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COMPILATION OFILUNOI6 NEWS. ©tmrmntlae Against Cattle Importation*-- Jealoiur Cum a Doahl« Trtfcd) ~ Vootpadi Await m Flora Bport-Fl(UM from DorfN't Ibmciiim Report. To Protect UUpoU Cattle. -.To guard against the introduction f iw the cattle disease known as splenetic pr Southern fever Governor Aitgeld issued a proclamation, scheduling the following district from Feb. 15 to Deo. I, inclusive: The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alatama, Flor­ ida, Georgia, South a ad North Caro­ lina, and parti of the States of Okla- fhoma, Arkansas and Virginia. All cars tof cattle brought trom the above dis­ trict must be plainly labeled "From tfle scheduled district," and all cattle must be placed in separate pens and not driven through any public high- |Way._ These may ba imported for im­ mediate Slaughter in this State, but must be quarantined for ninety days And under the permission of the State Veterinarian. lutrarance Business In Illinois. _ The advance sheets of the report of Itradford K. Durfee, insurance super­ intendent, were given out on fire and lire marine insurance companies doing business in Illinois. Reports of Illi­ nois business sh^w the amount done lor the year ending Dec, 31, 1893, as follows: Seven joint stock companies of this State wrote $88,894,076 of risks, receiving $1,242,237 premiums; in­ curred $552,082 of losses; losses paid, $53i),264. One hundred and three joint (Stock companies of other States wrote j$68J,682,503 risks and received $7,728,- 401 in premiums; losses incurred, $4,- 1835,377; losses paid, $4,493,789. Thirty- five foreign companies' United States ibranchos wrote risks aggregating .$370,522,638; premiums received, $3,- :767.562; losses ineurrred, $2,334,879; losses paid, $2,210,698. Seventeen mu­ tual companies, seven of them located in Illinois, wrote risks on $16,811,019; [premiums rec3ived, $286,032: losses in- ouried, $103,080; losses paid, $111,799. The total amount of risks written were <1.161,910,864; premiums received, $13,- 024,234; losses incurred, $7,836,139; losses paid, $7,343,632. Was Assaulted and Robbed. ^Samuel Evans, a trestle walker, Wund a man whom he supposed to be dead lying along a railroad track three miles east of Clay City. He came in and notified the authorities, who ac­ companied Mr. Evans to the spot. Here they found P. Lebus, a well- known Flora sport, in a pitiable con­ dition. He was severely cut in the head and face, and was not able to talk. He was brought to town in a semi-conscious state and placed in charge of Drs. E. W. and J. W. Boyles. Lebus afterward became able to talk. He says he was walking .home when he wa^ held up by five un­ known men, and after relieving him of $17 was left by the railroad to die. The authorities have no clew as to the whereabouts of the rubbers, and "Lebus cannot give exact descriptions. Kills HI* Wife and Then Himself. MARION T. SKOATS shot his wife And then himself Sunday night on the Big Four train at Ea^t St. Louis. Both are dead. Skoats was a stonecutter hy trade and was a widower when he Sarried his wife, who was a widow. Dth had ungovernable tempers and were jealous of eacn other. The wife had been to St. Louis with her daugh­ ter and was followed by the husband. While on the v^a/ home and changing oars at East ^lton Skoats suddenly said: "We will settle this matter quick­ ly and right now." and fired the shots which ended both tneir lives. Record of the Week. [DH. W. A. HARRIS, of Monee, has reported two cases of small-pox near the village. JUDSON NEWTON, Nauvoo, died shortly after he and a companion had drank a gallon of wine. AT a Springfield meeting of Illinois implement dealers members were urged to buy directly from the manufaturers. J OHN L. GRIER, wanted for forgerv at Macomb, where he jumped his bail bond two years ago, has been recap­ tured. GEORGE HOOVER, 73 years old was found dead in bed at Moweaqua. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause. A MAN killed by a train on the Alton Road near Petersburg, has been fully identified as Patrick Ryan, of Rutland, Vt. F. A. COLE sold meal tickets to sixty students of the Chicago University, collected the money, and then closed hie restaurant. JOHN C. YOUNG has begun suit at Free port, for $10,000 damages against the Illinois Central Railroad for al­ leged injuries received in a wreck at Dixon. ANTONE TURK, an Austrian, about 35 years old, blew out the gas in the St. Nicholas Hotel in Joliet, and was asphyxiated. CHICAGO city officials .are surprised at the offer of a Chicago street railway company to pay more taxes and tell tickets cheaper. THOMAS T. DAVIES, while helpless­ ly drunk, was cruelly seared with a redhot poker in Henry Barkowsky's saloon at Chicago. WILLIAM HALL, a lumberman of Vermont, was drowned while crossing the river c n a ferry boat near Beards- town. When near the center of the stream Hall's team plunged overboard. A BROKEN trolley-wire killed a valu­ able horse ridden by John Maklaner at Springfield, and nearly killed Maldaner and six others. There were several ca -row escapes during the excitement. Tue accident occurred in the business center. THE Attoney General holds that a city, unles < it adopts the city election law, need not have a registry for elec­ tors. He also holds that a person can­ not have two domiciles, and that his res­ idence is hi-i real voting place. Iv the United States Court at Spring­ field, in the case of William M. Alans- bui ger of Mattoon vs. The Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company, a moti< n for a new trial was overruled and udgment was rendered on the ver­ dict awarding the plaintiff $7,000 as damages for personal injury. He was a brake ran on the road, anu lost a lag while on duty. ELI SELSOR obtained a judgment for 15, (MX) at Blooming ton from the Colum­ bus, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company for the loss of a hand wnile coupling cars. BURGLARS broke into the East Side ticket office of the Illinois Central Rail­ way Company, at Rockford, Sunday night by prying oj en a window ana carried off a case containing between $300 and $400 worth of tickets. A few rods down the track the case was found broken open and with a few tickets yet remaining in it. These were checked up and the numbers of the missing tickets sent to the officials of the road, so the burglars will get no free ride *%r all ELDER F. M. JOHNSON, of Alton, has ' been called as pastor of ihe Baptist Church in Virginia. "v AT Elgin, the store of A. D. Martin* hardware dealer, was closed by the Sheriff on two executions. BURGLARS robbed the safe in the postoffiee at Patoka, and secured $150 in cash and $130 in stamps. CLARENCE WILLIAMS, a colored boy wanted at Memphis, Tenn., for mur­ der, was arrested at Lincoln. JEALOUS William Donaldson, near Champaign, attacked his rival with a brick, and then killed himself. RESIDENTS of Decatur are stirred by a union revival. Nearly every store closed to observe a day of prayer. AT a meeting of mining company directors at Edmburg, O. F. Place, of Chicago, attempted to kill Secretary HarriAgton. Miss ELIZA MACK, of Freeburg, fell from a stepladder, sustaining injuries that have caused her to become hope­ lessly insane. REV. F. M. HAYS, of Clinton, was expelled from the church for the rea­ son that he also belonged to another denomination. STOREKEEPER WESLEY and Drug­ gist Elich, Evanston, fought because the latter sold the former's wife intox­ icating bitters. MEN in the wholesale grocers' trade in Chicago contributed *6,665 toward the Central Relief Association work of aiding the poor. WM. SUTTERER, of Alton, who robbed his dying mother of a $300 certificate of deposit and forged her name, has been arrested in St. Louis. POLICE OFFICER PETER W. KEN­ NEDY, of Chicago, was summarily dis­ missed from the force for assaulting a young couple while intoxicated. M. O. SHOOP, Kaneville's tax collec­ tor, was held up by two highwaymen and relieved of $400 in cash. He has no clew to the identity of the robbers. MARTIN CONNORS and Willi n Coyne, of Rockford, were arrested and bound over to the grand jury in the sum of $600 each for robbing the store of Burr Brothers. THOMAS ALLEN and William Hatter- shire, two Carlyle boys of 12 years, were boat riding in the Kaskaskia River when the boat capsized. William Hattershire was drowned. THE two-story residence of R. J. Ad- kins wai entirely destroyed by fire at Chandlerville. Loss, *3,000; no insur­ ance. Mrs. Ad kins was seriously burned, and her recovery is doubtful. * A WOMAN calling herself Mrs. EL L. Hall, of Philadelphia, was arrested at Alton for failing to pay board for her­ self and four children at the Hotel Madison during the last six weeks. GEORGE PETTIBONE, an employe of R. W. Hosmer, the Chicago insurance man, was arrested for embezzling $950. It is the same old story of a young man on a small salary living beyond his means. SYLVESTER WILKERSON, locked up at the Belleville jail, suspected of be­ ing one of the men who held up a Mo­ bile and Ohio train near East St. Louis a week ago, it appears, turn* out to be a horsethief. MISS ALMA WINTERS, the 16-year- old daughter of Charles Winters, of Barrington, was frightened to death during the progress of a fire which de­ stroyed her father's residence. Miss Winters was an only daughter. STEPHEN COYNE and his wife live northeast of Aurora on a small farm. With them live their only daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Hill, and their children. Coyne ap­ parently became suddenly insane. Tak­ ing an ax he struck his daughter in the head. She dodged and escaped the full force of the blow. Coyne then went out to the barn and set fire to the hay, intending to cremate himself. He could not stand the ordeal and ^threw himself into a creek near by. * Some boys fished him out of the water, when he went back to the house and cut his throat with a razor. He is still alive and may recover. MARENGO is all stirred up over a charivari and its outcome. The son of City Marshal D. W. Hewitt was mar­ ried. A lot of young people, including some of the leading youths in town, serenaded the happy couple. The Marshal got angry and drove the noisy crowd away, after knocking some of them down with his fists. Thev had him arrested for assault. At the bear­ ing the ca e was dismissed. Then the Marshal had the members of the charivari party arrested. The legal penalty is $250 fine, and if the accused shall be found guilty and fail to pay up the jail will be crowded. And it will establish a nice precedent. DAVID HALLINAN, of Chicago, was arrested for robbing his own saloon to defraud a concern that insures against burglars. MISS BERTHA BELL TURNER, 19 years old, who died in St. Louis under mysterious circumstances, was the daughter of Henry Turner, of Leba­ non, one of the wealthiest and most prominent colored citizens of Southern Illinois. Miss Turner attended Mc- Kendree Col.ege and had a high stand* ing in scholarship. AT the little church at Cottage Cor­ ner, a few miles distant from Macomb, the preacher announced that a collec­ tion would be taken up for charitable purposes. The baskets were passed around, but the contribution averaged less than ope cent apiece for each of the forty-six members. Pastor Kurz, stepping to the front of the platform, said: "I had expected a larger contri­ bution than this and I feel like making up the deficiency myself." Taking a $;>0 bill from his pocket ha continued: "There are, now forty-six members of this congregation and if four more per­ sons will c ime forwa d and join I will contribute this 850 bill." No one re­ sponded. For a moment or two the minister stood looking at the audience, then he advanced to where a lamp was standing and holding the currency cer­ tificate above the blaze he allowed it ta burn to ashes. THE contract for the new Effingham high school building was let for *15,- 374. It is to be completed Aug. 15. REV. EDWARD AVERILL was or­ dained an Epiec 5pal priest at Fairbury. Many churchmen from other places took part. E. M. KINMAN, a young Jacksonville lawyer, is missing, and great alarm is felt'by his relatives. He departel for a hunting trip, in a boat, and but one man claims to have seen him since. That man says he saw Kinman on a Wabash train headed for St. Louis: but friends believe he is dead. PUBLIC bestowal of a magnificent medal was the way in which citizens and officials of Quincy expressed their admiration of the bra ery of Ferdi­ nand Sohn, a fireman, who climbed a ladder through smoke and flame and rescued a watchman named Sullivan. AT a meeting of the Springfield coal miners it was agreed to submit to a reduction in the price of mining coal to 35 cents a ton, of which they were recently notified by the operators. A demand was made upon the operators for a reduction in the price of supplies, which was refused. However, the miners will accept the situation and con inue work for the present. The miners are not Uum^itfhly organized. DEMOCRATIC PROMISES HAVE NOT BEEN FULFILLED. tfe* *<Mr HTA Beea OM of gwpstusl Calamity--Wilson BUI Is Hard OM OM Farmers--TUe War op Pensioners--Free Seed Distribution. - Democracy's DeeatttalMfh ; / ' It is just a little over one year since the Democratic party assumed control of the Government of the United States. Let us look back and see what this "reform party" has accomplished. When the Democratic party assumed the reins of power on 4th of March, 1893, it pledged itself to "reform" the tariff; it pledged itself to put the na­ tional currency on a sound basis; it pledged itself to strengthen the public credit; it pledged itself to introduce economy in all the departments of the government; it pledged itself to a firm yet conservative foreign policy: and it pledged itself to inaugurate an era of unprecedented prosperity. How has the Democratic party kept its pledges since the 4th of Marcn, 1893.-' It has not "reformed" the tariff. Although a year has elapsed, and al­ though it has the largest working ma­ jority known since the war-time Con­ gresses, it has barely begun its tariff tinkering. Although Congress has practically been in session since the "ith of August, 1893--about seven months--it has, after all this time, only succeeded in getting its new tariff bill through the House. It is yet to j*ehe summer resortsjit the lakeajand wi&er-tliese goods fresh and cool. "Lew! ityill have full charge of the branch depot ^ere and will aim to accommodate all. lead his advertisement in another crolumn. PP OWING to sickness we were prevented gr.-om hearing the third lecture of the foourse, which was given by Rev. C. A. Qfifoore, at the city Hall, on Thursday ettvening last, and that we mimed a rich pdterai-y treat is evidenced by the high ^ncomiuma we hear on every hand by athose who were there. His subject, "The h>lan of the Times," was handled in a thtanner to both interest nW«u» ks^ tarin for revenue onry, and everybody knows that it is not; all sorts of inter­ ests are protected in it for various rea­ sons--sectional, personal, and political. What, then, becomes of the denuncia­ tion of protection as a "fraud" and a "robbery"? If this be true, why have not the Democrats abolished it at once, and why are they preparing to continue it in some favored instances, that certain Southern States may have their products protected? What have the Democrats dene toward abolishing what they call a "robbery" since the 4th of March, 1893? As to their promise of putting the finances of the country on a sound basis, the Democrats wrangled for months over the silver question, and only succeeded in settling that, not­ withstanding their overwhelming ma­ jority, through the patriotism of the Republican minority. The Treasury is almcst empty, but the Democrats cannot agree on a bond issue. Instead of carrying out the pledge of a firm jret conservative foreign policy, the admin­ istration ha* covered itself with ig­ nominy in the Hawaian question, has practically attempted to restore a fall­ en monarchy bv force, and has met with the unqualified and unmistakable rebuke of the people. These, then, are a few things which the Democrats promised to do and have not done. Let us turn to their per­ formances, and not their promises Here the list is long. In one year the Democrats have re­ pealed the federal election law, thereby puttinsr a premium on ballot-box stuf­ fing and false and fraudulent election returns. In one year they have, through their free-trade panic, thrown the Reading, the Erie, the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Santa Fe and sixty- nine other railway systems into the hands of receivers. in one year they have forced 598 banks to close their doors. In one year they have caused 800 manufactories to shut down. In one year they have forced 15,183 mercantile houses into bankruptcy. In one year they have thrown over a millioa workingmen into idleness, beg­ gary and crime. This, then, is the record of the Dem­ ocratic party, the party of "reform." since March 4, 1893. This is their record of d saster for one of their four years. What will they do in the re- mainiag three? of th® pension office, and both are equally hostile to the North, which is punished on the one hand for being loyal and on the other for being in­ dustrious. There may be Union veterans who voted for Grover Cleveland in 1892, ar.d who really believed that the leopard could change its spots and the Democracy be friendly to the soldier. By this time such veterans have come to a wiser understanding of triumphant Democracy.--New York Press. Benjamin Harrison, Orator. While en route to the Pacific ooast ex- Presldent Harrison was called upon a number of times to address the people on the issues of the day. Although out of public life, Mr. Harrison still takes great interest in political affairs and is now, as during his term of office and before, fully in touch with all the questions that are interesting the peo­ ple. He is still the same incompara­ ble offhand speaker, instructing his auditors and holding them engaged to the end. During the course of a brief talk at Kansas City he said: 1 have not seen any reason to abate one jot of the confidence with which I hold the principles that I endeavored to put into practice during the four years I was in­ trusted with public office. I do not think, just now, that those principles much need the tongue of an advocate. Experience Is making an argument in support of the American policy, and experience la the most forcible speaker I know of. He ha9 no Rift of oratory, but he drives his argument home. 1 hope you here have escaped some­ what those depths of depression which are now prevailing throughout the country. He reaffirmed his belief in the policy of protection and asked the people to contribute of their substance to the support of the poor, for "beyond the breakers there is smooth water smooth sailing, but it is rough ing now, as we all know." The ex- isident has not lost the ability to e offhand speeches that go straight he heart i of the people. At vari- points in Colorado he was called to speak and everywhere responded is own felicitous style. A Law Unto Himself. ' ension Commissioner Lochren is lectly bent on evading all the laws Congress on the pension matter that lot seem to strike his fancy. Last member, when the deficiency bill i under consideration in Congress, roviso was inserted to the effect t a psnison was a vested right to extent that it could not be sus- j jnded or taken away without thirty ; clays' notice to the pensioner and infor­ mation of the nature of the charges against him. It now transpires that no sort of attention has been paid to this provision, that pensioners have been suspended without a hearing and that Judge Lochren has been carrying things with a high hand in that regard. An investigation has teen ordered. | Yesterday Commissioner Lochren experienced another setback in the; now famous .Tud^e Long case. Judge Cox of the District Court granted the injunction restraining Loctiren from reducing the pension of Judge L«ng from $72 to $50 per month, as he h. d threatened he would do. Justice Brad­ ley had decided that the pension of Long could not be reduced by the pen­ sion department, but the brainy com­ missioner of pensions made up his mind that he would show Judge Long a thing or two, and he announced in a long-drawn-out article some weeks ago that he would cut the pension, Justice Bradley to the contrary notwithstand­ ing. Judge Cox in effect tays he will do nothing of the kind.--Ohio State Journal. Hard on the Farmers. The fact that English and Scotch po­ tatoes can be landed here and sold at *1.56 per sack of 1 8 pounds, even un­ der the McKinley tariff of 25 cents per bushel, will show our farmers what they are to expect when the rate is re­ duced to 10 cents per bushel by the Wilson tariff. It i* estimated that three-eighths of our supply now comes from abroad, and that the English farmer gets not more than 25 cents for a sack of 168 pounds. We are now pay­ ing ovey $500,1.00 per year for foreign potatoes, which money goes to foreign farmers, transportation companies, and laborers, but ii the duty thould be re­ duced 15 cents per bushel, it is esti­ mated that our tribute to England lor potatoes would not be le s than $»y 00,- 00", while our farmer w mid be fairly driven Out of the potato business. The loss of freight to our railroads would be immense, and the gain to the poor wcrkingman would be very small. For if our farmers are forced to aban­ don raising potatoes, the I n^lish will meet with no competition, and they will take advantage of the fact to raise the price. Thus under a 10-cent duty, potatoes will cost the consumer just as much as they now co-t under a duty of 25 cents. If the Wilson bill becomes a law, cur farmers will have to be con­ tent to raise only so many potatoes as they can market in their immediate neighborhood before they feel the for­ eign competition.--Springfield (Mass.) Union. The War on Pensioners. The veterans of the Union armies deprived of their pittances by Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of the Interior, tlirough un ust and arbitrary interpre­ tations of the pension laws, are not likely to derive consolation from the fact that the millions of dollars with­ held from them will indirectly goto benefit British manufacturers and im­ porters. It is openly stated at Wash­ ington that one motive for withholding from "those who had borne the battle and their widows and orphans" the provision promised to them in behalf of the nation by Abraham Lincoln is to help the ex-Confe erates in Con­ federates i" Congress to cut down duties as much as possible in the Wil­ son bill. Thus the Congressmen from backwoods and bayous are able to pay a double debt of gratitude and re­ venge--gratitude to the British for as­ sistance in trying to destroy the Union, and revenge on the Union soldiers who prevented the Union from being de­ stroyed^ The Wilson bill goes in har­ ness with iioko Smith's man^emeut The Time for Free Send. It will be remembered that in his last message to Congress, President Cleveland gave expression to radical sentiments upon the seed question. "Under the san tion of existing legis­ lation," he said, "there was sent out from the Agricultural Department dur­ ing the last fiscal year enough of cab­ bage S3ed to plant 19,200 acres of land, a sufficient quantity of beans to plant 4,000 acres, beet seed enough to plant 2,500 acres, sweet corn enough for 7,fc00 acre-." and so on, ending in this inter­ esting culmination: "rlhe total quan­ tity of flower an i vegetable seeds thus distributed was contained in more than nine million packages, and they were sufficient, if planted, to cover 89,583 acres of land, In view of these figures, the Pre.-ident asked Congress to stoD, or at least to abridge, its achievementi in seed distribution. The matter is important just now, because this is the tea-son for the send­ ing out of the packages. The Wash­ ington News says many congressmen are hard at work, and, of course, these are bu -y times in the Agricultural De­ partment. Each member of Congress, whether he be Senator or Representa­ tive, is entitled to 20,000 packages. The seeds this year are intended for ex­ perimental purposes, and those who re­ ceive them are expected to send reports on the results. It is not likely that the farmer will get much out of the Wilson bill, and if he is wise he will hurry in his order for a share of the free seeds. " Reed to the Farmers. One othjr thing I have noticed in this debate. When "the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Simpson! gets a little money ahead, he does n >t put it into stocks in these immensely profitable manufactures. He has too much sense. He adds to his farm and he has told us so. Example is richer than precept. If the hope of agriculturists is in English free trade, they had better ponder on the fact that while the wages of artisans have increased in England $2.4:i per week t-ince 1850, the wages of agricultural laborers have only in­ creased 72 cents, and while the Lan­ cashire operatives in the factories live as well as anybody except Americans, the agricultural laborers are hardly better off than the continental peas­ antry. England's example will not do for agriculture.--Thos. B. Reed. Dollar Wheat No More. The outlook for high-priced wheat is not good. Dollar wheat will be spoken of as belt nging t • the traditional "good old times." The foreign market which our good Dem, cratic friends are going to secure for the farmers will never pay $1 for wheat unless there is a short crop. The foreigners are in­ dustriously looking for wheat to com­ pete with American wheat to keep prices down. Ru eia, India and Si uth America are formidable rivals. The Argentine Republic exported 12,000 - 000 bushels in 18<L', 3(>,000,00u bushels in 18^3 and is estimated to have an ex­ portable surplus of over £0,000,000 this year. It is not so gcod as American wheat, but it will mix and can be sold 5 or *> cents a bushel lees, even at the Eresent low prices. The home market i still a more promising field than all the rest of the world.--Terre Haute Express. • Significant Fl(fares. In November, 1892, forty-four States f ive Cleveland a plura ity of 366,211. ince then six States have given Re­ publican ma'o i.ies aggre ating 370,- 000. As a primary lesson in political statisticthese figures are peculiarly interesting and significant. Has Taken to the Wood*. Cleveland has g~ne duck-shooting for the purpose, it may be surmised. Of finding a cuiet nook in the woods where he can express his ieeliugs with rega.d to the Pennsylvania election in a sul­ phurous tone of voice. CRANKY QUESTS. ««...! •' • -Vninig -Tilth Some of Them. " I cannot sleep in that room," said a guest at the Hotel Denecbaud, the other evening, as be walked to the desk in the office and threw the key upon it, according to New Or­ leans Times. " What Is the matter with It?" ask^d Mr. Justin Denecbaud, who was behind the desk at the tinie. "There is nothing the matter with it except that the bed is in the wrong pSace," the guest replied. "For more than twenty years I have slept in a bed with the bead toward the north and it has become such a habit with me that it would be actually impossible for me to sleep in a bed with the head in any other direc­ tion. " "It will be impossible for me to give you a room containing a bed in that position.," said the clerk, as he ran his eye over the list of roams. "'The hotel Is well tilled to-inightltad I have only two vacant rooms, but I will have the bed turned for you," and, calling the porter, Mr. Dene­ cbaud instructed him to turn the bed in the gentleman's room so that the head would be' to the north. The guest followed the porter nfc-stairs, and as nothing further was heard of him it is presumed that he retired and slept the sleep of the blessed, ••There is no accounting for tastes," said Mr. Denechaud, turning to the reporter, "and the funny ex­ periences we have in the hotel busi­ ness would fill a volume. You no­ ticed that gentleman just now who demanded that his bed be changed with the head toward the north. Be­ fore the niirht is over we may have calls for beds with their heads turned to every point of the compass, and of course we are obliged to accommo­ date every one. I remember an in­ stance like this several years aga • gentleman, slightly under the influ­ ence of liquor, came into the hotel one night and producing a pocket compass said that he wished a room where the head of the bed should be placed to the northeast We sent two boys with the roan and they placed the bed as requested. The joke about it was that the compass was furnished with a little stop, which held the indicator in a certain position, and it so happened that the gentleman's bed, which bad been carefully placed directly northeast, according to the compass, was in reality so placed that the head was directly to the south. The gentle­ man discovered bis mistake the next morning and I presume was cured of the fad." A Village Physician's Story. "The life of a village physician has its trials," said one a few days ago, ! "and 1 may add," with a twinkle in his eye at some recollection, "its compensations, toa" j "One evening this autnmn Ire- turned about 11 from two or three professional visits, aud went to bed, fancying myself pretty safe for a night's rest, which Ispscially needed. , I was hardly between the sheets, bow- ever, before the telephoae rang. An ' old gentleman, a patient whom I had seen that day, was suffering from an attack of enteric colic, as he had be­ fore in the course of his illness, but which 1 thought I had guarded against for the Immediate future. | "I dressed, went to the house, and used some remedies, explaining that the attack would not be at once re­ lieved; came home, undressed, and went to bed again. I was fairly asleep when the whir of the tele­ phone bell awakened me. It was the 9ame patient, or, rather, his daugh­ ter; he was still suffering acutely, and would I come up again. | "The old gentleman was an es­ pecial friend as well as a patient of mine, and I answered the call a sec­ ond time, though I questioned its ne­ cessity. I used more and stronger remedial measures, and again re­ turned to my home and my bed. I had slept perhaps an hour when the telephone rang out its third warning, and I listened for the third time to the the daughter's appeal to please come right away. I was pretty mad, but I swallowed my wrath, put on my clothes for toilet number three and literally staggered up the street, reeling for want of sleep like a man who been drinking. "The milk carts were abroad, and the dawn was struggling in the east when I reached my door after that visit, and, too tired to take my clothes off again, I threw myself on a longe, and was just sinking off into oblivion, when that diabolical little instrument began its Irritating clamor. " 'What is it?' I growled Into the mouth-piece, and over the wire came in reply: " 'Nothing, doctor, only I thought you might like to know that father is sleeping quietly.' "What did I say? Well, I don't know that 1 said very much, but I hung thai ear piece up with a click that was as good as some pretty tall swearing." Building a Nickel-Steel Gun. The force at the Washington ord­ nance sbop^ has nearly completed the assembling of the first nickel-steel gun for the navy, and the result is awaited with interest The ordnance officers have been engaged some time in the construction a furnace tor heating the tube of jthls gun, which is of b-inch caliber. The furnace will apply the heat to the gun in a horizontal instead of in a prependic- ular position. The jacket the piece of metal which fits over the base of the tube and gives it greater strength, Will be forced over the tube while the latter is kept beyond the expand­ ing influences of the beat by the constant application of a stream water. The de ay in assembling the gun, the forgings of which have been ready for some time, has been caused by the difficulty in securing a pyro- meter, a delicate instrument for reg­ istering the fearful heat of the fur­ nace. This instrument has been re­ ceived and everything s ready for the assemoling of the gun. There is naturally much interest among ord­ nance experts over the result of the i new system of putting great guns to- | nether, for, if the proposed method i is a success, it w 11 take the place o i the old way, which required a good deai of shi> ting of heavy weights and the use of a shrinking pit. There is also much interest iu the trial ot the j nickel-steel gas. fit Is expected that j It win prove stronger and of longer life than the simple steelB-gun.-^-: Washington Star. Y' j . -I The MandolinGlr|« v - In the corner of a cable car » charming girl, says the New York World. She was beautifully gowned, faultlessly gloved, bore a most becom­ ing hat on her piquant little head, and on her lap carried a mandolin Case Of course she was the ob.ect of intense interest to the other pas­ sengers, and a man who had seen her nearly every day in the car and al­ ways carrying the mandolin put her down in his mind as the most devoted student of that m sical instrument he had ever en ountered. Behind him sat two shopgirls, and they were discussing the interesting unknown. 'There is that mandolin girl again," said one of them. "I can't bear to look at her." "Why not" asked the other girl; *'I think she is beautiful." "So she is, but she is such a fraud. She clerks in a store downtown, and doesn't want people to know she is a sho girl. So she carries the everlast­ ing mandolin bacK and forth to con­ vey the impression that she is a so­ ciety girl out for a music lesson. I have known of her little dodge for more than a year, and am tired of it. I wish she would carry a tennist racket or a poodle for a change. • "The mandolin case is very con­ venient, however, for another girl told me that she carries her lunch, her overshoes, a comb and brush and lots of other things in it. it is not honest, though, aud I feel contempt for her." The mandolin girl, nevertheless, was notatlected by this harsh opinion. She belonged to that interesting world which is but a stage on which we are merely "players." A Brave Butoher. The author of the "Breitmann Ballads," Mr. G Gr. Leland, was liv­ ing in Munich, opposite a mediaeval tavern called the Ober-Pollinger. His landlady was a nice old soul, with two daughters. On the ground floor of the house was a store, in which cutlery and fireworks were sold. ' Early one morning Leland and a friend were sitting on a bench before the tavern, waiting lor a stage coach to take them out of town. Suddenly bang! baug! crack! was heard from tbe fireworks, and puffs of smoke were seen coming out of the bursting windows. The front store was on fife; is was full or rockets, crackers, and other fireworks. In the back store there was a barrel of gunpowder, which Mr. Leland had seen there a few days be­ fore when buying powder for his pis­ tols. The family were asleep. Leland ran across the street, and rushed up three flights of stairs, screaming, "It burns! There's gunpowder!" Snatch­ ing a small bag containing his money, he tumbled mother and daughters down-staira He was just in time to see a stal­ wart butcher burst opgnthe two-inch door with an ax and roll out the bar­ rel of gunpowder, 200 pounds, as the flames were licking the staves! The butcher saved them all, doing his work as calmly as if he had been butchering an ox. "Peace hath her victories no less renown'd than war." Lincoln and Secretary Stanton. Says ex-Senator Dawes In February Atlantic: At times there were short antagonisms; but Mr. Lincoln, when he could not be convinced, always in the end won a cheerful acquiescence. Such an occasion was that when the President, yielding to special polit­ ical considerations, bad issued an or­ der allowing the officials of a particu­ lar congressional district, short of its Quota of men, to fill it out by enlist­ ment of such rebel prisoners as, de­ sirous of abandoning the enemy, were willing to take the oath of allegiance and join our army. Mr. Stanton looked at it solely from a military point of view, considered it exceed­ ingly unwise, and, fearing disastrous consequences, declined to comply with the order. At an interview, Mr. Lincoln was made to see pretty clearly the mis­ take, but, having gone too far to re­ treat in good faith, adhered to the order, simply answering, "I reckon, Mr. Secretary, you will have to exe­ cute the order." A sharp reply from Mr. Stanton, "Mr. President, I can­ not do it The order is an improper one, and I cannot execute it," brought back a response calm but un­ mistakable in its tone, "Mr. Secre­ tary, it will have to be done." And it was done without further criti­ cism. Mr. Lincoln afterward wrote to Gen. Grant admitting the mis­ take, saying that the blunder was his, and not the Secretary's, and would not be repeated. Possibilities of Aluminum. If aluminum ever becomes availa­ ble SLSA commercial product there will be no limit to its uses, for it is far more abundant than any other metal or mineral. It is contained in com­ mon clay, of which it constitutes one of the chief ingredients. At v resent it cannot be got out of the clay ex­ cept by burn ng the latter at heat four times as great as that of the or­ dinary smelting furnace, a beat which cannot easily be produced except by electricity. But the progress of chemistry is likely to discover some newer and cheaper process of ex­ traction. Some of the most alert minds in Germany, England, and this country are concentrated on ex­ periments with clay. Scores of pat­ ents have already been taken out in all countries. Any year may witness the solution of tbe problem and the creation of metal which may rele­ gate steel to the background. We may live to see cities built of alumi­ num, incombustible, almost imper­ ishable, and so portable that men, like snails may carry their houses on when they change quarters.--Scien­ tific American. ^EMERGENCY REMEDIES* V To MAKE the eyebrows grow BETTER rub common salt into them every night before going to bed. Ir vou have a sore finger which throbs and pains yon, hold it in hot water several times a day until you are relieved. SDAK the feet and bind on soda dampened, and in the morning you will be surprised to find the aoro* ness all out of the corns. IF the throat is very sore, wring a cloth out of cold salt water and bind it on the throat when going to bed; cover it with a dry toweL This la excellent ONK of the best cures for red eye­ lids is to bathe them in water in which is distilled a little powdered borax. This simple lotion is almost miraculous in its effects. A VERT good authority gives nas simple remedy for hiccough: A lump of sugar, saturated with vinegar. In ten cases, tried as an experiment, It stopped hiccough in nine. 'IHE quickest way to treat a burtk or scald is to cover it with carron oil aud flour and bandage with linen In case of prostration from either ac­ cident administer a mild stimulent. THE following is a splendid lini­ ment for chilblains: One ounce of camphor gum, four fluid ounces of olive oil. Dissolve together by a gen­ tle heat, and apply to the afflicted parts. WHKN a delicate person is fatigued and has no appetite, sponging the body with bathing whiskey, diluted alcohol or milk, will nourish the sys­ tem and produce rest or refreshing sleep. IF you shut your finger in a door or bruise it in any way, put it in water as hot as you can bear. In a lew moments cbaage it for hotter, and keep it in water at least fifteen min­ utes. STRANGE to say, a hot foot-bath will often relieve a backache as it will a headache. Mustard and hot water will sidetrack a fever if taken in time, cure a nervous headache,and induce sleep. A BUG in the ear may be drowned out with a little warm water. Apply with a sponge or syringe, and after' each injection incline the head with a jerk so as to dislodge the contents of the cavity. CHEWING will stop the ordinary nose bleeding, and the shock of drop­ ping a cold key or a handful of pen­ nies down the back will often give relief. In case of a severe attack syringe the nasal cavity with cold salt water. If this does not stop the how of biood, throw the head back, raise tbe arm up as far as possible, and apply cold sponges to the br of the nose and b&ck of the neck. Interesting Experiments. . t'J Experiments are being tried in the pathological department of the John Hopkins Hospital to ascertain the effects of alcohol on rabbits. Six rabbits were started several weeks ago on a diet of alcohol They had a drachm a day diluted with water. The object of the experiments is to ascertain what amount and degree of tatty degeneration follows the use of stimulants. The liquid is forced into the stomachs of the rabbits by means of a rubber tube. It takes only lit­ tle more than a minute for the ef­ fects to become apparent Unmui- takable signs of drunkenness set in. As with men, these spells of intoxi­ cation differ according to the nature and disposition of the subject In one case a lively mood was notice­ able, In other cases the rabbil will become stupid and heavy, his breath­ ing will become fast and deep, and he will soon stagger like a drunken man. and fall down repeatedly. Tbe rabbits get their doses once a day* and in a few cases every other day. After a few hours the effect of the alcohol passes off, and the rabbits show no signs of being worse off. Can't Miss a Rattlesnake* ' w The writer saw an Indian kiQ^ it rattlesnake In a peculiar manner re­ cently. The ratt er was about ten feet from the Indian, who was rest­ ing the rifle on his knee, apparently taking aim. Whenever he moved the weapon a few inches the snake would move around and get exactly in line with it Then, to show how the thing was done, the Indian moved about the snake in a circle, and the reptile moved as if his tail was a pivot, always keeping his head and body in line with the gun. The In­ dian then agreed to bandage his eyes and shoot the snake in the mouth. The writer bandaged the Indian's eyes, and, holding the gun at arm's length, the latter pulled the trigger and the ball entered the snake's mouth. "How did you take aim?" was tbe query. "The snake he take aim," was the reply. We have talked with an old hunter on this proposition, and he claims that a rattlesnake will always range directly in line with a gun or slicE pointed at it * * *&• VA . 'M - h Snn Spots* It has been observed that, after the sun spots have been at a mini­ mum, the summers are hotter, juK as though there was more heat cop­ ing from the sun at such periods, ami the fact has been accounted for by supposing that sun spots are caused by vast clouds of matter erupte ̂from the sun and condensed in %bp sur­ rounding space. These act as i -reona and prevent the sun's hept fr^m radiating freely through them. From an examination of statist cs one scientist has found that ^i England during the hot summer* following the minima of sun spot$ the month of August is hotter than July, an ef­ fect due, in all lilcelilx^d, to accumu­ lation of the heat. The Snn. y, A German scientist is of the opinion that it will be possible to predict the weather by means of pho­ tographs of the sun far more accu­ rately than by the study of the bar­ ometer. Circular or elliptical halos round the orb of day, he says, indi­ cate violent storms, especially if the halos are dark in tint or of a diameter, lightning and magneJ disturbances may be expected m these signs. Why Red Augers A The reason why any th*-*? or a ^ lolor excites and iufur*",es animam of the ox family & tyr&use red is toe complementary/*"^ o: pr®f eves or cattle yw long ^ tbe green hp^-e w^"e they espyJ& th»>K their si^ with a £reatl-v increase*! fly. No doubt the same effect uced upon all grazing animals "being suddenly confronted witfc color red, but oxen and bulls, bt» ing more pugnacious, show greater excitement* and will dvw rtttck tbM which surprises them.---St Louis K#" pubiio.