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sr. ItcHENRi f - PLAINDEALEK J. VAN SLYKE^ditor and Pub. ILLINOIS =s^^jpp TO-MORROW. Hopeful youth with rosy iac*. Struggling in 1 lie mortal race, Nevn wenried, never ti'ed-- Ever bv the thought in spired TJiat for evPiY pftin wo burrow Comes redempt ion on the niorrow; Sacrificing strength and soul. Striving. strivinn for the goal That awaits the life to-mor|WWi SpurninK flowers of to-day For tbe blossoms' rich arraf Of to morrow. Listless age with withered face Drifting in the mortal ra e, Worn and helpless, lone and weary. Gazing through the phadows dreary Of the long, long ninht of sorrow; For the suuriso ot the morrow; Drifting, drifting to the eea Of eternal mystery. - While the world repeats "To-inorFOW. Thus it APPEDS the BOUI from "true, Thus it greets the new-born life. With to-morrow, ay, to morrow. i f": ft. ;v ' fc DUTY ABOVE LOVE. (From the story by Archibald Forbes in the Cos­ mopolitan.] "In the early \r>0's," said the officer, • *>ur Europeau troops serving in India were not in good case. In those days they were constantly quartered in the plains, the barracks were dismal, pestilenfal, thatched sheds, there were rone of the com torts the soldier now enjoys, and in the dismal ennui his only resources were his canteen and the la ar. The revulsion from the stir"and variety of marching and fighting, superinduced widespread discontent, and in many instances depression intensified into actual de­ spair. Quite an epidemic of suicide set in, and was but partially cuied by Sir Charles Napier's very Irish ex­ pedient of sentencing a man to be shot who had unsuccessfully at­ tempted <to take his own life. At this time transportation to West Aus­ tralia was the usual punishment in the army to» the military crime of grave insubornation.. So low had sunk the morale of too many of the rank and die, and so ardent was tbe desire for change of any kind, no matter what or where, that men de­ liberately laid themselves out to earn this punishment of transportation. This was not a difficult task. The soldier had only to make a blow at 4)is superior cfKcer--and all above him . from a lance corporal to the colonel , %ere his superior officers--or even to throw a cap or a clove at him, to have himself charged with the of* fense of -mutinous conduct. The pro forma court martial s^t; the soldier pleaded guilty: the sentence of trans- -§x>rtation was duly 'approved and Conformed.' and presently the man '%as blithely on his voyage to join a Chain gang at Perth or Freemantle. '•This state of things was too in­ jurious to the service to be allowed a 4ong continuance. The commander- in-chief promulgated a trenchant or- AWAITING DEATH. dressed ranks la mg inwards. The ,r kneeling, blindfolded man, pistol In dea ( silence was presently broken by j hand, and--did his duty. But ho did not return to the party he com­ manded. No, he remained standing the roll of tbe drum, announcing the ' approach of the procession escorting the doomed man, and a moment later the hea I of it roundel the flank of one of the faces of tbe great hollow square. In effect the yet living sol­ dier was marching in his own funeral procession, bis step keeping time to the swell and cadence of his own dirge. At the head of the sombre cortege was borne the ompty coffin of the man whose sands of life were running out; there fallowed in slow march, with arms reversed, the exe­ cution party of twelve privates and a Corporal, under the command of Sergeant ltussell; and then a full military band, from whose instru­ ments there pealed and wailed alter­ nately the dead march in Saul. fier, denouncing in strong terms the ut­ ter subversion ot discipline that seem­ ed impending, and sternly intimating «*4that death, and not transportation anymore, should in future be the un­ failing leualt-y for tbe crime of using or ottering violence to a superior of­ ficer. Tbe order was read aloud at the head of every regiment in India, hut its purport did not seriously im­ press the troops. The men did not believe it would be actually pot in force. But they did not know the nature of Sir Charles Napier. "It was in my own regiment, quar­ tered in Meerut, that tbe first offense was committed after tbe promulga­ tion of the order. A young private named Creed, who had joined us from another regiaient, one morning met on the parade ground a young oftcer on the staff of the General, and without a word threw his cap in his face. When brought before the Colonel, Creed owned that he had no ill-leeling against the officer and said he simply acted from *a sudden im­ pulse' It was proved, however, that the night before the assault be had been heard to suy that he -meant to qualify lor West Australia' within the next twenty-four hours. The trial by court-martial resulted in a -sentence ot death/^which his ex­ cellency approved and contlrmed. "The night before tbe morning fixed for the execution there reported bimself to me as having joined, a non-commissioned officer whose ar­ rival 1 had been expecting for several days. Wishing to remain in India, he had volunteered to us from a regi­ ment which bad been ordered back to England. He looked every inch a soldier and bis face indicated self- command and dauntless resolution. Standing composedly at attention he handed me the documents of transfer and a private note from his former adjutant praising him very highly as a soldier to whom duty was a watch­ word. -"I detailed him to a company, but as he was leaving a thought struck me and I recalled him. I knew how strong throughout the regiment was the sentiment in favor of the poor fellow who was waiting Lis doom; and it occurred to me that this new sergeant, who in the nature of thingi could not V e a sharer in this senti­ ment, was a fitting man to detail to the command of the tiring party. 1 briefly explained the circumstances and tol^htm to what duty I purposed assigning him. 41 'Very well, sir,' was his .calm re­ mark; -it is an unpleasant duty, cer- i tainly, but I can understand the reason why you put it on me.' y. "I need not ask you whether you have ever seen a military execution; it is the most solemn and foitunately the rarest of all our military spec­ tacles. It was not yet daylight when all tbe troops of the garrison, both ••j* European and native, were on march to the great parade ground. The regiments, as they arrived, wheeled into position, tbe whole forming : "f a vast square, the L FELL DEAD BESIDE THE BODY. over the prostrate figure, <and was deliberately reloading the pistol. " 'What the devil is the man do* ing?' cried the General, testily. '• 'Probably, sir,' answe ed the act­ ing Adjutant General,. 'he has not fully accomplished his duty. He seems a man of exceptional nerve!' ••'Well,'said the General, 'I wish he'd be sharp about it" •'Sergt. Russell did not detain the chief unreasonably long. Having re­ loaded it, he put the pistol to his temple, drew the trigger, and fell dead across his brother's body. "That they were brothers," con­ tinued the Genera! after a pause, "the papers found in tbeir effects proved conclusively. Tbe younger one, Alexander, had joined us iu a false name. / - YAWNING AND THE '-"K There was a little interval of space, and then, alone, save for the Presby­ terian Chaplain walking beside him in his Geneva gown, and praying in low, earnest accents marched with tlrm step the condemned man, his face calm, but whiter than the white cap on his head. Close behind marched, with fixed bayonets, a Cor­ poral and a tile of men of the quarter- guard. Thus was lonstituted what, save for the central figure of it, who still lived and moved and had his be­ ing, and for the empty coffin, was in every actribute a funeral procession. "The parade came to the shoul­ der' as tbe little column, wheeling to its rigbt after clearing the flank by which it had entered the square, began its slow, solemn progress along the front of the left face. I felt the throbbing strains of the Dead March becoming actual torture to me long before the procession, moving in its measured march along tbe successive face-, bad reached the front of the center, ffhere stood the regiment to which the prisoner and myself be­ longed 'Steady, men!' shouted the Colonel hoarsely, as he felt rather than heard or saw the involuntary shiver that ran along tbe ranks as the firm, pale face, slowly passed. With an upward glance at the chief, the poor fellow straightened himself and set his shoulders more square, as if be took his officer's word of com­ mand to include him also. His chum broke into noisy weeping, and a young officer swooned, but the doomed man strode steadily on, without the quiver of a muscle of his set face. •-'At length the long, cruel pro­ gress was completed, and the head of the procession drew off to the center of the unoccupied fourth face of tbe square; the coffin-bearers laid down their burden there and retired, and Sergt Russell drew up his flriug party into two ranks fronting toward tbe coffin, at a distance of about thirty paces. The band ceased its somber music and wheeled aside. Tbe prisoner, accompanied still by the clergyman, marched steadily up to his cbffin, on which the two knelt down. "The clergyman's ministrations were almost immediately interrupted. At a signal from the General the Judge Advocate rode out from the staff, and, moving forward to the rank of tbe firing party, read in sonorous tones, the warrant for the condemned soldier's execution. Uni­ versal admiration and compassion were stirred by the soldierly bearing of the man as he listened to the official authorization of his doom. As the Judge Advocate approached he had risen from the kneeling position doffed his cap, and sprung smartly to 'attention,' retaining that attitude until the end, when he saluted re­ spectfully and knelt down again as the minister rejoined him. There was a short interval of prayer: then tbe Judge Advocate beckoned to the chaplain to retire, and the soldier re­ mained alone, kneeling on bis coffin lid there, face to face with imminent death in the midst of the strained and painful siience. "Marching at the head of the pro­ cession, the members of the firing party had no opportunity of seeing their unfortunate comrade until he bad reached his coffin and was kneel­ ing in front of where Sergt. Russell had drawn up the party of which he had the command. I should tell you that the Sergeant ot ah execution party carrries a loaded pistol, with which it is his stern duty to fulfill the accomplishment of the sentence if the volley of his command shall not have been promptly fatal. The corporal of the party told me after­ ward that after it bad taken position Sergt. Russell spent some time in examining the muskets, and that tbe prisoner had been kneeling for some little time on his coffin before the Sergeant looked at him. As he gazed he suddenly started, became deadly pale, mut­ tered more than once, 'My God, my God,' and was for several minutes visibly purturbed, but later, although still ghastly pale and having a strange 'raised' expression, he pulled himself together and was alert in his dut". What I myself saw was, that after the pal son had withdrawn, and Sergt. Russell approached the pris­ oner to fulfil tbe duty of blindfolding and pinioning him, the tatter gave a great start and, throwing up his arms, uttered a loud exclamation. The feeling in the regiment, as I have told you, was exceedingly bitter against the sentence, and there hap­ pened just what I had apprehended. In tbe dead siience Sergt Russell's deliberate order, 'Make ready!' 'Pre­ sent!' 'Fire!' rang out like the knell of fate. The volley sped; the light smoke drifted aside; and lo! the prisoner still knelt scathless on his coffin. "There was a brief pause, and then Sergt. Russell, with bis face bleached to a ghastly pallor, but set and reso­ lute, his step firm, strode up to the The Connection Between the Two Which Establinhed a Common Custom. It Is not generally known that the practice exacted by the rules of good society of placing tbe hand before i be mouth When yawning was originally a religious custom. Yet such is tbe case, according to the Springfield Re­ publican. It was a medieval super­ stition ihat when the evil one de­ sired to take possession of a man's soul he entered by the mouth. If, after the devil had been long in wait, the victim either rema ned silent or else spoke so rapidly that tbe evil spirit could not slip into a wide- opened mouth, then tbe archfiend tormented his unsuspecting prey into a fit of yawning, in the hope of thereby effecting an entrance. It was to escape this danger that the yawner held his hand before his mouth. At the same time the sign of the cross was made Thp latter custom now survives only in a tew mountain districts of Europe, while the other pra tice is invariably re­ quired by etiquette A counterpart of this superstition is furnished by the painters of the prerapliaelite and re­ naissance periods, especially in Italy. In pictures representing the casting out of an evil spirit they show the latter In the form of a little black or red fiend, in the act of escaping from tbe lips of the demoniac. In death scenes a blessed spirit is represented as a small, naked, flesh-colored man or woman, while a damned soul is either red (the color of sin) or black (the color of death and perdition). In both cases the spirit is often seen is­ suing from the dying person's mouth. In the facsimile edition ot Sir John Mandeville's travels, published in England fifty years ago, Judas is rep­ resented as be hangs upon the mul­ berry tree, and the devil is taking his black soul from out his side appar­ ently. We more rarely meet with pictures in which an evil spirit is on the point of entering into a sinner. Those who have seen the Sistine Chapel in Rome will remember, im­ mediately to the right of tbe en­ trance, a large wall painting in fresco i not by Michael Angelc), which represents tbe "Last Supper." It gives a side view of Judas lscariot, and shows a little black devil on his shoulder, waiting his opportunity to enter the traitor's soul This picture is a curious and unquestionable illus­ tration of the Roman Catholic super­ stition connected with yawning. Tbe European Viper. Many persons are killed by vipers on the Continent; but--though "Pelias berus" is widely distributed over Europe, and is generally known distinctively as the ' littie viper"-- the prevalent and most dangerous species are tbe long-nosed and asp vipers. Matthiole relates an instance of a man who was fatally bitten by half a snake in France--an adder had been severed in twain with a hoe, aud he unfortunately picked up the business end. Such an occurrence is quite within tbe hounds ot credi- biliy: 1 have seen a wretched python which had been, cut in two by a sweep of a coolie's cutlass, launch It­ self furiously at the man who was preparing' to give it the cOup de grace, and tear the torch from his hands. ' Domestic animals are not frequent­ ly attacked, but rarely succumb to the poison: sheep and horses are struck on the nose as they graze, cows very commonly on the udders while lying down. A bitten dog re­ peatedly plunges its head under water to assuage tbe fierce heat of the inflammatory symptoms, but gen­ erally recovers. Human beings and monkeys suffer far more intensely than do creatures lower in the scale of life. There is a remarkable account, vouched tor by competent witnesses, of a horse which was found moribund and choking, with its neck enor­ mously swollen, in whose throat a small viper had actually ensconced itself. Mile. Rosa Bonheur lost two gazelles, which she kept in the dual capacity of pets and models, by the assault of adders which swarmed in the country about her chateau.-- Chambers' Journal. TW^Mtf QTrrn WiATVTATirV t change is the evaporation of sorat? of i^UiiLuoiiu LvWUiilI• the water, and finally decay. They TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Bow Air, neat, anil Water are Held la the Soil at the Same Time--Value of White Clover -- Kngllsh Horse* -- Ripening ot Fruit*. A Htsaon Why Crop* Fall. The correct condition for soilIto he in is when it is lit to tiold three things, each in the right quantity, neither too much nor too little of either. TheV are, says Col man's Rural Worlc^ air, heat, and water. Too much of either will cause the crops to fail, while too little will have tbe same effect. You see how difficult a science is farming, in fact, you have felt this all your lives. Air, heat, and water have each an affinity fpr each other, and yet they are each antagonistic to each other, so the trouble is just how to maintain the best possible balance of all three in the soil at one time, and continu­ ously while the crop grows If you shut either out of the soil the crop will die, and if you give either in too great a quantity it will likewise die. The many processes you effect when working land are all under­ taken for this end, though, some of you may not have before seen it in this way. To the man with the inborn farming intention this knowl­ edge is perhaps 'of no. use at all in every day practice. To those who arc ever anxious to learn .tire reason why, it Is at least a satisfaction, if nothing else To illustrate how air, heat, and water can be held in the soil at the same time, take in imagination a tub, and fill it with soil worked up into a fine tilth after a good autumn rain. In this case you have air. heat, and water each in correct quantity. Pour water gently in on the soil in the tub till you know it will not ab­ sorb any more. You thereby drive out tbe air. and any farm plant growing in it will then dwindle and die. Make; a hole in the bottom of the tub to let the water escape, and the more you pour in, it done gently, like falling ram, and not too con­ stantly, the more the plant will flourish If, however, the water is cold and the surrounding atmosphere is cold also, then again the plant will pine; the cold air and cold water will kill it if continued. Try tbe tub again filled with soil, not worked into a tilth, but in small clods. In this case you would have air filling all the spaces at the expense of the water or moisture. During a rain the spaces would be filled with water, wh ch would at once run through the sub­ soil, to be immediately followed by air to till the interstices. If the air was cold it would tend to kill the lit­ tle moisture retained by the clods would at one Evaporate, and in either case vegetation would suffer. Take the tub again and fill it with a a firm lay soil Tbe clay would hold moisture but not air. As regards heat, it would be warm When the at­ mosphere was hot, and cold as the weather changed to cold. The heat and cold would notsooften be chang­ ing, warm in tbe day and cooling off rapidly at night* that plants here again would not be strong. It is very important to bear in mind when working a field that you want it in such a condition that it will hold thfese three elements in well balanced proportions. A sponge is a good illustration of how water is held in capillary attrac­ tion. Dip a sponge in a tub of water, and when lifted out it is full of water and void of air; give it a gentle squeeze to eliminate some of the water, air immediately takes its place. You then have both air and water held in the spone. Not only that* but the moist sponge would hold beat in a more uniform degree than if it was either full of water or quite dry. It would not cool off and heat up so quickly with every change of temperature in the weather. Woolen and linen faorics also illus­ trate this power of retention of heat. Wool in its fibre is hollow, linen is solid. Put your (hand on a roll of flannel--the flannel feels warm, it gently absorbs and retains the heat from tbe band, tbe minute hollotos and spaces of the fabric draw the heat and hold it Try the same with a roll of linen in the same room, it feels cold to the touch. It is a more solid bo ly, like a clay soli, which draws the heat from the land rapidly to let it go again in the same rapid manner. The wool represents a nice open friable soil--always growing, not affected by rapid changes from heat ta cold, nor from dry to wet; tbe linen, that of a heavy solid clay soil, always either too hot or toocold, too wet or too dcy. Not What Sbe Meant. A certain well known writer is a great stickler for terms In defining professions. "I am a literary wo­ man," she annouces, "not a journ­ alist." Though sbe carefully abstains from any slur on the profess on of journ­ alism, she evidently feels it to be "a notch below" her own chosen plane. When the "census man," as the landlady characterized him, came to the boarding-house where Miss D lived, he'asked the usual questions in regard to tbe inmates. "I am sorry to disturb you," said the landlady, coming to Miss 's room, "but he wants to know all the professions. What shall I tell him about yours?" "That is very difficult to tell, in one word," replied Miss . "I do literary work, but 1 am not a journalist" Still the landlady lingered. "You might say exactly that;" con­ tinued Miss D----. "I do not care to be known as a journalist*. Indeed, I have not the slightest claim to be considered one." "O Miss D ," urged the land­ lady, "you're too modest!"--Youth's Companion. must be in perfect condition for eat­ ing when plucked, or the full value i of the fruits will be missed. They should be plucked as soon as ripe, however, and stored away in some cold place. They can be preserved even longer than pears. • Raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries gain very little after picking. They should be allowed to reach their full growth before picking, but they are worth­ less for keeping if allowed to reach the stage commonly known as "dead ripe." They are then unfit for ship­ ping. Practically, the destructive forces have already started into opera­ tion at that point. and nothing will che:k them after such a start. Kngltsh Horses. In spite of the' imports from Po­ land, Finland, Holland and even America, and the pony trade with the Baltic, the English export of horses enormously exceed the import in value. A three years' total gives £2,532,000 of exports, as against •€£04,000 of imports and tbe quality and prica of English horses rise steadily. The imports do not include those from Ireland, iwhich until re­ cently supplied the entire Belgian army with remount and at present largely fill the ranks of London cab horses. They fetch on the average about £30 apiece, and as a new han­ som cab costs £100, the hirer employs the tempo. ary use of a capital ot £130 and the service of the driver. But the number of cabssteadily decreases, and from the horses pi int of view this decline is hardly to be deplored. Motes. THE best way to checkmate low prices for feedstuffs, says a writqr, is to keep good rtock to eat them. ALL. admit that a cow needs shelter in winter; but it is equally necessary to furnish her protection from flies and the scorching rays of tbe sun of summer. NEVER waste good ashes. Save every pound, and use them on the orchard land. Corn cobs are very rich in potash, and tbe ashes of such should be preserved carefully. THE sow mus be in thrifty condi­ tion to raise thrifty pigs. Feed her on succulent food. Cooked or steamed clover, turnips, potatoes, beets, and a variety of food, with a due propor­ tion of grain, will keep her in the best condition. A Fiusr-CLAS* animal is sure to bring a good price, but he who has all first-class stock usually obtains • 'the top of the market" When they all seem to be of one mold, and that a good one, there are dealers ready to take them as a lot GRASS is essentially a milk, cream and butter food. Tbe finest grain mixture ever devised will not answer so well. When the latter is given it should be with tbe idea of makiug bone and muscle, while the grass When the grass is grain is a good ad- makes the milk. poor tbe chopped junct. THE handiest and most effective way to apply pads green to potatoes is in the lorm of a dry mixture with flour. It sticks better than any other substance; a very small quan­ tity is sufficient; and with a small sifter it may be applied rapidly and with little waste. It does not in­ volve such hard work, and is really cheaper for that reason. Carrying water costs more than the flour. AILB STILL IK- DA^*JS£ FLAMES THREATEN MANY TOWNS IN THE NORTH. White Clover. One of the must valuable plants for pasture, when sown with other kinds, says the New York Times, is white clover. Its nutritive qualities are considerably better than those of red clover, and it is a hardy, persist­ ent plant. It will grow under the shade of the stronger grass and clover, making a dense tottom that while it is not available for hay, yet affords a large addition to the feed for pasturing animals. It is beyond reproach tor cows aud sheep, but for horses has the effect in the late sum­ mer of salivating them profusely, so much so as to make them quite thin. It has the same effect upon mules, and these animals should, therefore be kept out of fields in which it grows to any extent It will be a useful occupation for a spare hour or two to scatter a pound of this seed over the pasture, especi­ ally where the grass is thin. It will show next season, and oiue having possession of the ground it will keep it f'or several years. It is the best of all the honey-producing plants known, and, having a long blooming season, the bees make more money from it than from any other source. Its effect upon the yield of milk and butter of the cows is so apparent as always to draw from the butter- maker the remark: "The cows aie getting the white clover now." And this is always tbe case when, at this time, the cows are turned into the newly-mown meadows wjaere this plant is abundant Amok* in tha Ltke Superior Bcgion Show* Flrrfe Un quenched--Losses Aggregate In* calculable Millions--Belief for the Suf­ fering Subscribed Liberally. A Turkish Girl's Lite; The pleasures of Turkish girls are extremely simple aud limited. Shut out from the great world of enter­ tainment which the literature of civilized countries opens up to the European child directly she can read, with the exception ot festivities in the harem on red-letter days, her pleasures consist in an occasional picnic or accompanying her elders on the visits which occupy so much of a Turkish lady's time. On households or religious feasts wealthy people often organize entertainments on a very elaborate scale. Gypsy dancers or a troop of clowns with some sort of pantomime are engaged for the occasion, and the neighbors rich and poor, are invited to the performance The Turks, being exceedingly hos­ pitable, a friend of the hostess is free to bring all her sisters, and her cousins, and her aunts, with their families, on such occasions. These are high days for the Turkish girl-- for her elders, too--though an En­ glish child ten or twelve would think the entertainment a very poor per­ formance indeed. The dances are at times graceful, and the music, when one is used to it, is not always excruciating; but the coarse, almost brutish, humor of the pantomime would be decidedly distasteful to a western audience. A more pleasant side of Turkish life is that which may be seen any day in early summer at the Sweet Waters of Europe, or some other favorite re­ sort on the outskirts of Constanti­ nople. The family will set out in the morning, and, spreading their rugs in some tield, spend the day there doing nothing, ana apparently very contented with the occupation. The women squat on the ground with their feet under them in that pecu­ liar way to which they are indebted for their bandy legs. It is not ro­ mantic, but truth compels me to state that all Turkish girls ulti­ mately become bandy-legged; the fine, well-made women one occasion­ ally meets in Stamboul are mostly Circassians. A few cakes and some rahat lak- houm or other sweet suffices for both young and old. A stranger is in­ variably struck with the premature serious air that Turkish children wear. Tbe elder girls do not play and run as do healthy children. They sit or stroll about, quietly and gravely, their yashmaks loosened and forming a snow-white framework, which displays to advantage their complexion, as yet unspoiled by paint or powder. On the approach of a man they will hastily draw their yashmaks, not so close, however, that the stranger cannot admire faces if he has a fancy for Turkish beauty, which, though in girls and young women sometimes very attractive, is too frequently of the half-bred Tar­ tar type, lacking in inte ligenco and refinement _ : Fire Still at Work. Reports from the fire swept north say that, while the worst is thought to be over, the danger Is not at an end. Fire smolders at countless points in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, and strong winds would fan the sparks into a blaze that wou'd sweep away many towns that have thus far fought successfully against destruction. These rekkdled tires were seen on all sides of Washburn and Ashland, and the trainmen report the existence of Iron- wood, Hurley, Odanah, Bayfield, San­ born, Marengo, Eenoit and a dozen other §ett ements is threatensd. In­ cendiaries, it is said, have tried to set fire to Ashland and Washburn. The authorities will not confirm the report for fear of lynching , bit it is known that the jails at both places are well filled w ith u en against whom no charges have been recorded. Port Wing, forty m les east of Du- luth tn the south shore < f Lake Supe­ rior, was totally destroyed Wednesday. The town hhd 200 inhabitants. The town of Spencer, Wis., had aclo e call. Surrounded on all tides by growing fires, the people sent a call for aid to fetevens Point, ( ne hundred men re­ sponded, and, with 300 able-bodied lite lighters of Spencer, succeeded in saving the place. The village of Thorpe, notfarirom Chippewa Falls, also had a nnrrow escape. Succor sent by neighboring towns prevented the expected destruction, and the tctal loss was not moro than $20,0C0. Still another town that caught fire, Rib Lake, in Taylor County, was saved by prompt ana vigorous wcrk, and the loss will not exceed $10,< 00. The little town of Bruce, near Chippewa Falls, was not so fortunate, i ires enveloped it, and its 101) inhabitants waded into the Chippewa river and covered their heads with wet blankets. Alter the fire had passed over them they saw an ash-heap where their homes had been. The loss is about $.J),C0L). Reports are to the effect that Carl­ ton, Kerrick, and Barnum, Minn., are in danger. The fire-j now sur.ound these places, and are raging furiously. So den^e is the t-moke at Carlton that the operator there said he could not see across the street. It is therefore impossible to know anything from any of these fire t except frcm the spot it­ self. Seven people were burned to death in tno firjes at Marengo, a few miles south of Ashland, Wis. In Duluth the smoke is so den-e that it is latterly impo si cle to distinguish even faint outlines of build­ ings 400 feet away. Offers of aid to sufferers, both in cash and goods, are coming in from distant States. The temporary relief fund sub-cribed in Duluth grows and now reaches over $10,030. There are over one thousand destitute refugees from the Hinckley and Sandstone fires now in Duluth. One of the sal features in the suffering cn the scene of the catastrophe is the large number of cows, horses, nheep and hogs, ss well as fowls that mirac­ ulously escape 1 tbe fires and are now suffering and slowly dying from hun­ ger. The humane societies will at once take this part of the relief work in charge. SHOWED THEMSELVES HEROES. Forett Fire Horror Brought Many Brave Men to the Front. The heroes of the forest fires were many, and their deeds are just coming to light. Most of these men have been too busy to s*v anything about them­ selves, and their stories have only come out when some of those they have saved are heard from. The sto­ ries of Engineer Root and crew, of the St. Paul and Duluth train, and that of the Eastern Minnesota crew, so nobly headed by Lngineer Hest, have been told, although the lull force of their heroic deeds cannot bi under­ stood by one who lias never seen or realized the terrors of lorest fi»*es. Ordinary heroes become helpless, un­ der such an ordeal, and only the truest metal can stand the test of such a fur­ nace. Engineer Ed Berry and Con­ ductor Harry Powers, of the hastern Minnesota freight, come to the front rank among the heroes who have stood the trial by fire. The 47H people whom they picked up and carried back to safety in the box cars were rushed through the midst of the furnace over burning ties, in the face of the knowl­ edge that another train in the op­ posite direction had the right.of way, and was liable to be met anywhere in the dense smoke and fierce flame. That was a terrible ride over the l; 0-fcot bridge across the Kett e River, which was blazing and irembling un­ der the wheels, apparently ready to fall. Fifteen minutes afier the train pa sed the ruins of the bridge went down into the liver. It was at this time that a crowd of alleged mem crowded into the cab and begged En­ gineer Eerry to unc ouple the train and carry them to safely, leaving the peo­ ple in the cars to perish. They were summarily fired. The number of peo- Ele saved by Gustavo Wentz, a cool-eaded German teamster, will never be known. He kept his horses on the jump and carried la ge numbers to f>laces of safety. Several entire fami-ies were saved by him. GOV. WAtTB . WASTE WINS EASILY. ; t ' • V' : •"• » J * ' J . • i t%;; : The Colorado Populist Leadei His XJtftl* Opposition. Gov. Waite won a victory in the !Populist State convention at Pueblo, Col., being renomi­ nated on the first ballot by a praoti j ca 11 y unaoim vote. The opposi­ tion failed to .de­ velop their, prom­ ised strength. Thomas M. Fatter- son, leader of the opposition to Waite appeared on the stage and endeav­ ored to speak. He was allowed but five minutes. Noth­ ing he could say in five minutes, he said, would make any impression upon the delegates, and he would therefore simply enter the protest of the minor­ ity. Ed Holden, anti-Waite, attempted to speak, but was howled down. There­ upon the Patterson delegation from Denver left the hall, followed by about a dozen other delegates. Gov. Waite was renominated on the first ba'lot, receiving all but half m dozen votes, which were given to Con­ gressman Pence. The nomination was later made unanimous. When intro­ duced to the convention he was greeted with tremendous cheers. Gov. Waite, after thanking the convention for the honor bestowed upon him, said: "I co not take this us an indorsement of all my official acts, as I know I have made many grievous mistakes; but I take it as an expression of confidence in me, and that I have acted honestly, if not always wisely. MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS. Nominate a'Ticket at the Stat* tlon In St. Paul. The Minnesota Democratic State Convention at St. Paul nominated a ticket almost by acclamation, only one position taking a full ballot. The full ticket chosen is as follows: Oovernor--General & L. Becker, of 8b Paul. Lieuteaaut Governor--John Ludwig, of Winonn. Secretary of State--John R Haines, of Morrison County. Auditor--A. Blernian.of Goouhue County. Attorney General-r-Logan Breckinridge, of Olmstead County. Treasurer-- G L. Lambert, ot Carver County. Chief Justice--Beagrave Smith, of Min­ neapolis. Clerk Superior Court--Thomas Kurtz, of (l iy County. The platform reaffirms Democratic doctrines: denounces the proactive tariff: indorses President Cleveland's administration; favors free coinage of silver whenever it can be accom­ plished consistently with the mainten­ ance of a sojnd and stable currency; favors the popular election of United States Senators; demands rigid econ­ omy in public affairs; denounces the American Protective Association; commends the Temocratic tariff bill; favors taxation of railway lands; wit* telieves in arbitration. JAPANESE IN A PANIC. Snp> .E1IPEBOR OF JAPAN. NRE LOSSES TAX CREDULITY. Computed by Tens of Millions--Railroads the Chief Sufferers. The total loss causad to date by the forest fires in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota cannot yet be estimated with mnch accuracy, but it is known that computable losses almost tax credulity. In four counties in Michi­ gan the loss on standing pine is known to be at least $o0,0<x»,0C0, and in North­ ern Wisconsin and Minnesota the loss is even greater. Logs ready for the mill have been burned in so many places that they cannot be estimat­ ed. Mi lions represent the losses on saw-miil plants aud other millions the sawed lumber awaiting shipment. Still other millions were lost in the houses and personal effects of the vic­ tims. The railroads have suffered in the burning of bridges and damage to tracks, but their chief deprivation is of the future. Vast stretches of coun­ try, denuded of their forests, will have nothing so ship and no inhabitants to vay freight and passenger tariffs. Men driven out by fire will not return, even if there was business to entice them. Damage at Sandstone, Part­ ridge and Hinckl?y foot up $980,000 for the three towns, and is more than half the loss in the towns, but does not in­ clude the timber. American Consul Surrenders Two posed Spies to the Chinese. Shanghai advices say the surrender to the Taotai outside the settlement limits, by the American Consul, of two Japanese who were recently arrested ac­ cuse! of being spies, and who had been under the protection of the United States, has created a panic among the Japanese in this country. The latter believed them­ selves to be safe un­ der the protection of the United States, and their alarm is increased in view ofj the report thattheir two countrjrmen now in the hands of Taotai are t) be immediately executed. The Chinese authorities, when the prisoners were surrendered, pledged themselves not to torture the cap­ tives and to give them a fair triaL All the Japanese in this city, number­ ing about 100, are making prepara­ tions to leave China at the earliest moment possible. Many have alreadv fled. The Yokohama Specie bank branch is transferring its business to the Comptoir d'Escompte during the war. The Japanese nerchants afe selling out their business and prepar­ ing to leave the country. TRIAL OF DEBS BEGUN. Judjre Woods Hears Evidence In Con­ tempt Cases Against A. R. V. Officers. With the calling of Judge Woods' court in Chicago Wednesday morning the work of rehearsing the events of the recent railroad strike and crystal­ lizing them in numberless folios of dry legal documents was begun in earnest. The contest, while it lacks the dash and excitement which 'marked the days and nights when the attempt was made to enforce the Pullman boy­ cott, promises to be a battle royal between the opposing at­ torneys, and the questions to be docided, it is asserted, are hardly less in importance than those involved in the strike and boycott. It is gener- al'y admitted that the case will be car­ ried to the Suprema Court, no matter in whose favor it is decided. The case is simply a continuance of the proceed­ ings begun in July for contempt of court against Eugene V. Debs, George W. Howard, Sylvester Kelihar and.L. W. Rogers, officers of the American Railwav Union. The defendants are also under inlictments for offenses similar to thO:e charged in the infor­ mations for contempt, but they hits not yet been tried. , SUPPLY OF GRAIN. IN time, faith ghost story: becomes a tort of Ripening of Fruits. Grapes, unlike most other fruits, never ripen any after nicking. AH that can be expected in the way of WE hove noticed that when a wo­ man asks to be taken to tho silk counter she speaks in a much louder voice than when she a;ks to look at the cahce rawaaat* EXPORTS from Germany to the United States have more than doubled since the taking effcct of the new tar­ iff law. ONE man was killed and two others injured in a crossing accident in Philar delphia. A freight train struck a coal wairon. 1 Stocks In Chicago Elevators Greatly 1 ceed l^iose of a Year A«o. The stocks of grain in Chicago ele­ vators last Saturday evening were 25,- 385,000 bushels of wheat, 1,401,000 bushels of corn, 1,297,00) bushels of oats, 1-18,00) bushels of rye, and lt>,000 bushels of barley. Total, 28,247,000 bushels of all kinds of grain, against lil.ii >f,000 bushels a year ago. For the same date the Secretary of the Chicago Btard of Trade states "the visible sup­ ply of grain in the Lnited S ates and Canada as 6t\94^,00() bushels of wheat, 3,151,00(1 bushels of corn, i,204,00U bush­ els of oats, 30J,00 i bushels of rye, and f.(i ',(100 bushels of barley. These fig­ ures are larger than the corresponding ones a week ago by L', 118.000 in wheat and 114,(J00 in corn. The visible^sup­ ply of wheat for the c rresponding week a year ago decreased i 5^,01)0 bushels. Brlenet*. HENRY LOESCH shot his wife tour times at St. Louis, and then cut his own throat. SARAH BERNHARDT is expected to make a tour through Scandinavia dur­ ing Cctober. 1 IN a collision of trolley cars at Dar- bv, f>a., fifteen persons Were injured, some of them seriously. THE funeral of Agnes Wabnitz, the socialistic 1 ader, was ma le the ocoa-