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Pledged but to Trutliy to Liberty »Wd Law 9 No Favors Win us and no Fear Shall ['HENBY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1894. PUBLBHED ETBBY WEDNESDAY BY V A N » X , Y X » , SDtTOB AND PROPRKTOK. OFFICC IN TMK NICHOLS BLOCK. .'•/? Twe Doors North of ferry A Owen's 8tor*, z"1 - *' fin jus or euBSCRirriON: I*; • \ *«*•«•?. •-•-*••••• M ftid within Three Months 9 00 , Subscriptions received for three or tlx taonths ia the same proportion. \ • RATES or advertising: -, We aneeunee.ilbersi rates for advertising * .'Its, the PUkntDcilSS, ftud endeavor to state " - -liieia BofSagaly that they will be readily oa 4«»t«od. They are *s Miowst ̂ laeh one year . » . COO vsKneheeoaeyesr - . . . • »-iOOO H laohee one year - . * ,* BOO Slnma one year « -k * • So 00 Ituan one year. #• *' • 0000 Oola»n one yea* <>,,/ - <; «• - .MOflO I^Oae Inch means tk^uianlwi of one ffceh down the column, single colamn width. advertisers, at the above rates, have liege of ohanging as often as they it extra oharge. "Berular advertisers (meaning those having •landing cards) will be entitled to insertion .«(local notloes at the rate of 6 cents per line eaoh week. All others will be charged 10 Mnti per line the ftrat week, and 5 oenta per line for eaoh subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this la aet In) the first issue, and fstnti per line for subsequent issues. Thw>, ilk Inoh advertisement will cost 91.00 for one Week, $1.50 for two weeks, IS.00 for three Weeks, and so oiu §The PtiAiHDBAiiBB will toe liberal In giving lltorlal notices, but, aaa business rule, It ill require a suitable fee from everybody •eeking the use of its columns for pecuniary BUSINESS CARDS. - ' ? r.O. COLBY, D. D.a. f\EWTI<*T. Woodstock. 111. Special atten- \J tion paid to regulating children's teeth Parties coming from a distance would do wel So give timely notice by mail. Office, Kendal ilock, corner Main street and PublicSquare a J. HOWARD, M. D. rtSlOlAN AND 8UBGKON. Ofllce at the ersldence of B. A, Howard, West leHeary, 111. O. H. fe<£e BBS, X, D- jfrHTSIOlAN AND SURGBOlf, Office at Residence. MeHenry •m DB.A.B. AUBIKBBB, 'iJHYSIOI&N AND SURGEON. Office nDi JT Obllds building. West MeHenry, III Besldence, house formerly occupied by Dr. •borne, All pM^aional$e.Ile promptly at- nded to. • T. BHBFABD. ». t. BBEFAKD 8HEPARD * 8HEPARD, k TTORNKYb AT LAW. Suite 512, North. \ em Office Building, M L,a8alle Street hloago, 111. «-ly KNIGHT & BROWN, TTORNBTS AT LAW. U. S. Express Oo.'s - -- • -- Washington St. " ILIa. Building, 87 and 89 ^ T OHIOAGO, •w- V, S.LUMLET. TTORNEY AT LAW, And Solicitor la """"SboWWKW, ILL. Office In Park House, first floor. • ' w ' s -- JOSLYN A UA3BY, -"* • TTORNEYS AT LAW, Woodstock IIL l All business will receive prompt a» ten­ ia. a P. BARNES, TTORNBY, Solicitor, and! Oouuselor, Oollectionsa specialty. WOODSTOCK, iixmois. - J JOHN ft SMITH, hmakflr A Jewdlftr Mchenry. Illinois. A FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew. airy always on hand. Special attention -- watohes. Give me •en to repairing fine JOHN P- SMITH. 1: . o r . r' m "Wiu-'I'H»ii i lioriemeri, Look Here. - I have a fine stock of H rses, among which |gre Young Green Mountain Morsran/' "Mor. nil Charles." and others. Call and aee thee* jporeea before making armngementa elae- yhere. N. S. COLBY. MoHenry, 111., Blay 10, i»8. H. C. MEAD, of the Peacs and General in­ surance Agent including Accident and Life Inmrance OrrioB with B. Gilbert, heak Dsfot, W»»t UcUKMRY. III. . ft ST. CLAIRt of (he Peace. Insurance and Collecting Agency. «iWK» OK BA1LB0AD ST., KUNDAf Ills " •ft.jj/iiifiii-ti;; M. CHURCH* »iia,lce:r Jeweler O.On» Hundred Twenty-Five State Rt Chi' eaae. 111. Special attention given to re ngr Ine watches and Ohronometers. A full Assortment of Goods In his lint F. PILCHER l>eiktal - Sur, §QjHet»Uh Dr. Avrtngtr, We* MeBmry, JU. Crown, Plate and Bridge Work artistically Executed at reasonable prices. Special atten ^ion given to the care of Children s Teeth.' OOKSObTAXiOH FSBB, MoHenry House, , McHENRY. ILL. JOA HMIMBK. Proprietor, „ sltnatsd on the bank* of the fox . .liver. In the VilUge of MeHenry, special at p lention will be given to the entertainment of .Banters, Fishermen and Pleasure Seekers c^eaorally. ^aportBm*n Supplied with Otm pl«te Outfits* O. P. BOLKY, Fmrielir of MeHenry Brewery, McHENRY, ILL. on jBand with th$ Beet Beer,: 10c. Does smoke from your cigar arias , Like Incense in the air? Or does it. only cause a smudge ^ And make your neighbor awsirt Why will jron stick to cabbage lea res ̂ And drive your friends afar, When yon can purchase for a dim* "Our Monogram' fOc» COc. BAttftAffBRbS. MAKKBS OF Choice Cigara. We ean sell you one or a thousand--retail or wholesale. JOHN HA.T7PBXSIFS MoHenry* III. Having just put in a new Ironing and Polishing Machine, also STEAM APPLIANCES I am now prepared to do all work In the Laundry line on «bOf| .+ "notice, and sraarantee satisfaction. work left with me ^l1%i promptly done.as the new machinery put In enRhlus me to do my work much faster and better tbau heretofore. All Laundry will be called for and delivered when done, if word is sent me, JOHN MAUPftlSH? Î ritfTHE * COAL & .:FEED . • In Good Supply, Spot Cub Only. AsprdimJy. :'W WW1. ' W.A.dSjSTY, tVJESTMcBENBYUL. McHENRY H. MiUer & Bon, >»]DXALKBS IH-- UAllELE & GRANITE, Monuments, HeedafoaM Tableta, Etc. Cemetery Work of every de­ scription neatly executed at the Lowest Prices, SatkikcUsa QuiaatNd. Shop9 at MeHenry and Johns- burgh, 111, where at all times can te tound a good assortment of finished work. Henry Miller A (Son. P A T E N T S . FOR PROTECTION, NOT FOR ORRMEIT. trite DUBOIS ft DUBOIS, Patent Attorney* Inventive Age Building, WASHINGTON, D. C. CHARLE8 C. BE RUHR, Boot cu»d Shoe Maker, Over Heman Bros Jewelry Store, op­ posite Bishop*$ Milk MeHenry, Boot* and Shoes manafsctnred of the beat •wterial and a lit guaranteed. BEPAI RING Pioeptly attended to. Fine Boots sad Shoos a specialty. Call and see me. i _ _ CHART. *S O. BERN KB. MoHenry, Ilk, An*, 15,1893. DO YOU *: • 'WHO SELLSii;, Boys cape Overcoat«,.,.....s.«...rî .. |160 Men's chin Overcoat«».........;^;..t.. 4 50 Men's wool Suite..... 4 50 Boy's Suite ...9125 and 2 50 Men's wool Shirte and Drawers 50 $ 1.5o Buck gloves only 1.00 Heavy lined gloves and mitts 55 3 pairs handsome aocke. 25 Best beaver cap 75 Hundreds of goods at these prices. ** E. Lawlus. Opposite Riverside House. ANYBODY Who has been unfortunate enough nev er to have visited onr store should take the first opportunity to do so. Here he will find ANYTHING He wants in the way of a watch, a clock, or jewelry of all kinds. The great variety to select from stands in strong contrast with our unvarying principle of Belling everything at the bottom-most margin. In doing this there is scarcely ANY PROFIT On one article; but a little profit on each of many sales suite us better than a big per cent on a few. In this way we have the pleasure both of success in business and of benefitting the many instead of the few. Can we not benefit You? Kepairing of all kinds l»r^iuptly Attended to. > SOW IS THE TIME TO BUT |-'f:^ Sewing Machinol Only $5 a month until paid, HE AM AN BROS. A Love of a Bonnet Is frequently the cause of a qnarrel to the family, ours are »o|m,«*i|«M^e as to cause one We bar#* Noveltie* in Style c" > Surprises in Prices -^combined on exhibition, AIM, remember that we are prepared DRESSMAKING " In aU the latestatylea. We aim to p'stM. We wilt in a few days receive a large supply of Standaub Pattebms. Mrs. C.W. BESLEY WEST McBENBY. ILL. MWi I. J 11MAB THE DEPOT*: MoHENBY, tilt. Keeps open for the accommodation of the Public a First-Glass Saloon and Restaurant, Where be will at all times keep the Met brands of Wines, Liquors and Oigare to be found In the market. PAB6T>9 Kihranket Lagtr Bm. At WhoiMtls and Retail. Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottle* al­ ways on hand, cheaper than any other, quali­ ty considered. Orders by mall promptly attended to. GOOD STABLING FOB HOM9B SWOaUaad see as. Robert •ohiesole. j-. • X -V SOLmS' B1PARTMEHT. BY AM OLD SOLDIER. Only four army nurses got their 'pul­ sion claims through during the wesk ending December 16th. The motto of the pension bureau should be, **Let no guilty man escape, but above all, let no deserving man suffer," Mrs. Casey Tincher, ninety years old, went to Carlisle, Ky., to draw her pen­ sion recently. The distance is twelve miles, and she walked the whole distance. The Grant cottage at Eiberon, N. J., has been bought by Mrs. E. S. Price, of Mew York city- The cottage has been occupied for the last few seasons by the purchaser. The price paid was $38,000. To let 3,000 men die a month unpen- sioned while eagerly hunting for my thi cal rascals who are said to be drawing pensions they do not deserve, hardly seems to be carrying out the interest and spirit of the pension laws. The pension haters had much to say in the House about the necessity of investi­ gating the pension roll, but none of them attempted to explain why it was neces­ sary to stop pension granting or sus­ pend thousands of deserving pensions in order to examine a few suspected ones. Capt. John Palmer, secretary of state elect of New York, has chosen for his deputy Hon. Andrew Davidson. Com­ rade Davidson served in tbe army over four years, and is at present editor of the Otsego Republican. Mr. Davidson was wounded three times during his service. Under the Harrison administration He was first deputy commissioner a§ pensions. A Kobie Old Han. Mrs. D. Nelson, Winters, Cal., tells of one Emmons, who claimed to be first cousin to Jefferson Davis, but who was intensely loyal. He was 70 years old, gray and bent, at the outbreak of the war, but went to the recruiting office to enlist in the Union army. He was reject­ ed on account of age and infirmity, but nothing daunted, he went home, dyed his hair and^beard, left his cane at home, and, walking as much as possible like a "ounger man, tried it at another office. But he could not tell a lie about his age, and was again rejected. So he consoled himself with the remark that if they would not take him as a soldier he would go home and raise free wheat for the soldiers. We continue to receive many requests from comrades for a printed form for petitions to send to congress asking that all claims be made special and settled by Dec. 31,1894. If the comrades will re­ flect a little, they will see that it would not be good policy for us to send out these blanks. The cry would be immedi­ ately raised in congress by the pension- haters that these petitions were manu­ factured to order, i nd sent out from Washington. Their effect would thus be greatly injured. The way to do is for the comrades everywhere to write personal letters to their Senators and Representa­ tives, telling tiiem In plain homely lan­ guage of the great desire of the comrades to have Congress make provision for the settlement of every claim now before tbe Pension Bureau within the coming year. Where it is thought best to get up a peti­ tion let it be upon the letter heads of the G. A. R. Post that the signers belong to If this is inconvenient, take a sheet of legal cap, write one a plain request to congress to pass a law providing for the settlement of all claims pending in the pension bureau by Dec. 31, 1894, and have it signed, with the addresses, regi­ ments, etc., of the signers, so as to give it the utmost authenticity.--National Tribune. A Hp for Boka If Secretary HokeSmith had been on the floor of the House recently he would have received a stinging rebuke for his pension paring in the following recent incident re­ lated by the Washington Post: "Gen­ eral Sickles, the New York Representa­ tive, whose stirring and eloquent speech in behalf of the old soldiers occasioned such a demonstration in the house dur­ ing the pension debate, is so crippled by the wounds received in the war that be is compelled to use a crutch. Yesterday, whenever a vote demanded that he should pass between tellers, he gathered his crutch under his arm and manfully trudged down the isle from his seat to add one more to every affirmative vote that might help in passing legislation proposed for the benefit of his old com­ rades. Finally when he was physically exhausted, another call for a vote by tellers was made. Appreciating the vet­ erans condition, Representative O'Neil, of Massachusetts, picked up the crutch and, holding it aloft, marched down with it to the space in front of the Speaker's desk and passed with it between the tell­ ers, Messrs. Holman and Breckinridge. The uplifted crutch spoke louder than words, and it is needless to say that it was counted. What words could speak louder than that uplifted crutch ? And what effect it should have on men of the Smith tribe, who are as much in sympa­ thy with the old Union soldier now as they were when their fathers faced the same soldier on the battle fields of the iter.--St. Louis Star. Dress flannels, of good quality, 36 in. wide, 25 cents per yard, at Evanson's. ' That Prayer te Cleveland. We are in receipt of numerous requests to publish the prayer to Grover Cleveland which has appeared in many papers. We do so to satisfy the curiosity of many of our readers who have not yet seen it. It runneth as followa: Oh, almighty and all powerful Cleve­ land, who art in Washington, when not fishing ; thou who art the father of Ruth and Ruth's sister, and the god-father of the Democratic party (its father wouldn't own it if he were here), we hail thy name as the great political prophet of the century. We bow down before thee in political obedience. When thou sayest go, we go, when thou sayest come, we come. We have no desire but to serve the. If thou sayest black is white we will swear to ic and lick the everlastin' stuffin' out of the man who disputes it. When thou takes t snuff we will sneeze; when thou sayest free silver we will echo thy words; when thou sayest gold then gold it is. We are Democrats after the im proved modern type. Onr business is to vote the ticket and vote 'er straight. What is it tq us whether we have free silver or not? We are but dogs that eat of the crumbs that fall from our master's table. When'the crumbs fall we wag our tails, when they fall fast we Wag faster; when they don't fall we stand still until they do. This is Democracy. This is the kind of Democracy which elected thee, our great and almighty Cleveland, Oh, most adored master, we love thee for what thou hast not done for us. We love thee because thou art Cleveland. We humbly surrender ourselves to thee. Do with us as thou wilt. Though wheat is but forty cents a bushel, we love thee though cotton is low we love the; though business is dull we love thee; though thousands, millions, are out of employment we love thee; though our wife, the d4ar companion of our bosom, is scantily dressed, and looks so that she can't go to church, we love thee; though we are sinking deeper in debt, and poverty is knocking at the door, and hunger staring us in the face, we love thee still. This shows our great faith aud love for thee. Our wives and chil­ dren we are willing to sacrifice, even as the Hindoo mother sacrifices her off­ spring by throwing it under the crushing wheels of the juggernaut. Oh,, mighty Cleveland, words cannot express our love for thee. We love our party, too. What care we about the many promises it made. We know it promised free silver, and we know it won't give it to us, but we slick to the party. We know we said if it did not do the things it promised to do we would leave it. We thought then that we had some manhood about us, but we ain't. We have no independence. Thou, oh mighty Cleveland, hast all the manhood and independence in the party. We are fools, liars, lick-spittles, mudsills. We have no business to want anything or to say anything. Last year we favored free silver and now we have to oppose it. We favored it then because we thought it was right. We oppose it now, most adored master, because thou tellest us to. Ain't we a honey of the first water! Did ever a dog serve his master more faithfully? Did ever dog get less for it? Oh, mighty master we are ever ready to serve thee and the party. All the pay we ask is to be patted on theimck by some local politician and be called a good Democrat. We ain't got any sense. We don't want any, only enough to vote the ticket.. It don't take any sense to be a good Democrat. What a joyful thought. We don't have to think. We don't have to worry. Our work is all mapped out for us. All that is expected is to do what we are told to do. We thank thee, oh Cleveland, that we are Democrats. We thank thee for the panic. We thank thee for the hungry and idle men and women in the land. We thank thee for the low prices. We thank -thee for the banks that have busted and the thousands of business failures since thou hast come iuto power. We thank thee for the hard times. We thank thee for the rags our children wear. We thank thee for the clothes our Wife needs and can't get. We thank thee for what thou hast done for the banker and for what thou hast done for the people. We thank thee foir all these thinga because it is our duty as a good Democrat todoso. It may be "against the grain," but we take our medicine. We will work our wives to death, starve oar children, sacrifice our homes, crucify liberty and kill prosperity, but we will never go back on our dear old party, and on thee, our most adored Cleveland. Thou art of more account than all of us put together. Thou knowest more than the south and west. CalluB fools; spit in our faces; wipe your feet on us; we will love thee all the more. And now, our great political father, we leave us in thy care. Do with us as thou wilt. Kick silver into the middle of the next century; give more privileges to the national banks; issue more bonds; preserye the McKinley bill; establish state banks; faster trusts; bribe congressmen with patronage; fish whenever thou wilt, and hunt snipes whenever thou carest to, and we will endorse everything thou doest, carry Cleveland roosters, campaign torches, and for ever more sing thy praise. Amen. Gunnison (Col) Tribune. Awl," LONG WALK. We could not improve the quality if paid double the price. DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve is the best salve that exper­ ience can produce or that money can buy. Julia A. Story. The Unlucky Tear. For a generation, perhaps longer 1893 will stand in history as the unlucky year. Commercial failures unprecedented In modern times have been thickly sprinkled along its pathway. The depression and hard times have not been confined to the United States alone, but singularly enough have been shared by all English speaking people. The largest single bank failure recorded for the year was that of the National Bank of Australasia which went under in April with liabilities amounting to $37,500,000. Australia and all England's south Pacific colonies were shaken to the center financially. The nest largest failure was perhaps that in which the American Erie railway, with a floating debt of f ̂ 6,000,000, went into the hands of a receiver in July. It was a terrible year financially for railroads, with 30 of them at present in the hands of receivers. It was also a year of unparalleled accidents and loss of life on tracks and trains. There were 29 serious accidents and collisions, most of them during the World's Fair months. An average of over three persons a day * as either killed or badly injured on rail­ way trains in 1893. Fire, flood and storm keep pace with the other misfortunes. Certainly not less than f100,000,000 went up in flame and smoke in 1893, mostly in the United States. The most destructive single fire, however, was that which occurred in London, July 17, with a loss of $7,500,- 000. Large areas in Boston and Chicago were burned out again. In Boston two great fires occurred, one o! them destroy­ ing $2,500,000 worth of property, sweep ing over the identical ground ravaged by the fire of November 1872. March 23 a tornado struck several of the southern states, causing in Mississip­ pi alonea loss of 18 lives and over2,000,- 000 worth of property. August 27 West India cyclone swept up along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, crushing and drowning nearly a thous­ and people, destroying crops and making thousands of negroes destitute. A still more terrific storm visited the gulf coast Oct. 2, involving the loss of 2,000 lives andjan incalculable amount of property. Not lees disastrous was the great cyclone on the coast of western Europe Nov. 19. A storm so destructive to shipping has not been known on the British and French coasts in half a cen tury. Even these storms in America and Europe are insignificant, though, when compared with the calamity that over­ took the town of Kuchau in tbe Persian province of Khorassen. There on the 17th of November an earthquake shock caused the loss of 12,000 lives. Of lynching horrors and train robber­ ies the melancholy year of 1893 goes down to history laden full. May we make no such unhappy record in these respects for 1894. With so many sicken­ ing events crowding one another upon the observation and memory, with the want and bitter hard times all around them, it is scarcely to be wondered at that so many persons lost their mental balance, forgettjpg themselves some­ times in insanity, sometimes in suicide. In New York city alone there has been an average of a suicide a day during the whole of 1893. The number of thous­ ands taken off by the cholera in Asia, eastern Europe and north Africa there are no means of knowing. It must have been at the lowest 50.000 however. Eighteen hundred and ninety-three has given to man its lessons of suffering and terror. It is ended now. If mankind shall learn from the woe aqd want it un covered to be just and kindly, then its losses will not be all loss. At any rate it is gone. Whatever comes after can be no worse. We breath a deep, long drawn breath of relief and turn our faces with new hope and determination to 1894. An Unwelcome Visitor. •Word has been sent to the courts of Europe that the shah of Persia intends to visit Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris and Vienna next spring. He will start on his journey in May or June and will remain in Europe several months. The rulers whom he is to honor are in an unhappy state of mind already on ac­ count of the proposed visit. No living sovereign, in all probability, is a more unwelcome guest than the shah, but his cousins in Europe are obliged to re­ ceive him with all the honors due to his rank. Entertaining him is more ex­ pensive than entertaining any other monarch. His retinue is almost a le­ gion.--Berlin Correspondent. • Fu--tlsse e«*o mm » Slat ttstadred Site Txeanb W. H. H. Rhodes, 64 ^ determined; Mrs. Lydia 44 years old. a sister of Mr. Bhoils* having considerable of Ida Louis L. Rhodes, 18 years old, atfH Irwin Rhodes, 10 years old, tirsd hungry, completed half of a walk Wednesday night and all* life the first time in three weeksSa a warn'.*: place. * Rhodes, his two Sons and sistar am;: 5" on the way to Cameron county, "WHLit * and left Dayton, O., Dec. 8. M reached Englewood about 9 o'clock |a# evening and were directed to tiw palm! ? station, where they were givmmiptr, ' and lodgings. Rhodes told an inlMipil*' ing story. "I was engaged in atttftr business in Cameron county. Wis;,** fc® said. "In July I got a letter from a ;;ii brother whom I had not seen in 24 '% years, in which hh urged me to come ̂ to Dayton, O. He told me that I wnli . find employment there and thai lMf; would assist me. When I got there, he told me he wrote the letter because ho ;̂ wanted to see me. I couldn't do any- ' ./ thing there, and if I wanted to starve X , ./• would rather do it among friends thSB' strangers, and so I decided to coma back. My sister's husband having died* ^ she was alone and wanted to come witk V me. I hadn't any money, so we dscld- ed to walk. We left Dayton Dee. # and have walked every Step of theKW miles. Two nights we were witfcont fire, and only four nights have wfe flspfc in houses. We make from 10 (t 1# miles a day and hope to get to tination next month. Sometii get money, and at South $2.50 was raised for us. 1 can ttpdWf* money in Wisconsin, and my sister Will keep house for me." - The family started out early Thurs­ day morning on the tramp of tibe Qt&gf • J 800 miles.--Chicago Letter. < •; ^ « - x. MEW FIGHTING MACHINES. Aateaeatte Iron Soldiers Th»t Cms Sfcao* -'\;v Forty Times m Minute. • :'(?0 A fighting machine or automaton sol­ dier is the last work up to now of civ» ; Uization. Nobody in future need >Mt bis life in battle--that is, if a neinpt* ^ per of Barcelona is not mMnfonaaei ai j * to the merits of a new invention. Ac* *1 cording to that journal, the inventor ; h has offered it to the Spanish government for use against the Moors in Melilla. He is ready, for a sum of £300,009 sterling, to proceed to theseat of opera­ tions at the head of 100 of the neW" combatants. The machine soldier is made ottom and he is set going by ckK&wtarfc* When wound up, he can fire 40 rM&tdf t a minute, and he carries in his interior a large supply of ammunition. Should he be captured by the enemy, he ctt ha blown to pieces by means of an eleotrio discharge acting upon a quantity of dynamite stored in his head. ' ,. - The paper seriously declares that tha - 1 capabilities of the new warrior hav« , ^ been successfully tested before a oan»7 , 'i mittee of experts. ; ft® Whistles In Sword Hilts. - The new tactics adopted for the army contemplate the giving of commands by. p. whistle under certain circumstances^ instead of by word of mouth. Conse* quently infantry officers have received • , a intimation from the acting chiafef i ordnance that they are expected to pro* _ •> vide themselves with whistles at own cost. The order says: „•: "Themajor general commanding tho^ 'f army, having approved the introdno- tion of a whistle in the cross piece of ̂ the guard of the sword for intently of- fleers, desries to inform you that tha ' . ̂ commanding officers of Springfield • armory and Bock Island arsenal hava " -< been instructed to make this altermtioa " as promptly as possible upon thereoeipt !| of the arms. The cost, which will bo i|| paid by the owner of the sword, will • be about $3.75 eaoh for lots of §0 os more, but the expense will necessarily be greater where work is conducted on but few swords at a time."--1 ton Cor. Buffalo Courier. \ Can Steer This Balloon. ' .:Ai| important series of experiments at the military balloon school of in­ struction near Chatham is approaching completion. The utmost secrecy is maintained, but it is reported that Ma­ jor Temple has at length found an aeri­ al steering apparatus which he relies upon to act satisfactorily in all condi­ tions of weather, except an actual storm.--London Letter. Most Get s New Msstls. ^ . Several European sovereigns' nowned for the length of time which they wear their- clothes. The record in this respect, however, is broken by the rector of the Berlin university, who has just been compelled to order a new official mantle at a cost of 2,400 marks. The one which he has worn until now was made exactly 192 years ago*--*Ber- lin Gazette. ' Tgaoranee of the merits of DeWitts lib- tie Early Risers is a misfortune. These little pills regulate the liver, cure head­ ache, dyspepsia, bad breath, constipa­ tion and biliousness; Julia A. Story. Train Bobber Perry In a Mad hensa. Oliver Curtis Perry, the notoriooa train robber, was a passenger recently. ) on the Central train from the west. He was on his way from Auburn prison to the asylum for insane criminals at list- ' teawan. He was chained hand send foot, and three burly officers guarded him, Everybody about the depot has­ tened into the smoking car to catch a. glimpse of the daring desperado .exploits are still fresh in the minds ot „ all. The prison officials have, it considered Perry insane for some r~":' He has given a good deal of iroublajj Auburn and has been subjected tail*', vere discipline there. He apf!titre#i||l quiet enough on the train.--Utica Press* K 0 Wbere the Money "IT--| When the Midway plaisanes peopto' were leaving Chicago, bankets weiw,.w"' kept busy for quite a while iA $1,000, uou or more, .which ibey caxtied , away as the result of a summer^* ln^ ^ dustry, into the coin of other realms. donkey boy from Cairo street uurolled a tattered cloth containing $?00 ia sft»/ /I ver, for which he wished French francs ̂ while a camel driver had a clear |1,» M0. An Arab, a Turk, a Nubian sot* dier and an elderly Egyptian follows ̂ and a Persian dancer had a little for- , V: tune of $1,600 in silver.--Mew York Ledger. A Ub| WaiU la drawing up a will it is always best to call in the aid of a solicitor, Otherwise your executors may have a lot of trouble, and the bulk of your prop* erty be swallowed up in law oosti*. These consequences are likely to in the case of the will of erts, the Birmingham pin The bulk of the property is in the Bank of England for 20 yssa* at the expiration of which time it is •JpaHj divided among the ; v v ;