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|1#M "V*> * Ml OR STA|rt^d, ':ii#rS FULLY RECORDED. Farmer Kelstel FooUahlr lixM 01,000-- >Mrf«l FU« of M A(«d Woata-CrMk- , edwsa SupeeM Is the I^wtate* Baak'i Afftln-SagMr Majr TBisbta. I bjr MB Old Tricks Two confidence men swindled Henry Kelstel, • farmer living twelve miles wratheailot Carlyle, out of el,ooo Sat­ urday an the three-card monte game. A oouple of individuals called on Keis- tel. itm titter several hours of conver­ sation succeeded in purchasing his (arm from him. The bunco men, to­ gether with the unsuspecting farmer, started for Centralia, several miles distant, to close the deal. When near that city they met a seedy-looking stranger slowly walking along the road, who w»? accosted by , them. After asking several trivial questions the man opened a valise and displayed *12,000, remarking at the same time that he would like to make some one rich. He explained the game and offered to wager *5.000 that Kefetel could not pick a certain card. His companions loaned him ¥4,000, and he Etanked down $1,000. which was placed i a tin bos and securely fastened. The farmer got the box and returned home and opened it, but the money had flown as well as the bunco men. tCels- tel is still holding the box The Hlchlgftn Ship Canal. ; A matter of present interest, par- ; ticularly to Chicago, is the fact that incorporation papers and prospectus are being prepared for the ship canal Connecting Lake Michigan with Lake Erie, with termini at Toledo, Ohio, and a point between New Buffalo and Mich­ igan City, Ind. It is stated by experts that the canal will cost between $10.- 000,000 and $12,00i),000, the cost being greatly lessened by the new and im­ proved methods and machines for ex­ cavation. Eastern railroads favor the canal and it is stated that the Western roads see great advantage to them­ selves in the enterprise, as it will en­ able them to run their freight cars loaded with grain and other dead freight on to transports, conveying them through the canal to Lake Krie, and thence through the widened Erie Canal to the tidewaters of the Hudson River, Governor Roswell P. Flower and Senator David B Hill having already introduced measures for the -widening of the Erie CanaL The canal is being pushed with zeal in financial circles of London. Paris, Berlin, Bos- i ton and New York. It will shorten the present lake route from 100. to 4£0 feiiles. o : ' -- -- . Shortage of 010,000 In Vomilt The expert employed to examine the hooks of the late banking firm of Tomer, Phelps & Co. report a short­ age of over $10,000 that is not account­ ed for in any way in the books. The bank failed at Lewiston Jan. 6 last with liabilities of about $250,000 and estimated assets somewhat larger. At the la it term of the Circa't Court in­ dictments were found against Henry Phelps, President: Moses Turner, Cashier; and G. K. Linton,bookkeeper, of the defunct institution. Charles W. Havviey, of Chicago, was the expert employed by the creditors to make an examination. • Aaret) Mr*. Merrlek. Barns to Dsalk. Mrs. Eliza Merrick, aged 77 years, met with a horrible death at Okawville Saturday morning. While in the hou.«re ' alone she sell into the fire, and, owing to feebleness, she was unable t:> escape from it. She. endured the torture for an bout-or more, but when fougdjj&e *ras in the last agonies of death.* Record of the Wmk. AT Vandalia Mrs. Charles Mills died ddenly just after finishing the noon- v meat T Decaiur, Mrs. Charles Musser, ed 31, died. George W. Drury died denlj of heart disease. >v. ALTGELD has appointed H. M. edsloe, of Mount Vernon, a State riSti warden for Je lerson Count/. THE Rev. Frank N. Atkins of Macon has been secured as the new pastor of r St. John's Episcopal Church, at De­ catur. _THE Russian thistle ha; been found at Gurnee, Lake County, where it is { supposed to have been brought in wheat screenings used lor sheep feed. MRS. ALEXANDER E. STUMP, one of the earJy residents of Bloamington, daughter of Squire "Zaek" Lawrence, • noted early pioneer of McLean Coun­ ty, died, aged 62. THE Illinois State Board of Mine Managers have announced that they will hold an examination of candidates for m ne managers at Peoria on Mon­ day, Oct. "22, and Springfield, Tuesday, Jan. 1. IXMENZ OCKENGA, car insrector of the Chicago, Peoria and St Louis Road, was instantly killed while at work under a car in the railroad yards at - Peoria, a switch engine striking the string of cars and break­ ing his neck. IN a free fight at a shooting match Wt Christ Hocks pi ice, a few miles north of Mascoutah, Saturday, George Breder was st ruck over the head with a club, sustaining dangerous, if not iatal, injuries. The fight was the out­ come oi a neighborhood feud, and further trouble is expected in that •vicinity. A SENSATION was created at the - largely attended funeral of William H. Marsns in Ridge Prairie, near Mascoutah. when it was discovered at the grave that the corpse showed signs of life. The burial was stopped and medical aid summoned. After a thor­ ough investigation and the futile ap­ plication of restoratives the physi­ cians declared there was no life in the corpse and the funeral rites were con­ cluded. LIN A A. JAMES, of Peoria, has be­ gun suit in the Oklahoma District tJourt at Guthrie for a divorce from Aaron F. James, of that city. She 'charges him with cruelty and neglect, coming home and breaking up the furniture and threatening to kill her. IN the gymnasium at Jacksonville, a ' 4 banquet was tendered the visiting col­ lege students. Kev. F. S. Hay den was toastmaster. The speakers were Schuyler Livingston, of Monmouth; W. A. Challacom, of Blackburn; A. Sidney Otto, of Knox; A. B. Fairbank, of Illinois: K. H. Schutte. of Wesleyan, end a student from Lake Forest. MKS. KATHERINE BALLE. aged 74, widow of the late John Balle, one of the early German settlers of Bloom- i at ton died Saturday night. She came from Germany to Logan County in 182:', and had lived in Bloomington . morg than forty years. Mrs. H. M. Fulieuwider died Sunday aged 47. T.iE Unity Foundry* and Pullman Car Wheel Company ' filed with the Secretary of State a certificate of dis­ solution and surrendered its charter. This move is supposed to have been dictated by the proceedings brought by Attorney General Molouey, to re­ voke the charter because the corpora­ tion was doing business not vested in its incorporation. • *>. Champaign, imre we*- aeo. MABEL WEISENTINER. a schoolgirl, of Ladd, was killed by the kick of a horse. A RVNAWAY horse dragged Beulah Jamison, an 11-year-old girl, to death at Ellison. HARDY MII,LKR was arrested at RAT- pote, charged with forging a cheek for $175. has restored to citi- i'jnoy, ol Virginia, Gov. ALTGELO zenship J£dward Cass County. THORNTON PARKER, 6CU* colored veteran, was run o -er and killed by an eloctric car at Cairo. PREO PIERS ON was ejected captain of Company B. Fifth Regiment, aV a special election at Jollet. MRS. MARTIN STANKEWICZ was burned to death at Kankakee while trying to start a fire with kerosene oil. MARTIN BOWMAN, one ot the best- known resident* of central Illinois,, die I at Carroll ton at the age of ninety- one. AT Bloomington, occurred the wed­ ding of John T. Bess, of Danvers and Miss Bertha A. Vanbuskirk. They will reside at Lilly. JOHN HILLER. a saloon-keeper at Riverview, was robbed of 9;00 ih cash several boxs of cigars, and a num­ ber of bottles of whisky. AN autopsy oa the bjdy of George M. Sloan, the Chicago 'lawyer who starved himself to death, showed the pains from which he suffered were im­ aginary. CHARLES BANE and Mrs. Christina Tillman, both of Chicago, were mar­ ried at Kankakee. The groom is a Japanese, age 25, and the bride is an American. F. D. SWEETSER,dealer in hardware, agricultural implements and sewing machines, at Ottawa, has assigned. Hi> liabilities are not known, but his assets are about $30,< 00. CHARLES H. PATTON, of Mount Vcr- nen. was assaulted by two footpade near his home, hie struggled witfe them, and one shot him thlOugh the iip. The men were not captured. J. W. POTTER, a popula- speaker from Lansing, Mich., was sei7ed with M£VER HELD HIGHER PLACE THAN IT DOES TO-DAY. A* VM* «f BopvbUeaalsaa B* Klein ( for m u4 Witt OMUBM to BIMI Until the Party ot UMOU It OaN More in Ascendency. ' Hi • Wortwt The tide of Republicanism throughout the North. Every election for months has borne evidence Chat once more the intelligent people of the country have allied themselves to the party whose history in this country if interwoven with the grand achieve­ ments of a third of a century. - It is again in the confidence and the enthu­ siasm of the intelligent masses, in fact, the Grand Old Party. It has had its dismal periods. It has been slan­ dered by its enemies, and betrayed by those who should have been loyal to it For years, in the North, it was most defamed and harmed by men who had received its honors, but who de­ serted it because it would not accept their dictation. These men, by their influence and position, led away thou- sands of young men who should have j been Republicans and temporarily se­ duced many of them to join the De­ mocracy. They were the "infallibles" of .187z and the mugwumps of 18 S4. To-day thousands of the then deluded young men have found their way oack into the Republican party. It is not claimed that Republican counsels have always been wise, or that the party's policy in all things has been the best; but these defects are unim­ portant compared with its series of achievements--the checking of the ex­ tension of slavery, the saving of the Union by the Lincoln policy, the de­ struction of slavery, the reconstruction of the Union, the policy by which the national debt ceased to be a burden and specie payments were resumed, and the policy of protection, which has brought to the Republic the most marvelous growth and prosperity that a nation ever enjoyed. The leaders to day are those who followed Lincoln as Union soldiers, or stood by him in his great hemorrhage of the lungs while deliv- I work. They are animated by the same ^ and died#, spirit; and the nationalism for which ering an address at Durand the following day. The remains we.e sent to Lansing; . JOHN HA LEV, an engineer, inferring from the signals of a brake-nan and the headlight of an approaching loco­ motive that a collision was imminent, jumped from his cab at La Fox and re­ ceived fatal injurie •. JOHN CDLAY and his wife, with their baby 1 month old, went to l orsyth, seven miles rom Docatur, to visit rela­ tions. When they ai-rived there the mother found that her baby, too te- curely wrapped up, had smothered. JAMES JOHNSON was buried alive in a cave at Spring Valley, .lohnson and several companions had excavated a room in tne side < f a hill in which to meet and p'ay cards. While the game was in progress the roof lell in and c ushed John-:on to death. The others escaped. AT Rockford, the grand iury for the October term of the Circuit Court re­ turned an indictment which will carry terror to the hearts of the milkmen. It was against Andrew Ryman of Cherry Valley for selling skimmed milk It is charged he sold it to a creamery. FOR some time there has been a spir­ itual medium in Jacksonville. He at­ tracted a nutnbar of the best citizens to his seances, which his manager con­ ducted with considerable Success. The other night the room was full and many of the elite of the city were pres­ ent Witnessing the manifestations, when a ske tical individual, who had worked his way into the canfidence of the ghc st-producer, suddenly reached ojtand caught the apparition in white, and a con tede rate turned on a light The spirit was found to be a man named E:l Majors, who has served a term in the renitentiary. The reve­ lation produced a great turmoil. EDWARD WATKINS, of Modest1, Ma­ coupin County, arrived at Jacksonville in great haste with the p etty lt -year- old daughter of Judge Solomon, and the couple were married just in time to smile at the father, who had tele­ graphed ahead of his coming, but who d d not arrive soon enough to stop the ceremony. Then there were loud up­ braid igs. The father charged Wat- kins with abduction and, in his anger, had the young man arrested in spite of the tears and entreaties of the fair bride. The justice ordered the prisoner put under bonds of $500. Watkins thought he could secure bondsmen by going to Murrayvillo some ten or twelve miles away. Thither he went in custody of an officer, but when he returned the sobs of the bride had done the work; the suit was dismissed, and the young couple were taken home. MURDER most foul was dona at the home of J. C. L. filler, a wealthy farmer, twenty miles east of Quincy and two miles from the Village of Liberty. He is blind, but notwith­ standing lhat, frequently goes hunt ing. He was out with a party the otner night hunting foxes and when he returned home in the morning, found his wife and 10-year-old niece brutally murdered. Their heads bad been beaten in and were frightfully crushed. The room showed evidences of a fearful struggle, fclood was spat­ tered over the walls and tho furniture was i pset and broken. There is no clew to the perpetrators, but the blooly work is supposed to have been done by burglars. Mr. Miller had had $3,0 X) in the house a few days ago, and It is supposed the murderers were after th® money. All they got was $«, which they took from a pocketbook. Sheriff Vancil telegraphed to Sheriff Ja;k Jones, of Lewis County, Mo, the owner of a pack of bloodhounds, and he arrived with three hounds. THE Alton Gas and Electric Light Company has been absorbed by the Alton Electric Stre3t ail way Cqjn- Cy. The price paid has not been •ned but is somewhere in the neigh­ borhood of $100,00 J. GOVERNOR ALTGELD granted pa- ers restoring the rights of citizenship to the following discharged convicts from the Joliet prison: William Davis, Peoria, eighteen months; August Ollig, Chicago, three years, and Simon Surtin, Peoria, t iree years. Also to James Wilson, of Beacon, Iowa, who served five years at the Chester prison, from Perry Coiinty. A YOUNG man giving his name as William E. McDowns, of Bloomington, has teen arrested at Laporte, Ind., on a charge of swindling. He claimed to represent a Chicago rubber belting firm, and did some questionable busi­ ness with checks at the bank. HONORABLE discharges from the, service of the State have been grant-: ed to Priva'es Robert H. 1 entmore, Arthur H. Wocd, John S. Worthing- ton and Hugh W. Shepherd, all ol Co. JJ I, Fifth Intantry, located at Jackson­ ville. The Adjutant General ha) or­ dered an election to be held at Chicago, Thursday, for lieutenant of the third division First Battalion, Illinois Naval Militia, they contend to-day is the nationalism for which Lincoln contended. The names of its leaders are those which all men most admire and reverence: Lincoln, Grant, Morton, Sherman. To­ day its statesmen are the men to whom the intelligent masses look for succor: Harrison, John Sherman, McKinley, Allison, Reed, and a long line of others who are in full accord. The intelligent people of the country who are now suffering from the same Democratic incapacity which went out of power in March, 1861, look with renewed confi­ dence to 'Republican leadership and policy to restore the country to the pros­ perity of 189:'. Hundreds of thousands of men know that they are victims of Democratic incompetency, and they know that Republican a-cendencv is the only remedy. There can be no doubt of this. Every election during a year has shown that the people are turning to the Repblican party and away from the Democratic as they have not since the early days of the war. Even the lccal elections last April and May showed this 1 ejec­ tion of Democracy and approval of Re­ publicanism. The turning out oi pop­ ulations en masse to greet Governor McKinley attests the turning of the intelligent masses to the Republican party. The tide has been rising for a year, and it will rise for months to come. In all its splendid course, the party of Abraham Lincoln never held a higher place in the faith and regard of the American people than it does to-day. Pointer*. Dan Voorhees is the hollow syca­ more of the Wabash this year.--To­ ledo Blade. The Hill bo m has proved to be de­ cidedly helpful to the "some good I Western man" idea.--Sioux City Jour­ nal. J The Ohio Democratic manifesto in favor of lree silver shows that they are not only fools, but darned fools.-- Boston Herald. The man who is glad that he voted for Cleveland has been found at last. He is fishing at Buzzard s Bay.--Cleve­ land Leader. The China navy may be in a sad state, but it is nothing compared with the condition of the Lemocratic party. --Keokuk'Gate City.' It is not necessary for persons who contemp'ate attending Democratic meetings this season to get reserved seats.--Indianapolis Journal. The loyal Democrat is known this year by the vigorous way in which he thumps his party before eaying that he is for it, nevertheless.--at Louis Globe. Mr. Cleveland sent Senator Hill no' congratulations, but he can make up for the omission a few weeks hence by sending condolences.--Kansas City Journiu. It will be noticed that those funnel- shaped clouds appear most frequently in tne States where the Populist stump speakers are thickest--Milwaukee hentineL . Wilson's Boomerang. The Republican Congressional Com­ mittee is in great luck. Prof. Wilson has furnished them with a batch of campaign material which is worth tons of speeches in Congress. Mr. Wilson was among his friends at the London Chamber of Commerce banquet, and he freely unbosomed ̂ himself. He want­ ed to make himself agreeable to his British friends, and he could do that in no better way than by frankly ex­ plaining the pur/ ose3 of the Demd- cratic party. He told them that free trade was coming, now that the Demo­ cratic party had demonstrated the falsitv of the protection principle., Mindful, however, that his words would be heard on the other side of the Atlantic, the old his British friends that free trade in America would be the worse for them. It was going to let down the barriers BO that we can get out and occupy the markets of the world. Imagine the sly winks which passed from one to another among his British listeners. They happen to know something about the market# of the world, and they will not bother about thtm if they can only have the American market which Mr. Wilson promises to surrender to them. Mr. Wilson's speech and the whole story of the banquet, including the happy speeches of the British free-traders, will make mighty »ood reading for the voters in Mr. Wilson's district and throughout West V irginia. Kreelpts of Bepnb'lcami. During the first sixteen months of President Harrison's administration the receipts of Government were $110,- 5V»ri,414 more than during the first six­ teen months of tho present administra­ tion. No wonder we have to borrow money and increase the national debt in the BonthT'The tr^ble w^h^he Populist movement is that it i« built upon the sand. % A FoUtleftl VHMMt- ' The statistician has been at work over the Vermont and Maine election returns, and his conclusions are start­ ling--to the Democracy. He discovers that the late elections in the two States indicate a shrinkage of more than .m per cent, in the Democratic vote as compared with 1892, while the Republican vote in both States was larger than in the year of the Presi­ dential election. Assuming--wh ch does not teem utterly unreasonable-- that the.e will be a Democratic loss of at least J> per cent in the States which hold elections in November, and making no allowance lor any gain in the Republican vote--the nimble man of figures gives this suggestive forecast of the coming landslide: 35 $• ot. ot EetimsMI Dem.vote, plurality, Stat*. California.. Colorado .... Connecticut Delaware... Idaho Illinois..... Indiana..... Iowa...... I Kansas... Kentucky Plurality, 1893. m Dem. .14,964 Pop. . 5,h67 Dem. 604 Dem. . 1,980 Pop. .96,963 Dem. . 6,484 Dem. S2.96S Rep. 5,870 Pop. 40,020 Dem. m 29,630 13,646 20,5»l 4,645 2.8C2 106,570 65,701 49,085 40,778 43,368 38.464 44,303 64.367 27,395 61.83S 3.853 29,825 1.W4 10,375 42,760 Maryland .21,130 Dem. Mass'o)i's*tts. .2 >,ooi Hep. Michigan -.2.91S Rep. Minnesota.... U2,157 Rep. 'issouri......41,004 Dem. wntana 1,270 Rep. Nebraska 4,957 Rep. Nerada 4,445 Pop. N. Hampshire,, 2,175 Rep. Mew aersey... 14,974 Dem. New Ytark 45,518 Dem. 163.717 N. Carolina .. .31,6( 5 Dem. 34,226 North Dakota. 181 D.<frP. 4,425 Ohio . . . A 1.072 Rep. 101,0*9 Pennsylvania..53,747 Rep. 113,066 8. Dakota...... 8,344 Rep. 8,898 Tennessee »6,504 Dem. 34,119 Wiahimrton.,. «,6 8 Rep 12,238 W. Virginia ... 4,174 Dem. 21,102 Wisconsin 6,470 Dem. 44,362 Wyoming 732 Rep 1,WH> We commend our Democratic friends to a cool and dispassionate study of these tables, it will be seen that they not only concede to the Republicans evfry Northern State except silver- crazed Colorado and Nevada, but break the solid South by carrying Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky and North Carolina for protection.-- Boston Journal. 189*. 29,406 Rep. 1,318 pop. 15,228 Kep 4,141 Rep. 602 Rep. 79,687 Rep. 59,320 Rep. 72,180 Rep. 84,908 Rep. S.949 Rep. 7,713 Rep. 70,304 Rep. 78,3*5 Rep. 49,062 Rep. 3MM Rep. Rep. 34.983 Rep. 3.451 Pop. 13,510 Rep. 37,786 Rep. 118,199 Rep. 1,619 Rep. 4,244 Rep, 103.101 Rep. 176.818 Rep. 17,313 Rep 1,«36 Dem. 18,896 Rep. 16,938 Rep. 37,892 Rep. 2,662 Rep. The Number Made Idle. The Democratic tariff for revenue encourages the importation of foreign made goods. Imported goods being the products of loreign labor, rob American labor of that amount of work. About every $2,000 worth of imported goods that can be made at home throws one American out of em­ ployment. Of the 000,000 of merchandise imported in 1893, $445,- (j00,0u0 could have been made at home by Americans. Allowing $2,000 for each wage earner, then 1^2,500 would have thus found employment and re- reived in wages Si0 ,0 u.000, had it not been for .the fear of free trade. " The Difference. In his speech at Kansas City Gov- ernor McKinley^of Ohio, recalled the fact that when ha was talking in the same hall two j ears ago. somebody in the gallery shouted, "How afe you on the eight-hour law?" He said that now the laboring- men who were then wor­ ried that they would have too many hours of labor, were now worried be­ cause they cannot get work enough, which explains pretty clearly the dif­ ference bt-tween Republican and Dem­ ocratic rule. The galleries shouted long and loud over this extemporane­ ous illustration. Protection Incrr> S >d Export*. It is claimed that the protective pol­ icy of the Republican party stimulates to overproduction al' lines of goods thus' protected, breaking down our markets and preventing the export of American com mod it es. Both of these claims are shown to be false by our for­ eign trade under the McKinley tariff. In i8«i we exported $1,015, 0( 0 of American products, nearly $1(>0,00!),000 of which was from our factories. These exports, both of products and manu­ factured goods, we.e the largest ever made. Afraid of the Forrlffnera. • If the $445,000,003 worth of goods im­ ported in 189^, that could have been manufactured here, had been so made, $30-,(t0(»,000 of capital would have found profitable inves'tment and.$z44,- 000,001; worth of raw material would have been required for the work. But the fear of free trade was hanging over the country. Our manufacturers did not know how cheaply they would have to sell their goods and conse­ quently could not afford to run, the risk of making them". Getting In Its Work. Last week seventeen pounds of gran­ ulated sugar were purcha ed for a dol­ lar; to-day the dollar buys sixteen pounds. June 1 the dollar was good for twenty-two pounds. .This is an ad­ vance of about 11 cents a pound, or an advance of over 38 per cent, in the re­ tail price of granulated sugar since June 1, 180-. The Democratic sugar trust is getting in its work.--Indian­ apolis Journal. stewnrt K"t a Statesman. Senator Stewart could have killed the Gorman tariff bill, but he har­ bored up his private grievances in­ stead of protecting the sneep farmera 2ievad%. Row DAVID E, .And Roswell P., And William CI, Acd Adlai E All have it Presidential B. Free Trade Means Free Bread. IA., 'mm mwm Built Upoa 1 h-Hand. The claim of the Populists that they will hold the balance of power in the next Congress dees not derive any en­ couragement from recent elections, j 6 d^i-clpped UQ \ --I4 ^ „ ". '*f„ * mmm 1 T g f . & ' f > «sts< Pack Uthcr 80 Much Una* Pfcuss Mad. "In 1840,"MudDeacon Setb Gregg,* of old Steuben, (,I was crossing one ot my father's fields on my way to the Cohocton for a day's fishing--for there were trout in those days. Bill Spencer was with me, and we came upon a couple of land turtles that were having the ogltest kind ot a scrap l flou't know what Started the fight between the turtles, but from what I know now it must have bceu something serious. The turtles bit and tumbled and clawed e<ich other for a spell, and then Bill and I separated them and put them a long distance apart. They turned as soon as they were down and came toward each other again as fast as they could, which was at the rate of about a mile an hour, but there was tire in both their eyes, and when they got together they pitched in again as lieVce as ever. We hadn't thue to stay there and watch them, and so we went on and left them fighting. When we came back that way late in the afternoon, there were those two turtles yet, fighting as ugly as ever, and neither one of thetp t-eemed to have the best of it. Then we broke up the fight* 1 took one of the tur­ tles home with me and Bill took the other one home with him. 1 cut my name on the bottom of my turtle's shell with the date, and Bill cut his name and the date the same way on his turtle "Mv folks were getting ready about then to move out to Illinois, and Bill's were going oack somewhere in Massachusetts, where they came from When we went away I took my turtle with me, just for the fun of the thing, and Bill took his along to Massa­ chusetts We settled out in San­ gamon County, and Peter--that was my turtle's name--didn't seem to like it out there Anyway, he disap­ peared before we bad been there a week, and I couldn't find him, high nor low- We lived in Illinois twenty years, and then, the old folks having died, I moved back to old Steuben, bought the farm we moved off of ia 1840, and have lived there ever sinuQ.. Of course I forgot all about Peter^ the turtle, fifty years ago orarore. "One day last week I was going over my farm, and not more than thre? Wids from where Bill Spic&rand I surprised the turtles a$ their scrap-^ ping match tifty-four years ago last spring, I came on to two turtles having it out with one anct>her in exactly the same way. It brought back the old days like a f ash, and I luy down in the grass and watched those turtles fight for a quarter of a 1 hour. Then i got up and took one of them by the tail and turned him over on his back. Bis under shell was cut and carved like a beech tree in a country school-house yard: 1 went to deciphering the carvings, when the first one I looked at nearly made me drop in my tracks. And good reason. There it was, plain as day: 'Seth (Jregg, 1840!' The very turtle 1 bad t aught more than half a century ago, and which had got away from me three months later, 'way out In Illinois! "As soon as 1 could get over my surprise and wonder I began scanning the other inscriptions on the turtle. They dated all the way from 1848 down to 18U2, and the names of places carved now and then showed in chronological order that old Peter was steadily and unswervingly trav­ eling east. "All the time I was examining Peter the other turtle stood on guard, glaring at 1'cter, arid evidently im­ patient to resume the fight, ^ol put Peter down and picked up the other one. 1 know you will believe me when I say the first sight of the under shell of this turtle actually sent me to grass It had carving, too, and the very first one was 'W. Spicer, 1840.' And there were carv­ ings on Bili's turtle, showing that he had been unswervingly headed west during th« last fifty four years, as my turtle had been pointed east. Had these turtles been governed by some mysterious instinct that drew them back to the old home for love of it, or had they been nursing undying ani­ mosity toward each other for half a century and traveled back with the hope of wreaking vengeance each on his foe? For the way they glared at each other and waited for a new chance to get even, I made up my mind that the turtles bad journeyed all the se years toward the old home simply with the intention of having that fight out, and so I got up and left them by themselves. Two days afterward 1 went that way again. The turtles lay in a ditch. Peter had his jaws fast on Bill's turtle's throat aLd Bill's had Peter foul in the tender spot under the left shoulder. Both were dead. I buried them right where they lav, and it saddened me to know than any liv­ ing thing could carry hate so long and to far." - IMPURITIES IN FOOI!f|v||- --------"---- tV " '•IH / tb*T AM Mot aa Common as l$ai!7 Xfeatr sons May Suppose. . Singularly exaggerated ideas cop* cernlng the adulteration of Tooa are Very generally held, according to Br. H. W. \Viiey, chemist 4$ tl|0 United States Department of Agriculture. Sand, for instance, is not sold with sugar--at least in the United States. The granulated and lump sugars in the market are almost absolutely pure, powdered sugar sometimes, though rarely, contains a little Hour or starch, and low grade|sugars are impure chiefly through the molasses and water thev are made to absorb, in manufacture. Not as good a re* pott can be given of syrups. Therfe is very little pure maple syrupy most, of wjat is sold as such being a mix­ ture of glucose or cane syrups with a small proportion of #the product of the maple, while in an irnit ition ac­ tually protected by a patent, the mi pie flavor is given by an extract of hickory bark. Liquid honey is large­ ly adulterated with glucose. Of cothb honey, however, onlv that in bottles and jars is impure, the old impression that comb honey on the frame is adulterated having been proven to be erroneous Ground cot- fee is so largely adulterated with chicory, peas, beans, etc., that it is rarely found pure, and even the un- ground berry is im'itated. Tea is rarely mixed with foreign leaves, but frequently has its weight increased by the addition of salts of iron and copper--materials quite prejudicial Cocoa and chocolate are larftgy itfttlterated with stareb and sugar, and products claimed to be greatly improved as to digestibility may hav# little of the virtues <if the original cocoa bean left In them. A danger in canned goods is the use of adulterated tin, which may con tain as high as 12 per cent of lead, the organic salts formed by the corrosion of the lead being alwavs poisonous. The common pract ce of coloring canned peas with copper is very ob­ jectionable. The use of preserva­ tives, such as salicylic acid, is not without risk, while an occasional source-of danger is the development of nitrogenous bodies called pto­ maines in preserved meats. The above are illustrations, which, though bad enough, are insignificant in com­ parison with the startling leports that have been published. Much the greater part of foods we eat is puce and wholesome. fe f •>i: The Menace in Africa, v That the forces of Islam involved in the widespreading ramifications of the Senoussi sect menace the exist­ ence of French authority in North Africa it would be exaggeration to allege: that they even threaten its security to a serious extent may not perhaps be the case; but that they ocpose a barrier to a French annexa. tion of the great tracts Intervening between Senegal and Algeria 1 here can be no question. A false move on the part of the Paris Government, of the executive in Algiers or Tunis, or even of some subordinate official of the southern confines of the French possessions, might of a sudden arouse the fanat­ icism of the dwellers beyoud the out­ posts, and the news of it would spread like wildfire over the Sahara and the Soudan. The Mohammed el Mahdi might think his time was come, might proclaim religious war, and might bring into play the vast resourses placed at his command by the strange organization that bears his hame. Senoussi has shown no taste for strife. The Mahdi is not to be a man of war. Btit. it is the unexpected which al­ ways happens in these lands, and the sheikh may find some day circum­ stances too strong for him. That these people when they muster under tttfe banner of Islam for fight are formidable the insurrection in the Soudah has served to show.--Black- wood'* Magazine. » s ^ ? Fan for the Boy*. *1* 1 The electric fans used ally in offices, have suggested many little fancies in the way of decora­ tion. The most universal fad is to fasten long streamers of gayly-colored paper to the machine and let it fly out In the breeze. The effect is very pretty, and has a soothing influence on the heated brain of the man who drops in and takes an easy-chair for a few minutea before going out again under the hot sud. Many priyate houses now have the fans, and some of the youngsters have utilized the cool breeze they produce to fly minia­ ture kites and fly miniature wind­ mills. One ingenious youth whose mother has an electric fan standing on the mantle-piece of the dining room, set his wits to work, and after thinking awhile went out and bought a Chinese bird kite, some bamboo and different-colored tissue paper, and began operations He cohT structed a number of small kites in the shape of birds, bats, and butter­ flies. Thes * he attached by threads to different objects in the room, so that they floated on the current of air strired up by the rapidly revolv­ ing fan of the electric machine The effect is most pleasing, and at all times while the machinery is in mo- tiou the little kites dart around and over the dinner table like things of life. An Ambitious Chicken. «. *'An obstreperous chicken suc­ ceeded in calling out our fire depart­ ment not long since," said Henry F. Swangate, ot Savannah, Ga.,^at the Lindell. "It was a male bird of the game persuasion, and had acquired the very bad habit of flying away from home and mounting to an extra­ ordinary height for a domesticated bird. On one occasion, when chased by some boys, itgot badly scared, and, flying up rapidly, strucK some wires, and got tangled up In them hope­ lessly. By psome means or other it shook for disarranged a wire which notified the department of a fire, and every effort was made to get promptly to the scene of the supposed out­ break. "No fire being discovered, it was evident a false alarm had b$en turned in, but the continued strug­ gle of the rooster sent in further alarms and caused a general demor­ alization of the electric service. When the cause of the disturbance was finally located the bird was nearly dead and Its handsome ap­ pearance had entirely vanished. This is, I believe, the first case on record of a chicken upsetting electric service in this way, but the bird, al­ though quite a small one, succeeded in doing the work quite effectively." St Louis Globe-Democrat. IOST AND SPOILED rbe Buk of Kaxlaad Makes a Bi{ ' on fler Httaa , Bank notes of the value of t&WpF sands of pounds are annually lost or destroyed by accident. In the fortjr yeirs between 1792 and 1832 there were outstanding notes of the Basic of England, presumed to have beeat either lost or destroyed, amounting- to £l,3ii0,000 odd, every shilling ef. which was clear profit to the bank. In many instances, however, it in possible to recover the amount of the note from the bank in full. Notice has to be given to the bank of the note supposed to be lost or stolen^ together with a small fee and a fall narrative as to how the loss occurred. The note is then * 'stopped"--that is» if the document should be presented for payment the peison "stopping* the note is informed when and ta whom it is paid. If presented (after having been "stopped") by any sus­ picious-looking person and not through a banker one of the detect­ ives always in attendance at the bank wouhl be called to question the person as to how and when the note came into his or her possession. It is quite a mistaken idea that "stopped payment" of a bank note has the eflect supposed by very many people. It simply means that the Bank of England carefully keeps jt lookout for the note which has bee* "stopped," and though it cannot re­ fuse to pay such note immediately on its being presented, a notification would at once be made to the person who stopped it, and the bank would give all the assistance iu its power to enable the loser to recover the amount. ,c ,, • In the castf of a bank note btr- ing been, say, burnt by mistake, if the number is known and notice sent to the Bank of En­ gland It will pay the amount after an interval of five years from the date of lodging notice of destruction, should no < ne have presented the note for payment in the meantime. The bank in such cases also iaslstsoa a guarantee being given by a banket or two householders that it shall he repaid in the event of the document turning up and being again tendered for payment. It is not at all an un­ usual circumstance for a mutilated note to be presented for payment* burnt perhaps half way through, with marks of burning on the fringea. Nor is the damage always accidental. The men who indulge in the luxury of lighting their pipes with a bank note are not always, as some maj think, millionaires or recognized lunatics ot society. The spoilt notes are more often than not presented by workmen or laborers, who confesa without hesitation that they have intentionally lighted their pipes with them for mere braggadocio. ^ :•& •3T 1 a * The Chicago Style* * "Maybe It's a chestnut worked over,',' remarked'thd drummer to the hotel clerk, "but i heard a story the other day which illustrates the kind of men some Chica^oans are." "Let her go," said the clerk en­ couragingly. "One of those rich fellows there," continued the drummer, "had a close-fisted Yankee friend of his with him at his country place, and during the evening the friend dropped a quarter in the grass and immediately went down on his knees to find it. " 'What are you looking for?' in­ quired the host, who was talking to another guest some distance off. 1 " 'I've dropped a quarter in the grass.' »• 'Here, let me help you with a little light,'said the Chicago man, and he kindled a $5 bill with a match and held it till the Yankee found his lost quarter." . Civility to a Patroifc";• • One rainy day last week Jones, be--* ing in a hurry to get home, took a street car. There was a big crack in the roof of the car through which the rain fell and ran down the back of his neck, S'» he asked the urbane conductor: "What's the matter with this car? Doe- it do this way always?" 'No, sir, only whett it rains."--• Texas Sittings. „*** * ^ t; „<y 45-J^ • • ; Y- Hospital at Home." ' 'Jf / f* Every home of any pretensions should contain a room especially ar- ranged andf kept ready for the use ot sick members of the family. Such a room should be cn the upper 'fleer, aud preferable in the southeast ow­ ner, so as to have the best sunny ex> posure; or still better, should be It self the upper floor of a two-^tory an­ nex, separate from the main build­ ing, but joined thereto by a light* latticed bridge. It should have no upholstered furniture, a bare but painted floor, and rough-plastered and painted walls and ceiling, without pictures or paper, curtains or hang­ ings. It should contain no sink, wasji-basin, water-closet,or any otter convenience which connects with sewers, and should connect with the kitchen by dumb waiter, or have con­ nected with it a smaller room fur­ nished with a gas stove and the othet requirements of a diet-kitchen. It should contain everything requisite for nursing a case of typhoid fever, scarlatina, diphtheria, measles, ot smallpox; and all its arrangements should be supervised by the family physician. The possession of such an appendage to the home would enable the owner to defy the mandate of a health otficc in regard to removing an inmate thereof to a pul lic pest- house; as it could be shown to the satisfaction of any reasonable toprtt that therein a case of infectious dis­ ease could be better isolated, and more humanely treated, than in any "pest hospital" ever yet erected bf our political administrators of hea tfc lafVtr-Potter's Materia Medi*% . .jr French Marriages^ < • . -'i When a French bride marries 'she does not assume the hymeneal white satin, as is our custom, it her family or her husoand's are in mourning, but goes to the altar in simple white muslin, as M. Camot's bride did a few weeks ago Though in view of the late President's tragic death it seemed somewhat soon for the wed­ ding. Mme. Carnot herself wished that it should take place, as it ac­ cordingly did, but with so much pri­ vacy that not even a single relative; except those immediately connected with the young people, were informed The bride's family wore costumes ot pale gray and violet, while the Car­ not ladies were, of course, in deepest mourning. The bridgegroom's mother appeared deeply moved during the service, anc( an air of siience and sad­ ness beng over the bridal. Mile. Chiris was an especial favorite witli the Lite M Carnot, and is extremely pretty. She had no ornaments, ex­ cept a bouqet of white roses, with some fastened into her simple diem. The Lady Chapel of St llerr# Passy, in whLh the marHage took place, was adorned with similar fio#- , ers, but there were none in any part of th« church. ^ -• - ^ The Income* of PhyHnie-- > The incomes of professional awn can be discussed t nly in an mate way. As the amount of money earned is considered by the pafclfe aa a measure of appreciation of «ervicee rendered, there is a strong tendency to stretch the imagination in the di­ rection of what should be rather than What actually is. Physicians form no ex option to this rule. The aver; liinnual income of a physician in fall practice in a large city may be sta as &2,000, and in smaller towns and in strictly rural districts $!, 200. Two or three physicians in Now York make over 00,00a each year; five er six range ftoin ,000 to $ fifty from ae.%000 to $30,0 0; IS# from 310,000 to 812,000; atout 30# from *~>, 000 to $6.00S>; 1. 0* from 000 to and the remainder from J 8C0 to 81,000. --Forum. '!:• . . W:..„ '4 ;