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THE PRICE OF WHEAT. 4M': ENOLISH ANSWER TO REP­ RESENTATIVE MILLS. W* Owratoy Prasa la to Tm- «l»ate VfM-Tnd* I4*a-A 8*atM* AI- j llano* BawUtlM-TarUr Tratha MM Down. j In the course of a speech Against the "Shipping bills, Congressman Milb (Con- , •fjres&vonal Record, p. 3543) said: | "Why, sir, the distinguished leaders of j the Republican party in tho Senate made j •a report two years ago that we could not ! competo in the market.-) of the world with our wheat., that it was a melancholy fact confronting the American people that we must look to the home market -alone fQr the consumption of our whea*, that we oust cease speaking about send­ ing our wheat to Europe and exchang­ ing it for their calicoes, their woolens, their iron, their steel. What did those JEtepublican Senators propose to do in order to relieve tho situation? Why, they gravely proposod to send to Europe and import her population to come here and cat up our wheat!" Th is distinguished advocate of British manufacturing interests, who put into the mouths o* Republican Senators his melancholy views of the results of our controlling our own market, goes on to calculate that it will require 36,000,000 people to eat our surplus wheat; that 12,000,000 of these will be producers, who, with those wa now have employed, "would make twenty-ono thousand mill­ ions of manufactured products in place of seven thousand millions, and whore will we get the market for its sale?" Taking exception to the claim that the people of America should manufacture the cotton they export, he says, in effect: There is a yearly surplus of 2,500,000,- 000 pounds; that though our people con­ sume 18 pounds of raw cotton a year, the people of England consume but 9 pounds, and it would require the Importation of • over 250,000,000 people ^to consume the surplus of one year's cotton crop " At which the Democrats, not thinking the immigrant would want a second shirt after he had reached here, applauded vigorously. But Mr. Mills and most of the Democrats knew that this statement is made in "England's Su­ premacy" (Harper «fc Brothers, reprint, New York, 1886): "For our cotton manufactures ^reim­ port raw materials to the Value of 47 millions sterling, and after clothing our own 37 millions of the people, we export goods to tho value of about 63 millions sterling, the difference bHwoen tho two sets of figures being mainly created by industry." This annual profit to England, after clothing its own population, of $80,000,- 000, or enough to pay 160,000 people $500 each, Mr. Mills wishes to keep -where it now is. He would at the same time keep the half million people em­ ployed in English cotton mills, with those dependent on them, where tliey use only half the cotton they would here, and a part of that half drawn from India and Egypt, pretending that he thinks no cotton can be manufactured liere that is not worn here. Here/path's Railway and Commercial Journal, of London, in an article on the price of wheat, answers Mr. Mills' pre- -diction as to the consumption of wheat «s follows: "The eauses which have communicated more strength to the wheat trade are: First, a comparative exhaustion of American supplies; secondly, the ten­ dency of the Americans to engage to a larger extent in manufacturing industry; thirdly, the continuous growth of tho population of the United States,--which is advancing at the rate of 100,000 per month; and, fourthly, the failure of the winter wheat crop in France, in con­ sequence of the extreme severity of the past season. "The increased tondency of the Amer­ icans to engage in manufacturing pur­ suits is ftertainly also one of the current features of American life. American farmers have long been chafing under the poor prices which they have obtain­ ed for their products, and a movement has been noticed of late from the West­ ern States to the Southern States, which has advanced almost by leaps and bounds in the development of manu­ factures of all kinds. The progres-s of American consumption is also a some­ what important factor in the situation. A population which is growing at the rate of 100,000 per month must be con­ tinually absorbing more of the current production of the United States, and some American economists go the length of affirming that by 1895 the whole of the annual yield of wheat in the great republic will be consumed at home, and that not a bushel will be .available for export. In anotber five or ten years, the same writers contend that not only will the United States have ceased to be a wheat-growing country but they will probably even have to •draw supplies of wheat from other lands. * * * It is undoubtedly true that American mert haute have shown them­ selves comparatively indifferent of late to European wheat quotations, as the local demand nas been sufficient to sus­ tain the markets of New York, Chicago, and other great American industrial centers. * * * The effect upon the Western States of America would be still greater, as Western American agri­ culture would once more be placed upon a stronger basis." Under the teaching of free-trade econ­ omists, tho people of Texas have no mills except Congressman Mills. They export wheat, corn, beef, wool, coal, and they soon will be export­ ing iron ore, if the liaul is not so long as to prevent. These com­ modities they exchange for the calicoes, woolens, iron and steel made in other lo­ calities, and depending on a market out­ side their borders for their raw ma­ terials, they get no more for these than the farmer or other producer who lives within a pistol shot of the mill which fits them for use. As they have no factories to compete with those in other States or -countries, the manufacturer sells mer­ chandise to them at the door of his mill «t the same price he sells to his nearest neighbor. The Texan pays the freight; lie pays it both ways: he pays it all the time, and Mr. Mills likes to have him pay iti The American Hog and Germany. The announcement from Berlin that the German Government has definitely •decided to remove its embargo on Amer­ ican hog products is a gratifying result of diplomatic negotiations directed from Washington by Secretary Blaine,through the United States Minister, Hon. William Walter Phelps. The original prohibition on American pork was laid on account of its alleged unhealthy character--or, rather, because there was no adequate inspection to demonstrate that it was sound and pure meat Since the passage of the meat inspection bill in August, 1890, Germany's excuse for the embargo has been untenable, and it was only a question of time when she must be com­ pelled to admit American pork, or stand the consequences, which would have been an embargo on some of her leading exports to this country. The Eximplt of BllchifUk The tide has everywhere set in for Re­ publicanism. The pendulum is return­ ing and honest government is again as­ sured in States whero the Democrats have during the past few years gained at least partial victories. I'jr Michigan where the State government was turned over t6 the Deineeitofci a jear ago, a Re­ publican Judge of the Supreme Coert and regents of the State University have been elected by a majority of 5,000. In th^t State a bitter fight was made, for the Democrats very naturally wanted to maintain political prestige in the State. But so overwhelmingly wero they de­ feated that it is one of the greatest polit­ ical surprises since the Congressional elections la*t fall. In some of the strong Democratic counttes li ie Kent the Bour­ bon majority was cut down nearly one- half. All this goes to show that the pcoole have still faith in the grand old party and are only too eager to turn the Bourbons out of the power they liava been allowed to abuse. What has hap­ pened in Michigan will happen in many other States this faiL--Iowa State Rco- Uter. < , Kaadfal Babbla Prleklif. The Chicago Inter Ocean recently made an appeal to the country press which ought not to go unheeded. The Jerry Simpson typo of orator is now abroad in the land, and this is the kind of stuff he is feeding tho American farmer on: "Look how high tariff prices affect the farmer. It now takes a load of potatoes to buy a pair of boots; a big steer buys a plain suit of clothes for everyday wear; it takes a good cow to buy a plain over­ coat; a load of corn buys cap and mit­ tens; a load of oats will furnish a corres­ ponding suit of underclothing. So that when the farmer returns home from the country store he carries on his person the value of a big steer, a good cow, and thirty bushels or more of corn, of oats and of potatoes." 8 The average farmer of New York State is not likely to be fooled by this silly talk, but unless flatly contradicted and fully shown up the lying statements of free trade speakers and newspapers sink in hore and there and mislead the people. It is therefore gratifying, as our Chicago contemporary pointed out a few days ago, to find some of the country papers taking the absurd statement up and dis­ posing t)f it in effective manner. As the statements made abovo aro so extravagantly false, ire felt constrained to make some inquiries, and with the assistance of a farmer; one of the class the item was calculated to catch, we are able to produce a few figures which re­ flect no credit Upon the author of the item above quoted: fc ; ' 1 pair good kip boots. rt.....». 8.00 1 suit all-wool ker*oy.<i..11.00 1 good all-wool. ov«rooak. . 8.00 1 fur cap 1 : 2.0® 1 pair buck mitts... ' 1.53 1 undersnit, all wool ..." 2.03 1 ovarahirt 1.50 1 pair good wool socka ,40 Totalfor all flrat-olaaa gooda 999.40 Balance with this: Load potatoes,,30 buabale............ §90.00 Big steer. ......'.............'...'...I........ 40.00 GoodOJVT j.....'90.00 Load corn, »0 bushels, crib priiw SO cents. 15.00 Load oats, 60 bushels, 33 uents............ 17.50 Total......... tiaa.so While the prices here-given are high on tho articles of merchandise men­ tioned, tho prioes given on the farmer's commodities are below the market prices, and in spito of this fact there is a balance in favor of the farmer of $103. lo, which he carries home in his pocket, besides what he carries on his biiek. It really seems like a waste of space to answer such ridiculous statements in the columns of a paper, and yet nine- tenths of the free-trade arguments are mado up of Just such reckless statements as wo have exposed above. The free trade press literally teems with asser­ tions no loss untrue and misleading. In a lanre part they go unchallenged be­ cause it seems almost like an insult to the intelligent reader to devote sufficient space to answer suoh rubbish. It is, nevertheless, a necessity to do it. In this work the country press could help with great effect. Some free-trade falsehood should be exposed every week in a Simple, earnest, and truthful man­ ner. One by one these bubbles should be pricked and the real facts laid before the American farmer.--New York Press. Dwarfed Sine* Election. n This is a specimen of the McKinley bill liar magnified ten thousand'times. Close examination will show thai he is running.--New York Pre#*. gogues, from the intellectual faatherJ weight, Mr. Sovereign, to the loud­ mouthed Gen. Weaver, can popularize such an organization in the llawkeya State. The farmers of Iowa have an organization of their own--they need not transplant the exotic growth of a still rebellious spirit in the Foutli into their free soil. The Iowa farmers were loyal to the Union In 1861, and to-day they are loyal to the boys who wore th* blue.--Des"Moines Register. • V. Fletaaee/. •• i' . NO. 1. * - Stnttm*Trea-tr«,ders ring thd^iHgJflfa the Ofci cry that "We cannot sell aniens we bar." Now, look here. The average exports of Amerf- ean-bnilt carriages sad railway cars lor the wren months ending January U for th* fiva years 1886-90 were •1,581, COT. The exports of thsss 'articles for the seven months ending January 31, 13i>, were *3,123.669. NO. g. In Stockholm, Sweden, woman oarry mortar and brloks up to the masons, and they are paid about aO oents per day tat this kind of work. Hod-oarrlars !fc England, avfcraso daily wages, 83 cents--16 cities. United States--average daily wages ifti.44--26 cities. When women do this work in the United States for the Fame price as in Sweden we shall be able to baild just as cheaply as they do in Sweden. How happy this will make free trader* t NO. 3. Not only has the price of domestic plate glass steadily declined si nee 1875 from $2.50 per square foot to 83 cents, but the industry has extended. Increase in manufacture of plate glass: 1875--Of home consumption 6 per cant, ware domestic manufactures. •I 1890--Of home consumption SO per oent. wero domestic manufactures. lF8J-Of home consumption 70 per cent, were domestic manufactures. South »rn Alliance and G. Ai B. The Register has frequently empha­ sized the fact that the Southern Alliance, of which a branch was recently organ­ ized in this State, is Southern, not only in its commercial but also in its political principles. Its hired emissaries, when they invade the Northern States, invari­ ably make tearful appeals for dropping all sectional feelings--they tome with the olive branch of peace in their hands and words of brotherly love between North and South on their lips, but in their hearts is the same enmity that has animated the South since the war. The Southern Alliance is the old un^egen- eratod South in a new form and under a new name. This fact was'<liearly brought out in a series of resolutions recently adopted by a Southern Alliance Editorial Convention held at Hutchinson, Kan. The Hutchinson convention was a repre­ sentative body, and represented the fighting strength of the rebel Alliance that has invaded the States of the NortAe west Expressing (their contempt dt Union soldiers it passed the following resolution: Resolved, That yie condemn the or­ ganization known as tho Grand Army cM the Republic, orgahized for the purpose of preytng upon the United States Treas-- ury, and thereby filching from the peo­ ple, in the form of pensions, mbney not their due. We also condemn the mem­ bership of said organization for pressing upon and demandihg of the people the right to h6ld office and be recognized as an active factor in the politics of thei country. The right to -vote we do not question; but their right to dictate or suggest political action and political policy wo denounce, and we, the' repre­ sentatives of the reform ( Alliance) press, do hereby pledge ourselves to resist such assumption on thfc part generally of ,tbe ex-Union soldier, but especially of the Grand Army of the Republic. Every Union soldier ought to read that resolution and bear in mind that it truthfully reflects the sentiments of the Southern Alliance, the political mon­ strosity that recently organized a fraud organization in loyal and patriotic Iowa No such organization can take root or flourish in the free soli of Iowa. It will find in this State no congenial at­ mosphere. Not all the political denia­ ls it bettor for American labor to consumes per cent, of domestic goods and 95 per oent. of foreign, or 70 per oent. of domestic and only 90 per cent, of foreign? Let wage-earners answer for themselves. Freo Sugar, Promptly with the l«t of April came adtopof cents a pound in the best granulated sugar, and a heavy decline in other grades, and also in molasses. It is all on account of the new tariff. The fact, however, is only barely and grudgingly mentioned in the tariff re­ form neWs-papers. It is doubtless un­ pleasant to them to remember that the Mills bill contained no such boon to the people. But occasionally some tyro in eco­ nomies ask, "If free sugar is good, why not free other things?" Because, dear sir, we are dependent upon foreign sup­ ply for the great bulk of sugar wo con­ sume, and it is a part of the protective policy to admit free what we cannot pro­ duce in qualities sufficient to supply the home market and thus regulate the price. With free coffee, free tea, and freo sugar, and with protected wages and in­ creasing business, the American work- ingman sits down to a cheery table. With taxed tea, coffee, currants and even medicines, and witlrreduced wages and diminishing opportunities, the Eng­ lish workingman begins to realize that free trade is a fraud. • A Good Indication. The tact that the^ Republicans carried more municipal elections in Kansas than they have for several years, and that the Allianco of tho town variety seems to have cut no figure, may be regarded as sig­ nificant. In Leavenworth, which the Democrats carried by 2,000 plurality last fall, and whero Colonel Anthony, two months ago* announced that his paper, the Times, was no longer Republican, but an Alliance organ, the Republican ticket was elected. --Indianapolis Jour­ nal. Deserves » Vote or Thanks. Carter Harrison deserves ^vote of thanks from the decent, self-respecting clfizens of Chicago for his services in contributing to the defeat of the most corrupt gang of political scoundrels that ever cursed that or any other city. Ho isja good deal of a demagogue, but he is not a corruptionist, and is entitled to tho credit of having assisted in the purifica­ tion of his party by its defeat-- Indian­ apolis Journal. Political Comment. GENERAL PALMER'S popularity has (Waned very suddenly over the result of ftbo election in Chicago.--Des Moines Register. THE workers in Rhodo Island factories knew on which side their bread was but­ tered and voted for protection.--New York Press. IT looks as though there is shortly to be bacon with liver again In Berlin. The German embargo is in process of lifting.--Boston Transcript. A GREAT many people have Come to the conclusion that free sugar is a greater boon to the American people than free pearl buttons. BY the way, why don't we hear some­ thing from the opposition about the grinding monopoly of maple sugar?-- Philadelphia Inquirer. PERHAPS Senator-elect Palmer wishes now that he had not gone to Chicaga He lowered himself to the level of slum politick, and has nothing to show for it. THE opinion that farmers are inflamed against McKinley advertises itself as the premium chunk of this year's out put of partisan hebetudiuosity.--Cincin­ nati Times-Star. THE saving of over $50,009,000 a year to the country by the removal of the duty on sugar proves that tho Republi­ cans know the sort of free trade that tho people want.--St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat. "THERE appears to be a reaction in favor of the McKinley law, " quietly re­ marked a gentleman who assailed it last October to a friend a few days since. Even its foes see it.--Indianapolis Jour­ nal. Mrm is heard about "the coming great deficit" in the Treasury. It will not come. The only deficit, present or pro­ spective, is found in the brain cavities of Democratic alarmists.--Cincinnati Times-Star. TH^ brains of the free traders will now b^ directed to the task of showing that the people really have to pay more for sugar now at 5 cents a pound than formerly |t 8 cents.--Pittsburg Chroni­ cs-Telegraph, Grover Cleveland is to be the next Demo-ratio nominee and free coinage the rallying cry, the party will be com- pelle&ito call on the experienced proprie­ tor of -a standard misfit establishment to draft the pfctform.--Washington Post JEFFERSON •AS A Democrat, but in his economic beliefs Tie was a stanch sup­ porter of the principles now advocated by the Republican party. General Fran­ cis A. Walker speaks of him as probably the most uncompromising protectionist that America has produced.--Boston Journal. THE free traders of Great Britain will find little solace in the perusal of the highly interesting report of Consul Wil­ liam P. Smyth, at Huddersfield, to the State Department, on the paralyzing effect of the McKinley tariff on the in­ dustries of that part of England.--San Francisco Call. CLUBS, AXES AND GUNS. I STRIKERS ARB RIOTOUS AND POWERFUL. Street Oar Borrloo In Detroit Fans* lfi»d--Pana«jrlT»nia Coke Workers la a Pitched Battle with Ofltoora--Bloodshed M<1 Dsath Result. Nearly the whole of Detroit's police force was called out to keep order during a monster labor parade of shoemakers and stove molders, which was incited by the street car troubles. Immediately after the parade passed it was decided to start ten cars tor evening service on Woodward avenue. The first car got away all right, followod by a patrol wagon containing ten officers. A second car started immediately after without the accompanying protection, however, and the strikers threw it on its side and across the track. The attempt to start cars was then given up, but the first one out continued its perilous course, being the target of anything handy to the strikers the whole length of the avenue, and meeting with the jeers and taunts of the peop'e as it passed along. Two policemen were on every corner the whole lenirth of the route and the car eventually reached the river front in safety. On the attempt to start for the return trip there was a very exciting scene. A burly man sat in a dog cart directly across the track. The police­ men led his horse away. The man whipped up his horse, overtook the car, and drove across the track attain directty in front of the street-car. Ills buggy was smashed and he was thrown to the ground. He was finally overpowered and taken to the station. As the car kept on its way the small crowd sent only a few stones as a parting salute. A car which had been lying at the river front all day was then started up the hill. The word was quickly passed, and in a short time about fifteen thousand people packed the hroad avenue from the north side of Jefforson avenue to *he river. The car started up the hill at break-neck speed. The mob closed about the car. A man leaped from among the crowd and grasped the team's bridles The driver whipped his horses. The man was dragged from his feet and pulled all the way across the street. But he held on, ran the horses into a buggy and stopped the caj*. In the meantime a number of buggies, trucks, et\, had been run across the track. The „dozen policemen on the oar tried to remove them but could not. Then Strathern Hendrie, the treasurer of tho company, got up on the front platform with the driver. Pulling a big revolver from his pocket, he pointed it threateningly at tho crowd. Imme­ diately cries of "Kill him, hang him<* etc., went up. Bricks began to fly through the car windows, and it looked as if car, driver, policemen, Hendrie, and all would be torn to pieces. Ilen- drie's discretion evidently got the better of his valor then, and the car was start­ ed back to the river. The crowd pur­ sued it, and, unhitching the horses, tried to run the car into the river. A ferry­ boat coming into tho dock just that mo­ ment prevonted them carrying out their design. At this point the crowd was charged by a force of police and clubbed unmercifully. Revolvers were drawn, and for a few moments it looked as if there was to be bloodshed, but the pollco presented a sturdy front and effected some arrests, which quickly quieted the crowd considerably. It began to rain shortly after, and as no more attempts were made to run cars, the crowd gradu­ ally dispersed. IN THE COKK RKGIOK. Tho Authorities Arm Mavifcg More than Thejr Can Do. A serious riot occurred at Monarch, Pa. Though the riot resulted in the probable fatal wounding of one man and tho serious injury of a woman, tho Sheriff of Fayette County, with his dep­ uties, hai been defiod and the Sheriff himself assaulted--shot in the hand and beaten and cut with an ax in the ban/ds of an infuriated Hungarian woman. .Since the ugly Morewood affair tho women have taken the principal part in defying deputies, the men either prefer­ ring to obey the orders of their leaders and romain inactive or thinking the Sheriff and troops would not be so severe where women led the attacks. Shoriff McCormick and his deputies went to evict ten families of striking Slavs, and they had a bloody battle with an infuriated mob of men and *women. In order to reach the liousef the Sheriff and bis deputies had to march several hundred yards up a steep road, at which point In ordered the militia, which came up with him from Trotter, to remain until they', wero needed. It was about 11 o'clock when the sheriff and his deputies reached house No. 105, o^cupifd by Thomas Tarr. A crowd of three or four hun­ dred men and women had collected In front of the premises Tarr, with an oath, declined to evacuate, and. seizing an ax, stood in the dcorway and deiied the sheriff to enter. Then the troubles commenced. Men and women, in broken English, yelled defiance and berated tho sheriff and his deputies in tho strongest language they could command. The sheriff tried to reason with them, but without avail. Their<blood was up,and nothing but a first-class battle would satisfy them. Andy Biashko s wife, spying the sheriff, made a dive for him, pistol in hand. Just as she was about to fire he struck the pistol a downward blow and at the same time (ired. The two pistols went off simultaneously. Tiie sheriff had shot the woman in the flesh part of the left thigh, and she had shot him in thfe left ankle. By this time the sheriff's Wood was up, and with a cocked revolver, 44-caliber, in either hand, stood with his back against the end of the house, and informed the mob that the first one who made a mbve toward him he would shoot, and shoot to kill. Martin Scroupka left the crowd and rushed at the Sheriff with a huge club uplifted. The Sheriff waited until Scroupka got within five feet of him and then fired. The shot took effect, the bullet striking Scroupka in the mouth, knocking out two of his teeth and lodg­ ing somewhere in the back of his mouth. The wounded Slav wheeled and started to run and the Sheritf followed him. Some one shouted to the Sheriff to look out, and turning he saw Tarr, the man on whom he had served the writ, com­ ing toward him with an ax. The Sheriff pointed both his revolvers at him and Tarr retreated. By this time Capt Frasher, of Company C, hearing the shots and the uproar, had brought the soldiers up the road on double quick, and their presence at once quelled the rioters. Tarr is now in jail. Then He Was Mad. A German cobbler, who was reputed to be one of the laziest and most worth­ less men in Leadville. dug a hole in his yard and salted it with ore, and showing the pit to the representatives of a com­ pany he was able to sell it for $2,500. During the <-arou;e which followed he boasted publicly of the way in which he had fooled the capitalists, but before the purchasers of his property heard of these remarks they had sunk the shaft four feet deeper and had struck one of thfc richest veins of carbonate in Lead­ ville. The cobbler, on learning what had happened, danced about the edge of the pit and swore that he had been swin­ dled. The mine yielded about SI,000,00ft. A Word with tho Girls. We often hear it paid of a dabblw In music, or in art, or in science. "Oh, she only knows enough of that thing to talk about itand the words imply a sneer. From one point of view it is a'tririal at­ tainment, and perhaps the sneer de­ served if the knowledge has been ac­ quired simply to furnish a subject oi conversation, although to be conversant with even tbe jargon of a study is bettei than to remain totally ignorant concern­ ing it. Be-ides, ehe who knows the terminology of music or art sufficiently to talk alxmt either intelligently can hardly fail to pick up ncraps of in­ formation occasionally. The very fact that a woman has cared enough for a topic to jiuduoe her to tronble herself tc learn its phrases, argues the possibility of her appreciating further knowledge. After all, the matter resolved itsell into tbe question. For what purpose ie study, general or particular, pursued: Is it not to widen the views, to strengthen the mind, to deepen the sympathies: Cannot these objects be as well achieved by general as by particular Heading oi study V Since one cannot go to tin bottom of everything, can she not be well enough educated to gain 'enjoy­ ment for herself and others by taking such selected knowledge as comes iu her way? It is not necessary to be an Italian scholar to be able to read and appreciate the "inferuo," nor need one know Greek before she can become familiar with the "Iliad." Translations, collations, and anthologies are meant for the help of those whose other duties preclude their going to the fountain- head for their instruction and their en­ joyment. - As the travel of current thought is toward specialties, let the vouug student just equipping for her life's work fit herself for labor after the fashion of the day. But the general reader whose opportunities for work have been limited need not despise her soatterod knowl­ edge. She ]K>sse*-es the advantage usually of having her capital available. She can utilize her information in her writing and in her con­ versation after a fashion that is both hoipful and entertaining to those with whom she is thrown. It may be de baled, indeed, whether the general reader, the general student, does not dc more to benefit and delight her kind at large than does the specialist who limit herself to one or two branches of study, who never reads a book that does not touch upon her specialty, who can dis cuss nothing but her hobby, and whi too often makes a bore of hemelf to all but a few sympathizers. 'The one- ideaed womau has her uses, and they are important, bnt may not as much be claimed for her who is forced by events and environment to be a smatierer ?-- Harper'n Bazar. A Mew Butler. Coooanut butter is a new food-stuff*, which seems to have a useful futnre be­ fore it. According to a report by the British Vice-Consul at Berlin, the pro­ duction of an edible fat from the mar­ row of the cocoanut has been carried out for the last two years by a firm at Mannheim, the process having beeu dis­ covered three years before by Dr. Schlinok. Factories (laving the same ob ject are about to be established at Paris and at Amsterdam. The nuts come irom the South Sea Islands, and also from certain places on the African and South American ooasts. The butter, which is sold at less than half the price of ordianary butter in London, contains from 6.) to 70 per cent, of fat, and 23 to 25 per cent, of organic matter. Its color is white; it is of an agreeable taste, is suitable for cooking purposes, aud is being purchased by the poor, who prefer it lo margerine. Being free from acid, it digests with greater ease than dairy butter, and is preferrable in other ways to the bad butter which too often finds its way to market. It is also a more attractive compound than the various preparations called marga­ rine, some of which have Mich very questionable origin.--Chambers' Jour­ nal. Tho Columbus KIJJ Htorjr Improved. "One day when I was aboy at school," says a writer in the Tribune, "the class had for a reading lesson the story of Columbus and the egg. In the class was a little Irish boy about my own age, who-e name was Jerry Grady, and when sch'.'Ol was out at noon, jerry said to me: " 'Did ye mind that sthory about Co* lnmbus and the egg? Sure, that's not the way the thrick was done at all, at all. Come wid me, and I'll aitow ye how Columbus done it.' "Jerry's mother kept hens, and when we reached the house he had no trouble iu finding a freth egg. "First putting a clean plate on the table, Jerry took the egg and shook it violently for some seconds, or until the yolk and the white were thoroughly mixed, like a compound of milk and water. Then, after holding the egg upright on tl.>? plate* until the mixture inside of it had settled quietly into the broad base of it, he withdrew his hand, and left the egg atandiog npiight and alone. " 'There,' said he, that's the way Co­ lumbus done it,' aud I have no doubt it wan, for I have often done it that way, aud anybody el*e can do it." An Atieoiiotff with a .Moral. Michael Angelo, at a time when Italy paid so much attention to ancient art that modern had no chance of beiug judged fairly, had, it is said, resort to a btrategem to teach the critics the falla­ cy of shaping their judgments by fash­ ion or reputation. He (-culptured a statue representing a sleeping beautv, and breaking off an arm, buried it in a place where excavations were being made. It was soon found, and landed by critics and the public as a valuable relic of antiquity, far superior to any­ thing done for centuries. When An- geio thought it had gone far enough he produced the broken arm, aud, to the great mortification of the erilics, re­ vealed himself as the sculptor.--New York Ledger. . JHake a Butt of U111 pod. Atchison, Kan., has a very useful citi­ zen named Bill pod. When a bore calla on a citizen with akcheme he ^ends the fellow to Billpod. "There is some­ thing," the citizen says, "that will jnst suit Billpod. He is a man of enter prise, and has excellent sense, and he is exactly the man you want to eee.' The bore hurries away to see Billpud. When a book agent or other nuisancc appears in Atchison, the people send them to Billpod, saying that lie is a learned man, and wants to buy all the go d books. Billpod is worried a good deal, as a result, but he is of great as­ sistance to the rest of u*. SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER (after » le-ison on the blessings of giving)--Now, why does it make us so happy to give our friends nice presents? Little Boy-- 'Cause we know they'll try t' give us nicer ones. SETS up nights--a compositor en a morning journal. s AFFAIRS IK ILLINOIS. ITEMS GATHERED PROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS. What Oar JWgltbore Aro Dota|-M«ttm of General and Local Intoroat -- Mar- rlaffosand Deaths AoeMonta and Crfcnoe - l'eraonal Pointer*. NRM.IE GOODSON, a 10-year-old girl living near Greenville, attempted to use a window as an entrance to the house. The heavy sash fell on her neck and choked .her to death before she was dis­ covered. AT Chicago, Edward Murphy and Jas. Toohey were sentonced to three years and Thos. Kennedy to five years in the penitentiary for burglary. Rutherford B. Hicks, a 15-y«ar-oM, who stole several hundred dollars from J. W. E. Thomas, the colored lawyer who defended him, was sent to the reform school for three years. r v MRS. HOWARD, an aged Chicago lady, formerly a school teacher, drank carbolic acid by mistake and died. IN the midst of falling torrents of water, rolling thunder, vivid lightning, and sundry and divers other dramatic surroundings, a bold, bad thief in Chi­ cago smashed a plate glass window in the jewelry stors of P. (J. Thearle. Jr.. seized a tray containing $3,000 worth of diamonds and hied himself so silently and swiftly away that he escaped cap­ ture. THK twentieth annual convention of tho Woman's 1'resbyterlau Board of Foreign Missions assembled in Peoria, with nearly 400 delegates present. ON his eighty-third birthday the Na- perville brass band made night hideous for W'illard Scott, the oldest surviving pioneer in Du Page County. Mr. Scott settled there In 1825. and, as third chief of the Pottawatomie Indians, did valiant service against Black Hawk. M. J. PAVT,. traveling salesman for Carson, Pirie, Seott & Co., of Chicago, stopped off a train running forty miles an hoiil- at Merrill Fark, Wis., and was killed. IN a Chicago Saloon, while quarreling over a card game, D. C. Wright fatally stabbed Charles Webb. Webb was a switchman on the C. <fcN. W. Wright es­ caped. AT Chicago, August Evert, agent for the McAvov Brewing Company, was thrown from his buggy by a runaway horse and killed. JIM OSBOKNK, a sroceryman of Bridge­ port. went into a drug store and swal­ lowed three ounces of laudanum. Most people there believe he intended suicide, while some contend he mistook it for whisky. At any late, he died, and many .creditors will divide his grocery stock. OFFICER THOMAS FAWKY. of Chicago, was relieved of his watch aud chain by a footpad. He was sitting on a dry- goods box, when a man approached him and asked him which way the next car ran. He gave him the information, and thought no more about it. Soon after tho man approached him, and said: "That's a nice chain you wear," at tho same time grabbing his watch from his pocket. The policeman was taken by surprise, and when the fellow started off lie followed in hot pursuit After a chase of several blocks he caught his man, and marched him down to the sta­ tion. He gave the name of Peter Han­ son. To Justice Doyle he explained that he only snatched the watch to get, even. Last summer, he said, a detective robbed him of his watch, and he could not stand it. His bonds to the Grand Jury wore •fixed at ?500, the charge boing highway robbery. AT Springfield* the Executive Com­ mittee of the Illinois State Grange field a meeting and practically closed a con­ tract fjo# 100,000 tons of binding-twine, enough for ajl- the members of the grange this year. The members of the committee refuse to <tate to whom the contract has been awarded. They say, however, that they will able to furnish bindlng-twlno to the farmers this year at from 8 to 18 cents a pound. The price last year ranged from 14 to 18 cents. The committee adoped a resolution in­ viting Secretary Rusk, of the Agricul­ tural Department, to address the Stato Encampment in August. THK official count-shows officers elect­ ed in Chicago by the following plurali­ ties: Mayor, Hempstead Washbnrne, Rep., 300; Treasurer, Peter Kiolbassa, Dem., 4,236; City Clerk, James R. B. Van Cleave, Rep., 5.400; City Attorney, Jacob Kern, Dem., 1,239. AT Ramsey a lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with twenty-seven members, has been instituted. A MAN about 35 years old registered at McCoy's Hotel, Chicago, as "J. A. Bow- land." In the morning he was found dead in his room. On a table was a vial labeled "poison." THOMAS GILBERT, a pioneer hackman, of Chicago, expired with the lines in hi^ hands. A. J. LOMBARD, of Belvidere, has dis­ appeared, leaving many unsecured cred­ itors behind him. j AT Bridgeport, James <5sborne, a prom­ inent business man, waiked into the drug store of S. Stoltz, and while tho druggist was out, went to the prescription case and drank from two to three ounces of laudanum, after which he went to his residence and laid down upon his cot His Recovery is almost impossible. THK wood-workers in the Mount Ver­ non carriage shop, say the foreman curses them, is incompetent, and they want him bounced. MMK. FRLECIA STAFFORD, of Chicago, was killed in a runaway accident She jumped. EX-GOVERNOR R. W. WATERMAN, of California, who died a few days ago at San Diego, left a fortune estimated at $2,000,000. Mrt Waterman formerly re­ sided at Belvidere, and for many years was a successful anci prosperous mer­ chant In 1847 he was married to Mrs. Jane Gardner, of Belvidere. CLARENCE HARWOOD, of Clinton, la., came to Chicago, went to a hotel and purposely asphyxiated himself. Domes­ tic unhappiness. AT Springfield, a meeting of sixteen of the heirs of Anneke Jans was held at which Mrs. George A. Ballou was ap­ pointed a delegate to represent the local heirs at a meeting of the Anneke Jans Association, to be held in New Albany La June next, to arange for prosecution of tho suits against the Trinity Church corporation, of New York. FIRE caused $10,000 los< to the Lartx Wall Paper Company at Chicaga AT Harvard an uncommonly spirited school election was held. Dr. Biugham was elected President, and S. H. Wil­ liams and W. B. Truax members of the Board of Education. ,T. C. STK KKI.I., of Chicago, suicided at West Superior, Wis. He was insane, and hung himself. THE report of the financial record of the State institutions from Jan. Lto March 31 shows that for the twelve in­ stitutions there was $736,943 of appro­ priations undrawn. Tho total expenses were §285,441, less receipts not from the State--$27,011--the cost to the State be­ ing !?358,479. The average number of inmates was 6,864, and the average cost per capita gross was $41.53, and the net cost $37.64. The total number of in­ mates was 7,810. There were ninety- five discharged, ninety-four died, and there were present at the end of the quarter G,76tW •BVATOB BmusAK presided over Senate on tbe 20th. Those present Senator* Allen, Caldwell, Crawford of Rock Island, Kerrick. Manecke, Newell. Rlckert, and Wright. On motion of Senator Caldwell his bill providing for the safety of. persons employed In coai mines was re- 'v called from second reading so that, the •{< title might be corrected. Senator Kerrick introduced a bill amendinz the present ' garnishment laws so that property convey- 'f ed in fraud may be recovered in garnisb-;« ment, and so that unliquidated damages may " in certain cases be reached by garnish- f ,• ment. The Senate then adjourned. About twenty-five members were present at *h« ' session of the House. Representative Mer-, ritt presided. Immediately after the ap-!V;' proval of the Journal the House adjourned. I N the House. On the Slat, the Senate bill i' providing for the division of incorporated ' towns, introduced for the benefit of Cicero. ?• Thornton and other incorporated towns to'- Cook County, was read a second time ordered to third reading. Representative forsythe's bill providing for the payment - of all wages in money and prohibiting truck store system was read a second time. ' ;*> Mr. Oehr offered an amendment striking o*ifc the clause prohibiting any manufacturer ' " ' from controlling or having ar>y interest in, any store, giving as his reason that the bill, if passed, would prohibit any manufacturer from having any interest in any sort of mercantile business, truck store or other- < wise. The amendment was adopted and* "c,"r. the bill ordered to third rending. In the* ,Jlt absence of the Lieutenant Governor Mr. r Sheridan presided in the Senate. Mr. Wellst^ Introduced a bill to amend the attachments <; law so as to make it apply to actions off*: trespass on cases. Mr. Allen introduced at bill to exempt pharmacists from jury duty.. Several House bills were read a first time. , i - • ON the 22d the school law occupied tb» entire time of the House. Mr. O'Connelt spoke at length, and Speaker Crafts calle<|. . Mr. Craig to the chair and took a hand in" i' the discussion. Other time will have to b# " devoted to the measure. In the Senat® bills wero introduced as follows: By Mr. \t' Hamer, providing that it shall be unlawful , " i to kill fur-bearing animals between Marchtf' 15 and Nov. 1 of each year: by Mr. Ander* V, •, son. providing th:it in cities of less thaift j"1* tR.000 Inhabitants, the question of licensing,*- . v dramshops shall be submitted to a direct ., ' vote of the people; by Mr. Leeper. pr-ivld* . . ing that when the prejudice of a presldln#ftt: judge is a signed as the cause for change of ' venue, the case shall be tried by another judge of the circuit, but not taken to an«' __ other county: by Mr. Allen, providing that I before property Is assessed the amount of " 't° Indebtedness thereon, if any, shall bo de- v jl ducted from its value; by Mr. Ttalele, pro* V? viding that in cities of over 100,000 inhab* " t itants aldermen shall be given an annual salary of $1,000; by Mr. Crawford of Roc^;-'" Island, providing for holdinz farmers' in» ' '-i atitutes In every county In tbe State, in*~ stead of each Congressional district as li K now done, and also providing that wheat ' annual expenses of such Institutes are noj| over S100 the State shall pay the same: b» Mr. Nagle. providing for the regulation ojf rjt1 si. sleeping-car fares as follows; Lower bertlv $1.50, upper berth. #1; a section. $2.50; by* '. Mr. Bass, providing tlmt waifs shall b# - .> taken before a justice of the peace to b#, - V tried for misdemeanors, Instead of befor# ? higher courts; by Mr. Hunt, appropriating ' "- *1 ,500 annually to the Illinois State Ealrjr ,* ; < K Association. 'J. IK the House, on the 23d, a protracted fight over the ballot bill ended in that ineas^., • ure being ordered to a third reading. The report of the committee on education was made the special order for the 29th. Bllla introduced: By Mr. Crawford, of Cook, ap»» propriating $15,000 to the estates of each at John A. Logan. Isaac R. Hitt and W. Vt* Wittshire. for services rendered in securing' the refunding to the State the direct tax$ by Mr. Bass, allowing the construction of viaducts or tunnels to connect boulevard* In cities; by Mr. Secresr, appropriating: S66 to pay an award of the Ciaime. Commission; by Mr. Campbell, providing that Insurance companies or societies issui* ing life policies or beneficiary certificated shall be required to make the same incom* testable after six months from the date o^ issuance. Bills passed: Mr. Bass' bilV amending assessment law; Lehman's bill^ providing that liens of fee bills shall rum the same length of time as judgment liens; Kerrick's bill, amending the law regardin continuances of criminal case*; Humph bill, providing that grain Inspectors be held responsible for their mistak stead of the State being held respons Newell's bill, changing the time of ho the Woodford County Circuit Court. Flfer has signed the blil requiring weekly cash payments to wage earners, ao4 itIMMS effect July 1. ™ * ~ Maxlean a uplditp. ^ . On the tramway between the townfe *• of ZacateoAs and Guadalape in Mex<^.' ico, which are a few miles apart, th# way from Zacatecas is down grade*. The cars go at great speed by theifc \ own gravitation; no animals are at|f , tacked, for the descent is as steep as toboggan slide. It requires six muleaj|V;v/% however, to draw each car back again*. _ !; The animals are harnAssed thre# •• abreast, like the horses in the Pari# omnibuses. Even the projectors ofc the tramway had no fixed idea as t* how it should be operated, and as American overseer has been in chars# from the beginning. The oars wer# ' ordered from Philadelphia, and wh£l# they were being built, the steel rails| • ^ which came from Liverpool by way ; of Vera Cru7„ were laid down from one end of the route to the other,, ' . When the oars arrived, it was soiintl that they would not run on the track* . ras the rails had been laid on a gang# ; . 4 .three inches narrower than that fo*" which the cars were designed. Th# •Mexicans, in their ignorance, saw bui1- one May out of the difficulty; thai was, to rebuild the cars, make th# . bodies narrower, and cut off the axle* trees to fit the gauge of the rails. Th# :present superintendent, a practical. American engineer, was in Zacateca* Vt the time, and took in the state of ' affairs at a glance. He offered fot?> .v; five hundred dollars to show th# ; owners how to get over the troubl#- without altering an article on the cars, i ̂ The money was paid, and with twenty men and proper tools the American/ '% took up a few rods of the track, mad# "f. a gauge for the rest, and in one dayf had the cars running over the shortly $ KUvattd* Mrs. Snagsby-- FnJI again, ' Snagsby! And your wife and children* starving! Cornelius, we shall all go., to the poor-house yet. Snagsby--Poor (hie) house? Noa« shenshe, Mrs. Snagsby. I (hie) feel like a millionaire. Mrs. S.--But you'll never be oai#» Don't vou know, you wretch, that no# a single self-made millionaire touches intoxicating liquor ? Snagsby -- Don't, eh? Mrs. (hic> Snagsby, I take it all thic) back. T . don't feel like a millionaire. I feel tu great deal better'n a (hie* millionaire. Mrs. Snagsby, will you (hie) pleasheto convey to your millionaires my pro- foundlsh pity and my mosh shnpreme contempt? Wheel " Interesting Facts. NEW YORK, Paris, and Berlin all to­ gether have not so large an area as Lo«- ; don. OF the white population in America. 8 per cent, is unable to either read or , write. A MIXER diet of animal and vegetable '. food is the best; the vegetable portion .y should predominate. FARM lands in the United States, tak­ ing the country as a whole, occupy oolf 289 acres in every 1,000. .J AT present there are 318,000,000 Calk- , olics in the world, according to tkei figures furnished by