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; *• - |j|h^ I '*'*'* • A >n P* »vnf> ».'•*, »•!.*?;" ,J "»L s-Vf-'S-f..*: asaae liBiiUMiiilii iBH ' ̂ i ; A, ;• v * - ;$ ; ^r* f*i ,RURIIF?IAMTLEALCI J. VAN 8LYKE, Editor utd Publisher. ICOHXNRT,- ~ ~ ~ ILLINOIS. td* Of A MINNEAPOLIS lover nas been en- Joined by the courts from calling on bis sweetheart. This ts a great ad­ vance in civilization upon theJ^jflg.^ tion administered"' hf * the heary boot. TELE village of Croton,,!?'. Y., has been destroyed by tire. As it is the central part of New York's famous water system it is supposed the fire­ men could get no water with which to fight the flames. wearing a string of foreign coins closely resembling ours at first glance. But the law ifi so inconven'ent and unreasonable that^yj.r..^ji||. j£ore tl^an likely be repealed. \ THE outcome of the recent anarch­ istic troubles in Chicago indicates that the supporters of this creed arc really few in number and that the city government lias the movement well in hand. IF Parliament can not vote a £25,- 000 annuity to Ptinoc AV6ert"""Victor and his bride the Qutien miglit m?ad the young people to Dakota to take up a homestead and grow up with the country. •: -, .'•• . No TWO people in the world have the. same- definition of the word "friend."" Ask any man what the word means, and he will describe himself, and the way he ' treats his friends, or he will tell how he thinks his friends should treat him. / JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, the poet, was 84 years old recently. He is a man to revere and love in this age of rush and selfishness. Ilis life has been so pure and serene as to place him by *feommon consent, above the plane of average riiortals. Though a member of the meek»and lowly Quaker sect, he has ever shown him­ self a man of courage and steadfast in the support of his enlightened con­ victions. It is a tenet of his peculiar faith that those who preach its dof- trines are inspired in their utterances. Whiftier's poems go farther than«any other one piece of available testimony to give credence to this belief. His poems breathe the purity of thought and beauty of imagery that no carnal mind could suggest, lie has always been the active friend of the op­ pressed any no selfish thought has in- finemrd his effort4* 'to-"elevate hu- maiiity, He has kept himself aloof from the ways of the world, and in all that he has written there appears a beauty of thought and purity of expression that approaches closely to the ideal. MR CRISP'S TROUBLES. SCENBS OP OLD BABEL TO BE REVIVED) BY THE DEMOCRATS. Blundering Into Troth--Carpet Frlcoa M* Carpet Wool-- Dangerous Tariff Tinkering--8om« Kaw IndnttrlM--En- ITlUh Command on the Prrildent'i llcs- Paragraphs and Illustrations. regard to prices, in noting the drop :a 1 there whose inhabitants have been de-) MORS IHTT-F. TV K A \ S i^rnaf nriooa antra* rkan/4anf nt> fKa />r>4f/vv> i^rlnai-**r Am , ^ ^ 3 A FIREMAN was recently killed in New Orleans by an electric light wire coming in contact with a stream of water issuing from the nozzle of-the hose he was holding. As this didn't happen in Kentucky there is a splendid opportunity lost to make an allusion to the folly of handling water in any vay. ~ JAMES I'ARTON IS quoted as say­ ing, "The best thing for an author to do is to make a fortune first and write afterward.'* This may be best for the author, but few who have read the literary productions of peo­ ple of wealth will hold that it is best for the readers. KicnARD MANSFIELD has deter­ mined to abandon the billboards and confine himself to advertising in the newspapers. His example will never be followed by 1 he "gaiety" "folly," and other half-draped companies. Their only chance of making a living lies in gaudy posters which may in­ duce some clergyman or sewing so­ ciety to complain to the police. THE use of big words is not an evi­ dence of greatness; on the contrary, it is an evidence of weakness, and a positive detriment to a writer or speaker. Carlyle was a great man, and a learned man, but other men ol his class have much more popularity because of simplicity in the use ol words. Macauly is read everywhere, and immensely popular, though it is possible that his ideas are no better than Carlyle's, and ,his learning nc greater, but he certainly has more fame than Carlyle. and twenty read­ ers to his one. There is but one ex­ planation: Macauly's style is sc simple and easy that it is restful tc read him, while reading Carlyle gives you a headache. The matter ol Macaulv's "England" is almost tire­ some at times, but it is writtQR . in such a delightful way that very few sets of books have had an equal lj large sale. People who have nevei read Macauly's essays have a delight­ ful treat in store for them; those whe have not read Carlyle have a headache ahead of them. 1. The Speaker's Trouble* and Failure*. , It is not worth while to criticise Speaker Crisp's assignments minutely. His supporters are doing that with suffi­ cient vigor and acrimony... A large ma­ jority of his chairmen, a remarkably large majority of the chairmen of im­ portant committees, are from the South, but be was forced to handle the toois that he had, and out of an essentially Southern party he could not make a Northern organization to save liis life. If representatives of less than a third of the whole people have now much more than half of the power, that is what the voters determined upon a year ago, for it is of the very essence of Democratic supremacy. Ko one doubts that the ways and means committee is expressly arranged to prevent the framing of any general tariff oill,* and Mr. Springer will be sus­ tained in that purpose by those who wi«b to make the tarill'question as little important as possible next year, and to shut out Mr. Cleveland from the presi­ dential nomination. On this very ground the shaping of the committees is savagely attacked by other Democrats besideu Mr. Watterson. The appropri­ ations committee is relatively strong, and will help Mr. Holman to carry out his ideas of economy. The committee on coinage, with Mr. Bland as its hehd, is unmistakably for free coinage of sil­ ver, and will do what it can to carry out the ideas of Mr. Crisp's faction in that respect. The committee on commerce, with Mr. Mills as its chairman, is ot ho practical importance, but the commit­ tees which have charge of the great ap­ propriations, the river and harbor, the pensions, the war anil navy committees^ are in such hands that liberality toward the South at least may be expected. But it is absurd for some of the Speaker's friends to complain that he has selected for many of the important places men who have not shown their litness for such work hitherto. carpet prices, says Here again we bave a rather surprising outcome of what seemed inevitably a rising market, due to causes which we have al­ ready exnlained, to-wit. the lower price of raw material and the eager competition which cuts the profit down to the bare bones. Then comes the Dry Goods Economist, another trade paper of integrity*and candor, ana also free trade, joins in tbe conjecturo of the trade that "the new prices will drop from 10 to 15 and even 20 cents on the higher grades, and from 5 to 10 cents on tapestries and ingrains." Of course such napers Cannot under­ stand such mysteries as these, although they are as plain as A. B. C. to Repub­ licans, and the Dry Goods Economist concludes: "But whatever the cause and whatever the result may be, the act stands out, for better or worse, that car­ pets are likely to be considerably cheap­ er than ever before." t They Don't Like It. The London correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following in regard to the feeling in London re­ specting the President's message: English comment as to t'nc domestic part of President Harrison's message is all col­ ored by irrepressible prejudice touching nthe tariff and free trade. The free trad­ ers are astonished by his figures, so much astonished that one amiable critic suggest­ ed that they had probably been cooked. Juighsh iiee uiuit i.s iteikveu, Oiio ui them says, that the direct, immediate re­ sult, OL the McKinle} tariff would bo to di­ minish the total volume of the American export and import trade. Both have nevertheless shown their disregard ot economical laws by increasing. What re- EDITOII DANA is still assailing the fair with a wealth of picturesque epi­ thet and an opulence of imaginative falsification. It might not be a bad idea for the directors to appropriate out of the treasury the moderate 'sum of $10,000 wherefcvith to reimburse the venerable but peppery editor of the New York Sun for his unfortun­ ate investment in New York World's Fair stock. • . A MAN and woman "have fio sooner raised their own children up to take care of themselves, than they have to fbegin over again with their grand­ children. Old age, that should be free from care, has more than any other time of life. There are at least fifty women in Atchison who make nursemaids of their mothers for their children. There arc fully as many men who call upon their fathers to support their families. AN Appeal for help comes from dis­ tant Japan, where half a million of people have been rendered homeless and destitute by the terrible earth­ quake of last October. Mis(*ry and devastation has befallen Japan on an enormous scale and the civilized world's generosity, which responded so liberally and promptly -to stricken Chicago, is invoked for afflicted Japan. The Yokohama Chamber of Com­ merce, O. Keil, Esq., Secretary, stands ready to receive all contributions, which, according to the testimony of the American legation in Japan are greatly needed. America with her accustomed genorosity should open her purse strings to the destitute and homeless thousands in Japan. pendent on the cotton tie industry. A* there was no manifest reason in the na­ ture of things why this country, the greatest iron and steel producer, as well as the greatest cotton grower, in the world, should depend upon mills 3,000 miles away for its cot­ ton ties, the McKinley tariff changed the duty on them from 35 per cent, ad valorem to 1 3-10 cents a pound, consti­ tuting a material increase. Results: American mills began making them, and the imports of 32,014,414 pounds of "hoops or ties for bailing purposes," etc., during the first nine months of 1890 fell to nothing for the correspond­ ing months of this year; and instead of over 11,000,000 pounds of "hoop, band or scoll iron or steel" for nine months of last year, we imported less than 1,000,000 this year. So that Yankee ,ties now tie Yankee cotton, and that, too, wUh practically no increase of cost to the'rottan planter. HOW AGATES ABE MADE. Tliey Come Mostly From Brazil ud Ar* Cat In Germany. Agates are a kind of quartz," said a mineralogist to a Washington Star writ­ er. "Most of them come from South America, and especially from Brazil, where they are found in large quanti­ ties. Thence they are shipped as ballast-in vessels bound for Hamburg, Germany, and from that port thev are Tui aided to Cbcioteiu. The latter town is the great ajzate market of the world. _At Obi ibtciu the agatco are sorted into lots, according to qualitv, and sold at auction. After this they are sent to the mills to be cut and polished. OFFICERS SLAIN WHILE DOING * THEIR DUTY. - two gluHlfc Shot Down and Judga Hot- kin Forced to Seek Refuge--Continu­ ation of a Bitter -County-Seat War-- Armed Factions Fight. ILLINOIS INCIDBSFS^ SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH- : » FULLY RECORDED, - >, ••• LancliaMd Episode at Effingham -- tery Connected with a Woman** v --Fatal Quarrel Between Ill-other*--- Couldn't Get Away from the Grip. source have the doctrinaires, except to sug- I A!?!1,81 between the towns i.. i • i ... . r»T I Inn far a l n an<i l/iav •!-*** t«n n wa m /\«>a that presidential statistics are open to xxl deal of criticism? The increase of IT is about time the energetic fun­ eral director were curbed in his mad desire to embalm his customers imme­ diately after death. The wile of Sen­ ator Plumb, on hearfng of his demise, sent a hasty telegram asking that the body be not embalmed, but,though the message was delivered within three hours after the Senator's death, the operation had already been performed. It appears that the dead man once had a cataleptic fit during which he ap­ peared as if dead for several hours It can easily be understood that the hasty disposition matte~of~ the body may leave his widew ever haunted by a vague fear that death had -not ac­ tually occurred when the, undertaker CONGKKSS is asked to pass laws foi the protection of Yellowstone Parte, and strong reasons are advanced In support of the request. The nation' pleasure ground is being subjected tc the ravages of vandalism and the of­ fenders go unpunished. The splen­ did forests have been fired time and again," game has been wantonlj "slaughtered and objects of beautj have been marred out of . pure mali ciousness. The troops stationed there can turn the lawless invaders out, but there is nothing to prevent their return. The Interior Depart ment has reported to Congress thai the park is "without any legal protec­ tion to life, limb or property, and without the means of punishment foi the most dastardly crime." Grave crimes are of rare occurrence in the park, but stages hate been held uj and many minor offenses committed, for which no adequate punishment has been provided. Thousands ol tourists visit the park every year, it is one of the great attractions of thc nation, and everything possibk should be done to enhance its beautj and protect those whom it attracts. Despite the poachers who have made way with the game, and in many in­ stances through a wanton desire loi slaughter, the many species of ani­ mals cultivated there have increased, but would be much greater if proper­ ly protected. There are more buffa­ loes in the park than in all the rest of the country, while deer, elk and smaller game is abundant. The ho­ tel accommodations are good and the roads are being improved, but there is a demand for penal laws and the establishment of a jurisdiction bj which they can be enforced. Senator Vest's bill, which has passed the Sen- ate term after term and been favor­ ably reported to the House, covers the case properly, but on reaching the House, has been saddled and killed by a provision granting a right of way through the park to some railroad corporation. The original bill should sbe made a law, and then there will be nothing to detract from the charms of the great natural wwider. performed his task. TnE stringing,of sma}l coins to form banerles or bracelets lias been decided to be a fraudulent mutilation of law­ ful money, and even the piercing of a coin for use as a watch-chain pendant is held to be an offense.* It is well to bear this in min<}» because it is in opposition to the old country maxim that there is no offense in cutting a coin unless it is-sqbsequently offered as money, and a prima facie case of fraud thus established. It is not very likely that Government officers will go around arresting all ladies found wearing ornaments with pierced Coins in them, f&r even if there were no other risk, there would be great danger of arresting someone who was tollon a Fat Alan. Going up in the train the other day a girl was overheard , to say, "The first thing to do is to pick out a good, fat man----" It sounded cannibal­ istic, and someone listened. "Then stay close to him," she continued; "he will make his way through the crowd and you slip along before they can close in behind him, and you can always get out safely, even at Fifty- ninth street." After a pause she con­ tinued: "And nice, fat men always take me across the street; they don't always know it,^iuit that does not matter. I follow them as closely as possible and never get run over. The truck drivers pull up and swear at them, and in the nieantitho J reach the sidewalk."--New York Press. Nearly Fatal linaflnniloi, Rev. S. Zehner, of Berwick, Pa., awoke suddenly from a deep sleep and found that his false teeth were miss­ ing. He thought he felt a choking sensation. Two® doctors were sent for. They could give no relief, ^ The minister gasped for breath. He bade farewell to his falftily and thought he was going to die. His little daughter soon found the missing teeth in a bureau drawer, when the patient at once recovered. criticism has in truth a curious force, for the Speaker seems to have careluliy avoided in many cabes the men who have been charged with a particular duty or branch ot work under previous organizations, and haB set them to other work, while selecting other men for the places they were supposed to be best qualified to fill. Beginning with Mr. Mills, whose friends thought he knew more about the tariff than anybody else, the Speaker found Mr. Springer for the committee on ways and means, and set Mr. Mills to other and unfamiliar du­ ties. In precisely the same way most of the Democratic members who have been active in the work of particular committees in past years are carefully sent to other committees to see what jthey can do there. The friends who berate Mr. Crisp for this seemingly whimsical selection for­ get one important fact. The Democrat­ ic party under every previous organiza­ tion of the House has been a dreadful failure in the conduct of business. If Mr. Crisp had the good sense to recog­ nize this fact he only needed courage to "shake them up" all around. 1€ is a supreme justification of Mr. Crisp's pe­ culiar selections that the active Demo­ crats in the House, with whom he has been associated for years, and whose capacity or incapacity he has had abun­ dant opportunity to judge, have in fact been trie in places for which they f>roved they were net fit. That was at eatet a sufficient reason for trying them in other places for which, perchance, they might have some sort of fitness. If anybody supposes that this expla­ nation is offered in humoror in jest, let him remember how things were in the House when Mr. Carlisle or Mr. Ran­ dall was Speaker. Let him try to recall a single important committee which did its work thoroughly, faithfully and in­ telligently.--New York Tribune. Blundering Into Truth. The New York Times, which was con­ verted to Democracy during the Mug­ wump bolt of 1884, has blundered into in assault upon the Bourbons of Wis­ consin. It states that the Democrats of this state are highly delighted over President Harrison's" remarks on the sin of gerrymandering, and thus ex­ plains the causb of their gratification: The Ilepublicsn legislature at the last session conceived ana enacted a scheme of redisricting the stat > which audaciously ignores every constitutional requirement, and is as flagrantly unjust ill a partisan sense as any on record. For example, the 3onstitution requires that the districts shall be arranged upon the basis of equal popu­ lation. The true basis of population for legislative districts is 10,868. One of the new districts contains 88.801 people, an­ other 25,143, ansther 7.923, and another 5,823. Some counties are divided in the .•nost ridiculous fashion, their townships >cing set oif to piece out districts in other counties, contrary to common custom and general convenience. Every district ap­ pears to have been formed upon j a careful study of party advantage. The [ iniquity of the juggle appears conspicuo ly in the rearrangement of senatorial dis" I tricts, so that lt5H.80.» people who pnrtici ! pated in the senatorial election of 18y0 may j vote for senators again iu 1892, while 231,* I 218 people who voted for senators in l: will not have an opportunity to do soaj jntil 1894. Senators elected in 189o will represent for two years 987,122 people who had no voice in their election, or 168,809 Will have two representatives from 1892 to 1894, and 231,218 people must go unrepre­ sented for that period. All this injustice is carefully adopted to preserve power in the Grand Old l'arty. This statement of the situation would be all right it the editor of the Times had distributed tbe delight among the Republicans and heaped his condemna­ tion upon tbe Democratic legislature which was guilty of the outrageous ger­ rymander. The Republicans of Wiscon­ sin are not political thieves, and during their long control of the state were .guilty of no such outrage as a partisan gerrymander. But the Times is to be forgiven because of the strength of its denunciation of gerrymandering. ^The Democrats of Wisconsin deserve Ml it has indirectly launched at them.--Even­ ing fi'iscongtn. Carpet Prices and Carpet Wool. There is no doubt that many Demo­ crats, and especially the Mugwump por­ tion of the Democratic party, stand dazed at tbe wonderiul operation of the McKinley bill as touching the prices of important articles. When the tariff was increased on carpet wool there went up a wail that carpets wOuld be much high­ er, and that the burdens of the increase would fall on the poor, who weep forced to use the cheaoer grades of carpets. Poor mortals, they cannot see the error of their prediction in the lesson of his­ tory, What are the facta? Here they are: In the lit-st ten months of the new law's existence, ending July 31, our lmports--6f carpet wool were 80,100,270 pounds, valued at $8,464,318, an average of 10>^ cents a pound. Tne duty of 32 per cent ad valor­ em brings the price to the manufacturer up to 13 6-7 cents a pound. In the correspond­ ing months of iast year under the old tariff Imnnrts of carpet wool were 71.081,768. val­ ued at $8,257,740, or 11 $-5 cents a pound. The old duty of 2% cents a pound added, made the price at one carpet mill 14 1-10 cents a pound. In other words, one manu­ facturer has been getting lus^scarpet wool cheaper on an average this year than last. Now as to prices. The Dry Goods Chronicle, which is always reliable in cest a good free imports by $100,000,000 and the de­ crease ot dutiable imports by the same amount are another blow to the doctrin­ aires, Why, they exclaim, that is just what the protectionists desired and pre­ dicted. They wanted to keep out the foreigner where he competes with home industry, and let him in where he does not. But the triumphant protectionists need not be too triumphant. The free trader has had 'an answer ready. "A more accurate analysis will soon disclose that much of that increase in the volume of trade is emphatically bad trade." Why wait for more accurate analysis? Why riht say at once that all trade is bad which is not free irade'? That is what he means. No trade in America can be good which does not enrich the British manu- facturer at the expense of the American. Ihe } Let that be understood once for all. The advantage of this method of economical criticism is obvious. It renders the free trade critic independent of all the facts and figures which do not supptfrt his theory. • Dangeroaa Tariff Tinkering. If the report is true which states that the course upon which Speaker Crisp has determined to steer is that of "tinkering" with the tariff it will dis­ turb the country more than if there was a eeneral attack on the whole McKinley bill, because it will make capital con­ servative and cause manuiacturers to run their factories on short time until they see the outcome of the tinkering. It will disturb ail lines of business, directly or indirect^, and cause distress among the employes of large numbers of industries. Among the articles which are cited as likely to be made the subject of bills for their free importation are wool, Bait, binding twine, cotton ties, iron ore, coal and large lines of woolen goods. The cry is to enlarge the free list. The abolition of the duty on wool would strike the Bheep-grow6¥S"disastrou8ly; putting salt, on the free list would close up our salt works, and leave us depend­ ent on other nations for an article abso lutely essential to life; cotton ties are cheaper in this country than before the McKinley bill went into effect, and if put on the free list would Boon go to high prices, because we would be at the mercy of foreign manufacturers; iron ore ?.s already virtually free if manu­ factured into articles of export, and in whatever direction the proposed tinker­ ing is suggested similar reasons extend to make it obnoxious. The law should be allowed to stand substantially in its present form. Any attempt to tinker with it in tbe interest of free trade will prove rot only dangerous to business interests, but disastrous to the tinkers. Paragraph* and Illustrations Mr. Bayneshawe, of the Leeds For&e Company, savs: An English manufac­ turer is bound to kick long and hard when he is excluded from so important a market as the United States, but he is long-headed enough to know, after surveying industrial and manufacturing conditions in this country, that protec­ tion is the very salvation of the United States. Englishmen of common sense would be ardent protectionists, if they lived in this country, and a good many of them who have visited the United States in recent years are in favor of giving protection a trial at home, not­ withstanding the fact that it would ma­ terially increase the wages of artisans. To counterbalance the raising in wages they look to a thousand other ad­ vantages enjoyed by a country wherein protection prevails. Farmers, the . free trade orator tells you that the wicked tariff robs you by encouraging the binding twine truBt. Maybe lie knows that the average price of four grades ot binding twine has fall­ en from 12.7") cents a pound in 1890 to 8.00 cents ggggg£^2i$2®lEHZI3EES3 in 1891, but he isn't going to dwell on that fact. You must study the factB for yourself when free trade orators in­ dulge in glittering generalities. For the ten months of 1890, to No vember 1. there was imported into this country in articles of 6teel and iron manufacture gross tons to the number of. 564, And iron ore... 1,059,0(30 Making a total of. ....1,623,749 for the ten months of 1891 , to No vember 1, tbe corresponding figures were, of manufactured articles, gross tone 48s),72" And iron ore 777,183 Making a total of. American manufacturers and iron makers, with the workmen, reaped the benefit of this reduction in imports un der the McKinley tariff. So tne New Industries, Warman & Hazelwood, of Coventry England, who are said to be the largest bicycle makers in that country, with £70,000 paid-up capital, are to erect a big factory in Philadelphia for the manufacture of bicycles for their American trade. England is said to have 580 factories to America's 22. A company from Bradford, England, making arrangements to establish a worsted dress goods factory in Philadel phia. Yollath & Wadlinger, also of that city have recently begun the manufacture of Brussels lace curtains. This is the first attempt to make these curtains in this country. * John Bromley & Sons are already op erating an immense plant making lace curtains, and George Brooks & Sons have recently imported machinery for another plant. The hands in the Brom­ ley factory are under the instruction of skilled workingmen from Nottingham, the center of England's lace industry. Home! Biotlioirb, !iku".viaO of the *ir City, are buildinga lace-making plant. \nd the American Economist makes the 'oliowing note of additional new in­ dustries that will soon be transferred to this coJntry. England has hitherto bad a practical monopoly of their manufact­ ure, and one quite large town grew up of Oberstein and Idar, there are more than 150 mills for working agates. Each mill has several big grindstones, on which the valuable bits of quartz are ground, being usually attached to small sticks for that purpose. Choice speci­ mens are preliminarily cut into rough shapes with a steel wheel and diamond powder. Commo'h ones, hbwever, are merely broken into the forms desired with hammer and chisel. Bv long ex­ perience the workmen acquire great dexterity in applying their blows so as to obtain the requisite fractures. "At each revolving grindstone two men work. They do not sit or stand, but lie outstretched upon wooden stools made to fit their bodies. While they hold the agate to the grindstone they set a purchase with their feet against blocks of wood fastend to the iloor. After being ground the agates are polished on cylinders of hard wood, which are fed as they revolve with a mixture of tripoli and water. Agates are often colored artificially. For this purpose they are first placed in olive oil and heated. Then they are put into sulphuric acid and heated again. Ow­ ing to the fact that Bome layers of agate are quite porous, while others are dense, the oil enters the porous layers, whereat is blackened by the acid, thus making the contrast between the color of the layers more Btriking and enhanc­ ing the beauty of the stones. Other colors are given to agates bv soaking in different solutions and otherwise, but these methods are trade secrets." MARKTTWAIN-S BROTHER. He Is so Abacnt-minded tie Ate feast, Thinking It Wan Salad. Mark Twain has a brother at Keokuk, la., who is absent-minded enough for Mark to "put in a book." It is related n that town that he drank violet ink for blackberry cordial, and then took an allopathic dose ot ammonia instead of his cough medicine; tilt his latest absent-minded adventure occurred last summer when his wife had gone to a Sunday School picnic. The maid and MTB. Clemens both fce- ng gone for the day,' Mrs. Clemens in­ structed her husband that he would find his lunch nicely prepared in the refriger­ ator. Upon her return home she in­ quired of Mr. Clemens as to his bachel­ orhood, and how he had enjoyed his lunch. " VVell,'\ said Mr. Clemens, "I didn't think the salad you spoke of was espec- ally good, but I ate it." Upon investigation Mrs. Clemens dis­ covered that he had "eaten it," indeed; that is, the veast put to raise for the next day's tfaking, while the salad prop­ er remained untouched. -Economy in Building in Mexico. A correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing from the City of Mexico, tells of some curious makeekifts in the way of building on account of the high price of materials, and points out chances for enterprising Americans for money-making in studying and supply­ ing the needs of the people. Take the matter of nails for instance. These cost from 16 cents to 25 cents a pound, and they are so expensive that a great part of the building of Mexico is done with ropies instead of nails. . Here in Mexico city, within a stone's throw of the lturbiae Hotel, am immense build­ ing is being ejected. The, scaffolding about this building is tied together with ropea, tbe raiters being spliced in this way. Many of the huts of the southern part of the country have rools" Of thatch tied to rafters with ropes, and some of these huts have not a nail in them. Few wooden buildings are known in Mexico. The average hou|e has neith­ er cellar nor garret, and the fastenings which we make with nails are ingen­ iously constructed with bricks and mor­ tar. All classes of building material are costly here. You have to pay $35 to $40 a thousand for flooring, and glass is very high. A great many of the cheap­ er houses have no windows, in the elass sense of the world. The openings are covered with iron bars and are fastened at night with close wooden shutters. Iron has during past years been largely un ported from Belgium. Breaks His Meek Often, but Lives. Albert Patterson, the man whose neck literally hangs by a thread and who has been an inmate of Jefferson College Hospital since September last, intends leaving the hospital in the course of a day or so as comparatively cured, that is to say as near cured as he ever will be. When the man entered the hospi­ tal he had already broken bis neck on three different occasions. He showed up at the hospital all of a sudden one dny and startled Dr. Egan by saying he had his neck broken some "time before and felt a little pain in the back of it yet. I)r. Egan admitted him to the hospital, and found the case to be one of the most remarkable in the annals of surgery. I)r. H. A. Wilson, the lecturer on orthopedics, afterward examined the man and lectured on hiB case before a clinic. At this time Patterson was wearing a sort of stiir banduge round his neck, and, owing to it being an in­ sufficient support, he jerked his neck out of place three times while ir. the hospital. On each occasion he fell down paralyzed, and but lor the prompt attention or Dr. Egan in replacing his neck in position be would have died. Dr. H. A. Wilson, in order to obviate the recurrence of these accidents, de­ vised a particular and special apparatus to hold the man's head in place, and also a pair of tongs, which fold up small enough to go into his pocket, but extend out far enouhg to permit him picking up things from ihe lloor,without bending his neck.--Philadelphia Times. "SALLY,what would your father like to have me "give him for a Christmas pres­ ent?" "Well, James, he was saying this morning at the breakfast table that bib gas bill receipted for the last quarter would please nim more than anything else in the world, except our marriage." --Boston Gazttte. You can't measure a girl's love by it* sighs.--Elrnira Gazette. Dann is Dekd. A desperate plot to take the life of Judge Theodosius BOtkin near Arkalon, Kan., was foiled. Three officers were, however, shot down by an ambushed gang which was lying in wait to kill the judge while his honor was on his way to court. This is the ^outgrowth of the famous feud between Judge Botkin and Bam Wood, who was shot by James Brennan June 23. Information received shows that plans tot kill Judge Botkin were laid thr^e weeks ago, and that the intended victim was made aware of it the day following that on which the assassination had been arranged. Botkin lives on a claim three miles from Springfield. His term of court wfts to opep there, and the murder­ ers were to lie wait for him in a deep canyon and kill him when he started for Springfield. It was one of the conspir­ ators that disclosed the plot two weeks ago, and Judge Botkin kept absolutely quiet, telling only the sheriff and his deputyl" Accordingly the alieriii and six deputies met at Botkin's house and re­ mained there till 2:30 in the morning, when they started for the deep canyon to hide until the murderers should appear. At daybreak forty citizens of Woods- dale and Springfield, aimed with Win­ chesters and revolvers, rode up, ai:d, finding the sheriff and deputies in am­ bush, commenced firing. A desperate battle ensued, lasting until sunrise. The sheriff and two deputies lost their lives at the hands of the assassins. The mob then dispersed and the three deputies who escaped unhurt went to Springfield and reported the killing. Then they proceeded to Judge Bodkin's place and warned him of the danger. He immedi­ ately fled with his family to Arkansas,' where he is being guarded till the militia arrives. Attorney General Ives, received a dis­ patch stating that warrants had been is­ sued fpr the arrest of the murderers. He said that would do no good, how­ ever, for one-half of the people were in sympathy with the outlaws. Adjutant General Roberts has ordered the two companies of militia at Sterling and Hutchinson to proceed to Arkalon, where Judgo Botkin's life is in peril. When Sam Wood was murdered last June it was generally charged by his friends that Judge Botkin and the ad­ herents of the latter were responsible for the assassination, but no one except James Brennan, the man who did the shooting, was arrested. Judgo Botkin, however, did not leel safe in that part»of the country, and spent a great portion of his time during the summer months in Topeka, and with his brother, near Fort Scott. \ When court convened at*Hugoton, Stevens County, in September, Attor­ ney General Ives was present to conduct the examination of Brennan, and a spe­ cial Stato officer was present to preserve the peace, but as no attempt was made to create any kind of a disturbance the Stato authorities relaxed their vigilance and for some time the Botkin distriot has been considered a safe and peace­ able part of the State. Since July, 1888, there has been tur­ moil in Stevens County. The county seat contest between Woodsdale and Hugoton culminated in a massacre of Sheriff Cross and his deputies by Sam Robinson and his gang of about twenty- seven men from Hugoton. There was an abatement of the killing then until early last year, when James Brennan, of Rlghfield, Morton County, shot and killed Sam Wood, of Woodsdale, the ac­ knowledged leader of the Wooasdale faction. This killing occurred in front of the little church in Hugoton, Judge Botkin having converted the church into a court-room, where the June term of the Stevens County District Court was being held. Brennan was arrested and after two attempts to give him a trial on the charge of murder, was taken to the jail at Hutchinson to await the third and last attempt to secure a jury this month. Since Woods' death hos­ tilities have ceased in Hugoton, and apparently have now been transferred over the boundary line into Seward County, which has been peaceful here­ tofore, though it has always been acknowledged that Springfield, the county seat of Seward, has been in sym? patliy with Woodsdale and Arkalon, the prospective county seat in sympathy With Hugoton. This feeling of favorit­ ism, whichj^mquestionably exists, has evidently risen to that point where it became uncontrollable, and the Spring­ field people have gone in to help out the Woodsdale faction. The new killing increases the number of men slaughtered in the counties of Southwestern Kansas to about twelve, not taking into account the famous Leoti-Coronado County seat fight in Wichita County. There has never been a feeling of security in Stevens County since the famous Hay Meadows massa­ cre of 1888, though at times the public pulse has been serene and bloodshed seemed an impossibility. "But those men in Stevens, Seward, and Morton Coun­ ties, and In all other counties surround­ ing that quarter, never forgive a wrong or forget an injury. The direct cause of the attack on Judge Botkin lies in the fact that ever since the feud began his sympathies have been with Hugoton, though his home is at Springfield, in Seward County, forty miles aw'ay. James Brennan, who killed Sam Wood, was his counselor and friend and traveled about with him on his judicial journeys through the coun­ ties comprising the district. At the first attempt to try Brennan in September last at Hugoton Judge Botkin refused to preside, for the reason, he said, that Brennan had been his friend. So no trial was had nor any attempt made to secure a jury until Nov. 4, when Judgo Wall, of Wichita, made the effort. Judge Botkin was in Hugoton when the last attempt to try Brennan was made, and it is remembered that when he drove out of town after the court had faUed to get a Jury the sheriff of Seward County went with him with a Winchester over his shoulder. The sheriff of Seward County had simply taken Brennan's place as Botkin's body-guards Poisoned Her Whisky. THE conviction of Dr. Graves for the poisoning of Mrs. Barnaby will probably oonvince that gentleman that whisky is a bad thing to fool with.--St. Joseph News. DEJTVKB juries differentiate between death by poison and pistol, evidently. Hence Dr. Graves has been convicted of murder in the first degree for Mrs. Barnaby's death. The pistol, howover, has not yet reached the dignity of first degree murder in Colorado.--Philadel­ phia Press. DB. GBAVES, convicted at Denver of the crime of poisoning Mrs. Barnaby, of Providence, K. I.., has confessod that he had a hand in the crime, but he is oare- lul to implicato Colonel Ballou, a law­ yer now trying to absent himself from the country. The Doctor seems to have administered the poisoned whisky after taking legal advice.--New York Adver­ tiser. - ftom Far and Near* MBB. SOPHIE MUMEVSICH was foan£ dead at her home, near Freeburg. The woman lived alone, and there is some mystery about her death. The husband of the deceased woman disappeared twenty-three years ago, and has been heard of since that time. LOUDEN has an elopement sensation Jennie, the 17-year-old daughter of Gai» ner Curtis, and a young man by til# name of Stanbury have been lovers for some time. Jennie's fatherj objected to Stanbury's attention to his daughter,^ and finally prohibited his coming to tho house. The lovers held clandestine, meetings, and while Jennie's parents were fit a neighbor's Stanbury came ffir ; Jennie, and the twain together eloped, tm horseback. AT Springfield Charles Loomis, aged 14, and his brother William, aged . colored, quarreled in their mother'® house, and stepped into the yard to "fight it "out." . nniioil himBfllf with a large knife, while William rushed neighbor's house, - nnd emerrri,^f;" * with a double-barreled shotgun, fired" both barrels into the breast of Charlea, who instantly fell dead. When'William , was arrested, soon afterward, it waa found that his throat Wfis badly gashed. It is not known whether he was cut tw '"his brother or .did the euttirg himself. It is thought he will recover. A MONTH ago E. P. Reynolds and John Boyer, two of the pioneers of Rock Island County, went to California to spend the winter in hopes of escap­ ing the grip. Two weeks ago Mr. Boyer died, and his remains were brought back for interment. Next came the news of Mr. Reynolds' death. He had been a resident of Rock Island County since 1839, having constructed- most of the great railroads of the West, apd w-as the senior member of the con­ tracting firm of E. P. Reynolds & Co., of Rock Island and Wymore, Neb. He was ex-mayor of the city. President of the Rock Island Savings Bank, and one of the wealthiest citizens of Western* Illinois. His age was 74. _ : THE billing of a vaudeville company at Effingham stirred up a tremendous tempest in a teapot. The ladies of thfe W. C. T. U. called upon the Mayor and demanded that he refuse license to the; company, and also cause alleged in­ decent lithographs and posters to be, removed or covered up. The Town Mar­ shal was accordingly armed with » paste pail, brush, and about a ream of; yellow paper, and in short time the bill boards, while not as artistic as be­ fore, were far better mediums of advertising, for the whole town wa» talking of it. Then came Mr. Curry, manager of the opera house, and he laid, before the Mayor a petition for license, indorsed by many of the best business men in the place. Mayor Walker was between the devil and the deep sea. But he found -a way out; he had caused the gaudy show-bills to be covered up, as the iadies requested, so that they could no longer offend the sensibilities of any one. He would now be equally gracious to those who wanted to see the show, and grant «a license. "For," ar­ gued the Mayor, "if the ladies don't want to go, they don't have to." So, with the stipulation that the programme should be free from word, action or situation in the least suggestive, the li­ cense was granted; and because of the tremendous social row that had been kicked up the alleged show received the most effective advertising possible, and played to an audience that hardly had winking room. Many attended because they anticipated something racy; the W. C. T. U. had agents there to note anything that could be made the basis of a prosecutloh; and the balance of the audience were there to watch the anties of the warring elements. And all were disappointed. The show was entirely^ free from anything startling, hut it took away more of Effingham's money than ever before went into any one-night- stand combination's coffers; and now each half of the town is engaged in the amusing occupation of making faces at the other half. Two HUNDBED coal miners employed in the mines of the Coal Valley Mining Company at Cable, from which the mar­ kets of the cities of Rock Island, Moiine,. and Davenport are principally supplied* are out on a strike. The company, Jan. 4, discharged four men who had en­ deavored to arouse the others to mutiny for the restoration of a former metlUM^rt compensation. The men previously ap­ pointed a committee to wait on the com­ pany, but it had neve*fperformed mission, and the strikers now claim that the men discharged were those who con­ stituted the committee. The company denies this, and says that it would have granted the committee's request had it appeared, and that the men were dis­ missed simply because they were agita­ tors of trouble. The strikers are well- behaved. They say there has never been any dispute as to wages, and they are striking because of failure on the part of the company to recognize the committee. The company says the supply, of coal on hand and the resources from which more can be obtained are ample and no coal famine need be feared or a raise in price. AT Ramsey, Alfred Hall was cut w*" verely by Lawrence Leigh, the result of an old grudge. AT, Belleville, special memorial serv­ ices were held in the Catholic churches on the anniversary of the horrible eon- vent fire of eight years ago. in which several young ladies and Notre Data* Sisters lost their lives. DANIEL SHEPABD, for twenty-one years Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, and one of the tyre- most political leaders In Illinois, died^at Chicago. "He had been an inv; ** " the last nine years, suffering iren chial consumption. „ & -j. MRS. PACL DEMOI LIN cominijj cide at her home, two wile? _ Highlands, by cutting her throat with razor during the temporary absence of' her husband. Despondency was the probable ' cause. She 25 years of age and leaves two children. CHICAGO is to have a great subter­ ranean theater. It is the novel idea of a Frenchman, and was conceived too late for the Paris Exposition of 1H89. A local company is organized to build the novel place. It is to be finished for the World's Fair, and Henry Ives Cobb wfll plan it and invest. \V. C. BROWS, a telegraph operator of Davton, Ohio, was lodged in t^ie Clinton Countv jail at Carlyle, charged with writing out a pass from East s»t. Louis to Cincinnati via the Ohio and Missis­ sippi Railroad, and forging the Superin­ tendent's name to the same. He -Will be prosecuted by the railroad officii AT Jacksonville, Robert Russell & Co., boot and shoe dealers, confessed judgment in favot of I. L. >*••"'**.»?* Iw $10,000, and the store was closed by the Sheriff. It is claimed the stock will in­ voice $15,000, and that the firm will pay every dollar it owes? V Ulram Ltlieoek, dealer in t >ys, also assign.xi^ liabilltta* unknown.