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r- 1N ILLINOIS. IMxsKKSTING ITEMS OtTHEBXD *BOM VAKIOUf bOlBCZS^\ "W*** Oar Keî hbom Are Ddlnj -- Mstten 5,' Vf' General and Local Interest -- Mar- v, > ;'i'a8®» and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes t« "-i'ernonal Pointers. COI-. WIGGINS' JERSEY COW. WY" ---The Leland farm is perhaps the bwt ^ Advertised landed estate in Illinois. "But­ ter, milk, cream, and buttermilk from the Iceland farm" is a familiar announcement to the people who stop at the Leland Ho- . tel, in Chicago, and Colonel Wiggins is often called upon by the incredulous to tell what he knows about farming. The Colonel is a practical farmer, and he knows all that is going on put at the farm. He drives out every day, and in the summer time the farm is the xtuuily home rather than the hotel. Before Billy Mason was elected to Congress, and while he was a member of the State Senate, he had a fond-, < nees for the farm that may be explained by the story which Colonel Wiggins tells. The Colonel invited Senator Mason and a party Of jolly people out to the farm one day to JOe the fine stock and drink buttermilk fresh from the churn. While they were _ in the house looking about, the Colonel dipped out and had an interview with the housekeeper. Then he joined his friends, and after a while they called for some milk. Aunt Peggy, the housekeeper brought in a pail of milk, and set it down on the table, with cups and mngs for drinking vessels. The boys dipped into the milk and tasted it, then smacked their lips, looked at the Colonel, and drank down the contents of their cups with more Satisfaction than statesmen usually show over the product of a dairy farm. such milk, and Colonel Wiggin gravely ^assured them that the little dairy cow in the first stall there in the barn gave such milk the year round. There was much comment over the milk, and they wanted to know why the Jersey cow's milk was not sent to the Leland Hotel. Their en­ thusiasm is not to be wondered at, since the Colonel knows perfectly how to make a milk punch, and the contents of the pail was the -joint product of the Le­ land bar and the Leland dairy farm. While they praised the dairy product they emptied the pail and called Aunt Peggy to know if it wasn't milking time again, and to please bring them the milk from the little Jersey cow. Without a smile or a wink, without even looking at the Col­ onel for instructions she walked out to the dairy-house and soon appeared with another bucket of milk. The Colonel's guests thought they hod turned the joke on him, and it was with a merry twinkle in his eye that Billy Mason approached the bucket to take a drink of real Jersey milk. But Col. Wiggins knew his crowd and he had prepared two pails of punch instead of one. Mason lifted the cup to his lips, tasted, and then turned to the housekeeper with a solemnity that was phenomenal for the jolly statesman. "Aunt Peggy," said he, "I am apoor man, a desperately poor man. I have a wife and six small children who are worse off than orphans. They have a father who is very poor. It is true, I manage to pay the house rent, that they shall not be turned into the street, but I am too poor to do much more. Aunt Peggy, I am absolutely poverty stricken." The old lady began to sympathize with the handsome young fellow in his desperate struggles with poverty, and his friends thought that Billy might have taken enough punch to make him moody, but he went on seriously and solemnly. "Yes, poverty stricken, Aunt Peggy, but I'll give you just $1,000,000 for that Jersey cow." There was a roar of laughter, but the kind- hearted old housekeeper had her sympa­ thies too much moved to join in the mer-n riment, and, with a look of blank bewilder­ ment, she stared at Mr. Mason, and with a shake of the head she hurriedly left the room. Wiggins had his joke and Mason his, but the jolly Congressman from the Third District will never be able to con­ vince Aunt Peggy that he knew just what he was saying or doing the last time he sited the Leland farm, and she cautions Colonel against giving his guests too much "Jersey milk" when he brings them >mthere. sr - --Bock Island Division,- Uniform Bank, Knights of Pythias, has been instituted by 8tate Inspector Sir Knight Spencer, of Bloomington. Twenty-eight knights sign­ ed the roll as charter members. The fol­ lowing officers were elected: Sir Knight Captain, H. C. Cleveland; Sir Knight First Lieutenant, G. L. Eyster; Sir Knight Sec­ ond Lieutenant, S. B. Wright; Sir Knight Beoorder, A. D. Huesing; Sir Knight Treasurer, J. F. Bobinson; Sir Knight ' Guard, Fred Hodges. --Joseph A. Moore, the Indianaplis agent of a Connecticut life and loan com­ pany, who, after gathering in some $500, - 000 of the oompany's money, departed for Canada, arrived in Chicago over the Grand Trunk line the other evening, and left again by the same route. He was recognized at the Polk Street Depot by an old Indiana acquaintance and admitted " Us identity. •--Fred Souther*, of Bloomington, was attested at New Orleans on a charge of embezzling $100 from the Cigarmakers' Union. --Miss Luella Kimball was arrested at Bloomington for thiowing carbolic acid Upon several ladies at the Second Presby­ terian Church of that city. Mrs. George P. Ela was quite severely burned on the arm, but esoaped the worst by quickly arising from her seat. A little girl was burned slightly on the face and a man on the hand. Miss Kimball is an elderly maiden member of a prominent family, and has on several occasions been tried for insanity, but each time acquitted. She is supposed to be insane. • --There is a strong movement on foot looking to .the removal of the United States Custom House at Galena to Bock Island. The Citizens' Improvement As­ sociation at Bock Island has adopted res­ olutions setting forth that the present location leaves the whole territory between Burlington and Dubuque without the ben­ efit of a custom house; that as it now is, it is inconvenient, and petitioning the Sec- retary of the Treasury to make the change. ft --Mrs. Catherine Meacham, an old set­ tler of Piatt County, died »t her home in aft«,i% lingering illness. -Quiaoj was aglow with enthusiasm the other night, the occasion being the opening of the Hotel Newcomb with a grand ball and banquet, which was par­ ticipated in by the citizens and their fam­ ilies generally, as well as many visitors from abroad, who seemed as rejoiced as the Quincyites over their new hostelry. The Hotel Newcomb was bnilt by a stock company, at a cost of $150,000, upon the site of the Old Quincy House, which was erected in 1838, and destroyed by fire in 1883. The Newcomb is a handsome brick structure, five stories high, with a front­ age of 200 feet on Fourth street and 120 on Main street. B. F. Newcomb, in whose honor the hotel is named, enjoys the rep­ utation of being one of Quincy's most en­ terprising citizens. He organized the' stock company, and has been Chairman of the executive and building committees during (he time oeoopied in construc­ tion. --Mrs. Elizabeth McKnight, of Bloom­ ington, has been adjudged insane. --Mrs. Catherine £. Felt, widow of L. S. Felt, for many years a9wholesale dry- goods dealer of Galena, died at Pass Christian. Miss., congestion of the lungs. --George Katrfnger, at Derinda, com­ mitted suicide be9ause of melancholy. --An English syndicate has secured control of the McAvoy Brewing Company, and the establishments of the Wacker A Birk Brewing and Malting Company, and the Michael Brand Brewing Company, of Chicago. The consideration paid was f1,800,000. --H. A. Beaumont, 4 boiler inspector employed by the American Steam Boiler Insurance Company, of Chicago, lost his (n.1 t ,, , , . , , , , i hfe recently, being suffocated by gases. They wanted to know what herd produced) -ljr_ _ , . . .. , , ... , _ , , w. . , Mr. Beaumont was sent to the Calumet Iron and Steel Company's mill at Cum­ in ings to inspect a boiler. His work necessitated his crawling under the boiler. He was seen to go beneath it and after quite a period of time was missed. Search was made and his lifeless body discov­ ered. Gases generated in the b'ast fur­ nace had accumulate^ in the narrow space under the boiler and the unfortu­ nate man had been asphyxiated. --Dr. Edwin Jndson, an old and wealthy citizen of Chicago, is dead. Dr. Jndson, known to all old settlers in Cpok County, was born in Hartford, Conn., the 22d day of February, 1809. He was educated in the profession of dentistry in his native city, and practiced there until he went to Chicago about fifty years ago. He was among the very first dentists who located there, and practiced there about twenty years, when he retired. Dr. Judson had for some years been in delicate .health and had, in accordance with his doctor's orders, done much travel abroad. He left a widow and one daughter, the latter the wife of F. W. Tourtellotte. The deceased was known as a man of unimpeachable integrity and was universally esteemed. --Gibson, Parish A Co.'s hardware and upholstery supply store, on Bandolph street, between State and Dearborn streets, Chicago, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,0 JO. --The Sogers Siberian Iron and Tin Plate Company, of Chioago, with a capi­ tal stock of $200,000, for the manufacture of sheet iron and tin plates, has been in­ corporated by William Bogers, W. E. DuBtin, S. W. Adams and C. S. Badding. --James Gaston died at his home near Bome. He was one of the pioneers of Marion County. --Michael Kent, a brother of Bepresen- tative W. E. Kent, of Chicago, died at Springfield, of pneumonia. --Nelson B. Irons, of Bloomington, died very suddenly from hemorrhage of the lungs. He was the father of Frank M. Irons, of Indianapolis, Assistant Gen- eial Passenger Agent of the Lake Erie and Western, and Mrs. John A. Sterling, of Bloomington. --James Cassity, a signal service clerk in the State Department of Agriculture, was killed by a Chicago and Alton pas­ senger train as it was leaving the depot at Springfield. In attempting to step off the train after it had started, he fell un­ der the wheels and was instantly killed. The deceased was 35 years of age and unmarried. The remains were forwarded to his mother, who resides in New York. --Two boys named Carl Mitchell and Willie Oglesby, aged respectively 16 and 15, became involved in a quarrel at Eldo­ rado, thirty-two miles east of Benton, which developed into a murder. The inci­ dents connected with the killing are as follows: Mitchell and Oglesby got into a quarrel at church after the meeting broke up. - Mitchell tried to pick a fight with Oglesby, who showed no signs of fight, but started home. Before arriving home he was overtaken and held by two of Mitchell's chums" until he (Mitchell) struck him a severe blow with a plank, which caused his death. All parties con­ nected with the killing were arrested. --Oliver Boswell was fatally stabbed by Daniel Halterman at a country school- house four miles west of Anna. Boswell was attending a meeting in the school with several others of the scholars. Hal­ terman and a number of others were dis­ turbing the meeting from the outside. When Boswell remonstrated Halterman ran up behind him and stabbed hi™ in the baok. --A letter of inquiry has been received by tiie Sheriff of Bock Island County from the administrator of an estate in Colusa, Cal., as to the children of one David Stoddart, who murdered his wife in a most brutal manner in Bock Island in 1854, and the next year was publioly exe­ cuted for tbe crime. A sister of the criminal recently died in California, leav­ ing to his heirs at law an estate of $25,000. The children were very young at the time of their father's execution, and at present their whereabouts are unknown. --The Chicago and Alton Railroad Com­ pany has instituted damage snits in :> the Circuit Court against Mayor H. G. Mo- Pike, Aldermen J. H. Baible and Edmond Beall, and ex-Mayor L. Pfeiffenberger, charging them with tearing up the tracks of said company in Alton, on the night of Jan, 2. The suits at? for $10,000 dam­ ages in each case. --An earthquake shock was plainly felt in and about Bloomington Recently. A number of persons concluded that there had been an explosion in that city. Pie- tores were seen to move on the waUs and • ^ m fi* Bey Ruler of China Now Has Ttew*, bat He May Havp six Hundred. The Emperor of Chins had been pro­ vided with what seems to Americans to be unbounded domesticity, to wit: One consort, • Yeh-ho-na-la, daughter of Deputy Lieut. Gen. Knei Hsiang; one secondary consort of the first rank, Ta-ta-la, daughter of Chang Hsii, some time Vice President of an imperial board; and one coucubine of the second rank, also named Ta-ta-la, and also daughter of Chang Hsii. It is nearly fifteen veara Bince the present Emperor of China, Tsateon, succeeded to the throne. He was then only a baby. He will come into pos­ session of his royal domestic household on his 18th birthday. He is not the sou of the last Emperor, but is one of the numerous princes of the realm from whom any one might have been selected as the head of the Chinese religious system and nominally of the Empire. The late Emperor was a cousin. of the present incumbent. He died of small­ pox, and the Empress soon followed him. The father of the present Em­ peror was Ch'un, seventh son of the Emperor Taokvung, who died in 1850. Chinese diplomacy, full of intrigue and civil-service reform ideas, is responsible for the choice of Tsateen, for on account of his extreme youth the powers that were at the time believed that they could retain control of the government longer that way than by electing an older prince. China, in spite of many ideas to the contrary, is somewhat democratic as regards the succession of Emperors to the throne. It would take thousands of words to explain the intricate workings of the Chinese sys­ tem. There are a good many mem­ bers of the imperial household in China, and there is no parliamentary body to appropriate funds for their support. The result is rather mixed, and it is well nigh hopeless to attempt to unravel the thread of their relations to themselves and to the common­ wealth. The iuteresting fact remains, which may be explained, that Tsateen, having arrived at his majority, so to speak, has entered upon a responsible career, and may find himself in the course of thirty years the father of a family that will strain his imperial purse to supply with rice and bird's nests. Three wives may be very well for a lad of 18, but they are not a marker to what a grown man must have, especially an Emperor; but the ruler's life is so enshrouded with mysticism and in­ trigue that none but the highest officials of the State have any correct idea of what it is like. Theoretically he is in­ visible. Certainly he is the son of God and the head of the church from the Chinese point of view. As such he is held in the highest esteem by the populace, but his temporal power is re­ markably slight As the essential element of all Chinese life is religion, it is probable that the Emperor's career is governed much by the same rules that apply to other men in China of high rank. The history of previous Emperors justifies this view. At the age of 18 a Chinaman emerges from boyhood or infancy, as in our customs a man attains his ma­ jority at 21, though the parallel is not exact. For the Chinese system is closely analogous to the ancient Roman progression of the individual. At 18 a young Roman becomes "adolescens." At 20 the Chinaman advances another step and becomes "juventus" according to the Roman standard. From that time on his standing in the community improves with every decade. At 30 he is marriageable, or, more plainly, he ought to be married, and after that time he selects- his wives to please himself. When he is 40 he is capable of holding public office and at 50 he can advance a step in his official position. So again at 60 the dignity of his relation increases. A lad of 18 is provided with domestic help-mates by his father. From now until the Emperor is 30 his wives and concubines will be selected for him. After that he may choose and bargain for himself. The three domestic sym­ pathizers with whom he has already been provided represent the nucleus of his future harem, and the consummation may be any number which he chooses to- support. The imperial harem of China is the largest in the world. The Sultan's will not compare with it. Many Chinese Emperors have had as many as 600 wives. Out of all these, however, there is but one genuine wife in our understanding of the term. She is the first, or in this instance, Yeh-ho- na-la. Normally her first-born son will succeed the throne, though events may so happen that according to Chinese policy some other of the Emperor's offspring will be selected. The one real wife is the head of the household. Besides her there may be any number of secondary wives, equally legitimate, but of lower rank. The concubines correspond nearly to the mistresses of Europeans, but their offspring are not socially so degraded as they would be according to our civilization. The Bride's Outfit, I remember the time when no farm­ er's daughter in the Mohawk Yalley was allowed to leave her father's home for another without her dozen of sheets, pillow-cases, table-cloths, towels, etc., and a goodly supply of bedding, feather bed and pillows. To these was added a cow, and sometimes also a hopfe and a few sheep. Of course it ofiep re­ quired some forethought and goodvman- agement, when the family was large and the farm small, but it was no little pleasure in such cases for the girls, as fast as they advanced to a marriageable age, to appropriate a calf or some motherless lambs, and by care and cod­ dling raise them in readiness for the possible event of their marriage. Like­ wise did they have their pluckings from the geese to make feather beds and pillows, and the quilting-frame and spinning-wheel helped them to the rest. These were truly homely pre­ parations, but in a sense that is of far better significance than ordinary bric-a- brac and embroidery, which constitute chiefly a bride's belongings in these days. I dare say that not many months elapse before most young housekeepers wish their finery, which was thought so important at the time of the wedding, could be transformed into blankets or some other useful articles. In a home there must always appear a complete background of the necessaries to make ornaments show to advantage; and where provision is not made for the must- naves, there is a small chance of their receiving proper attention.--American Farmer. A Union of the Balkan States* A scheme had1 appeared in Bucharest to found a union of the Balkan States, including Greece, Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro. The federal states are never to go to war with one another. When any of them quarrel the subject of difference is to be snb- mitted to a council of representatives of alt the five allies, under the presidency of Greece, as being the oldest inde­ pendent Christian orthodox state among them. There is no appeal against the decision of this council. The members of the union are not to attack any Christian power, though it looks as if they were to be at liberty to attack Turkey. In case any of them are obliged to defend themselves the co-operation of all is obligatory. Setting Information from a Woman. It was the evening of the graduating exercises in a philanthropical institu­ tion. Said the reporter to the lady in charge, rustling around in the dignity of a new black silk: " How many graduates hare you V "Oh, dear me; are you a reporter. I just dread to see one come in. They never get anything right I never knew one to. I think they do it on purpose. It is too moan for anything. I hate--* *••«*>-" * "But will you tell me the number of graduates?" "Oh, ever so many, and they are just the brightest girls. Oh, it is such a wonderful thing that this institution can educate them as it does. It is perfpetly splendid. I don't suppose it's any use to tell you about it, for you won't get it right anyway." "What do they graduate in?" "Why, everything most. That's the idea of the institution, to make them so self-reliant and ready lor emergencies and--" "Who are the patrons of the institu­ tion?" "Oh, nice people. Everybody ought to be interested in it They would be, too, if the papers took it up in the right way, but they won't They never get anything right, the reporters--oh, I cau't tell you how they twist things." "How many instructors do you em­ ploy?" "Oh, we have the loveliest teachers. I'll go ana ask Miss B to oome and tell you about them. She knows them personally--all the little family history, you know. But of course we don't want you to publish that Papers are just filled with everyone's private affairs now. It is just horrid, but I suppose the reporters don't care what they say if they just get their pay. Excuse me; Fll go and speak to Miss Smith," and she rustled away. The reporter waited while they counseled together, and, ap­ proaching, heard: "Oh, I think she's lovely in that dress. You know I ad­ vised her to put those revers on--so much more becoming than a plain waist Oh, there's that dreadful reporter. I'm tired to death telling him about things. You tell him about the teachers, won't you, dear, and put those violets up a little nearer your chin*" "I Why, I don't know anything about it, and I'm busy; I'm on the flower committee." "Well, we might as well let it go. I've told him about it, but hell get it all wrong, anyway. It is perfectly aw­ ful the way those reporters misconstrue tliinge and never get anything right."-- New York Sun. Close Bargaining, Men and women who drive sharp bargains frequently over-reach them­ selves. The habit of "beating down," which is practiced so constantly in country stores, is a vicious one, for it leads the purchasing public to suppose that dealers put extravagant prices upon their goods, and hence can afford a good reduction. It frequently, too, leads the storekeeper to just this method of dealing. The following is an illustration of how a person edu­ cated to this kind of trading proceeds: It is bargains that the country shop­ per comes to town to seek. One of these women went into a large shop the other day to buy material for a gown. She selected, after a good deal of fuss­ ing, a material costing twelve cents a yard. "How many yards are there in this piece?" she asked. "There are eleven," he answered, after measuring. "I will take ten," she said. He suggested that she should take the whole piece, but die insisted that he should cut off ten yards, and this was accordingly done. "That is a remnant, I suppose ?" she said interrogatively, taking up the odd yard, as he folded the good?. "Yes ma'am." "You sell remnants cheaper, dont you?" "Sometimes," the shopman said, la­ conically. "What will you take for this?" "Twelve cents." "But that was just what I paid for the piece." "I haven't any authority- to mark goods down." "Couldn't you send to find the man who does mark them down, so as to see what he would take ?" the customer in­ quired anxiously. "Just now." the shopman replied, with a wicked wink to a brother as­ sistant, "he is at his dinner, and I don't think he'll be in to-day." * "And you couldn't mark it down yourself, aud tell him about it?" "No," the shopman said, smiling ag­ gravate ugly. "I couldn't, really." "Well," the woman said with a sigh, "then I'm dreadfully sorry I had it cut, for I shall have to have that yard anyway, even if I do have to pay twelve cents for it. , Ten yards wouldn't pos­ sibly do. But I am not used to paying full prices for remnants." The Palui Tree. Among the Indians of Brazil there is a tradition that the whole human race sprang from a Palm tree. It has been a symbol of excellence for things good and beautiful. Among the ancients it was an emblem of victory, and, as such, was worn by the early Christian martyrs, and has been found sculptured on their tombs. The Moliamedans venerate it. Certain trees, said to have been pro­ pagated from some originally planted by the prophet's daughter, are held sacred and the fruit sold at enormous prices. The day upon which Christ entered Jerusalem, riding upon the colt of an ass, is called Palm Sunday, being the first day of the Holy Week. In Ettrope read Palm branches are distrib­ uted among the people. Goethe says: •In Bome, on Palm Sunday, They have the true Palm, S The cardinals bow reverently And sing old psalms. Elsewhere these songs mag mid Olive branches; More southern climes must be content with tbe Bad Willow." The books relating to the religion of Buddah, wer e neatly all of them written upon the leaves of the fan palm, and by missionaries ithey have been used in the place of paper. The noble aspect of this tree, together with its surpassing utility, has caused it to be called "the prince of the vegetable kingdom," and it has been immortalized in history, mythology, and poetry.--Vide*8 Maga­ zine. ELECTORAL Gkim AJIPLOSSES. Ths admission of four new States into the Union adds not only four stars to the flag but thirteen members to the Electoral College. The old calculations of ^politi­ cians are disarranged. The "doubtful St ites" on which so much hinged, and on which such efforts were concentrated, have lost their value. It is no longer left for the three neighboring Commonwealths of Connecticut, 2sew York and New Jersey to decide a Piesidential battle. We can cipher out the result without them. •mt ^ the two Dakotas, Montana, and Washington been States last fall, and had they been enabled to c :st their thirteen votes for Harrisou, he would have beaten Cleveland even though New York had voted for her own son, for he would have had 210 votes to 204 for Cleveland. This is not much of a majority, but it is enough. Therefore, if the content of 1892 were to be fought out on the basis of the appor­ tionment made under the census of 1880, need have no fears of the outcome. Ihe three Eastern "doubtful States" would cease to be of ppecial value, and for the W estern oae -- Indiana--we may count with confidence that it will hence­ forth be safely Republican. That is the drift of feeling there now. Each election show B Republican gains, and it is the party in power, ordinarily, and not the One out of power, which makes recruits. It is true that a gerrymander, unparalleled in political history, has given the Demo­ crats the control of the Legislature of the State, but the violent and arbitrary meth­ ods they are resorting to to maintain that stolen ascendency will lose rather than win them voters. But the next election will be held under the apportionment based on the census of 1890. The enumeration of 1870 came into play for the election, of 1872, and that of 1890 will be acted ou as promptly. So as between North and South the next Presi­ dential election will find the former Stronger by the thirteen electoral votes from the four new States, and also by what it may gain by reason of its greater' proportional increase in population in the' preceding decade. It has been asserted1 by some Democrats, North and South,- that the strength of the Southern States in the House of Representatives would be proportionately greater under the coming apportionment than under the present one. There is, however, no evi­ dence of this. There are some of the old slave-holding States which have, doubt­ less, gained largely in population, Texas and Missouri being at the head of the list. But their growth, so far as it was not natural increase, was at the expense of the other Southern States. They have drained Virginia, the Carolina*?, Georgia, and Alabama. The North has had not only its own natural increase but the teeming myriads of Europe. All the for­ eign immigration was kept by the North. The negro, even though now freed, kept it from going south of the Ohio. » That which has led the Southern people into false calculations has been their im­ mense percentage of gain over 1870 as shown by the last census. That was more apparent than real. It was due to the shocking imperfections of the 1870 census in the Gulf States. Had it been takeu as carefully as the following one, only a nat­ ural normal rate or gain would have been shown. The South will not gain over 80 Ser cent, on the figures of 1880, and the orth will gain more than that. If then the ratio of representation be raised 33 per cent, from 150,000 to 200,000, it follows that the South will have a slight loss in Congressmen. It will gain five in Texas and Missouri, and' lose ten in the other ex-slave States. This will cut it down from 121 members it now has to 116. The North will gain the five the South loses, and will have 200 instead of the 204 it now has, or with the five from the new States 214. Some Northern States will lose iu members. Some will barely hold their own. Others, where the percentage of increase of population is over 33 per oent., will gain. The Eastern seaboard will lose and tbe valley of the Mississippi and Missouri will gain. Therefore the Republican party can look forward with confidence to the battle of 1892. It is sure of thirteen votes which it did not have in 1888. The Southern States, which it cannot or is not allowed to carry, lose five votes. If none of these were to go to New York, Connecticnt, or New Jersey, then the party would be the gainer of ten votes. The probabilities are, however, that that group of States will not gain more thm one of the five, in which event the Republican nominee of 1892 will have an advantage of twenty- one votes over Harrison last year.--Chi­ cago Tribune. President Harrison on Election Reform. "The freedom of the ballot is a condi­ tion of our national life, and no power invested in Congress or tbe Executive to secure or perpetuate it should ^remain un­ used on occasion." So says President Harrison in his inaugural address. He affirms also in emphatic terms that Con­ gress has full power under the Constitu­ tion to assume control of national elec­ tions in the States and ought to do so whenever such action is necessary to se­ cure a free and fair exercise of the right of suffrage. "Inefficiency of State laws or an unfair or partisan administration of them" furnish, in President Harrison's opinion, ample reason why the Federal Government should itself take control of the election machinery and employ its own power to see that in national elections every lawful voter 6hall be free to cast a ballot which must be counted fairly. disavowing any "special executive poli­ cy for any section of the country," Presi­ dent Harrison declares in terms not to be misunderstood that a policy both leg­ islative and executive should be adopted and enforced with all the vigor and to the extent necessary to put an end to organ­ ized sectional crimes against the ballot. He shows that the people in each Con­ gressional district are deeply concerned for the protection of their own rights in having a fair ballot in all other districts. Each voter must not only be permitted to cast his ballot and have it counted, but its just power must not be weakened or its influence offset by fraudulent ballots in tho same box or elsewhere. In the last House there were twenty-six persons holding seats by virtue of systematic of­ fenses against the right of suffrage. The consequence was, the votes of these usurpers from the Southern States offset and destroyed the votes of twenty-six lawfully elected Congress­ men in the North, and hence the wrong was done as directly to the people of the Northern districts as though the ballot- box stuffing or false counting had been perpetrated in their own counties or pre­ cincts . It is impossible this kind of abuse can continue. The people of the North are not so white-livered that they will per­ mit usurpation of political power at their expense and injury, and to the advantage and political profit of law detiers and nullifiers. Gen. Harrison makes no threats, but he has given the Southern people timely warning that if they expeot to direct and regulate national elections according to State laws they must see to it that they are free and fair. The outrages which have been perpetrated at every election in the South for years cannot be endured any longer. Putting the negroes and Southern Republicans wholly outside of consideration the question is one as to the equal political rights of Northern white men. It is a national question and na­ tional power ought to be exerted to see that it is settled right.--Exchange. Pride of Station. Prima Donna (proudly)--If that ftf * the Prince of Wales at the door, tell him that the queen of the operatic stage has no desire to associate with mere princes. Maid--It is not the Prince, madam; it is a soap manufacturer. "Oh! Admit him."--York Weekly. 'f j Thrilling: PESISStTLA'S {JUUrDABT. Story Taken Real Life. A picturesquely commonplace, ordin­ ary, unemotional New England day. The sun having risen some three hours previous^ was now about three hours high. Its rays, shining through the second story back parlor window of a plain, frame dwelling house on a quiet street in Dismalton, lit up a split-bot­ tomed chair occupied by a thin-haired young woman evidently suffering from heartburn. The window, it should be mentioned, was of ordinary construc­ tion, being made of pine sash and 9x14, or possibly 10x14 glass. The putty had dropped off in places, and the fastening at the top of the lower Bash was par­ tially broken off, as if it had been hastily raised by inserting an ax or soup ladle at the bottom and prying upward. This might have been done in a mo­ ment of forgetfulness by the auburn- haired and contemplative domestio who was employed at a stipend of $3.50 per week to do the cooking and look after the house. The young woman who sat in the chair was near-sighted and wore steel- rimmed glasses. She was not hand­ some, but there was an expression about her sallow face, with its square jaw and aquiline nose, slightly reddened at the tip, that sometimes caused persons who met her to look at her a second time. "Mother," she said to an angular ma­ tron who entered the apartment, "I am impressed with the conviction--or per­ haps I should say that at times 1 am dimly conscious of an impression--that this fife of excitement is making me slightly nervous." And she put way the yarn stocking she was darning and picked, up a late New England novel, by Jennie Hames. "Peninsula," said her mother after a pause, during which she had been watching the uneasy slumbers of a de­ jected cat that lay limply on the rug be­ fore the fire, "I think you had better spend a few months in Italy. ĵThat we have for dinner ?" H. *' x 1 f s- J Vi -' . - • . y ' Three weeks later. Bome. Vatican. Cataoombs. Pigeons. Gloomy sun­ shine. Oppressive feeling of ennui. "pother," said Peninsula, as the two stood in front of the Pamphilia-Doria palace, "isn't that aged horse terribly lame? Ah, me! What is life good for, I wonder, anyhow?" "My daughter," replied ithe mother, with a dreary yawn, as she aimlessly looked at her watch and remembered that she had not wound it sinoe she left Dismalton, "we will go to Venice." hi. Gondolas. St Mark's. Pervading dampness, odors of garlic and pensive memories of Venetian days. Continu­ ation of ennui. "Mother," I long for my New England home. Life here is so intense, so luna­ tic, so " "I know it, my daughter. And the eggs are too Oriental. I want you should not become too much excited. Remember how the story of Anna Quill- burn worked upon your sensitive na­ ture," "Mother!" exclaimed Peninsula, in a voice of hopeless melancholy, "we will return home." nr. Dismalton, another ordinary New En­ gland day. The mother and daughter alighted from a two-seated carryall, had their trunks oarried into the house, paid the man, and went in. They had re­ turned home. A few more chunks of putty had fallen from the second story back window, and the cat was rather thinner than formerly. Otherwise the place was unchanged. "What time is it, mother?" "I think,"said the mother, looking at the sun, "it must be about 11 o'clock. Or half-past," she added, reflectively. v. The evening shades had fallen, but a faint odor of. boiled cabbage still per­ vaded the quiet New England home. There was a knock at the front door. The bell, it should be explained, was out of repair. ^ The caller was shown into the parlor. "I have called, Peninsula, to " The young village doctor paused a moment to suppress an involuntary spasmodic action that looked like a yawn, but may have been a hiccough. "I have called, Peninsula, to ask if you will marry me." "Fotheringay," she answered, look­ ing at the hickory wood fire in the grate with painful incertitude, "I can­ not say whether I will or not."--Chir vago Tribune. Lamar, Ihe Absent-mindei. Justice Lamar's absent-mindedness has been the theme of a good many newspaper paragraphs, but the latest incident of his eccentricity is worth tell­ ing. The other day he purchased a house, and leaving the office of the real estate agent with tbe deed, the abstraot aud other papers under his arm, he started for his home. Getting as far as Brentano's book store he wondered in, and placing the roll of documents upon the counter, was soon immersed in a lot of new books. After spending a half hour or so he purchased a copy of the Political Science Quarterly and wended his way homeward. A gentle­ man who had met him in the real estate office and had noticed that the package of documents was wrapped in a paper of peculiar color, visited the book-store iu the afternoon and happened to notice the package on the counter. Calling the attention of one of the clerks to it, he asked if Justice Lamar had been in during the day. "Yes," was the reply, "he has been here quite a while this morning." "Well," suggested the gentleman, "he left this package here, and you had better put it away until he calls for it." A week or ten days passed, and the gentleman met Justice Lamar on the street and accosted him, saying: "I see you have purchased a house." "Yes," was the reply; "got a good bargain. Come and see me." "What have you done with ttie deed?" "It is at my houae,*" "Are you Bure?" "Certainly; I carried it home the day the purchase was consummated." The gentleman smiled, and asked the Justice if he would not walk around to Brentano's book-store with him, as he j wanted to show him some publications. Getting the innocent old gentleman into the store he called upon the clerk for the papers, and opening the package j before the jurist he showed him the j deed for his house and the abstract j title. Mr. Lamar folded up the title, made a profound bow and left the store. Elderly female (to bride)--Is this your first bridal trip, marm! If it is I can give you some p'ints. Bride (haughtily)--Thanks, aunty. This is my third bridal trip, and job <sm t give_me any p'ints.--Utxca Observer. • - ,?V, -ait*' * • • l'A,: ILLINOIS LAW-MAKEBS* Thk SmM* unanimously <nacatNML <m Ifak 1st inst., with th® action of tb* Horn f adoption of ti joint rmointion of i late Joha S. Lee, of Peoria, k lorame nMntbwflC the GenarsI Assembly. A joint woluUon W» adopted, providing (or tbe appotetaMiit |l special committee of seven botmn m* tw JtepTMMatatfrea to visit tbe BMHtentiarr «a Columbus, Ohio, to mMtbitiut wockiaaoC the parole mt«m in Obio. Tbe CommitUM License and Miicellnny reported back • Senator Bcrry'a bill to prohibit pool The Senate refused to concur in report --Yeas, 8; naye, 28. The was ordered printed and to • reading, the vote being--yeas 23. naya 8. tor Pierce ob.ected to concurring In tba report of the Committe? on UoenM oeuany on his bill increasing tbe Jiq to $1,000 a year. The Bea&te refused to in tbe committee report, and. on motion, tk|: bill was referred to the Committee on Tuilnfaj1' Department. Bill a were introduced as follow*; p^yof at 9S00 for a regular session and $5 Fixing the pay of members of tbe General sembly a each day of ipwisl sessions, provided additional lildni!?. Loan, ami r. Whitehead «£ the aggregate amount paid any one at a special session shall not exeeed #'250. WSk very little debate and no amendments Senator Newell's bill, providing that one-third at tt» districts of cities electing AMermsn by tbe plan of minority representation eball elect annually so that only one-tfuid at City Council shall ever oonsist of new waa passed with an emergency clause that tbe act shall take effect urnni its passage. The Hon«e killed tbe bill lug the law in regard to +•*»• Hi*«Mt»g of neys. The Chicago Annexation bill wi up on second reading, and, after amendments, was ordered engrossed for a 1 reading. The Speaker announced the folio appointments : To be members on the parti ttes* rtonae of the joint comraitiee ta Ins " the <|ueatiou of the "beet and pork" Messrs Miller of Stark. Hoppin, Smiler,: ritana Craf to; to be a member of tie Can luittee on Judicial Pepartraent and Practice j the place of Bepreaentative Teefey, deft Mr. Eddy of McLean; to be an additional her of the Committee on Bufldi? Homestead Associations, Mr. Cook. Ami:;o the petitions introduced in the 8 on the 6th inst. was one containing ovac namea, praying for free text books in tbe i schools. Bills were introduced Amending the pharmacy law. [This bill ia much like Senator Frisbee's, except, that it l videa that the Governor may appoint ""*m* of tbe Board of Pharmacy without the neon> mendation of the Illinois PharmaoentiasS Association; that the Secretary of board shall not be a member of the boud; that temporary certificates may be iasusA between the dates of inoetinga of t)» board upon recommendation of any member of the board, entitling the holder thereof to all th* privileges of a registered phamaciat until itm next succeeding meeting of the b ard; that th* annual registration fee shall not exceed $1, but this fee shall be abolished when the Legislator •ball make an appropriation of not leas Xham per ftnnum for the maintenance of tUft board; and that a pharmacist who goes ant at business for one year or more ahau not ber*- qnired to pay annual fees during tbe time remains out of liuslneaa.] ' " for public prir pay the expener . mtmihers of the Illinoia National Guard fn i tending the centennial celebration of Uk augtoration of George Washington • m *3,8 30 for the relief of Freddie Klor i done to property by Illinoia soldiers "" into t of business.] Appropriating #10,000 printing; appropriating #10,000 If >e!i»«>s of tbe Governor and staff am r$or4£mai3t rs before t£«r the United Htates servicê criminal were muatered The Senate hill providing "that to all ... proaecations involving proof of the legal exist* •nee of it con>oratlon. user shall be prima facto - evidence of said existence," waa read a third time and paased without debate. Senator Jobn|f bill re-establishing the Commiaaion of ClainMt: Senator Hauler's bill for the erection of a moo# ment on tbe battle-field of Gettysburg to tbt memory of Illinoia soldiers, and Benatet1 Herce's bill authorizing cities and villagea convey their right and title to real or peraowB- estate when the same is no longer desind, weM each passed without discussion. In the HoniA > Mr. White introduced a deficiency bill approprt* at in g S10.0:0 to defray the expenses of the pulfe> lie printing of the present General Assembly and unti l Jul? I , lb8a. The bil l prepared by m State Superintendent of Public Instruction and prominsiit educators, "revising, compiling, cor­ recting, and harmonizing the school law of tba^w State of Illinois." cam© up as a special order oft second reading. This bilk la the most -- ous meaauKO pending in tno "General * " " covering 113 printed paies, was consumed in its reading. THE bill to provide for the incorporation regulation of tbe pawners' societies waa t up on Hecond reading in the Senate on tbe inst., tbe committee amendments were adopted and,without debate, the bill waa ordered tothim reading. A resolution was introduced for submit­ ting to the people at the next State election att amendment to the Constitution providing thai revenue for State purposes and for tbe aupport of pnbUc achools shall be raised by taxing tte capital stock of corporations organized Car profit under the laws of the State, by- taxing 'the receipts of railway and Irtaijiajpi companiea, by taxing the sale of beer, whisky, and tobacco, am.', if neceaaary. by levying £, graduated tax upon the incomes oitiMoa The resolution was laid over under the rules. Bills war* introduced as follow*: Providing * way in which persona who, having been dak clared insane, may upon miovery be legally d*> clared sane; changing the time of the meeting of the Appellate Court in the central division from May and November to Maroh and Sep* tember; permitting notaries public to acknowledge chattel mortgages. The bUlproi * ' u ABsembht the entire dsp it, ...•>• ing county clerks from puntahment for iaaalxjg marriage licenses when the aame axe nlitalnei through forgery or false affidavita aa to s^e^or the ccoxaent of the parents of ( either sense % orderel persona for wtaoae marriage th* lioenae obtained, was read a aeotmd time mm! order •to third reading. The bill revising andoodlfytng the school lawa waa again taken up in the Boos* and occupied the attention of that body all ll» forenoon. The committee amendments to tha bill were adopted without objection, after whtefti the bill waa taken np section bj section f«*r further amendment. The only change of ins- portanca made waa the adoption of an amend- , meat placing township high schools under at Separate board, instead of under the Townak^ ; Board of Trustees, as heretofore. Tbe bill was nnder consideration when the House adjoomedt , A Bin, amending the law in relationlto thi tbe propagation and cultivation of fish was taken up as a special order in the Senate on th* Tth inst., and Kfter various pending ametink 'ment* «u recommitted, to tho Committee Judicial Departments. '• bill wns introdi 'requiring the annual survey of coal mines to made in July inatead of January. A bill to I ulate the rental sad fix the charges allowed the uae of telephones was passed by a vote 37 yeas to no nay#. Tbe Senate concurred the House joint resolution providing for ttesfk pointment of & joint revenue committee qf sight Senators and eleven Kapiaianlai fives. The following billa were pesseB 'without debate: Enabling cemetery a«Soeiat» •felons to receive funds to keep oemi in permanent repair, requiring collectors' to show, opposite each piece, lot, or of land, any sates made of tbe aame foir taxes or special assessmenta for the two prak-- oeding years; enabling counties to pureSaali and condemn dams and cause their removal tit facilitate drainage: appropriating @11,000 fct cavpetfug and furnishing the Appellate Cows rooms in the First District; requiring decrees and judgments of the United States Courts tat be recorded in counties where they affect prop# erty. A bill amending the bastardy la#. so as to provide that no release given • the putative father of an illegitimate child the mother of such child shall be legal binding unless the release is given with the < aent of the County Judge of the county in whic% the mother resides, was passed by a vote of Ss to 13. A resolution expressing the sorrow of th* Senate for thediath of ex-Senator Louis Thorn. . of the Forty-eighth District , wss adopted. lit ' ,5 -t the House the bill providing for tbe certifying o£ ," the school laws was ordered engrossed for % v • " ' ^ third reading. The bill providing for tbe elMM) , *" _v- tion of Railroad imd Warehouse i"oinmiasiooan| • ; j,, was disposed of in a like nisnner. Among fete* prominent bills introduced were the following t yyj Prohibiting child labor; also a bill amending fefea^j law in relation to regulating warehouses; appro?; - .• j"- 'priating $.1(W to purchase cadet guns for tbe ia* mates of the Soldiers and Sai.ors OrpSiaus Hi providing for compulsory education in y _ children; amending the pharmacy law. A !»• port was made from the Committee on Fiahi • * and Game, submitting a substitute bill fori eral game bills referred to that committee. >hibits the shooting of prairie chickens * V 53 •••>:,>« prob tec. IS to Sept. 15; quail from I>©c. 1 to Get* rq. t Squirrel from Dec. 15 to June If. i, « - « water fowla from April 15 to Sept. l-V; •, It prohibits shooting on Sundays, Monday* and Tuesdayg f rom Jan . 1> t o Apr i l ; ̂ - 15. The bill also prohibits the shooting of water* ~ > fowl with a swivel gun, and prohibits ahootma ' •' from steamboat or from lehind blinds in Opaa. 0 water. The bill prohibits the carrying for nW ' „ « or the sale of prairie chickena, aqaind quail killed in this State at any time whatever. The ( ommittee on Sta-e Ins itution* report- favorably on the bill appropriating 5400,000« for the construction of two new insane asyfauna iiBHnrj . reports* 0,000 esM i northwestern and a southwestern. VI Motion at'Rest. "4 An exceedingly interesting illustrV ' Hon of the phenomenon of "motion atfk. *1" v , rest" has recently been exhibited be- ^ fore the Royal Institution, London, th# v' demonstration being so complete tnatr' small type placed on a disk, revolving^ several thousand times a minute, waaf seen and read with entire distinctness.^ • { T h e a c c o m p l i s h m e n t o f t h i s u n i q u e r e t - * I ) suit was brought about by means ofi.^ 15 an electrical arrangement which caused.' \ 1 brilliant sparks to illuminate the print; ' * . at the exact instant only when the type^ x was vertical. But lor tKe buzzing jwo- Y - dnced by the great velocity of th» ' \l disk, the words would have been sup-^., posed to be entirely at rest.. This tp-.v plication of the electricity spark of course gives a readv means of ing any and all changes whioh may take place in either mattct or WMm "d motion. r s* in r v ' -\'.v A .WO