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MCI i. mt SlYKE. Editor and Publish#*.' MoBKKRT, W? ILLINOIS w WOMB. *'*• A'v M Tfc« rnncc rides tip to the pal*ee gats*, / And hi» oyes *lth tears nr.; dim. , • ^ For lie Think* of t he beggitr maiden iwMt - < C\" '* Who never may we<l with him. w •fX- ,4 Home is where the heart is, "r * » 2^ J.. |n dwelling i rent or small, '"'i : •••=."»;.• ;?«-i Afc,-! th< re's innuy a tplendld paltitS v 1 hat's never u home at all. r 7 „ The yeoman ccmss to his little oot -f * •' With a song when day i§ done. 4 „ v For bis dear e 1* standing tu'the doo^fe|fj$£ And IH'B children to meet him run. . * J f or home is where the heart. 1b, , In dwelling great or small, And there's limnv a st-atoly mi Tbat'i never a borne at alL Could I but live with niy own ewee In a hut with Banded floor, I'd be richer fur than n loveless man With fame an 1 a golden store, tor borne in where tl.e heart is. In dw elling great or small. And a cottage 1 ghted by lovelighS is the dearest fcoire of ail. • |TA11GEK\ 'SSlTl'ATKKf. ml- / I'- ' '• The Emersoris were slaves, bound liard and fast to the tyranny of cus­ tom--the bondage of keeping up a fashionable appearance with inad­ equate means to support it. Upon Mrs. Emerson and Harry, the only son, the yoke did not weigh heavily, but it sorely trailed Mr. Em- i erson; autl Margerj-, the only daugh­ ter, chafed against it with ail the in­ effectual impatience of her seventeen years. * "Life would be so much easier if fill# could only give up pretending!1* decried; but her mother and Harry scoffed at her philosophy. The striv­ ing and pretending, the staving off one debt and gcttng into another went on apace. Lying alone in the hammock in the fragrant twilight of a late May day, Margery was thinking over things in general with a noble discontent, when suddenly from the room beyond she heard the voices of her mother and father. Mrs. Emerson's tones were conciliatory, as they were apt to be when she sought some new favor; ber hu-iband's accents were shrill and impatient, a? if his last thread of endurance were strained. 4,I thought. Henry, you'd like the idea of Margery taking this trip w;th the Pages." "Like it? Yes, immensely, but I think we shall all bo called upon to take a trio to the poor-house instead. I came to that conclusion this morn­ ing when three of Master Harry's bills were forwarded me, each of them four times larger than it ought to be." ••Well, but Henry, you can't expect • young man to get through Harvard without bills." The conciliatory tone was dashed | tion that Nemesis with defiance now, and the sharpness , him. of the answering voice was increased. So far as his gay, ease-loving dispo- .. "I don1! exDect it. Considering . sition would permit, those days were trae sort of young man Harry is, I j anxious ones even to him. But his should be a fool if I did. And yet I j spirits did not suffer thereby, and it don't blame him half so much as 11 was with an appetite wholly uaim- A gentleman never IxfplUcs bis wofa, you know." > He lightlv tried to kiss h?r then, but the scorn in her eyes deterred him, and his laughter subsided under her reply. "But the gentleman may break his father's heart one of these days, or tempi him to try how fast a bullet can take him out of his troubles." Harry gave a long whistle; "Mar­ gery," he cried, '-what is a fellow to da under a tongue like yours?" But Margery knew satilv well that, though he was neither bad at heart nor vicious, the "fellow" in question loved his own pleasure too well to do the thin* she required of him. When he haa gone she whispered to herself: "I shall have to do it! It's lust as heroic treatment for me as for him< but I don't feel as If I could draw back now." A day cr two later, having still further matured her plari% she said to her mother: "If you don't mind, mamma, 1 should like to go to Boston this week to visit Cousin Sally. You know she's been asking me ever since I wrote her that I could not go to school en account of niy eyes. I am sure she will not think it too much if 1 go for a few days now, and go again for Commencement week." Now Cousin Sally was a maiden lady, with just such radical proclivi­ ties as were beginning to make them­ selves apparent in Miss Margery. Mrs. Emerson hesitated as to giving her consent. Then she saw the other side of the question. In both social and financial re­ spects Miss Saily Parkhurst could af­ ford to do as she pleased. Her favor was a thing to be desired. Margery did need a change: and last of all, this often unwise but always loving mother hated to refuse ber children anything. "Very well,11 she said? "but you must not stay too long. We'll have your Class-day dress made next week, and you know how important it is that you should be here to try it on." "Oh, 1 know it's very important," wily Margery answere d, gravely; add ttlrtilitt ir you wert iftd prond td* Work Fd show you that I wasn't!" All through this torrent of words her brother walkea angrily around, affecting not to listen. But be stood still now, looking sternly and seri­ ously into her face. "And you will stay here and do this menial work just, for the sa«ce of shaming mo?" Put in this way she did not like the sound of it, but she held her ground unflinchingly. •T not only mean to say it, but I mean to do It Oh, you need not look at me like that! I don't like it--you may be sure. I could have sank into the ground this evening when those young men joked about me. But I've begun, and I am going to go oh. I'm not going to be a sham or a burden one day long r." He walked away from her then,and leaning against the mantel, remained in utter silence fully Ave minutes. To most of us, however ease-loving or however hardened, there are moments when it is given us to see a new Heaven and a new earth; and to Harry Emerson this flash of inspira­ tion came as he stood studying the border of shells wherewith Mrs. Collin hadHanked ber fireplace. Margery watched him with intense anxiety. Under all her pain and dis­ appointment she had still such faith in him that it was not wholiy a sur­ prise to her when, reluming to her side, he said, with all the anger gone from his voice: "We must call Mrs. Coffin in and# explain to her, Margery.' 'Say any-* thing you like--I don't care--hut I'm going to take you into Cousin Sally's this evening. Your mission'is ac­ complished. I'll take the hotel place or do anything else that loan to help: and when 1 fail, I'll give you leave to go out to service again as fast as you please." Margery, looking up at him through her happy tears, felt almost as if she were marring the splendor of his sur­ render by saying as she did: "But, Harry, I must tell you! Cousin Sally said that if you saw things this way, sh6 would j>ay every ing then, "I promise I will not stay debt you owe, and help papa out of long with Cousin Sally." j According to the letter of it, she | kept her word. She only stayed over ! a couple of days in the tall old "West j End house which bad sheltered sev- ] eral generations of Parkhursts, but j into those davs was crowded much I comfort and encouragement. From ! this old house, on the afternoon of the third day, a trembling though hopeful maiden, bag in hand, set out for Cambridge, and Miss Sally followed her in spirit with some anxiety and much sympathy. Margery's scheme was to Cousin Sally's liking; but handsome Harry, busy with his own plans and ambi­ tions, had not the faintest premoni- was approaching • V blame myself. I started him wrong. He'd be twice the man he is now if he had been making his living for the last two years, instead of vying with millionaires' sons, acting as though my poor little bucket of re­ sources were an inexhaustible spring. And though it is different with Mar­ gery, the principle is the same With all that her private schools have done for her, I doubt if she could earn • dollar for herself, and Who knows bow soon she may need it!" All this was so wildly unlike her much enduring, indulgent father that for a moment the unwilling listener on the piazza felt inclined to paired that he walked into his board­ ing house, in time for dinuer on the evening of the day of Margery's pil­ grimage to Cambridge. There were several things on his mind just then, and a somewhat de- ! pressing letter from his father was in | his pocket But Fitch was telling a | funny story as Harry seated himself, j Catching the point in his own quick i way, he laughed as heartily over it as • any. Then he himself told an anec- ! dote apropos of the other, and was I listening to a confidence from his j neighbor on the right. j "Say, Emerson, Miranda has gone away. We 'have a new table girl, doubt both his identity and her own;! and she's a beautv." Kllf Vt A« 111 1_ • _ I ** _ hut her disposition was so like his . > that she telt an impatient pity for 1 the feebleness of her mother's re niy. j "But Henry! Harry will be sure1 to repay you some day, and a girl as ! bright and pretty as Margery cannot! fail to marry well." ; ? "Now, May," he answered, with . added vehemence, "that is justjrhere ; the rottenness of our system comes . in. Harry will never repay me, for | he has not been brought up to any j sense of moral obligation. If he would put his shoulder to the wheel, * , ^ could manage to get through some-T ^ bow. But I have no hopes of him. < "Why, to-day my friend Sinclair, ! , proposed giving Harry a place as % derk for the summer, in his summer hotel in Maine. But none of that'! •ortof thing for my son and heir! 1 He is going with a party to the Adirondacks. i 7* -- % "Margery--bless the child!--would ' take a chambermaid's place, 1 be-, • iieve, if she thought that by doing ; so she could save me one pang But I doubt if she could do even that i- All her chances, it seems, are staked on a wealthy marriage--a pretty poor | ambition, it strikes me, for days like Jfj' these." ? Then it was that Margery, like $•;v :«ome modern Joan of Arc, heard a voice which whispered of a conflict . beyond with the hope of a victory. §, 3?hen it was that, leaning over the \ piazza rail, she said excitedly to her- aelf: fc* "I will! I'll give Harry a chance first for he could save papa more F-A than half this worry. If he refuses help me, I'll give him a lesson he pT. will not forget soon." The next evening Harry came home •f.,. to spend Sunday. Margery attacked I him with all her might and main. ! >»• Keeping her own project completely 1 in the background, she appeale'd to y his sense of justice, his sympathy, y >. f Ills manliness, and every other virtue pr *1; . Jt might be possible for him to pos- gAjt * #ess: but there was not a shadow g* *are upon Harry's handsome face lie said: - | w "Now, Margery, you were always Iv.vfm agitator, but I think it's a little 7 linfair to work on my feelings so near > the end of the year. You'd be eaten { lip with remorse if you got me so | ; Unstrung that I couldn't pass. Ana ] Anyway, old girl, father's all right. This »ort of thing has been going on • ever since I cau remember. There's always more or less racket, but we |jet there just the same." "And to save him a little of the 17 racket--to show him that, after all, he needn't despair of you--you'll not take this position with Mr. Sinclair, instead of going to the Adirondacks?" : Harry only laughed. "I wasn't made for a hotel clerk, Margery. I haven'tdiamondsenough;and besides, promised Fitch and Morrison *pHmtfc»ago tbftti*d go witb them. | the tight place he is in. She never j did help us before, she said, because we seemed to her so lacking in good principle." But even when Miss Sally had helped them to such an extent that they soon sailed past all the breakers of which 1 have written, Harry's new manliness proved seaworthy. So ef­ fectually, indeed, did he learn the lesson which Margery gave, that his contributions to the family exchequer saved her from any need to take a second situation. -- Youth's Com­ panion. • No Such Thing as Instant Death. It is questionable if such a phe­ nomenon as instant death is known to the scientist and investigator. Physicians and surgeons tell us that death by gunshot wound is the easiest mode of terminating life; yet> accord­ ing to the Philadel'phia Hecord, rapid as such a mode of taking off must necessarily be, the body has leisure to feel and time to reflect, and, on rare j occasions, even to act. On the first j attempt of one of the adherents of I the Spanish Monarch to assassinate ] William, Prince of Orange, the ball I passed through the bones of bis face ! and brought him to the ground. In I the instant which preceded stupefac- J tion, however, he was able to frame j the notion that the ceiling of a room j had fallenJn and crushed him. The i cannon ball which plunged through : the head and tore out the brain of Charles XIL did not prevent him from seizing bis sword hilt The idea of attack and the necessity for de­ fease was impressed upon his mind by a blow which we wonld naturally suppose to have been too tremendous and instantaneous to leave the least interval for thought Another ques- .tion in this connection is that of probable pain. Although numerous instances could be cited in support of the view that the mind acts in cases of so-called instant death, it by no means follows that the infliction of a fatal blow is attended by the least semblance of pain or a single pan? of fear or regret Unless daath results immediately, however, the pain may be as varied as the nature of t-bft in­ juries. , c. Popcorn Balls. W-. The popcorn ball of the confec­ tioner, made of tasteless corn, a small amount of white sugar and gum arabic, notwithstanding its white beauty, is a very inferior article hi taste compared with the home-mide balls.' In our family the little folk are exceedingly fond of cornballs, and one of the number, a young girl, quite prides herself on her skill*in making them. The younger children shell the corn and assist in the popping. A peck pail is almost filled with the white exploded grains, excluding those Irreverently dubbed "old maids," the grains that will not pop. Half a pint of molasses and half a pint of sugar are mixed together and put on to boiL To this is added half a teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoon- ful of butter. This must boll until ... , . • lingered | it is about ready to candy, when it is SHIUve m? .r/„ her ejes'» "y°u | poured over the corn. As it is poured ncedn t be afraid » tbe ccrn 8hould ̂ Rently stirred with Concluding that even if it were all j the handle of a . wrong she had nothing to fear, the ! landlady went out at on-.e Then behind him the new girl spoke. "Will you have mulligatawny or lamb broth, sir?" If he had lost his composure com­ pletely; if he had jumped up and de­ nounced her, or even if he had fainted before his mulligatawny could reach him, this new table girl would hardly have been surprised. But he did neither of these things. Starting slightly, he turned around and looked in her facte; but though his own ruddy cheek did change color, their was no recognition in his gaze. In the coolest possible voice he re­ plied, "Broth, please!" Then Morrison across the table called out mockingly: "Our friend Emerson*i> struck all of a heap with so much youth and beauty." Emerson, quite in his usual man­ ner, answered, "I'm all of that, I assure you." But all his sang froid could not prevent him from finding that din­ ner a bitter one: and his father's let- ler in his pocket seemed to have gained an added weight An hour or two later he retraced i his steps toward the boarding-house, i rang the bell, and brought the land- ; lady herself to the door. ! "I want to see that new table girl, ; Mrs. Coffin," he said. "She left my mother only this week, and I have a message for her." 'Oh, it's all right," he added, im­ patiently, as Mrs. Coffin of as and sent tbe girl in. Margery came w erect, and no fear in her innocent eyes. But tumult was in her heart, and at first she could not find voice to answer his imperious greeting. "May I ask the meaning of this masouerading. Miss Emerson? What­ ever it is, you certainly choose a nice way to disgrace both yourself and me," he said still more angrily, after a moment's pause, and then she .flashed upon him. "There never was any disgrace in honest work! It's you who are in much more danger of disgracing us ! all, and perhaps you will think so I yourself if your selfishness and ex-1 travagance kills papa. He is iust sick ! with anxiety now, and you could save him from it if you only would. I am sure you could live on half what you do, and you have so much influence with mamma that she would save, too, if you would talk to her. "I'm not clever, I know, but I could do the housemaid's work, and I would, but you will not do anything. You refused to take that situation, and you only laughed at me when I talked to you the iast time you were home. And then 1 lost made up my TRAGEDY Oi* Al«4t8THBtlC8. JPoMttite Eflifcl* in the Field of Buifwi •( Col. S)icp»rri'ii Death. The death of Elliott F. Shepard was startling in its suddenness and impressive in its relation to one ot the most benign discoveries of modern mcdicine. Dying in unconsciousness from the effects of ether administered to enable surgeons to make, a diffi­ cult examination, and perhaps pre­ form a critical operation, Col. Shep- ard's death will probably have a de­ terrent effect on the too ready use of ether in medical practice. i It is only five years since ether was ( first employed in conservative sur- j gpry. No other agent has been i equally beneficial to healing science in's from me, Prior to the realization of its value surgery knew little except the cut­ ting off of deceased or injured por­ tions of the -human body. In one generation a complete revolution has been effected Like all other useful agencies it has been attended by dan­ ger and difficulties: its effect an hu­ man constitutions being incalculable to some degree until tried In a small proportion of cases its effect is fatal, but the profession when the victim is less conspicious than Col. Shepard, protects its members from publication of their error in regard io it when committed in good faith and according . to the best understood principles that govern its use. The first authenticated trial of ether for the dulling of sensibility under surgery took place in the Mas­ sachusetts General Hospital, when Dr. Warren removed a tumor from the neck of tbe patient who was will­ ing to be subjected to ether. The experiment was not perfectly success­ ful. The patient did not complain of pain, but he was aware that the cutting was going on. Succeeding experiments completely established ether and chloroform riot only iu ordinary surgery but also in obstetrics. Anaesthetics have become powerful also in other fields of research. Un­ der their co-operation the presence of subtle diseases previously too obscure for treatment has been subjected to intelligent investigation. Many nervous maladies deemed hopeless, so far at least as their physical and mental torture went, have been thus alleviated or healed. Anaesthetics have become an essential factor in all physiology; even the naturalist finds their aid invaluable in seeking the secrets of plant generation, while biology employs them with e^ual daring and profit in studying animal life. Universal, in fact, aselectricity now is in application, like electricity the principle of anaesthesia still eludes or baffles to some degree those who are most confident and most adept in its use; and there Is no greater zeal in the investigation of the essential traits or nature of the electric fluid than in the studv of gases with a view to their more thorough understanding in science. It was not a university man that made the first attack on the potency of these occult forces. Humphrey Davy, an apprentice to a surgeon, oe- gan to study that found in this coun­ try half a centurv later its first prac­ tical demonstration. It was Davy who detected in nitrous oxide gas what became in popular phase' 'laugh­ ing gas." It was one Colton, a cross between a student and a showman, who gave the first, public lecture on "laughing gas" in Hartford, Conn., in 1844. A dentist named Horace Wells was present and observed that a man to whom Colton had admin­ istered the gas was unconscious of in­ jury or pain when he fell. "A new era in tooth-pulling!" was the jubi­ lant cry of tbe Yankee. It was Wells who called the attention of Dr. Warren to it in Boston, and from that came the rapid introduction of anaesthetics in surgery and medicine. As fey ideas of universal importance ispring from one mind only, "laughing gas" was being tried about the same time in Georgia. In 1842 Dr. Crau- ford Long removed a tumor from the neck of a patient whom be had per­ suaded to inhale gas. Long died in 1878. A portrait of him hangs in the capitol of his State. The next chapl.et of medical honor awaits the man who will discover the tests by which medicine shall bors, dates. «nd proper espetlai care and distinctness. Ta date a letter at the Beginning on the right-hand side, a note at the end on tbe left-hand. To fold aod direct a letter neatly; and to put on thestatni! evenly, and in the proper corner. To direct a letter to a married lady with her husband's full name or last name and initials. Blight Drawback*. ' •'Your boy Jeems is a master uand at his books, ain't he, Pete?'* inquired one ol the natives of Cornerville ol Mr. Peter Hobbs. "He Is, an' no mistake," replied the father proudly. "He is good at everythin', Jeems is, an' I calc'iate he takes his head-work- His ma wa'n't no great of a scholar." "I expect you must 'vc ben head o' the hull class when you 'tended deestrict school, wa'n't ye? inquired the neighbor. "I didn't come along till some years Sifter, ye know." t "Well, no,responded Mr. Hobbs, after a slight hesitation, "I can't rightly say I was; but it wa'n't foi any lack of head-workin's. I was a smart scholar, but 'twaa like this: There waswritin1--I sh'd have t en a fust-rate writer, but it cramped m' fingers up so, it'most set me crazy, an' I had to give it up There was readin'--1 sh'd 'a ben head o1 the class in readin' if it hadn't made m' head kind o' dizzy. "An' there was g'ography," con­ tinued Mr. Hobbs, after a pause, g'og. raphv alius come as easy as pie to me, but 1 couldn't seem t' get m' tonguo round the names o' the places, an' so I jest give up tryin'. "Then there was 'rithmetia *1 was right at home with Aggers, but Pd add an' divide an' so on so plaguey fast that I'd get all snarled up an' confused, an1 I'd have to stop right in the middle." • How about spellin1?" inquired the neighbor, respectfully, after a moment's silence. "Well, when you come to spellin'," said Mr. Hobbs, "there wa'n't a namable word in the spelltn'-book or the dictionary that I didn't know- not one. But ye know how 'tis about, words now an' agin. You may know 'em jest as well as ye know your parents, an1 yet they'll sort of embar­ rass ye, some way! That's how^twas with me about spellin'. There was a few words, say a hundert or so, an' alius has ben, that embarrassed me, as ye might say, an1 one way or 'nother they alius fell to my turn, come spellin1 lesson. "I was a fuso-rate scholar, an1 Jeems favors me in his head-workin's, I calc'iate," concluded Mr. Hobbs: "an considerin'he don't suffer from the set-backs I did,, I shouldn't be surprised a mite if he was reckoned-- take it by an' large--a better scholar 'n his pa was.'1 long spoon, and the candy distributed through itasevenly as possible. As soon as. it is suf­ ficiently cool, with buttered bands ith her pretty head I the corn is formed into balls. The j corn must not be pressed too hard ! when making the balls. i The butter and salt--so there is j not too much of the latter--improve j the taste very materially. Of course these balls are not so nice-looking as I those of tbe Confectioner; but they | are far more palatable. --Albany Cul­ tivator. warned against the use of gases when the inhalation of them will prove deleterious or deadly. Taet* The value of a little tact is illus­ trated in a story which dates back many years ago. One of the last im­ portant measures of the Common­ wealth of Massachusetts, before Maine was made a State, was to negotiate with the Penobscot Indians for the purchase of their rights in a large tract of land, and some very eminent gentlemen were selected to carry out the bargain. After the signing of the deed with all due formality by the assembled Sagamores at Bangor, it was neces­ sary for them to "acknowledge it;'1 as the legal phrase is. One of the stately commissioners held up the paper and asked "if they acknowl­ edged it to be their free act and deed." The result was the red men gath­ ered their blankets around them and relapsed into a state ot stoical indif­ ference, giving no sign of a reply. Gen. Blake, who was present, had had much to do with the Indians, and saw at once they did not understand what the formality required of them meant Hounding: the AtmMph^re. i The exploration of the depths of the sea by improved sounding ap­ paratus has led to the discovery of an entirely new order of animal life. These were found at depths to which light can not penetrate, and under a pressure which it was formerly Re­ lieved no form of animal life could exist in. The success which has at­ tended the experiments In deep-sea sounding has induced the belief that observations in the atmosphere are possible at a much greater height than any yet recorded. There are many problems concerning the upper air--such as temperature, the pres­ sure, the quantity of moisture, the composition, etc.,. the available in­ formation concerning which has hitherto been lamentably insufficient for the purpose of the advanced physicist of the day. The greatest i height yet reached is 29,000 feet above | the sea level, the record made by Glaisherdn 1862. It is now believed, j however, that the secrets of the air j up to at least 40,000 feet will seon ; be divulged. Mr. Hermite, the ! French scieritist, has been during the j last few months making elaborate ex- periments in the dispatching of pilot baloons, 'carrying registering appa- j ratus. These baloons are very light, wjth a capacity of about 100 to 200 { cubic feet Falling at distances from ; Paris ranging up 200 miles, tbe to I baloons have nearly all been returned by their finders, as requested on a card attached to each, and one has brought down records from a height of 30,000 feet. The instruments used are very light and simple, and with larger baloons and systematic explora­ tion it is believed that facts of im­ mense value to science may be brought to li^ht ^Shaklnjr Up a Boom. A writer refers to the passage in Fannie Kemble's "Recollections of Girlhood," where she tells of a habit her mother had of changing effects in her living rooms. Instead of al­ lowing sofas and chairs to retain un­ disturbed possession ot the places to which they were assigned, the good matrou frequently introduced new combinations and new effects. Try it if vou are in a state of dis­ couragement. Pull your parlor to pieces. Bring the piano out from the corner where It has been standing a year or more. Contrive corners by the judicious use of screens and drapery. Let the little rocker and the lounge hobnob socially. Intro­ duce a growing plant or two if none have been there before, and if the light is favorable. Do away with the monotony. You wHl find, a real ad- 1?~°wVofu°E. 10 chanKe et- A Oenulne Vtrot. There was a man who evidently knew little art and less millinery at the Loan Exhibition tbe other eve­ ning, according to the New York World. With bim was his wife, who was plainly a connoisseur in the latter and religiously improving her oppor­ tunities for its study. "There," she remarked, with her eyes upon a bunch of lace and velvet which adorned the blonde hair of another woman, "There is a genuine Virot" And her hus­ band aroused himself from the con­ templation of a painting by Oazin to remark that if Virot was another ol those pink and purple impressionists be dida^ care to see his picture. • " THE ambitious weather prophet tries to take the world by storm. paper. Turning to the head chief he said, "You willing--and all the rest of the Indians?" * 'Oul! Oul!" they all cried, in an­ swer, showing a? much of willing­ ness as' they had hitherto of reserve. Letter Writing. Use black ink in writing a letter. Do not waste words; be concise, but never curt It is "good form" to use handsome, thick, plain white paper. To use postal cards for business com­ munications only. To use figures for giving dates, or the number of a house or street. To sign a letter with the full name, or with the last name and initials. To inclose a stamp when writing to a stranger on your own business To have one's address en­ graved at the top of one's note or letter paper. To use sealrag wax, if you know how to make a fair and handsome seal To write "Kev. and Mrs. J. T. Sawyer," or "Dr. and Mrs. Paul Jones." To preface a business letter with the name and address of four correspondent* To write nam- Evening world. Too Many Women Journalists. Women journalists are evidently incoming a force in Japan, for it was recently proposed in tbe Japanese Committee of the Press to prohibit women from becoming publishers or editors. These offices, according to the committee, should be reserved for men not less than 21 years of age, and it was unanimously decided that the discharge of such work by "females" (men so deplorably behind the times would use the detestable word "female" where woman was meant) was neither becoming nor desirable. MEN are not in this ̂ forld rewarded according to what they know, but ac­ cording to what they can make otbfrs think they know. ^ THE way of the transgressor is hard, yet good people tell us It is the easiest thing in tbe world to follow . STORM8 IN llLlliOfV. AJI-Xtorta of the State Seem to Have SoF> •fered Severely. A storm, which in some sections proved the worst experienced in years, swept over Illinois Wednesday after­ noon and night. At Alton the wind came from the southwest, and torrents of rain came with it. The lightning was exceedingly vivid, and the store of C. & S. Bennett was struck by light- King and damaged $1,000 worth. The south wall of the water works pumping station was blown out and the other walls damaged. A building on State street was unroofed, and numerous chimneys, bill-toa ds, fences and trees were blown down. Taylor Brothers' large flour mill was unroofed at Quincy. At Ba'.dwin Park the mammoth grand stand was blown down, and the club-house and hotel damaged $5,000 worth. The union de­ pot lost a large part of its roof. The Soldiers' Home was also , greatly dam­ aged, four houses were blown down, and one family burled in the ruins, though afterward all were pulled out alive. The damage in Adams County will reach $lo,<;00. The path of the s'orm through Fayette County was from southwest to north­ east, and wa3 about 100 yards wide, unroofing houses and creating wide­ spread ruin. Outhouses, trees, fencing, et?., were carried before the wind like s'raws. Napoleon Blaylock's barn was lifted up and dashed to the ground, kill­ ing two horses. The front end of E. Ireland's brick livery barn was blown in, and Mr. Ireland and his family, who reside in the upper story, bareiy es­ caped being burled beneath the falling walls. [Reports have been received to the effect that Vera and Bamsey, in the northern part o* the county, were badly damaged by the storm. . Near Lancaster, Wabash County, the barn of Henry Spuriing was struck, by lightning and completely destroyed, to­ gether with six horses, several fat steei s, several hundred bushels of wheat and other contents. The storm wag se­ vere throughout the county, and consid­ erable damage was done in various places. Saylor SpringB was also visit­ ed, suffering great damage to farm prop­ erty, unroofing buildings *and blowing down fences. The heavy rain with that of the night before caused the Little Wabash River 1o rise until it covered the bottoms between there and Clay City, stopping the pony mails and hack lines. At Olney the Congregational Church steeple was blown to the ground. J. H. Senseman's new residence was damag­ ed. William Newell's residence was partially unroofed. Fahs Brothers' mill and Porner Brothers' elevator were un­ roofed. The water-works tower was badly damaged and miles of fencing on farm property east of the city was level­ ed to the earth. From the northern and northwestern portions of the State corns reports that ' where the storm was severe no great damage* resulted. At noarly every affected point the storm wa* accompanied by a most vivid elec­ trical display. IUInoli Crop Bepcib The Illinois weather service issued its first weather crop bulletin, based on 140 reports from seventy-five counties in the State. In many counties in the State, especially in the southern divis­ ion, owing to the unfavorable weather conditions which prevailed last fall, a large acreage which- was prepared for wheat remained unseeded. The re­ markably cold weather after Jan. 1 in­ juriously affected the wheat, owing to its unprotected condition, es- pec ally in the southern and central divisions. The severe sleet storm of Feb. 1, followed by rain and snow on the 2d, and the severe cold weather of the 4th, covered the ground over the greater portion of the State with a layer of ice which, in the opinion of many correspondents, ' was the principal cause of the injury to wheat The reports indicate that the crop t« badly damaged. In the wheat-growing region of the southern and the central counties many fields are reported winter killed and have been plowed under and will be put in oats or corn. Patent Medicines at Springfield. A bill is pending in the General As­ sembly to regulate the business of pre­ paring medicines for general sale to the public without a physician's prescrip­ tion. 'It is intended for the suppres­ sion of so-called patent medicines. It provides that the full formula of every medicine sold in bottles or packages ehall be printed in large type on a label attached to the bottle or package, and a severe penalty is provided for the sale of patent medicines without such an Imprint for the information .of the pur­ chaser. Its opponents claim there is no rea­ son whatever for the bill which does not apply to physicians' prescriptions. It a bottle of patent medicine must have the formula printed on its label, a doc­ tor shou .d be compelled to write his pre­ scription in the plain language of the country, with the measurements of tbe potion in plain terms instead of in hier­ oglyphics intelligible only to the phar­ macist who mixes the compound. If the proprietor of a patent medicine should be required to expose the secrets of his art, so should the regular physi­ cian, they say. There may be some reasons why the man who buys a bottle or package of patent medicine should know the nat­ ure of the ingredients. Intelligence has become widely disseminated among the people. Onlv an ignorant few re­ main who do not kuow the names and the operation of the great specifics for human diseases. For the large mass of intelligence on this subject the pro­ posed anti-patent medicine legislation is unnecessary. To the smaller mass of ignorance it would give no assist­ ance. They argue that the natural laws of trade should apply to patent medicines the same as to all other commodities. The people should be left free to buy or not to buy these articles. A ggression against the freedom of commerce is as antagonistic to the spirit of our laws in this respect as in any other respect - The, Blue Color of the Sky, The blue color of the sky is probably merely the color of the air seen through a length of about forty-five miles. It has been observed by those who have ascended about five miles above the earth's surface that the sky appears of a dark, inky hue, owing to tha very small reflection and dispersion of the light, while the blue color no longer ap­ pears above, but below them. Similarly the color of distant hills is owing to the same cause. Del Meer believed that were it possible for a man to ascend to a height of ten miles he would find him­ self in total darkness, even though it were bright noonday on the earth below Bogus IWgree Worjc. ft probably will interest those who buy Indian and Mexican silver filigree work on the trains in New Mexico and Arizona to know that many of these fragile curios are manufactured by a firm of people In the street called Maiden lane, in the city of New York.-- New York bun. bU j»r J -V Bine litm In Tomato. A driver in the employ of a Toronto liveryman has been lined for the offense of having driven a lady along the nub- lie streets of that city on Sunday; ̂ AROUND A GKE AT STATE. BRIEF COMPILATION OF NOfS NEWS. ' ILL!- Barroom Fight at Qnlncy Will ProbaM*ps End In AEarder--Barred from Basdnesi j " . • / From Far amd V.A ,A WIIJXJIAM LARUE and August Burton/-• L two runaway St. Louis boys, 12 year* >-. \ 1 of age, were taken into custody by 4 ' •?? Carlyle officer. - THE office of the Arbeiter Zeltung, a ' v *| small German dally of Belleville, burne4, out. August Stoeher, a German stree#; ". | vender, aged 56 years, was cremated! " Loss, $2,000. -1 AT Shermanville, the body of William L a w j e r w a s f o u n d , m a r k e d t o i n d i c a t e * ' J death by violence. Post mortem ex-^..V-* * a m l n a t i o n s h o w e d d e a t h b y c h o k i n g , ^ & > k , J caused by a piece of meat. ' » V* AT Cairo in the ease of John Sturdi-^,*.' vant, ex-Marshal of Genitalia, charged * ' with making and passing counterfeit 1 J- 'r.\ silver dollars, the jury notified Judg&v ?./*:7; Allen that they eould not agree, and-: "si were discharged. - DANiEii RESTCHI^EB, of RentcM*?^' 'k Station, a wealthy farmer of St. ClaiiT z \ 1", COunty, was run over by a runaway.ij^H'*'! Both his legs were broken and he susA 7 ^ tained internal injuries that will b«f, V ' likely to cause his death. f ^ ^ A SECOND meeting of Carlyle citizen* :> • * ^ was held to secure the extension of the % Chicago, Greenville & Southern Bail-s • ' wpy. Twenty-five thousand dollars an4' •»^ ^ the right of way Is required by the rail-irf roall people. Almost one-half the money,-^ ^ was subsoribed. The remainder will be ^ easily secured. \ % 1 THE liveliest seance ~of the year In , '1 the legislative halls at Hprlngfield seems* " . ^ ,jj to have been the disagreement betweentMI^S collegiate and non-colleglate veterinary •' | surgeons. The "hoss" doctors waxecfe-'- 3i as wroth In the discussion as thelsp- *• *h brethren who are real M. P.'s of rivaK i schools are wont to do at a coroner'# " ^ a inquest. PHILIP F. GUIMtt, for foHy years <*: Superintendent of the Jacksonville In-^H stitution for the Education of the Deaf v.. . and Dumb, has tendored his resignation^ and has accepted the Superintendency "N of the Colorado Deaf , and Dumb Insti- ' tntions located at Colorado Springs. I Dr. Carriel, of the insane hospital, has • also resigned. Gov. Ai/roEiiD has pardoned Theo- f dore KatiBh. who Was convicted ot burg- J lary at the May term, 1891, of the Cook I County Criminal Court and sentenced I to the penitentiary for three years. The | young man committed the offenee while •;% drunk, and his pardon was recom- mended by tho presiding Judge and f State's Attorney, on the ground that he if has been sufficiently punished for the Sfi offense. ^ THE new Board of Trustees of the Soldiers' Home appointed liaj. George . W. Fogg, of Quinoy, as Superintendent, to succeed Maj. J. G. .Rowland. An in­ ventory of the home property covered a cash value of $39d,000. A clean sweep is to be "made of allt^he ' subordinate offieers at the home, but no further ap­ pointments will be made for a week 01 so. Capt William Steinwell, the resi­ dent trustee, was chosen President ol the board. THE -village of Posey is stirred up ever the suicide' of * Miss ^nnle Hajet, aged 19, a prominent youhg lady or that vicinity. Miss Hart left her home, stat­ ing that she intended going fishing and would return soon. She falling to comfl back a searching party was formed by - the anxious neighbors. After an all-' night hunt the young woman's body was found lying in a pool of watei scarcely a foot deep, she apparently having drowned herself. THERE was a cutting scrape at Quinoy < Sunday morning in which much blood was shed, with possibly fatal results. ' Gottlieb Bush owns a saloon and eject­ ed a man named Edward King. King came back, and, meeting Bush's 15- year-old son on the outside, started an argument. The elder Bush heard the noise and came out to join the discus­ sion. A scuffle followed, in whloh King drew a knife and used it with terrible effect. Bush was stabbed in the right breast, the knife piercing his lung. He also received an ugly gash in the shouHer. The knife was pushed in to< the hilt, producing a serious if not fatal wound. The boy was stabbed in the shoulaer. arms and cheek, but his wounds are not regarded as dangerous. King was arrested, but refused to talk. THE Olney city election resulted in a sweeping Republican victory. The majorities range all the way from 75 to' 100. James E. Wharf is elected Mayor fOr the third time by a majority of 127. Ax unknown man, apparency about 22 years old, was founa dead in a barn near Napervllle. There ia no elew to his identity. THE Springfield Presbyterian Society^ of the Homo Board of Missions of the^C Presbyterian Church held its annual session in the Presbyterian church in - Lincoln. After the welcome extended ': by Mrs. D. H. Gardner, of Lincoln, ad­ dresses were delivered by the president, : Mrs. Emerson Glover, of Jacksonville, and by Mrs. Shultz of Decatur; Mrs. Mary Gillespie, of Lincoln; Mrs. Gar­ rett Snyder, of Springfield; Mrs. C. W. Robinson, of Bloomington; and Mrs. C. G. Averlll. A STRANGE man of gigantic build was seen in the woods near St. Libory, in the t-outhern part of St. Clair County. last week in an almost nude condition. He disappeared as soon as discovered, and the report that a wild man was at large in the community caused great excitement Officers organized and ' made a searoh. He was found burrowed,.;^ in a straw stack. After a desperate re- sistance he was overpowered and taken t; Jg ; to St Libory. After being clothed and ^ "f-'\ fed the stranger suddenly became *** ~ frenzied, tore his clothing into shreds and escaped into the woods. He was I* ' recaptured. The man weighs about 200 pounds, gives the name of Peter Hoff- fjfc man and claims his home is at Evans- " ville, Ind. DIPHTHERIA is epidemic in the town of Staunton and its vicinity, a few miles southeast of Hillsboro. There been several deaths. The 'public schools have been closed and a rigid quarantine is enforced. . * ; Now is the time when the back-town fartrisr might be expected to give second ...» thought to an argument for better eoun- try loads. With the wheels of his wagon 4*. up to their hubs in mud, the beauties of the antlquateci poll-tax system of road- making, whereby the man who can tell the most and largest stories and do the ! least work is reckoned the best man on ***51 the job; must appear beautifully less. IN the special election in St. Clair - County to elect a sheriff to fill the va- cancy caused bf the recent death of Sheriff Dawson, Langley, Democrat, gp, was elected.over Stookey, Republican. m-W by about 2<»0 votes. SOME young men in the north part of >. ,-V- Franklin County created excitement at Bhiloh Church by visiting the vehicles surrounding the building, Sunday night, and stealing all the available buggy whips, lap robes, and t ushions of the worshipers, with which they made a bon Hre to roast eggs. The trouble was caused by some of the leaderf being disappointed in escorting their sweet- > ? • ' ;