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- ',f"1 f?1" i'ryjig:'i"'iCifn>in ^ •• •" '•• ~-F -' ' "V A" - ' • • *' '•"' ••' ,, ||(r®Hniiflawtlfaln J. VhH SLYXE, Editor end Publislmr. OHBNBY, - - - ~~ ILLINOIS. w TEN friends are dearly purchased if gained at (he expense of a single «nemy; for the enemy will take ten * -times the pains to injure you that the friends wiIT take to do you service. KO^TRUE man will ever sink so low to write an anonymous letter; he Will have sense enough to see that he eau make his letter very much more wtfrective by signing a fictitious name. BY actual count there are no less than 827 phrases in the English lan­ guage expressive of the state of being iti love. And yet the average young man. when he tries to propose, can .;^o nothing but gasp. REFORMERS in various lines MAF jfind food for thought in the fact that toe value of tobacco consumed an­ nually in the United States reaches $350,000,000, or nearly $6 per capita ,6f the entire population. A SAN FRANCISCO burglar after be found guilty inherited $30,000. It came, alas, too late to save him .;&om San Quentin. How could Jus­ tice know that the penniless prisoner- Was to be innocently affluent? MAN is the universal animal. It is estimated that there are 1,500,000,- 000 of him on the globe. The sheep tank next with him 500,000,000; there are 300,000,000 cattle; 100,000,- <fc>0 hogs and 60,000,000 horses con­ tinue the list Two REVOLUTIONS are in progress In Honduras. This crowds^ the non- combatants a little, yet they do not complain.much. Of course, two rev­ olutions are a good many, but think of the awful monotony if theroshoirid be no revolution at all. WE pass every day through all the changes of human experience. We are children in the morning, with their fresh young bodies and feelings; we arc middle-aged at noon, having seen an end of all perfection; we are old and weary and worn out at night. Miss FRANCES R WILLARD, presi­ dent of the W. C. T. U. of the United States, had the pleasantest reception on record when she got among her English colleagues, and they seemed to be vieing with each other as to which could do the most for her com­ fort. A VOTE at Sacramento on an amendment, having for its purpose the cutting down of attorneys' fees, of course, promptly killed it. Such an amendment had wonderful hardi­ hood to stray into a place where law­ yers are busy framing wise and benefi­ cent measures. A PENNSYLVANIA man employed a young woman to collect bills from his swell customers. The scheme did not work. The young woman was so good looking and generally agreeable that the customers deliberately re­ frained from paying their bills so as to make her call again. AN article in the Sacramento Bee so enraged the members of the Cali­ fornia Legislature that they voted to remove the capital from Sacramento to San Jose. It seems Incredible Jthat by raking over a whole State a body of men could be got together «neontaining a voting majority Of such unique idiots. SPEAKING upon the underpaid store girl" question the Rev. Madison CI Peters of New York, says that young women in the best houses rarely ex­ ceed $7 and that the average is $4 to #4.50 per week, while cash «irls re- ^ceive from $1 to $2.50 a week. And yet, to their honor be it said, they are as rarely dishonest as they are likely to become rich. - A GENTLEMAN never attempts to be humorous at the expense of people with whom he is but slightly ac­ quainted. He would as soon board at their cost, or request them to frank him at their tailor's. In fact, it is neither good manners nor wise policy to joke at anybody's expense--chat is to say, to make anybody uncomforta­ ble merely to raise a laugh. Among those thus favored by tho President wer$ Harper, who broke the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, and Classen and Simmons, whose com­ bined efforts in roguery succeeded in wracking three such institutions THB British lion has evidently tired of being bearded in his den by the re­ sults of Yankee genius, and sends an exhibit showing the highest achieve- ments of English inventors in the planning of a locomotive, tender,and passenger carriage. Americans will be glad to see this exhibit It come* from the shops of the fgreat London and Northwestern Railway, and will doubtless be well worth seeing. The impression here is strong that Amer­ ica beats ail creation in matters of railway ..transit, but we shall be pleased to acknowledge any improve­ ment that may come from England or elsewhere. WHAT! Ada Rehan's statue in butter! Now, by the daring youtb that fired the Ephesian dome, there be some people still in need of the full-killer's visitf In truth 'twould be seductive to see the capricious comedienne' in melting mood, as she certainly would appear, despite en­ vironing ice, should the Statue be ex­ hibited in hot weather. But fie! to outline her charms in yellow--the color of jealousy! Never! Let bei be reproduced jn ice-cream, in the fleecy and crisp white of the "meringue," or even in pink-tinted §nd creamy lard. But in plebeian butter, forbid it, ye Muses nine! Montana offered the actress the honors of silver, and New York must do no less. SEIZURE upon seizure of illicit opium is made on the steamers ply­ ing between the Orient and San Fran­ cisco, and despite the peculiar man ner in which it is concealed about the vessel, no attempt is made to hold the agents of the steamship com panies responsible for the illegal traf­ fic. A late capture made by the cus­ toms officers consisted of 1,000 tins and was valued at $10,000. It was found stored between the false and real floors of the hold of the Oceanic. The work of secreting it required the driving of nails in thick planking, an operation that with ordinary yigilance should have come to the notice of the ship's officers. The occasional con­ fiscation of the smuggled drug has-ac- complished little toward the check­ ing or the smugglers' operation. A change of tactics embracing a thor­ ough investigation of the officers of the vessels on which the drug is found might prove more efficacious. IN a recent work on criminology the learned investigator says that out of ninety-eight young men criminals 44 per cent, did not blush when ex amined. Of 122 female criminals 81 per cent did not blush. If our novels are to keep up with science they must change their indicia of emotion. It must be the men who blush and the other sex whose sensitiveness must not be a regular feature. Leander blushes as he declares himself or is suddenly brought up against a sent: mental outcrop. But Hero takes it calmly. The scientist also notices that women blush about the eai$ rather than on the cheek. This also requires a change in th6 novels. It is a pointer too for the ladies' man who is watching for signs that he is making an impression. If he fastens his gaze upon the left ear he may see something that will tell him he may consider himself happy. Science is gradually (retting there, and we shall soon know it all. ' 'GENTLEMAN GEORGE, " a convicted burglar, stood before the bar at Providence and demonstrated by curs­ ing everything in sight and most things that he could think of, that his title was a misnomer. He was then given a sentence of twentv-flve years, but what proportion was for being a burglar and what for not be­ ing a gentleman the records fail to show. A ST. LOUIS doctor who has been missing for six years has turned up at his home at last with the explana­ tion that he bad been away in volun­ tary exile, hoping by self-abnegation, asceticism, and mortification of the "flesh to ffiyn the power to embrace within his ken the mysteries of the universe. This may be all true, but for real mortification of the flesh he should have remained in St Louis. Exile wasn't necessary. SCARCELY a week passes that does not bring the story of a bank wrecked by one or more of those entrusted with its management, yet within the past four years there have been four­ teen of this class of offenders made ItiQ subject of executive clemency. - The Kooster Could Swim. There are some seeming contradic­ tions in the world of nature; for ex­ ample, the cat that shrinks from wet­ ting even her velvety soles is driven to distraction by the smell of flsh, for the very love of it And a great, scrawny rooster, that never should be so much as seen taking a bath ex­ cept in a nice, dry, dusty place in the road or ash heap, deliberately walk­ ing into a pond of water and swim­ ming across it isaqueer sight indeed. Yet, according to Harper's Young People, that is what anybody may have seen last summer at the mill pond on a Little stream called Baker brook, which flows into the river St. John just beyond the border of Maine, in Canada He was a big fellow, dig­ nified and important from the top of his flaming comb to the tips of the stiff feathers that grew at right angles to his feet like wings or "pan­ taloons." He had always taken his bath in the dust heap, until he grew old enough to lead his charge of hens far away from home, about the more distant fields, even beyond the brook, where all day long they uibbled blades of tender grass and chased grasshop­ pers. But once around the pond and across the brook the most direct course back to the roost lay in a line across the mill pond, and how often he and his family were caught by the darkness upon that side of the stream, and just how the thing was managed at first no one will ever know. But one evening the men who were work­ ing near the mill saw a flock of hens and a rooster on the wrong side of the brook, looking wistfully toward the other side and home. One by one the hens, taking a good start off the high bank, flew across leaving the rooster alone. But only for a moment, for instantly he walked to the water's edge, waded in without the least hesitation, and struck out for the other shore. He sat up high, well out of the water, like a duck, and as it was only about sixty feet wide there, he was across in a jiffy. Then shaking his feathers clear of the moisture, he ran away alter the hens as fast as his long legs could carry him. This remarkable occur­ rence was witnessed several times; as often as the chickens, tempted by the more remote, richer hunting grounds, wao4$fed in that direction. LET IN TOE DAYLIGHT. T8EASUBY BUSINESS SHOULD I'; BE ABOVE BOARD. The People Have a Right to Know the Condition of the Country's Unsnc.s-- Snako-in-the-Urass Gresham--Talk About Taxes. Pobltotty Better-thaa The report from Washington that noco of the subordinates in the Treasury Depart meut are to be al­ lowed to furnish to the public any information of the condition of the Treasury gold reserve or of the de­ vices to protect it hereafter is not in itself displeasing to the people, pro­ viding the information is given by the head of the department. Bpt even that source, it appears, is to be less communicative in the future than it has bsen in the past few years, for Secretary Carlisle is quoted as saying that the announcement of the exist­ ing conditions or of projected policies may sometimes result in injury to the public service. As a justification for this course, he declares that the publication of proposed plans to strengthen the Treasury would invite criticism and give a chance to bank­ ers or speculators to take advantage of the Government's extremity for their own selflsb purposes. This explanation is uol altogether satisfactory. Criticism will not hurt any policy that has any good reasons for being. In fact, statesmen often announce, or get others to announce, contemplated policies so as to learn what the public thinks of them, and to hear all that can be said against them. In this way they are able to keep their hands, as it were, con­ tinually on the pulse of the people. A policy that will not stand the most searching criticism does not deserve adoption. The advanced publication of purposes in Secretary Carlisle's situation would, it is true, give the speculators a chance to combine against the Government, to some ex­ tent; but oven here the advantage to the conspirators is not as great as it seems on first thought to be, for the speculator always manage to keep themselves "posted" regarding the designs of the Treasury Chief in situ­ ations like the present, or whenever any important move would naturally be looked for. While, as the Globe-Democrat says, there was too much talking done by the recent Secretary of the Treasury and some of his subordinates, it will not be safe for the present official to go to the other extreme. The peo­ ple, from time to time, want to know the exact condition of the Treasury, and they want to get their informa­ tion from headquarters. Ordinarily they are not especially interested in this direction. That is, when the gold reserve in excess of the $100,- 000,000 greenback fund amounts to $80,000,000 or $90,000,000, as it has often done in the past three years, the public concern in the matter is is not very great, as a reduction of even $30,000,000 or $40,000,000 from these figures would not make any dif­ ference in the Government's ability to meet its current obligations read­ ily, but when the free gold is around the $5,000,000 mark, as it is now, the situation is altered. On the whole, publicity is safer than mystery in Government fiscal operations, as in many other fields of Federal work. Secretary Carlisle can sa ely take the public into his conlidehce in the pres­ ent exigency. The Taxed Breatfist Table. With their President in the White House and a Democratic Congress at the Capitol, the free traders have reached a point where they begin to talk about the taxes which they in­ tend to impose on the American peo­ ple. Since the election they have been gradually approaching advocacy of the taxed breakfast table. The movement began with caution, but has grown in boldness from day to day and week to week, until now some of the highest authorities in the Democratic party are unequivo­ cally on record in favor of duties on tea, coffee and sufcar. The Philadel­ phia Record asserts that, as a pre­ liminary step to attacking the Mc- Kinley tariff, new sources of revenue, which will yield about $100,000,000 to the Treasury, must be opened, and insists that this amount can only be raised by going "at once to those sources of fiscal revenue only."'These sources are thus point out: "First in the list is sugar, which at a duty of 1J cents a pound only would yield a revenue of $60,000,000 on the basis of last year's importations. Next comes coffee, which at a duty of 3 cents a pound would yield $18,- 500,000 more. Tea would produce $4,500,000 revenue from a low duty of 5 cents a pound." Here are Democratic taxes for the contemplation of the workingman who Was caught in the Cleveland net last November by the bait of "cheaper neeessaries of life." They mean a tax not alone for his breakfast table, but for his dinner table and his tea table in the bargain. Tlie<e will be tariff burdens concerning which he can entertain no doubt. When the Republican Congress removed the duty from sugar that article dropped in price just the amount of the duty. When it is reimposed the price of sugar will go Up immediately, as will also tea and coffee when they are taxed, because this kind of tariff is a revenue tariff, and, unlike a protect­ ive tariff, is always added to the price. The Press does not overlook the fact that along with these taxes com­ pensatory benefits are promised. But those benefits are supposed to come from throwing down the barriers which alone insure to hundreds of thousands of workers their daily em­ ployment and living wages. When the workingman is thrown into idle­ ness or has ins wages reduced by the deluge of foreign manufactures^which Mr. Cleveland and his party propose to let into this country, he will find that every pledge of benefits made by the Democratic party is a falsehood. : , :-- GrMhaim. When the Pres3 drew a comparison between Cleveland's Secretary of State and Benedict Arnold it was be­ fore the occurrence of an incident re­ ported in a special Washington dis­ patch which stated on unimpeachable authority that, at the first meeting of the new Cabinet, Gresham said: "IX l am pernutted to have my way there will not be a Republican hold­ ing a Consular or diplomatic position at the end of the next three months. I believe in turning them all out." This is the man whom some 6f our contemporaries were inclined to class as a Republican, even after he had entered Cleveland's Cabinet. u The Republican party has to-day no more malignant opponent than Walter Q. Gresham, Secretary of State, in the free trade-Mugwump administration. Gresham has the zeal of Benedict Arnold. As the traitor of the Revolution was more rabid in his hostility to the Ameri­ can cause than the British to whom he had sold himself, so Gresham tries to out-Hepd the Democrats themselves in his attacks on Repub­ licanism. The Republican party observes Gresham in his present attitude with great composure. Benedict Arnold did more injury to the British in his assault* upon his own countrymen than he did to the Americans. The Democrats arc welcome to Gresham, although it is evident that they do not take very kindly to their convert Perhaps they think he is too vehe­ ment to be sincere, and too selfish to "be true to his newly chosen partisans. --New York Press. aroundagreatstate. BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Foolish Young Men of Sangamon--Panic in a Chicago Restaurant--Chose Mates by Mail-Baby Burned to Death--Con- g'lMaman Dunham Wants a DIvoreA. . Cleveland and the Spoils. The ostentatious professions of de­ votion to the principles of civil ser­ vice reform by the new administra­ tion will be taken by the public for what they" are worth. The nation remembers perfectly well that the Cleveland Administration which came into power in 1885 made the same pretense of proposing to adhere rigidly to the theory of a non-parti­ san civil service. It remembers also that every one of these Pharisaical professions was shamelessly violated, that the President broke every pledge that he had made in regard to the civil service, and that the offices were speedily lilled by a horde of rapacious and incompetent Democratic poli­ ticians. Mr. Cleveland's offenses in this respect were of so gross a char­ acter that even that stanch Cleveland organ the Evening Post on May 18, 1888, declared: "The painful truth is that wa doubt if a single independent voter in this State out of the thousands who sup­ ported Mr. Cleveland in 1884 any longer attaches any importance to the utterances of the members of the administration on the subject of civil service reform, or any longer refuses to believe that the President's prom­ ises and professions have been vio­ lated or disregarded on a great scale with the utmost boldness in sundry places and in divers manners, and that men like Judge Maynard and Surveyor Beattie have been actually detailed or told off to practice as much civil service abuse as can be readily concealed or disguised when they are found out and exposed." Every intelligent voter will judge Mr. Cleveland's present assertions by his past performances. The forces that are behind the Democratic President to-day do not differ from the forces that elected him in 1884. The Democratic party is probably the most selfish and corrupt political or­ ganization that ever attained power in a constitutional government. With a few honorable exceptions, its leadership is made up of men who are utterly destitute of patriotism and whose chief object is to secure posT session of the official spoils. The membership of the Democracy com­ prises the most vicious, ignorant, and un-American elements of the body politic. Such a party, headed by such leaders, will demand the most thorough application of the spoils system: and they will bp pretty cer­ tain to get what they demand. It would be ridiculous to place any dependence on the declarations of those noisy pretenders to suoerior viitue, the mugwumps. Mugwump- ery consists only of the profession of disinterestedness, never in its prac­ tice. Even the regular leaders of the Democratic machine cannot sur­ pass the mugwumps in their insist­ ence upon "recognition" and re­ muneration from the National Treas­ ury. The second administration of Grover Cleveland, like the first, will be an administration of spoilsmen by spoilsmen and for spoilsmen. The mugwumps will get all the offices they cam The regulars will get the rest. Krport» and Imports. The American Economist calls at­ tention to the fact that the imports of goods to all United States ports were in excess of exports to the ex­ tent of $ltt, 144,664 during Jan­ uary of the present year. It is several years since the balance of trade stood thus. In January, 1892, the excess of exports over im­ ports was $37,418,786. -That is to say, in January of last year the month's trade between the United States and the rest of the world made this country a creditor to the extent of $37,418,786, but the trade for January of the present year leaves it a debtor to the extent of $16,144, 664. The difference between receiv­ ing nearly thirty-seven and a half millions for things sold by the United States to foreign countries and pay­ ing more than sixteen millions for goods bought by the United States from foreign countries is very consid­ erable, and it is a difference that is sure to affect domestic trade and commerce. It is too early to judge the perma­ nent effect of Democratic policy on business, but that the anticipation of tariff changes is tending toward un­ settled conditions is not deniable!1. Meanwhile, though nearly all food products are unusually high, there is no sign of any such reduction in manufactured goods as the Democrats promised as a result of their return to power. It will not be strange if the cost of living during the year 1893 be found largely in excess of that during 1891 and 1892, though a corresponding raise in the wages of labor does not seem probable. No, Never! The country will never again see the phrase "billion dollar Congress" in a Democratic paper, now that the appropriations of the Democratic Congress aggregate $1,027,000,000. against $988,000,000 by its Republican predecessor.--Indianapolis Journal. Woman's Tenderness. Women are not cruel to dumb ani­ mals. No woman will willfully step on ftjnouae. --liiehmond itocorder. fp;i: ^ " X, •MM-:, •< -r~c S.-Mr.k' .* From Far and Near. THE postoffice at Wisetown was en­ tered by burglars, who secured nearly $100 worth of stamps and $50 in cash. * THE recent storms have caused the growing wheat to come out rapidly, and the prospects are favorable for a fair crop in the great wheat-growing section of Southern Illinois. SEVERAL, rural young men of Sanga­ mon County attempted to cope with a Kentuckian at poker. In addition to losing all their money, they were in- indicted for gambling by the grand jury, and paid $10 each iand costs. Gov. ALTOF.LD has issued a procla­ mation reciting that "Our statutes hav­ ing provided for one day in the year to be devoted to the planting of trees, shrubs and vines,"thereforehe provides as Arbor Day, Friday, April 14, 1893. GOVERNOR AND MRS. ALTOELD gave their first reception at the mansion Thurs lay night. Invitations were ex­ tended to members of the Legislature and the new State Boards and their wives. The weather was very disa­ greeable. AT the corner of Desplaines and Madi­ son streets, Chicago, Oscar Hanson was walking west ort Madison street, when three men jostled against him. One of the men seized Hanson by the throat, while the two others rifled his pockets of their contents. Officers \Valsh and McComb heard Hanson's cries for help and arrived in time to ar­ rest the trio. EY-CONGRESSMAN RANSOM W. DUN­ HAM filed a bill in the Circuit Court at Chicago asking for a divorce from his wife, Elizabeth Wallace Dunham. Arthur W. Allyn, vice president of the Oakland National Bank, is made co­ respondent. Mr, Dunham followed up the bill for divorce with a damage suit against Allyn for $50,000 for the alleged alienation of his wife's affections. WHIT.F. James Davidson and his wife, residing near Bingham, were out doing the eveninir work their house took lire. Mrs. Davidson had left her 3-months- old babe lying on the bed asleep. When the parents and neighbors reached the house the room in which the child lay was a soothing mass of flame arid smoke, and before the little one could be rescued it was burned to death. QUITE a romantic marriage took place in the Christian Church at Salem. The contracting parties are William Tor- rence, of Austin, Texas, and Miss Nora McCarty, of Saiem. They had never met until the day beforo they were married. They began a correspondence about two vears ago. In the mean­ time they exchanged photographs, and when be alighted from the cars they recognized each other. • THE trial of the boys who raised the American flag over the Hoblit school- house, was concluded at Lincoln after a two day's session. After four hours of deliberation the jury disagreed, nine being for acquittal and three being for conviction. This will doubtless end the prosecution, as the sentiment in the dis­ trict is almost entirely with the boys. The Sag still waves on the pole oppo­ site Mr. Ellis' residence. ESCAPING gas asphyxiated nine men and women in the kitchen of the Tacoina Building restaurant, Chicago. It is feared that Edward Miller, the head cook, and Frank Stoner, the vegetable cook, will die. The employes had just commenced work when on odor of gas was noticed. The pipes were examined, but were found to be all right. Before any one became greatly alarmed Miller, th^ head cook, fell to the floor uncon­ scious. Then Nellie Shea, who was scrubbing the kitchen, was found to have been overcome. Doctors were sent for and soon had their hands full. Seven others succumbed. ONE HUNDRED ladies, the cream of Mount Carmel society and pillars of the churches, were out taking in the saloons along Main street one day last week. Their mission was to invite proprietors, bartenders, and the frequenters of the resorts to attend a temperance meeting. This sensational movement caused many of the inmates to fly to the rear of the saloons and inhabit the back alleys for a time. No event created such excite­ ment there since the memorable cyclone of 1877. The temperance crusade now on in Mount Carmel is the bitterest known in years, and the meetings are being addressed by Colonel J. C. Holt, the renowned temperance evangelist. THE "College of Life," of which Cyrus R. Teed is president, owes the city of Chicago a water bill of $75, which it re­ fuses to settle on the grounds that tho college is a religious institution. THE Rev. Fred Mahl, who has been leading a temperance crusade in Mas- coutah, was assaulted recently by one of the aggravated saloonkeepers. The minister squared hlmsolf and knocked out his assailant in one short but inter­ esting round. WILLIAM H. CORNELL, of Olney, is probably richer by $750,000 than he has been. Last summer he received infor­ mation to the effect that he was sole heir to an ^Englioh estate appraised at $800,000. Cornell was pennilees, but an Olney business man furnished him the capital to go to England and em­ ploy counsel. The Court of Chancery issued a compulsory writ, under which the trustees will turn over to Cornell the entire estate. EX-SENATOR T. E. MERRITT, of Salem, and his brothers and sisters have fallen heirs to an estate in St. Louts to the amount of upward of $60,000. The person from whom it de­ scends is Charles D. Gillespie, a nephew of Mrs. Julia Merritt. He died in a hospital for the insane in St. Louis nearly three years ago. There have been many claimants, but the Merritt family are the enly heirs. DETECTIVE STOTEK of Chicago was mistaken for a robber and seriously punished by William Shaughnessy Sun- day night. Shaughnessy arrived in .America two weeks ago and came di­ rect to Chicago. He was informed, he said, that all men in Chicago wearing large black hats were robbers. When the officer approached him Sunday night he surveyed him for a moment, and as he wore a slouch hat and an­ swered to the description of a robber he dealt with him accordingly. Justice Severson allowed Shaughnessy to go after he had explained to him the Amer­ ican styles of headgear. THE Peoria Transcript prints a map on which Chicago is represented as being the terminus of three railroads, while Peoria looms up" like a wagon wheel with railroads as spokes enter­ ing it from all points of the compass. The map is a fair representation of the modesty of Peoria, but of nothing else. AT Marion one entire block of brick buildings, with the contents of all the stores on the east side of the court­ house square, was burned. The block contained a drug store, clothing store, two saloons, two grocery stores, a dry goods store, restaurant, barber shop, Masonic hall, and law offices. Loss, over $50,000; insurance, $1?,000. The fire was of incendiary orig n. i~^'LE61silflVE DOIN^r EITUOATL «»I tlte Fccliilgii S»ui«Uain Affect tlrarlnc Injurlimnlj. Sir William Daltiy. consulting aura] surgeon to St. George's Hospital, has been noting down some * strange in­ cidents in practice"--that is to say, seitain cases within his own experi­ ence as a medical practitioner--> which he confesses himself unable to account for by any course of cause and effect with which the profession can be said to be at all accurately familiar. The most curious have reference to the effects of emotion on the various sense--, says the London Daily News. , One is that of a lady who was standing before her toilet table and looking through an open door into her husband's dressing- room, when she saw in a mirror the reflection of her husband in the act of cutting his throat. From that moment she was absolutely deaf. A similarly sudden and complete loss of hearing happened some years later to a young married lady who was sud­ denly brought face to face with her dead husband at a time when she be­ lieved him to be quite well and when she was going to meet him aftei a long absence. On various occasions Sir William Dalby has noted the re­ markable effects produced upon the hearing by emotional influences, not only by great mental shocks, but by mental strain. He has known not only sudden.gjrief but alsooverwhelm- ing jov instantly to make a person quite deaf. Sir William Dalby has known the sense of smell to be lost by very strong emotional influence, an:l with this the :?ense of taste. A remarkable instance of loss of a faculty is that of a brother physician, who in boyhood found himself sud­ denly deprived of the power of speech He was a man of middle age and ro­ bust appearance, ills hearing was perfect ana he could understand all vhat was said, but his replies were al­ ways comihunicated by pencil and paper. One day this physician an­ nounced that the power of speech had returned as suddenly as it had origi­ nally left him. He added that ho was entirely unable to ascribe the ie- covery to any cau^e, and Sir William Dalby confesses that his experience docs not enable him to offer any ex­ planation. Two of llut er'a I.avr Suit.*. "I. had an important law case on," said a Wakefield gentleman the other day to a Boston Globe representative. "I knew no one could win that case for rue but Ren Rutler. He was in Washington at the time. I went to Washington and after hard scrabbling for two days got an audience with him. He said he wouldn't take my case for $1,000 a day. He had more work on his hands now than he could attend to, and he went about hi» work right then. " Hjeneral,' I said, 'I Was bora Id the same town with you.' "He grunted, but wasn't otherwise affected that I could sea " 'Do you remember little Miss- ? And you remember the boy who used to send notes to her, and the boy who used to take them? I am the boy who took the notes.' "•And 1 am the boy ^ho sent them,' said the General. He held out his hand. 'I guess I'll take your case after all,' he said, and he did and won it" "Gen. Butler as counsel for the plaintiff in a damage case against one of the Boston street railway com­ panies, some years since, turned a point in his client's favor and won his case by an adroit and original move," writes a correspondent of mine. The accident in question had taken place in a crowded street and the testimony was contradictory and confusing. The conductor of the cz-r cn the witness stand swore poinc blank against the plaintiff. His evi­ dence was concise and he claimed to have seen all the occurrences of t.he affair and described them minutely, disputing the General's client at every turn. It was manifest that if the conductor told the truth the plaintiff had no case. "The General took up the cross- examination, but tile witness stuck to his story. " 4What is that?' said the General, pointing to the bell punch suspended from the witness' neck. ' " 'Bell punch,' was the anwer. " *And what is a bell puuch?' inno­ cently inquired the lawyer. then followed a lengthy explanation of how the machine rang the bell to attract the passengers' attention that the amount was being recorded by the machinery on the outside. The whys and wherefores, the necessity for the thing and the company's rules were gone into until the court was well nigh out of patience and the jury were plainly wearying. " 'And what do you do if a mistake is made and you come out short when you and the machine are at variance'1" was the General's auery. " 'They make us piy the difference,' was the answer. " 'Won:t they take your word for it?' "'So.' "'Welli if they won't take your word for a nickel they needn't expect this iurv to believe vou,' said the General, and they didn't, for they gave the plaintiff a substantial verdict" I would not have my readers think the General intended any slur upon the street-car conductors, who are as honest and honorable as the rest of us. The General had a way of "get­ ting there, *' no matter who was hit WORK OF THE STATE &OLOHB AT THE CAPITAL. Bocord of One Week's Presented, Considered and IT hat Oar Public Servants Are Dohufr*--.'.' I»andAronndLegislativeHaOa. it ':"y • •• •„*? The LaW'Makm. -• In tbe House Sionday evening' the readtsff of the journal of Friday tai dispensed with, and. on motion of Mr. Paddock, the House proceeded to tbe order of tiotrae bills on first reading. A lot of bills were advanced to second reading, and a number introduced. President Pro Tera CoppingeE called the Senate to order, and the reading of the minutes was dispensed with on mo­ tion of Senator Barnes. Xbere were not over a dozen members present and on ac­ tion of Senator Ma&eclie the Senate ad­ journed. * • The entire time of tbe Hdase Tuesday was taken up with the consideration of the Ferns resolution for a constitutional con­ vention. In the Senate Mr. Johnson's anti-Pinkerton bill, providing that no per* son not a resident of tho county can serve as deputy sheriff, constable or special po­ liceman. which was stronsrly fought second reading, was passed by a vote to 1. The bill appropriating to the versity of Illinois Sli),000v by of an act of Congress, was passed. after which the Judi Committee bill providing that the Treasurer shall not loan any State ™ money was ordered to third reading. Mr. Seibert's bill providing that tho money , collected under the license law be appro- •. -. * priated to the improvement of the respect- . ive township roads and bridges, was read -f*. a second time and laid on the table by a vote of 20 to It Mr. Caldwell's bill to pro- V j Vide for the appointment of two gate* war lens in each county came up on second &'i reading and was laid on tbe table. > r'-X 4 The time of the House Wednesday was V chiefly occupied in consideration of th« Berry anti-pool-selling bill and the Stringer 'YM compulsory education bill. An effort to reconsider the vote by which the Wheelock , H'i.y resolution, substituting district courts for the Chicago Justice courts, was defeated, - J :* by a vote of 74 to 66, the necessary two- ,C, v- thlrds vote being lacking. Ihe Governor's - '* | message recommending the abolition of ; *'3 certain State boards was referred to tho 'A'Stsj Committee on Judiciary after a more or ' "n less amusing debate. In view of the paa- ...f sage by the House of Representative Berry's anti-pool-selling bill the Senate made the bills on the same subject, intro- C duced by Senators Conn nnd Berry, a special order for Thursday. April «, to be then ^ considered In conjunction with the 'f; House bill. The Senatorial ap­ portionment bill adopted by the Democratic caucus was then advanced to third reading by a vote of 2? to IT. after a number of amendments offrrid by the Republicans had been successfully voted down. Mr. Forbes' Ohio and Mississippi and Baltimore und Ohio bill, authorizing railroads to consolidate so as to form aa interstate line, was passed unanimously, bat Mr. Green gave notice that he would move to reconsider the vote Mr. Coon's bill giving women the right of suffrage at certain elections, which came up on third reading, was made the special order for Wednesday. Mr. Higbee's bill, calculated to dscrcaso blindness by requiring the health inspector to be notified at once of any defect in the eyes of a newly V>rn in­ fant, was passed unanimously. Mr. Bass* bill regulating the practice of dentistry was taken up on second reading. The bill was loaded down with amendments, and after an boar's debate was, on motion'of Senator Thiele, ordered to lie upon the table. In the Senate Thursday Gov. Altgeld's recent message recommending the aboli­ tion of certain State Boards was referred to the judiciary committee, after which the Senate went into executive session and confirmed a batch of nominations. Mr. O'Malley's bill affecting the salaries of * Chicago's election clerk and commission- era then came up on second reading and ; J' was advanced to third reading after the t ^ adoption of an amendment offered by Mr. • ° Thiele reducing the fixed sum of S3.500 a ' "7 year to $2,000 in the case of the conmiis- v 'j sioners. and $2,509 in that of tbe clerk. tMr. Caldwell's bill providing for uniformity ^ in the assessment of banks was then passed, as were also Mr. Berry's bill en- abllng executors to close u?» an estate ^ in two years and Mr. Manecke's bUI > 1 v to abolish the claims commission. Tbe House bills appropriating S18.C30 for re­ pairing the damage done by fire last De­ cember at the Chester Penitentiary and requirini anl public school teachers to ob­ tain certificate* from either State or county authorities were then advanced to thiid reading. Mr. Brands' bill compelling the State instead of the county to pav the ex- > '-t'j penses of coroners' inquests in $tate In- * stltutlons was advanccl to third reading. .. !•% The bill introduced by the ^sweatin** investigating committee, providing tor ( ' State Inspection of clothing, was read ' a third time ana went over to Wednesday , under the head of unfinished business; -gj The opinion of Attorney General Moloney f prescribing the rights and duties of the State Auditor was Voad in the House and ' referred to the Committee on Judiciary. * Considerable debate was indulged in on the motion of Mr. Goodall to reconsider the Committee on Revenue's adverse report oa Si"f| his bill providing for ths redemption of land sold for taxes* at a lower rate than now prevails. The committee IOport was •, ir\| non-concurred In. and the bill ordered to first reading. Both houses adjourned aatlt April & . . * A Too Much Athletics. There is an out ry in England jusc now against the practice which ob­ tains at some high schools, notably at Kugbv,^ of requiring boys to take occasional five-mile runs as a part of the regular athletic exercises. One lad 14, after having been medically examined and pronounced sound, ran four and a half miles in forty min­ utes, and dropped dead from overex- tion. This is tbe first fatal result. Of 505 boys at the school 124 were excused from running during the last term by the medical examiners. The outcry caused by this deat^h has been increased by a proposition since made that once a year boys of 17 who are pronunced sound shall run a twelve- mile race. £ TIIK grocer never sings, "my way is dark and lonely.n His weight is usually light Why We Should Eat Apple Sauee. People often wonder how certain cooking or table-Berving fashions grew up, and why mint sauoe is served with one meat, apple sauce with another. And j aud so on. It is interesting to note that our forefathers must have been a stood deal more thoughtful in regard to their diet than we are, for a good reason can be assigned for nearly all the appar­ ently arbitrary rules of this kind they have handed down to us. For instance, pork should never be eaten without a liberal supply of apple sauce, and never with any kind of rich stuffing or dress­ ing. Pork is generally a rich food, and it contains a great deal of rich matter which wants to be neutralized promptlv in the system. The same is the case with fat geese to even greater extent. Apple acids have splendid medioinal powers and properties, and, although they are most marked in the raw fruit, they retain a bulk of their strength in the cooked form. Little inconvenience is experienced from eating rich meat, especially if plenty of apple sauoe is swallowed with it, and more particu­ larly still if a good ripe apple is eaten immediately afterward for dessert. Well-cooked oatmeal eaten with a raw apple is really an ideal diet for human­ ity, nnd a man can keep strong and healthy on this at the smallest possible outlay. , v March of Pestllencr. » IN 1826, cholera at Hurdwar; soma* of Ganges. THE black vomit raged at Gibraltar for a year in 1828. GIBRALTAR visited by yellow fever ta 1804; garrison decimated. IN 1817, cholera at Calcutta; 70,000 Juggernaut pilgrims died. IN India, 1817. 30,000 English soldiers perished during the summer. CHOLERA in liussia in 1830; whole M < provinces almost depopulated. : . £ Pli.Mit'E throughout East and AFRICA in 1799; 247,000 deaths at Fez. . 1 / YELLOW fever carried to Spain West Indies in 1803; \ery fatal. • ' CHOLERA over Russia in 1829; 300,000 persons died during the summer. 1 ! Is 1815 Mauritius lost one-fourth of ~ /• $ its population from yellow fever. IN 1804 small-pox became general L» Central Africa, carried by traders. IN 1817 terrible visit of cholera'!* ^ Bassora; 18,000 died in two weeks. ^ IN Indian cholera of 1817, HIGHWAY* filled with bodies of those who fled. CHOLERA during Poli«h revoiutioa'tit 1830; both armies almost destroyed. IN 1828 Gibraltar was visited by SMP fever, wfcieb proved very dsatraetlva^ m < , sjm •ssfcug' A ' r. - • -5