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SLYKT, ALTER II PNWLTNR. T 7""* ILLINOIS. Tennessee's escaped convicts will liave to beartUe blame of many a robbery in whose benefits they will have no share. ; There is a time In a boy's life,when he is about thirteen, when every one in town except his mother thinks he « jpught to be killed. ^ TThe Prince of Wales celebrated ;, * ** % 50th birthday, and the general opinion of his loyal subjocts is that " he's jotting a big boy now. The halls of Congress are being re- ^ 4$corated with paint of all aesthetic hties, but the hands of the Congress­ men will continue .to be covered up ^V^Jtfitli the meek and lowly whitewash. A Poet Angeles wcraan has a ps5 Sicken with four legs. -If she can but manage to perpetuate the species •>'v i". ̂ ager restaurant-keepers in all parts of the country wlll assure her a for- • tune., . - '•, A letter addressed to Horace %$reeley was received at the office of the New York Tribune the other day from a man in Alabama. He must • have quit taking the paper many years ago. • • - The pipe is ousting the cigarette at Yale, and the sophomore class at Princeton has resolved to haze no more. If this iconoclastic movement continues it will soon be difficult to distinguish an undergraduate from a TQlgar, common-sense, civilized man. • A New York Jury has awarded T. . „ Gliomas Fortune, the "Afro-Ameri­ can" editor, damages to the amount of $25 against a saloon-keeper who refused to sell him a glass of beer. This judicial determination of the ex­ act value of a drink to an editor does fiot come a day too soon. /*' ; South Carolina will probaWy-cte- Tote $100,000 to an exhibit at the "World's Fair. The Governor of the State, it Is said, has expressed himself in favor of the expenditure of such a sum. Any observation the Governor of North Carolina may new see fit to make on the subject will be listened " to with respectful attention. •••••• - --I ^ The run on the Boston Five Cent w, Savings Bank was a melancholy proof < 2 of the impossibility of making ignor- - ant persons listen to reason, especially In times of excitement. There was a i sort of pathetic madness in the panic or the crowd, which disregarded en­ tirely the statement of the bank com­ missioners pasted in the window that the bank was thoroughly solvent. Of -coarse the bank gains by the run to «6me extent, since it saves the inters «st forfeited by the depositors without drawing their money before the end of the quarter; but equally there is a loss on the part of these depositors, to most of whom the interest, small It is would be in individual cases, ; is a matter of importance. The recent looting of the express on ! - ttoe Chicago. Milwaukee and'St. Paul was one of the most daring affairs of the sort on record. The locality in which it occurred and the methods employed by the robbers stamp the •attack on the train as a most desper­ ate deed. It is probable that not a •ery large sum of money was secured, as two of the safes taken could not be opened, and much of the plunder was in the shape of drafts, payment on which has been stopped. This affair^ only emphasizes the fact that train crews should be thoroughly armed and should be prepared for an attack in any place at anytime* Robbers are so used to meeting with no resist­ ance that they do not expect any. If these villains were taught for a cer­ tainty that an attack on a train in­ volved a fight and the death of one or more of their number railway rob­ bery would become less popular than It is now. . Colonel Cockebill, his news­ paper, ha$ achieved a tremendous heat on Capt. Pulitzer, his newspaper, upon which we beg leave to congrat­ ulate the Colonel and commiserate the Captain. Captain Pulitzer, his newspaper, was for several days big With a scheme to summon Dyrenf urth, the Rainmaker, to New York, in aid of the drught-stricked city. Official methods are slow. While Professor Dyrenfurth was packing up his traps the nimble Colonel hired a handy circus man to discharge some amateur bombs into the clouds and thus an­ ticipated the official rainiest several days. To be sure, it was raining "of Itself," anyway, but so trifling a fact as that must not be permitted to ob­ scure the splendor of a newspaper beat. In the presence of perils such as now msnace New York City, it is not unpleasant to find the jocund spirits still equal to a little joke. There Is precious little philosophy in tears. • - Canada has on several occasions E;w:\ % • : , :v attempted to reverse or ignore the decisions of the British Cabinet, but has never been "sufficiently successlul in these efforts to make it worth while to repeat them. Yet the con­ cern at Ottawa, which has for a long time been puffed up with the conceit that it is a government, although all the world knows it is not, in the in­ ternational sense, has now taken upon Itself to decide that American authors are not entitled to the privileges of copyright in Canada, although Lord not very ISteiifc&tefloii of the tfeaty, and the Canadian law as well, is that United States citizens are entitled to regis­ tration of copyright in Canada with­ out obtaining a copyright in England." It is difficult to see how the British Premier could make the matter more clear, but it is probable he will be forced to do so before the Ottawa officials can be made t® understand a very simple thing. , - % WHATEVER may be said of the growth of art in this country, and whether this particular point is held to prove the advance or the deca­ dence of public taste, the fact that the work of really excellent artists is used for ordinary advertisements be­ comes every day more notable. Ad­ vertisers can no longer trust to the old fashioned, clumsy cuts, which did duty a dozen years ago. It is nec­ essary to enter a competition in the matter of illustrations in even those unspeakable things, the patent med­ icine almanacs, and it is not infre­ quent in this country, while it is really a common occurrence in Eng­ land, for the signed pictures of an ar­ tist to be exhibited in a well known gallery, while unsigned drawings adorn the sidings In the neighbor­ hood, calling attention to the virtues of some mercantile article or other. It is not a very dignified state of things from a sentimental point of view, but when one considers how much more comfortable many an art­ ist is from the ability which it gives him to turn an honest penny, it is at once seen that at least there are two sides to the question. The Announcement by Judge Field, of Kansas City, that he will not fine anybody who resents an insult in his court ought to mark the beginning of a very interesting experiment. The one objection appaars to be that the Judge is of Course the sole arbiter of what is an insult. Opinions may differ on that point, and the gentle­ man who considers himself insulted must be sure he's right before he goes ahead. For example, whon an at­ torney tells a witness that he has not a single characteristic; of a gentleman, as said the attorney in Judtre Field's Court, the witness ought to feel that he is in a measure insulted. But how shall he resent the insult? The Judge should be explicit on that point. Shall he merely rise with great dignity and call the attorney a liar? Shall he hurl a law-book or an inkstand at the attorney's head? Or shall he leave his seat and proceed to polish off the attorney according to the rules and regulations of the prize ring. Whether Judge Field's plan will prove efficacious can only be decided after a fair trial. In any event, it is not the less imperative that something must be done to maintain the dignity of a court of justice, and at the same time protect the witnesses from the Dully- ing and abuse of the opposing at­ torneys. Only as it affects the dig­ nity of justice the people care for the mouthings of attorneys toward each other. It is their quarrel, and if the Judge can stand it the people can. But in the case of a man who is called into court as a witness it is vcrv dif­ ferent. He is practically at the mercy of the attorney, who may consider it an evidence of legal ability and su­ perior technical skill to indulge in that form of bullying badinage unf6rtu- nately too often practiced by members of the bar. If the witness is per­ mitted to feel that he may "resent an insult" to the extent of soothing his ruffled feelings it will not be long be­ fore a lawyer who has not an accident policy will regret ( his indiscretion, both as to speech and in the matter of insurance, much to the peace and comfort of a long suffering com­ munity. This will be the first bene­ ficial result of Judge Field's ruling on the rights of citizens. * U»T« Jainti RoskhII Lowell Good AdTfM. The late James Russell Lowell once suffered a severe rebuke at the hands of a fellow Bo3tonian on board a steamer bound fpr Europe. Mr. Low­ ell was holding forth in the smoking- room upon the lamentable ignorance of educated Americans touching the politics of their own countVy, and he finally declared his belief that no Bos- tonian present could name four United States Senators from other States than Massachusetts. Under cross- examination he owned that he would find this a difficult feat himself, though he knew by name and reputa­ tion, as well as in person, most of the active men in the British House of Lords. Upon receiving this admis­ sion the cross-examiner said with some warmth: "I am sure, Mr. Lowell, that I could name every con­ spicuous Senator with his State, and I should be greatly ashamed of my­ self if I could not. Furthermore, while I do not venture to offer ad­ vice, it seems to me that you would do well to spend a summer vacation at home now and then instead of abroad.---Slew York Sun. s * THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OP THE CALAMITY PROPHETS, CwMMta, CsttaM »ad Cloth lug-- * ** Cib- •(•f Indiutrj-BoaaBt a at Boc*?ro«lty-. Tia fUtc-PalataA PoUtlwl Kotos »«d UlBitrailoM. Mm Coortltiun or Affricaltnr*. Ifhere was more campaign lying done last year regarding the McKinley bill and its effects on agriculture than was ever known about one feature of any previous campaign for years. The free traders--and that included the entire press and oratorical force of the Demo­ cratic party--were constant in their statements that the McKinley tariff liiil would prove a staggering blow to farm­ ers, that foreign markets would be closed against their prodncts, that the sad consequence thereof would be low prices for all they had to sell and high prices for all they were forced to buy. Well, farmers, how is it ? It does not need wordy arguments to prove to the farmers that this cry of the free traders was the voice oi" dema­ gogues. What are the facts? Every­ body knows that prices are better this year than last; and likewise everybody who spends a dollar for household necessities knows that sugar is cheaper than ever before, that cottons of all kinds are the lowest known in the his­ tory of the trade, and that manv other articles of prime necessity for the house have not been increased by the enact­ ment of the new tariff law. But what we want to get at is tho au­ dacious assertions of the demagogues, that the markets of the world would he closed against American farm products under the provisions of the McKinley bill. Not only did all the Thanksgiving proclamations of the Democratic gov­ ernors urge upon all people to give thanks unto the Almighty for so much of prosperity and happiness during the present year--and this is a clincher on the Democratic calamity hawkers--but the secretary of agriculture in his an­ nual report, gives some facts of special interest, touching the exports of Amer­ ican farm products. Thesefigures carrv weight, because they are official and likewise correct. During the first three months of the present fiscal year--July, August and September--the exports of cereals alone have aggregated about $77,000,000, made up as follows: Value per uuiiof Quantity, quantity. 490.650 7,(157,8*1 M*,<tl6 v.r.ivJ!* .61 .41 .M 1.0ft Ml Value. 9 #15,440 4,708,54" 218.25.1 8.D56.7S4 52,784,641 14,449,26J Barlty, , Corn, bttt.... Oats, hu*.... Rye, bun.... Wheat, bu«.... f>0,4U,8*S Flour, bbn.... 2.8C8.T1S For the same three months of 1890 the total exports of those products ag­ gregated but $28,278,120, and the values per unit of quantity were, in compari­ son, as follows: Barley *X6& Corn................. .48 : ~.a .37 Rye ......-- ;--.-- .61 Wheal. .V2 Wheat flour 47s Tho San on Free Trade Candidates. The New York Sun (Democratic): "If Mr. Roger Quarles Mills is elected speaker of the Fifty-second Congress, will there be much need of holding a Democratic national convention in 1892? Will not that convention be about as superfluous and unimportant as the national convention of the Prohibition­ ist® or of the People's party, and will not its platform have been mad© already! If it is deemed advisable as a Matter of form, and for the completion of'he record to put up a Democratic candidate, why should not the chairman of the Democratic Nation­ al Committee put in a hat the names of Grover Cleveland, Mr. Mills, Frank Hurd, ffom Johnson, of Cleveland, and Henry George, and draw out whatever name the lots iavor? The Democratic party will have chosen a speaker com­ mitted to absolute free trade and an in­ come tax. If the platform were polygamy and suicide the partv would have just as much chance of being successful in In­ dians, New York and Connecticut. The Conning IttdiMtry. In the wake of the free trade asser­ tions of last year, when statements were depended upon to carry the elec­ tion against facts, that our canning in­ dustry would be greatly injured by the new tariff, comes the acknowledged fact that the amount of canned and pre­ served fruits put up this season has been phenomenal. The bountiful fruit crop was supplemented by cheap Mc­ Kinley sugar, cheaper tin cans than last year, and a liberal drawback pro* vision for export. It is remarkable that the particular .".ems of the McKinley tariff which were singled out for attack by the free traders are exactly the ones which fur­ nish results most opposed to their ene­ mies' predictions. Thus doth the Mc­ Kinley tariff vindicate itself.--Economist. About Carpets, Cotton* and Clothing. Everybody^ who is watching the progress of American enterprise, or is especially anxious for information as to what this country is doing in the way of competing with foreign countries in the quality and quantity of high grades of carpet and cotton manufactures, will be interested in the following article from the pen of Charles S. Smith, of the New York Chamber of Commerce. It shows how marvelous have been the strides ot the United States in coming to the front as a manufacturing nation, under the in­ fluence of American protection: Of carpets we are the largest producers In the world, and in design, colors and ouality our goods are quite equal to any­ thing made m Europe of competing grades: 0t silk we exceed in amount the product ot England and Germany, and are second only to France; and in plain bilks (in which we excel as respects quality and durability) we equal the product of the most famous looms of Lyons. The large corporations of New England engaged in cotton manufacture have had, as indicated by their iast half yearly divi­ dends, average success, notwithstanding the fact that the average prices of cotton fabrics for the past six months have been the lowest known m the history ot the trade in the United States, even ia the times of exceptional temporary panic or depression. Although an English cotton mill costs to build and e<iuip fully 33% per cent less than ours, and while labor in such mills is 20 per cent, less in England than here (in gome industries the difference is much greater;, it is an interesting fact that one may buy the low and medium grades of cotton goods of the class used by the masses, or a ready-made garment of the same, say of shirtings, calico, gingham " 3 earnc, ui oiiuuhsoi A Strang* Tnato. vj canton liannel, and the like, in the retail According to the Medical"fcoitl "^res o£ New >ork and Chicago, ouite as low as a similar article can be bought m there is a woman 20 years old who re­ sides in Danbury, Conn., who has a passion for eating soap. On account of a burning sensation which this un­ natural food caused in her stomach she has broken herself of the habit, but "though she can no longer eat it, she still loves to handle it, she loves to use plenty of it in her housework and in her bathroom. The smell of it is still sweet to her nostrils, and the thick suds she delights in reminds her of the days gone by, never to re­ turn. Strange to say, she cares only for the coarse bar soap; fancy soaps she never uses." He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the evil a < man can hf guilty of.--Swift, ;" s% London, Paris or Berlin. American standard sheetings and drills have the preference in the Chinese mar­ ket, and are sold m competi­ tion with English and German made goods, and always at better prices, be­ cause of their superior quality. The product of favorite brands of American standard sheetings and drills adapted to the China maritets has been sold in ad­ vance of .production for more than six months past, and a prominent mill has now 10.U00 packages engaged for the African market. It is a humiliating fact that every bale of New England made goods destined for China is shipped by the Canadian Pacific Railway to Vancouver and from thence to its destination by English steamers, and this large traffic has been diverted from American railways and from the Pacific Mall steamers because that line of steam­ ers has not heretofore been able to com­ pete with theEnglishjgovermuent subsidy. 1890. 189L 2»,9»1 56,897 U,*S3 SSI 1,265 S80 6.798 289 228 510 1,368 1,822 1,665 m 161 « S7 LOSS 1*859 1.188 14S 405 U7t< ........ m SM 071 ........ 234 M0 1,694 m 418 "S22 S07 SSK 100 768 7,590 P. , _ , m ^roilnclag a ceed iS per ceni war--. _ toote wfethe^orSiwr goodsdoet notex- r- -- « of the total cost. 1 have seen neentty a stylish and appropriate summer morning dress, made from a col­ ored American cotton fabric by a young lady with her own finders, where the eoM of the material did sot exceed $1.28. A ready-made suit of clothes for a man, of common American eassimere, will not cost in New York to4ay 14 per cent, more than a similar suit bought in London, and this excess in cost is due to the increased cost of wool hem and to the fact that the percentage of labor cost upon the cassi- mere is relatively six times as much as on the cotton fabrics above referred to. Hie of Reciprocity. Tne state department at Washington has received the following statement of shipments made by the Ward line of steamships from New York to Havana, for the months of September and Oc­ tober of the present year compared with those months of 1890: Potatoes, barrels. Lara, tierces Lard, tirtlna K«rn. enses. I-aril. hogshe«ds...„».M Bacon, cases 'Jlaius, tierces ...... Hums, barrels Hams, crates Herring', boxes..Sw......... onions barrels -.it_ Cabbages, crates Heans, barrel* Beans, hags H»y, baies " Pears, barrels Oats, bags Bran, bags ......,^.w ......... Peas, dry, barrels Pork, barrels Grapes, barrels Apples, barrels The statement further shows that the steamship company, Bince the treaty went into effect, lias been forced to charter three extra steamers besides their regular sailings, and that every ship without exception has gone out full. The shipments of machinery for the manufacture of sugar have been greater than ever known before. They report that the leading provision merchant In Havana estimates that when the treaty Srovision as to reduction of duty oil our takes place January 1 next the im­ ports from the United States to Cuba will reach 1,000,000 barrels per annum, or more than double the present total consumption. Mew Evidences om Tin Platov The ban Francisco Chronicle has re­ cently printed an interview with James Van Allen, formerly professor of assay­ ing at Cornell University, and at one time editor of the Scientific American, on the subject of the tin mines in southern California, which is remark­ ably interesting, for the special reason that Mr. Van Allen was opposed to the Republican doctrine of protect­ ing the tin industry on the assump­ tion that tin plate could not be successfully manufactured in this country. But now he is enthusiastic over the California mines. He was not only skeptical of the existence of tin in quantities that could be mined at a profit, but he did not believe any tin ore at all had been found. Having gone to California on other business, and be­ ing in the vicinity of the mines, of which he heard more particular reports in California, he went to Bee them, and the following sentences from his talk to a reporter will show his conversion aft­ er seeing them: "1 shall go back East proclaiming the Temescal tin mines the richest of the kind I have ever known, and I have spent a month in the Cornwall mines. * * * I was astonished to find how rich some Temescal tin ore is. It runs 16 per cent, in some places. I never saw any Oornish ore run higher than 11 per cent. I used to smile at the tin Elate clause in the McKinley bill, but I ave been converted. Thatdause iB all right. We can mine all our own tin and make all our own tin platell" When such evidence al thiB comes from once hostile sources the outlook for Democratic opposition to Aq|@fifiau tin plate is not cheering. 3 ! ,' » "" Tariff Pictures and Motes. The total of all public debts in tlie United States--national, state, county, municipal and school--has been re- duced from $84.94 per capita in 187o to ¥32.25 per capita in 1890. Oh, yes, we have prospered during the last twenty years of protection and Republican finan­ ciering. Reciprocity is already working ad' mirably as the complement of protection, For the four months ending July 31. 1890, our exports of machinery to Brazil were valued at 1214,821 For the same period in 1891, under xeciprocity, they were • $874,104 Congressman Mills declares that stumping in the Ohio campaign was harder work for him than campaigning in the civil war. Secretary Blaine's normal weight is 198 pounds. When he is sitting down on anyone who would take liberties with Uncle Sam's rights he weighs just as many tons. Gov. Boies has been talking a good deal about Iowa'g "poverty." Here is what the Iowa crop bureau gives as an answer to the calamity Governor: Corn 300,000,000 bu I,otatoee_..2S,000.000 bu Oats .........120,000,000 bu:Kye» 2,061.000 bu Wheat...... 34,000,000 bu|Buckwh't. 22,000 bu Barley 4,785,000 buj Ti in ot h f Flax 8,814,870 bu| bay 4,500,000 til's That is the strongest argument which nan be made to the calamityites. The Tariff and the "Four Hundred." Among all the "evils" ̂ which this "robber" tariff is working in this coun­ try, its direful effect is making a visita­ tion upon the famous "Four Hundred," of New York City, whose onty purpose and effort in this life is to "ape foreign aristocrats in manner, drawl, and dress." This fashionable circle is guided in its ambition, aim and spirit, by that notor­ ious sycophant and Bervile impersona­ tor of foreicn manners and customs, Ward McAllister. This man who has all his clothes made in Europe because tuere is nothing made in thiS country, good enough for him, is dowu on the McKinley bill. He has issued a note of warning to the lady members of the "Four Hundred" to the effect that if something is not done to strangle the tariff law there will be fashionably inclined women who will have all these Parisian dresses copied in this country, with American silks, looking just as well as the imDorted article, and costing not more than half as much, and what an awful thing that would be--to dress as well as the "Four Hundred," and that in American silks! In his notice he re­ marks: This McKinley bill, if it is not re»ea!ed by the clamor our women will and must in the near future raise against it, will add more than one-third to the amount each lady who wears imported dresses must pay for them. * * * * If you apply to one of our best modistes she will frankly tell you, "This dinner dress i must charge ?;>50 for; if 1 copy it for you, using the same materials of which it is made, it will cost you $250." * * * I t would be a terrible blow to this aristocratic circle if some outside ladies should take a notion to get these Paris dresses copied in this country--made out of American silk and the cutting and sewing done by American hands. Well, if the McKinley bill strikes a hard blow at those who place a greater value on things foreign than on'things produced in this country, American {jatriotism will say good enough! A aw which compelB certain fashionable persons to wear dresses made of Ameri­ can silk because they look jnst as well good,« doing some excellent mission work. Vhs Londea Times on American Kle*. ttons. The Irish World quotes this pars* graph from the London Times of No* •ember 5: "Ohio, indeed, which at the election for Congress last year appar­ ently revolted against the protectionist policy and threw out Mr. McKinley, the author or sponsor of the new tariff, has returned to its first love. * * * We regret Mr. McKinley'b return, which, as President Harrison's con­ gratulatory message shows, will give re­ newed confidence to the protection­ ists." The Irish World then follows np this quotation with these vigorous com­ ments: The acknowledgment of the London Times confirms the statement so often made by protectionists about England's interest in our elections. Every Demo­ cratic victory is hailed by her as a blow struck lor britisli trade. She thoroughly understands and appreciates the character of the work Democrats and Mugwumps are doing for her. She also understands the services rendered her by lrish-Amerl- eans who co-operate with the Democracy in its war on the protective system. There are some states, such as Massachusetts, in which the Democratic party would be a mere shell if it were not for the Irish-Americans it counts among its members. The London Times, which is aware of tins fact, gloats over the Mugwump accession to the Democracy, he- cause it evidently believes that the influ­ ence of the Mugwumps will tell in favor cf England. "The increase in the strength of the Democrats," it says, "is derived from very dnt'erent sources, and some­ times, as in Massachusetts, where the Democratic governor has been re-elected, though by a rather narrow majority, from antagonistic elements. There is now a very iaflje Irish vote, still mainly Demo­ cratic, 111 Massachusetts, but the party has also been reinforced by a considerable number of Republican 'reformers', the so- called Mugwumps, who are at the very op­ posite pole of politics from the Irish." It will be noted that the London Times thoroughly understands that there is a natural antipathy existing between Irish- Americans and these Anglo-maniacs who joined the Democratic party only when it- declared itself in favor of free trade. Yet in the state mentioned by the Londoa Times the Mugwumps may be said to he on the top, so far as the Demoeral ic party is concerned. Irish-American Democrats in Massachusetts may do the voting, but the Mugwumps and their friends are to have the honors and shape the policy of the party. The manner in which Gen. Corcoran, Democratic candidate for lietenant-governor, has been slaught­ ered at the polls is a fair sample of tho treatment Irish-American Democrats who are nominated for office may expect in the future. It remains to be seen how long Irish-Americans in Massachusetts and other states will continue to act with the Mugwumps and vote for free trade. They certainly could employ their ballots to a better purpose than casting them for a pol­ icy every victory for which is hailed by the London Times and the rest of the English press a£ a distinctive gain for John Buii. A CENTURY OP CHAINS. Ot All the Trlends of the Criminal's Youth None Lind to Greet Hltn. A certain housebreaker was con­ demned in the latter part of tho last century in France, and under peculiar circumstances, to 100 years in the gal­ leys, and strange to relate, this man re­ cently made liis appearance in his native province at the advanced age of 120, he being about 20 years of age when the sentence which condemned him to so dreadful a punishment was passed. It is difficult to conceive what the feelings must have been with which he returned, comments the New York Ledger, as soon as emancipated from the shackles which had enthralled him for a century, to breathe once more the cherished air of the scenes of his in­ fancy. Bourg, in the department of Ain, was his native home; but time Imd so much changed the aspect of the whole place that he recognized it only by the old church of Brou, which was the only thing that had undergone no alteration. He had triumphed over laws, bond­ age, man, time--everything. Not a re­ lative had he left; not a single being could he hail as an acquaintance; yet he was not without experiencing the hom­ age and respect the French invariably pay to old age. For himself, he hail forgotten everything connected with his early youth; even all recollection of the crime for which he had Buffered, was lost, or, if at all remembered, it was as a dreary vision, confounded with a thou­ sand other dreary visions of days long gone by. His lamily and connections for sever­ al generations all dead, himself a living proof of the clemency of heaven ana the severity of man, regretting, per­ haps, the very irons which had been familiar to him, and half wishing him­ self again among the wretched and suf­ fering beings with whom his fate had been so long associated--well might he be called the patriarch of burglars. What Enftlatid Could Do. In two weeks after a declaration o« war England could place fifty gunboats on the lakes and more than thirty armored vessels in the harbors of our leading cities, and could concentrate 5,000 regular troops in Canada, backed by a sturdy militia, ready to march across our border, while in twice that time part of her Asiatic squadron could sail through the Golden Gate. Our lake frontier is a cobweb. No land defenses of such towns as Chicago, situated on the shore itself, could save them from bombardment. The best army could not protect Chi­ cago against a mediocre modorn fleet. The shipping and commerce of the lakes is attractive. The goods afloat and ashore would sullico to pay a huge war indem­ nity. They are all at the mercy of an English flotilla. Some people imagine that war has been humanized out of such measures as bombardment. But Paris was bombarded in 1870; so was Strasburg, and its beautiful cathedral spire was seriously injured. War has no {esthetic maxims. The occupation of a seaport leaves no alternative out sub­ mission and the payment of a heavy ransom--or bombardment. In a town like Chicago this would be followed by fire, and we all remember the 120,000,000 lost in the fire of 1871.--Forum. Raising Klephant Meat. An elephant ranch is the latest nov­ elty proposed in California, and a Mr. Newtury, the projector, is enthusiastic about his plans. He proposes to culti­ vate the elephant for its meat and its capacity for hard and diversified work. He says that "as an article of food the elephent is superior to the horse," and moBt people will be willing to accept his statement, though not appreciating its force. He says that behind a tough exterior it hides a tender steak and that African explorers are profuse in their praise of elephant cutlets. A full-grown elephant weighs about 7,000 pounds, and M r. Newbury counts 6,000 of this as good to eat. Imported. Diseases. The Medical Record publishes an arti­ cle by an American physician who re­ cently made a voyage from Europe to this country in an immigrant ship. He says that out of 153 steerage passengers whom he examined not one-half were found to be physically sound, though the unsound passengers were not afflict­ ed with such diseases as would prevent them from landing at any of our ports. "II this shipload is a fair sample," he says, "the amount of disease imported annually into this county must be ap­ palling. ' The greatest difficulties are spent OjOOG ic Enables rnrads and Fakirs te OMaia a Oootl |ii*is^ '•In spite of the boast that we live in a scientific age," said a well-known philanthropist the other day, "super­ stitions and folly of all kinds are flourishing around us. For a proof ol this fact we have only to consider the immense number of fortune tellers, spiritualists and fakirs of all kinds, who are feeding upon the credulity ol the public. There are hundreds of women in New York City making fat livings by their so-called clairvoyance. They are consulted chiefly by women and girls who want to know all about the future of their love affaire and the sincerity of their lovers; but there are also many men who go to them for advice about their business. I know one man who never makes an important move in his mercantile affairs without consulting a 'trance medium,' and who has unlimited faith in her power to help him through. She has often induced him to make unfortunate speculations. "Theatrical people, you know, are proverbially superstitious and they are among the fortuue teller's best patrons. I know a popular theatrical manager who consults an astrologer every week to arrange his plans. He claims that he always learns from these consultations just what luck he is going to have during the coming week. Whenever the astrologer miakes aAmistake in his predictions he always has some plausible excuse about the false position of the stars or about some misleading calculation of the effect upon the life ot his subject. "The influence which all these read­ ers of the future have upon those whe consult is very Strong, and may be ex­ erted for good or evil. I know of cases where it has done serious harm. I^or instance, a well-known fortune teller in a large city in this country was consulted one day a few years age by a young girl, apparently in the full bloom of health. As soon as the girl entered her presence the woman exclaimed excitedly: 'Oh, go home, go right home; you'll be dead in twe hours!' The girl almost fainted from terror of these words. She managed, hbwever, to get out of the house, but she was so weak from fright that she had to call a cab. When she arrived home she was utterly prostrated and had to be carried into the house and up to her room. Doctors were sum­ moned and they declared that she was suffering from heart disease. In half an hour after returning home she was dead." Loyal lll^ Slstar. was a tiny little girl, with dirty, sun-tanned hair, a blue calico dress and bare feet. She carried in her arms a bajjy half as large as her­ self, and the baby was so heavy that it sagged down in the middle, giving the infant the appearance of being held by the feet and the nape of the neck. There was some excitement around the corner of the next block on Wash street, and the children were hurrying forward like mad from all directions. The girl tried to run, but the baby was too heavy, and her breath gave out. Said I, in % spirit of badiwge,-- "Drop the baby, sis, and go pee what the trouble is." ' She stopped and stared atmc> "I say, put the baby down on the sidewalk and run." > "Yer must take me for a fool, mister." : "Why?" "Cos; this is our baby." ' 0 "Well, suppose it is? and watch it for you." ' 'No, yoa won't, mister. Yer might carry it #ff." "What if I did? Ain't you tired carrying it around and making your backache?" "Naw I ain't. Say, mister, this is the only little baby we've got, and if yer only knowed how she can crow and laugh yer wouldn't want me to do no such thing. This bab/ hain't got no ma, 'cept me, and pa and me coulon't do 'thout her. She sets up in a high chair at the table and crows and kicks while me and pa eats, and at night I rock her to sleep like ma used to do. When ma died the baby didn't know no better; but just laughed and hollered, and I cried so I couldn't keep her still. Put her down on the sidewalk! Eool- killer '11 git you,-mister, ef yer staj around her long." ; / f t Judicial Ulgilir ta TraeXMfc , !'•" ^Justice Liggett of Truckee is a fine specimen of the old-time justice of the ])eace, says the Nevada News. He is not at nil proud on account of his po­ sition in society, but does "as the Romans do." The justice expressed some surprise at the manner in which the courts down this way are con­ ducted. He is here on trial, and says that at the end of the first day, when court was dismissed and the judge walked out, he naturally expected that gentleman to invite those pres­ ent to come out and take something. But he didn't do it. "Up in Truckee," said the justice, "we hold court in thfe back rooiri of a saloon for want of a better place. When a trial is concluded we always allow that the man who is beaten will walk right out and look mad, while the man who wins will call everybody up to drink. And," he re­ marked musingly, "I don't know as I ever refused. "I had a case once in which a man who was convicted of disturbing the peace treated. I only fined him $20 •--just enough to pay the costs of the court,, which, of course, always in­ clude drinks for the crowd--and when we walked out I'm blessed if he didn't call us all up himself. And, sir, the man who had accused him walked out and refused to drink. I allow I've seen some mean men in my time, but I never yet saw one so mean that I wouldn't drink with him." i. -- = 0*1:. ; Pa*ans, A ^pagan" was originally the in­ habitant of a pagus, or village, a countryman. It came to mean "heathen" because it was chiefly in the country, outside the town, that the worshippers of the old national gods were allowed to continue, "heathen" was originally a living on the heath. SOBp OR STARTLING. FA1TI FULLY RECORDED. Of Interest to 111*11 ranee Sodetl ventlon of Typhoid Ferer--The _ Girl# Captured-Anarchist Canes poaed--Sensational AAmMOI ment--Sad Saldde. Sfcl " 15 i Record ol the Week. ' \) H. I. Hammosd's general store »sdl 1 most of its contents were destroyed by ^4 " * fire at Burnsidea. on the Big Four, to-. • gether with the large hotel adjoining* ** , Loss, £5,000. . • Jacksosvillk Is interested In an •- > elopement in which the principal rSi ures are David M. Stlce, 45 years of tge, , ' and Miss Agnes Norris, a young gtrl, > ' whose parents live at Virden. ^ „ - - The wife of the late Capt McKfnne*| of Cairo, who committed suicide a few > • - weeks ago by shooting himself, was de* clared insane and placed in the asyhna, . at Anna, but she eluded the guard sb&£:' killed herself. | At Jacksonville, the residence of Mrs. • ' Sarah Capps was entered by burglars^^ and near y SJ,0C0 of bcoty secured. c Four jrold watches, a larjfe amount ot/4 silverware, jeweiry, etc., were telceau' -V :'j There is no clew to the thieves. The cases of the anarchists, Famnef " ^ Fielden and Michael Schwab, taken ta * " , ^ ^ the United States Supreme Court, hav^'wi^^^i been postponed by the United states ,* i Supreme Court to Dec. 21 on account'^, '• % . | the illness of Gen. Butler, counsel for , the anarchists. , A mkssage received from the Sheri®?^^,^§ of Cannon County, Tennessee, states !"» that Caroline and Belie Forester have been arrested at Woodbury, that State. These are the girls who Nov. 2+ assaulU ed their stepfather, John Morris, near , Shawaeetown, shooting him four timet; j In the head, and then after pound 5 nig!,, i him leaving him for dead. Sheriff Sandtt. " 'i 'i let t for the prisoners. Dn. F. W. REir.tr, Secretary of State Board of Health, issued a bulletin, In relation to typhoid fever. Keporti , ^ made to the board show that there had been a marked decrease in the disease at the close of November, as compare# ** with the opening of the month. . exists, however, in many portions of , I State. The prevalence of the disease attributed to protracted drought and tfea ; ' \ii consequent scarcity of water. The use at \ boiled water not known to be absolutely ^ tv : 3M& •-1 pure is recommended and the importance of disinfection Is urged. * At Alton, in the trial of Wyait, Brown aud Starkey, A. L. Dalbow, ot Upper Alton, testified that he saw./ Starkey in that place on the night of tfaa' murder of Senator I). B. Giiham. Rob?, ert Curdie, a saloonkeeper of Alton^ failed to establish the fact that Starkey was in his saloon at the time the mur^ der was committed. Witnesses frooa Peoria, to establish an alibi for Starkey, •wore they saw him in the parade on SW f Patrick's Day, 1880, in tfiat city. Peoria.,. 4 ^ officers upset this evidence by present* ' » ^ ing the fact that there was no parade „ * f "| in that city on tho date mentioned. ^ At Qulncy a case was decided in thf .* 4 . Circuit Court which relates to fraternal Insurance societies. Jacob Kmerick waa - , * a member of Cartbare Lodge of the / i vV Ancient Order of United Workmen, b<ifc~4 was expelled for habitual drunke ness» / and then ceased to pay his asse smonts* \ h \V Shortly afterward ho die 1 and his wide# ^ - demanded that the lodge pay the 93»<MNT 1 insurance policy, claiming that h!ses» i ?* 4- pulsion wan IHo:ia!. In the first bearta# . „ the court ruled that, habitual drunkest « ',y ness was not a sufficient cause Mr pulsion, and I11 the last trial the defeat* • • > basod Its case on the falluie of decease# i to pay his assessments uft -r hi* oxpal* •Ion. The case resulted la a vurdlei fef ' it the defendant , Attohnkv Gkxkrai, Brows has w|»ff ^ turned from Washington, wherehe deck*"* eted In the Federal Court the suit ef < > Iowa vs. Illinois to decide tho boundary ^ Wfe line at Keokuk. It has been decided hf the Iowa Supreme Court that the State • f J boundary lies in the center of the river • ' ^ bed, i^lethc Illinois courts hold thaV-'t' " 'X the boundary is in the center of the uafc> . ^ » nral steamboat channel, whether the" / -f channel lies in the middle of the river „ ») £ bed or not. Deep water lies very aeaf-:' the Iowa side, and under their State law?, the Illinois people claim taxes on by tho larger part of the bridira The Iowa assessors have gone right on levying* taxes on the bridge as far east as the middle of the river bed, and the conse­ quence Is that the company owning the bridge has been paying double taxes e» a part of their property. Secretary Gabbard's report of %Imi: disbursements of the Illinois Board of*! the World's Fair Commissioners *hows * ; balance of appropriation Snevpended aitf Dec. 1 amounting to 9700,013.3s, expenditures have averaged about 93*000* a month for the first live months. Ax Epworth League meeting was held at Nunda. Charles E. Piper, President/ of the Chicago District League; HI Holt, President of the Rock River 1 forence League; and the Rev. Spencer, D. D., of Philadelphia livered addresses Miss Franc lectured under the auspices of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society."1 The next session will beheld at Marengo^ next April. The Fayette Connty wild man hun%/f! came off, fully one hundred citizens of Louden and Carson Township partici­ pating in the drive. The round-up was- "i: made in the vicinity of Watsonfor^, - ' near the shanty which is supposed to w < w the domicile of the wild man. The party, hunted over an area of ground abon% . ' four miles in circumference, but failed *; to sight him. It is now thought the s- \ scare is bogus. - -r* Pit. David H. Parkkis, one of the best-known surgeons in Southern nois, committed suicide at CalVo. Franltej-^iffv kpl Parker, Judge Boyer, and State's Attor~ > * ^ nev Butler were in an adjoining roonl'J when the deed was committed, and, hurCl rying at the sound of the shot, foaod|| him sitting on tho s'do of the bed wlthfH the blood pouring from the wound, an#f in an instant he fell back dead. Ino: ball passed c ear through the body an# < ; " 1 struck tho wall behind the bed. "V. The coal miners' strike at Rentehle* % was declared off. The men returned >' work at the old schedule of wages. Cektaix health authorities in the. Mississippi Valley having charged the$S small-pox had been recently in trod) into Memphis, Tenn., from Cairei* Secretary of the ^tate Board of Bealtl^ has made an investigation which demon* strates the charge to be wholly wlthoefc foundation. Not only has there been wjk ca9e of small-pox in Cairo this year, but there has been none since the spring ol 1886. There is not known to be a casa ot this disease anywhere within the State at this time. During service in the Unitarian Church at Mollne, the Rev. Ida I'- Hutton, the pastor, suddenly lost her# voico in the middle of her sermon and? was unable to speak 1a a manner dis­ cernible at all. The congregation was at once dismissed. At Springfield, Charles White Eugene Harrison, two criminals, rom prison, and are now at laifa hite is wanted in Decatur for burglary id larceny. Harrison was wanted toy ited States authorities for selling >r without license. A hole was wide wall of the prison just laifa h for the men to crawl thi pposed that they had outside.