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mmm mm JUm - T t t * t.J -a,.Afc 'nin ̂ ml - -* »W W ' -1 PtAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. UcHKNlSY; ILLINOIS. OUR national cemeteries, etghty- three in number, contains 330,700 honored dead. Every individual i greater amount of stock this J*&. j fcrave is marked by a stone tablet granite or marble, of SOLOMON'S temple was 107 feet long, 36 feet broad, and 54 feet high. Though deemed a wonder of the world It was not larger than many private houses of the present time. . WHILE a student at Cambridge, ijhivercitv, Coleridge, the poet, af­ fected a peculiar style of conversa­ tion. At the dinners in the hall where the students dined, the veal served up was large and coarse Speaking of it, Coleridge said, "We* have veal sir, loitering on the edge of beet." INCREASE MATHER, once the Presi­ dent of Harvard College, believed firmly in the influence of c^mcts up­ on human destiny. It is hard to be­ lieve that such superstitions survive. Yet an English exchange says: "The rector or Harthill, in his parish mag­ azine, informs parents that the con- ( junction of ccrtain malign planets makes it more unlucky to have chil­ dren's parties on a Thursday for years to come."" No MAN ever succeeded in life who did not put his conscience into his work, whatever it was. If you agree to perform certain labor in return for certain wagfs,» however small, you have 6old your time and ability. Do that work the best it can be done. Form the habit of putting the best of yourself into all you do. Work with enthusiasm over the small tasks that are your lot ao present, always in hope that greater ones will corue to you by and by. They will be sure to come IT has been supposed that the waters of the Dead Sea are absolute­ ly destitute of any IMng vegetable or animal organism. A Fren ch in­ vestigator, M. Lortet, iias found that this is wrong. He finds innumerable numbers of species* of micro organ­ isms, and they are of a very malevo­ lent character. Animals inoculated die in a few days from tbe blood poisoning brought on through the agency of these minute bodies. The River Jordan, which is so popular with pilgrims for bathing, is said to be full of these micro-organisms. of wheat must advance to a point where it will pay to increase the permanent fertility Of the soiL It will be slow work to retrace the steps by which much of our cultivated land has been depleted of its fertility. But with - the use of clover and the combination of wheat growing with other crops, and the keeping of a change can be made. But it can only be by an improvement in the character of stock so tliat its keeping will be more than paid for, leaving the manure pile as the profit The improvement of the character of farm stock meets us as the first necessity in any dis­ cussion of the means to secure better farming. THERE has been considerable in­ terest aroused throughout the world on account of Bismarck's visit to Emperor William, showing that "all has been forgiven." The London Times has found the explanation: "So far as it is political at all it is intended to disarm Bismarck's hos­ tility during an important national crisis, for as such the Russian treaty is recognized. Nobody knows better than the Kaiser and Caprivi that tbe coming year is likely to be one of un­ common difficulty, and Germany's position will be an uncomfortable one. The first thing, then, is to close the ranks and, as far as possible, con­ ciliate the sleepless critic of the last four years. As Bismark, with all his faults, is above all things a patriot, this will not be difficult" - WHILE the farmer has suffered dur­ ing the past year, he has suffered less than any other class of men in the community, and should therefore take a roseate and hopeful view of the situation. It would not surprise us in the least to see next year one of the most properous years that the farmer has ever enjoyed. There is I likely to be no glut from old stores, {unless it be perhaps in wool, of any (product of his farm. Heavy e xports ind heavy feeding together with the short crop are fast cleaning up his granaries and there is likely to be no surplus of wheat, corn, or oats, and nth a short supply of hogs and a lecreasing supply of cattle, tbe out­ look, except for the lack of confi lence, which is fast being restored, really seems better than it has for a lumber of years past. THE Hawaiian language is imposed mainly of vowels, and few cpnsonants put in to iry the monotony. And the sauty of the system is that there is waste. Every vowel is pronounced, )f instance, when the American eye jinks at the appearance of the simple jrd "naauao," tbe glib native rolls kt the fi Vfe syllables with neatness and <nspatch. This means "enlighten." Imble vowels are very frequent, but n ver a dipth.mg. Three vowels are nit uncommon, and, as above, four aqd sometimes more are found un­ dated by consonants. In the miuth of the uneducated native, the laiguage is apt to be explosive, but th« hgher classes speak it with a fluint grace that surpasses the French or Italian. In sound it somewhat tmbles the general flow of the con* , tftofcntal European languages, for tbe •owels all have the French quality, and the accents arc not dissimilar. WHY do merchants encourage the credit system? You answer that you do not. Yes, but you da If the system were not encouraged by mer­ chants it would not be in existence to-day. Did you ever'stop to think that the mercantile community of the country is the only body of men who tolerate the credit system? Let's see you buy postage stamps, postal notes, money orders, etc., on credit, Go to the theater, and you pay cash. Express compan es demand cash, and railroad tickets are cash on delivery to the purchaser: Why should not the merchant demand and receive cash? Simply because he encourages the credit system. It may be an im­ possibility to completely eradicate the credit system, but a strict limi­ tation upon credits is a step on the right road, and its evolution will be pra tically a cash basis system, of doing business, it is worthy of atrial, and should begin among the jobbers. It will quickly spread among the re­ tailers, like measles in a country school, and when it does it has solved the dead-beat problem for all time. When sifted down, it will be found that tbe credit system is the pro­ genitor of and responsible for more evils that affect the financial and business world than all other agencies combined. . ' SAYS Trade: If the hard times will prove a restraint to the excessive immigration of laboring people and mechanics into this eountry, it will have proved itself an evil with miti­ gating circumstances. Why we should piesent inducements to for­ eigners to come here and compete with our own people in their own fields of labor is hard to understand. Our laws not only encourage tbe im­ migration of cheap labor, but of paupers as well; the restrictions upon the latter have not proved efficacious in keeping them away. Jt is just as senseless to ass these people to come here, offering them work to do, as it would be for a merchant to ask an­ other to start an opposition store across the street. And yet the Amer­ ican people have been doing this for a century, and we are now reaping the reward of their senseless gener­ osity. The law of supply and de­ mand regulates tbe price of labor, as well as of material. If there has been an excess of laborer the cost of labor is reduced, until some of these are pauperized and become a burden upon the State and their fellow men. This country cannot afford to sup­ port half a million competitors to its workingmen annually without bring­ ing suffering among its own people as well as those who come. It may be said that we cannot forbid the landing upon our shores of honest and industrious men. No, nor would we; but these do not compose bv any means the bulk of this immigra- tioa The paujjers of the old world, the socialists, the anarchist and the criminal seek here a larger and wider field for their peculiar operations. Already this country has had a fore­ taste in the crimes of anarchists and the threats of socialist* To these freedom and lawlessness are synony­ mous. They must be taught differ­ ently, and taught by penalties that will cause them to believe that this is a land qf freedom to the law-abid­ ing man, but an inferno to the crim­ inal. The poor we may take care of, if deserving; the criminal we must exterminate. TiiB excessive sowing of wheat on largk tracts with small yields has, the 'American Farmer thinks, run its natural course. The wheat sower in the future must sow fewer acres and ffet Urge enough yield to give him tome profit, however low the price. But When this time comes the price I Coal Before the Christian Era* It is not known when, where, and by whom coal was first discovered. The earliest record we have of this mineral Is in the writing of Aristotle and of his pu il. Tbeopbratus, a Greek authur, who lived about 23$ B. C. The latter mentions coal as being found in Liguris and in Eiis, on the road to Olympus over the.mountains. There is evidence that < oal was used in England as early as 852, and, ac­ cording to Bishop Pudsey (1180). Es- comb and Bishop wear mouth were two of the earliest coal mining settle­ ments. Newcastle cove appears to have come into notice about 1234, in which year Henry III. granted the Inhabitants a charter to dig for it. The Chinese knew of and used coal in the thirteenth tentury. The earliest referen. e to oal in Belgium is in 1198, when a blacksmith at Liege is said to have first used it for fueL Paris received the first coal from New­ castle, in England, in 1520, In Scotland coal was worked as early as the twelfth century. ABOUND A BIG STATE. Vaccination General--Xnch-Xeede4 Step Toward Reform In Chicago--Parana T*ek*r'» Sensational Methods Mmi Op a Hornet's Nest--Farmers Dttpe*. Credit of ths Virus. Ninety-three per cent, of the school children of Illinois are effectually vac­ cinated. The State Board of Health has gathered the btatistics on the sub­ ject and tinds this to be the result of the campaign to prevent small pox. They have not the means of obtaining exactly the percentage of vaccination among adults, but it is estimated thut 50 per cent, of the grown people are proof against the malady. The opp:si- tion to general vaccination throughout the State has not been what was an­ ticipated. In but a few cases have school directors urged against it and these were coaxed from their original position, with one exception. In Chi­ cago pupils are not allowed in schools unless they have been vaccinated, and there are only a few who have evaded the order. There is little opposition, of late, to vaccinate in neighborhoods where a case of small-pox has boon dis­ covered. Private and parochial schools have generally complied with the re­ quest for general vaccination. Poor Pay the Taxes. The Chicago Times has begun a cam­ paign against the rotten system of as­ sessment prevailing in that city, and its first attack was under the following heading: "Chicago's System of Assess­ ments Rotten to the Very Core--Prop­ erty of Rich Which Got a Valuation at One-Twelfth--That of a Laboring Man Is Fixed at 70 per Cent, of Its Worth-- State of Affairs Calculated to Breed S( cialitm and Anarchy in Any Com­ munity--How the Valuable Ashland Block Was Assessed at $153,000, While James McCombie's Humble Wooden Structure on the Northwest Corner of State and Twenty-fifth Streets Had a Value of Just $1,743 Allotted to It-- For Twenty Years the Burden Has Rested Upon Those Who Are Least Able to Bear It, While the Wealthy Have Escaped by Contributing About 10 per Cent, of What Was Due to the City Treasurer--Two Billion in Real Estate Estimated by the Municipal Agents to Be Equal t> Only $245,790,- 351." • Farmers Signed Without tooklnc. Many farmers in Logan County have been made victims of a clever swindle. A lot cf agents went around last sum­ mer claiming to be getting data for a map of the county. If a man did not want to subscribe for the book they would ask him to sign a certificate that they had been on his farm, so they could show it to their employer. This was dene in many instances, and now an innocent party calls on them for $15 for an atlas of the county for which they subscribed. The agents of the company declare the organization is innocent, as it hired agent? on percent­ age and paid for the list of subscribers, which they supposed was in good faith. They generally leave the atlas in the house and drive away, and trou­ ble is in store for those who refuse to pay for it. Peculiar Revival Method* The people in and around Gravmount are worked up over the action" of the Rev. Tucker, an evangelist from the West, who has been assisting the local pastor in a revival. The Rev. Tucker in a sermon boldly claimed that Judas was in the church, and as long as he remained no good could ba done. He also referred to a case of supposed em­ bezzlement in the community implicat­ ing a prominent member, and he fin­ ished his attack by calling aside the supposed .ludas after the services and frankly informed him he was standing in the way of the ungodly and the church would be better off without him. The consequences of the queer way of running a revival are that the <Etov. Tucker has left Graymount. •; . Record of the Week. SfNCE January the revivals in prog­ ress in and about Rockford have re­ sulted in more than four hundred con­ versions. •*" A LARGE fence post, believed to have been purposely placed on the track, de­ railed part of a Southern passenger train near Tremont City. None was badly hurt. I. S. JONES is under $900 bonds. He lives near Rardin, and his offense was forging the names of Alex. Morgan and John Morgan to three notes, aggre­ gating $600. A MAD dog caused great excitement at Naperville,.but did not bite anybody to draw blood. Fifteen dogs that were bitten and others that were running loose were ordered shot. AT Virginia, Joseph Brown, who was shot by Jailer Thompson while break­ ing jail Feb. 2, died Sunday. His real name is Patrick McCarty and he has relatives at Sugar Grove. THE stock barn of William Wyatt, north of Lomax, burned. Eight fine horses and a large quantity of grain and hay were consumed. The loss is $2,500, with no insurance. THE young man caught at Rockford for robbing the safe in Woodruff & Ma- THE gambling houses of Decatur were raided by the poli o. WILLIAM FLETCHER, father of nine­ teen children, died at Decatur, aged A LARGELY ATTENDED and interest­ ing farmers' institute was held at Rockftrd. SUGAR works at Rockford, which have been closed fo - more than two years, will be . tarted in May. UNEMPLOYED miners of Dunferm­ line, have issue 1 a ixjtition to be -sent to GOT. Altgeld, calling for relief. BY a mistake Mr. I like, of Nash­ ville, 111., was ccnfirmod i>y the Sen­ ate as Postmaster at Nashville, Iowa. THE North we tern Collage at Kaper- ville is in a pros, e -ons condition, but needs a larger endowment fund. A canvass for tunis is in progress. FIRE broke « ut in a mill of the Rock Island Lumuer and Mauu'acturing Company's plant aa JL causad a loss of $5,000, fully covered by insurance. ROBBERS and highwaymen have be­ come so numerous in Smithboro and vicinity that the village authorities have ordered two bloodhounds to trace the thieves. JOHN D. DENNING, the wealthy Benton sicckman who disappeared in Ea-t St. Louis Jan. 24, and who was supposed to have been murderec^has been found. A. GORDON FINNEY, a St. Louis den­ tist, has fcr a long time been digging near Altori fo.' an imaginary concealed box of gold. He is now crazy in a St. Louis hospital. A. MILLER of Chicago, had trained his 12-year-old son to shrewdly imitate "Oliver Twist," and they together burglarized many lesidences. Both were caught last week. AN early mornirg fire at Rushville destroyed BranstoJl s livery barn, the City Hotel, and residence s of Dr. Clark and Hiram Evaas. Wm. Evans, hotel proprietor, eiek in bed, died from ex- eitemept. Total lesses, $20,000; insur­ ance, $i,*:00. MURDERER JOHN HART, of Rock- fore, has teen examined by a woman phrenologist. She *ays if Hart's moral faculties had been properly developed he wt uld have bean a superior man mentally to nine-tenths of those whose heads sne has gone over. LOVE is young, even if pome of Cu­ pid's victim's are on the shady side of life. At Lincoln, Benjamin J. Kil- bourr.e, aged 7;', and Mrs. Sarah R. Davis, who hai pass'd her seventy-sec­ ond year, were united in the bonds of matrimony by Chaplain E. D. Wilkins. The groom is a veteran of the civil war. ED THOMPSON. Ed Urban, Henry Jackson, John Logan and Lathe Bowles, all boys, ha i a tt n-pound keg of pow­ der in a frame buiding at (^uincy, and one of them dared Thompson to "throw it in the stove. He dil so, and the ex­ plosion shattered the building, serl GFPOMfttE INDICT-DEMOCRATIC ORGANS INQ THEIR PARTY. A Frank Admission that Trade Bu Been Killed by Bourbon Basinets Wrecker*-- Cleveland's Hawaiian Policy "Vindicated" ky Whitewash--<Ore<h»m* 4 Pension. Demoeracy Arralimed. Republicans do not need to go out of their way to find indictments against the Democratic party. Democrats and Lem )cratie newspaper are constantly furnish ng them, and one of the latest, though it deals with no fact* n:>t al­ ready kn.iwn to the public, is presented by the New York World, which says: "The fall trade was killed by the pro­ longation of the struggle over the re­ peal of the Sherman law. The spring trade for this year has been reduced to the smallest possible dimensions by the uncertainty over tariff revision. Shall next summer's and next autumn s trade--the arrangements for wliich must soon be made--be killed abo? Business can stand four years of any tariff better than four months more of uncertainty." Here is a frank admission thit the fall trade of this country was killed by the Democratic party, and that the same organization hits reduced the spring trade to the smallest possible dimensions. The Democrats In Con­ gress could fcave repealed the Sherman law within a week after meeting in extra session, had they choscn to do so. But there was something more than the delay in repeal ng the silver pur- cha-e law at trie bottom of the busi­ ness depression, and that was fear of tariff changes, and the same cause ha^ been at work ever since. The Republican party is in no way responsible for the present tariff agi­ tation. It had furnished a tariff under which the country pro pared and was bound to continue to prosper so long as the Republicans remained in power. Kill the Wilson bill and the saqid de­ gree of prosperity will return. ? ffiS Greshara's Pension. It is reported, eays tho Chicago Inter Ocean, that Secretary Gresham has surrendered his pension. General Gresham was a bravo soldier and was £forced by rebel lead in front of At-Mita. He still carries that little me­ mento of the rebellion concea'ed in his anatomy, and the government did not ask him to produce it in evidence when he applied for a pension. It accepted -- his testimony and tiiat of his witnesses ! frontery U • 1 U i., J.U 1 just as it accepted tho testimony in thousands of other cases like his,' and ia,ly injuring Thompson and piinlullv buruing the other tour.. Thom^nf '§e"*So„?taUt^ ^^Uo'hSS? the overthrow of Liliuokalanl^ the converse of that proposition must also be true; therefore, the administration is authorized to restore the s£id Liliuo- kalani to her throne as soon as it is S> uble to do so and that the naval oives of the United States be employed to that end. How many Democrat*, says the Ohio State Journal, who voted for the McCreary resolution woull fa­ vor that propositionJ Yet if Li 1 has been illegally dispossessed of power, as the majority declared by their votes, why not restore her? It woul&. Le merely an act of simple justice. r <" Preparing to Hedge. The signs multiply that the Demo­ cratic party is looking for defeat next fall, and some of tho Democratic news­ papers which have been most active in support of the admini-.tration"s tariff policy, are getting ready to claim that the tariff had n thing to do with it. Fcr instxcc3, the Boston Herald says: If the Deinocmtlu party does suffer la the elections of tho coming autumn, if will be very far from following, under present indications, that the responsibility for this will be du-.j to its tariff oo'icy. In view of Democratic action in New York. New Jer­ sey. Kentucky, and other states of the Union, as well as on the bond question and tbe coinage of the seigniorage in Congress* and indications are that the tariff will havo a much heavier burden to carry in the Democratic party than the Democratic party has in the tariff. This is interesting, not only as a con­ fession that defeat is probable, but as an illustration of Democratic sensitive­ ness over the failure of the party's tariff policy. Tariff reform was made the Democratic corner stone when Mr. Cleveland received his third nomina­ tion for tho presidency, but the ti adi- tional capacity for blundering was sh >wn in tho statement that the new tariff must be for revenue only and that protection was fraudulent and un­ constitutional. The election was won on false pretenses, and now the people fully understand that they can exnect very little in the way of wise legisla­ tion from the Democratic party. The Springfield Uniin j-ays it can sympa­ thize with the Herald in its uncer-j taint^v as to whether the tariff has al heavier burden in the Democratic^ party than tho party has in the tariff, but it looks as if both were pretty heavily loaded. ^ :;JP« Got It. r-* a : j Mr. Willis asked President Me for information, and the general opinion ia that he has got it. Jt was an imperti­ nent query, under the circumstances. A Minister who invites a deposed mon­ arch to a secret conference; arranges for l or restoration, publicly rejuests the de fact'» authorities to abdicate, and then formally requires them to state when and how his attitude has been unfriendly, exhibits amazing ef- The good that comes out of eyesight is destroyed and it is feared he may die. THE Central Illinois Horticultural Society, composed of thirty-eight coun­ ties, held its annual session in Lincoln. On account of insufficient advertis­ ing the attendance was not large. The program embraced an address of wel and like other old soldiers he was glad to have his name written there as One who had shed blood in defense of his country. For twenty years he drew that pen-tion and considered it a high honor t J bo called a pen ijner. But when Judge Gresham became the squire to Knight Cleveland, he come by Mayor Hill; papers on "Prop- realized that it meant more than agation of Small Fruits for the Farm­ er," "Farmer s Orchard," "Irrigation;" also addro ses by Provident Johnson and G. W. McClurfc. FOURTEEN cases of small-pox are re­ ported at the poor-house, a half mile lrom Edwardsville. The poor-houte and farm have been quarantined, and Dr. Juli s Kohl, of Belleville, acting by authority of the State Board of Health, is satisfied that if the authori­ ties continue to enforce the rules that have been adopted the pest will be con­ fined to the poor farm and the city will be in no danger. INVITATIONS are out for the forth­ coming annual encampment of the De­ partment of Illinois, G. A. R, to be held in Rockford, May 15, 16 and 17. Elaborate preparations are beirg made for ti e reunion, and it is expected it will be the largest encampment in point of attendance ever held in Illi- simple change of politics and candi­ date-*. it meant tbe desertion of old gods for new and sti anere idols. Presi­ dent Cleveland had never been a sol­ dier. He had vetoed 5 .0 soldiers' pen­ sion bills. He had referred to pensions as "persistent and ingenious attacks upon the public treasury," and said of pensioners that whatever their service thoy had "accumulated a great deal of disability." He had further declared in his veto of the dependent pension bill that "the really needy and home­ less soldiers of the rebellion have been to a large extent provided for a*) sol­ dier homes," and that "it is sad, but nevertheless true, that in the matter of procuring pensions there exists a widespread disregard of truth and g oi Probably when Gresham read those things he realized what it meant to bee me a squire to the great knight nois. It is intended to make the parade ! guire's oflSc3 proves to be Lew Row­ land, employed in the shop, and not John Flynn, of Chicago, as previously reported. AT Rockford, Edward Flannigan's 6-year-old daughter, during her moth­ er's absence fiom the house, got too close to the stove ? nd her clothes ig­ nited, burning her so frightfully she will probably die. THE franchise of the gas company at Springfield is about to expire and resi­ dents of the capital want assurance that gas will be furuished at $1 per thousand feet instead of $1.50 before they will renew it. THE big blizzard in Chicago has furnished cau.-e for a dozen or more riots. Street car companies swept the snow against the curbs and angry mer­ chants and citizens threw it back. Some car lines havo been blockaded for a day at a time. THE Attorney General, regarding a by-law of a building aud lean associa­ tion which says "permanent stock to be fully paid for in installments of $2 each week until fully paid," rendered an opinion that it is illegal, and further says that associations have no right to ifcsue paid-up stock, directly or indi­ rectly. THE Bi» Muddy Coal and Iron Com­ pany at Murphysboro gave notice of a lO per cent, reduet on in the wage schedules, to take effect Feb. 1!). Over 701 men are affected. Other mines will follow suit. The men have agreed to accept the reduction. FRANK H. HARPER and some un- caoght confederates raised drafts of $33 to $3,300 aud $3,800, re­ spectively, and victimized the Con­ tinental National bank of Chicago. It is thought they have worked other cities. They erased the original writ- . iag. with ac-id*, an I cleverly pasted up • tha,t a majority'of the shareholders in JSVKBY one s natural fQCliaatioa is t the perforated figures and made new | a meetin ' * " %)\dS A Crt n 41 A /"M kt MM« ' mnttcj la 4- K fi nf,4 - •«t • I n MA /./ M Proxreuive. For some time an electri ally! operated typewriter has been in use in Boston; it is so arranged that it' may not only be used in the ordinary manner for office correspondence and copying, but may be electrically con- j nected witn a similar instrument at a distance, so that a copy of the work I may be automatically, reproduced: thereon, even in the absence of an 1 attendant. Such a mach.ne appar-' ently possesses great possibilities of j future usefulness. j an imposing one, second only to the Rational parade. The National Com­ mander and a large number of Past National Commanders will be present and take part in several camp-fires to be arranged. DR. R. W. ENGLISH, whose death is reported from Kansas City at the age of 84 years, was some years ago a well- known character. He was a room- mate and friend of Lincoln, the one who interfered and succeeded in stop­ ping the Lincoln-Shields duel. He served three terms in the Legislature, wa! many times delegate to the Na tional Democratic Conventions, and was Chairman of the State Central Committee. When Buchanan became President Alton Democrats couldn't agree on a Postmaster, and Dr. En glish was brought from Carrolton, Greene County, and put in the posi­ tion. He was afterward City Treas­ urer and always choscn as Chairman of public meetings, being held in the highest esteem. Be removed to sas City twenty years ago. JOE HARDIN, the Centralia train robber, escaped frofn the Chester prison Monday. Hardin was serving a twenty years'Ventence for an attempt at train lobbery at Centralia on the 20th of last September. He escaped by hiding in a load of dirt. He is un­ doubtedly suffering with the intense cold, as no fires have been found e n his trail. He is a plucky desperado and, it is balieved, he will die before he will give up and go back to serve out his twenty-year senteuce. Officer Daniels, who had charge of the gate through which Hardin passed, has been dis­ charged for neglecting to run a prod into the load as it passed by. Officer Daniels say8 hundiedof loads of dirt have passed out under the eye of the deputy warden and no order was issued to prod the loads. Witham and Dick­ inson, Hardin's assistants in his scheme to escape, were strung up to their doors in the solitary as punishment. AFTER increasing the capital stock from i;' 0,00 i to -+f>0,000, the Moweaqua Coal Mining Company a-e now drilling lower, expecting to find a larger vein of coal than they are at present work­ ing and of a better quality. The mine will then have a total depth of i,0U0 feet. t THE McLean County Grand Jury re­ turns indictments against 160 alleged gamblers: recommends providing hot and cold water hose for uso in repelling any possible mobs at the county jail; and also that the use of tobacco in the county building i be prohibited by the Super visors. SHRINGFIELD grocers, wholesale and retan, are jubilant over the arrest of F. 13. Holland, who is charged with fraudulent use of the mails in ordering got ds. upon representation that he was regu arly engaged in business. It is alleged he never paid for bis goods, and would undersell everybody in the trade. ATTORNEY GENERAL, MOLONEY ren­ dered an opinion to the effect that the directors of a Building and Loan Asso­ ciation cannot remove one of their iiu iil^er for any cause whatever, but his pension of a month and had his name erased from what he had regard­ ed as a roll of honor, but which Cleve­ land had said was a list of those who "pretended an incapacity for labor." The Deficit Grows. The statement of the national re­ ceipts and expenditures for January, indicates that Secretary Carlisle's $JU,- : 00J,0U0 loan, no matter how he uses the proceeds, will go enly part way in providing the Treasury with necessary funds, jrhe receipts lor January were $21,082,738, and the expenditures wore $31,30:y 6 >, leaving a deficiency for the month of $7.226,!>3o. This reductic nis found mainly in the customs revenue, which showed a falling off as compared with January, 1893, of about $11,100,- 000, while the expenditures are only about $7,000,000 less than for January, 1893. During the seven mr nths of the fiscal year there has been a fall­ ing off of revenue of $53,45o,t;0S, and the total deficit for the seven months is $I5,38K,I01. The re­ duction of expenditure is largely ac- coanted for by the withholding of payments which ought to be made. If the present deterioration continues to the end of the fiscal year, the deficit will ba more than $75,000,000. There is no possibility of increase by the op­ eration of the new tariff law nor of the income tax before the end of the fiscal year, and the treasury is likely to ba in as bad a hole as it is now, in spite of the $50,0C0,000 loan. Congress cught to look this matter in the face and pro­ vide for new loans to meet the deficien­ cy, but "no bonds" is the policy of the l opuJisto-Democratic majority of tbe House, up to date, and there seems to be neither brains nor disposition in the House to deal with tho deficit, except for its increase. A Vindication Indeed. After considerable backing and fill­ ing, a second call of the roll in order to squeeze out a quorum, a counting of members as present who did not vote for the same object, tho House finally succeeded in passing the McCreary resolutions on Hawaii. Yet there were not thirty Democrats in the House who approve or indorse cn3 single step the administration has taken in this Sand­ wich Island muddle. They h^ve de­ clared in those private cursings "which they bestow on Mr. Cleveland and ex- Queen Lil that the former's dark-lan- tern, sr.eak-thief methods when he clandestinely embarked in this disrep­ utable business, informing neither Sen­ ate nor Bouse, were an insult to Con­ gress. These same men voted a dute­ ous "aye" on a series of resolutions it is the opportunity it offers to Presi­ dent Dole to make a convincing resume of the extraordinary circumstances con­ nected with the carrying out of Mr. Cleveland'8 policy. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Stevrns' course, the in­ famy of this administration's acts in Hawaii, bearing peace and friendship and honeyed words to its rulers, while refusing them an answer to the most courteous inquiries as to its intentions and conspiring actively with their ene­ mies, is unequaled in the history of American diplomacy. The orusfiing reply of Mr. Dole and the occasion that provoked it serve to emphasize once more the fact that it is due to our self- respect. ora^ much of it as we have left, to recall Mr. Willis immediately, and to place our diplomatic relations with the Hawaiian government on a new and to­ tally different footing.--Pioneer Press. Gov. MoKlnley's Questions. Gov. McKinley, in his address to the Ohio Republicans on the anniversary of Lincoln s birthday, propounded these questions: "What is gained by reducing the revenue from tariff while increasing the expendituro on an in terest-bearing debt?" What sort of economy is it that reduces the tariff even if it be "a tax," by $5(\Q00,( 0), anci at the same time adds to the other forms of taxation the burden of $50, C00,00i> principal and $2,500,000 interest of an increa-ed public debt? What gained by foregoing $50,000,030 of tariff revenue, which is $50,000,000 without interest, and borrowing $50,000,000 at 5 per cent, interest? How is it moro easy for the people to pay $52,500,00<i by direct taxation than to pay $50,000, 0U0 by indirect taxation--assuming tariff duties to be indirect taxes, though in many instances they are not taxes of any kind, or not taxe3 paid by Americans? The Governor's questions are perti­ nent. they will be considered by the people, ana will be answered by them in November next. The Case in a Nutshell. Senator Hawley puts the tariff ques tion as it must be viewed in this coun­ try in a nutshell when he says in a let­ ter to the New York Press: tfreat Britain stands as the typical free- trade nation, and stunds alone among suoh nations of importance^ She uiust import A3 per cent of her raw materials, while the United States have about 90 per cent, of all needed raw material within their own limits. England was, therefore, compelled to adopt free trade, while our country 1* commanded by nature to develop her own resources. If England had our resources in the way of raw materials she would con­ sider protection a bonanza. England would be very glad to get possession of our markets, however, and it is but natural that she should have a kindly feeling for the Democratic party. Where Was U'lUls? On the r ccasion of the celebration of independence day in Hawaii the great procession in h^ nor of the event halted in front of the headquarters of the American League and played the "Star Spangled Banner." Where was tho winsome Willis all that timo? Per­ haps at the telephone talking to the Kanaka wr man and telling her whom she should behead next. The "Star Spangled Banner" played under such circumstances would warm the cockles of the heart of any;; American but Willis.--Ohio State Journal. The Term "Cackoo." The term "cuckoo" as applied to the blind followers and servants of the President in Congress is not of Repub­ lican origin, but was an inspiration of Senator Morgan, of Alabama. During the heated debate on the repeal of th6 Sherman act, ~ certain Sen­ ators as announcing the time of day in the Senate whenever the c.o. k at 'the White House struck. From that time thOfe Senators have been known as cuckoos.- • Tired of the Whole Aggresatlee. McKinley could not have said more purchasing clause of the S Senator Morgan described wh-ch^ not only^exculpated^but ^did J in a column and a half than he said in ~ "" "" ° the-o twenty-one words of his speech before the Republican clubs of Ohio on Tuesdav: "The people are tired of this tariff tinkering, bond issuing, debt in­ creasing, treasury depleting, business paralyzing, wage reducing, queen re­ storing administration." No adminis­ tration was ever better desGKihpl 1a fewer word:*. ^• ' : ml honor to Cleveland and his policy. The action of t he House merely amounted to a salaam, a bending of the knee and a bowing of the head to the idol of the administration. This truckling will in;;ure no one but the trucklers. The President has discredited his own pol­ icy by abandoning it. tobtt a Santa Clacis. Why Not Restore Ulf Some Republican might create a pan­ ic in tbe lower bouse of Congress by of­ fering a resolution totting forth that inasmuch as a majority of the House , „ duly sumnu ned"for that puV- bad voted for the McCreary resolution j duty on sugar, they will be forced to - --oa 11--11- j omit all the toiiching allusions to the grounds. ~ - legacy ana uniawiuiiy conspired for j poor man's break"ast table. STRANGE SHOW&RS. tfertom ntMMH Which Ibis irrlffhtened People. This bas been a most exceptional winter all over the conntry and. in some places, phenomena have oc­ curred which have frightened ignor­ ant people. In New York State there have been "showers of angle worms" and in Ohio 'Showers of land snails." These animals must have been brought out from the uncov­ ered ground by the wet and thus hare given the idea that they fell from the sky. Such showers as these, however, have not alarmed people half as much as some tilings wh eh ha\c occurre.1 in the past. The "showers of blood," of which not less than twenty- one have taken place in Ei.rope and America during the <entury, have served to greatly frighten people. They are accounted fur by very com­ monplace reasons, in l«7o a shower of this kind fell at tbe Hague and caused great excitement A level- headed physician got a little of tbe crimson fluid and examined it under a microscope He lound that it was til ltd with small red auim.il cuies, which proved lo be a species of water Ilea. Doubtless they were brought lrom a g.eat distance br wind and deposited with the rain. In March, 181?, the people of Gerace, in Calabria, saw a terrific cloud advancing from the sea. It gradually changed from a pale to fiery icd, shutting off tbe light of tbe sun. Amid peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, red rain fell in large drops, which were Imagined by the excited populace to be of blood. Analysis afterward made of ihe fluid showed that its coloring matter was a dust of an earthy taste. Probably this dust was ejected by an active volcano, carried a great distance by the wind, and precipitated by the rain. There was a rain of ink in tbe city of Montreal. November 9, 1819. Some of the li u< id, collected and forwarded to New YorK for analysis, wa, dis­ covered to owe its hue entirely to soot. In 1824, in a district of Persia, there was an abundant shower of a 9utritious substance strange to tbe people. Cattle and sheep devoured it greedily, and bread was made from it It proved to he a kind of licheo. Small marine fishes are sometimes found scattered about on dry land far from sea. Th<y are transported by storms, which at fcsst take the form of waterspouts, sucking up the finny creatures, together with a portion of their native element and carrying them shoreward, hhowers of fross and the larva.1 of aquatic insects are produced in a similar fashion by tor­ nadoes. Aspire to Be Slave*. Far from dreading their tale, tbe girls of Circassia look forward to it as the great opp triunity of their lives. Thcv go to seek it as a conscious jewel might start in search of ft costly setting. They show no more reluctance than Esther manifested when Mordecai delivered her over as one of the fair young \irgins gathered from far and near to adorn the pal- a e of Ahasuerus, says Mrs. Ellen H. Dietrick in t! e Popular Science Monthly, indeed, the history ot Esther reveals the motives which probably animate each of the many maidens of Circassia who to this day re-enact the old biblical storv. Each believes that it is she who may Und graoe and favor in the royal crown* and thus control at will the rise or fall of the royal scepter. But even if not chosen by royally, those who purchase the beautifol darnels of Circassia are tbe wealthy and titled, and not the slightest social degradation is attached to their position, even when taken to haiema wherein a Turkish wife may be in­ stalled as head of the household. The common dependence of all the in­ mates of a harem upon the favor of n lord who may at any time elevate the Circassian sl%ve to the position of ^ lady fosters a spirit of equality--of pure, practical democracy, that would be inconceivable under any other circumstances, and in our southern slave relation to nominal mistress was totally undreamed of. As a Turkish lady explained to an astonished English visitor. "Aslave may become a lady any day, and in treating her as one beforehand we take oif very much of tbe awkward* ness that would else ensue." When we consider that all tbe children of slaves are acknowledged as the legitr mate children of their father, we must confess, in justice to the Turk, that theirs is a condition to which tbe evils o? slaierv to the slave are reduced ta a minimum. * ' * , • • ' /sip T~ v' • iVs-r? ' " ^ Kit Wfll Keed Bertslo*. The Democratic orators will have to revise their tariff speeches before po- ing on the stump next fall. With a i • tne perforated figures and made new a meeting duly summc ned for that pur- naa voteu ior me jvjci^reary resolution lonos. It is the first instance of beating pose may make tho removal upon gotd charging that Minister Stevens had il- ihe check-punching machine. 1 »j»d sufl cient grounis. legally and unlawfully conspired for Great Carrying Power of Bees* V- An interesting note abont the weight of bees appears in an Ameri­ can journal devoted to agriculture^ writes Dr. Andrew Wilson in an ex­ change. It seems that an ordinary bee, not carrying any load or pollen, weighs the oue tlve-tbousandth park ot a pound. Five thousand bees thoa make a pound weight When, how­ ever, the bee is carrying the load of pollen or honey, as he returns from foraging amid the flowers, his weight is increased nearly three times, lie carries thus about twice his own weight, a result not surprising t? those who have studied the muscular - powers and ways of insects at large. * When bees are loaded It requires only 1,800 of them to make up the pound. Details are also given regarding the number of bees which may exist in n hive. From four to five pounds weight of bees are found in an ordin­ ary colony. This means in figures Of population some 2Q,OOJ to in-/. dividuals. A big swarm, it is ^ai^ will often double this estimate. Talk­ ing of bees, if any of my readern wish to indulge in a very curious aid fas . mating bit of zoolog ical study, they should read the story of what ta called "parthenogenesis" in bees and other insects, such as the aphides or vreen flies of the roses and other plants. For su >h eg js of the queen bee as are fert 11 ed when laid turn out workers (or neuters) or <iueen% while those which are not fertilize^ at all develop into males or dronc$ . This is very singular; be ause fertilife ; cation of an egg or see t is regurdef|;,' ' • ; ord narly as necessary for its due 4# ? velopment • . £<3 THE passion some women have for attending auctions la a more-okf - taste. ' - j .<•- /I . » -*4 1 4- • v si -• * *,i'i