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Mgflaittdfalct SLYKE, Editor ani NMishtr. njjNOia CASFC GIOAKDEAU, Ma, Is to have irate rfrorks. Apparently the old iipyi all ©v <• it now and then. "I BAY what I think!" is the proud Boast! of many people. Bat the com­ mendable featuce of their frankness s otjea lost because of the miserable jeiior of their thouguts. TEN BATTDOLFH CHURCHILL says the newspapers did nothing but bout Jiim while he was in South ca. Randy, you should congratu- yourself tbat the truth was not 7o DO what we ought Is higher, di­ nner and more creative than to write ;he grandest poem, paint the most jeautiful picture, build the most worshipful temple, or dream out the £opst enekati fcing melodious composi­ t i o n . ; • ; • ; ' • • ' . • PEOPLE don't die because the Lord slants their presence in Heaven, and calls them home, but because they ilon't take care of themselves. If jfou will eat things that don't agree With you, you may die, but it won't be because the Lord wanted you. HABIT, if wisely and skilfully formed, becomes tfdly a second na­ ture, as the Common saying is; but unskilfully and unmpfhodically di­ rected, it will be, asj^ft were, the ape >f Nature, which imitates nothing to uhe life, but only clumsily and awk­ wardly. IN politeness, as in maay other whings connected with the formation if character, people In general begin jutside, when they should begin in- ilde; instead of beginning with the heart, and trusting that to form the manners, they begin with the man­ ners, and trust the heartto chance influences. THERE are cases in which lynch la'w atjords an almost perfect counter­ feit ol justice. A Kentucky father unlimbcred the family musket the other day, hunted up the man who had wronged his daughter, demanded such reparation as could be given by carriage, was laughed at - and with one broadside created' the necessity of a new-made grave. . , '* ' ' A man at Prescott, Ari., had the asthma for six years, during which time he was never able to sleep at night except in a sitting posture. He took the grip a few weeks ago and wheh he recovered from it his asthma was g<Jne. Asthmatic sflfferers here- abouo need not make any strenuous efforts to catch the grip, however. It will find them. OF no use are the men who study to do exactly as was done before, who can never understand that to-day is a new day. We want men of original perceptions and original action, who can open their eyes . wider than to a nationaljjty-^namely-- to consid- itlons of benefit to the human race act in the ihtcrcsts of civiliza­ tion; men of elastic, men of moral, mind, who can live in the moment and take a step forward. , THE audience would always enjoy the singing of a male quartet the Tjetter if the men were not in such distress about holding their hands. A woman will carry a bouquet, twirl a fan, or flirt\with a handkerchief, but the men mu)st either put their "hands in their pockets, or have the disposal of them on their minds to such an extent that they forget their parts. A man's hands are never pretty, and when he gets up to sing they are the biggest part of him. WHERE is a man safe in Chicago? Six persons were severely injured in a collision at the Northwestern yards. A cross-town Thirty-tlsrt street car was smashed into by a Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago train, and all the occupants of the car were hurt, some fatally. James Couch, aged owner of the Tremont House property, slipped from a horse "bar which he was attempting to board and was crushed beneath the heavy wheels of a passing truck wagon. If a man stays in tine house he is pois­ oned by sewage water from the in­ shore crib. If he goes out and scrapes locomotives, street cars and other vehicles he is slugged by foot- • pads. That city ought to be satisfac­ tory to the wildest anarchist. of demoralization, the bucket shops. The plaintive suggestion that in there is carried on that gambling in future; which is a fruitful source of agrl cultural depression should draw sym pat hetic tears from every eye in an] way connected with a heart to fee for the woes of the farmer--and o: the members of the Board of Trade th-nV"" hrsw the heart O! the grain dealer on the Board must bleed for the victiniS of bucket-shop gambling, one realizes what suffering and woe really are. If Congress does nothing else in legislating about options and futures--whatever those wicked words may mean--it ahould abolish the bucket shop so that the grain dealers of the Chicago Board, including "Old Hutch," may no longer have their sensibilities shocked by the woes of the farmer. A GLANCE through the columns of the daily papers recently was enough to persuade almost anybody that there is a screw loose in our modern society. The accounts of abductions, kidnappings, mail robberies, crank apparitions, burglaries of the most reckless kind, and demands by beg­ gars which were little "better than highway robbery, all show that we have among us a very large class de­ termined to get something for noth­ ing; Every individual in the class has the craze. He wants money sud­ denly, at ^ne fell swoop; he is not willing to toll for it The honest work which disciplines the toiler and finally profits him, while it also bene­ fits the community, is rejected as too slow by this class. It is out of fash­ ion. Now this is a doctrine which will lead to the commission of almost any crime. It is the invention of the devil, and he is a "slick" inventor. It is a steadily demoralizing force, which will sink a man to the level where he will steal a millionaire's body or kid­ nap a baby in the lust for what he calls "big money." This is false ^alarm; the land is filled with ghouls and vampires and cracksmen and po­ tential assassins, made by this yearn­ ing for sudden gain. Who can fur­ nish a remedy for this maddening thirst? • • . -- THE Coroner's inquiry into the fatal fire in Hotel Boyal brought out facts that are not exclusively peculiar to New York. The engineer showed that he was not intoxicated and that he could not be held responsible for the boilers or fires of the house. Hav­ ing other duties in addition to those of engineer, he was frequently absent from the engine-room. Hotel pio- prietors who cannot afford to leave an engineer in charge of the fire and ma­ chinery of a house in which they in­ vite guests to intrust their lives and property have* not capital enough honestly to carry on the business they undertake and they should be held responsible for consequences of get­ ting money on false pretenses. The public must assume that hotel boilers and engines arc intrusted to com­ petent persons and are constantly watched It is clear that the Hotel Royal did not afford to its inmates this protection. The engineer is of opinion that the' fire was caused by iirnition of gas leaking at the ele­ vator. Elastic gas tubes which no amount of attention could prevent from leaking were one of the crude devices for lighting elevator cabs. Their danger was so completely dem­ onstrated that from every rightly constructued lifting machine they have been long rejected. Incandes­ cent lighting alone is. safe. That enough gas j?as allowed to leak in the elevator shaft to cause this frightful catastrophe Is a sufficient admission of the responsibility of the manage­ ment of the hotel for the disaster. If further facts corroborate this crim­ inal indictment should follow. This is required, not only in justice as to the guilty themselves, but in warning to other hotel managers who are tak­ ing light risks with human life in like indifference to consequences. QUICK ROADS TO EUIN. * -- WILL THE FARMERS SUPPORT THE FREE WOOL PARTY? BtptbllMa tl4* Kltlag Ktffwfcm- Clrcalaltoa Hi Boat MM--Tke* DMM- - cratle DIltmaa^Fattarr la CkMpkr- . . Tite C»M of aa lrllknaa--Brief foil "'tle*l MQIM. the tartoit WIM> has • redaction < yean? Th the f< on wool In e decrease in Mills' Poltey a Koad te Rata. A few days ago the St. Louis Republic published a long interview with Mills, of Texas, and among the many strange things he said was this. A reduction of the tariff to 23 per cent upon a revenue basis would increase our imports 1800.000,000, and that amount of exports would have to eo out to pay for the imports. Eighty per cent of these ex­ perts are agricultural products, or which cotton is the largest; and we have pro­ duced of that ibis year 8,00^000,000 pounds. Roswell G. Horr, of Michigan, makes answer to this paragraph in the New York Weekly Tribuue as follows: That, short extract contains the gist of the free trade theory, it is fust that state­ ment, in one shape and another, which opr free trade friends have been repeating tor the last fifty years. Let us examine the subject a moment. In the outset, the statement ii a frank, square admission that the tree traders sees to increase the imports of manufactured gosds into this eotir.u'V to the euoranui;- ex­ tent of $300,000,000 a year. That increase must of necessity be composed almost wholly of gOeds wiiich are now matte or produced inr4this country under the in­ fluence of protection. Mr. Mills will not claim that there would be any natural increase m the imports of tea. coffee, su­ gar or hides, or of any other article now on th®free list. Neitner would he claim that there would be any increase in the importation of luxuries, on which our Srotective system levies purely revenue uties, and which are not com­ peting with Amer;can products, lie will not claim that there would follow a great influx of diamonds, costly champagnes, or high-pticed JJOIKIS, which we do not praBucc in tins country. The rich would continue co buy about the same quantity of those Roods without regard to the duty. Hence, of necessity he desires to have the foreign manufacturers enter our markets and sell ja00,0u0,00j worth moro of goods, in place of those which are now made and sold by our American pimiuccis. If lie docs Eiit nicsn cs&ct!y that, then does he mean anothing ? It is to me simply astounding that any man, with a grain of common sense, can clattff that such a procedure would benefit this country. That siep would at once drive out of employment the men now en­ gaged in this country in producing $300,- 000,000 worth of goods, or at least compel them to seek other kinds of work. "Of course," would be Mr. Mills' reply, •'let them go to firming."' But there is no tanners in this country. There are plenty of men producing farm products to­ day, What we do need is really more men making manufactured goods, so as to in­ crease the home market for the products of the farms. A good home market always means prosperous farming. "But, ' says Mr. Mills "our importation Of §300,000.000 more of foreign goods means that the same increased amount of our products would have to go out to pay for that increase of imports, and that would mean a large increase in the quantity of our farm product^' which those nations would buy, and sxiso a large increase in the price we would receive for such products." Mr. Mills knows, or ought to know, that there is no foundation in fact for such a statement. Foreign nations never have graduated, and never will graduate, their purchases of our products ny the amount we purchase from them. In their pur­ chases of our farm products, they wiilbe governed entirely by their own needs Sfnd never in any way b been benefited by the tariff the Mat thirty the flocks in. foregoing states was, from 1875 to 1891: , \ 187K. 189L Deerttafc New Eds. States... 1,V<0.000 U0&M0 (Si,000 MldOle 8Uta«I._._ a.95».J<» 2, *<0.900 1,678.300 Waatora 16,101. JW ltmai 1,180.67* Being an Absolute decrease of 3,093,- 973 sheep. D«-?r»g -aanie poriod tts imported wool 'irom foreign countries to the amount of $18(^000,000, or an annual amount of nearly $12,000,000 sent out of the United States for raw wool alone. Now, with tbe price declining grad­ ually from 55 cent* per pound in !S75,to 33 cents in 1890, we find that in live years, 1885 to 1891, the total decrease in the number of sheef* in the Ignited States to be over 9,000.000, and during this Mime five year® there was in- ported into tiki* country more than 2,000,000 head, paying a duty of 30 rente each. The backward state of sheep husband­ ry is wholly chargeable to tariff tinker­ ing. What is the remedy? Suppose the farmers of the United bta.es shouid undertake tp raise all the sheep we need tor wobt ^nd mutton. What would be' required? The United States Wool Growers' Association estimate that it would reqnire 60,000,000 more sheep in this country. Now to feed and care for this nttmbeV, basing our estimate on what is requirsM for the 42,000,000 we now Trnnlrl fftl-n 40.000.000 acres oi land and wouic give employment to some 100,000 hands in caring for the sheep and in the manufacturing of the woelen goods we now import, which in 1888 were invoiced at the custom-Moueae at $C£>,000 000 this s ins an nnde half. With this Kinley bill placed head on sheep instead o old law. This will cut off half a million a year and give some encouragement to sheep raising. Let the wool tariff of 1883 be restored and the hopeful thiags indicated in the foregoing will be con­ summated. . faltarf Is Clmapar. The Baltimore Jourval of Commerce for last month says the dealers ^rho im­ ported English and other wares large­ ly, in expectation of an advance in value on account of some changes in the tariff, have been dieapuvlute-u, for ths prices have not gone up, and the im­ porters are oat of p ket. The Journal then sayS: One of the nnomaMes connected with the manufacture of pottery iu tho United States is fount in tne fact that the increase of duty on the article has resulted m an Improvement of quality and a reduction of cost of from cne-thlrd to one-half to the consumer, thus confirming the views of those who held that "the tariff is not a tux," and showing by the marvelous ad­ vance in quality that the tariff is not a "premium on mediocrity." Our manufacturers of pottery find that the workman gets the entire amount of the duty levied, and that naught but the most careful management of their affairs can make it fairly remunerative. At least none of our Baltimore potters are likely in the present decade to reach that point financially which would class those spok­ en of as "robber barons." The cost of pottery, from beginning to end. is nearly 90 per cent labor; this makes its manufacture of great value to any community, as it distributes A largo amennt of money in the form of wages to a class who spend most of it tn the city and it remains in circulation. The Democratic i>lleunu»« He must have a poor nose for political news who does not discover a great change in tbe expectations and feelings of both parties during the last few months. Last October Democrats were confident and boastful. There was not much pretense about it; they counted with absolute certainty upon victory in Massachusetts and Ohio, as in New York and several Western states, and were confident about Pennsvivania. It is the truth that the Republicans were at that time inuce disheartened. They hoped that McKinley would pull through, but hardly dared to trust their own hone. To them the Alliance was a thing unknown and greatly feared in many Western states, while there was even some apprehension about Penn­ sylvania. In short, the great defeat of 18i>0 still controlled the feelings and ex­ pectations of both parties. But to-day Republicans are hopeful, and even jubilant, while all intelligent Democrats .realize that the coming struggle is to be desperate and doubtful, ana each of their two warring factions solemnly de­ clares and fully believes that certain de­ feat will attend the policy of the other. Democratic journals do not like to admit that their party^is in an ugly di­ lemma. They prefer to regard the war of factions as merely a personal strife for the leadership and the spoils. But there is something deeper. If it were only a question what policy the Demo­ cratic party woull pretend to adopt, and then vote and work for, caring at bottom only for the spoils, one might expect the strife to end as usual, in the adoption of » few tricky phrases, and in a united and desperate effort at the polls for any candidate. But this time a victory will have to mean something or none will be won. Against an eva­ sive and dodging Democracy the Repub­ licans are sure to win. The reason is that two important classes of voters have a fixed purpose that the next election shall mean some­ thing for their ideas and purposes, or nothing for Democracy. The men who want more money and the scaling of debts have with them the silver-mining interest, the vague but yet potent no­ tion that "the gold bugs of Wall Street" have been fleecing the country, and the Alliance outbreak at the South. About many things they disagree, or are willing to wait. But at the other end tbere is a body of voters who mean a change of tariff, have gone with the Democratic party for years, though despising it, for 'that reason only, and who are equally re­ solved that the next four years shall mean a triumph for them or nothing for the Democratic party. Its incompe­ tence they have found hard to endure its bad faith and trickerv toward those who trust it have made them angry often; its infamous election frauds seem to them utterly intolerable, unless they are to bring a victory for "tariff re­ form." To these men the nomination of anybody except Mr. Cleveland will mean a betrayal and an insult, and fail­ ure to put the taritl issue foremost will send them out of the Democratic camp. Democracy would ride both horBes, and straddle and juggle as usual, if it could. But this time it cannot. The great body of zealous free traders or "tariff reformers" in Northern states, and especially. the Germans, are in­ tensely hostile to free coinage. The practical business men among them tnow that it would bring ruin. The blind, worshipers of British economic theories detest the silver fanaticism as much as they do protection. So it has come to this: The Democratic party must face defeat in New Ycrk, Connecti­ cut, Massachusetts, Ohio, and every Eastfrn state except perhaps New Jer­ sey, if it commits itself to iree coinage, or fails to put the tariff foremost. But it must face defeat through the West, and in some Southern states, unless it puts the money question foremost, shelves Mr. Cleveland, and makes a genuine fittut fr««i silver coinage. That is the real nature of the dilemma, and it is not strange that Democrats are discouraged.--New York Tribune. AG XrtahAaa Hot tri Barmaaj with Bla Party, The Hon. Timothy J. Campbell, Dem­ ocratic member of Congress from the Eighth District of New York, has intro­ duced a bill patting a duly of 10 per f r^pvA§Mii. ing ah undervaluation of at least one- idea in view the Mc- a duty of $1.50 per )f 30 cents, the HOFFMAN'S Catholic Directory places the Catholic population of the United States at 8,647,221. This is 2,250,04o more than that given in the United States census of 1890, but but this is accounted for on the theory that the census did not enumerate in church schedules those under 9 years of age who had been baptized. The Catholics estimate that these children m&ke 15 per cent, of their church membership and claim that they should be counted. The church has 9,062 priests, 8,012 churches, 3,552 stations, 1,683 chapels, 223 orphan asylums with 25,518, inmates, 54 theological seminaries, 138 colleges. 655 academies, and 3,406 parochial schools with 'TOO, 753 pupils. These ore figures that will illustrate the strength of the Catholic Church .in this country. • -•/ ;3DHERB is'sofpethii^F very pathetic the denunciation Jay the Chicago instruments Bow lnveatura Are S till led. If an inventor has made a merito­ rious discovery, he will 11 nd plenty of pretending capitalists, insurance agents, curbstone brokers, etc., who will offer to organize a million dollar syndicate, and invariably ask the poor inventor for only one-third or one-half interest in the corporation for their pretended trouble, etc. If you signify your consent, says an ex­ change, they will incorporate under some lenient State law, hold a meet­ ing, elect their officers. You, as a matter of form, transfer your right, title and interest to this newborn company, you are promised to receive a certain interest in stock only. Now this company stock (not yours) is floated on the public at a stated price, your slick insurance agent or curb­ stone broker gets his interest into cash or trades it to a pal and you hold the bag. • Popularity of the Banana. It is not without good reason that the banana has become so popular in grecent years. F<?r it is said to posesss *in itself all the essentials to the sus­ tenance of life for both man and beast. It belongs to the lily, family, and is a developed tropical lily, from which by ages of cultivation and seeds have been eliminated and the fruit for which it was cultivated greatly expanded. In relation to the bear­ ing qualitie# of this fruit, Humboldt, who early saw the wonders of the plants said that tbe ground that would grow ninety-nine pounds of po­ tatoes would grow thirty-three pounds of wheat, but that the same ground would grow 4,000 pounds of bananas, consequently to that of wheat is 133 to 1 and to that of potatoes 44 to 1. . ANOTHER great discovery of dia­ monds in Kentucky. A man got five will always buy the goods they need where they can the cheapest. They will never take a pound ot meat or a bushel oi grain moro from the U»iled States than tliey need, let us buy from them all we may; and thev will not buy even what they need from the United States if they can do better elsewhere. The statistics oi the trade of the world prove my statement to be true and leave no chance for contro­ versy upon the question. The mistake which Mr. Mills and his en­ tire school of political economists take is this: They assume that if America should buy 8800,000,000 more manufactured goods than at present they must be paid for, necessarily, by American farm products or American manufactured goods. Such is not the case. They must be paid lor no doubt, but if the balance of trade is against us they mast be paid fur in hard cash or securities. Tho plan of Mr. Mills would simply compel this nation to send its gold and silver cut of the country to meet the adverse balance of trade, and thus the United Stales woul 1 lie constantly exhaust­ ing its mines of precious metals for the benefit of the Old World, The present plan Keeps tne balance of trade in favor of the United States, and if we maintain our present wise system, a few years from now we will have in this country more ready hard cash than will be owned by any two nations on the face of the globe. | Why do these freo trade theorists always Ignore the fact that a debt between natlpns can be paid in money and securities as well as between individuals ? A farmer Mho sells each year more dollars' worth of« stuff from his farm than he is compelled tf/ pay out of his living expenses, who is getting each year a balance in cash, is on the road to a competency. Nations are governed by preciselv the s^me conditions. A nation which is each year producing and selling more than it buys, and so is compelling balances to be paid to it in cash, is the na£ lion which is doing well. On the other hand, any nation which is constantly com­ pelled to send its precious metals abroad to meet its debts is most surely running be­ hind. The Mills plan would simply impoverish this nation and nun a large number of in­ dustries which are now furnishing labor tor its citizens, and which add much to the j-vuerai prosperity of si! our people. Moaay Circulation and Boainaaa. Furthermore the same lesson which we are being taught now, that enter­ prise and prosperity are not the accom­ paniment of mere* currency enlarge­ ment, is a very old principle acknowl­ edged the worid over and one which all our financial history has been illustrat­ ing. The United {States on the 1st of January, 1892, ham in active circulation 11,588,781,729 of currency; the govern­ ment estimates tbe population on tbat day at 64,080,000; consequently the per capita currency in circulation January 1, 185)2, was f24.56. On the 1st of Janu­ ary, 1879, when we resumed specie pay­ ments, the circulation in tbe hands of the people was only 1816,266,722, and only $942,452,459 on January 1, 1890; the census gave the population in 188) at 50,155,783; consequently the per capita circulation Jannary 1, 1S79, was not far Irom |16.27, and on January 1, 1890, was only $18.79. To most of our readers these figures are familiar, and yet they .cannot lte repeated too often, for the 'truth thoy unfold is one which appears \still to need repeating, that the period of greatest prosperity this country ever enjoyed was not accompanied with a large per capita circulation. If anyone needs to be reminded of the degree of prosperity at that time enjoyed, he has only to look at the little table of failures we published last week in our article on that subject. The proportion of failures to the number in business was only 1 in every 158 in 1880, 1 in everv 140 in 18S1, and 1 in every 122 in 1882. We have seen nothing of that kind since the last named year; the per capita currency hag been growing every year, and ye't the best record that table gives after 1883 is 1 failure in every 103 in 1887, and 1 failure in every 102 in 1890.--Financial Chronicle. Will Farmsr* Support a Tr-- Wool Party? The farmers of the Western States,in­ cluding Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsyl­ vania, and all New England, can bear testimony to the effect ot' reducing the tariff on wool. Some of the finest flocks ever known in the history of American wool-growing have entirely disapjJear- ed, and the lands which were thus de­ voted to the production of sheep are W n • ^.. . • t. - Wf0' Good Hope, whleb are iajMiMpibito this coaibt tluettgfc foreign porta. The Eoonomiat r*iuJk«:V bill ii in the interest oi AacRcan trade and shipping, Mid directly opposed to the interests of London merchants and jffprehoasMnen in general and British trade and shipping in particular. "We congratulate Mr. Campbell aad his constituents on the fact that the ed­ itors of the New York Times and Even­ ing Post will not sit up late nights to ad­ vocate his re-election." i The RcpaUle»ii Tide KtBln* Everywhere. Ex-Senator Warner Miller, of New York, one. of the closest political ob­ servers In the country, speaks in a very hopeful vein about the prospect for Re­ publican success. He says: New York State can be carried hy the Republicans sit the November elections. There has beea a tremendous reaction all over the state against the Democratic par­ ty as nominated and ordered about by Da­ vid B. llill. The exposures of Democratic purposes at Ajbjiny, taken In connection with tho methods by which they obtained control of the upper branch of the legisla­ ture, have disgusted large numbers of Democrats, who wiil follow Hill to the polls if necessary to defeat him. The best feature, however, of the Demo^natic domi­ nation and legislation has been to arouse Republicans to a pitch where they wiil do their utmost to car­ ry the state, and will be able to effect perfect unification for that purpose, and to make an attack on the Democrats at GIVEN OVER TO MOBS. ILLINOIS INDIAN APOLI8 RULED If* A BAND OP STRIKERS. Polleeincii Tn»bie to Restrain tho Ken-- Can Prevented from Running--OrlTen sad Conductor* Brutally MMqr Officers Injured. tho present time that Hill has Rifled Clove- tic p?i but Cleveland's fridhas, by their anti-early land as a Democratic presidential nominee, convention movement, have also killed Hill. , ^ He may secure the nomination, but he cer- street, the mam tnoroughiare, ti tain!? will not sccurc the dectioa. By the j h*4 increased in numbers to way, it is a most unfortunate spectacle for the state oXNcw York to be presided over by a governor whose only answer to the commntee of business men of the metropo­ lis, who visited him to secure his influence to increase the appropriation for New York's exhibit at the World's Fair was to : "Rats!" It is ignominious that the state should be ruled by exclaim the stau executive. such a chief Brief Political Notes. This ablest and most adroit newspaper oroan of what it is pleased to call "tariff reform" (The New York Times) is op­ posed to the abolition of the McKinley tariff on cotton ties because such a change would inevitably transfer the industry to England. * * * That is exactly what Mr. springer expects and intenub, dear Times, aud you can't be so innocently ignorant as not to know it, Whv, it isn't a week since Mr. Mills, who is much nearer to our ideas of a "tariffVe former" than poor Springer, dear Times--it isn't a week since Mr. Mills admitted that his idea of a tariff on wool was one which would transfer to Europe the manufacture of $300,000.- 000 worth of woolens now made each year in this country.--Narmch Bulletin. British America, Mexico, Central America and British Honduras and the United States of Columbia--these are our nearest neighbors on this continent and our natural exports markets. The free trade demagogues will tell the Southern cotton planters this year that the McKinley law is robbing them of the export market. And yet our ex­ ports of the cotton goods to these neigh­ bors rose from $1,621,567 in eleven months ot 1800 to •2,150,084 in eleven months of 1891. The average price of English tin plate plus the American duty, for the ten years from 1881 to 1890 inclusive, accord­ ing to the Birmingham authority, "Ry- land's Iron Trade Circular;" was $5.64 ented billiards? Nobody lots of people have their per box. The price in 1891, with the new duty added, according to the same authority, was $f».42 per box. That doesn't look as though the tin plate tariff were a tax. does it? What do you think of a man who would kick against an increase in duty which didn't hurt him any more than less than nothing, and which gives employment to many ? ~ ORIGIN OF BILLIARDS. Shakespeare A (aorta that Cleopatra Played, but He Waa Probably Mlitjiken. In speaking of the recent billiard match between Jacob 8chaefer, cham­ pion, and George F. Slosson, of New York City, the Illustrated American says: "Who inve] knows, but theories. Some writers attribute its origin to the Chinese; others will tell you that the Crusaders discovered thefgame in the East and introduced it into Christian Europe; then France claims that a certain Frepch artist: named Henrique de Vigne, who lived*in Paris in the days of Charles IX., invented the game;" while England, Spain and Italy also lay claim to having been the birthplace of the man who first discov­ ered the beauties of the board of green cloth. The probabilities are that no one invented the game. Like Topsy, it 'growed' into its present shape. How­ ever, it would appear that, if any coun­ try has a right to claim the honor of its invention, J ranee has tufi strongest, for1 itoost of the terms used in the game, as well as the word billiards itself, are of French origin. "The late William Shakespeare had a weakness for anachronisms, so that the fact that he makes Cleopatra propose a game of billiards is no proof that Her Majesty of Egypt ever indulged in the game. It is rather difficult to imagine the fine beauty chalking her cue; al­ most as difficult to imagine Marc An­ tony acting as a marker/' An .Unfortunate Invitation. Some people mean well enough, bat they don't know exactly how to ex­ press themselves. A good motherly woman, who moved from the scene of her childhood days to Virginia, three years ago, was revisiting her old home last week. "How do you like living in the couth ?" she was asked. "Oh, very much, if it were not that I miss my Northern friends. Why don't you ever come and see us ?" Her friend replied that she had been very busy, but that she really would make an effort to do so before long. Tbe kind face of the Virginian hy adop­ tion brightened up, and she cried: "Well, I really wish you would; I've often told my husband, we would be glad to see even a dog from home. Now you will come soon, won't yon ?" Fortunately the young lady who re­ ceived the invitation was not oversensi­ tive. Storms Shifting Their Paths. Great Britain has had a hard winter, and iB now suffering from another gale and snowstorm. There has been for the last two or three months ag appar­ ent shifting of storms from their old paths along our own coast to the open ocean, whence they reach England with more violence than usual. Such appar­ ent changes in th© trackways of storms are not always actual, but it would be interesting to have fresh observations mad© to determine whether there has been any shifting of ocean currents corresponding to this apparent change in the weather conditions of the two shores of th© Atlantic.--Philadelphia Ledger. • • . AAKON I^IXBAXX LCRIXQ is one of the "characters" of Boston. He keeps s book-store into which Emerson used to drop for an idea, John Lothrop Motley for a reference, Prseeott, the Eistprian, for an old chronicle, Lowell for • new book of poems and Holmes for his cur­ rent literature. - • •. RAZOBVJLLK i« the tudcttie natne of • tywn in Maine. ° # Ctilmtnation or the fttrlfco. The culmination of the street cat Strike was a disgraceful day in the his­ tory of Indianapolis. Mobs at several times had substantial possession of the streets. Men and women encouraged scenes and acts of violence, and a woman displayed amid the crowd a brick- red flag, flaunting it about her head, and then hastily concealing it in the drapery about her breast. The street car strike began a week before because of a re­ fusal by the president of the company to advance the wages of employes. Sev­ eral mornings attempts were made to start the cars, but the strikers inter- fared, and the canf were pushed back into the barns. Tho Mayor took the position that he would not afford police protection until he was assured that the company had men to properly run the cars. He received such assurances and the police appeared to aid the company. No attempt was made to run the electric cars. All efforts were concentrated on the horse cars. One hundred strikers met one car at the Grand Opera House. Here a. des­ perate encounter occurred with the police, and when It reached Washing ten street, the main thoroughfare, the mob 1.000. Slowly it made its way a few squares farther, where at least 6,000 peopie had gathered. Prominent among its num­ bers was a burly negro, who was fore­ most in trying to stop tho car. The officers laid hold of him to place him under arrest. With a maddening yell the crowd sprang upon the officers, and the negro was wrenched from tholr grasp. Police Superintendent Colbert headed^a detail lor his re­ capture. They waded into the crowd, mowing right and left with their clubs. Crash! and a big, heavy board, wielded by one of tho crowd, descended upon the Superintendent's head. Another crash, and Capt. Dawson was nearly feiied to the ground by a brick, wliicu struck him on the head, being thrown from an up-stairs window. Such ac­ tions as these precluded all possibility of further leniency. Superintendent Colbert pulled a revolver from each pocket and pointed their muzzles into the faces of the surging mass of people. Slowly the mob parted, and the negro was recaptured. No sooner was this accomplished than the crowd made a rush for the man who was attempting to drive the car. "Hang the scab!" "Over with the car!" "Knock out of him!" and similar expres­ sions filled the air. In an instant he was pulled over the dashboard, while several men belabored him over the head. The police charged, and again the bricks began to fly. One brick struck Capt. Dawson in the middle of the back, doubling him up with pain, while a striker's list lapded beside his nose. Another missile struck Patrol­ man Settle beside the head, cutting his tic.'met and clear through to tho skin. But Patrolman Smithy fared worst of all. A big stone struck jhim just under his helmet on the back of the head, ripping open the scalp and hair and laying bare the bone. After severe fighting the crowd was dispersed and quieted. Smith was carried away by an am­ bulance. Not over five minntos after the crowd had quieted down some one yelled "There goes one on Meridian street," and away went the crowd. There were two cars there guarded by a handful of police. The crowd swooped down upon them like birds of prey on their victims. It was of no use that the officers clubbed and pounded. The men's heads seemed made of iron. In a trice they had the mules unhitched, and with yells they pushed the cars into the gutter. A large crowd of men and boys were standing upon an improvised scaffolding of boards. Into this the car was pushed, and the structure came down with its load of humanity, and tho air was filled with cries of fear. Luckily no one was hurt beyond a few bruises. The other car was backed west on Maryland street until it stuck in the mud, and there It stood. Both had their windows smashed, and more than one striker and policeman will wear knots on their hoads for the next few days. / In another part of the city two women boarded a car, rushed to the driver, threw their arms around his neok, and then gave him a terrible beating. An officer rescued him, but the women got away. In one cast), the mules were un­ hitched, and then were stampeded, while the car was derailed. Many arrests were made, but bonds wore promptly furnished in all cases. Finally all at­ tempts to run the cars were abandoned. The Mayor stands firm by his latest decision, and will again afford all the protection to the company within his power. He said: "This is a very Sad business, and ail we have'to do is to unite for peace. There-iiMjot a word of truth in the statement thrit there was any pressure brought to bear, on me to order out the police as soon as Mr. Fren- zel had men enough to operate his cars. When the strikers' advisory committee called on me the other day I told them the same' thing. They asked me to say nothing about it, and I did not. This morning the time was ripe. I was in­ formed that plenty of men were in readi­ ness to start tho cars, and upon advice Irom the Board of Public Safety we de- dided to call out the police. My evei effort will bo to quell the riot, and am to be censured, let it not be done till peace is restored. My mind has never changed on what ought to he done, but it did not seem to be the proper thing until this morning." ss The Board of Public Safety decided to swear in '250 special officers and Mayor Sullivan issued a proclamation closing all saloons until the strike is over. ; A nlonnter Machine. What is believed to be the largest steel planer in this country was shipped from Plainlleld. N. J., to Pittsburg. The bed of the machine weighs forty-three tons, the tnb!e twenty-six tons and the cross rails twenty-two tons. The arch weighs four and one-half tons and driv­ ing gear four tons. Ex-Banker Harper's Wife Wins a (alt. At Cincinnati Mrs. E. W. Harper, wife of the ex-banker now in the Columbus penitentiary for his transactions with the Fidelity National Bank, won a suit upon a note for $20,000 given by Mrs. Baldwin. Mrs. Harper has been re­ ported to be in destitute eircuntttanoes. Fireman Fatally Injured. The drivlug-rod on the engine of a north-bound Kentucky Central passen­ ger train broke near Cynthiana, Ky., and, revolving, broke one side of the c$b. Fireman Price jumped from the train and was eo badiy injured that he eaa not live. , Two ChlldrenVfiarned to Heath. Two little colored girls were burned to death in a shanty adjoiniog the old jail at Marianna, Ark. The children were looked up in the house alone, while their mother was absent. IT doesn't take a bit of heroism to be efxtambler. very if I SOBER OR STARTtrlftd* FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED rnlfflfed HU Pledge at Veatchler Man Saadl tho Proper Treatment tor a X«et at fianly Tramps. From Far awl He J. H. STICHTMAX, of Greenvlew, suddenly of heart disease. T)ATTD GOBE, of Carllnville," an­ nounces himself a candidate for Dem­ ocratic nomination for Auditor of Publiq Accounts. AT Cairo, Ellen Grange was given ,, ^ j thirty-flve years in the penitentiary foe • " killing her worthless husband. They , had quarreled about another woman. * i "CHICAGO PAES ADDITION," an al- 1 leged new subdivision offered for aale> " . <: by C. E. Kern and L. M. Lord, of Chi-:. 'j cago, at from $200 to $400 per lot, turnip out to be located In an inaccee- sible swamp--a part of the Kankakee' ' marshes. - ^ THOMAS ADAMS, an employe of the Springfield rolling-mill, was drowned * while attempting to cross the Sangsooa , r'jl r River in a skiff. The river was K»gh„ t , p.* and the skiff, getting into an eddy, part-^' ly turned over. Adams became sxifredf- and leaped into the river. -J.&X GSOBGE GBESSHOOD, a well-k>-dn. VI­ and prominent farmer of Lawrenoe% ,£ County for years, a native of England, died very suddenly. He reached homes ^a -t and sat down in his chair. As^hi®- svla-- y lives thought Ko waa ualoart rtifi nfiA " , "'ii " arouse him until they became frightened ^v:; at his quietness. Then they found he ^ ; IfF; was dead. i E. W. EVAJJS, a prominent citizen of,. « Reutchier, was sandbagged and robbed.' , > | He was watching with two sick children,,- , p| S and late at night started to the well for I water. Two unknown men sprang up.^i» £" i him and knocked him senseless. They got $50 and a gold watch' from his per- v 0 * son. The watch was afterward found tm « I the mud. Evans will recover. ' Six tramps who had grossly insulte4 > * \ a number of ladies of Mound City be*t'-, $S§s£» ciuise they had refused to supply thent, "'X® ^ wreh food were captured by the indigo- , nant husbands of the *oTnf"1 TVnf- * - tramps ha<} obtained a supply of liquor, a n d w e r e h a v i n g a d r u n k e n c a r o u s a l i n t _ ^ an improvised camp. The men stripp^: . the tramps ot their clothing, and a,li ^ ^ a time was held over a barrel and a r thorough spanking administered where s it would do the most good. Wide flak - J^g^j paddles were the instruments cf tor- ture, and when a score of blows had i been administered to each they were al- ^ ^ lowed to take their departure. ^1|«i A COMPACT made in half jest was ear* ; ,/^g ried out in solemn earnest at Mascou- | ^ tah. Two years ago Adoiph Hansing agreed to deliver the funeral sermon oi ^ -i his friend, William Peth, a prominent \ citizen. He has fulfilled his promised ' Tho Incident recalls another and moro singular compact made by the late Bal4wi thaeser Siebert, a former wealthy citi^ zen of Mascoutah. Ten years ago , wrote his own funeral sermon and gav$3;:,w it to his friend, Esquire Lischer, who' " • promised that he would deliver it won| for word at his grave. Two weeks be*. fore the eccentric old gentleman died, realizing that death was near, he called his friend to his bedside and had him rea ^ the funeral sermon once again. He"" explained with grim humor that he would not hear the final reading, and wanted it to be right. After it was roaa > and corrected to suit him he died Ilk peace. • ? Two HUNDRED men from Maiden andr j, | Bloomfield, Mo..descendedon the jail, a| Cairo, during the night, took A mo* Miller from tne jail and hanged him t* ; J \i a convenient tree. There he hung until * ~ ^ 9 o'clock the next morning. Miller wal , | the desperado who assisted in killing, - Mayor Cooper and Marshal Sprinkle, a| ,*j Dexter, Mo. Ho was arrested at Mai*-- % den and taken back to Dexter. Millet was a very bad man. He had lived in : the Indian Territory since he was %- ^ young man until about a year ago. He ^ had been to the nation and a matt j n a m e d M o o r e r e t u r n e d w i t h h i m . I I f t * was believed they were members of "sj regularly organized band of borse#^^ thieves and they wore arrested. Ther^^ J was a regular battle in the court-room, Hri]'t\ where the men were being tried fo» >.} > horse-stealing. Miller and Moore ftret|t n on Mayor Cooper and Marshal Sprinkle,' ' ^ ^ The second shot pierced Cooper's heart, ? J Sprinkle was shot three times and', Moore wounded in the hip. He ran into - i* a field near town and killed himself to J* I escape capture. Miller made his escap# though shot through the wrist. ? THE New Jersey Plate Glass Insm** ance Company wa3 admitted to do busi­ ness in this State. Xhe capital i*' $100,000. JOHN T. HENBT, of Woodson, at* tempted to cross a railroad track in Jacksonville, when he was run down by a freight train and so badly injured that' he died in a few hours. He was 8$ ; years old. • He was one of the first set- - tiers of Morgan County. •" .-<• - i<k j?: AT Quiney, Edith Bolinger, 17 year* old, was adjudged insane. Three weeks ago, in the absence of her parents, a- number of friends went to her home fo£ the purpose of giving a masquerade sur-** prise part}*. The sight of masked per*^ sons frightened the girl so as to throw?* her into brain fever, which left her void of reason. . | THE Rev. J. A. Babin, of Springfield^* , for some time pastor of the Gillette -w; Memorial Chapel and tutor in the fans-*.' ! lly of Gen. Oglesby, has sent in a state- % ment to Bishop Seymour announcing* y his conversion from the Episcopal to tbet Methodist belief, and asks to be relieved, --f \'y: He says he cannot longer subscribe to •; the doctrine of apostolic succession. . ^ ' IN the Circuit Court at Cairo, Judgo <•*, Roberts presiding, ten criminal cases \ were disposed of. Nine candidates am , ff ready for the Chester Penitentiary, with ^ three more to hear from. Among those - ' : sentenced are two negro women, one of $ j whom will go up for fourteen years fosf ' % infanticide and the other for thirty-five ^ years for killing her husband. All but * ^ one of the criminals are negroea. ^ AT Mascoutah, Philip Kolb, a farmer, held a birthday celebration for four days. One hundred relatives partoolf A of the feast. His birthday talis oa Feb* 29, and he celebrated for the four yoars^ & / ' MELBOURNE, the rain maker, to in trouble with the Kansans. The own­ ers of irrigation franchises protest , against his interference with their business, and will apply for an in­ junction to prevent his producing- rain, and thereby drawing away their customers. ArNT KEZIAH FITET«*rely)--8O yon're going to try the experiment of reforming yOung Scapoly after marriage? Is h« r worth reforming? Kitty (tearfully--) Well, he's worth twenty thousand! "JUST see how fondly that man klancia his wife good-by," said the optimist. 'There is no sham demonstration thejr*.* "Oh, that is because she is going sway," said the pessimist. TBKBB are now living In oaefcott** la a village near Norwich, England^ generations, the ages of th< indiV being 92. 61, M, 19 tmd 6 mont ipeetivttty. p- _ * "s '>*»•. -3