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• • '\r- • ^" ' ; 4,.. ?r _v " 1. > *'feVS V."^ V-^sHaS 4«, &<» • •*& m' Dmp" i«MK, a(tr<* dy*#e& CAUSED BY OVERWORK.' ko now. ppae ILLINOIS •BMATOR PLUMB SUDDENLY •TRIOKBN DOWNj SOBER OR STARTLING, FULLY RECORDED. Reutg ̂laintlfalcr J. VAM SLYKE, Editor and Publisl tr. - - • ILLINOLFE. THE man who talks loudly IN public places seldom makes himself heard in the world any other way. ||| THERE Is one time in a boy's life !$? : t when he doesn't do anything but •£;; trade marbles and adopt stray dogs. CHICAGO may erect the tallest */, buildings and towers, but it takes *\ Boston to put up a thirty-story bank -?) ^failure.: : *v; 1 NEW JERSEY will produce 1 <F,BOO barrels of applejack this year. What p tu opening in that Sta|^.,..||pK(i..;ft.^b:- ^:5'>ihioride of gold hospital*: X* * ' • A MINNESOTA^ has invented a plow £ that will run by electricity. When the electric hoc is perfected for dig- i° ?in« potatoes the farmer will feel bct- ler. -' •' *%• / » THE man who has an old head on f> ytilm when be is younjr, needs special ,, prayer meetings to be held in his be- ^ tialf to prevent him from acting the $ , fool when he is old. ^v-;3f-T " " A SEPTUAGENARIAN 111 €^Wimi»y recently drove seven nails through his liead, and still lives, trhough not feel- especially well. Such treatment Id ruin a locomotive boiler in this try. ________ BY the general consent of honest voters the Australian ballot has come to stay. Now if we can import some ^ Australian counters of the ballots in Y' • certain quarters there will be a more jy. hopeful condition still. k:~y • ' ! v hope, It is 'o the EVEKY one has A secret sf - though one was never realized. i),'. cent to a man as a sort of will %isp to keep him forever in pursuit of ^ Something, that he may forget how ' -long and tiresome his joumey is. I y Ma. RIIJJY, the poet, will be grati- •y&ed to learn from a ^Jew York, paper that he "looks like a sharp-wittipd ', feusiness man." Mr. Riley and Mr. V; Riley's friends have always labored " tinder the impression that he knows as much about business as an Aus­ traliankangaroo does about the Iliad. rs A NEW YORK paper offers to give ^ $500 to any person who meets sudden -fleath while in possession of a copy of i-K', L * Its current issue. It is supposed the Sfyjlfcdltor wishes to make all possible y } amends for any fatal effects that may follow the perusal of his humorous IS' paragraphs. & J WHOEVER is in business must make tip his mind to be imposed upon. And '.'•$e must always be good natured about it It is a part of his business to bs cheerful when he is being iin- - posed upon. Every woman who is & Imposed upon at home likes to "aret 1 even" by grumbling to the dealer - With whom she "trades." - t$r~rr 1 • V-'*-* JOHN L. SULLIVAN devotes histslks ^ With interviewers to denouncing K Australia and her people. The truth i i is that he burns under the sense of ['./ neglect shown his Thespian show, and 'y:. Iris anxiety to fight Slavin is shrewdly « \ attributed to a desire to get even with ^he big island by whipping her Camp­ s'- ' . s y Ion. j.̂ v;,s. >'•> ' • . ' "• p.y, AN old book of records has turned 1 ff. up in Fairfax County, Va., showing ; that George Washington was prose- • cuted for various civil misdemeanors y "« against King George before the Revo­ lution At a subsequent period the y" father of his Country was guilty of a r". •- great many military misdemeanors jftgainsfc the same King George, but he tvas never prosecuted for them. • jf*'-,': RECENT traveler in Cuba reports ^ that all the small silver coins in that ^ 4' country have holes in them. Most of •*' them are American dimes and quar- ' • ters. The perforation is done to keep '• this kind of money, in the country. ^The number of holes in a piece does ^'.tiot appear to affect its exchangeable ^4 , /value. This is a hint to the-fl^et I'f* car companies. " ! i • THE death of Dom '•{ means disposes of Pedro by'ho the question of a jpossible restoration of the empire in fcrazil. His daughter is not quite ^popular enough to lead a succe&tul Attack on the existing order, but there : is a grandson who might furnish a rallying point for the imperialists in >fjpase the republic should show any :^TOre of the signs of weakness <Pd under Fonseca. •TFIPL ST. PAUL Is excited because * ̂ volves in the suburban region fatten <t>n leading citizens. Sho! Hungry . ' tigers roam through the busiest streets . j(Df Chicago and devour a countryman fxery day. St. Paul will build no ^ inore ice palaces because ice palaces fj /advertise the city as "the coldest on U« 4barth." Sho! St. Paul isn't cold. jj> 3The mercury sometimes stands at 10 ;V t>elow, but you don't feel it--"the air J Is so dry." You lose a foot or hand, I or an ear, perhaps, but you don't feel the cold--never. Queer {dace, St. Paul. ' THE Bertilion system ot measure­ ments for the identification of crimi­ nals has been thought the most perfect yet devised. Dr. Jeserich, of Berlin, ^ asserts that the hair affords aninfalli- ' ble test of. identity. In a recent ar- fest for murder at Berlin he satisfied r the police by a comparison of two I tiairs photographed that the prisoner it/ was not the man wanted. The ap- ** . iplication of this test is very much £'. k.'v; like that of the old cook "First catch your hair." IBtUNDER AS USUAfc FRIENDSHIP is one of the greatest boons that life can have. As Bacon says, "it redoubleth joys and cuttcth grief in halves." But where brother­ hood is united with it it attains a still richer result;»for then it has a world of memories and early associa­ tions^ n common--the mutual love of the same honored parents, the recol­ lections of the same beloved home and of past scenes vividly impressed on the minds of both, in which no other friend however dear can possi­ bly share. THE feasibility of extending the bi-chloride of gold treatment to the weaning of dudes and other weak- minded persons from the inordinate use of cigarettes is under discussion just now. If the bi-chloi'ide did not fly to the dude's head, and blow the roof off the place where the brain should be, it might help some to check his consumption of tobacoo. The best way to bogin is m experiment on the hardest dude to be found, and report progress. As for minors who defy%ie law and burn the seductive tobacco-roll, oil of birch will be found much more effective than bi-chloride of gold.. „ THIS is the end of the nineteenth century, and Connecticut, if still plunged in barbarism itself, is in the j himself and other gentlemen who pro- midst of a land nominally reclaimed DEMOCRATIC PARTY PUTS ITS WORST END FOREMOST. KU Perklm Hd Regmr Q. Mill's Bo? Chtrltjr Bold • CeaVtmUai--Carptti Clwptr thra Kni^-mil Mak* Our On LMH-IUMWIIMMU Folate* t. Worst Knd Fortmoil--Aa Uaaal. Our friends the enemy appear to have achieved their regular annual blonder. It is the testimony of tbeir own most capable organs that the blunder ia a fatal one, though these organs have not been by any means as loud as some of the "more-money" papers in denyinz the sincerity or party good faith of those who have opposed them. But the defeat of Mr. Mills, after all the organized, persistent and tremendous efforts made by Mr. Cleveland and his former cabinet officers and his political managers and his band of free-trade devotees, is indeed a blow which may change the foture of .parties. Mr" Cleveland can no longer have the prestige of the predestined candidate, but, it is plain, will have to fight hard for a nomination, and to meet angry and implacable resistance within his own party. Gov. Hill, Tammany Hall, Sen- »tor Gorman, Senator Brice, the money- making, stock-jobbing, subsidy-tavoring »nd speculative end of the "partv, has the upper hand in legislation, and the southern end of the capital will ring with cries for "more money and an ap­ propriation." If reputable Democrats do, not like the crowd they can inquire why Mr. Cleveland helped it to victory in this state. If they do not like the prospect they can thank Mr. Cleveland to civilization; and yet on a recent Sunday evening the violinist Remenyi having an engagement in New York, was forced to break it because the Connecticut conscience, softened, it may be, with remorse for the tradi­ tional manufacture of wooden nut­ megs and other similar objects, cou:d not permit the running of a train on Sunday. The whole of modern life has been adjusted to the fact of in­ tercommunication and of rapid tran­ sit, and it is no longer possible to say arbitrarily that for one day out of the week this thing shall not be. Even Connecticut might be expected to recognize this. - THE sea serpent has been captured --in Connecticut. The poor thing ig believed to have been making its way to the winter quarters of Barnum's circus, at Bridgeport, finding the ocean unusually cold and stormy, and desiring a comfortable home while snow flies. At least this is the only way of accounting for the singulai fact that the serpent was found, much exhausted, on dry land. All our no­ tions of the size of this eater of sail­ ors and ships are corrected by the ap­ pearance of this marine serpent, which is only twenty feet long, an# makes milk the chief of its diet. The story comes' from the land of Barnum, where a new Barnum may have al­ ready sprung up. But tyie finder ot the reptile says it is the real old ser­ pent, and that by the scales on his back he must be at least a hundred thousand years old. THE discussion of the propriety 61 abandoning the editorial: "we" con­ tinues, coming to the surface about so often, but it cannot be said that there is any great advance in either the custom of writing in the singular or in the general interest in the matter. To the general public, it is evident, there is not much difference if any between one way and the other. The general reader understands that whether the editorial is written in the singular or in the plural it is the expression of the policy and the senti­ ments of the paper as a whole or as an organized result not the mere opinion of the individual who happens to be delegated to set the thing down on paper. This being so it is a mat­ ter of indifference to the reader whether the form be singular or plural. To the editor accustomed to the old form, however, the use of the singular" is most embarrassing. It is like appearing in public in hi^ shirt­ sleeves. There is an indecorousness verging on indecency in the egotistic singular. It hampers his pen and confuses his thought. He likes it not: and the result is that there is not a great deal of progress made in the direction of the discarding of the journalistic "we." Probably most readers share somewhat the same feel­ ing, and unconsciously feel that there is a certain loss of dignity in the use of the singlar pronoun, but it is at least certain that there is no demand for4t. It is recognized that the plea of directness and sincerity which used to be urged as a reason for the adop­ tion of the singular is nonsense; and therefore nobody really cares much about the matter. The Qf Folr(Mnjr. There are probably 150,000 Mor­ mons in Utah Territory, but of that number many are onl\ nomiually so.v Amid the con­ tentions between them and the gentiles, many have sided with the church in which are their parents, relatives and friends without em­ bracing its faith. It is idle now to think of disfranchising the latter day saints. They ar6 an industrious, temperate people, as a rule, and my observation has led me *»to believe that they are law-abiding since the church took its stand under the law against plural marriage. I am aware that now and then individuals will report violations of that law since the manifesto, but upon investigation such charges are seldom sustained. It would be strange if there were no breaches of it; there are some such cases among non-Mormons. I do not believe that such marriages have been authorized or sanctioned by the offi­ cers of the Mormon church since the manifesto.--Judge Lane, in Forum. SMALL things cease to when their effects are migh small fess to be devoted to principle, but were oot willing to risk a' fraction of their party popularity by refusing their sountenance to the Tammany Hall com­ bination when it seized the' state con- rention. That was the time to "fight Tor a funeral," but now the combination has the reins and the whip and is going to drive. Free coinage must have come forward prominently, a9 the Tribune long ago predicted, no matter whether one man Dr another was chosen to form the com­ mittees. But it will certainly get far more prominence, take up more of the attention of Congress, bring out in far stronger light the tendencies of the Democratic party on monetary ques­ tions, and do far more to divide the party, with Mr. Crisp than Mr. Mills in the chair. The latter had discovered that the party could not hope to win in Bastern states if it fooled with this ques­ tion, and therefore would have done nrhat he could to oppose it. It is the :ii8tomary blunder that he is beaten, md with him those who hoped to fight Tor a principle, and not for more money rod an appropriation. So the New York Times says: The election of Mr. Crisp by the coalition tf the demagogy of Hill, the spoilsmonger- ing of Tammany, the protectionism of Sonnan and Brice. the half-corrupt, half- fanatical free-silver movement, and the old South, must inevitably -'give pause" to the men who have believed that the Demo­ cratic party would be a lit instrumentality for the accomplishment oi tariff ieform ind the clean and honest administration trf the government. • * * But thosa to whom the triumph of this cause is the con­ trolling object of political action, and to whom parties are only instruments for or igainst the'ifcause, will, for the present, be forced to assume a position of armed neu­ trality. It begins to look as if the Democrats might not venture to nominate any can­ didate from New York with another From the same state hostile to him. The ogly temper and bad blood which the ipeakership contest lias excited will not make it easy to secure united sup­ port next year in this state or Connecti­ cut for a candidate representing either if the Eastern factions. Yet without this state Democratic success with any candidate would be extremely improb- »ble. There are likely to be stormy times in the House at this session, and Judge Crisp will need all the powers he possesses to keep his in )bof new mem­ bers in discipline. But he will have the id vantage ot a well-poised temper, and sf personal sympathy with the Iree-silv- sr and more-money extremists, who probably constitute the majority. He nras undoubtedly a better man for speak­ er of the House than Mr. Mills, and those who proposed hie nomination on that ground alone deserve respect. But they blundered beyond measure when they sought or consented to re­ ceive for him the sort of support which finally gave him the most votes and turned the scale in his favor. There are worse things than being beaten, and Mr. Crisp, as the Tammany Hall-Hill- Oorman candidate for speaker, deserves commiseration. He won, and for him and his party it would have been better if he nad not. - New York Tribune. Eli Parkins ami If Ilia' Boy Charley. The Sioux City Journal publishes th« following amusing interview with Eli Perkins, the wetl-known lecturer and humorist: "On the Omaha train for Sioux City to-day was Congressman Mills, of Texas. With him was his bright little boy, who had been in a Minneapolis school. The little fellow was bright as his father, but did not teem to know anything about the falla­ cies of politics. He was ready to an- Bwer all questions, as his astuteness as­ tonished even nis lather. "I asked Mr. Mills if I might ask the little fellow some questions and note his quick, school-boy answers. " 'Certainly,' said the genial congress­ man, 'go ahead and you will find Char­ ley bright enough to "answer anything.' "'And you won't interrupt us?' I uked. " 'Certa-nly not.' ** 'Now, Charley,' I said, calling the bright little fellow up to me. 'I'm going to ask some hard questions, harder than cube root, and 1 don't believe a little 12-year-old fellow like yon can answer them.' " 'I reckon I can,' said the proud lit­ tle Texan.' "Weil, Charley,' I said, 'if you lived in a town where all the people sent over to the next town to buy all their things, what would be the effect?' " 'Why,' said Charley, 'our mer­ chants would all be poor, for all onr money would go away, wouldn't it? We'd ali be poor, sure.' " 'Right Charley,' I said, 'Now how would it affect a nation that was digging $100,000,000 out of the ground every year and raising $300,000,000 worth of cotton, and -000,000 worth of wheat if it Bent this gold and cotton and wheat over to other nations and traded them for store pay like gloves and silka and linen and tin and sugar?' "'Why,we'd be poor like the town, of course.' "'Yes, Charley,* I said. 'But sup­ pose our nation made its own sugar and finen and tin and wine and kept its $100,000,000 dug out of the mountains and sold its tobacco and cotton for gold ?' "'Why, it would make our nation awfol rich, wouldn't it?' said Charley. 'Yes. my boy ' I said, 'it would.' " 'Again, Charlev, suppose our coun- S- had kept $100,000,000 of gold and a over $000,000,000 worth of cotton and wheat and tobacco for money >for thirty years, how much wealth would we have in this country V "'Why,' said Charly, figuring on a piece or paper, 'we would have over $40,000,000,000. But why didn't we keep it? Wny didn't we manufacture our things? Ain't we never going to manu­ facture them?' they are paying 60 cent* per day hj poor laborers in Europe for making knives and silk cloth and tin, and the freight from Europe is only 10 cents a hundred, and our workmen were making %'l a.day here, what would> out. workmen do if we had free trade?' " 'Why, they would have to work for the same wages that they do in Europe plus the freights. Of course, anyone can see that, can't they, father ?' and Charley looked up at the father of the Mills bill. " 'But, Charley, if we put on a pro­ tective tariff of about 50 per cent, against these European things made by cheap labor, how would that affect our labor­ ing men?' " 'Why, we could pay them more wages^ofUeourse; that's plain as day.' " 'ThenrCharley, what do we gain by putting on a protective tariff against Eu­ ropean manu lacturers ?* " 'Why, then we have to make them here. We pay big wages and keep our money home; amv fool can see that, can't they, pa?' '"Here, Charley,'said Congressman Mills, taking off his glasses and wiping them with an American bandana, 'let me ask you a question now. " 'Don't you see all the pauper labor­ ers of Europe coming over here, Char­ ley? Now, my son, how can 'we keep them back V " 'Why, papa, we could take off this tariff, couldn't we, and then our wages would go down as low as theirs, our fac­ tories would stop and their factories would start up, and they wouldn't want to come here, would* they ? They wouldn't want to come here, papa, if our wages weren't higher than theirs, would thev?' "Mr. Mills didn't answer, but went into the smoking car to think. - "While he was gono I asked Charley what he thought would be the effect of putting a tariff of 25 cents against the wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley and pota­ toes raised in Canada, in" a country twelve times as large as Dakota. " 'It will keep the stuff back, won't it,' said Charley, 'and raise the price here?' " 'And how will that affect the price of land, Charley?' " 'Why, better prices for wheat would make that, go up, too, and I heard a farmer telling papa this morning that the land all over Iowa and Dakota and Is it? I said. 'The farmer is getting' on top again. Thou­ sands of manufacturers are making su­ gar, Bilk, chicory, linen, tin, glass and pottery. They are moving over from Europe and soon our manufacturers will eat up all our surplus wheat, and then what, Charley ?' '"Well, I guess they'll have to pay a good price for it in gold, too, by ginger! and that will make the farmer rich, won't it? And so we will hAve lots of gold and lots of manufacturers, every­ body will be prosperous, wages will be high, competition will make manufact­ ured articles cheap and we will be a great country, won t we ?' "'You bet we will, Charley 1' I said, 'and when you get to be a man, if you are as sound on these questions as you are now, we will make you speaker of the House.' "Mr. Mills now came in and said: 'I must take Charley back to Corsicana. Those Northern schoolboys talk and think too much.'" Illinois was going up fast. -'"Yes Chailey, it is,' 1.80 1.10 .«7U r ,6o .46 Cnrpnta Cheiipor Than tirtr. We present the price list Of the Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Compa­ ny for the spring of 18!L\ which that eminent firm have iufit published. A few items read thu»:^< Pnoetn Price for "v 1891* 18V2. Axminster, per yd $l.ao Extra 'Jobeltn moquefte, per yd... 1.60 M«u)uette, per yd 1.84 Extra velvets, per yd LVfc Kxtra tapestry, per yd .M THpestry, per yd 76 B Pallistide tapestry, per yd...„_ .60 F I'allisadc tapestry, per yd U This is reduction on a great scale. The free trader is wrong as usual. Car- t>ets are not higher in price, they are ower, "on account of the tariff." Some traders, encouraged by the false­ hoods of the Democratic press, which always works against the interests of the American purchaser and the American laborer, by encouraging capital to de­ mand higher prices for the one and pay lower wages to the other, while making* an impudent pretense of desire for "freedom of competition," have de­ manded higher prices for carpets. But they have been few in number. The majority of retailers have not asked higher prices. There has been no cause for higher prices. The item of wool, which is the chief ingredient of carpet manufacture, has been made a subject of inouiry by the American Economist, and the showing is as follows: In the first ten months of the new law's existence, ending July 81, our imports of carpet wool were 80.1K0,217 pounds, valued at. 58.464,318, an average of 10}^' cents a pound. The duty of 82 per cent, ad valor­ em brings the price to tbe manufacturer lup to IS 6-7 cents a pound. This is the average price paid by the carpet manu­ facturer for carpet wool this year. In the corresponding months of last year, under the old tariff, imports of carpet wool were 71,081,768, valued at .¥8,257,740, or 11 8-5 cents a pound. The old duty of 2% cents a pound added made the price at the carpet mill 14 1-10 cents a pound. In other words, the manufacturer is getting his carpet wool cheaper on an average this year than last The evident fact of cheap wool moved the Dry Goods Economist to say on the 28th of last month, "Carpets are likely to be cheaper than ever before." The Dry Goods Economist is radically free trade in its editorial opinions, but as a guide to merchants it endeavors, and with success, to be correct in its facts and figures. At an early date it had predicted "higher prices on account of the tariff," but its editorial opinion was, as usual, wrong, .just as its market quotations always are right. Explain­ ing the failure of its prediction, it said, on the day quoted: Here again we have a rather surprising outcome of what seemed inevitably a lis- ing market, due to causes which we have already explained, to-wit, the lower price or raw material and the eager competi­ tion, which cuts tbe profit down to the bare bones. But this is just what the protection­ ists said would come to pass. Increase of home manufactures is sure to pro­ duce that "eager competition which cuts down prices to the bare bone." To the free trader the McKinley bill "seemed inevitably" to produce "a ris­ ing market." To the protectionist it seemed inevitably to product* a de­ crease of prices as soon as its protective policy had built up new factories. But it is accomplishing this end more rapid­ ly than the most ardent protectionist dared to hope.--New York Recorder. la • 8orry Plight. The great Democratic majority inthe House of Representatives is m sore trouble. It is divided against itself. The Hill-Cleveland-Mill wing has re­ ceived a terribly black eye; and the South and free silver wing is in the sad­ dle. The feeling of bitterness against the Hill-Cleveland wing is illustrated by* the following dispatch, sent from Washington two days before Crisp's election, to the New York Times, a strong Cleveland paper: Gen. Vilas, Don M. Dickinson, and, later on, and in his own way. Senator Palmer, nave expressed the opinion that, if the caucus should nominate Crisp for speaker, the party might as well give up all hope of hereafter carrying anything In the Northwest The "disruption of the Democratic Party m Illinois" will be but a part of a great disruption. There is now intense indignation among the Democrats, who have been convinced that the Crisp candidacy has been a scheme of marplots HkeGonnaa and EM to wveek the DMMN crattc party, and the Intimation It some of die weak congressmen, that 16*9 would expose themselves to a takint M home next fail if they presumed to iu& mr Congress, has led them to halt In their W* termination to support the «*ndM«te of the Atlantic and Gulf staMs an analuit thtf candidate of the whole country. But here is another (Ksoati h- full of dispondency and even more significant than the other--from Washington to thi* St. Louis lie public, another Cleveland organ: The pressure from the outside li still very great. Cal. Brice, who tavors sub­ sidies, fat appropriations and a high tariff on the industries to which he is intercstetl. has his agents here working for Crisp. Senator Gorman is in active charge of the Crisp forces. Tammany Hall and David B. Hall, of New York, are spurring on Crisp's followers. In tact, everybody who has an Interest in the lobby, who favors big appropriations and liberal steals and a retrograde movement on tariff retorm on the part of the Democratic part v, is Hack­ ing Crisp. Senator Carlisle, a far-seeing, prudent, conservative man, said last night that the election of Crisp would cost the Democratic party 500,000 votes at the next national election. It is believed now that the danger point ot Crisp is over, and many of his backers, especially his chief backers, are still working with might and main, with every intluence at their disposition to defeat Mills. They know that the Texas statesman is the foe of jobbery in every form, tbat he is the foe of tariff robbery, ana that public plunder would have poor chance under his administration of the House ot Representatives. But the co­ hesive power of public plunder is very great, and consequently Mills' friends are stilt apprehensive, though hopeful. So we have it on the authority of Sen­ ator Carlisle, "a far-seeing, prudent- conservative" Democrat--that tne Dem­ ocrats will lose 500,000 votes next year on account of the election of Crisp. As the loss of 500,000 Democratic votes will Eive the presidency to the Repulicans eyond a peradventure, the Republic­ ans are especially thankful for th6 elec­ tion of Mr. Crisp. Five hundred thou­ sand votes is a great help in timoB like these, and will put the Republican par­ ty square on its feet. The editorial wail of the Newport Times, since the election of Crisp, is in this pathetic language: The election of Mr. Crisp by the coali­ tion of the demagogv of Hill, the spoils mongering of Tamnianv, the protection ism of Gorman ami Brice, the half-corrupt half-fanatical free silver movement and old South, must inevitably "give pause" to the men who have believed that the Dem­ ocratic warty would be a tit instrumentali­ ty for the accomplishment of tariff reform and for the clean and honest mlmiawtrs tion of the government. Wni Make On* Owa Lm«I, The following item is quite significant, because it comes from the Dry Goods Economist's Manchester (Eng.) corre­ spondent, the paper and the writer of toe item being free traders: If one were to credit the stories told of impending removals of lace-making plants to the United States, one would be torced irresistibly to the conclusion that nothing but bare walls will remain in Nottingham in a few months' time. This shows bow wise was the business judgment of the framers of the tariff law. They wanted the American peo­ ple to make their own laces, and the item frqm Manchester indicates the de­ gree of success which lias followed the establishment of lace factories in the United States; and no increase of price has been made. Mlioillaaeou Pointer*. Charleston News and Couriers We hope that Mr. Crisp will be able to es­ cape from his political environment. He must do it, or he will wreck the par­ tv. There is no other issue upon which the Democracy can achieve victory next year but the issue of tariff reform. Congressman Springer is confident that the defeat of Mills will have no ef­ fect on the "paramount issues^"next year. The "paramount issue" lias re­ ceived two black eyes since November 1, and if the Democrats are willing to send it into the ring again in that condi­ tion they should have tbe attention of the Society lor Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. " Butialo Courier (Dem.): The Presi­ dent's observations upon the political gerrymander are just and commenda­ ble. They are drawn out by the return of Michigan to tbe district system of choosing presidential electors, which, a couple of generations ago, was the prac­ tice in several states. This change, made by the Democratic legislature of Michigan, the Courier has heretofore strongly censured. "Investigate!" is going to be the Dem­ ocratic watchword at Washington this winter. Fortunately, the Republicans have no reason to dread the turning of the lights upon their record. But Democratic investigation is the furthest possible remove from impartial inquiry. It will be nothing if not partisan. Its sole object will be the accumulation of "capital" for the presidential year. American people are shrewd enough rind honest enough to estimate it ac­ cordingly.--New York Tribune. Announcement is made that a Paris firm of pearl button manufacturers has leased the large stone factory in West Philadelphia, near Sixty-ninth Street and Haverford Avenue, formerly occu­ pied as a steel-wire helt factory, and will at once proceed to establish the manufacture of pearl buttons there, employing not less than 500 persons. Previous to last year the Frencn manu­ facturers had a large button factory on the outskirts of Paris. When the pass- sage of the McKinley bill became an assured fact they gathered all their un­ finished stock together, shipped it to New York, and since then have been engaged in finishing up and disposing of this material. It at length became necessary to secure a permanent and extensive plant for their specialty, and the result of their negotiations with Joseph R. Rhoadsof Philadelphia, was the lease of the Haddington property. THE HABERCAIS, A On*l ChrUlm»»-Tlme Custom WMch Tradition Sanctions In GtrmMjr, > There is a queer old custom in some parts of Germany and Austra-Hungary which are distant from the centers of civilization. It is a cruel custom, too, but sanctioned by a tradition which comes down from the days of myth and fable. St. Nicholas Day, which comes on the 6th of December, is observed much as we observe Christmas. Stock­ ings are pinned up the night before and are filled with candies and nuts and the square or heart-shaped cakes which are always associated with St. Nich­ olas Day in a German child'smind. But the day has its drawbacks. "Be good or the Habegais will come," is a threat that never fails to inspire terror to the infant mind, and with good rea­ son, for the Habergais does come, and St. Nicholas Day is the time for his ap­ pearance. An unearthly monster is rigged up in the form of a goat, with. the aid of sheets and poles and a man inside for locomotion. The "Heber- gais looks more like a ghostly giraffe than a goat; however, it's a goat in the legend. Accompanied by the bishop and the devil close behind, a tour of the village is made, and the children in each household are friehtened al­ most out of their wits, while the old folks sit gravely by with an "I-told- you-Bo" expression on their faces. Fortunately the custom is becoming ex­ tinct.--Buffalo Express. THE famous salt lake of Aalia Paakai, near Hololuiu, occupies the crater of an immense tula cone, whose ejects covers several square miles, and are especially remarkable for containing numerous aggregations of ciystaline grains of oure olivine. M».« tlMclal »UIm Had 6TM- laitMi Nil f«MNi trat B* Continued to lakw In *|tiw> itf Mwttsal Aiilw A>o» PTMC lite ('MUM*. AM A hi* XwuMflme, Ren ft tor Dumb fell dead in Washing­ ton th« other day. Wh-n this startling news ran through the cltv it Interrupted everywhere the usual quiet rout:ne. Plum b, that sturdy type of the Western Senator, has gone. . „ iPeoplo were shock- -A cd tro know that the life of the distin­ guished Kansan had been snuf&d out In a m o m e n t . F l a g s were soon at half- mast It was the ta'k In the streets, ME8TON B. F&UXB. at the hotels and in every home, to the exclusion of other topics, for Plumb had. In a senatorial service of fourteen years, become one of the best-knowu figures in Washington. Death came from apoplexy, the result of exhaustion of the brain. It was a clear case of overwork and inattention to the laws of nature. The Senator had bjen Jcnown for years as the, most enefgettc, hard-working member of the Senate. A year ago he began to fail. Physicians warned him that a continuance of his labors meant death, but he refused to heed thefr warning He continued to work with the energy of a steam engine, and, when still apparently in full vigor and with many years of life before him, he died. A few of Mr. Plumb's most intimate friends knew that he had been ailing for some time, but no ie wore prepared for the worst Ho had been in the Senate last week and appeared to be as well as ever. He attended to his duties with his usual briskness and vigor. A few days ago he ^aid to a Senate employe who congratulated him on his appear­ ance that ho was younger than the em­ ploye who was his junior by twenty years. As evidence of his vitality he doubled up his forearm. His biceps muscles wore hard and compact Not­ withstanding his activity and his own assertion cf his vigorous health he had been complaining of sleeplessness and vertigo He complained of persistent fains in his head, Impairment of mem­ ory and growing inability to choose his ideas in proper and appropriate words. The Senator had previous y been re­ markably fluent of speech and his words came so freely that he was the terror of stenographers When the terrible intelligence was conveyed to the invalid wife of the dead Senator at their ho ne in Emporia. Kan., she seemed like'one stricken to the death and for a time her life was dispaired of, owing to her feeble state of health. She, however, rallied apd is now bearing up under her crushing grief with a for­ titude wonderful to behold. But one of her children was at home, her daughter Mary, and she was sick in bed. Miss Ruth was in Topeka visiting and was immediate'y summoned. The other chil­ dren are in Pennsylvania--Amos H., the eldest son, at I hilade.'phia under treat­ ment for a nervous affection, and the two youngest, Preston B, Jr., and Car­ rie, attending school at Nazareth. Senator Plumb was born In Delaware County, October 12, 1837, so that he was in his fifty-fourth year at the time of his death. lie was not a college graduate, but left the common schools for the printer's case, and in pursuance of his vocation as a journeyman printer, in 1856, In the boody days of the history of the newly organ:zed territory of Kansas, walked into that territory, and with the vigor and energy which has brougirt his life to an end the young man plunged at once Into the thick of the political strife which then was waging over the slavery question. Ho went to the front and soon became a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention of 185a He was admitted to the bar in 1861, when the place of his adoption became a State of the Union; served in the Legislature in 1862, was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and subsequent y Reporter of the Su­ preme Court When the war broke out he entered tbe ariny as second lieuten­ ant in the Eleventh Kansas Infantry and served successively as captain, major, lieutenant colonel of the regi­ ment and was commissioned a colonel of the regiment in August, 1862. After the war. Mr. Plumb returned to Kansas, was elected a member ol[ the Kansas House 6t Representatives, and in 1876 was chosen United States Senator to succeed James M. Harvey, Republican. He took his seat in 1877 and has represented his State as a Senator ever since that time. His term of office would have expired March 3, 1895. It is settled that Gov. Humphrey of Kansas will appoint A successor to Plumb. A prominent lawyer of Topeka says tbat A year elapses before the next Legislature is to liieet,. and so an extra session must be called at once. Other authorities say, however, that the Gov­ ernor must make an appointment to be effective until another Legislature meets in regular order. In this case several possibilities are spoken of. Those most frequently mentioned aro: Ex-Governor George T. Anthony, ex-Congressman E. N. Morrill, and thief Justice Albert H. Hcrton. Other fiames mentioned are: S. R Burton, a young attorney of Abilene, who was a bitter opponent of Ingalls; ex-Congress­ man S. R. Peters, of Newton; George R. Feck, General Solicitor of the Atchi­ son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company; J. K. Hudson, editor of the Topeka Capital; and ex-Gov. Thomas A. Osborne, Hayps' Minister to Brazil. The Legislature which will elect a suc­ cessor to Gov. Humphreys' appointee convenes In Januarv, 1803, and will be elected next fall. There will be no hold­ overs either in tho lower house or Senate. Illinois milUa Matters--New Baak at "wtt St.Xonls--Determined toDl^--Jbfamtak : Ammn Metformin - In Trouble. '< * ; ' Mlulni Link*. A LOCOMOTIVK has just been bu It at the Crowe works ' tho London and Northwestern Rail 4? which Is capable of drawing a train at the rate ot loo miles an hour. Ix Queensland. Australia, a so'ind horse can be bought for {?.'«, and in seme parts of New South Wales horse* aro so overplentlful that they are got rid of by shooting. IN the Austrian army suicides average 10,090 a year. Th s does not in lude foiled attempts and It represents 20 per cent of the' general mortality among Austrian soldiers. A HOVSB In Dedhara, Mass., built In 1639, is occupied by a family, the de­ scendant-; of the original builders. They appreciate the antiquity and will show visitors all through it fogi25 tent?. IT is said that the first regular the­ atrical company to perform in the United States came from England in 1752 and landed at York, In Virginia. Its first public appearance was at Williamsburg, Va. fp Mjlssl 1 From Far and Near. «Y ;$ JosF.ru HONFK was scalded tp deaill In a 1 oiling vat at Belleville. PKTKR WOMBACHER was fatally Jvred at Mascoutah by being throws from a wagon. ~~~ '• . THK Appellate Court of the Third DTE- 4, trlct adjourned at Springfield until Jaa. " 7, 1892. - ' ' , » r* RKPOBTS indicate that the grip is pre* , . ^ vailing in Southern Illinois. There at* K • /% 2,000 cases in St Clair County. 1 ^ THK Rev. E. J. Hamell, of Jacksw > ^ *#> ville, fell dead On a train while en route to the South to soend the winter. ' » A SPECIAT. committee reported to the ' \ Be.levi.le City Council in favor of gr'ati&' T ing an electric street railway franchise. '*'$ MRS. COXRAI> MKVKF, of Mascoutah, & broke several riW and sustained prob- ' ably fatal injuries by falling from'*.' step-ladder. En WYATT. -living at Mnrrayvll%J. > fl near Jacksonville, was struck by a tnifca • -,'X' and" frightfully mangled. He leave!"*" v large family. *•>•* THK public schools at Atlanta are . t closed on account of scarlet fever. There have been five deaths from tha grip there within a week. \ : ' TIIK Adjutant General issued an order honoiably discharging Private C. & Clavrr, Company G, Sixth Infantry. The resignation of Roscoe D. Mack *s Second Lieutenant of Company E, Fourth, Infantry, is actepted. THE Auditor of Public Accounts issued,-. a permit for the organization of the State Savings Bank at East St. Lou%, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. TfieO organizers are Henry R. Sexton, Frank- '" lin li. Bowman, and Felix G. CockrelL- - MAScorTAii is now lighted with eleo* tricity. There are fifty street lights and upward of 200 commercial lights. Com­ mittees of citizens from Nashville, Co4- lin-iville, Lebanon, O'Fallon and other Southern Illinois towns inspected th« workings of the plant AT Jerseyvllle Ornan Clark, aged 35," committed suicide by standing on a trestle, placing a rope arouna the bean above and tying it around his neck. He then shot himself through the head with a revolver. The shooting knocked him off the trestle, and shortly after tike body was found hanging from the beaap- He leaves a widow and one child. No cause fs known. AT Springfield, a bill was filed in the United States Circuit Court by the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, of New York, asking for the foreclosure of a mortgage on the property of the Grape Creek Cral Company in Vermilioil; County, given to secure ?500,(>00 of bonds issued April 1, 1886, and bearing Interest at 6S per cent, upon which the company has failed to pay any interest since April last. Tuos. DAWSOX a farm laborer, fatally shot Ida Rutzen, the 17-year-old dangfr* t<T of his employer, near Liberty ville. He was in lo o with the girl, and she repelled' his advanc s. After shooting the girl, he killed himself, thus frus­ trating a lynching party, lint little IS known of Dawson. He drifted into ther community in J>uly and got work. He told a story to some of the young men he became int'mate with, however, and \ It was to the effect that he had been la tho United States army and had de­ serted from it in the spring. He said Us company had been engaged in the tight at Wounded Knee during the Indian up­ rising ot last winter, and he told his story with such details as to impress his , hearers with a belief in it. He wouM- not tell the company he had been in, and while he said he was from New York and had relatives living there, he never gave their address. He was not com- • municative, and the impression now pre* " vails in Libertyville that he was goiaC t under an assumed name^ THE Tremont hotel. Qnincy, has beea " gutted by lire. The three upper flows are destroyed and the two lower floors were ruined by wat >r. The fire was dis­ covered shortly before mianight, but everybody was safely aronsed. Loss up­ wards of $100,000. Insurance unknown* GEOHUE K. BARRETT and Miss Geor- gie M. Ambrldge, of Chicago, were se­ cretly married In Alton. Mr. Barrett made every effort to keep the matter s quiet, all the officers being pledged to secrecy, hut it leaked out one evening. The reason of the elopement is oopo» sition on the part of the young woman's father, who had settled on another hoa» band for his daughter. • AT Jacksonville the case of Aldermen Schoentield against Mayor Thome#3' Knowles, charging him with malfeas^ ance, etc., came up in Squire Hender­ son's court When the case was called the prosecution and defense were pres­ ent, the latter ready and expecting the trial to proceed. The prosecution seeing the hopelessness of its case came foi» ward and unconditionally dismissed this suit THE fact that Prot Henry Raab. StaM* Superintendent of Public Instruction, had a light stroke of paralys s several days ago has just been made publkt, He went to Belleviilo to visit his son* and is still there. The paralytic stroke was mild, but of such a nature that lie efleets may prove serious. It affected only the optical nerves, his sight behtf impaired, though whether permanently or otherwise, is only a matter for eoa» , .lecture at present His physicians hafja forbidden him either to read or write, '^.y Fou selling horse meat for beef, Ernest v Leon hard t, a Town of Lake butchet, was fined $30 by Justice Lyon, of Chios"- cago. Th& only knowti purchaser of the meat was Cl'ar.es Cisson, keeper of a restaurant. Mr. Cisson discovered what the meat was before it had been prepared for food, and notified the health departs * ment The health officers are now 0# the lookout for horse flesh, and say thei# Vi • **-. -AV* '.4 A POPULAR notion is that the where­ abouts of a drowned person may be ascertained by floating a loaf weighted with quicksilver, which is said at once to swim toward and stand over.the spot where the body lies* This is a very widespread belief, and instances of Its occurrence are, from time to time, re­ corded. ,v\ '« -5 • '• •> V.v; , have reason to believe that considerabl of it is being sold in the city f*>r beef. ' THR Elgin, Jollet and Eastern Rait? ; way has completed an extension to bus! ne*9 portion of Aurora This road has heretofore competed with the other Aurosa railways at a disadvantage from the fact that its station was on the edmt,.. , of the city, remote from the section. " • ;tv': THE Rev. Edgar H. Hill, pastor of the ^ First Presbyterian Church of FreeporC ' has received a call to Westminster1* Church. Minneapolis, Minn. The posl^V, • tiou would be worth ?d,0:>0 or $?,GO(fcy, Mr. Hill has taken the matter under consideration. >_ fl 4 JOHN AND NICHOLAS RAAIJ, broth* re * who lived at Elkhart, Ind., were struck * and killed by a Lake Shore train Chicago John Raad was a Lake Shorer conductor and Nicholas a brakeman ha* „ the cmp'oy of the same company. Thejf bad just secured a leave of absence foils . the holidays and intended to s art tof- - home. - 4 JnxiK HORTON, of Chicago, overrate#" a motion for a new trial for Dlorlo Bea^e •deta and sentenced him to tweaty-ob* years in the penitentiary. The defend* ant killed DomenieoCrtstoforoon avenue, June 21, l*yi, by stabbing >hpt with a stiletto. He was found guilty at' . the October term and his puntshmenfr fixed as above. , v s,y - , s pfi 'i£bs hi* *j V £ * : \* l ii "'iaillilif 3 *-««•>/ '* t. ' "'t * - • >. y.f i * < t M&sai