fell on her heart at the thought. But the mad beast's strength gave out and he succumbed to his rider, but be­ fore ho rode back both Miss Allen and the child were gone. He did not know what to do. He did not dare force his evidently undesired company upon her, and he did not feel easy at all. Dinner time came, and mechanically he prepared himself and went down, stepping for a moment into one of the great parlors. As he did so he saw Miss Allen near him. Immediately, without ceremony, and as if they had known each other forever, she stepped forward and addressed him: "I suppose, Mr. Stratton, you feel very uneasy about little Mabel, but I am very glad to be able to say she was not hurt seriously, and to say that you were not in the least to blame for the acci­ dent." "I thank you very much for the kind­ ness which prompted you to relieve my mind and my conscience. I have, in­ deed, felt very much distressed, and I did not know where to begin my inqui­ ries. I hope you suffered no injury in your brave rescue of the little one."' "Not at all; and as to bravery, it was not that, but a simple impulse such as any one would have felt." He wished to demur, but wij,h a look she silenced him on that subject, and then said: "Have you heard from your sister Clara lately? We were schoolmates for many years, and were very good friends?" "And yon are the Bella Allen she used to rave about? Well, I ought to have known it! We ought to be friends," he managed to say in a breath. "I mean, Clara is quite well, and w rote me yesterday that my namesake is mak­ ing great progress.* "I am glad to hear it. Shall we go to dinner, or have you dined ?" "I have not, aiyl"shall be very glad." For what, he did not say, but that he was glad there was no mistake. Miss Allen quietly ignored that there was anything peculiar in her having kept him so far away before, and treating him, if not like* an old friend, at least in a very pleasant manner, which though cordial was yet full of reserve. "She is one of those women who know just where to draw the line, and I admire her all the more for it," thought Stratton. After that day there was no restraint. In the afternoons Bella Allen and Harry Stratton could be seen together, walk­ ing or riding, or listening to the music, or dancing at the hops in the evening, and lie was hopelessly in love with the girl he had seen there for the first time, but yet whose pure, noble life, had been like an open book to him through his sister's letters, and he now remembered many noble and womanly actions that hod rendered her girlhood remarkable. And she ? Long ago his portrait had been in her eyes the type of a true man, and his brotherly letters, so full of a nobler and higher manhood than is often seen, had done much, and his presence and timid manner turned the scale altogether in his favor, and it needed but a trifle to clear the way for an avowal. One day die was down at the post- office, and had just received her mail and was about transferring the letters to her pocket, when he entered and naturally approached her. As he did so she dropped a letter to the floor. He picked it up to give her, when he no­ ticed that the envelope was the business envelope of a leading New York paper, and in a flash he knew that she was the writer,^ those keen and sprightly let­ ters, that had been attributed, by him­ self as well as others, to the elderly Miss Allen. He, however, BOW didn't think so of womt.i writers, and as he at Miss Allen they both began to laugh, and on the way back they dis- cussed the newspaper correspondence. "Do yon know," said he, with some indignation, "that everybody supposes that old maid writes those letters ?" "I am very glad of it," replied she. "I have written now four years, and have always managed that suspicion should fall upon some one else, and I always find some one, like that poor old woman, vaiu enough to accept the mis­ take others make. I enjoy it, and so does she, I hope. She does not know that it is I." "But when do you find time?" Oh, I get up at 6 every morning and work till about 2, and then observe the rest of the day." "Bella, I think you are the most won­ derful woman I ever saw. Let us walk over to the deer park," he continued, irrelevantly, as they approached the ho­ tel. They walked "along the plank way until they came to the inclosure where the deer are confined. Something told her a crisis wafs approaching, and for the first time her eyes fell. "Bella, there are deers and dears. You are a dear, and I want you for my park--Avenue home. Will you come? You cannot tell how much I want you." "I suppose so," she answered, very softly, and they went home by the way of Paradise. >. • • • Feats of Hindoo Jugglers. _ t -wfcs sitting On the veranda of a French planter's house one afternoon when two men appeared. Their only apparel was the langanti, or ordinary cotton cloth, about the loins. They had in their hands a basket such as grocers in Brooklyn have potatoes in. This they brought to us and we examined it carefully and satisfied ourselves that it was entirely empty. Then they sat down cross-legged in front of us and placed the basket upside down before them. Then they commenced, one to play vig­ orously upon an instrument like a file and the other to sing, meantime appar­ ently not touching the basket. After the playing had continued for some minutes the basket was removed and there was an immense snake coiled up. He was as big around as my arm and very poisonous. As the men continued playing he began to erect himself and looked terribly vicious. Then one of the men took a small stick and gently stroked his back, when he immediately began to subside and in a few moments he was again coiled up and the basket was placed over him. Some more play­ ing and the basket was again lifted up and behold the snake was gone. We sat within a few feet of the jugglers, watched them closely, but were unable to fathom the mystery. I offered to pay the juggler if he would explain it, but he said his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather had all earned their living by showing that same triok and he could not divulge it. My theory is that the snake was concealed in the langanti about the waist of one of the performers and he had been trained to pass and repass quickly from his place of concealment to the basket. I have seen jugglers fill pots with earth and then make plants grow out of the earth while I was looking at them. The plants were from three to four inches long and from ten to fifteen minutes were con­ sumed in their reaching their full size. Another trick, which is very common but very curious and amu?iDg, may be described as follows: A number of jugglers sit cross-legged upon the ground, they have fens in their hands, and by their sides are a number of slips of thin paper of a variety of colors. The latter they pick up and quickly twist into shapes which resembles butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, and the like. These they dexterously throw into the air and keep floating by fanning them. Stakes are driven into the earth, from which lines are strung, and upon these the jugglers finally make their floating pa­ per insects to light. So skillful were they that they compelled some to light on a string drawn at a sharp angle, and they also made some to light on the noses and ears of the spectators. I saw a man take a joist so heavy that it re­ quired four men to lift it, put it upon n cushion placed upon his head, and make it spin around till you could not distin- guish what the object was. Still an­ other amusement was for a man to spread ont his hand horizontally upon a board while another stood off some distance, take a long knife by the end of the blade, and, throwing it, stick the ]ioint into the board always between the fingers. This feat was performed with great skill and accuracy.--Brook­ lyn Eagle. Whale Meat as a Diet. Talk of butchers' shops! A whale is a whole meat-market in itself. It is a' floating Smithfield, a marine edition of Copenhagen fields, an entire Billings­ gate. Nobody need ever starve when whales are in season. A few of them would provision a city f r a long siege. Fortunately, as the world grows older, it learns to judge more fairly of neg­ lected kinds of provisions. It is a pity sthat the true value of whale flesh has not been discovered long ago. How many poor families might have been amply fed, if only "whale extract" had come into fashion years back! Gour­ mands should also show their gratitude for the gift of a fresh flavor. It must be admitted, with regret but without hesitation, that the list of ordinary arti­ cles of food is very limited, and that beef and mutton are apt to become mo­ notonous, even when veried with flesh and poultry, and all the etable fruits of the earth as well. The edibility of the whale is, therefore, an exciting "dis­ covery." The only drawback to the pleasant picture which arises when the mind contemplates 50,000 people dining off one animal is contained in the thought that whales, when they are proved to be valuable for dietio purposes, will be hunted until they become scarce and perhaps extinct. To guard against this danger wo have no doubt that whale- breeding would come into fashion. Peo­ ple who found other forms of food cul­ ture unremunerative might remove to countries where the climate allowed whales to live in comfort, and establish whale-forms at the months of tidal rivers. There is, in fact, no end to the openings for enterprise and ingenuity which are available owing to this re­ markable addition to the domestie larder.--Ferdinand Seeger, M. D., in Medical Classics. PBINCE88' TRAIN--Her retinue. Fur­ below--That on the skirt of the dude's ulster. Low, coarse ages--The dark ages. Gored--The matadore; fre­ quently. Caught up with cord--The hanged criminal. Cut by us--Unpleas­ ant acquaintances. A. V. corsage--A five dollar one.--Boston Courier. A TEA8POONFCL of salt in each kero­ sene lamp makes the oil giva a much clearer and batter light. "i ^ THE rtdSlDEMlAITlffl' INW-STAtE COMMERCE. COUPUT1 HKTUKNS SHOW CT.EYK- IBRD'S PLUIAUTT TO BE 9S.SS4. OMnlal Fl|tma firom All but Tkrss 8tales --Rorolt In tha Grand Army «t tha Re­ public--What the Veterans Think--Other Items of Interest. [Chicago special.] The popular vot« of all the States for President Nov. 6. 1888. as compiled by the Daily Tribune of this city, the figures in nearly every case being official, lajilven be­ low. The results in Colorado. Minnesota, and "West Virginia have not been officially declared, but the nearest approximations possible have been made: rOFOLAB VOTE OF 1838 FOB THB RISIHT XXJKT- OR8 ON MAC H TICKET. STAT*. Alabama Arkansas California... Colorado.. Connecticut.......... Delaware.... Florida..... Georgia Illinois,... indiana.... Iowa...... Kansas. Kentucky............ Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts. Michigan..... Minnesota. Mississippi Missouri... Nebraska...... Nevada New Hampshire.... New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhole' Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virgin!* West Virginia....... Wisconsin Total.. Plurality i Cleve­ land. 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Scattering votes, 6,11\ ITS IMPORTANCE MINIMIZED. Opinions of IIMWSHS Veterans on the Re­ volt in the flfasd Army of the Repub­ lic. [Indianapolis (Ind.) telegram.] The so-called split in the Grand Army of the Republic, which originated here, con­ tinues au uppermost themo in veteran cir­ cles and with the local press. That the movement has been greatly exaggerated by the Eastern press, is admitted on all sides. The livening J\>tes (Independent) says that the organization of Democratic soldiers is so far of less importance than it lias been made to appear, aud charges that the reports regarding it, are based upon information emanating from Adju­ tant General Koontz. Inquiries among Democrats who belong to the G. A. li., demonstrate that very few of them are in sympathy with the movement, and do not indorse the assertions of Gen. Koontz in saying that politics has been introduced in the order. Major Irvin Robins, one of the ex-commandeis of Georare H. Thomas Post, who was probably more prominent in organizing Democratic soldiers during tho campaign than any other man in the party, is not a member of tho association formed by Adjt. Gon. Koontz, having declined to join it. There are many other Democratic ex-soldiers of prominence who do not belong to the organization, among them Governor Gray. Col. Zollin ger, Haj. Mitchell and others. Maj. Mitchell, who is a prominent Democrat and Prosecuting Attorney for Marion County, speaking of the matter, said: "Asa member of the G. A. R.. I can say that during all the time I have belonged to George If. Thomas Post polities never at any time, in any shape, manner, or form, entered into the work of the post, any more than politics may be introduced into church organiza­ tions. It cannot be made any more of a political organization than the order of Ma­ sons, Odd Fellows, or Knights of Pythias." • Colonel I. N. Walker, Assistant Adjutant General of tho G. A. R., Department of In­ diana. sent the following pointed statement to the Associated Press: "I want to enter a protest against the statements and interviews published, es­ pecially in the Eastern press, about a de­ fection among the comrades of the G. A. R. in this department. Nothimr of the kind has occurred, and the membership was never more united and enthusiastic in their support of tho order than now. The hand- iul of disappointed oftlce-seekers here that .have succeeded in getting themselves ad vertised throughout the country have no standing, and never had. in the G. A. K. or out of it. for that matter. The whole business has been engineered by half a dozen chronics, and at no meeting have they been able to secure the attendance of fifty persons, and not to exceed half these have over been members of the G. A. R. No Democrat of standing or iniluenee in this community, who is a member of the G. A. R. can be found opposing the order. On tho oontrary. scores of comrades of that politi­ cal faith have personally and by letter de iiounced the attempt of these small-fry politicians. The Department of T,iiinna is all right" GRAND ARMY ORDBR8. Vartons Appointments Blade sad Iastrmc tions Issued. (Kansas City (Mo.) telegram.] General Order No. 4 of the Grand Army of the Republic has been issued. W. F. R. Schnidler, of Prescott, A. T., is ap­ pointed a member of the National Coun cil of Administration from Arizona. The order gives instructions to the Inspector Generals changing tbetime of closing their annual inspection from Dec. 31 to June 30. The report of the Pension Committee is given and commended, and the follow­ ing named as the Pension Committee George A. Merrill, Lawrence, Mass.; Jas Tanner, Brooklyn, N. Y.; John S. Count*. Toledo, Ohio; John W. Burst, Sycamore\ 111.; and Richard W. Blue, Plensanton, Kan. The certificate of membership, which was ordered by (he National En­ campment, is now ready for issue, and has been copyrighted for the Grand Army of the Republic. .TELEGRAPHIC TICKINGS. Interesting Items Gathered from a Variety of Source*. AT New York three Germans and • Frenchman committed snicide in One day. JAMES GAKDNER'H roller mills, at Stroudsburg, Pa , were burned, at a loss of $32,000; insurance, $10,000. AT West Bay City, Mich., the saw mills of L. L. Hotchkiss <fc Co. were burned at a loss of $65,000; insurance, $50,000. AT Altoona, Pa;, burglars caused a fire which burned a half-dozen stores and a row of stables. The loss is about $15,- 000. THE remains of Mis. T. T. Pitman (-Margery Dead"), who died in Paris, were brought homo to Newport for Inter­ ment. THE shipment^ of iron ore from the Lake Superior region during 1888 have exceeded ail previous annual shipments from that district. IT is believed that the Rev. W. L. Par­ ker, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, of Oswego, N. Y., who disappeared re­ cently, committed suicide by drowning. H. P. STANLEY, book-keeper for the Morlach Dry Goods Company, Arkansas City, Ark., has disuppeared, it is supposed to Canada, $9,500 short in his accounts. Gov. TAYLOR has been enjoined from issuing a certificate cf election to H. Clay Evans, Republican Congressman-elect from the Third Tennessee District, tha petitioners preferring charges of frand. A NUMBER of clergymen met at New York lately to make arrangements for ^ , . . . religious services in churches throughout t navigable waters of the country te put m the country on the morning of April 30 ' * making nublishine\ and Certain Legislatlen Urged to Carreet Ex­ isting KtUs--The Long and Short Haul- Cases Submitted and Acted Upon. • [Washington <D. C.) special.] The Inter-state Commerce Commission estimates the railroad mileage of the coun­ try on June 80, 1888, at 15*2.781 miles, of which 2,312 were completed within the pre­ ceding six months. The number of cor­ porations represented in the mileage is 1,251, but by reason of leases, etc., many corporations operate roads owned by other •orporations. and the whole number making reports of operation was 655. Of the 107 cases submitted to the com­ mission, 50 have been decided, 23 with­ drawn or settled, 10 Suspended by request, and 24 are still pending. The report says there have been few cases under the long and short haul clause in the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio. Last July, however, the Chi­ cago, St. Paul & Kansas City railroad, op­ erating a line from Chicago to St. Paul and Minneapolis, announced its purpose to reduce very largely its rates between the termini of its road without reducing inter­ mediate rates, and laid down two proposi­ tions as justifying its action: First, its rates to intermediate stations were perfectly just and reasonable, and therefore there was no injustice in maintaining them: and, second, the rates between its terminal points were forced down by the unfair competition of another line. The report says: "The reasoning seemed strong fl*d was certainly plausible, but this was a state of things that might be made to exist at any point of railroad connection in the country, and if the greater charge on the shorter haul was admissible in this case the rule of the fourth section would be of no practical value whatever. Any railroad company might by its action absolve a competitor from its obligation and be itself absolved in return. The legislature did not intend, as the commission believed, that the carriers subject to the law should at pleasure thus make the rule of the statute in effect. The carrier under investigation conformed to. this conclusion and graded its rates accord­ ingly, and the objectionable rates made by the carrier complained of were also soon discontinued." With some exceptions, resulting from ocean competition, the rule of the short- haul provision of the law has been put in force upon the transcontinental roads, where its operations and effect can be observed under what now appear to be favorable conditions. In the Southern and South­ western States the commission has had rea­ son to think the carriers were moving more slowly in bringing their tariffs into confor- ' mity with tho general statutory law than in other sections. An investigation Has been ordered on Dec. 18. The report then takes up the subject of the effect of the Inter-State Comnw rce law upon common carriers, and says that al­ though some railroad managers have de­ clared it to have bad a damaging effect the commission is possessed of no evidonce showing that the general remit has been otherwise than beneficial. Railroad busi­ ness has suffered'in the past year not be­ cause of tho Inter-State Commerce act, but owing to strikes, new parallel lines, and rate wars. "With reference to the rate wars in the Northwest and among tho trunk lines during tho year the report Fays: "As is commonly tho case in rate wars, the trunk lines1 difficulties resulted from suspicions on the |>art of carriers respect­ ively that their competitors were cutting the ojten rates, and reductions were made to recover freight which parties to the agreement claimed was their duo, but which they were not getting becauso of the secret cutting by others. Efforts of the commission to obtain evidence of the prac­ tices suspected have been wholly ineffectual, and the war of rates proceeds without pos­ sibility of external authority interposing to bring it to an end. The legal right of the carriers to reduce their general scale of rates to any extent under the law as It now stands is believed to be unquestionable; they have done so, and whether with any ultimate benefit to themselves is at least very questionable. The making of unreasonably low rates, the report estimates, is often for stock-job­ bing purposes, or to compel the purchase of tho road by competing lines. Persons having control of railroads may deliberate­ ly make insufficient rates in the expectation of profits to be indirectly and improperly derived therefrom. Every case of rate war may be regarded as one of this charac­ ter. Present profits are sacrificed on a calculation that by crippling a rival or forcing an agreement or compromise on some matter of contention the loss will in time be more than made up. In the ma­ jority of such bases the losses exceed the gains. The report says that the tendency among railroads seems likely to be in the direction of consolidation as the only means to pre­ vent rate war, now that pooling is forbid­ den, and adds: "But anything equivalent to the creation of what is now technically dominated as a trust could hardly be supposed possible, even if the parties were at liberty to form it at pleasure. If the parties could come into harmony on the subject of an arrange­ ment of the sort would be so powerful in its control over the business of the country, and so susceptible to uses for mischievous purposes, that public policy could not for a moment sanction it, at least unless by statute it were held in close legal restraints and under public control. Like arrange­ ments in other lines of business are suffi­ ciently threatening to the public interest, and the most ardent advocate of the con­ centration of railroad authority cannot reasonably expect that anything of the sort to control the transportation of the country will be provided for by legislation. Lacking concentration of authority, rail­ roads can do much toward better relations with the public, and do better service, by first establishing better relations among themselves." While the commission is not at this time prepared to recommend general legislation toward the establishment and promotion of relations between the carriers that shall bet­ ter subserve the public interest than those which are now common it must, neverthe­ less, look forward to the possibility of some­ thing of that nature becoming at some time imperative unless a great improvement in the existing conditions is voluntarily inau­ gurated. The report next considers the subject or the effect of the law upon cities, showing that the act has in some cases benefitted consuming interior cities and injudiciously affected distributing points formerly favor­ ed in rates. The commission believe uni­ formity in classification, as fast as possible, without serious mischief, is desirable. Tho requirement of annual returns from carriers by water has not been overlooked, and the commission renews recommenda­ tions made in its preceding report. The commission believes notice of intention to reduce any rate ought to be published not leas three days before the reduction, and that the penal provisions against falsa billing, wrong classification, etc., should embrace also the owner of the property or any party acting for the owner or con­ signor of property who shall be party to any such unlawful conduct. The commis­ sion suggests that the question thus raised be settled by express provision. The commission favors joint tariffs and through rates and recommends that the carriers engaged independently in inter- State traffic on the rivers, lakes, and other the next, being the centennial of the inaugu­ ration of President Washington. A MORMON church has been in exist­ ence in Brooklyn, N. Y., for six months. Elders Potts and Smith, who preach there, claim that they do not believe in polyga-. respect to the making, publishing, and maintaining rates upon the same footing with inter-State carriers by rail, so that the excuses now made by carriers by rail for great disparities for rates for corres­ ponding transportations as between points which are not "affected by water competi- large extent be TXOB AHXUAI. REPORT OP *HE' IttU TERIOR DEPARTMENT! BssnWyTHsi Discourses ok PnbUe T ends, ssd Indians and SnKffcsts Certain Changes--The Work of the tssd Offloe Ought to Be Expedited. [Washington (X). C.) telecram.] Secretary Vilas begins his annual re­ port on the work of the interioi department by giving a detailed ao- cou •*, of the doings of the public land oflVse. The total number of acres patented during the year was 8,60h,194, divided as follows: Agricultural lands, 7,500,000 acres; mineral and coal lands, 15,988; railroad lands, 829,162; swamp lands, 96,515; internal im­ provement and educational grants to states, '19,205; miscellaneous, 26, AOS. The final entries made during the year number 70,468, embracing 11,2140,162.53 acres,* original entries, 72,479, embracing 10,985, - 670.01 acres; railroad and state selections were filed covering 7,790,851.91. Thus, in addition to the final entries, specific claims have been newly asserted to 1H, 776,521.92 acres during the year. The receipts from the disposals of public lands were $12,701,- 072; frc m sales of Indian lands, $821,113; a total of $13,522,185. The report lays particular stress upon the necessity for some method of expediting the work of the land office. On June 30, 238,- final entries were pending, and the 157 fmy, which is not countenanced, th$y ^ t^e!0^ to a |he teacMngs of JosepbJtoith. ' * ***** ***?' number of new entries made during the year was 70,468 more than all the final en­ tries disposed of during the same period. At the same time there were pending 350,- 953 original entries, of which 217,740 were homesteads, 25,429,867 acres of unadjusted railroad selections under swamp-land grants, and 1,850,000 state selections for educational and internal-improvement pur­ poses. The report says: "The commissioner recommends an in­ crease of the force of his office--a natural suggestion. But, although I venture it with^diffidence because of the limited oppor­ tunity afforded hie for study of the subject, it is my opinion that a thorough atid radi­ cal organization of the land office should be the first step taken, accompanied by a pro­ vision of quarters suitable to the perform­ ance of the work. Neither an increase of the force nor a reorganization of the bureau can be made with much increase of efficien­ cy while clerks, tract books, records, and voluminous papers are huddled and crowded in the unsatisfactory apartments now occu­ pied by the land office." Repeal of Pre-Kmptlon tsws. The passage by Congress of the House bill repealing the laws providing for pre­ emptions, timber-culture entries, public and private sales and the commutation of homestead entries by cash payments Is recommended. As a moasure of administra­ tive relief it would lie of great value, while tho homestead law furnishes all the oportu- nity for settlers to obtain agricultural lands which is necessary for five years at least. The repeal of the desert-land law is recom­ mended. The total number of acres of land restor­ ed to the public domain during the year Mid opened to enrry Wa* 83,158,999, as follows- 1-ands in grants I railroa i limits restored, 2,108,417 acres; forfeitures of railroad grants under act* of Congress, 28,253,347 acres; railroad indemnity lands restored, 21,323,600 acres; private land claims, 759,- 553 acres; entries under pre-emption and homestead laws, etc., canceled, 29,729 acres; invalid State selections, 98-1,319 acres. In addition, the recovery and resto­ ration of 65,029,538 acres has baen recom­ mended, of which 56, *>54,983 acres are rail­ road grants. The rejwrt says. "The large estimate embraced under the head of bills now before Congress for rail­ road forfeitures can not, perhaps, be real­ ized, because a considerable portion of these lands lie within the limits of grants In aid of railroads which have been constructed,, and the principal ground for action is Chat the road was not built within the time orig­ inally limited. The forfeiture might have been declared had Congress taken timely action. Stlch action not having been taken, it is a question of doubt whether it be now competent in law for the grantor, although a sovereign proprietor, to decree that con­ sequence after tho condition has been actu­ ally performed without interruption on its part; and, if it be legally permissible, the question of the equity of such action ap­ pears likely, judging from the past, to throw a barrier in its way.1' Indian Affairs. The report says great progress has been made in the deliverance of the Indians from the ideas and habits of the past, and they now manifest less prejudice against the acceptance of the habits of civilized life, and more readily and willingly adapt themselves to the measures designed for their improvement. This has been done by weakening the obstructive influence of chiefs and head men and by extending|the jurisdiction of courts to Indian cases. A large portion of this gain is ascribed to the increased honesty of the Indian agents, and the Secretary recommends that the best possible ability should be secured in the person of these agents, and that an increased compensation should be paid. The exten­ sion of educational advantages is also urged go as to embrace all the Indian youth of the country of teachable age. "Let but the present generation of Indian youth be. uni­ versally instructed according to their ca­ pacity and the Indian question is settled, because there will be no Indians .when the generation of youth becomes the jpneratkm of manhood." Referring to the allotment of land in sev­ eralty to Indians the report says: "The Indians occupying the reservations where the work of alloting lands is in pro­ gress are, and have been for some time past, as fully prepared to take this import­ ant step for their advancement in civilisa­ tion as they would, under the existing cir­ cumstances, likely be for some years to come. Some other tribes or bands are as well fitted and qualified and are willing to take allotment, and some of these are represented as impatient to secure them. Many of the tribes and bands. do not yet look with favor upon this law for taking their lands in severally, and while a large portion of them an not sufficiently prepared for it by the nocessary training to the habits of industry to war­ rant the taking of any steps for applying its provisions to them, many others are as well fitted now to make the effort to main­ tain themselves by their own labor upon a soparate estate as they will probably other­ wise become at any time in the near future. All should be taught that they should pre­ pare to adjust themselves to the general policy of this law and under its provisions pass from the condition of wards to that of citizens of the United States." "The amount paid for pensions, during the year was $78,775,861.92, an increase over the previous year of $5,308,280.22; the difference between the actual payments and the annual value having been occas­ ioned by first payments involving arrears. Thus there were paid to 64,282 pensioners, receiving first payments during the year the sum of $22,299,H05.46, and there remained in the hands of pension agents 6,574 cases of this kind unpaid on the BOfch of June, upon which were due $2,465,722.59. The cost attending the disbursement of this money, embracing the pay of the officers and employes of the bureau, its agents, sur­ geons, special examiners, and others, was $3,262,524.67, making the total expenditure for all purposes by the bureau during the year $82,03«,385.59, being 21$ per cent of the total gross income of the United States for that time, and nearly 31 per cent of the total expenditures cf the government for the fiscal year. This entire business was transacted without defalcation or financial irregularity involving the government, and there was some acceleration of the rapidity ol jujmauLjfcT:*- .'"'w er the Meet Oar Retch 8CHOOWL --The the Snperii leafettl of PlUMl for this State, Mt the cottiMM of public schools, and covtdl| the ending June 30 last, contains an immense interesting and instt««tfti in some respects being lb* partment has ever prsfawi. r with the education of 1.690,MIT an army of 21,900 teachers, • enormous outlay of over The very full statistics that prepared with much labor exhibit an interesting and rtry Iftsl state of affairs. They show there were in the State at the the report, June 30, 1858, 1,1 persons under' 21 years of age, 1,624.981 at corresponding date two previous. Of this number 825,664 wen»s females and 843,976 males, against 804,199' females and 820,761 malts* in 1 m: Of per­ sons of school#ge,that 1% ieiwetBUsfi Mad 21 years of age, whom 751,349 were enrolled in thf jgrtiiO' schools during the year, against ?4$3|tfirisfc 1886. The total number of amounted to the grand aggregate i)if19,- 416,048. For some years past tbe,pldk7 has been to check the number of school districts ^d inai(§ttto a system of greater concentration, a view to establishing central high efciiijfoi and making the grades in the to#Bg|iIp schools reach upward into the 'ldjjf|er branches wherever found pr increase in the number of two years, therefore, is only two. a total at present of 11,536, of 423 bad school 110 days or mors la i There are 12,208 school btdlditgl State, an increase of 49. Ibewtoipl a marked improvement in the ture, general style and quality of tlkei buildings, and the item of oh these will amount to total. There are 1,328 graded i 10,826 ungraded, or a total of 12,1 lie schools in the State. The n« teachers increases as noticeably other items, and now show an 22,984, of whom 9,482 females and 5^93 males taught in the ungraded schools aldpe. This is an increase of 2,444 in thefolOKef instructors in two years. There wete l.tiS males and 6,262 female teaahets far'tbe graded sohools. The _ .«! salary paid any male teacher in iiiafai was $300, and the highest to Up^ $217.50. The lowest to any malai was $12.50, paid in Lawrence Cos the lowest to any lady teacher Schuyler, Richland, «uul The average monthly wages pftlA t was $52.93, against $52.14 twoi and the average to females $43 $41.73 two years ago. The teachers in the private against 2,292 in 1860. To ftnibense educational ent< State an enormous monetat necessity. ' The expenditures follows: $10, fori --x »- For salaries of teachers... Sites, buildiQfS, furniture, etc.... Fuel and Incidentals County Superintendents' salaries Interest, treasurers and clerks' sala­ ries vi> < ' to ' a .} xae *> IArfS ' , J * * J Total These items are the official cepting the last, which is a close and in the aggregate they show thft: ] outlay for educational purpose! of State except New York, which till pended $13,284,886. This, h0W#fW» : so large a per capita outlay as that of ] nois. California expended $3,G her schools in 1886, which is perhaji*'^ only per capita expenditure h» the thi$ States that equals or excels State for edaoational purposes >: ̂ --•» --The Commissioners of (h* Illinois Penitentiary, at Chests*, Imv* submitted to the Governor their Mfittt for the two years ending Sept. 30, 188$. ft shows that there were 741 convicts en hand in October, 1886, 13 of whess^j females. During the two yeas l and 19 females were recejhred, males and 17 fei&ales were died, or let ofit on writs, etc. cost to the State for each convie was 40 cents. The expenditures period show a reduction of $57,C the expenditures for the two years. The brickyard, which is raa< public account system, Shows a grin of $16,761 for one year's business, or an earn­ ing of 77 4-10 cents per convict per day. New buildings to the value of $14$>t8S have been erected. All the work '•# penters, stonecutters, bricklayers, ti|||Rj^,> etc., has been done by convicts, actual cost to the State was but The Commissioners nek for an approprla- , tion of $10,000 less per year than Jor tte; former two years. --R. A. Rodesch, dealer in musical struments at Di*on, has assigned. --Daniel Reahle, who wrote a IsMicot 125 pages to Bismarck, the German |?)Mft- oellor, asking him to visit Itockfotd satA exterminate the Americans^ has been clared insane, at RockfordL / --A. J. McVey, of Decatur, died of p*»' ralysis, aged 71 years. He left six giowftj children. --Mrs. Sarah Plunk, wife of Thomas Plunk, one of the prominent citisens and a leading farmer of Piatt County, died ai : her home, east of Monticello, in her 45tfc year. --At £lida, Winnebago County, Joltt A. Heckey's house was burned, and in it a|. 2-month-old babe which was lying in * cradle in the kitchen. The parents vm in the field at the time, and tbe kitchen was enveloped in flames before they reached it. The mother was culty restrained from leaping intoikri^g| for her little one. The father en«i to reach the cradle through a means of a rake, but it we* too he had to abandon it. #ot a partiolliCit the infant could be foand, and the/1 derly took up the a-has where the stood and buried them. ffe --At Canal, Arthur MMte killed by the accidental dk ^01 ̂ *"•*> > ' ' « ̂ £m'< -»;,w »•"