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N MOOTT, W- A JERSEY MAN WANTS CERTIFI­ CATES ON HIS CRANBERRIES. Damt«nl( Oattiof TklB|i Mlztd- bpabltesn Tote Slue® 1880-B1»1m apd Burina-Tk* Tli-pl«t* ®wd t* Silver Iktn. The Man Who Want* Cranberry Money. Recently a gentleman, living in New Jersey wrote to the llbnu ROB we 11 (*• Horr," in which he asked these ques­ tions: It has just occurred to me, if it is right -for the Government to purchase a large part of the surplus silver, KO to the ex­ pense of storing it, hire men to count and watch it, nil pay the expense of coining it, «r the issue of silvor <-»*riiifk':!tes to circu­ late in its stead; all because it ieuresents so much labor and capital (and, 1 suppose, also tu keep those silver capitalists out of the poorhouse), if that is rif-'ht, wny would It not he richt tor the government to pur­ chase the surplus of farm produce, wmch represents iust as umcli capital and a little more hard labor, and then go through the same proceeding, issue grain certmcates, or make the grain up into paucakcs, .and issue pancake certificates, if you pi r,ruse ? Now, it. would help niev out considerably this year if the government woald ouy up the surplus of crtinberries, the healthiest of fruits, and go through the samo process. 1 know yuit will Say liie lust yvOaiu i.Ot DC right. Theni why the first? • To these questions Mr. Horr answers as follows: First, the government does not coin money, either gold or silver, especially to aid the men who mine these metals, but to aid all the people «f the country. As the law now stands (and as it ought to re main) the government pays tor silver only the market price, just what these capital­ ists who mine the metal could get for it in. the markets of the world. Coinage with its attendant process of assay js simply the establishing the purity of the metal and guaranteeing the amount in cacti piece. No more, no less. The whole business of coining money, and of using gold and sil­ ver bullion as a basis for certificate.') to be used as money, is done for the entire peo- 81e, and the expense is properly paid out of le public funds. This whole matter turns upon the fact that silver and gold have been adopted as the money substances of th« world. They are everywhere used a3 the 'medium of ex­ change. We have come to ckpross our ideas of value by naming a certain com, which contains a tixed amount of one of t.hesn ni<>t:il« Not. «o with grain. Not so with cranberries. Suppose certificates were Issued with cranberries as a basis of value. A certificate is a promise to pay, on demand, a certain quantity of that against which it has been issued. The cranberries would in a few months have decayed. If the certificates were not re­ deemed (in cranberries) almost immedi­ ately after their issue, the basis of their value would have entirely disappeared, and the certificates would be worth mere­ ly the paper on which they were printed, and no more. There would be nothing left with which to redeem them. If the act for the free coinage of silver had been passed, and had become a law, then the government would have been compelled to take ail the silver Drought to its mints at a fixed price. The price named was far above what that metal how brings in the markets of the world. Such a law would have been in the interest of the min­ ers and owners of silver, and clearly against the interest of the people. it would be a fair question to ask why Should the government buy and pay an extra price for silverIt docs not do so for gold, or any other article. It' for sil­ ver, why not for grain and cranberries ? Sure enough! but that question does not -arise, because at present the government does not take either gold or silver and pay for them more than their market value in the money centers of the world. It does not take gold and silver at att except for the purpose of utilizing them as money. In doing that, its work is for the benefit of the entire people who use money, and in no sense for the benefit of auy particular class. The government never buys gold ot sil­ ver for the purpose of making jewelry or tableware, or any other of the purposes of consumption, it nevei buys them for any purpose except to convert them in some way into a circulating medium, into mon­ ey. So Jong as they are not, they do not come within the rules which govern the precious metals. This whole question hinges on the fact that silver and gold are used as money; and it is a proper function of government to do all in its power to keep the money used by the people honest, pure, and of equal value, dollar for dollar. R. G. HORB. since 1988. It <Hdnvt want him then; it V,:rr. -lA'tV ** then, and Barkis is still a good deal more than "wiilin*." "He after one elation and two nominations covets not it?' asserts the Eagle, But it is evident, even to the most casual observer, that the one election and two nominations have simply served to sharpen and deepen his appetite for the presidency. It is with oflice-seekers as with office-holders--few die, none resign and no one "covets not it," and Mr. Cleve­ land is no exception to the rule. How the Tlu Industry la (iruwlig. It would not be worth while to say much about the tin industry of this country, except for the fact that Demo­ cratic papers are constantly making the statement that tin can't be'made in the United States tor general use. The Democratic leaders were opposed to the ,dutv on tin plate, and ever since the Mckinley bill passed they have con­ tinued their attack ou the tin industry of this country. JThe United States ha's annually sent to England $24,000,000 A>r tiu plate, and if this vast amount can be payed why not save it ? Let nu see how this tin plate industry is getting alone under the influence of the new tariff law. Here are some items: Somers Bros., of Brooklyn, are getting ahead with their new tin piate factory. The plant will have six mills and three cold rolls, supplied by the A. Garrison Foun­ dry Company, and live tinning stacks. Capacity. 3,000 boxes per week. Capital invested. £250,000. Tiie V. o. Taylor Company, of Phila­ delphia, which has been operating as a tin plate factory, has completed arrangements for the erection of a factoiy in that city, which, when completed, will be the larg­ est establishment of its kind in the United States. The factory will have a capacity of twenty-four stacks, with a complete pickling department attached. As each stack will turn out about fifty boxes of tin a day, it will thus be seen that there will be a daily capacity of 1,200 boxes. The company will be able to begin operations with twelve stacks, capable of an output of COO boxes a day. by the. beginning ot April. When completed the new industry will give employment to 250 men.' It is reliably stated that the Messrs. Niedringhaus, of St. Louts, have purchased 2,y00 acres of land in Illinois nearly oppo­ site St. Louis, upon which it is proposed to establish a new industrial town, the chief industry of which will be the manu­ facture of tin plate and the utilization of the plates manufactured for allied branches of manufacture. At an early day it is pro­ posed to erect furnaces, rolling miils, etc., sufficient to supply a tin plate plant equipped with twenty mills. The Britton Iron and Steel Company, of Cleveland, has dccidcd tc manufactr.ro tin plate. The plant will consist of four mills, with a capacity of 2,0C0 boxes weekly. These "works will be in connection with, and in a measure subsidiary to, a new steel plant, the plans for which are now being prepared in the office of a Pittsburg engineer. This plant will have two 26-ton open hearth furnaces and a 140-inch mill tor rolling armor plate, besides the usual full equipment of a steel plant. The com­ pany has purchased seventy acres of land seven miies from Cleveland, and will ex­ pend $750,000 on the works. A Card to Sliver Men. What the country has to say to these men is simply the direction spoken of old to Judas, "That thou doest, do quickly." Let not long debate and un­ certainty prostrate business throughout the land. The prospects of trade and industry are now exceptionally bright. A long contest about the silver question would almost inevitably shake confr- dence and arrest business. Play the litical game quickly if it must be played. Make the barm to business as brief and little as possible. Seud the bill to the Senate in a single day; what is the use of concessional debate about it? The Senate ought to be able to act on a question exhaustively discussed last year and then decided, without delay or talk. If the bill goes to the Presidentat all he will not take weeks of even days to take up his mind what to do, Congress may be sure. The Republi­ can party is exceedingly willing to meet this issue belore the people. All it has to ask is that the industries and trade of the country shall be harmed as little as possible while the question is pending in Congress. After that the Democrats will see how wise they have been,--New York Tribune. The Kepubllcua Vote Since 1880b In the effort to Show that in the last three presidential campaigns it is the party more than the.leader that wins, the Inter-Ocean produces the following figures: If we take the popular vote in the last three campaign we find some curiouB variations in figures. In 1880 California gave a small plurality against the Republicans, and Connecticut an equally small plurality in their favor. In 1884 this was reversed, California be­ coming Republican by more than i;i,000 threw presidential campaign* ir« vo thy of study by (boss «lio are deairoo* of settling the policy of th© Repub­ lican party as to candidates and plat­ forms for 1892. The following table gives tiug .vote: States. ~'b ," . Arknn*«H„.__. Onliiornia Colorado , , Connecticut Delaware... Florida.™.. Georgia... :. Illinois...... Imtir.r.R Iowa Kansas Kentucky..^ Louisiana ......... Maine •Maryland. >. Massachusetts Michigan... Minnesota Mississippi Missouri * .. Nevada ....... New Hampshire....... New Jersey New Yort North Carolina..™.... Ohio ........ Oregon .. Pen nsy i v* nia Rhode iklatid.........4 South Carolina........ Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia. West Yirfiuia " iseos in ..... .. Harri­ son. *6,1 *7 *8,753 124,816 60.774 74,584 12,978 26,657 40.491 *70,473 »s,!Wi 211,51*8 182.904 155,185 801461, 78,784 183,892 •S6.S7U 142,492 80,090 286.257 10S.425 7.228 45,820 144.871 660.388 144,784 416,055 88.291 626,091 21,963 18,736 1 £8,988 88.4J2 48,196 150,488 78.171 176,5S3 Blaltie, 691444 50.719 1U2.416 36,290 66.898 12,958 28,081 47.691 887,478 197,082 154.406 IIS, 122 46,279 72.209 85,637 146,724 192,669 108,742 48,509 202,929 76,908 7.198 43,254 125,866 662,005 125,068 400,082 26,860 47S.804 19,080 21,788 125.090 98,141 89,514 189.182 6,1095 161.147 Oar- Aeld. ' 66,178 41,661 80,848 27,460 67,078 14,150 23,654 62.648 818,087 232 164 188.904 121,530 104,550 81.891 74.089 78,616 166,206 186,190 98.908 84,854 151,567 64,979 . 8.7S2 44,852 120.555 NA544 115,878 «7.\(H8 20,619 444.704 18,195 58,031 107,677 57,M."> 45.090 81,020 46,243 144,397 or AIL. THE IMMENSE CEREAL YIELD LAST YEAR. It. Was Simply 8tnp«adoui-Ifcs Wheal Crop Waa tlte Uiceit We Hax® JSv«r Had, by 100,000,000 BnfMk-Inn'l Proud, Pre-wmlnence. Totals... .5,441,902 4.848,150 4,442,250 Great Crops. The chief statistician has computed that Iowa leads all other States in the value of the three principal cereals pro­ duced in 1891, and in this sense is the first agricultural State in the Union. The value of Iowa's wheat, corn, an'd oats of last year was $154,000,000, the value of her corn crop alone being placed at $105,000,000, of her oats crop at $27,000,000 and Tier wheat crop at $22,000,000. The chief statistician points out that the value of thesp crops was equal to $80 for each inhabitant of the State of Iowa. / Illinois was the second agricultural State in the Union in 1891, with an aggregate value of the three cereals of $148,000,000, as follows: Corn, $87,- 000,000; -wheat, $30,000,000; oats, $31,- 000,000. The six great corn States in 1891, with acreage, crop in bushels and yield per acre, were: A TELL-TALE MARK. Harrison and HUlim. One of tbe fairest estimates of Presi­ dent Harrison and Secretary Blaine, which has been made by any public t'ournal, comes from the Chicago Tri->une, and will be endorsed by the great body of thinking Republicans: If Mr. Blaine will accept a nomination there will be no opposition to it. It will] come to him unanimously. If he decides California was still reliably "Republican not to accept a nomination it will not af­ fect the high position he now holds in the estimation of the American people. The presidenc y will add no honor to him. He is to-day the leader of the American people. 2S o man in this country can com­ mand such a following. He is the foie- most American and he will stand in his­ tory as the greatest American of nis time long after his detainer.! have been for­ gotten. To such a man the presidency cannot add any honor. If Mr. Blame snould not be a candidate, and if Mr. Harrison snould receive and ac­ cept the presidential nomination he would be cordially supported bv the Republican party. He has steadily grown in the pub­ lic estimation. Even his partisan enemies confess that he has made no mistakes. His addresses and his state papers have received general commendation as able ancTbusinesslike. He has hart tjie courage to offend politicians, which is not an offense in the eyes ol the people. He has been patient, steadfast, reticent and industrious in conducting the public work, if he should be nominated he would be a stronger candidate in 18'J2 than be was four years ago. This is the situation as it stands to-day, and it wilf not be allectect by the silly rumors and canards constantly set alloat by small and mousing politicians. Getting Thing* Badly Mixed. The other day when the Brooklyn Eaglo said tbat Mr. Cleveland wasn't a candidale for President, that he covets it^Hot, but that the presidency was a candidate for Mr. Cleveland, the Tri­ bune remarked: Evidently there is some mistake, and that a bad one, about this. In 1888. not a great while ago. the presidency demon­ strated by election returns which nobody disputed "that it was not a candidate for Mr. Cleveland. Benjamin Harrison re­ calls tbe circumstance distinctly. Durinu the same year Air. Cleveland demonstrated that he was a candidate for the presidency by running for it with all his might and main. Of course, if the presidency had been as fond of Cleveland as Cleve­ land was of the presidency, lie would have succeeded. As it was, Harrison beat hiui. That Cleveland's fondness for the pres­ idency in 1888 had the intensity of a master passion is a matter of record. That is to say he accepted a renominatio^in the face of his emphatic declaration aga'nst a sec­ ond term! In 1&>4, in accepting his lirst nomination to the presidency, he took this ground: "When we consider the patron- Age of this great othce, the ailurepients of power, the temptation to retain public place once trained, and. more than all, the availability a party finds in an incumbent whom a horde of office-holdcrs with a y.eal born of benefits received and fostered by the hope of favors yet to come stand ready to aid with money and trained political service, we recognize in the eligibility of the President for re-election a most serious ' danger to that calm, deliberate and intel­ ligent action which must characterize gov­ ernment by the people."" A man who yearns for a second term so mightily as to be willing, as Mr. Cleveland was, to accept a renomination at the ex­ pense of self-stultitication may be said to be "clean gone" on tuc presidency; presi­ dential bees as numerous as the sands up­ on the snore, are buzzing in anu about his bonnet. Nor is there any reason for be­ lieving that the presidency's attitude to­ ward Mr. .Cleveland or Mn Cleveland's at­ titude toward the presiden ; bos changed' Elurality, and Connecticut Democratic y less than 1,500 plurality. In 1888 California was still reliably Republican by more than 7,000 and Connecticut Democratic by less than 500. In 1880 New York and Indiana were both Re­ publican, the former by 21,000 plurality, and the latter by 0,600 plurality ;*in 1884 both states were Democratic, New York by lees than 1,200, but Indiana by about the iame plurality that it gave the Re­ publicans in 1880; but in 1888 both states swung back into the Republican col­ umn, New York by more than 1-1,000 and Jndiana by©, 1500. Massachusetts and Iowa, two of the old time banner Republican states, show almost as mu» b variation in their vote without, however, any change in the complexion of the states. In 1880 Massachusetts gave 5o,245 Republican plurality and Iowa 78,000; in 1S84 the Republican plurality in Massachusetts fell off to 24,372 and iowa to 19,796; but in 1888 Massachusetts increased her Re­ publican plurality to more than 32,000 and Iowa to 31,721. Michigan and Nebraska also varied. In 1880 Michigan gave tbe Republicans 53,890 and Nebraska 24,456 plurality ; in 1884 Michigan's plurality fell o& to 3,308, and Nebraska dropned to 22,512; but in 1888 both recovered much that had been lost, Michigan giving a Re­ publican plurality of 22,911 and Nebras­ ka a Republican plurality ol 27,873. Maine steadily increased her Repub­ lican plurality through the tlnee cam­ paigns aud Ohio lost through all. In 18S0 Maine gave Garfield a plurality of 8,886; in 1S84 Blaine 20,069, and in 188S Harrison 23,253. I n 1880 Ohio gave Gar- held 34,227 plurality; in 1884 Blaine 31,- 801, and in 1888 Harrison 19,599. Pennsylvania showed some variation in favor or 1884 when Mr. Blaine was the leader. In 1S80 Pennsylvania gave Garfield only 37,276 plurality; increased this to 81,019 lor Blaine in 18S4, and dropped to 79.458 for Harrison in 1888. Illinois and Minnesota showed a steady decline through the three cam­ paigns. Illinois gave Garfield 40,716 plurality, Blaine 25,122, and Harrison 22,195. "Minnesota gave Garfield 40,558 pluralitv; Blaine 38,738, and Harrison 38,106. Kansas on the other hand gave Garfield 61,731 plurality; Blaine 64,274, and Harrison 80,159. If we take the whole popular vote we find as much variation. In the Demo- crated states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas Mr. Blaine had a larger popular vote than had President Harrison, but in the Republican states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michi­ gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Penn­ sylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin President Harrison had a much larger; popular vote than had either Blaine or Garfield. This is also true of the close states of New York, Indiana, Connecticut, and in the Demo* cratic states of Arkansas, New Jersey, Tennessee. Delaware; Kentucky, Mary­ land, Missouri, Virginia, and West Vir­ ginia. The figures showing the popular vote of,-the Kepoblivun party m these last BARTLEY COULDN'T DEADHEAD. Ho Wrote th# Plmjv but Ho Coaldnt Got Into the Theater. The late Bartley Campbell, the play­ wright, one day found himself in a Bmali but "hustling" mining town in the far West, Bays the New York Telegram. He saw that a plav of his/ that had been pirated, wastoDe present­ ed at the theater that night. He went to the play house and told tbe ticket taker that he would like to 6ee tbe "show." "WJao are you?" asked the manager. "My name is Bartley Campbell," was the reply. "I don't know you," returned the manager. "Oh, yes, you do," said Campbell. "I am Bartley Campbell, the author of thib piay, and I want to see holw you are do­ ing it." , ' "How do I know you are Bartley Campbell?" surlily demanded the pirate manager. "Why," answered Campbell, point­ ing to a horrible picture of the author oo^a poster, "There's my portrait." "Come off," said manager. "You dan't play that with me. That portrait ain't a bit like yer, and if it was we, don't let no deadheads into this show." DIAMONDS IN A CRAW. apposed to Hove Been Pecked from a River Bed In Nebraska. A few days ago C. Jacobson, at Hast­ ings, Neb., received word from a firm in Butte City that dn$ of its customers, a Mrs. White, had found three rough diamonds in the craw of a chicken sold by them a few davs before Christmas. Mr. Jacobson is a large poultry shipper, and supplies his hennery with gravel from the bed of the Blue River, seven miles south of this city. The curiosity of several miners in Butte City was aroused by the discovery, and Jacob- son has received mamr letters inquiring as to where he secured the sand. Mrs. W hite submitted the three rough stones to a jeweler in Butte for inspection, aDd he pronounced them diamonds and offered her a good price for them, but she refused and has sent them East to be cut. A Powerful Argument. A Chinaman was the subject of the annoying attentions of a hoodlum on an un-town train on the Sixth Avenue Road last night. Across from him sat a gentleman accompanied by his wife who felt that something should be done to cause the man to desist from such manifestations of his exuberant spirits such as tilting the Chinaman's hat over his eyes, pulling his cue, punching his ribs, and so on, to which the Celestial made no response and offered no re­ sentment. The eentleman, small of stature, finally determined to put a stop to it, and, assured that the guard did not purpose to interfere, requested the man to desist. This elicited an impu­ dent reply, and a desire to know wnat he proposed to do" about it. Finally, angered beyond control, the gentleman began to remove his gloves, and had one partially bff. when a stalwart negro, who had been a silent, inter­ ested spectator of the scene, stepped up and remarked: "Youse needn't take off your gloves, sah. I'll iustat- attend to this business myself sah. Pardon me, sah." And, with this he took a seat alongside the meddlesome tough with a quiet, business-like air. and there wasn't any more trouble all the way up the road--and tney all traveled together up to Harlem.--Neva York Recorder. Commotion in, a Maine Drug Store. My wife had the toothache on Satur­ day night," said an Orange Street man, "and 1 came down town alter something to cure it. Just before I came away from the house my boy Qame along and pinned his Y. M. C. A. badge on myf vest. I never had occasion to go to a drugstore in Lewiston before, and I did not think it made any difierence where I went. "At 7:45 o'clock I went into a well- illuminated store with my coat unbut­ toned. The clerk saw me coming and jumped over the counter, putting his hand immediately behind a clock on tbe shelf. An alarm-bell rang in the rear room, pnd a heavy doors,swung to Then there was the sound; Per Acres. Bush«!a. acre, Iowa .9.560,716 sr,0,878,000 Illinois........ . ..7,011,888 234.880,000 88.5 Missouri..........G.706.318 aoyao.ott). 29,9 Nebraska..... 4,702,840 85.2 Kansas............ 5,314,847 a 181 S93.0G0 «.« Indiana............8,718,380 1-23,022,000 83,3 , These six States had nearly one-half the acreage of the entire country and a little more than three-fifths of the whole crop. The great- wheat States, with acreage and crops in bushels, were: . Per Acres. Bushals, acre. Minnesota ..3,143.017 65,833,000 17.6 Kansas . .8.589,700 54,860,1 00 15.5 Indiana .2,917,518 f>2,80'i,000 18.1 North Dakota.... .2,027,274 5'2,105,uc0 17.8 Ohio 4\M1,000 17.1 California ..2,915,007 35,595,000 12.9 Illinois-- .1,945,832 35,i 25,10) 18.0 Michigan .. 1,606,670 SO,2. 5,100 18.8 South Dakota.... ..1,954,883 Sffl.Tli.'XO is.a Iowa .1,803,036 27,5^1,000 15,3 These ten States contained five- Illinois lofea............. Minnesota v isconsin Nebrask >........ New "iork Kansas Pennsylvania,... Michigan Ohio eighths of the acreage and produced two- thirds of the entire crop in the United States. The ten principal oat# States, with acreage and crop, were:f: Acreage, PtiBhols. 3,06f, '• 80 ll.uli5.000 ....2,795,0 3 11.2,577,tOO .... 1,42 .,080 53,015.000 ... .1.484,919 49,348,(00 .. .1,';68,977 48,9,000 ... .1,339,981 41,894,000 ....1,237.740 37,i:i2,000 ....1,2 9,101 33,704,000 ..... 981,«77 30,280,000 911,292 £8,533,000 These ten States produced five-sev­ enths of the oats crop of the United States. The aggregates for the United States are as follows: Acreage. Bushel*. Value. Corn...;... 76,204,515 2,0C0,154,0K) $836,439,228 Wheat 39,918,835 611,730,u00 513,472,711 Cats 25.581.3Cl 738,S94,OOJ 232,312,287 Charles A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, the head of the Plllsbury-Washburn Milling Company, said in New York the other day: "The people of the East do not fully realize what the great wheat crop of the country means, and they do not exactly understand wfiat will -be the effect of the unprecedented yield. Com­ plaints have been made that the business activity which was predicted when the magnitude of the crop became known, had not come. Perhaps it has not, but it is too early for it yet. New York will get the benefits of the crop of 1891 in the year 1892. "Wheat went down a peg on the Gov­ ernment report that the crop for this year would be 617,000,000 bushels, but I , have advices from high authority In sev­ eral European countries which lead me to think that Europe will want all our surplus product. If our crop had not been unusually large wo could not meet the demand from Europe. Our crop last year is 100,000,000 bushels greater than it has ever been In a single year, and it is 200,000,000 bushels more than it was year before last. Had it not been for the shortage in Europe the grain crop hero would have proved a calamity to the farmers. "Wheat would^iave been so cheap that it would not have paid to market it. France, according to the best estimates, is short in her wheat crop this year 100,- 000,000 bushels. ltuRsia is short on her crop of grpin, including rye and oats, 300,000,000'bushels, and other European countries are short 200,000,000 bushels. The surplus of other countries has been sold, and there is no supply to be haul except from the United States." PLUNGE OF A TRAIN. ute the place was filled with ammonia gas. "Then the clerk put on his hat, and, as he hurried from the room, I a.ked if he had anything for toothache. " 'We don't keep a drop, and you can't find any, either,' he answered as be scudded out the door. I followed him from the door, and a crowd on the sidewalk began asking me il I made a haul. I got half way up the street be­ fore I discovered that it was the badge that did it all."-- Lewiston Journal. . Teaching Johnny. <•' "What are you going to do, John?" asked Mrs. McFazzle, as her htiBband unwrapped a pair of boxing gloves. * "I'm going to give Johnny some les- Bons in self-defense," he answered. "Every bov should know how to take care ot himself in any emergency. Come on, Johnny; I won't hurt you." Twenty minutes later Mr. McFazzle returned with his hand on his face. "Get me a piece of raw meat to put on my eye and tne arnica bottle." "Why, you don't mean to say that Johnny----" "No, I don't; of course I don't. Johnny's sittin' out in the woodshed now in sorrow and repentance. I've discovered that tbe only way to teach that boy anything is with a strap."-- Washington Star. THE total wealth of an Alaska village has been estimated as follows: Number of dogs, 175; hunting sleds, 47; freight sleds, 56; igloos (houses), 69; canoes, 51; kyaks, 14; breech-loading rifles, 67; muzzle-loading rifles, 46: Dreech- loading shotguns, 5; muzzle-loading shotguns, o4; revolvers. 27; a'xes (most­ ly old), 59; pickaxes, 6. Total value, $2,497. IT is queer about butter. The stronger it is in the tub the weaker it ia on the market,--Binghamton Republican. Atrokcn Rail Near Crawfordsvllle, Ind., Causes a Fatal Wreck. A rail broken, a whole Monon passen­ ger train down a sixty-foot embank­ ment, and many passengers dead and dying in the outskirts of the city. This was the story told in a telegram from Crawfordsville, Ind. The ill-fated train was the fast mail running between Louisville and Chicago. It consisted of a mail car, an express car, three coach­ es, and the chair car. It was in charge of EngineerJDoyles and Conductor Bills. The train leit Crawfordsville, on- time and pulled out under full head, but when the accident occurred the rate of speed was about twenty-five miles an hour. The scene of the wreck is two miles north of Crawfords­ ville, at , Nicholson's crossing, and less than one-half mile from the place of the terrible freight collision of a month ago. The road-bed is cut in a steep hill- of breaking bottles, and in another min- ffde'.w^h a twenty-foot embankment on • * • the right and the valley of Koek River on the left. The train was rounding a sharp curve, when the outer rail broke and caused the ttfreck. The engine passed in safety. The setting of tho brakes on the engine caused by the mail car breaking away from tho tender told the engineer that something was wrong. Tho mail oar was dragged one hundred yards, and then fell twenty feet. In some unknown manner it broke loose from tho baggage car, which passed on without being, oven overturned. The next car was filled with baggage and passengers. Tho llrst passenger coach was illled with pi^engers und turned tin •ee times beforo renchtug the bottom. The stovo was overturned and the car soon destroyed, but the passengers es­ caped. The next coach was torn to pieces, nothing being left but the bot­ tom of the car. It was filled with people and not one escaped injury. The parlor car toppled over and landed on top of the third coach. The wounded were taken to a farm house near by before be­ ing removed to the city. e Five persons were killed outright and many seriously injured. A burlesque company was on the ill-fated train; the leading lady was killed and all the others injured. , This aud That. SHKLTOX, Conn., makes 2,500,000 postal card9 daily. WHITK mules are in great demand ID the South, owing to their docility. Ax Indiana farmer is charged with shooting a small boy who called him & hayseed. REV. MINOT J. SAVAGE, of Boston, is among those who believe that the world is growing better. t iLLmntfATEo walking sticks are among the latest applications of elec­ tricity. A small incandescent lamp is concealed in the head. Wft#} Hnl4! Mjwc'A DSriy StdSTs CftVMtrt His Arret*. Bacir in the days when the stage- robbing business was in full bloom, writes a Westerner, one of the worst men in Vinginia City, Nevada, was Clem Lee. He and three other fel­ lows ran a gambling den in a room over my saloon and they were a very bad crowd. Late one Sunday night the four of them came into niv place and asked me to mix them up two bottles of cocktails. Clem had on a light overcoat borrowed from Charlie Dexter, the Town Clerk. When I had filled their order Clem and his partners' went out, mounted their horses and rode out of town, Clem on a horse that he had borrowed from the C h i e f o f Pol ice . They went i n the direction of Washoe , fairly f lying over the thirty-four miles distance between Virginia City and that place. At Washoe they had four good horses staked out, and it did not take them long to shift saddles, try my cocktails, mount and start off again. In those (lays TBET~STSGENGONIP:ILI^ had good stock, and when the Reno stage cauie' along six horses were making it spin Four men sprang into the road and one of them shouted to the driver to stop. The driver could hot pull up short, and the men had barely time to spring aside and avoid the wheels. Clem Lee leveled his revolver and ltred, and pne of the leaders fell dead. The other horses tumbled over the one that was down, and the stage was stopped, but not before a deputy sheriff on the box had polled A gun and sent a ball through I Clem's partner, Dick. The passen­ gers' valuables were secured and. the messenger relieved of his box. Then the stage drove off. The three gamblers buried their dead pal, mounted their horses, rode at a desperate speed back to Washoe, changed horses there and pushed on to Virginia City, where they arrived at 9 o'clock in the m-irning and went to bed. They felt pretty safe, as no­ body would suspect them of having made such a trip in so short a time. Jjqt there was one l i t t le circum­ stance that was insignificant in ap­ pearance and fatal in fact . When Clem Lee sprang aside to avoid the stage he raised his right arm and covered the driver with a pistol. The forward wheel of the coach grazed tbe under side of his arm and GROUND into the sleeve a streak of mud that no th ing could wipe out . A l a d y i n the coach was looking out of the win­ dow, and as the coach passed Lee she saw the mark made by the wheel on his coat sleeve. When she reached Virginia City, and with the other passengers, was questioned by a detective, she said: "Look for a man with A wheel mark on the sleeve of his light overcoat. That mark was made by a rapidly- turning wheel and no brush ever wa; made that will take it out." The detective, s trol l ing through the street , met Charley Dexter with his l ight overcoat on , glanced at his sleeve, saw the wheel mark and gath­ ered him in. Of course it didn't TA^€ Dexter long to remember who had HI? coat on the night of the robbery, ant' the three gamblers were captured anc and sent to prison.' One of them wa> the son of a famous philanthropic millionaire .OF Washington. Judaism and Christianity. Over the signature "Josephus" wt find the following in Century: "Deep in the heart of Judaism is enshrined a sacred, an immortal word--duty-- which makes of man a moral beinji and links him to the moral source ol the universe . Deep in the heart ol Christianity is enshrined a sacred and MI mortal word--love--which makes of man a spiritual being and l inks him "to the divine source of all life. Humanity needs both these words in order to become the perfect creation it was.meant to be. The one gives the conscience, the tfther the heart ol mankind: ihe one is the masculine, the other the feminine? element OI the world. Judaism gives the Ten Commandments, and Christianity tht Beatitudes. But Only the two to gether can yield the perfect ideal-- the love that is simply the highest duty, and duty that is lost IN love. And, in order to come into this closer, higher union, into the faith which makes .humanity whole, and not a thing of parts , and the truth which "makes' ni*YI free, fixed and formed codes must disappear; the outci framework of history and theology must fall away, ano spirit be left free to seek spirit. Then, and then only, will life have its whole meaning, as part ot a larger l ife whose beginning and end are hidden from mortal vision. Religion will have its full sway, and yet there will be none who persecute,-and none who are perse­ cuted, 'for the earth shall be full ol the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.' " Chinese Sup«i»tltl»iMi. Chinese gold miners in C a l i f o r n i a do not talk at their work, as THEV consider it unlucky, and for thu same reason they do not like •'o be addressed by visitors. At Rock Springs, Wyom­ ing. the Chinese miners in the coal mines considered it very unlucky to speak before breakfast. They would n o t m o v e a n y o f the d i s h e s on t h e breakfast table for fear of bad luck, but let the dishes remain where THEY are placed.- A Ciiine.se:- man whe vis i ted them , and passed a night at one of their cabins, says that when he commenced to talk in the morning, on getting up, no one answered him. and it was afterwards explained they were afraid of bringing bad luck. The work in these mines is very dan­ gerous, and accidents arc of frequent occurrence. " Tile H ord ".*noro." "Snoie," to breathe hoarsely i n sleep . The word means more- Its root is in the Teutonic "snar," which is the root of "itfiar," to growl. It also means to grtimble. It is an ex­ pression of disgust. An intimate ac­ quaintance with Yankee idiom takes- hold on the expression that is put forward at an unsavory report, "Well, I snoijc!" which simply means that the hearer is disgusted, and says lie grawls. or snarls. Another curious expression of that peculiar people is ••Isnum!"--simply a contraction ol "I'm struck dumb." This latter has n o c o n n e c t i o n w i t h t h e s u b j e c t i n hand. TO snore therefore means much more than to make discordant noises in sleep.--Davenport Demo­ crat-Gazette. W FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. ove* ONE HUNDRED DEAD III THE KREBS MINE. * rwvrrvrtv * r*+»•*:« • «* ran A ES.i Ai'iitf BStlBP (JQJJPJ" NOIS •• m *«•» uwn %j>r* NEWS. PJitTBulng Scene* Attending th* Beeor- ery ot tlfe Charred and Blackene4 BodlM --Miners Working Fiercely Baa eh, Their tombed Comrades. Wild Work ot the Blast. Additional particulars of the terrible mine disaster near McAlester, I. T., only too fully confirih the first reports Bent out. A careful estimate by As­ sistant Manager Krebs places the dead at 130 and the injured at 200. Of these at least 100 will die, as they are burned BO that the flesh is dropping from their bones.; At 5 o'clock in the afternoon there were, as near as can be learned, about 400 men in the mine, says the latest re- | port. They were the day shift and were , just preparing to ascend when the ex­ plosion took place. Six men who had | already been hoisted in the cage had { just stepped on the platform at the sido j of the shaft. The cage w^s blown j through the roof of the tower and fifty i feet into the air. Flames shot up* tho j shaft and above the ground fully 100 feet, which wero followed by a terrific report which was heard for miles around and shook all the neighboring country BO violently that people in the surround­ ing mining towns four and nve miles distant thought an earthquake was shaking the ground. -s ' The men already above ground were prostrated by the forco of the explosion, but did not receive serious injuries. The scenes about the mouth of the shaft im­ mediately following were fearful in the extreme. Weeping women flocked to the scene from the village at the sound of tho explosion, many of them hyster­ ical to the point of insanity. Tho air- shaft, the only way of escape for the entombed miners, was the point where the relatives of the miners congregated. Many of the miners were able to make their way out of the tomb, and they Wero welcomed at the surface by their waiting friends. The injured were quickly taken to places of shelter and were tenderly cared for. One man with a broken leg climbed all the distance of 400 feet through the air-shaft, apd fell unconscious as he reached the surface. Others who were terribly burned labored painfully up the ladder, strips of flesh falling from their hands and arms as they grasped the ladder's rounds. The news of the disaster spread quick­ ly through the villages surrounding Krebs. Every physician at onco volun­ teered his services and hastened to Krebs ready to do his duty of mercy. Hundreds of miners from the Braidwood and McAlester fields hurried to the scene to do what they could in assisting in the rescue of the entombed men and the recovery of the dead. The work of rescue,*which was begun at once, was hazardous, but the hope that some of the unfortunate men might be rescued alive spurred the rescuers on to many deeds of bravery and possibly self-sacrifice. The explosion had en­ tirely changed tho topography of the mine. Many tunnels were closed en­ tirely, and big loose bowlders were bal­ anced perilously on shelves of rock ad­ joining the air-shaft and tho main shaft, which a breath would almost hurl down upon the rescuers. Notwithstanding these dangers, the rescuers kept bravely on at their work. The rescuers worked at both tho air and the main shafts, and bodies were rescued by both routes. The mines have long beon regarded as dangerous, as there are few escapes and the ground, Is very gassy. The exact cause of tho fearful catastrophe is not known as yet, but it is believed by thoso who escaped to haVb been caused by a premature explosion, which took placo before the usual safety precautions could be taken. When the shock occurred many of the men were on their way to the outlet to go home. Tljpse who were in tho neighborhood of tho main shaft were hurled heavenward through the opening, going sixty feet above the sur­ face of the earth. Eye witnesses to the external appearance of the explosion de­ scribe it as one of the most frightful ex­ hibitions imaginable. It was nearly dark, suddenly there was a puff of smoke i through the tower; there then came a roar and the superstructure all gave away and after it came the belching flames blackened in spots with human bodies. Then fire spouted for an hour then died away, leaving the iron windlass and steel hoisting apparatus intact. In half an hour the cage was lowered, and at one of the levels a young man got on, nearer dead than alive. He tried to bring his father writh him, but the sire pushed his son on tho platform with the little strength that he had left, and as the iron car shot upward the old man fell back and expired. During the night the cage was run to the lower levels, but no attempt could then be made to explore the mine. At every landing clead and dying are taken out. Many bodies are so burned that they are not recognizable by any one. The search by tho rescuing party still continues. There is one disheartening fact connected with the soarch up to the f»resent time, and that is tiiat not one ive miner has been found. \ All the bod­ ies so far recovered have b<^n found to be burned, charred, and maimed in al­ most every case beyond recognition. In fully half the eases identification has been possible only from cither the clothes or the contents of the pockets. In some cases limbs had been severod from the bodies by the force of the ex­ plosion, and in others the bodies had been burned to a crisp and charred al­ most beyond resemblance to human form. There are two encouraging facts which urge the rescuers on to tho work. No fire followed the explosion, at least there have been no signs of any, and there are known to be live men entomb­ ed in the tunnel behind fallen bowlders. The rescuers can hear faint knockings and far-off shoutings. They are digging in the direction whence the sounds com« and hope yet to rescue some of the men alive. % One hundred of the wounded are be­ ing cared for in the improvised hospital in the blacksmith shop. Special trains from Kansas and TeSbs have brought large bodies of nurses and surgeons sent here by order of the General Manager of the mines. Maj. R. M. McDowell, of St. Louis, who is now on his way here. Nearly all of tho wounded will die. The Osage Mining Company was or­ ganized in 1868 by Congressman li. L. Stephens of New York, who built tho Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. Col. Stephens' agents, whilo canvassing the prospects of tho proposed road through the Indian Territory, saw the possibilities of the oal-producing re­ gion, and when the road was put into operation imflttense shipments were at once made from McAlester and S00 or 400 men were employed in the various mined. 1 . A Chicago Horror--A Street Car WiuifcjM --Jacksonville Mao Killed la ; 8s A Bad Womaa from Csbw-lUs M QoUwjr. VM •"*11 Aphorisms. GEXEROSITT is the flower of justice.-- Hawthorne. FAT,sorrow is better than lean sorrow. --English Proverb. A CONSTANT friend is a thing rare and hard to find.--Plutareh. AM. things aro artificial, for nature is the art of God. --Sir T. lirowne. EVKKYTHIXG good lu a man TB rives bast when properly recognized.--J. O. Holland * From Tar and Near. JOHN QTJINN, a Belleville coal got drunk and froze to death. OBKOCK'S trunk, factory at Quiney, burned. Loss, $13,000; insured. WHEN Robert Andrews, of Marfsiii* dropped dead three weeks ago, his aged widow said she would join him within • month. She has just died, aged 92. AT Jacksonville, the Illinois College opened the winter term. Wild ch^e** followed President Tanner's announce­ ment that a citizen of Jacksonville had $2,500 for a new gymnasium building. ' WORD has just been received in Jack­ sonville that John F. Haekman had been foully murdered near Argenta, Ark. Mr. Haekman went down there a few weeks since on business. Two men are under arrest on suspicion. FROM present indications the express messengers running south from Cairo on the, Illinois Central who went cut oil s strike because Cordell, Chairman of thoiz Grievance Committee, was discharged will be likely to stay out. . MINNIE RIDDLE, of Cairo, who killed G. W. Higgins, of Olmsted, in a drunken carousal, was married the other day. She had beeu out on bail, and wanted to take a wedding trip. Aftef she had started, her bondsmen withdrew, and officers were telegraphed to intercept the woman. When they attempted to arreet her, she jumped from the train and WM nearly killed. »• FOB some time past, Charles Deere, the millionaire owner of the John Deere Plow Company, of Moline, has been negotiating for an interest in the Amer­ ican soda works of Aurora, and a deal has finally been consummated by whieb Mr; Deere acquires a large interest Jn the concern. It is also rumored that Mr. Deere is negotiating for the par- chase of other factory property in Au­ rora. SEVEN passengers in a Chicago street ear were injured by the collision of the car with a Chicago and Alton freight- train. The ear was nearly filled with passengers, and was nearly across the track when the engine of the freight- train struck the rear platform. The ear was thrown several feet, falling on Its side, while the broken glass fell in a shower over the terrified passengers, who were piled up in a heap in the cen­ ter of the car. The conductor and driver were not hurt, and after extin­ guishing the fire in the car stove helped the passengers out through the windows of the car. The women were in almost fainting condition and several had to be carried to their homes. No one was dan­ gerously hurt. KATIE SMITH, of Chicago, whose father is under arrest for burning her hands and arms on a red-hot stove until ampu­ tation between elbows and shoulders was necessary, is now in charge of the Children's Home Society. Her- father has renounced all claim. She is to be given a good education, and public aid is asked to provide a fund for her. WM. MORRIS is a coal miner living at the Kingston Mines, aeross the river from Pekin, on the Peoria side. His daughter and her husband, a man named Murphy, lived in a cottage near by. Murphy was good-natured and kindly enougS when pot under the influence of intoxicants, but when drunk w&s a dan­ gerous brute. He has of late taken to drinking heavily, and has repeatedly beaten his wife. The other day he had been drinking, and about midnight he went home, knocked his wife down and bumped her head upon the floor. When the woman found an opportunity she ran into her father's cottage and begged for protection. The father, being old and rather feeble, was no match for the Bra­ in-law in a hand-to-hand encounter, so he seized a shVgun, and as he did BO Murphy sprang in and with an oath strode toward the trembling woman. "Stand back!" shouted the resolute old father. "D-- you, I'll give you some, too," said Murphy, but as he turned toward Morris the old man shot him squarely through the body, killing him instantly. THE firm of Keener <Jk Pike, of Mere- dosia, failed for about $130,000. The firm has been doing an extensive busi­ ness in handling grain and transporta­ tion on the Illinois River. It owned the steamers Calhoun and John L. Pike, and was one of the oldest houses in the etounty. It was established many years ago by Thomas <fe Fritz Keener, who carried on an immense business at Na­ ples and Meredosia. Thomas subse­ quently died, and Fritz went to Denver, where he has amassed a large fortune, * , J estimated at $1,500,00(1. xue business - at Meredosia was turned over to Charles C. Keener, the son of Fritz, and John L. Pike. The firm had branch houses at .*1 Naples, Perry Springs, Bay, Chambers- ; -J burg, and Versailles, and at each of r <s| these places numerous creditors now ^ mourn the failure in various amounts, from a few dollars to thousands. As the . i/1 available assets foot up only about ^ $26,000, tho failure is a very bad one. The excessive extravagance of the mem- »~"*M bers of the firm would have brought failure long ago had it not been for the plethoric purse uud accommodating spirit of young Keener's father, the Denver v m i l l i o n a i r e . I t i s s a i d t h a t h e h a s b e e n . J draiwn on for some time at the rate of $10,000 yearly. Young Keener had, among other things, a private pleasure yacht costing $10,01)0, which was fur­ nished in luxurious style. During the last Presidential campaign the steamer Calhoun was wagered on the result and lost, bnt again\ Father Keener came to the rescue and recovered it. Some of the larger creditors are secured to a cer­ tain extent, but many poor people are carried down with the wreck. A great many of the lesser creditors, strange to say, are women. The items in the as­ sets statement total about $'26,000. AFTER nineteen years of separation, Mrs. A. J. HarcvUirt of Pierre, S. !>., and Mrs. A. C. Parker of Quiney, sis­ ters, were united. Nineteen years ago their father, A. Morrill, died in hla Michigan home. Mu*h litigation fol­ lowed his death, owing to several thou­ sand dollars' worth of bonds. His chil­ dren quarreled, and bitter feelings re­ sulted. )I»; Parker was not apprised of her father's death until three months after. This embittered her the more. Not long ago Mrs. Harcourt resolved upon restoring good-will in the family, and advertisjMî widely for her sister, aikd found her Mi Quiney. NEAR Bekcwlle a young Frenchman, Alphonse Sprintz, is a victim of unre­ quited love. He waa adjudged insane in the County Court, and it was shown that he had bee.i jilted by the young lady in whom his affections were centered eighteen months ago. He has iu>t haen rational since. . « THE electric railway enterprise at Belleville was revived. A new company, having no connection with tho Atterbury concern* which'refuse*.! to accept a fran­ chise on the terms offered by the* city Council, has made a proposition to Mayor Weterto operate an electric rail­ way according to the OowaeH'a meat*. * • - . ' ' ' ' • >'>' . -->1,4