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N SLYKE, Etftter and Publlsler. h\- ' •# *.r . ; r / • &KT <&>A HI" ILLINOIS. man who talks loudly la public seldom makes himself heard in §|§rld any other way. THERB is one time in a boy'S life tben he doesn't do anything but le marbles and adopt stray dogs. CHICAGO may erect the tallest buildings and towers, but it takes Boston to put up a thirty-story bank f a i l u r e . . • 2' ' ,vv ' rfr.l&oo What aj* NEW JERSEY will produce barrels of applejack this year, an opening in that Stat$ 4fQ£ chioridc of gold hospital; A MINNESOTAN has invented a plow that will run by electricity. When the elqctric hoe is perfected for dig­ ging potatoes the farmer will feel bet­ ter. 1 ! THE man who has a a old head on him when he is young, needs special prayer meetings to be held in his be­ half to prevent him from acting the fool when he is old.-'"' • A SEFTUAOENABIAK FFI recently drove seven nails through his head, and still lives, though not feel­ ing especially well. Such treatment would ruin a locomotive boiler in this country. BY the general consent of honest voters the Australian ballot has come to stay. Now if we can import some Australian counters of the ballots in certain quarters there will be a more hopeful condition still. EVERY one has A secret hope, though one was never realized. It is sent to a man as a sort of will 'o the wisp to keep him forever in pursuit of something, that he may forget how long and tiresome his journey is. MN. RILEY, the poet, will be grati- , Bed to learn from a New York paper ^ *" that he "looks like a sharp-witted . business man." Mr. Riley and Mr. Riley's friends have always labored §*5 4 under the impression that he knows ' as much about business as an Aus- ,s ' tralian kangaroo does about the Iliad. . . P; A NEW YORK paper offers to give ju,. 1500 to any person who meets sudden death while in possession of a copy of J|« , its current issue. It is supposed the | editor wishes to make all possible |f,, amends for any fatal effects that may I follow the perusal of his humorous £ / paragraphs. ^ ;V ^ V ; WHOEVER is ift business must stake iup his mind to be imposed upon. And fee must always be good natured about it. It is a part of his business to be cheerful when he is being im­ posed upon. Every woman who is Imposed upon at home likes to "get even" by grumbling sfcbe 4^er with whom she "trades." • /* s*. I JOHNL. SULLIVAN devotes his talks with interviewers to denouncing Australia and her people. The truth is that he burns under the sense of neglect shown his Thespian show, and his anxiety to fight Slavin is shrewdly attributed to a desire to get even with the big Island by whipping her camp­ -on. AN old book of records has turned up in Fairfax County, VaM showing that George Washington was prose­ cuted for various civil misdemeanors f^^jagainst King George before the Kevo- r ' jHution At a subsequent period the \t j/ jFather of his Country was guilty of a ;/f f great many military misdemeanors * 4 against the same King George, but he • $ was never prosecuted for them. fjr «A RECENT traveler in Cuba reports IC(*. ? that all the small silver coins in that C 'ti|! country have holes in them. Most of them are American dimes and quar­ ters. The perforation is done to keep this kind of money in the country. The number of holes: in a piece does not appear to affect its exchangeable value. This is a hint to the Street car companies. . IT, THE death of Dom Pedro by no means disposes of the question of a % possible restoration of the empire in Brazil. His daughter Is not quite f* . popular enough to lead a successful fu attack on the existing order, but there fe Js a grandson who might furnish a rallying point for the imperialists in | - case the republic should show any more of the sign* of weakness it did under Fonseca. "First catch jjour hair." FRIENDSHIP is owe of the greatest boons thit life can have. As Bacon says, "it wdoiiMeth joys and cutteth grief in halves." But where brother­ hood is united with it it attains a still richer result; for then it has a world of memories and early associa­ tions in common--the mutual love of the same honored parents, the recol­ lections of the same beloved home and of past scenes vividly impressed on the minds of both, in which no other friend however deaf can possi­ bly share. THE feasibility of extending the W-chloride of gold treatment to the weaning of dudes and other weak- minded persons from the inordinate use of cigarettes is under discussion just now. If the bi-chloride did not fly to the dude's head, and blow the roof off the place where the brain should be, it might help some to check his consumption of tobacoo. The best way to begin is <x> experiment on the hardest dude to be found, and report progress* As for minors who defy the law and burn the seductive tobacco-roll, oil of birch will be found much more effective than bi-chloride of gold. • - THIS is the end of the nineteenth century, and Connecticut, if still plunged in barbarism itself, is in the midst of a land nominally reclaimed to civilization; and yet on a recent Sunday evening the violinist Remenyi having an engagement in New York, was forced to break it because the Connecticut conscience, softened, it may be, with remorse for the tradi­ tional manufacture of wooden nut­ megs and other similar objects, cou.d not permit the running of a train on Sunday. The whole of modern life has been adjusted to the fact of in­ tercommunication and of rapid tran­ sit, and it is no longer possible to say arbitrarily that for one day out of the week this thing shall not be. Even Connecticut might be expected to recognize this. THE sea serpent has been captured --in Connecticut. The poor thing is believed to have been making its way to the winter quarters of Barnum's circus, at Bridgeport, finding the ocean unusually cold and stormy, and desiring a comfortable home while snow flies. At least this is the only way of accounting for the singulai fact that the serpent was found, much exhausted, on dry land. All -our no tions of the size of this eater of sail­ ors and ships are corrected by the ap­ pearance of this marine serpent, which is only twenty feet long, and makes milk the chief of its diet. The story comes from the land of Barnum, where a new Barnum may have al­ ready sprung up. But the finder ol the reptile says it is the real old ser­ pent, and that by the scales on his back he must be at least a hundred thousand years old. THE discussion of the propriety of abandoning the editorial "we^ con­ tinues, coming to the surface about so often, but it cannot be said that there is any great advance in either the custom of writing in the singular or in the general interest in the matter. To the general public, it is evident, there is not much difference if any between one way and the other. The general reader understands that whether the editorial is written in the singular or in the plural it is the expression of the policy and the senti­ ments of the paper as a whole or as an organized result not the mere opinion of the individual who happens to be delegated to set the thing down on paper. This being so it is a mat­ ter of indifference to the reader whether the form be singular or plural. To the editor accustomed to the old form, however, the use of the singular is most embarrassing. It is like appearing in public in his shirt­ sleeves. There is an indecorousness verging* on indecency in the egotistic singular. It hampers his pen and confuses his thought. He likes it not: and the result is that there is not a great deal of progress made in the direction of. the discarding of the journalistic "we.!' Probably most readers share somewhat the same feel­ ing, and unconsciously feel that there is a certain loss of dignity in the use of the singlar pronoun, but it is at least certain that there is no demand for it. It is recognized that the plea of directness and sincerity which used to-be urged as a reason for the adop­ tion of the singular is nonsense; and therefore nobody really cares much about the matter. AS USUAL, DEMOCRATIC PARTY PUTS ITS WORST END FOREMOST. TO. PWkteS M4 Rtgw Q. Mill's Bay Ckarisr Hold m Coaramiloa-CnpaU tbMpw fku Inr-VHI Mhk* Our Ow LMM PotBUkV ST. PAUL is excited because hungry wolves in the suburban region fatten on leading citizens. Shot Hungry tigers roam through the busiest streets ; s of Chicago and devour a countryman every day. St. Paul will build no >. more ice palaces because ice palaces advertise the city as "the coldest on * earth." Sho! St. Paul isn't cold. S The mercury sometimes stands at 10 below, but you don't feel it--"the air i is so dry." You lose a foot or hand, or an ear, perhaps, but you don't feel the cold--never. Queer place, St. Paul. Tint BertiUon system ot measure­ ments for the identification of crimi- i nals has been thought the most perfect yet devised. Dr. Jeserich, of Berlin, asserts that the hair affords an infalli­ ble test of identity. In a recent ar­ rest for murder at Berlin he satisfied the police by a comparison of two > hairs photographed that the prisoner was not the man wanted. The ap- plicattoa of this test is very much Tlta Death of -Polygamy. There are probably 150,000 Mor­ mons in Utah Territory, but of that number many are onlj nomiually so. Amid tin con­ tentions between them and the gentiles, many have sided with the church id whjch are their parents, relatives and friends without em­ bracing its faith. It is idle now to think of disfranchising the latter day saints. They are an industrious, temperate people^ as a rule, and my observation has led me to believe that they are law-abiding since the church took its stand under the law against plural marriage. I am aware that now and then individuals will report violations of that law since the manifesto, but upon investigation such charges are seldom sustained. It would be strange if there were no breaches of it; there are some such cases among non-Mormons. I do not believe that such marriages have been authorized or sanctioned by the offi­ cers of the Mormon church since the manifesto.--Judge Lane, in Forum. SMALL things cease to be small when their effects are mighty. Woril Kiid Foremost--As Unual. Our friends the enemy appear to have achieved their regular annual blunder. It is the testimony of tbeir own most capable organs that the blander is A fatal one, though these organs have not been by any means as loud as some of the "more-money" papers in denying the sincerity or party good faith of those who have opposed them. Bat the defeat of Mr. Mills, after all the organised, persistent and tremendous efforts made by Mr. Cleveland and his former cabinet officers and his political managers and his band of free-trade devotees, is indeed a blow which may change the foture of parties. Mr* Cleveland can no longer have the prestige of the predestined candidate, but, it is plain, will have to fight hard for a nomination, and to meet angry and implacable resistance within his" own party. Gov. Hill, Tammany Hall, Sen­ ator Gorman, Senator Brice, the money- making, stock-jobbing, pufosidy-iavuriiig tnd speculative end of the party, has the upper hand in legislation, and the southern end of the capital will ring with cries for "more money ana an ap­ propriation." It reputable Democrats do not like the crowd they can inquire why Mr, Cleveland helped it to victory in this state. If they do not like the prospect they can thank Mr. Cleveland nimseif and other gentlemen who pro­ fess to be devoted to principle, but were not willing to risk a fraction of their party popularity by refusing their countenance to the Tammany Hall com­ bination when it seized the' state con­ tention. That was the time to "tight for a funeral," but now the combination has the reins and the whip and iB going to drive. Free coinage must have come forward prominently, as the Tribune long ago predicted, no matter whether one man Dr another was chosen to form the com* BiilUwa. But it will certainly get far more prominence, take up more of the attention of Congress, bring out in far stronger light the tendencies of the Democratic party on monetary ques­ tions, and do far more to divide the party, with Mr. Crisp than Mr. Mills in ihe "chair. The latter had discovered lhat the party could not hope to win in Eastern states if it fooled with this ques­ tion, and therefore would have done nrhat he could to oppose it. It is the customary blunder that he is beaten, tnd with him those who hoped to fight for a principle, and not for more money knd an appropriation. So the New STork Times savs: The election ot Mr. Crisp by the coalition If the demagogy of Hill, the spoilsinonger- tag of Tammany, the protectionism of Sornian and Brice, the half-corrupt. half- fanatical free-silver movement, and the old South, must inevitably "give pause" to the men who have believed that the Denio- sratic party would be a fit instrumentality tor the accomplishment ot tariff lefonii tnd the clean and honest administration »f the government. * * * But thoss to trhom the triumph of this cause is the con­ trolling object of political action, and to tvhom parties are only instruments for or kgainst the cause, will, for the present, be forced to assume a position of armed neu­ trality. It begins to look as if the Democrats might not venture to nominate any can­ didate from New York with another from the same state hostile to him. The tigfly temper and bad blood which the ipeakership contest has excited will not make it easy to secure united sup­ port next year in this state or Connecti­ cut for a candidate representing either jf the Eastern factions. Yet without this state Democratic success with any candidate would be extremely improb­ able. There are likely to be stormy times in the House at this session, and Tudge Crisp will need all the powers he possesses to keep his m »b of new mem­ bers in discipline. But he will have the advantage ot a well-poised temper, and jf persona! sympathy with the Iree-silv- sr and more-money extremists, who probably constitute the majority. He was undoubtedly a better man for speak­ er of the House than Mr. Mills, and those who proposed his nomination on that ground alone deserve respect. But they blundered beyond measure when they sought or consented to re­ ceive for him the sort of support which Anally cave him the most votes and turned the scale in his favor. There are worse things than being beaten, and Mr. Crisp, as the Tammany Jlall-Hill- Grorman candidate for speaker, deserves commiseration. He won, and for him and his party it would have been Ueues U he had not. - New York Tribune. Ell PtrklM Md MI1U' Hoy Charley, The Sioux City Journal publishes tne following amusing interview with Eli Perkins, the weil-known lecturer and humorist: "On the Omaha train for 5ioux City to-day was Congressman' Mills, of Texas. With him was his bright iittle boy, who had been in a Minneapolis school. The little fellow was bright as his father, but did not teem to know anything about the falla­ cies of poiitics. He was ready to an­ swer all questions, as his astuteness as­ tonished even nis father. "I asked Mr. Mills if I might ask the little^ fellow some questions and note his quick, school-boy answers. " 'Certainly,'said the genial congress­ man, 'go ahead and you will find Char­ ley bright enough to answer anything.' •' 'And you won't interrupt as?* I asked. *' 'Certs'nly not.' " ' N o w , Charley,' I said, calling the bright little fellow up to me, 'I'm going to ask some hard questions, harder than cube root, and I don't believe a little 12-year-ola fellow like yon can answer them.' " 'I reckon I can,' said the proud lit­ tle Texan. "Well, Charley,' I said, 'if you lived in a town where all the people sent over to the next town to buy all their things, what would be the effect?' " 'Why/ said Charley, 'our mer­ chants would all be poor, for all our money would go away, wouldn't it? We'd alt be poor, Bure.' " 'Right Charley,' I said, 'Now* how would it affect a nation that was digging $100,000,000 out of the ground every year and raising (300,000,000 worth of cotton, and 9300,000,000 worth of wheat if it sent this gold and cotton and wheat over to other nations and traded them for store pay like gloves and silks and linen and tin and sugar?' "'Why,we'd be poor like the town, of course.' '* • ies, Charley,11 I said. '£ut sap- pose our nation mad® its own sugar and linen and tin and wine and kept its $100,000,000 dug out of the mountains and sold its tobacco and cotton for gold?' " 'Why, it would make oar nation awful rich, wouldn't it?' Mid Charley. " 'Yes. my boy,' 1 said, 'it would.' •' 'Again, Charley, suppose our coun­ try had kept $100,000/W0 of gold and sold over $600,000,000 worth of cOtton and wheat and tobacco for money for thirty yean, how much wealth would we have in this country ?' "'Why,' said Charly, figuring on a piece ot paper, 'we would have over $40,000,000,000. But why didn't we keep it? Why didn't we manufacture our things? Ain't we never going to manu- tbau?' - -- NSC£: fhsy am paying «D cents per day to poor laborers in Europe for making knives and «Uk doth and tin. and the freight from Europe is only 10 cents a hundred, and oar workmen were making $2 a day here, what would our workmen do if we had free trade?' " 'Why, they would have to work for the same wages that they do in Europe plus the freights. Of course, anyone can see that, can't they, father? and Charley looked up at the fiather of the Mills bill. " 'But, Charley, if we pat on a pro­ tective tariff of about 50 per cent, against these Kuiopean things made by cheap labor, how would that affect our labor­ ing men ?' " 'Why, we could pay them more wages, of course; that's plain as day.' "'Then, Charley, what'do we gam oy putting on a protective tariff against Eu­ ropean manufacturers ?' " 'Why, then we have to make them here. We pay big wages and keep our money home; any fool can see that, can't they, pa ?' "'Here, Charley/said Congressman Mills, taking ofl his glasses and wiping them with an American bandana, 'let me ask you a question now. "'Don't you see all the pauper labor­ ers of Europe coming over here, Char­ ley ? Now, my son, how can we keep tfiem back ?' " "Why, i»apa, we could take off this tariff, couldn't we, and then our wages ™?o"!d to «csr. as low ss theirs, our lac­ tones would stop and their factories would start up, and they wouldn't want to come here, would" they? They wouldn't want to come here, papa, if our wages weren't higher than theirs, would they?' "Mr. Mills didn't answer, ant went into the smoking car to think. "While he was gone I asked Charley what he thought would be the effect of putting a tariff of 25 cents against tne wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley and pota­ toes raisod in Canada, in" a country twelve times as large as Dakota. " "It wiii keep the stuff b«ck, won't it/ said Charley, 'and raise the price here ?' " 'And how will that affect the price of land, Charley ?* " 'Why, better prices for wheat would make that go up, too, and I beard a farmer telling papa this morniug that the land all over Iowa and Dakota and Tllinnin was aoinsr up fast. Is it ? "'Yes Chailey, it is,' I said. 'The farmer is getting on top again. Thou­ sands of manufacturers are making su­ gar, silk, chicory, linen, tin, glass and pottery. They are moving over from Europe and soon our manufacturers will eat up all our surplus wheat, and then what, Charley ?' " 'Well, I guess they'll have to pay a good price for it in gold, too, by ginger! and that will make the farmer rich, won't it? And so we will have lots or gold and lots of manufacturers, every­ body will be prosperous, wages will be high, competition will make manufact­ ured articles cheap and we will be a great country, won't we?' " 'You bet we will, Charley I' I said, 'and when you get to be a man, if you are as sound on these questions as you are now, we will make you speaker of the House.' "Mr. Mills now came in and said: ' I must take Charley back to Corsicana. Those Northern schoolboys talk and think too much.'" the 1.80 1.10 .SO .46 Curpota Cheaper 11>»B Em, We present the price list of Alexander Smith & Softs Carpet Compa­ ny for the spring of 1892, which that eminent firm have just published. A few items read thus: Pnoeln Prteefor 1891. 18V2. Axmlnstcr. per yd --.<1.50 $1.20 Extr* Gobelin moquett*, per yd... 1.60 Moquette. per yd 1.S5 Extra velrets. per yd L2!> Kxtm tapestry, per v4 .80 Tape*try, per yd .75 I! PwlUsade Mpestry. per yd........ .40 F Pallissde tapestry, per yd..,.86 This is reduction on a great scale. The free trader is wrong as usual. Car- {>ets are not higher in price, they are ower, "on account of the tariff." Some traders, encouraged by the false­ hoods of the Democratic press, which alwayg works against the interests of the American purchaser and the American laborer, by encouraging capital to de­ mand higher prices for the one and pay lower wages to the other, while making an impudent pretense of desire for "freedom of competition," have de­ manded higher prices for carpets. But they have been few in number. The majority of retailers have not asked higher prices. There has been no cause for higher prices. The item of wool, which is the chief ingredient of carpet manufacture, has been made a subject of inquiry by iLra Aitt«.'ican Economist, and tne showing is as follows: In (he fust ten iiiontlis of the new law's existence, ending July 31, our imports of carpet wool were 80.1t>0,217 pounds, valued at $8,484,318, an average of 103.; cents a pound. The duty of 32 per cent, ad valor­ em brings the price to tbe manufacturer up to 13&-7 cents a pound. This is the average price paid by tli« carpet manu­ facturer for carpet wool this year. In the corresponding months of last year, under the old tariff, imports of carpet wool were 71,081.768. valued at $8,257,740, or 11 8-5 cents a pound. The old duty of 2% cents a pound added made the price at the carpet mill 14 1-10 cents a pound. In other words, the manufacturer is getting his carpet wool cheaper on an average this year than last. The evident fact of cheap wool moved the Dry Goods Economist to say on the 28th of last month, "Carpets are likely to be cheaper than ever before." The Dry Goods Economist is radically free tra'de in its editorial opinions, but as a guide to merchants it endeavors, and with success, to be correct in its facts and figures. At an early date it had predicted "higher prices on account of the tariff," but its editorial opinion was, as usual, wrong, just as its market quotations always are right. Explain­ ing the failure of its prediction, it said, on the day quoted: Here again we have a rather surprising outcome ot what seemed inevitably a ris­ ing market, due to causes which we have already explained, to-wit, the lower price ot raw material .and the eager competi­ tion, which cuts tbe profit down to the bare bones. But this is just what the protection­ ists said would come to pass. Increase of home manufactures is sure to pro­ duce that "eager competition which cuts down prices to the bare bone." To the free trader the McKinley bill "seemed inevitably" to produce a ris­ ing market." To the protectionist it seemed inevitably to produce a de­ crease of prices as soon as its protective policy had built up new factories. But it is accomplishing this end more rapid­ ly than the most ardent protectionist dared to hope.--New York Recorder* ' la # Sorry Plight. The great Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is in sore iioublii. It ie divided against itself. The Hill-Cleveland-Mill wing has re­ ceived a terribly black eye; and the South and free silver wing is in the sad­ dle. The feeling of bitterness against the Hill-Cleveland wing is illustrated by the following dispatch, sent from Washington two days before Crisp's election, to the New York limes, a strong Cleveland paper: Gen. Vilas, Don M. Dickinson, and, later on, and in his own way, Senator Palmer, have expressed the opinion that, if the caucus should nominate Crisp for speaker, the party might, as well give up land aili to wteek the Dsn* , iM tfce lBtimatlon p*m Is the weak tawgWMswen, ttafc tfcejr would expose themselves to a taking at home next fail If they presumed to ion for Congress, has led them to halt in their de­ termination to support As candidate of the Atlantic and Gulf slates as against the candidate of the whole country. But here is another dispatch--full of dispondency and even more significant than the other--from Washington to the St. Louis Republic, another Cleveland organ: The pressure from the outside is still very great Cal. Brice, who ravors sub­ sidies* fat appropriations and a high tariff on the industries in which he is interested, has hts agents here working for Crisp. Senator Gorman is in active charge of the Crisp forces. Tammany Hall and David B. Hall, ot New York, are sparring on Crisp's followers. In tact, everybody who has an interest in the lobby, who ravors big appropriations and liberal steals and a retrograde movement on tariff reform on the part of the Democratic party, is back­ ing Crisp. Senator Carlisle, a far-seeing, prudent, conservative man, said last night that the election of Crisp would cost the Democratic party 500,000 votes at the next national election. It is believed now that the danger point of Crisp is over, and many of his backers, especially his chief backers, art; still working with might and main, with every influence at their disposition to defeat Mills. They know that the Texas statesman is the foe of jobbery in every form, that he is the foe of tariff robbery, and that public plunder would have poor chance under his administration of the House ot Representatives. But the co­ hesive power of public plunder hi very great, and consequently Mills' friends are still apprehensive, though hopeful. So we have it on the authority of Sen­ ator Carlisle, "a far-seeing, prudent- conservative" Democrat--that tne Dem­ ocrats will lose 500,(i00 votes next year on account of the election of Crisp. As the loss of 500,000 Democratic votes will give the presidency to the Repulicaus beyond a peradventure, the Republic­ ans are especially thankful for the elec­ tion of Mr. Criep. Five hundred thou­ sand votes is a great help in times like these, and will put the Republican par­ ty square on its feet. " The editorial wail of the Newport Times, since the election of Crisp, is in this pathetic language: The election of Mr. Crisp by the coali­ tion of the demagogy of Hill, the spoils mongering of Tammany, the protection ism of Gorman and Brice, the half-corrupt half-fanatical free silver movement and old South, must inevitably "give pause" to t.h« won who have believed that the Dem­ ocratic party would be a fit instrumentali­ ty for the accomplishment of tariff reform and for the clean and honest administra­ tion of the government. Wilt Make OarOwi , The following item is quite significant, because it comes from the Dry Goods Economist's Manchester {Eng.) corre­ spondent, the paper and the writer of the item being free traders: If one were to credit the stories told of impending removals of 1 see-making plants to the United States, one would he loreed irresistibly to the conclusion that nothing but bare walls will remain in ^Nottingham in a few months' time. This shows how wise was the business judgment of the framers of the tariff law. They wanted the American peo­ ple to make their own luces, and the item from Manchester indicates the de­ gree of success which has followed the establishment of lace factories in the United States; and no increase of price has been made. Miaeallaneoua Pointer*. Charleston News and Courier: We hope that Mr. Crisp will be able to es­ cape from his political environment. He must do it, or he will wreck the par­ ty. There is no other issue upon which the Democracy can achieve victory next year but the issue of tariff reform. Congressman Springer is confident that the defeat of Mills will have no ef­ fect on the "paramount issues" next year. The "paramount issue" has re­ ceived two black eyes since November 1, and if the Democrats are willing to send it into the ring again in that condi­ tion they should have the attention of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Buffalo Courier (Dem.): The Presi­ dent's observations upon the political gerrymander are just and commenda­ ble. They are drawn out by the return of Michigan to the district system of choosing presidential electors, "which, a couple of generations ago, was the prac­ tice in several states. This change, made by the Democratic legislature of Michigan, the Courier has heretofore strongly censured. "Investigate!" is going to be the Dem­ ocratic watchword at Washington this winter. Fortunately, the Republicans have no reason to dread the turning of the lights upon their record. But Democratic investigation is the farthest possible remove from impartial inquiry. It will be nothing if not partisan. Its sole object will be the accumulation of "capital" for the presidential year. American people are shrewd enough and honest enough to estimate it ac­ cordingly.--New York Tribune. Announcement is made that a Paris firm of pearl button manufacturers has leased the large stone factory in West Philadelphia, near Sixty-ninth Street and Haverford Avenue, formerly occu­ pied as a steel-wire belt factory, and will at once proceed to establish the manufacture of pearl buttons there, employing not less than 500 persons. Previous to last year the Frpuch manu­ facturers had a large button factory on the outskirts of Paris. When the pass- sage of the McKinley bill became an assured fact they gathered all their un­ finished stock together, shipped it to New York, and since then have been engaged in finishing up and disposing of this material. It at length became necessary to secure a permanent and extensive plant for their specialty, and the result of their negotiations with Joseph R. Rhoadsof Philadelphia, was the lease of the Haddington property. THE HABERGAIS. AQfWl CfcrWtmM-Tlme Custom Wklelt Tradition Sanctions In Germftnjr. There is a queer old custom in some parts of Germany and AustrS-Hungary which are distant from the centers ot civilization. It is a crnel custom, too, but sanctioned by a tradition which comes down from the days of myth and fable. St. Nicholas Day, which comes on the 6th of December, is observed much as we observe Christmas. Stock­ ings are pinned up the uiglit before ami- are filled with candies and nuts ana" the square or heart-shaped cakes which are always associated with St. Nich­ olas Dav'in a German child'smind. But the day has its drawbacks. "Be good or the Habegais will come," is a threat that never fails to inspire terror to the infant mind, and with good rea- json, for the llabergais does come, and pSt. 'Nicholas Pay is the time for his ap­ pearance. An unearthly monster is rigged up in the form of a goat, with the aid of sheets and poles and a man inside for locomotion. The "Heber- gais looks more like a ghostly giraffe than a goat;4iowever, it's & goat in the legend. Accompanied by the bishop and the devil close behind, a tour of the village is made, and the children in each household are frightened al­ most out of their wits, while tbe old folks sit gravely by with an "I-told- you-so" expression on their faces. Fortunatelv tbe custom is becoming ex­ tinct.--Buffalo Express. CAA SEP itINOISl! We Joh* J. Mi Gents, if you want your dothei „ SSTA33tS,'Ed- ̂ "teBR OR STjfWTtlNa, FULLY RECORDED. ton* and ae«iOQ8, never torn to |iiarge. Dry pogh • r evekets, to? sei th«*wy« Dc exl c»«W laf LAMPSt LAMPS! LAMPsf All new and the latest stales at J Btoifc ©an and see them ola Mllltla M»ttw«-5ew Bank at Vast Lout*--Determined to I>le--Mamontak h»urae« Metropolitan JElrs--Trw* Kmmf nf ltt Uimbl*." them. ~ A FOR SALE. 5"® a?d four Lots, in MCHenry. House m good repair a location. IoQuin 50c. „ ...J1"® IS SHOBT. four more of those fine I double stitched seams, silk wlvnt- •!s 7&Satin lined ov®rcoa^ 0 ca*es hlJ\a^r^Vnt7: E. LAWI for SALE CHEAP. From Far MMI Wear. >sr.rn HONKR was scalded to death. I oiling vat at Belleville. P TEK WOMBACHEB was fatally fu­ rl at Mascoutah by being throws i a wagon. us Appellate Court of the Third tHa- t adjourned at Springfield until Jaa.* 892. KPORTS indicate that the grip is pnt- ing in Southern Illinois. ThereitiP* UK Rev. E. J. H&mell, of Jacksen-: e, fell dead on a train while eu route < » . --. jtho South to spend the winter. trail ®°^!! Jean i SPECIAI. committee reported to tkft well matched. Call on O. N. Ow< ievi.le City Council in favor of grants an electric stroot rail way franchise, BINS. CONRAD MEYF.R, of Mascoutah, or stomach troubles trfkc ?ever*t rlbs and sust*ined prob- Bank of McHenry, If you are troubled with hot5ec?AmCTl<Sn'Cto^wSsom^ fstRi iaJnrie3 b* falliaS from extract, only #1.00 per bottle °-fp"]addor by Julia A, Story. * ^OR Kn WVATT. living at Muirayvllie, ar Jacksonville, was struck byatrabs d frightfully mangled. 'Me leave* W 'Atlanta Scarlet deaths from the ----P there within a week. Persons that have taken note ofr,IK Adjutant General issued an order une of shawls unite in sayirnr: "jnorably discharging Private C. C. shawls are very nice and cheep.'r,r< r' Company G, Sixth Infantry, course we are bashfnl hot haver0 resignation of Roscoe D. Mack as acknowledge the truth. rond Lieutenant of Company E, Fourth J. W. CKISTT & S,lANTRY- IS epted. ing Stoves now on the market all hope of hereafter carrying anything in the Northwest The "disruption of ' i" a the Democratic Party in Illinois'1 will be but a part of a great disruption. There is now intense indignation among tbe Democrats, who have been convinced that the Crisp £AJMjytt|iGjr jM&I} |i i J : ' tV:' /' , THE famous salt lake of Aalia Paakal, near Hololuiu, occupies the crater of an immense tula cone, whose ejects covers several square miles, and are especially remarkable for containing numerous aggregations of crystaline grains of niire olivine- A* TV,. [THE Auditor of Public Accounts issued -* * %"•. from thn kSII B , ftiycarefallypreparermlt for the organization of the > ^ ««»d according Savings Bank at East St Louis, * , 'idnrt'iKiIf Jprov2d formula, and ai'etli a capita! stock of 51,000,000. Tfe» '•"if t _ cathartic and liver pill trani/ers are Henry R. Sexton, Frank- 1®/*" • cam be produced. We sell them. (j/li. Bowman, and Fells a CockrelL ' tfAscotJTAii is now lighted with elee- \ INSURE TOUR HARD-EARNPn Th^re &re fift>*street lj8ht3 mBKl , 3 ERTV F1Mward of 200 commercial lights Com- • ; •4, * Atln*n>f<x> . . x ttees of citizens from Nashville, Col- ? safe CO-^nt absol-vllle, Lebanon, O'Fa Hon and other is nromt «w ' W1^. Simon Stoffel, fathom Illinois towns inspected tha books all the time. the ten ~ 4^ v - ' f l a n ^.c»ro- V'beat de«» W8®* ^"miy stl " At ma A l fricg5 som«r the Wv last w< ever. his-of d> I;tug p)the yt*P • d mr wl asttre be vc or** idc Th . mafll cade ste .hten conveyed to the Invalid wife of the dead Senator at their hone in Emporia. Kan., she seemed like one strickonto the death and for a time her life was dlspaired of, owing to her feeble state of health. She, however, rallied and is now bearing up under her crushing grief with a for­ titude wonderful to behold. But one of her children was at home, her daaghter Mary, and she was sick In bed. Miss Ruth was in Topcka visiting and was immediately summoned. The other chil­ dren are in Pennsylvania--Amos H.. the ! eldest son, at ) hiiadeiphia under treat­ ment for a nervous affection, and the two youngest, Preston R, Jr., and Car­ rie, attending school at Nazareth. Senator Plumb was born in Delaware County, October 12, 1837, so that he was In hts fifty-fourth year at the time of his death. He was not a college graduate, but left the common schools for the printer's case, and in pursuance of his vocation as a journeyman printer. In 185(5, in the b oody days of the history of the newly organized territory of Kansas, walked into that territory, and with the vigor and energy which has brought his life to an end the young man plunged at once into the thick of the political strife which then was waging over the slavery question. He went to the front and soon became a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention of 1850. He was admitted to tbe bar in 1861, when the place of his adoption became a State of the Union; served in the Legislature in 1862, was Chairman of .the Judiciary Committee and subsequent y Reporter of the Su­ preme Court When the war broke out he entered the army as second lieuten­ ant in the Eleventh Kansas Infantry and served successively as captain, major, lieutenant colonel of the regi­ ment and was commissioned a colonel of the regiment in August, 18(52. After the war Mr. Plumb returned to Kansas, was elected & .utTiiibdr of the Kansas House of Representatives, and in 1876 was chosen United States Senator to succeed James M. Harvey, Republican. He took his seat in 1877 and has represented his State as a Senator ever since that time. His term of ofBee would have expired March 3, 1895. It is settled that Gov. Humphrey of Kansas will appoint a successor to Plumb. A prominent lawyer of Topeka says that a year elapses before the next Legislature is to meet, and so an extra session must be called at once. Other authorities say, however, that thn Gov­ ernor must make an appointment to be effective until another Legislature meets in regular order. In this case several possibilities are spoken of. Those most frequently mentioned are: Ex-fl over nor George T. Anthony, ex-Congressman E. N. Morrill, and Chief Justice Albert Q. Hcrton. Other names mentioned are: S. R. Burton, a young attorney of Abilene, who was a bitter opponent of Ingalls; ex-Congress­ man S. It. Peters, of Newton; George R. Peck, General Solicitor of the Atchi­ son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company; J. K. Hudson, editor of the Topeka Capital; and ex-Gov. Thomas A. Osborne, Hay^s' Minister to Brazil. The Legislature which will elect a suc­ cessor to Gov. Humphreys' appointee convenes in January, 1893, and w>H be elected next fall. There will be no hold­ overs either in the lower house or Senate. ; Missing Link*. A LOCOMOTIVE has just been bu It at th* Crewe works of the London and Northwestern Railway which is capable of drawing a train at the rate of 100 miles an hour* ,;, Ix Queensland, Australia, a so'ind hbrse can bQ bought for $'>, and in seme parts of New South Wa^es horses are so overplentiful that they are got rid of by shooting. IN the Austrian army suicides average 10,000 a year. Th s does not in -lude foiled attempts said it represents 30 pet cent, of the general mortality among Austrian soldiers. A HOUSE in Dedham, Mass., built in 1636, Is occupied by a family, the de­ scendants of the original builders. They appreciate the antiquity and will show visitors all through it for 25 cent IT is said that the first regulai atrlcal company to perform in tho Uff . States came from England in 175 landed at Ymtk, in Virginia Its fi$H public appearance was »t Williamsburg, Va. A POPULAB notion Is that tbe whe abouts of a drowned person jnay ascertained by floating a loaf weighted with quicksilver, which is said at once to swim toward and stand over the spot where the body Ilea This is a very widespread belief, and Instances of its occurrence are, from time to tiae, re- - - - . .4- "'ft' }• 8 V AT Jerseyville Oman Clark, aged 35» inmittM suicide by standing on a )stle, placing a rope around the beam ove and tying it around his neck. He cn shot himself through the head with revolver. The shooting knocked hii •"vS'f 5MI1 improved Howe V entilatingSto S^^d.,nd^. Radiation, Circ greatest heatinlr ram«pltw0m^ned* '(revolver, xne snooting Knocked mm '? K d ' the trestle, and shortly after tho * see it. For sale by Storv** fin dy was found ha"giug froua the beMB- * ,J| West Side. * MeOn 9 leaves a widow and one child. Ha puse is known. v AT Springfield, a bill was filed 1n the v, ,, United States Circuit Court by the ' - Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, of « - New York, asking for the foreclosure of •; a mortgago on the property of the Grape ,v : Creek Ccal Company In Vermilion County, given to secure f500,000 of fe bonds issued April 1, 1886, and bearing Interest at 6 per cent., upon which the company has failed to pay any interest >. Bince April lsst. -V, Tuns. DAWSON, a farm laborer, fatally &:* • shot Ida Rutzen. the 17-year-old daugh- tar of his employer, near Libertyvitha- He was in lo>e with the girl, and she ' repelled his advanc a After shooting the girl, he killed himself, thus frcs* trating a lynching party But little is iy; known of Dawson. He drifted into the community in July and got work. Hw told a story to some of the young men s> he became int'mate with, however, and It was to the effect that he had been in the United States . army and had de- ,.3- sorted from It In the spring. He said his I comp&ny had been engaged lu the fight ' \t at Wounded Knee during the Indian up- rising of last winter, and he told his ^ story with such details as to impress his f' hearers with a belief in it He would not tell the company he bad been in, and ; while he said he was from New York and had relatives living there, he never i;; gave their address. He Was not com- municative, and the Impression now pre- ,; - vails in Liberty ville that he was goinff under an assumed name. THK Tremont hotel, Quincy, has been gutted by fire. Tho three upper floors are destroyed and the two lower floors were ruined by wat»r. Tho fire was dis­ covered shortly before midnight, but everybody was safely aroused. Loss up­ wards of $100,GOOi Insurance unknown GKOROE K. BARRBTT and Miss Geor- gle M. Ambridge, of Chicago, were se­ cretly married in Alton. Mr. Barrett made every effort to keep the matter quiet, all the officers being pledged to secrecy, hut it leaked out one evening. Tbe reason of the elopement is onpo- ;*dji| sition on the part of the young woman's father, who had settled on another band for his daughter. AT Jacksonville the case of Alderman Schoen field against Mayor Thomas Knowles, charging him with malfeas­ ance, etc., came up in Squire Hender­ son's court When the case was called the prosecution aud defense were pres­ ent, the latter ready and expecting the trial to proceed The prosecution seeing the hopelessness of its case came for­ ward and unconditionally dismissed tho suit TITE fact that Prot Henry Raab, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, had a light stroke of paralys s severaL ., . ̂ w days ago has just been made public. He went to Belleville to visit his son, VS > /' ̂ and is still there. The paralytic stroke ^ • 'J" was mild, but of such a nature tlfat its ©fleets may prove serious. It affected V;j ^ * only the optical nerves, his sight being ^ impaired, though whether permanently ^ or otherwise, is only a matter for con- 1 4 jecture at present. His physicians have forbidden him either to read or write. FOR selling horse meat for beef, Ernest Leonhardt, a Town of Lake butcher, was fined $50 bv Justice Lyon, of Chi­ cago.. The only known purchaser of the meat was Cbaries Cisson, keeper of a restaurant. Mr. Cisson discovered what the meat was before it had been prepared for food, and notified the health depart­ ment The health officers are now on the lookout for horse flesh, and say they have reason to believe that considerable of it is being sold iu the city for beef. THE Elgin, Jollet and Eastern Rail­ way has completed an extension to th* business portion of Aurora This road has heretofore competed with the other '^7 Aurora railways at a disadvantage from J \ } the fact that its station was on the edgw % of the city, remote from Uie business , section. THE Rev. Edgar H. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Free port, has received a call to Westminster Church, Minneapolis, Minn. The posi­ tion would be worth S6.0J0 or I7.QOO. Mr. Hill has taken ih<- matter under consideration. John and NICHOLAS RAAB, brothera who lived at Elkhart, Ind, were struck and killed by a Lake Shore train at. Chicago. John Raad was a Lake Shore conductor and Nicholas a brakeman in the emp'oy of the same company. They had just secured a leave of absence for the holidays and intended to s:art ft»- home. JCDGE HOBTOS. of Chicago, overruled mbtion for a new trial for Diorlo Bee- edeta and sentenced him to twiatiSM years In the penitentiary. The MMr ant killed Domenlco t'rlstoforo oa TUtat . avenue, June SI, lsyi, by stabbing Ma with a stiletto He was foued guilty aft the October term and his punishmeat fixAfl • • - . .-r, •- inaha- [TnW •55 ail - .*• /i £• ^ 'M - r' v. - A\f* * . Jtfjf