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THE SOME DEMOCRATIC PAPER3 SAY TIMES ARE QOOIFC • • Xh*T A»»»rt that AU Thto Cry Abont gar­ tering, Want and I*ek of Kmploynutnt "WRUd tb« COBB- k; n-' f f • - • Will •*! WclfTCIIlyin®!! AIIvw DvCtift Aocording to a majority of the Dem­ ocratic papers all this cry abont hard times is a humbug. There is no suffer­ ing, there is 110 want, there is no lack of employment. They assert with an admirable degree of assurance that the industries of the country are in a com- paratively flourishing condition, that the manufactories and mills have all resumed wort and that it is every­ body's own fault if he has not enough bread and butter. Some of the free trade leaders, notably such a man as Edward Atkinson, the well-known stat­ istician, chime in with this cheerful chorus or are making other assertions that are just as boastful and untrue. Thus it will astound the hundreds of thous ands of unemployed workingmen fsU ; to learn from these authorities that •' » they are prosperous upon the old rate rf of wages, more prosperous upon re- ^, _* duced wages because they are compen- j aated by a lower scale of living ex­ penses, or are idle only because they do not choose to work. According to the most recent assurances of these sages „• . from sixty to seventy per cent, of the ^ mills and factories that closed down in 1893 are now reopened, and running on • • lull time, aud at id&st sixty per cent, of the unemployed of last year have gone ^ i' back to work either at the old rates or under the more blissful conditions that Accompany reductions. How well would all this be were it only true. But the workingmen them- .selves know better. To them all this fine talk will be great news. They know that their sufferings are real, they know that the economy which * this winter they have had to practice in their food, their apparel, their fuel and all other expenses is real and not imaginary. It is well enough to try to keep up the cheerful spirits of the suf- i fering masses by trying to make them :believe that their sufferings are not nearly so great as their own senses '• '* and their daily experience teach •; :•:% .them. It is well enough to encourage them in taking a cheerful view of V. things and in looking ahead with the v'*T." certain hope and expectation that the . . present dismal state of affairs cannot possibly last forever. But it is mock- " ery, almost criminal, to try to justify the causes which are responsible for all the present misery by the bald and bold assertion that it does not exist •The working classes are not fools, and want and misery are apt to sharpen the intellect rather than to blunt it. The men who are obliged to be idle or to work at reduced pay for reduced work­ ing time, know better and will be quick to resent the mockery. Congress and the Conntryt Each succeeding week of the present session of Congress demonstrates, more and more forcibly, the utter incompe­ tence of the majority to regulate it­ self. Unseemly squabbling, ignorance of management, inability to compel a quorum, even when it has so large a majority, lack of leadership, failure to formulate any policy of action^ are all so glaringly apparent that it has be- ,. come an "object lesson" to the people that is equally as instructive as the mischievous and destructive Free- Trade Wilson bill. Men are asking, everywhere throughout the country, if this can be the party that is in charge of the national administration, a party that, with so large a majority, is unable to govern itself. What then can be expected ot its National Administration? Setting aside all ques­ tions of free trade or protection, there are thousands of men who voted, in 1892, to elect those who are now in power who are now positively afraid ior their country. They reason, and they reason rightly, that if the leaders of this party, which has so large a . \ majority, are unable to afford proteo- • tion for itself, into what a deplorable condition must the country fall when left in such hands. These good people fjrget, however, that the majority does not represent a party of protection, but that it is against protection and in favor of a policy of prostration. Hence, , its maladministration in Congress is but a natural part of such policy.-- American Economist. The Low Prion of Wheat. ' ^ A Democratic contemporary is dis- ^1- a turbed because some Republican paper, probably in the way of pleasantry, re­ marked that the great fall in the price of wheat was "all on account of Gro­ ve r." But we have not forgotten how the Democratic organs jumped upon eVery advance of prices after the pas- sage of the present tariff law, and de­ clared that it was "all on account of McKinley." - We do not suppose that the drop in wheat to 62 cents a bushel is alto­ gether the result of political changes. As the fear of free trade has caused business depression and check­ ed consumption wheat has suffered with all other commodities, but the price of wheat has been steadily de­ clining for a number of years, and the reason is the world's over-production. This country is no longer the world's granary. Russia, India, and other countisies have rapidly developed wheat production, and we are forced into com­ petition which seemed impossibie a few years. The Argentine Republic will < •. ; have a surplus of <55,000,(XK) bushels this year, and Australia is tending large / shipments of wheat to Europe. It "A looks as if our wheat growers might be forced to turn their attention, in part - at leatbt, to other crops. Certainly it is a poor time to destroy our wool-grow­ ing industry by exposing it to ruinous . . competition, when our farmers are looking about to see what they can do instead of raising wheat--Springfield Union. A Hnntlinting Fact. One thing Btands forth with striking clearness in the present condition of the Hawaiian business, the fact that Mr. Cleveland stands singly and alone in his attempt to restore the Hawaiian , monarchy. No committee of either , House, no Senator or Representative, a, individually, has gone ' on record or ; will place himself there as favoring or Sroposing to enforce Mr. Cleveland's i6tinctly declared policy--that of re- *'"• storing the condition in Hawaii as it existed prior to the revolution of Janu­ ary, 1893. The President was in fayor ;,,s of overthrowing the provisional gov- f? crnment and reinstating the Queen. '•i£ He said this would be undoing a wrong ^ and fulfilling the plain obligations rest- _ ing upon the United States. But he is utterly without supporters in this view. His distinct statement of what our ; policy toward Hawaii should be has „ not a single advocate in the legisla- 'ii tive branch of the government. There is not a single man in Congress who " shares the President s view that a wrong was committed which needs righting. This is a humiliating defeat : for the President and a stinging oon- fizk v it shows thai skcoiam, a fMt for vfef ch country should be ptitip thank- ttfce CoairroM Kleetlona. The Republican Congressional Cam­ paign Committee is preparing for an active canvass, and Representative Caldwell, of Ohio, chairman of the committee, expresses the great3st con­ fidence that the results of next No­ vember's elections will be very satis­ factory to Republicans. "There is no doubt in my mind," he has said, "that we Shall be victorious. The tide is running in favor $t the Republicans, and we are preparing to make the most of the iavi ring conditions." It is to be a campa'gn of education, and the voting in New York and Pennsyl­ vania indicates that the people are al­ ready doing considerable in the direc­ tion of sell-culture. AJjL OVfft THE BTATIS. ILLINOIS 1EWS CONCISELY OOH- Kohoes of ai Eden charivari--Cannibalis­ tic Farmer Jones--Mr. Heater YoUodaadthe lUrirtMn of Sehoyler County. Can't Sueur It Down. The monster protest which was sent up to Washington from Pennsylvania against Democratic tariff tinkering was in the shape of a majority for the Re­ publicans, so large that it appears the Stat© was pretty near unanimous in its condemnation of Democratic politics. Democratic papers may sneer at the result as mucn as they please and re­ peat as often as they like that Republi­ can majorities are nothing new there. They cannot meet the argument of­ fered by a majority approaching sev­ eral hundred thousand for the Repub­ licans in a State which has even now a Democratic Governor. -- Burlington Hawkeye. Losing Friends Rapldlr. The Brooklyn Eagle, which belongs to the Cleveland faction of t. e Democ­ racy, severely condemns the President for the appointment of a "Louisiana ex- rebel as the successor of our revered preceptor in law, the patriotic Samuel Blatchford." This is the sentiment of Democrats a3 well as Republicans throughout the circuit which Blatch­ ford represented. No other President since the war ever lost friends as rap­ idly as Cleveland has haen doing re­ cently.--Globe-Democrat. **JeS«rsonlaii Simplicity." A prying newspaper man in Wash­ ington has discovered that Secretary Hoke Smith, in order to induce his family cook to accompany him to Washington, appointed her husband, a colored barber of Atlanta, a messenger in the Interior Department, where he holds down a chair at $50 a month. This is on a par with Secretary Car­ lisle's carrying his coachman and house servants on the pay roll of t^Xreas- ury Department. , / V , May Go to Canada, : Canada is now considering remodel­ ing its tariff on protection lines. When this is done, and Canada has protec­ tion against th£> United States exports and free frade with it for its own ex­ ports, that country will be a better one to live in, and New England can ex­ pect to see an exodus to that land.-- Lowell (Mass.) Mall B Condlt'o"* Have Changed. Under a Republican administration, the industrial conditions were bright, and the laboring man was inspired iwith a courage born of the strength of his resources. Now, when the bliirht has fallen on these resources, he has grown dispirited under the humilia­ tion of beggary and the insult of charity.--New Britain (Conn.) Record. Two Embarrassments. The chief embarrassment the Re­ publicans had to contend with un^er the Harrison administration was a $105,000,000 surplus. The chief em­ barrassment the Democrats have to contend with under the Cleveland ad­ ministration is a $75,000,000 deficit. How to Trace It. The present administration will be known in history as the one whose course can be traced by a consecutive line of monthly deficits, not to mention various other repetitious evidences of misfortune. The Pennsytaania Avalanche. THE shadow cast before by the Key­ stone State i s) very plain as ta be un- mittikable.--inter Ocean. IT is evident that the wave of re­ turning prosperitv has not yet reached the Democratic party in this Stale.-- Philadelphia Times (Dem.). PFNNSYLVANIA was fhut out from the Ways and Means Ccmxrittee hear­ ing's, but it made itself heard at the polls.--Pittfeburg Chronicle Telagraph. THE f i g u r e s t h a t h a v e g o n e t o W a s h ­ ington wi 1 be read with interest both at the White House and at the Ca; i- tol. 1 h jy point the way to a grander victory in November.--Philadelphia Inquirer. AN "American" commonwealth has spoken at the polls--a manufacturing commonwealth--and has condemned more emphatically than ever before the tariff policy of the Democrats.-- "Chicago Tribune. THESE things ought to have great in­ fluence toward calling a halt at Wash­ ington. Enough has been heard from the people to give the Democrats in Congress a timely warning.--Cincin­ nati Enquirer (Dem.x. No GOOD can come to the Democracy from closing its eyes to the fact that, beginning with the November elec­ tions, wherever an expression of the people at the polls has been had an< indication has been given that the sur­ face drift is at present against the party in power.--Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.). THIS is the result of three months of a sober second thought. Nine months more of it is likely to reduce the Penn­ sylvania Democracy to the Cleveland guard that now occupies the fede al offices in the State, whose members will continue to call themselves Demo­ crats until their t^rms expire.--Chica­ go Journal. IT is the first expression from Penn­ sylvania since the Wilson bill iniquity was made public. It is the repudia­ tion of that measure and the party re­ sponsible for it by Pennsylvania not only, but by the whole North, for th6 same issue that will produce a majority in this State exceeding 10J,000--ana considerably exceeding it--will sweep the Democratic free traders out of every Northern State.--Philadelphia Press. • . Trans parent Shoes. They are always inventing something startling in France. The latest evolu­ tion of the Parisian brain is transpar­ ent leather, which has lately been per­ fected and put on the market. The in­ formation ccmes that the process of letting light through the hide of an ox does not unfit it for use as foot-gear, and now it may reasonably be expect­ ed that the new material will soon ap­ pear as the latest fad of fashion. Just think of transparent shoes. The chi- rop dists will have a rich harvest. The worried shoe-store clerks can fit the feet of their lady customers with the sizes that they wear, and not the sizes that they want. Misfits will show as plainly through the new shoes as a troublesome corn. The owner of a re­ ally pretty foot can take a certain pride in her rfioes or her slippers, provided that somebody comes forward and de­ vises a style of hosie^r that is also transparent. Dotft Monkey with Moody. Says the Chicago Herald: Mr. Moody, of Men, 111., will have the sym­ pathy in hs present troubles of every­ one who his an accurate knowledge of the rural festivity known as 'Vhivaree, * Mr. Moody is on trial at Peoria charged with inten; to kill and murder. There was a wed iing at his house last .Octo­ ber, and oa the evening after the cere­ mony a large "shivaree" party made its appearand armed with horns, tin pans, hor.-e fiddles, cow bells and other im­ plements sacred to bucolic # humor. After the fashion of their tribe the ihivareer* demanded money. They wanted $1'): Mr. Moody offered $2. The offer was refused and' the racket kept ut> until Mocdy, armed with the family shotgun, appeared at the door aad let drive at the jokers with both barrels. Several of them pa-sed the remainder of the week, pleasantly engaged in pick­ ing birdsliot out of their respective anatomies. They now want to send Moody to the penitentiary. If there is • just judge in Peoria they will not succeed. On the contrary, Moody should be discharged with the thanks of the court. The man who is cour­ ageous enough to withstand rural black­ mail and blackguardism is too valuable in the community to be sent to Joilet. Pat the Audience to Flight. In Brainbriage Township, Schuy- ! ler Counts, at a school entertain­ ment, Calvin and Chas. Robertson, were intoxicated and drew revolv­ ers and knives. Men, women and chil­ dren made their escape by jumping out of the windows and doors. Aftor the people got away the Robertsons tore the seats from the floor and piled them up in the room. Charles Robe - ts n is under bonds for attempting to kill Of­ ficers Ingles and Louden, when they arrested him for a minor oflfen e in November last. The brothers have determined to terrorise the people of that locality so that the/ will be afraid to tastify against them, when their t ial comes off. As yet thev have not been arrested for the last offense. Attacked at Home by Masked Kan. Five masked men visited the home of M. E. He-tar, a farmer, living in the suburbs of Centralia, Saturday night, and demanded money. There was no one at home except Mr. Hester, who is 70 years old, and his daughter, Mary. The old man grabbed the revolver and at the fame time yelled for "J< hn." At the same m< ment the girl slammed the door shut and turned the key, so the other fellows could not get in. The loud cries for "John" soon attracted the nearest neighbors, and the robbers took hasty flight. The fellow with the pistol attempted to shoot, lut the old man hung onto the pistol and the ham­ mer caught his finger, and in the scuffle all the flesh was stripped from it. The attempt is thought to be the work of home talent. veiling Liquor Without liloense. A United States officer from Spring­ field dropped into Fit-her recently and arrested J. C. Jenkins, who last sum­ mer, in partnership with J. F. HonB- ley, did a land-office business here sail­ ing "hop tonic." He was taken t > Springfield and fined for selling iiqnor without a license. Several other Champaign County men have been ar­ rested by the United States Marshal of this district for selling an "extract of malt," among others A. B. Parks, of St. J oseph. It is said that soma of the dealers in "extract of malt" were sus­ picious enough of the article to require a written guarantee from the whole- sab dealer, but this does not exoner­ ate them. L> Grippe Attacks an Klephant. The novel sight of an elephant suf­ fering with a severe attack of the grip was seen at the winter quarters of a circus in Rockford. Queen Jumbo, the largest elephant now in captivity, and •alued at $1M,000, was taken sick and suffered most intense agony. Half a dozen times the beast was overcome with spasms, and it required heroic treatment to save her life. During the day the animal consumed ten gallons of whisky and half a barrel of mustard was applied externally. The other ani­ mals realized her illness and kept up a deafening howling and moaning all day Jones Chews the Bobber's Fingers. Three masked burglars undertook to rob Farmjr Berthro M. Jones near Fairbury. They ordered him to pro­ duce his valuables, one enforcing tha demand with a pistol. Jones knocked the pistol from the man s hand, and catching his fingers in his teeth gnaw­ ed a bunch of them off. After a des­ perate fight the farmer bested his peo­ ple, who retired in dis rder. Jones is all right barring a few bruises. Held Death Dae to Violence, . A Coroner's Jury at Quinoy decided that Mary Cooper, co or^d, aged 24, who died of inflammation of the liver ac­ cording to the city physician's certifi­ cate. really came to her death from a violent beating she received at the hands of Dick Taylor, and rec m-rend- ed that Taylor be held to the Grand Jury without bail.' Record of the Week, THOMAS HOLIDAY, a farmer near Beecher City, was killed while felliner timber. TIRED of life Lottie McAlpine, a far­ mer's daughter near Sycamore, swal­ lowed a dose of strychnine and died. THE new German Young Men s Chris­ tian Association Temple was opened at auincy with public ceremonies. Nearly i the Protestant ministers attended the reception. The temple cost $30.- 000. THE 2-year-old son of John Ringers was burned to death at Paine. THE 11-year-old daughter ot Dr. Davenport, of Spring Garden, was bit­ ten by a rabid dog. A m idstore was procured and applied and adhered thirty times to the poisoned part. The wound is quite serious and may prove fatal. WILLIAM WILL, a St. Clair County farmer, 56 years of age, has become •iolently insane on religion. He is la­ boring under the hallucination that Satan is after him and he can save himself only by tearing off all his clothing. AT Alton, two fatalities to children occurred. Harry Ernst, aged 2 years, was run over by a train, and Henry Burbridge wa3 instantly killed while lifting a loaded shotgun from a skiff. JOHN LARSON and Pat O'Brien es­ caped from the jail at Freeport. They were arrested for drunkenness, and af­ terward it was discovered that they answered the description of Rockford sandbaggers. A. D. EARLY, representing a Rock­ ford capitalist, bought the Union Fur­ niture Company's plant, and the fac­ tory will soon be started up. giving work to many Rockford people. The sale with the $35,000 oa hand will give creditors 26 per cent, of their investment. killed by % !r his home at Epworth. ANN, of Freeport, shot Joha^Gfaa&l>k iWho was resisting arrest. He wtil recover. AT Aurora t^ie 8-year-old daughter of John Beiler fell into a pan of hot water and was sok&ed to death. MEMBERS of the W. C. T. U. of Rock­ ford, denounced the playing or progres­ sive cinch and whist or prizes. RESIDENTS of Dun ermline say the stories of their suffering sent out from Canton are greatly ove drawn. THE trial of ex-Policeman Gus Mink- hausen for murdering his wife has been continued at Mascoutah, and may be taken to another county. THE wife of Sandy McRaa. a Rock­ ford stonemason, who Is on the black­ list, has sued Taylor and Robb, saloon­ keepers, for selling her husband liquor. CHARLES CARPENTER was sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary for stabbing and killing G. W. Mc- Mechan at a dance at Union, Sept. 23, 18Y3. LA WHENCE VINCENT, cashier in the Bluff Line freight office at Alton, com­ mitted suicide. He wa 22 years of asre. Sickness caused him to take his i life. His accounts are straight. REV. ANDREW NEWSOME. a colored preacher at Elgin, went home from I Chicago with illness that proves to be smallpox. Representatives of some I fifty colored families visited him be­ fore the nature of his illness became known and there are fears of an epi­ demic. A BLOODY fight between the Free- port High-school boys and the boys attending the Colege of Commerce was prevented Tuasd <y a'ternoon by the timely arrival of the police. The ill-feeling originated, it is said, from a contemptuous remark made by a col­ lege boy in regard to the High School. The High School boys decided to gc down to the commercial college and "clean out' their enemies. They marched to the college in a body, but one of the professors saw them coming, and, anticipating trouble, he locked and barricaded the doors and then sent for the police. While the enraged s udentswere try in ? to force an en­ trance the poli.e appeared and the boys fled. The college boys say that they are anxious for a battle. A SMALL riot occurred on the Wa­ bash train out of Quincy Wednesday morning between the male members of the "In Old Kentuckyand "Under the City Lamps" compa les, both of which showed at juincy Tuesday night. They left on the WaWsh for Jacksonville and about the time the train reached Camp Point the fight wa? started. Re­ volvers were drawn and half a dozen shots were fired, but none of them took eJTect. One of the belligerents was 8tab|>ed with a knife and several others were bruised by b^ing hit with sticks of stove-wood. Conductor Vasconrel- los tried to quell the riot and in doing so was bruised badly. Ti;e two com­ panies have happened to be in the same towns on the same dat a several times ( t late and thera/ii tfiuch bad blood between them. / THE Attorney General in reply to an inquiry; "Can a Coroner acting in the place of Sheriff, who is not eligible to 60 act, demand his fees in advance'-*" says in such cases: "Your fees can be demanded in advance, no matter whether the complainant is solvent or insolvent. This, of course, applies to civil ca-es only. In criminal cases no fees c an be demanded in advance, as the people do not have to pay any fees.' The Attorney General also renders an opinion regardin -he publication of ordinances where fines, penalties, im­ prisonments, etc., are imposed, or any appropriations proposed by cities or villages to the effect that an ordinance so passed must be published in some newspaper in the city or village at least once within one month after the same have been passed, or if no paper is publi hed, then by po ting snch ordi- nan e in three public places; and no such t rdi ance shall take effect until ten days after so posted or published. When printed in pamphlet or book form the publication or posting is not necessary when so published by author­ ity of the village bjard of trustees or city officers. FOLLOWING is a list of county fairs for this year as reported up to date tr the State Board of Agriculture: Connty. Place. Date. Adams Caoip Point Sept. 10--14 Boone Belvldere Sept. 11--14 Brown Mount Sterling.Aug. 6--10 Carroll Mount Carroll. .AUR. 38--31 Champaign Champaign AUK, 28--31 Chainpaiitn Ban tout Auic- 21--94 Christian Pan* An jr. 28--Sept. I De Knlb. Sandwich .Sept. 10--14 De Witt. Farmer City Aug. 14--17 De Witt Clinton...Sept. 10--14 Douglas Camarsro Sept. 11--15 Effingham Watson Sept. 18-91 Fulton Avon Sept. 18--21 Fulton ....Canton Sept. 18--21 Gallatin Shawneetown...Aug. 21--96 Hamilton McL> ansboro,..Aug. 14--IT Hancock Warsaw -- Aug. 28--31 Hancock Carthage Sept. 3--1 Hancock La Harpe ...Aug. 27--SI Henry K> ewaneo Sept. 10--1. Jasper Newton Sept. 18--M Jefferson Mount Vernon..Sept. 11--14 Jo Darieas Warren Sept. 18--al Jo DaTiess ..Galena Oct. 2--5 Kankakee Kankakee Sept. 11--U Kendall Yorkviile Sept. 3--f Knox Knoxvillo Sept. i--f La Salle Meudota........Jusy 10--IS Livingston.. Fairbury Sept. a--t Logan Atlanta Sept. 4--t Macoupin Carliuvilio Sept. 4--T Marion Centralla Sept. 4--7 Marlon 8alem Oct. 9--19 McDonough....BuBhnell. ..Sept. 25--38 McDonough... .Macomb Aug. 30--94 Mctlenry Woodstock. Aug. 28--SI McLean Saybrook Aug. 21--94 Menard Petersburj......Sept. 4--7 Meroer. Aledo Sept. 18--21 Morgan Jacksonville Aug. 90--34 Ogle..; Rochelle Sept. 18--19 Peoria. Elm wood Aug. 28--91 Piatt Montlcello. Aug. 21--91 Pike Grlggsville Aug. 13--is Pope Goli-onda. Oct. 3--6 Schuvler Rushville.. Aug. 13--IT Shelby ShelbyviUe.....Sept. 4--8 Stark Wyoming Aug. 28--W Stephenson Freeport.. Sept. 11--1A Tazewell Mackinaw Union Anna An* 28--U Vermilion.. Catlin Ang. 21--91 ; Vermilion Danville Sept. 4--7 Vermilion Indianola Aug. 14--i f . Vermil.ion. Hoopeeton. Aug. 27--31 Warren Moumouth 8 p. 11--14 Whit*> Car mi Sept. 4--8 Whiteside Morrison Sept. 4--7 Will Joilet Sep. 10--14 Winnebago Rockford Sept. 3--7 Woodford Elpaso sept. 10--1# AUDITOR GORE has completed a com­ pilation of reports received from the twen y-three S ate banks doing busi­ ness in Chicago, in response to the call gent out a tew days ago fo.' a stats ment of their condition on the morning of Feb. ZH. The total deposit* are 5J8,- 854,596. an increa e of about $1,500,000 since November 8, 1893, when the la-t call was made. Savings deposits and time certificates have each increas?d about$1,400,0JO, while individual ̂ pos­ its have fallen off nearly $2,0ou,000. Ca h and sight exchange amounts to $31,.!-,587, showing a reserve of 45 per cent, with which to meet deposits. JOHN SACHS, tombstone decorator, dropped dead while placing an inscrip­ tion on a tombstone at Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago. A DRUNKEN brawl at Odell, in which City Marshal Johnson and Henry Woods, a Tennessean, nearly lost their i lives took place at a place kept by Mr. and Mrs. William Gebhard. The Citv i Marshal went into the place to quell i tfie disturbance when he was attacked > by the ruffians, who mauled him with beer bottles, chairs, and anything thev i could lay hands on. Johnson will hardly recover. The following persons have been arrested: Patrick Hlordan, Jerry Turner, Mike and Jerry Condon, and Charles Fine fie Id, Jr. it. f. * .'If.*... * • { ' i - 5 , '* N" a. Civcs WARNING TO WAR SHIPS. Th« Bydrophon*, Whffe Itofftatam MM Movamentft of any Craft a Mile Distant. Experiments are now being* con­ ducted on the perfection of the hydro­ phone, which, according to the Lon­ don Times, promises to be of great value in marine warfare. The prin­ cipal object of this simple apparatus is to give warniug to a port or fleet of the approach of a torpedo boat, even if the latter is totally submerged and, therefore, invisible. It consists essentially of two j arts, one sub­ merged in the sea, at a proper dis­ tance from the port or fleet to De warned, and at a depth sufficient to escape the surface agitation. This part may be described as an iron bell jar, which, on being plunged mouth downward into the water, retains a volume of air in the upper portion or bottom, where a copper box, protect­ ing the sensitive organ of the appara­ tus is fixed. The organ in question is merely a very deiicate vibratory contact, which makes and breaks an electric circuit connecting the sub­ merged bell with the Indicator or second part of the hydrophone, situ- ated on shore or on board one of the ships of the fleet The contact is formed by a flat horizontal spring fixed at one end and loaded at the other by a heavy piece of brass, hav- ing on its upper surface a small plati­ num stud. A tine platinum needle kept upright by a vertical guide, rests its lower end loosely on the platinum stud. The needle aad the stud are connected In the electric cir­ cuit through the guide and spring, and when the ueedle dances on the stud the circuit is made and broken. An electric current from the ship or shore battery is always flowing through the circuit--that is to say, between the submerged bell and the indicator. Now, the propeller ot a torpedo boat or of a torpedo sets up vibrations in the water, and these, reaching the submerged bell, agitate the trembling contact, so that the needle dances on the stud and inter- rupts the current. The consequence is that the indicator begins to work and announces the submarine dis­ turbance. This part ot the hydro phone consists essentially of an elec­ tro-magnet, through which the cur­ rent passes, wilh an armature free to oscillate when the current is rapidly made and broken--that is to say, when the current becomes intermit- tsnt. The motion of this armature can be seen by an observer, if he chooses to watch, but actual observa­ tion is not required, for the indicator itself gives the alarm. This takes place when the swing of the arma­ ture carries it within the attraction of a magnetic contact piece fixed near it. The armature is then drawn to the contact piece aud held fast there. The swinging armature and the con­ tact piece are connected in the cir­ cuit of local battery, and when thef meet the current flows to ring an electric bell or light an electric lamp. The torpedo boat thus announces its own arrival on the scene in spite of itself, and precautions can be taken against it. The hydrophone is at present undergoing a practical trial in England, and Captain McEvoy, the inventor, estimates that three ot the instruments suitably placed would be sufficient to protect Ports­ mouth harbor. He is now engaged in constructing a larger bell than that already submerged, in order to meet the requirements of the Government author it es The apparatus Is beauti­ fully woiked out and comparatively inexpensive. Moreover, it is suffi­ ciently sensltiye to announce the passage of steamers a mile distant from the belL Obviously, such &n instrument might also be used for submarine signaling, for a shiR by stopping and starting her propeller, could send a message In the Morse code, and the shore could respond by flashing the electric lamp In the case of another ship the response might be made by her propeller. Lawleu Revenges* It is an almost appalling condition of sentiment somewhere that is sug- guested by the appearance in one of our principal magazines of a sym­ posium of articles discussing the morals ot lynch law. That there could be the occasion of such d controversy in our country, or indeed, that any difference of opinion whatever could exist implies a s^ate of affairs not pleasant to contemplate. Unfortunately occurrences are con­ tinually assailing public attention which too clearly explain the appear­ ance of this discussion. One such happened only a few days ago when a man suspected of crime was seized, not by the arm of tne law, dragged prostrate on the ground, at the etui of a rope fastened around his wrists, to the scene of his supposed offence, aud there suspended in the air by a rope around his neck, while a slow tire burned under his ieet. The newspaper dispatches in which this horrible story is told stated that the company which inflicted these atrocities was composed of the "best citizens of the neighborhood," in­ cluding a clergyman, a. physician and a county clerk The dispatches conclude by describing how. when the poor wretch had been strangled and burned, his body was "riduled with bullets!" It eannot be maintained that this is an extraordinary, scarcely an un­ usual affair; but the more frequently its like occurs the more impressive is the duty of every serfo.is citizen to declare his loatMing of it, and all en- gaged in it ' How can any intelligent' person suppose that the criminal passions of some men are restrained by outbursts of passions not less lawless on the part of others?--Youth's Companion. A Mouse Tor a Companion. One of the quaint remembrances Of Ltobert Louis Stevenson's south sea lile's that of his Honolulu mouse. A small shell hung over the couch whereon he used to lie when ill and < trying to forget his pain in -tooting" I on his flageolet Out on this shelf the ! little mouse would venture, and soon became so tame as to delight in the novelist's caresses, if it got no im­ mediate attention it would scratch on the shelf and make a little whine or song to attract its friends, and after a time it actually persuaded ts spouse to pay a daily visit |to the musician in its company. MOST creatures are entirely harm­ less when they are asleeix Mot the moth does the most mischief when it la taking a nain • T&ffi • TABIFF BILL IS OUT. « 3AT!C*!EDTHE ! <HVTN TO THE SENATE FI­ NANCE COMMITTEE* •aajr ChaogH Hal* la At WUaoa Ibaa- V*--Maximum Datj of On* aad Wamr- TMKTTU CMU on Sugar--Fros INK ON *Utod--Bight Years for Whisky. * Sugar In Taxed. The Wilson tariff bill, which passed the House of Representatives Feb. 1, was laid before the full membership of the Senate Committee on Finance Thursday morning, in the amended form upon which the Democratic ma­ jority of that committoe finally agreed after one month's consideration. The chief features are the provisions in re­ gard to sugar, iron ore, lead, wool and its manufactures, cotton manufactures, wbisky and tobacco. The sugar pro­ vision is as follows: Ail sugars, tank bottoms, syrups of cane- juice or ot beetjulce, meiada. concentrated ntel ad a, con ere lu and concentrated mo- lasses testing bjr the polarlseope not above 80 degrees, shall pay a duty ot * 1 per cent, per pound, and for every additional degrae or fraction of a degree 80 and not above 90 decrees showu by the polarlseope test, shall pay .01 of a cent per pound addi­ tional. and above 99 and not above 9C de­ grees, for every additional degree or frac­ tion of a degree shown by the polarlseope test shall pay a duty of . OS of a cent per pound additional, and above 96 degrees by polarlseope test shall pity a duty of 1.4 cents pet- pound; molttBses testing not above 56 depress by the polartecoge shall pay a duty of 2 cants per gallon; molasses testing above S6 degrees shall pay a duty ot 4 cents per gallon. Tax on Iron, Coal, and t«uL Iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore, also dross or residuum from burned pv rites, is taxed 40 cents per ton. Coal is taken from the free list and made dutiable also at 40 cents a ton, and coke at 15 cents. Lead ore, which in the Wilson bill was 15 per cent, ad valorem, lead ore, and lead dross are taxed three-fourths of a cent per pound, provided that silver ore and all other ores containing lead shall pay a duty of three-fourths of a cent per pound cn the lead contained there­ in, according to sample and assay at the port of entry. Haw wool is left on the free list ex­ actly as in the Wilson bill, the provis­ ion to go into effect Aug. 2, 1891. In manufactures of wool the valuations as given in the Wilson bill are stricken out, and the schedules now read as fol­ lows: Wool of the sheep, hair ot the camel, goat), alpaca, and other like animals In the form of stubbing, waste, roving waste, ring waste, tnungct shoddies, garnetted. or carded waste, carbonized noils, or other waste product, any of which is composed wholly or in part of wool; the hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like ani­ mals, which has been improved or ad­ vanced beyond its original condition as waste by the use of machinery or the ap­ plication of labor, or both, and carbonized wool, shall be subject to a duty ot 15 per centum ad valorem. On wool of the sheep, huir of the camel, goat, alpaca, or other like animals in the form of loving, roping, or tops, S5 per centum ad valorem; on woolen and worsted yarns, SO per centum ad valorem: on woolen or worsted cloths, shawls, knit fabrics, manufactures of every description made wholly or in pari of wool, worsted, the hair ot the camel, goat, alpaca, or other animals and any of the above having India rubber as a com­ ponent material, not specialty provided for In this act 8* per centum ad valorem, instead of 40. as in the Wilson bill On blankets hats o* wool, and flannels. 25 per centum ad valorem, and it vahied at more than 30 cents per pound 80 per centum ad valorem; on women's and chil­ dren's dress goods, composed wholly or in part of wool, not specially provided for in this act. 35 per centum ad valorem. Instead @140; on clothing, ready-made, and arti­ cles of wearing apparel of every descrip­ tion, and imitations of fur. composed wholly or in part of wool, etc.. 40 per cent­ um ad valorem. Instead of 45; on webbings, eorings. suspenders, braces, beltings, bind ,lngs. braids, etc.. 35 per centum ad valor­ em, Instead of 4& Carpets remain unchanged. The re­ duction in the duties for manufactures of wool shall take effect Dec. 2,1894. t Off and on the Free IAM Articles stricken from the free list are as follows: Apples, green, ripe, and dried, etc. j beef, mutton and pork; bone char; bitu­ minous and »hale. and coal slack or culm; coke, cocoa fiber, floor matting, manufac­ tured from round or split straw, including Chinese matting; dates, cocoanuts, Brazil nuts, cream nuts; gambler; guta. salted; horn strips and tip*: Iron ore; olives, green or prepared; orchids, lily of the val­ ley, azaleas, palms, and other plants used for forcing under glass for cut flowers or decorative purposes; sausage skins; sugar; stained or painted window glass or painted glns«; painHru's and statuary. The additions to the free list are as follows: A n y c a t t l e , h o r s e s , s h e e p o r o t h e r d o ­ mestic animals which have strayed across the border to any foreign country, or where such domestic animals have been ot may be driven across such boundary by the owner for pasturage purpose; dia raonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut. Including miners' diamonds; cod livisroll. not specifically provided for In the act; straw, etc.. for bats; spermaceti, whale and other flsb oils of American fish­ eries smd all fish and other products of such fisheries. Telegraphic Clleka. IN the treaty with Morooco Spain insists that the Ritf tribes must go further into the interior. DANIEL TRACV shot and killed his old father with a rifle at Aken, Wis. He was overtaken in the woods. Two STEAMBOATS were caught in a Missouri River ice gorge at Sioux City, Jowa, and weat to the bottom. ELEVATION of the Reek Island tracks in Chicago will begin as soon as agree­ ment with the city is reached. AN incendiary made a fruitless at­ tempt to destroy the main building of the Normal School at Geneseo, 111. NEGOTIATIONS are rending for the removal of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago shops to Lafayetti, Ind. THUS far in 1894 eighty lives and eighteen vessels have oeen lost from the fishing fleet of Gloucester, Mass. M ORE BAKEB, New Brunswick, N. J., has sold to a museum the gory effects of his murdered wife and child. MRS. LEASE has been found t-> be an heir.to a large estate left by a maiden aiurfi who died in Ii-eland several year* ®«o. EX-SENATOR SABIN, of Minnesota, is determined ta make a fight for the position occupied by Senator Wash­ burn. AT a Spring!? eld meeting of Illinois implement dealers members were urged to buy directly from the manufac­ turers. THE Santa Fe Railroad gave final notice of withdrawal from member­ ship in the Western Passenger Asso­ ciation. ERIE stockholders decided to issue $70,000,000 new second mortgage bonds in accordance wi h the reorganization plan. FOUR employes are said to have furnished tne information by which the government secured damages from Carnegie. anerKvarytftlagKls* Bad Marin Were Aeeept«d aa Proof. : 'Ar'; A wtll̂ lresMd man went lot* ft Main street hank recently,and watfceA up to the w ndow presided over bp 4. ' the paying teller, says a writer in tito Buffalo Express. He handed a chedt V 5 to that individual and sad: "Ihav* . 1 •< a check for $50 which I wish yon 'A r'p ! would cash." The paying teller looked at the « » . check and then at the man. "Yon""* ""J will bave to be identified," hesa'd. / * The well-dressed man was prepared / v for tbis. «•! don't know a soul is 1 ' ; Buffalo," be said, "but I have a j of letters addressed to myself." He pulled up a package of letters and shoved them through the window. The payin? teller examined tU. ̂ letters, looked at the check again, and ' . said: "That is not sufflc ent. Yiwf. f w.ll have to be personally identified." J ^ ' "But there isn't a man, wougaa, or fwf i child in Buffalo who knows me froes* a trolly car," persisted the well- ' *: dressed man. "Herej here is my key * ' ring. Look at the name on thait -;" tag." ^ ! The paying teller saw that the "i"J- J name on the check and the name on. f t h e t a g w e r e t h e s a m e . " I a n n i H ~ sorry," be said, "but our rule* aref ^ very strict I can't pay this check out »*;! - such an identification. Excuse me, " but you may have stolen both lettersr;:^?-^;| and key-chain and check." ; The well-dressed man was worried. ! * * . '•I've got to have that money," her said, "to get outof town with, and %' -jx,. ^ have got to get out of town this af- C t tefnoon." Then he desperately tore ^^V^ open his Tent and showed his initials on his shirt. • There," he said, "da •• -J-.,, you th nk 1 stole that shirt, too." jf "May have," answered the payioff " " te'ler, la onically. The well-dressed man .was verf » angry. He walked around the banks for awhile and then was struck by m sudden thought He took off his coat and vest and rolled up his left sh : s | sleeve and the sleeve of his mk'jkr* / A shirt Then he stuck his bared mm 'M:> through the window and shouted: .f ; "There, you dodgasted chumb! Dr» you see those in tiais tattooed there In blue ink? Do you th:nk 1 stole 4 them, too?" . * C The pay in cr teller paid the monejr 4 - <4 1 without another word. & > i " •1 The Matter of Good While tbis journal, says the CalU; fornia Fruit Grower, has all alonn taken ground in favor of better!m| our puLlic roads. lt will be remem. bered that it has held throughout that good roads must cost a srood deal of money, tin fact we have mor$ i than once pointed out that such coal wouid be much greater than has gen*r| erally been assumed, and we hav^l cautioned counties proposing to votf I bonds for road improvements not to expect to accomplish too mach witii a limited supply of money. Apropos of all tbis we qpote the following! from the Chronicle of San Franciseor Mr. Pope, the gentleman wh<\ ia the interest of the trade in bicycle%| has been airltating for good roads, will - probably read with some surprise the report of the Ohio Boad Commission recently made to Governor McKinley, That body after exhaustively exam#! ining into the matter has concluded that it would require about $5,000 mile to construct good roadways, aixl that this would necessitate an ex«v penditure of at least $400,000,000 TI provide the State of Ohio witti aft effective road system. Tbis amount the Com miss ion regards as prohibit ^ tive and arguing from this prohibit tive cost and the waste which wool# naturally be incurred by depending on horse power for transportation purposes, it recommends Instead tb*£ laving of steel rails on highways anir the substitution of steam, electric otf other inanimate power tor the horaf system of transportation. As th# statistics collated show that the coat of moving freight by horse is almost 25 cents per ton-mile, and only about; a i cent per ton-mile by steam, tlkf recommendat on seems sound if if will not harmonize with those of tb* loudest advocates of good roads what after alt, are thinking more of the comfort of the cyclist and the owner* of carriages than of the interests at the farmer. \. k -* 1-1 ••>! *V\J ' i . i'V"'-.; • • % ** "i ^ 1 / 'hi'- Bex wood. » | Among a large class of craftsmen wish has long been entertained tot •«, 1 the discovery of a hard, compact and even gained wood having all tht • characteristics of boxwood and fot ,7, which it would form an efficient snb» ' I®'> • stitute. For mauy years past the '% 't\ gradual diminution in the supplies of 4 > boxwood and the deterioration in ill t quality have proved serious facts ift 4^;^ more than one occupation, iucludinf| ^ engravers, hardwood dealers, ef g! -J cetera, especially the former, on ao count of the higher price asked fot 'ti the material and the difficulty ot securing it of the needed size and firmness or texture, so as to insure the artistic excellence of the engrave ing. While by far the most important use of this wood is for the engraver's art, it is also applied to numerous* other purposes, such, for instance, aa weaving shuttles, mathematical in­ struments, turnery uses, carving and cabinetwork. The fact Is interest­ ing as well as importaut that bOK» wood is the nearest, approach tfft ivory of any wood known, and there ore probably increase in value s* ̂ it becomes scarcer. Small wood, der four inches, is used to a very great extent by flax spinners for rollers and, by turners for various put pose, rollers for r|nk skates et cetera, and if free from splits cracks and other imper­ fections, is considered of equal • value with the larger wood. Welding Aluminum. A new and improved method Car welding aluminum has beefti dis­ covered, and has proved so sat s* factory that when subjfected «to a» severe strain in testing, the welded joint proved of greater strength tbaa the pure metal. The welding j re­ paration is called a colder, though, properly speaking, it is not ao alloy or solder, but a substan e thatunttee with the pieces of metal to be welded, > as it were, fusing them together The use of aluminum has been re­ strained by the absence of some sncti method as this A process of weld­ ing it has been known, but t was un­ satisfactory. owing to the weak! at the joint The invention hasten the day when aluminum lie used in commercial uuantltea V'eY zjm&'l '4* # ̂ , "*.3?..,,, \ ... .fc , .fe,. r