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THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. ILLINOIS. "BE GLAD OF V :f It it raining. little flower? __ _ •- be gla<l Of rain. •itfT - ^Boo much sun would w i ther I be®, 1 'Twill Htiiue again. Che sky in very datk. 'tis true, , Sat just beyond it shines tbe^lo* j|rt thou weary, tender heart ? Be glad of pain. In sorrow sweetest t hings will grow. As flowers in rain. God watches, mid thon wilt have sun , % hen clouds their perfect work havedno®. AN OLD-TIME HEROINE ••Beg pardon, ma'am," laid the Southerner, politely, "but you hav'n't happened to see a colored boy anywheres about here, have you9" "Yes, yes," said Mrs. Stone, "I've seen two or three colored men, 1 should call 'em, since we came on the jboat. i s'posed they was regular -bo it-hands." t "Tbey were, probably," said the .captain. "I have a few colored hands." "What I'm looking for," paid the Southerner, "is a colored boy that ran away Trom me not long ago^ and I've reason to thinly he's hid somewhere on this boat" "1 have a search warrant to search the boat," the officer here put In, "and as we don't find him anywhere, I'd better search your wagon. He might have crawled in there." Mrs. Stone's eyes flashed ^danger­ ously. "1 tell you," she said firmly, "there couldn't possibly a body come near this watron and 1 not 'a' see About half a century ago Pethuwl Stone emigrated with his family from Central New Hampshire to what was then the ' far West," to Illinois. They did not travel by express, in a palace car with luxurious sleepers or , »enj> for j»ve been right about here dining car attached. Instead, a stout, every minute. It's all packed with fortune, a free Individual, thanks to one plucky little woman. "i was always glad Lowizy didn't tell me beforehand," Mr. Stone used to say. 'Vm afraid I should 'a' leaked out the secret in spite of me." The Stoues lived to do effective Work in the anti-slavery line for many years, when, settled in their new home, they were on the direct lino of the famous "underground railroad." Many a fugitive slavedid they secrete and help on his way to the North Star till the Emancipation Proclama­ tion put an end to the hideous evil of slavery. --Portland Transcript* covered wagon, a veritable "prairie schooner," bore them and such house- ; hold goods as they could carry, and their large, strong farm horses drew : them day after day, in t|ie leafy i month of June, slowly toward their ! destination. It was a laborious mode ; of travel, but saie and inexpensive, j and not without its pleasures. At meal times they would camp near some spring of water in the shade of trees and eat the lunch they ; carried with them, while the horses, loosened from the carriage, fcropped : the wayside grass, with a dessert of j oats from the wagon. At night Mrs. j Stone and the two little children j slept in the wagon under the canvas i cover, while Mr. Stone lay on a bag of hayamder the wagon, his flint- , Jock musket by his side, a weapon he, ; however, had m> occasion to use throughout the whole journey. When a storm came on they found shelter in some friendly farm-house, and if detained for a day or more. Mrs. Stone improved the opportunity to do the family washing. "Nothin' like travelin' week in and week out to make a body a tree soiler," she < used to say. j They to ik as near as might be a bee-line for the southeastern part of bake Ontario to a certain port where | they were to take a boat and go to- ' ward the western end of the lake : Camping within a few miles of the place, the very night of the summer solstice, they reached the town the next morning at 0 c.'c.ock just in season to drive on board the boat, which was waiting at the dock. It was entirely a new experience to them, especially to Mrs. stone who had never been on board a steam­ boat. Bethuel had seen them -down to,i osting," but had never journeyed on one, though, with a natural fond­ ness for machinery, he had "looked 'em over." He took oil the horses and led them to their stables in another part ot the boat, then came back to the wagon. 1 "Now, Lowizy," he said, let's have a good time while we're on the boat. It's easier rid in' than the wagon, and plenty to see that's new and inter- estin'. Let's take the children and stroll around." Louisa demurred. "1 ain't goin' out o' sight o' this wagon while I'm on the boat, not without leavin' you here to look after iL Ali we've got in the world to go to housekeepin' with is in here, and the cover don't lock down, you know. I shall stay by the stuff. You take the children and go about with 'em, don't let 'em fall overboard, though, and I'll have a goo I chance to be sewin' on their new aprons." Bethuel went off with the happy children, and Mrs. Stone, perched on the seat in the iront of the wagon, sewed away as diligently as ever in ber life, managing at the same time to get a good many glimpses at what was going on around her, all so new and interesting. ! As noontime drew near she got out their lunch-box', and with a little jug of milk they bought before coining on board, they made a satisfactory meaL Then Bethuel strolled off to 6moke and chat with sucn aequint- aoces as he might make, and his wife put the chiidreu to bed in the wagon lot their regular afternoon nap. When she saw they were fast asleep, she got dewn from .the wagon, resolved to look about the boat what 6he could without going out of sight, while they were asleep It was a re­ tired part of the boat, so she had no fear of meeting many people. She was peering in among the machinery when she saw something glistening in a dark corner near by, then a smothered voice wbisDered:. "Oh, missis! lor the love of God, please help me." •? "V\ho ate you?" she whispered ba k: and a negro boy some sixteen or eighteen years old crawled out lroin among some barrels "l'se a slave, missis," he said. "1'se running away to Canada, and . aiassa's after me; he's on the boat our housen stuff; we're movin out to lllenoy, and I should know if a thing should have been disturbed," glancing back inside. ^Me two lit­ tle children are asleep in there now," she added in a lower tone. "1 don't want to disturb your children." said the Soutbener, "but business is business. If that black rascal is hid in your cart, I'd like to snake him out by the heels! I tanned his bide well whefo he ran away be­ fore, and I'll brand him besides, when 1 cateh him this time" The o l.cer went around toward ths back of the wagon. "We won't do your things any harm," he said, but my search war­ rant must be carried out" Saw Hfs Mistake. There are many maxims to fife* ef­ fect that beauty is skin deep, that appearances are deceptive, and that "you never can tell by looking at a squirrel how far he will jump." Young Harrv Farnham can now fur«» nish an illustration of such truths from his own experience. He had gone to a party in the public hall of the town where his sisters were boarding that summer. Being an en­ thusiastic young man, he was not slow in making up his mind in regard to all the peoplcipresent, both vil­ lagers and summer guests. "What a frump," he said to one of his sisters, as they stood together, watching the games begin. "Tbat one over there, with her hair drawn back from her face, and the brown sleeves. She must be the village dressmaker. There is a sort of ghost of fashion about her clothes. She's h«d them made to cbpy yours." "Harry, how often must 1 tell you not to jump at conclusions about peo­ ple in that way?" said his sister. "That is Madeline Bell, Judge Bell's daughter, and she dresses plainly be­ cause she prefers it, and loves books Mrs. Stone jumped down from the ! tetter than clothes. You're not a wagon as lightly as a cat and was at j the back of it before the officer ••Don't you lay a tlnger on our wag- ' ou," she said, in a low but determined | now." "How do you know0" "I peeked (jut through the barrels and I saw him come on board. He'll s'arch the boat all over, and he'll find me sure and he'll whip me to death; he said he would if lever tried to run away again. Oh: can't you ; bide me somewhere?" The agon bed black face, the im­ ploring eyes'wvre too much for the kind-hearted woman, ^he looked in all directions; no one was in sight arid Mae took a sudden resolve. "Run and climb into my wagon ; there," i-he said. "Don'tdisturb the children as eep in there, but crawl 0*ver into the back end, it's all fast- i Jjned up tight, a&d cover yourself up }q With the things there." V- ^ He made a quick, stealthy dash for cart and climbed nimbly in She •followed slowly and unconcernedly j ! along, and, looking in all •directions, was gratified to see that so far no j one was in sight. Climbing up to the j f front seat she took out her work and |jX tell to sewing as busily as possibly, j ^ bumming meanwhile a low lullaby. ; • k It was not long before she discov-i -- jpred by the stir about her that the j ^pearch was goim> on and had reached ; i. ihat part ot the boat^ She readily listinguishedthe slaveholder and the ' " Officer that accompanied him,"who : ' feere being shown about the boat by ! fhe captain. She sewed on uncon- , i«ernediy, apparently paying no at- ' ' iention to them till at length they tialtcd by the wagon. tone, while her eyes flashed danger­ ously. "Your warrant was to search the boat and this wagon is no part of it I tell you again, no mortal person could have got into it without my knowing it" Just then a child's sleepy cry came | from the inside. "There." she said indignantly, ! "you're wakin' the children and j they'll be crosser than seven men that j can render a reason, if they don't get j their nap out." The three men all grinned at this | exhibition *of woman's temper and slunk awav, the officer muttering ; something about a "tempest in a tea ; pot" i Mrs. Stoe resumed her seat, her I sewing and her low humming, and j nobody would have guessed how [ busily she was planning. She decided not to take her hus- ; band into her confidence just yet [ He was as strorigly anti-slavery as ' she, but as she was wont to say, ! I "Bethuel never could keep a secret." j i . "He ain't no hand at all at givin ; , i evasive answers," she said to herself, i "and he's so afeard of tell in' a lie i that he'd hesitate and maybe biurt j the whole thing right out If he ! don't know nothin' he can't tell ! nothin'." ' j ! As soon as the children awoke she j : helped them out of the wagon and | they played'around happily tiiT sup- 1 per time. Mr. Stone came and went j occasionally, and at bedtime they all { i prepared for iest as usual, nominally. | But Mrs. Stone did not go to bed ; that night For her it was to be a ! night of watching. She suspected ; that the slaveholder might be out on j his search again. "If he found us all asleep," she reasoned within herself, "he wouldn't : have no more manners, probably, than to climb up and poke his head in to see what he could And. I'll just keep awake!" Wrapping a shawl about ber she lay down on the front seat and if she slept at all it was with one eve open. Glad enough was she in the early dusk of the June morning to see that they were rapidly nearing the Canadian port where they were to land and drive across to Lake On­ tario, the Weiland canal which now carries palatial steamers with their loads ot passengers around Niagara Falls not being then completed. By sunrise the boat bad made a landing and they were ready to dis­ embark. As they drove out over the planks she saw the slaveholder and the olxer standing by, narrowly watching ail who went off the boat.» Her heart seemed to stand still for a minute, then the wheels rolled on to Canadian soil and the slave was safe! ".Now, Bethuel," said Mrs. Stone, "let's stop right here and boakfast the 11 rst step over where and buy some milk, and perhaps you could buy some bread and butter at! the tnuse " j While Mr. Stone was thus forag- ' ing she uot out the dishes spreading the table-cloth on a convenient wood­ pile close by the wagon. By the time they had gotten fre>h water and everything else for the meal the boat, having discharged her small cargo 1 and taken on what loading was ready, was starting out on the return trip, the very thing Mrs. Stone wished to see done, and bad proposed to stop and breakfast at that po.nt with that purpose secretly in her mind. The plank was drawn in and the • boat started out The pair of dis- comiited slf.ve-hunters stood leaning on the railing watching the receding shores. Just then, to Mr. Stone's speechless wonder, his wife called ; loudly into the wagon. "Come out now, my youngvfriend, and tell your old master good-by, for you may never see him againl" From the dim recesses of the wagon the freed bof clambered forward and jumped out on the ground. clever lad when it comes to people!" "Well, there, at least is a girl one couldn't make a mistake about" said Harry, pointing to a pretty blonde creature who had just entered the room. "What refinement! What charm! She may not know much about books, but any one could se8 that only pearls and rubies would fall from those lovely lips." ' His sister's eyes sparkled. •'Bless you, Harry!" she said. When will you ever grow up? But go and speak to her. There's your friend, Mr. Lloyd, talking to her. He will introduce you. And Harry!" she called, as he turned eagerly away, "about this question of rubies and pearls! Promise to come back as soon as you can, and tell me the first com­ plete sentence that fails from those lovely lips." "I promise'" He hurried away, but it was not loot; before he returned, looking strangely sheepish. "Well. Harry," said his sister, "what did she say? Tell it like a man." "You were right as usual. I said to her, 'Haven't 1 met you some­ where? Your face is strangely fa­ miliar. Could it have been in Port­ land?' " "And she':" "She smiled, and said, -Portland is a place I never was to.'" youever AGRICULTURAL NEWS A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Liong on Snakes* '••Speaking of snakes, did s e one swallow a live fish?" The speaker was one of a party of gentlemen who had just finished a bottle of wine, says Texas Siftings. As none of them had never seen t he performance referred to, he proceeded to describe it in graphic style: When he got through Judge S. said: "When 1 lived in Texas we used to depend mainly on snakes for cur eggs" "Not by a jugful," said the Judge, "but we found hens' eggs in the snakes. You see, snakes are very fond of eggs, and down there thev make a business of hunting for eggs. They would go from one nest to an­ other, swallowing egg after egg, un­ til they could hold no more, and when they were too full to move they wer > easily captured. As they swallowed the egg whole, it would be a good while before the contents were hurt, and if the snake was killed before the shell was digested th ' eirg would be all right. I once took 1«3 hens' eggs from one snake. ' As I knew the snake had stolen t|ie i eggs I h d no compunction about ; stealing from him." I "Did you eat them all?" asked the ' elderly gentleman. | ".;b, no, •'was the reply. "I only i ate two or three dozen, and traded j the rest off for tobacco." j "Were the eggs in a pile when you cut the snake open?" ask d the elder- nere anl eat our i gentleman, as if in search of truth, t thing, ^ ou might i »»No," replied the Judge, "they that man is inilkm . weie iyjHg jo a row lengthways in the snake!# stomach." "But," suggested the elderly gen­ tleman, "ly;; eggs lying in a row lengthways would make a pretty long line." "Well," replied the Judge, "this was rather a long snake." Provision tot the Humane Transportation of 8to<-k- to (let Kid of ling Weed --The l^se-of '^fertilisers--Vt beu to Water Hones-- Jfwrin'Motes. J Gettlntc Rid of Bag <fc«*ed. Eag weed is a nuisance, as it takes a large amount of the fertility out of the ground, which should betriven to the clover and timothy. Clean culti­ vation and heavy seeding of clover and timothy will alone effectually clean it out This takes tima Those that have large quantities of it should make a start to rid their land of it by cutting it down before j t<he seed ripens. One st.Jk contains j from 800 to 1,200 seeds. It is a very destructive weed. Cattle will not ; eat it except when young. Sheep are ; fond of it, however, and will eat it j green or when made into hay. j Put the mower in, set the knife i blade hitrh, and cut it down. The | earlier the cutting can be done be- ! fore the seed becomes too rue, the better it will be. A Baltimore ; County farmer mows it when in flow- i er, and when dry stacks it and uses j It for't edding. He claims that in < this way he is getting hisland gradu- j ally rid of it He u^es large quanti- j ties of bought manu e, and. of course, the seed is in the manure. When the weeds are cut late a large part of ; it will ripen in the curing. Tho be^- . ter plan In this case is to rake them I up when dry, take a calm day and burn them, if the straw from the j grain crop can be sold to. the paper ' mill, it will pay to sc.l it and use the rag weed for bedding. Such manure, \ before it is used, should b; well ! rotted, as it will bring the seed again . upon the place. Bag weed seed le- j tains its vitality for a number been limed for the previous crop ot corn gave 31.3 bushels of wheat per acre. That which had not been limed made 28.8 bushels per acre The plot which was limed has a fine set of clover; that which „was not limed is practically a failure so far as the set of clover is concerned. Nitrate of soda, while having no effect on wheat which had been heavily fer­ tilized, increased the yield 75.5 per cent on wheat which had received no fertilizer. Spring barley yielded 2t>. 7 bushels to the acre Winter barley yielded 50.5 bushels to the acre; wheat under the same conditions yielded 2t>. 7 bushels to the acre. The set of grass is very mvich better on the bai ley than the wheat stubble. Weight of Milk Cow*. Careful comparisons made in 6etw many from tne records of large herds show that there is no relation, or even approximate relation, between the live weight of cows and the yield of milk. The record of a Norwegian herd for ten years show that in dif­ ferent years the averageyield of milk per pound Of live weight averaged for the herd, between J. 39 and t>. 6 pounds. The amount increased dur­ ing the first eight years. The indi­ vidual record for 1893 for a herd of eighteen cows shows that milk yield varied,*?rom 4,2<>H to 8,197 pounds dur­ ing the year and yield per pound of live weight ranged from 4.4 to 7.3 pounds. years, even, when it is buried with the plow several inches under the ground. The advantages of cutting this weed, and, in fact, all weeds, off of the meadows is not only to preveut the needing of the ground, < The Onion Plant. Those who raise large crops of onions spread mauuie in the fall, plow it under witn a one horse plow, and, if the weather permits during the winter, the land is cross-plowed, which incorporates the manure with the soil. The rains and fro^t pulver­ ize the manure, and when early spring arrives the plant food is teady for the crop. The plot for' onions should be ready now, instead of wait- i Ing until the time for planting the of f s ed or setting o.it the sets. Watering Horses. Water the horses before, feeding morning, noon, and night, especially in the morning. If horses could talk they would tell you how thirsty they but to have a clean Held to cut over i are in the morning when watered as next season. Mo.eover. the hay is not filled with filth of all kinds. This is worth the cost of cutting. Feeding Through the Winter. Food is going to be high this win­ ter. Already many farmers, especi­ ally in the West, are disj o*ing of their stock at sacrifice sales in order to get rid of feeding them. Prob­ ably the winter will bring promi­ nently to the fiont the question of economical cattle feeding as never before. Cornstalks can be relied up­ on when properly ground with a min­ imum of soft grain mixed with them, and the nutritive value will be equal to a great deal of the p ior grain that some farmers give to their stock reg­ ularly. While the stalks may not have a great amount of nutriment in them, thev do, when fed with grain in a ground state, lurnisii liesh- forming material that can not be equaled by any other food of the same cost In parts of the corn belt where feed will be high, stalks may be purchased at a mere song, often for the labor of carting them off the Held, and with good economy ani­ mals cculcl be wintered on them without mucfy other expenditure for feed. Witty', animals purchased at a sacrifice sale,an enterprising farmer may see his way to make money next spring. There will undoubtedly be a great reduction in stock by spring, and if business revives this winter, as one may reasonably expect, a corre­ spond ng increase in the demand for good meat will follow. With de­ pleted stock yards the farmers who sold most of thei;- animals this fall will not be able to take advantage of the high prices, but will find them­ selves placed in the condition of purchases rather than sellers of stock. There was never a depressed condition of the farming industry without its corresponding lesson to be learned. -- Philadelphia Inquirer. they came in from worK, then eat a j dry meal and dry hay all night; in- i stead of giving them another dry meal they should first have a drink in the morning to get the full bene­ fit of the morning feed. his old bat be shouted in clear tones, -- "Oood-by, Mr. Sbelley! I'm my own massa now." "I never was so wrought up in all my life," Mrs Stone was wont to say in telling the story in after years. "I j saw those two men start and rush about like two angry hornets, and i S jest pulled off my bonnet and swuntr j it back and forth and hollered 'Hoo­ ray!' as loud as 1 could. Bethuel jest sot an 1 stared at me, till by-and-by he (ound his voice and wanted t > know what it all meant, so i ex­ plained ;*-J all to him." They made the happy colored boy welcome to share their breakfast, af­ ter which, with many | rotestations of gratitude, he set out to seek his Early hondon Directories* The earliest known directory of people and places seems to be that or London, in lo77, of which only three copies are known--one in the Bod­ leian Library, one in the Manchester Free Library, (which was bought for ?:•">.) and one sold at the Rev. Mr. Hunter's sale, which realized £9, al­ though imperfect The Manchester copy was carefully reprinted in 1878 (by Chatto .Sc Windus) with an inter­ esting introduction; and the next Loudon directory seems to have been i one of 300 pages, published <n 1732. The editor of the reprint in 1878 gives some details of earlier manu­ script directories, or '-Office of Ad­ dresses," by Henry Bobinson, in 105OJ Waving j who had an office in 'lhreadneedle I'Mnff Fertilizers. i Does it pay to u»e fertilizers? This question is often discussed at the farmer.-.' meet rig with a wealth of words, that, after all. prove nothing ; but the opinions or persons who enter j into this discussion. But there are j some facts that speaK louder than words in this regard that may be mentioned. The farmers of the United States buy and use and pay ! for not less" l.hau l,f)i)(', 000 tons ot fertilizers every year, and this enor­ mous quantity costs them fully *f)0,- 000,u0l». To form an idea of thegreat bulk of this quantity let us say that it will fill l;"»u,ooo freight cars which extended in two vast trains properly coupled together, will occupy an air­ line railroad with double tracks from Washington to Chicago. Is it rea­ sonable to think that the farmers would continue to use this quantity of fertilizers and keep on increasing their nurchasea and consumption steadily every year, if this use of them did not pay? iiut, taking the statistics of the crops and the yields of them, we find that they show large increase during the last tew yearn, and since the use of fertilizers haft become so common; and also that the culture of fruits and market crops for which this kind of plant lood is mostly used has in­ creased enormously, so that wide dis­ tricts, where once not an acre of such products was cultivated, are now cov- ered with prosperous gardens and plantations, and are occupied by thrifty, if not wealthy, farmers. INotes. THE sheep is made vicious by pet­ ting. A young ram that is raised by hand, at the house, becomes bold, and soon learns to attack cattle and persons T.IOSE who don't believe in culti­ vating the orchard claim that a good grass sod, cut off smoothly, keeps the soil cool and moist, strengthens the vitality of the trees and makes them very long-lived. EXPERIMENTS show that a grain of wheat reproduces forty-fold. Every pound should bring forty. It, theie- lo e, follows that much of our seed wheat is wasted when we sow one and one-fourth bushels an acre, and get from ten to twenty. THE better condition in which farm tools are kept, the less effort is required on the part of teams, and on the part of the workingman, also, yet farmers will use their imple­ ments a whole year without sharpen­ ing them. No other mechanic would do this. Aiiorr one-third of a croc depends upon the soil, one-third upon the seed, one-third upon care and culti­ vation. but each one of these must be at its best to get full advantage of the others. If either falls short more than its own proportion the crop is likely to lall short. IT is too often the case that a farmer will object to the difference of hair a dollar in railroad freight, coming over a distance of 5 0 miles, yet contentedly spend a whole day on a bad turnpike road in hau.inga load only five miles, preferring the poor road to an increase in taxe-. AT the show of the I oyal Agri­ cultural .-society in England the cost of hives that took priz.es for "best, and most complete frame hive for general use" was $.">.^5, sso and &4.<»3. Those taking the prizes for "most complete and inexpensive frame hive for cottagers' use"' wore priced $2.13 and $2.(i3. Cows IN milk, it is claimed, will consume nearly 50 per cent more water than the same cows when nut giving milk. The New York Experi­ ment Station at Geneva found as an average of several breeds that each cow drank 1039 pounds of water and consumed 547 pounds more in food per month. 1 S >ME German societies have a cen­ tral depot where the honey of mem­ bers. is sold at a fixed price agreed - upon in July. Each member can sell I his honey privately at any price ho pleases. The label ot the producer I is a guarantee of purity, and adul- | teration subjects a member to e«pul- I sion in some societies, to prosecution 1 in others. ABOUND A BIG STATE. Street, over against the Castle Tav­ ern, close to the Old Exchange in London," and it was described as • keeping particular registers of all manners of addresses," with a "Cata­ logue of subjects of inquiry" so copious and so curious as to be a fresh proof that there is nothing new under the sun. Sixpence was the fee, and for this small sum answers to all sorts of questions connected with business could be obtained.-- Aotes and Queries. Wheat anil Harley. From a series of experiments with wheat and barley conducted at the Maryland station the following re­ sults are summarized: The six varieties of wheat which He Was Smart Enough. "1 witnessed a very interesting in- cident when I was in Washington a couple of yeaisago," said Francis T. Gray of St Louis, "and I have fre­ quently laughed over the lesson it taught. I was strolling out one of the broad avenues in the residence part of the town--Connecticut, I think it was--well,a couple of China­ men, attired in robes and satin of the most gorgeous deseription, ( arae pushing along at the cnaracteristic gait of their race. The superior ap­ pearance of the celestials did not ap­ pear to affe t a number ot' small boys who were loitering on a cornel1, for there was an immediate chorus of •Chinaman eat rats' as the men ap- gave the lament averages for the j proached. The Chinamen took no years 1803 and 18!)4 were Fult.z, 4-4.4 | notice of the juveniles, who followed BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLINOIS „ : '. NEWS. ' An Englishman Wants Damages--Carious Salt by Dockirallopers -- Incendiaries' Work at Varna- R very thing Keady ton , Uw Chicago Fht Stock Kxhlbttom. 11. THK man who sings, •'! would not live always. I ask not to stav," loud-, est in a prayer meeting, sends for the doctor when there's anything the matter with him just as quick as the man who <iecps a policy shop. bushels; Garfield, 4". J bushels; Val­ ley, 4L'.3 bushels; Wisconsin Triumph, 41. •'» bushels; Badger, 41.6 bushels, and Currell's Prolific, 41.1 bushels per acre. Nitrate of soda did not in­ crease the growth of either crimson e over or cow peas grown as a failow for wbc&r. nor did an application of :<00 pounds of a complete fertilizer have any effect on the peas. Criru- in their rear, continuing their shout­ ing. Furthur up the stieet a youth was otan :ine on the sidewalk, and as the Chinamen passed him he, evi­ dently inspired by the boys, asked tnem what shirts were being washed at. . He apparently thought tho Chinamen did .'t know a woid of En­ glish. You can imagine his discom­ fiture then when one <,f them son clover fallow for wheat gave 4.0! turned t'j him with an expression of bushels per acre; cow peas followed ; the deepest commiseration on his for wheat cave :i8. l bush Is per acre, i face and remarked in excellent land withot^either the peas or clover | Lnited States: and with thlity per c :nu more fer- i ' -Yon seem to be a very nl e-look- tilizer gave only .... I bushels per i ing fellow. What makes you sucti a acre. Corn-land wheat which had > fool-' "--Washington Star. Claims False Imprisonment. Harold P. Hartman a British sub­ ject released from the Marshall County ;all, the grand jury finding no indict­ ment against him on the charge of beating a board bill, has put the mat­ ter in the hands of J. Hayes i-adler, British Consul at Chicago, an! ho ap­ pealed to Gov. Altgelj, who put the case in tne hands ot the Attorney Gen­ eral. Assistant Attorney Genera; ivewell has notified the authorities that hiartman has appealed for dam- a.e9 for lalse imprisonment and ex­ ecutive interferencg. This is the first case of the kind in the history of 114- nois. _____ Fat filtock Show Premiums Listed. A full list of premiums for the American fat i- tock show, to be held at "Tattersall's," in Chicago. Nov. 22 t > Dec. has been prepared by the State Board of Agriculture. This exhibi­ tion will also embrace the American horse show and the American poultry show. A full classification ot' prizes is offered for cattle, light and draft horses, sheep, swine, and poul­ try, incl iding the slaughter prices. The horse show will be a great feature, and the prize list embraces thoroughb >eds. standard breds and French coach, Cleveland bays, hackneys, German coachera, Morgans, gai'ted saddlers, roadster stallions, Shetland and other ponies in the light horse department, and draft horses from France, Clydesdales, Bel­ gians, English shires and grade draft mares and geldings and draft teams to trucks in the heavy horse-department. Theie are also rings for carriage pairs, four-in-hand, tandems, hunters, high jumpers, etc. Every evening there will be an exhibition of driving to carts, coupes, victorias, broughams, drags and tallyho coaches A number of the finest and most stylish ri/s have already filed their applications for en­ try. A total of $15,0( 0 in prizes is of­ fered and is equitably distributed among these several classes. Trie rail­ roads of the State- have agreed to a t-pecial rate, for both passengers and e\hibits. Varna Has ;a Fire. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed one of the two business blocks of v arna early ihursday morning, the entire lossDeing $10,00 , with insurance or about $3,000. The large-t losers are Lawrence Broaddus. building, $800; Charles Hultgren, groceries, $ i ,000; S. S. Stateler, building, postottice and stcck of stationery, -P ,03 J; G. F. Swan- son, building and r tock of general mer­ chandise, $2,5VO Dr. Park, office and fixture*, $"<00: Sherman Justice, livery barn, $800: D. G. Gunther, restaurant and building, $£0); Fred Lenz, build­ ing. $l,4oo. .Tust one year ago Varna was destroyed by a fire of incendiary origin, and was just recovering. Rnmtqbout* Claim Lrirge l>amnsrP«. The steamer State of Missouri, owned by the Cincinnati. Memphis ana i\ew Orleans Packet Company, was sur­ render d bv its owners to United States Marshal Brinton, of Spring, eld. Thi ty-eight roustabouts had brought suit at j^elena, Ark., against the com­ pany, claiming f 6,00 > damages in tho aggregate for heing carried awav from Helena. The mate claims he engaged them for the round trip. The com­ pany surrendered the steam r and asked it be app'.aised to enable the company to secure the benefit of the law limiting the liability of owners, so that no greater amount than the value of the steamer could ba collected. In Memory of Dnptrted Knights. 1 Sunday afternoon service was held in the Ma onic Temple in . acksonville in memory of tha Knights Templars who died the past year, a remarkably large number having passed away. The service was held at the suggestion of C. M. Morse, Past Grand Com­ mander of the State, who was unable to be present. President Short, a mem­ ber of the o *der, delivered a discourse on "Invisible Companionships." Dr. W. H. Milburn, the blind preacher, followed with an address which moved every one present •"Record of Hii» THE old settlers of Clark County met at Marshall. A Miss HALIJHAN W.-RI a Demorett gold medal in a contest at Fairbury. PHINEAS HOWE, a wealthy and well- known Roekford resident, died Thurs­ day. MRS. AOILENE ECKEHT, 70, was burned to death at Virginia by the ex­ plosion of a gasoline stove. Louis HAWK die<F at Mascoutah, aged eighty-six years. Deceased was a pioneer of southern Illinois. AT Elgin George I-u'st^r, a well- known florist, was attacked by his large mastiff and badly lacerated. ATTORNEY GENERAL. MOLONEY rules that women must furnish their own ballots and not vote with the men. THE Grand Ledge of Colored sons at Jacksonville denounced national compact Masonry scheme OVER 100 delegate* attended meeting of the Grand Lodge of colored Masons of the State at Jacksonville. AN industi ial home association has been organized at Moline, as the out­ come of the Labor Day celebration, with J. M. Marshall, President. JOHN WHITELY, of Elgin, manager of Mme. Rhea's dramatic company, was thrown from his carriage at St. John, N. B , and seriously in ured. THE strike among the mold boys at the Illinois Glass Company s works at Alton has been settled by the boys re­ turning to work at the reduced scale. THE Rev. J. G. M. Hursh, pa-tor of the Lutheran church at Vandalia for a number of years, ha* accepted a call from the Lutheran church at Jones- boro. FROST, heavy, has appeared at Vir­ ginia, \ andalia and Hillsboro. A t v irginia the canning factory has shut down and tender vegetation is killed in all section?. THE wedding of Miss Grace Whitte- more. a lender in society in Kankakee, to Pert fcmalley, of Chicago, was cele­ brated. A large party of C hicago peo­ ple wai in attendance. FIFTY-ONE indictments Were re­ turned by the Kane County grand jury at Elgin. Miss AWJELLA BOYCE. of Elgin, and Herbert Case, of Wauconda, and Isaac C. Cas?, of Chicago, and Mrs 1-elle A. Corbin, of Elgin, were mar­ ried in Elgin Sundav. Gov. AIVI\;ELI> has ttiyed for thirty days the execution of Minkhausen, sentenced to be hanged in Belleville ] for poisoning his wife. The Supreme Court refused a supersedeas. INCENDIARIES burned the English schoolhouse two miles north of Mar­ shall. This makes two schoolhou^es burned in that locality within a week. There is no c^w to the guilty p»*t-Ueg. * Ma- the the IN a quarrel at Assumption, Johq Beckholat latallv stabbed Jack Daly. THE public schools at Trenton are closed, owing to an epidemic of diph­ theria. Miss ETTA ACKERMAN, of Cham- pign, stepped on a nail and cut her foot. She died of lockjaw. EDWARD DANGERFIELD'S 6-year-old daughter was terribly burned while playing about a bonfire at Elgin. THE Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge at Springfield decided agai st a permanent location for the convention. L J. BASSETT, of Collinsville, died at Newport, Ohio, from i oison, the day after he was married at Maysville, Ky. J._A; B*>TTORFF was sentencsl at Spring"e d to one year for embezzling $1,00J from the Pacific EJ Dress Com­ pany. „ ^ AT Chicago, in a quarrel over ten cents, William Fleming, a colored 'la­ borer. was stabbed and killad b/ Daniel Wynn. HARBISON W. HARRIS, aged £8, of Upper Alton, was murdered by un+ known persons and robbed of his pen­ sion money. • • AIDED by a woman, United States off csrs at Chicago have arrested three persons charged with making counter­ feit dollars. J. FRANK LEONARD ha? been made cashier of the I i-st National Bank of Kankakee, to take the place of the late Daniel C. Taylor. PATRICK BLACKWELJ., a Kensington policeman, attacked by hoodlums, killed one of the gang: The body has not been identified. COL. W. E. STEVENS, of Moline, wa> sentenced to one year in the peniten­ tiary for attempted criminal assau.t about a year ago. ANNA HOGAN, who was injured at the approach to the Ogden avenue via­ duct, Chicago, secured a verdict tor $20,000 against the city. WILLIAM MANNISSEY'S son, who ran away from his father's home in Des Plaines, nas returned. He grew tired of life on his own hook. MELIPSA D. GROFF, of Joliet-, a young child»found and swallowed some Jaudanum kett in the house and died before the cause was discovered. THE Tenth Illinois Cavalry reunion closed at Champaign. D. Wickersham was elected president, and A. C'.. Springer secretary and treasurer. : THE eighth annual reunion of the One Hundred and Thirtieth Illinois Regiment Twenty-sixth Illinois Regi­ ment, and Eighth II inois Cavalry was held at Greenville. IS early two hun­ dred visiting comrades registered. THE Pres yterian Synod of the State of Illinois held its annual session at Jacksonville. The Rev. Frank F. Stolti of Ottawa was elo tel Moderat­ or and S. H. Hyde of Schuyler Presby­ tery and W. H. Bradley of Alton Pres­ bytery Secretaries. The Lev. John W. Pusjh of Rock Biver Presbytery, in his report on church election, stat­ ed that out of 7,38* churches in e ist- ence - ,80i have made no contribution to this fund and that of the 4 0 churches in Illinois. '^41 had not con- tr.buted. in connection with the syn­ od the Wot an s Synodical Home iViis- sionary Society was in se sion. Offi­ cers were elected and the visitin ? dele­ gates entertained at luncheon at the female academy by ± rof. F. F. Bi llard. THE broom corn yield of the Central Illinois district, comprising the coun­ ties of Coles, Douglas, Kdgar and Moultrie, will reach 1(5,001) tons. This is perhaps half of the entire crop of the country. It is thought that seVen- eighths of this year's crop is already sold. The quality is not up to an aver­ age. the growth .having been retarded by drought and the brush damaged by rain and insect•>. The yield fell fully 20 per cent, short of the estimate by the growers. The price this year has run trom $.0 to $L0, and the average has been about i90 per ton. Last year s crop was one of the best e /er raised in point of quality and yet sold for -145 to $65. Whenever the price falls below $t 0 the farmer loses money, for the ex- ren e of harvesting and jutting it on the market ii very great. FEP. 5. 1*92, Harrv Sharp and Frank Crosby fought a se entv-iOven-round mill for the light-weight cha ripionship of Missouri at Nameoka. The atfair created a sensation and resultod in the arrest and incarceration of both prin­ cipals in the Edwardsviile jail. Tues­ day they we.'o released. Short y after his imprisonment, so the story goes, Sharpe became infatuated with the sheriff s laughter, and in due time she reciprocated his atta hment. They loved < landestinely or a time, but when the girl's parents discovered the atfair there was a great storm, and tho lo.ers were forbidden to see oach other. ISotes were still passed, how­ ever, and a formal engagement ol- lowed, when another family quarrol took placa and the yojng lady left home. She returned recently, and tne parents are thought to be reconciled to the mateh. THE Secretary of State is having about the same experiem e with the corporations of the state under the anti-trust law that he did last year. They are required to make a fidavit every year that they are not connect­ ed with any trust cr unlawful combi­ nation, and for tnis purpose ea h one is furnished with a blank form by the Secretary of State, which it is required to fill out and return with a fee of $1. Twenty-two thousand of tnese blanks were sent out under date of Se} t. 22, and returns a e coming in. About i ,i,0) have been returned with the in­ dorsement "not found; ' L',000 made the a i davit and paid the fee: ab >ut 100 have made the a'tidavit and failed to pay the fee, and about 1,0j0 have writ­ ten that they are not in business and have no corpor te existence. Affida­ vits are < oming in at the rate of about 100 per day. Tney have thirty days in which to make the required return. Alter that time all derelicts aio turned over to the Attorney General to be proceeded ; gainst. There were no pro ecutons last year, although there were thousands of delinquents. THE Plymouth Congregational Church, of Peoria, has called Rev. W. S. Meek, ot tiavenna. Ohio, to its pas­ torate and he has accepted. MAUUIE MULLIGAN, 11 years, was burned to death in Joliet Her cloth­ ing caught fire from a lighted stick in the hands of a playmate. Gov. ALTUELD commuted the death sentence of F^ank A. Kurt'., of Chi­ cago, to imprisonment in -Toliet Prison. Kurtz was convicted of killing his wife Ella, in the spring of 18i<4. He was a former resident of Council Bluff's, 1 owa, and had a ways borne a good reputation MRF. J. BERUQUIST and two chil­ dren. who lived at Roekford, wore found by the milkman nearly asphyxi­ ated, all belDg unconscious on the floor. They will probably recover, although they are in a critical condition. THE Wabash west-bound raseenger train struck a buggy containing r. and Mrs. William Davis at a roacl crossing near Alount Sterling and both were instantly killed, as was a'.so the horse. The occupants ot the buggy were deaf, and not hearing the train drove upon the track in front of it. Mr. Da\ is was 80 years old and his wife 70. He was one of the best known {afrjners of Brown Countv.