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> v v MMM i * i " , : TO b/ liia ohm mt MM pabUoMioB. bat m as •vltao* of «Nd Mk «a «*• pwt •I tba writer. W(tteaalreaoaaai4»o< tb» papa*. B• mlhriiill --rrfliUtai ghtag m-- M* d«f.to kM -phia-d****. M_at • It Is learned that Mr. Havemeyer can­ not sleep nights for sheer worry over the misfortunes of his discharged work- tofifljjen. Itappears that, the present emigra­ tion from this country Is greater than the immigration to it. Fortunately it is the seuui that is floating back. Davenport Democrat thinks that the Government should go out of the fast freight business. This has refer­ ence to the carrying of great quanti­ se* of books as newspapers. / :j^v- Even Jacksonville, Fla., has felt Hie Influence of the municipal reform wave that is sweeping over the country. The €ity Council bias by a unanimpus vote repealed the ordinance passed a year ago permitting prize fights Jto take place in Jacksonville. . . J , • The number of crimes Justly ascribed of late to acceptance of life insurance policies as collateral for loans indicates that such security should be barred by statute. Conservative financiers would not consent to accept it and in some States its acceptance is forbidden. / The house of a Louisville police offi­ cer who kept three watch dogs has been robbed of a considerable amount of money and a number of silver spoon. The thieves were not mean enough to.steal the dogs too, and the officer is therefore not utterly cast down. Breakfast hominy of to-day is a very different food from the Southern hom iny traditionally associated with hog. The earlier hominy was true "cracked corn," hence doubtless "corn cracker' and "cracker." It was cooked gently all night, enriched with butter, sea­ soned with salt, and served smoking and snow-white. As thus prepared the true Southern hominy is a delicious disb, not especially for breakfast, but "as a vegetable," so the phrase goes, for dinner it is sweet, rich, beautiful and wholesome. Investigation of the practices in some schools and colleges proves more and more how greatly efforts against vlvi section are needed. The superintendent for Oregon speaks of a professor in a college of that State who choked a cat to death before his students in order to let them see how it struggled In dy ing. He also varnished another cat to prove that the skin was the third lung. Having been threatened with arrest, this person now kills before he muti­ lates Ms unfortunate subjects, but starves them first for several days. If these practices are not checked, chil dren and young people will be let loose on the community who will be a .curse tO it <». . 4. trail which bore a deoMaed stat--man to the Pacific coast Congressmen who are dead, but who don't know it, enjoy no such privilege. Before the govern­ ment became so liberal an express com­ pany's frank was utilized to convoy a late member from Washington to Tex­ as. The average cost of a Congres­ sional funeral is $5,000. Besides this, the decease of a member during his term involves 'incidental expenses. Both houses must adjourn when the fact is announced. Later they have to set aside another day and quit legis­ lative business in order that eulogies may be pronounced. Speaker Reed's pet reform is to have these eulogies pronounced^ on Sunday, and he may some day l>ring it about Buf for the present tlfe country will be satisfied with a refqrm in the matter of funeral expenses and it will look hopefully to Senator Peffer's bill. The measure pro­ vides that when a member dies in the District of Columbia "the house ot which he was a member shall appoint a special committee of its members to properly prepare and encasc the body of the deceased and forward it in charge of a sergeant-at-arm*, specially appointed, to the home of the deceased and deliver it to his family or his rela­ tives or friends in case he had no fam­ ily." The Senator's bill further pro­ vide^ that the government shall pay no other'expenses attending on the funeral except that mentioned above, and re­ quires that the chairman of the funeral committee and the Speaker of the House shall certify to the vouchers. Ell FINDS THE TRUTH RANDALL DEMOCRAT EXPLAINS HIS PARTY'S MISTAKES. ltroller Eckels has obtained state­ ments from a large number of State and private banks, in addition to the official reports which the national banks furnish. As a result he estimates that the total number of depositors in all classes of banks reported is 8,143,665, and the total deposits $4,620,431,230. According to these figures nearly one in eight of all the men, women and children in the United States is a de­ positor in bank, and the average of de­ posits is $567 per depositor. The num­ ber is surprising. If the very numerous impecunious colored people of the Southern States, the poor whites in that section, and the great numbers of people in rural districts farther North, who hardly know what a bank is, were left out of the couut the depositors probably would amount to not less than one in six of the rest Hence con­ siderably more than? one person out of every two average families is a de­ positor of money In bank and has a standing account there. r A Vermont farmer who kept close ac­ count of everything he expended, and Also the cost of what he grew, found that he could produce butter at thirteen and one-half cents per pound. It is just such a calculation as every farmer ought to make with regard to his dairy. Then he could know whether he was making his farming pay. It will also show him the weak places in his man­ agement and enable him to remedy them. There is altogether too much routine work in farming. It is this that stands in the way of progress. The farmer who gets into a rut and therefore cannot change, is reasonably certain to go under the mire if hq con- tinnes in the business long enough. It Te^&lres active thinking to enable a fanner to change the character of his farming so as to adapt it to changed conditions, but it is the necessity which all fanners in these days must be pre­ pared to meet , At last it Is known why so many men are anxious to get to Washing­ ton. The secret has crept out quite ac­ cidentally. but there can be no doubt that it explains the extraordinary de­ sire of many men to represent the lo­ calities In which they live in Congress. The Washington Times gives the rea­ son for Washington's popularity very ingeniously as folic ̂ s: "it has remained for the latter jpart of the nineteenth century to evolve an­ other and wholly different method than that usually employed for the transmis­ sion of oscillatory favors. This is to have the matter accomplished by tele­ phone. The invention Is not, however, patented, and may upon occasion be adopted in other cities than Washing­ ton." The telephonic kiss ma^ not be the most satisfactory i^Jbugiharket, but tt is enlr. natural that the city that invents it should become popular. Now that the secret is out however, the •VT'JVGB of some of the newly elected Congressman may have their ,doubts as to what causes true political enthu­ siasm, and there may be calls for ex­ planations. MUNICIPAL PAWNSHOPS. The Scheme Is as Old as Civilization Itself, and Has Been Successful. There are records of a pawnshop reg­ ulated in the interest of the borrowers in Bavaria in 1198, and one In the Fran- che Comte in 1350, before the first Ital­ ian monti di pieta was established by a priest at Perugia in 1440, says the Con­ temporary Review. The movement for state-regulated pawnshops received its great impetus from the action of that statesman-monk and social democrat, Savonarola, who liberated the Floren­ tines from oppression and gave them popular institutions. In no other direc­ tion were his services to the people more successful than In founding mon­ ti di pieta. The law for creating his monti di pieta was passed in 1495, and before many years they were establish ed in all the principal towns In Italj and had spread throughout Europe. The first monti de piete in France wai started at Avignon in l577, and still ex­ ists. Their establishment in the Neth­ erlands dates from the sixteenth cen­ tury. A Spanish priest Don Francisco Piquer, founded the mont de piete in 1705, stalling with the modest capital of 5 pence, which he found In the offer­ tory box he had placed in the church to receive contributions for the institution. By the jsnd of the seventeenth century there were mojyfs de piete, formed more orlesg after^the Italian model, in most countries of Europe. The characteristics of the original In stitutions remain with those of to-day, although they have long since eeased to be managed by the priests, or to be un­ der the influence of the churches. The main object which Savonarola and oth­ er early founders had In view--the pro­ tection of the p<$or from the usurers and their relief In periods of distress--is still maintained, and the monts de piete in all Latin countries are associat­ ed with charitable institutions and hos­ pitals. Bouse of Sir Isaac Newton in PerlL About the statement that Buringdon House, Kensinton, formerly the resi dence of Sir Isaac Newton, is in the maw of the speculative builder the London To-day, in its "Diary of a Bookseller," says: "Something must be done to save this national disgrace. There has been a good deal in the pa­ pers lately about buying the Carlyle House in Chelsea for the public. New­ ton is worth a dozen Carlyles. He is, after or alongside of Shakspeare, the greatest Englishman Intellectually, and he is one of the world's greatest discoverers, enshrined In the estima­ tion of the scientific of all nations with Columbus and Galileo. The present Earl of Plymouth, whose Christian name is Newton, is a descendant of the philosopher. He Is a rich man now; perhaps he will buy the house and hand it over to Kensington as a muse­ um for relics of the worthies whose houses he allows to be pulled down every week. It is not a year since Sir David Wilkie's house in 'The Terrace* went, and I suppose the demolition of Holland House is only a question of time. Already Lord Ilchester has al­ lowed a little building in the southwest corner of the estate by the Holland Park Dairy. . There ought to be a law against the destruction of historical buildings. I remember reading In a valuable book on Rome which I had for sale that when Prince Orsini began some structural alterations in his house at Rome the Italian Government step­ ped in with an injunction and told him that he must consider himself only a trustee." Senator 1'elt'er of Kansas is right on the necessity of a Congressional funeral reform. Live Congressmen cost the •country a pretty penny, but dead ones cost even more. The government once footed a bill of $20,000 for the special ̂ A. New Chancellor. Prince Hohenlohe has been called to the German Chancellorship at seventy- five, Just at which Prince Bismarck was dismissed from office. His distin­ guished descent and powerful family connections throw those of both his predecessors into the shade. One of his brothers was the late Duke of Rati- bor, one of the wealthiest noblemen in Silesia; another became a cardinal, and another a grand chamberlain at the court of Vienna. The Hohenlohe family--of which the original name seems to have been Bothenburg--can trace itself back as far as the middle of the seventh century. Like the Hohen- zollerns, the Hohenlohes also split up into two branches--a Catholic and a Protestant one, the former being now represented by the new chancellor. They have always played a most prom­ inent role in tie Catholic world of Ger­ many. It was the present German chancellor who, in 1869, as Bavarian premier, sounded the note of alarm against the claims of Papal infalli­ bility, which resulted in the Kultur- kampf. His prescience was always truly wonderful. "There can be no longer any doubt" he wrote in Febru­ ary, 1870, "that war will break out In the course of this year between France and Germany." He likewise foresaw the unification of Germany under Prus­ sia, and counseled his Bavarian coun­ trymen to accommodate themselves JUt time to the altered state of things. • Democrats Must Get la a Position Where They Won't Have to Lie to Get Into Power--What Democracy HjM Cost the Country. ,V: Told by a Jndgs, EtiPerkius had a very funny experi­ ence on the "Q." road the other day with a Democrat in a discussion of the election. The conversation between the two occurred in Iowa, and here is the way Eli reported it to a friend on the Chicago Inter Ocean: ^ Eli Perkins came in from Omaha on the "Q." and left for New York on the Penn." When asked if he had met any Democrats on the train, he said: No, not any Wilson Democrats, but tjiere are still Randall Democrats. The Free-Trade Wilson-Cleveland Demo­ crats are completely squelched." . What do the Randall Democrats say?" asked the reporter. They accuse the Wilson Free-Traders of drawing the party into a false posi­ tion. 'Why,' said Judge Lane, of Iowa, 'the young, sentimental fools of our Democratic party put us old fellows in a false position. They made us tariff destroyers. They gave the Republic­ ans a choice of positions and then made us assail them. We didn't have any policy. The Republicans had the field and they chose the right side. They chose Randall's protective tariff policy, and all we had to do was to go on and fight a policy that we knew was right We couldn't do anything Taut Just lie and ' " 'You surprise me, Judge,' I inter- mpted. 'Do you mean that Democratic speakers intentionally lied?' " 'Why, yes; they had to. They had to assail the truthful and patriotic posi­ tion chosen by the Republicans. We said the tariff had nothing to do with wages, when common sense told us that with free trade our wages would be as low as German wages with the freight added. We said with free trade we would buy our coats cheaper, when we knew those coats would have to come from Germany and our tailors would have to work for their wages or march with Coxey's tramps. Oh, how we lied about It!' and the Judge heaved a long sigh. " 'What other lies did you tell, Judge?' I asked. " 'Why, we told the boys we'd have a big foreign trade, when we knew ev- erj- time we bought silk or tin Or cloth in Europe that they would have our money and we would have the empty boxes. May God forgive me,' said the Judge, as he struck the car cushion with his fist, 'if I didn't tell an audi­ ence at Ottumwa that with free trade we would gain the markets of the world, and I knew we couldn't send a hat or a yard of cloth to England till we had their wages--less the freight And just think what a hollow mockery it was to praise that 3-cent foreign mar­ ket when we know that to sell a cent's worth of tin or cloth to Europe we would have to open the bars and let the paupers of Europe swoop down on our home market, which, according to the census reports was $11,000,000 a year. I say was, for heaven knows what it is now, with half the mills idle. Wages don't have anything to do with tariff, hey?' said the Judge. 'We Dem­ ocrats know better, for the tariff lias been cut 25 per cent and wages have gone down to match. A fool can see that. The fact is,' continued the Judge, 'we Democrats have got to get in a position where we don't have to lie to get into power. We have got to get right onto that protective tariff which made us such splendid prosperity till we lied ourselves in and spoiled it, and which Samuel Randall said will always' make us prosperous. You hear Judge Lane, a Proective Tariff Democrat-- you hear me!'" How Many Sheep? How many sheep are there in the Uni­ ted States? How many in Texas, Cali­ fornia and Michigan? What was their value in the years 1890-1894? Placerville, Cal. D. W. SMITH. The number of sheep in the United States on January 1, 1894, was 45,029,- 795. Their average price was $2.01 head, as compared with $2.5S per head jji January 1, 1892, and their total val­ ue was $90,101,177, as compared with $116,121,290 in 1892. In Texas there wore 3,814,405 sheep this year, as com­ pared with 5,040,175 two years ago. In California there were 3;91S,157, but i,0S3,541 sheep two years ago. In Michigan there were 2,392,617 this'year r.nc 2,353,779 two years ago, but these numbers have been largely decreased since the beginning of the present year. The total value of all sheep in the Uni­ ted. States during the years 1890-1894 is officially given as follows: Value Year. of Sheep. 159 0 $44,336,072 1591 43,431.130 ISO2 44,038,365 1893 47,273.55.! 1984 45,048,017 comparison of the exports from the United States to the South American and West Indian States and colonies with which the arrangements were made, however, shows an average in­ crease in the fiscal year 1893-4 of more than one-fourth the value in 1889-90.-- The Manchester Guardian. ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. tt Lies Still IS Peculiar Diseases Among Horses in Several Coiintlcn-Springficld Crook Guilty of Counterfeiting -- Piteous Plea of a Poor German Woman. One Dollar Apiece. The annual report of Treasurer Dan- Id K. Morgan on the operations and conditions of the Treasury is read with more interest this year than usual, ow­ ing to the prominence of financial mat­ ters at the moment Taking his last year's and the new reports together we have the following comparisons of re- Horse Diseases Abating. the State Veterinarian reports to the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners that he had visited Randolph County and investigated the presence there of an al­ leged strange and fatal disease, and found that several horses had died of spinal meningitis. The; disease was not infec­ tious, and probably resulted from feeding impure food or water. No other cases » were had but those at Chester. The vet­ erinarian also reported that six horses /were found in Alexander County affected ' with glanders. Seven horses and two mules had been quarantined there. In Edgar County he found three horses suff­ ering with glanders, and quarantined thir­ teen horses and several mules for expos­ ure in that county. Diseases generally throughout the State are abating. .<5 Expenditures $345,023,331 383,477,954 367,525,279 celpts and expenditures June 30. Revenues. 1*92 $354,937,784 1893 385.819,629 1894 297,722.019 During President Harrison's last fis­ cal year of administration the expen­ ditures were nearly $10,000,000 below the revenues. In the following year, partly Republican and partly Demo­ cratic, there was a balance of less thail $2,50u,000 over and above expenditures, while in the first complete year of Dem­ ocratic mismanagement the expendi­ tures were $70,000,000 greater than the revenue. The Democratic expenses, moreover, were $22,'500,000 greater than during Mr. Harrison's last year of of­ fice, while the revenue was $57,200,000 smaller than under the Republican ad- ministration.--New York Commercial Advertiser. Seems Impossible. William E. Curtis is responsible for the statement that-- °"The United battleship Monterey left the harbor of Fairhaven, when she lay at anchor 600 yards from a coal dock, and sailed up Puget Sound, fifty or sixty miles, to fill her bunkers with Canadian coal from the Comox mine, near Van­ couver, because she could get It $1 a ton cheaper there than on this side of the border. Why? Because the Dominiou coal Is mined by Chinamen who are paid $1 a day. The Fairhaven coal is mined by white men. who demand $3." It seems almost impossible to believe that a Democratic administration could sink to such a depth of degradation. Does the Whitney-Russell coal trust's interest extend to the Canadian Pacific end of the line? Buying Coolie coal in Canada is as bad as paying a bounty to Coolie sugar in Hawaii. Anything to down an American. Uncle Sam's Fight* ' They Don't Like Girl* In Sicily. Iu some parts of Sicily the birth of a girl is always an unwelcome announce­ ment In fact, it is regarded as a sad event, and is made known to the world by a black (lag, which is hung out of the window. The reason that such an event is looked upon its a misfortune is because the young woman has to be supported by her family until married, and then she is supposed to come to the bridegroom with a dot. This, of course, is trying, but the Sicilian father is not as badly off as the American parent Girls in Sicily are married between the ages of 14 and 16. They live in seclu­ sion until they are married, when they are disposed of on a purely financial basis. Like 1857. Editor American Economist: I can­ not help but state something I've never seen in my life, nor" heard of before. Mr. Henry Hoberecht a clerk of our woolen mills and a neighbor of mine, showed me a team^of horses that he had bought for $3. The horses are not to be classed among the worst nor the-oldest, and it cannot be stated are of the finest; but they are horSos that sold eighteen to twenty months ago at $60 to $75 each. Mr. Jacob Eder, engineer of the flour­ ing mills, in which I work, told me that a friend of his, who had been down through the Southwest, said that he saw hundreds of horses running about in Arizona and New Mexico with sigqs on them reading: "Take me up and feed me this winter and you may have me." Hay is selling in tliis State at $8 per ton. This deserves consideration. CH AS. B. WEBER. California, Ho. Reciprocity Not Such a Bad Thing, Apart from the fact that a little more than three years was not a long period within which to test the effect of'the reciprocity arrangements, there were peculiar disturbances during thftt pe­ riod, such as the civil war in $ra$ll and the severe depression in the United States, and, indeed, in the trade of the world generally, which were not fav­ orable to a marked expansion of trade under the reciprocity agreements. A Wait Till All the Clouds Roll By. The acceptance of the Wilson tariff bill, thoitgh the measure is unfortu­ nately somewhat mutilated, has never­ theless dispersed the more dangerous storm clouds which were so heavily weighing upon the commercial rela­ tions that existed to the mutual ad­ vantage of this country and the United States of America before the enactment of the baneful McKinley tariff.--The Manchester, Eng., Courier. •-- f Court Circles Won't Believe It* Coming to the working classes, Mr. Carnegie maintains that the American artisan gets most of the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life Cheaper than his English brother. But the ar­ ticle is not at all conclusive, and we should like better authority than Mr. Carnegie's for some of the statements of fact--Court Circular, London. Kuropc; Fighting for It. There is now a prospect that our trade with America will go up by leaps and bounds. The competition to be first in the field Is immense.--Eastern Daily Press, Norwich, Eng. Didn't Know It Was Loaded* Homeless by Fire. Sixty persons were roused from their beds in the Ohio Apartment Building, 6026 and (>028 Wharton avenue, Chicago, a little before 2 o'clock on Monday morn­ ing by an alarm of fire. They atooke to find their rooms filled with smoke, to hear the bewildering roar of flames mingled with the snorting of steam engines and the shouts of firemen. Some of them were able to make their way to the streets in their night clothes; others were so over­ come by the smoke that they had to be dragged from their beds and carried out all unconscious by the firemen Mid /the police. * Dreaded to Die in an Almshouse. Mrs. Margaret Tott, aged 78 years, died at the St. Clair County Poorhduse. When informed death was near she begged pathetically to be removedjsfrom the almshouse. She said that when she left her husband in Germany forty years ago he cried: "Go, if you will, and die in an American poorhouse." To prevent ttyj fulfillment of the prophecy she begged for her removal. Her request came too late. Her story was barely told when there came the summons of death. Counterfeiter Is Now in Jail. For some days Springfield has been flooded with counterfeit half-dollars. The authorities believed the counterfeit was a local production, and after careful watch­ ing the coin has been traced to William Berry, a local crook, now serving a three- months' term in the city prison for drun­ kenness and wife-beating. On the expira­ tion of his term he will be arrested for manufacturing and uttering counterfeit money. V* i,.' »H.' "sill- V •<*.< v Record of th« Week. Two more cases of smallpox are reported from the Joliet pesthouse. Biennial meeting of the State camp of the Modern Woodmen of America , was held at Springfield. Masons of Jacksonville celebrated St. John's day by giving a banquet and liter­ ary entertainment. .T. R. ltiblett, a stationer at Peoria, was arrested for sending objectl6nable matter through the mails. The 3-year-old daughter of C. F. Bailey, at .Millersville, fell iu a pan of water and was scalded to death. William Iverwin, son of John Kerwin, of Courtland. has been arrested on the charge of murdering Barnard Shoo. The Illinois Board of Commissioners of Public Charities sugests the employ­ ment of internes in insane hospitals. William E. Stone, cashier of the First National Bank of Peoria, and a very wealthy land owner, is dead, aged 58. The Illinois Teachers* Association will urge the Legislature to erect another nominal school in the northern part of the State. An increase in loans and deposits is shown by the statements of Illinois State banks. The average cash reserve is 37 per cm it. While skating at Roodhouse Cay Stur- devant fell backward and broke his ucek, dying almost instantly. He was 15 years Of age. Burglars entered the postoffice at Cur- ran and in looking for them Springfield officers had a desperate fight with eight- teen tramps. The Springfield Nursery and Fruit Farm Association assigned. It owned 500 acres of land. The assets are $28,000 and lia­ bilities $15,000. John Ivitterman, a'farmer near Tiskil- wa, took carbolic acid by mistake. He swallowed melted lard, and, while serious­ ly ill, may recover. Miss Margaret Lake, of Mascoutalf, was fatally burned. She was sleeping beside a fire in John Herman's house, when her clothing caught fire. The City Council at Elgin defeated the ordinauce granting physicians the priv­ ilege of using bicycles on sidewalks out­ side the paved limits. Mrs. Lena Smith, of Decatur, has be­ gun divorce ̂ proceedings against her hus­ band. E. C. Smith, who is general agent for the Kimball Piano Company. James Olgivie, of Rockford, one of Schwoinfurth's disciples, began suit against the pretender a year ago for money given him and settled by receiving j some notes from Schweinfurtli. He went back to live with him, but finds now he cannot collect for the notes and has left u&ain and renewed his suit At Wapella, Dewitt Connty^ an incen­ diary fire broke out late Thursday night while a stiff wind was blowing, which threatened the entire business portion. The place has no fire protection whatever. The losses are as follows, all the build­ ings destroyed being frame: Odd Fel­ lows' hall, $1,500; J. P. Lighthalls, store, groceries, barber shop and residence, $2,- 800; E. S. Jones, restaurant and barber shop, $800; T. J. Willis, store and gen­ eral stock, $2,000. Alma Reynolds, of QuinCy. was fatal­ ly burned while polishing a store. The polish contained gasoline. , J. G. Noble, a Grape Creek coal ^ner, was killed by a switch /engine. The body was sent to the manV home iu Indianap­ olis. H. C. Quick, whose home is at Port Byron, has been sent from Moline to the Pasteur Institute at Chicago, his phy­ sician fearing hydrophobia. He was attacked several days ago by a mad, cat, which fastened its teeth iu his leg and had to be killed before it would release its hold. Bert Rqden, a lad about 16 years of age, was killed at Springfield by the accidental discharge of a target gun in the hands of Charley Nelson, a colored lad, with whom he was playing. Bob Harris, a negro farm hand, was killed by Robert Warick, who worked on the farm of J. B. Carrington, east of Jacksonville. Harris owed Warick some money and when a demand was made for it Harris became angry, drew a revolver and swore he would kill Warick, who, seeing his danger, picked up a heavy club and with one blow crushed the negro's skull, killing him instantly. War­ ick has been placed iaU p a^ait coroner's jury. < * u y,;, T ' ' * . it'*"; - * T ! i ' f - j Three members af the St. family at Joliet have small-pox. By a runaway near Lincoln Miss Anna Miller was thrown from a buggy and her neck broken. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Court of Syca­ more, gave a reception on the fiftieth an­ niversary of their marriage. Thirty cases of scarlet fever are re­ ported to exist in Evanston and the resi­ dents are alarmed at the increase. Gov. and Mrs. Altgeld returned to Springfield from a month's sojourn at Hot Springs greatly improved in health. Tl|e Methodist revival at Greenup closed with forty-two conversions and fifty-three accessions to the church. William Nault, of Chicago, who pre­ vented a runaway horse dashing into a cable traiu, fell and was kicked to death. Two electric street cars, crowded with passengers, collided at Quincy. The cars were wrecked, but no one was seriously hurt. Ice harvesting has been commenced on the Illinois River at Greenup. The ice cut so far exceeds eight inches in thick­ ness. Rev. E5. 0. Stover, of the Elgin district, missionary of the Baptist denomination, has accepted a call to the Church at Mar­ seilles. Sheriff Baxter and posse went to tH» South Springfield Junction coal shaft and rounded up five tramps, supposed to have robbed the postoffice at Curran. John Williamson, aged 15 years, em­ ployed at the Devlin coal shaft at Toluca, was caMght in a cogwheel of a revolving screen and ground to pieces. Half a dozen Rockford women were re­ lieved of their purses the other day by pickpockets, losing sums ranging all the way from $10 to $75. At Chicago, Henry Blettner and Will­ iam Rauguth. Vice President and Secre­ tary of the Atlas Loan Company; were sent to jail for contempt. The horses of the farmers living near Carlyle are affected with a disease similar to diphtheria. Several deaths have oc­ curred. A hundred cases are reported. Total internal revenue collections for the Springfield district for 1894 were $8,228,104. T&is is nearly $2,000,000 heavier than collected for any preceding year. Gus Hartman, a young farmer near Bloomington, was fatally wounded by M E. Shearer, who was carelessly handling a rifle. Hartman is a young man and un married. James W. Singleton. Jr., of Mount Sterling, was married Wednesday to Miss Rae Belle Robinson, daughter of James R. Robinson, one of the wealthiest farm ers and stock raisers of Brown County. William Links, aged 16, while hunting near Carlyle, met with a terrible accident Ilis gun fell backward from his shoulder, both barrels being discharged. His right foot was torn into shreds. He is in a crit­ ical condition. Henry Leiter, the broken Lebanon banker, has assets, $186,284; liabilities, $251,657. St. Louis banks are secured to the amount of $112,368. Unsecured creditors will realize hardly more than 25 cents on the dollar. The Rev. B. Pi Fleetwood," formerly rector of Waterman Hall. Sycamore has been appointed dean of Northern Dean­ ery, diocese of Chicago, to succeed the Rev. D. C. Peabody. who was recently called to Mobile. Ala. Norman Ward, d farmer living south­ east of Rockford, was struck by a Chica­ go and Northwestern train Wednesday evening and injured so that he will die. Ward attempted to cross after the gong had sounded and the gates were closing. Miss Minnie Long, a student of Rock­ ford College, caused a sensation by arriv-. iug home from a visit in Chicago the wife of Will Jackson, a civil engineer,- Of Des Moines, Iowa. JVIiss Long's mother had attempted to break off a match between the couple, who had been engaged four years. The treacherous ice of the canal, with it3 air holes caused by the Chicago sew­ age, gave way beneath two lads at Chan- nahon, twelve miles south of Joliet, and they were drowned. The boys were Al­ fred, son of Timothy Hicks, and Clinton, son of Clinton R. Hulbert, both aged about 13 years. Gen. John ,McNulta, of Bloomington, announces that he intends to remove with his family to Chicago next May to make that city his permanent home. He has already established a law office there. He has been continuously a resident ot Bloomington since 1856, and has achieved success as a lawyer and a politician. The Christian people of Decatur are considerably stirred up over the arrest of Capt. Cooper of the Salvation army, charged with causing a blockade of the sidewalks on Lincoln square. Officer Coe made the arrest on the order of Marshal Lehman. Cooper was released on bond. The Rev. W. C. Miller of the Congrega­ tional Church, the Rev. D. F. Howe of the First Methodist Church, and Dr. Pehallagon of the Presbyterian church, have become personally interested in the case, and have notified the police that they will not see Cooper persecuted. It is charged that the police ignore gambling and saloon violations while they busy themselves arresting servants of the Lord who stand in the cold on the street and preach the gospel. William -Florry, an old settler 70 years of age, who resides alone in a dwelling on an eighty-acre farm two miles east of De­ catur, was recently awakened in the night by four strangers, who assaulted hiin and tied him in a chair. Then they began a system of tortures and threats to induce Florry to reveal the places where he had money hidden. The old man says lie resisted all their threats, but when the thieves prepared to burn him nlive in the house he weakened and gave up $500. The men were masked and there is no clew tq the robbers, who de­ camped as soon at they got the money. He had $1,000 th&v the robbers did not *:et, but he took it v» the city and put it i i a safe place. police are of the opinion that persona io the neighborhood or the Florry farm aainmitted the rob­ bery. Secretary Baker and g*her officers of the l iter Ocean Homestefc-i and Loan Asm- cation at Chicago are alleged to have "di­ vided its cash assets jijst before the ap­ pointment of a receiver. At Chicago a Rock Island car crashed into a cariage in which wwe Mrs. Arthur aid Mrs. Charles Christis und the lat- ter's two daughters. All were badly in­ jured, as was the driver. At Aurora the Rev. E. Brooks, pastor ot the First Baptist Church, *nd the Rev. E. S. Stueker, pastor of the Claim Street B:iptist Church, gave their churches a surprise by handing in their resignations. t.oorge Galbraith committed suicide at Cei>tralia. The cause is unknowu. Tie number of insane cases in the State gpntto the asylums from July 1. 1893, the tiun'the new insane law went into effect, to Dec. 25, 181)4, ia reported by the State Boa id of Charities as follows: Total number, 2.161. of which 1,251 were moles and i 10 females. Cook County furnished the lirgest number, 552 males. 40S fe­ males. Peoria County was next with thirty-six males and twenty-five females. Monr«e County had but one case, a man. The following counties report no cases during the time: Calhoun, Jefferson, Johnsjn. Livingston, Marshall. Mejcer, SENT of am 4^-iV laughed goiand* ergyman's Wigr" > ing the Oo«rpe1. five years ago the se lonary organization our great religious denominat ,ited a large mining town la tttft ' There was a missionary 111/ with whom he stayed. cooked and served by ths host who » *»t. "Have yo« no help?" asked the i retary. J The missionary's /Wife "There are several thousands of nM#; in this town, and only twenty-twii women," she said. "The women as* the wives of prosperous citizens. X do not know that one of them has «. maid to help her. There are not enough Chinamen to meet domestic de: Women cooks or chambermaids make a fortune here, "Whom do the men marry?* in­ quired the secretary, after a ful pause. **?hey don't marry,' replied the sionary. "More than that, this Is settled by ranchmen, young warn, Jwho, for want of home life, are driven to drinking and gambling. This tow* Is filled with saloons and gamMn# • M • * -dens. "The men must have something beside their are not usually a class w reading, or who have ran trol. The most efficient help that I could have in my work would be a few good homes, with wives and mothenr In them." The difficulty was! a new one to th* good secretary. It remained In hla memory. Six months later he visited a larga country town in New England. After two days, he said to the clergyman, "I see only women and old men hem. Where are your young men?" "Gone West" was the reply. "WorMt than that, they have carried with ttean the capital and energy of the town. There is no industry here by which, the surplus population of women cam support themselves. They simply starva and starve and grow old." , The secretary made no reply. Bat some time later he made a suggestion and a proposal to his host which wa% If he would select thirty respectahla and industrious young women in hla town, and induce them to g» to the mining town he had visited ha would consign them to the care of th* missionary and his wife, who would take them in charge and secure wpde for them, for which they would wwht liberal pay. "I will see," he said, ̂ tpKt the expense of their passage paid, and the cost of their board each girl has found employment! The offer was accepted, and car-load of bright energetic gir^t os their «sy Wsst a A year or more later, the again visited the missionary, and his wife cooked and served the dtanar* "Why, where are the thirty moldsf* he exclaimed. K J "Every one," said Mrs. M., "is mar­ ried and in a home of her own, mak­ ing, I hope, a better man of' her hus­ band. As you Intended they should do," she added, significantly The old clergyman laughed. "Thera are other ways of preaching the Gospel than by sermons," he said, quietly.** ¥ou4h!s Companion. * r M tip Morgtn, Pope, and PahMkfc. 'M-vH • , V • •V.-*;: " \ %*." * 5 Cats' Eyes fbr Clocks. v " i It is common opinion that cats am . £ able to see in the dark. That is an error. No animal can see in absolute darkness. Some little light there must oe, but cats are able to see with a veijr, very little. Everybody must have no­ ticed the silt-like form of the pupil of a cat's eye. If the animal be placed in broad shine or strong artificial light the puj contracts to a mere line, thereby eluding excess of light, which wot otherwise be painful. If the animal," however, be removed to a situation comparatively dark then the pupil opens to its full size, and the siit-likft aspect of it ceases. ;/ It is a point in the comparative anat- I omy of cats worthy of remark that tlia I slit-liKe pupil does not exist In the - larger species of the tribe. The lynx has it l>ut no cat-like animal of mi larger dimensions. 1 have seen it stated that the pupil a cat's eye is so perceptive of varia$ hi the Intensity of light--contract^ expands so regularly--that a CI man will tell you what the time is, or" thereabouts, not by looking at a watch ® or clock, as we would do, but by bait­ ing into the eye. of a eat Si VI Cable Way Over a Deep Ravim. Across the Devil's dyke, a deep vine near Brighton, England, n cable way has Just been erected and opened for traffic. From a single steel-wim rope, three inches in diameter, stretch­ ing 1,200 feet between two iron col­ umns on either side of the dyke, an suspended steel anchors, two feet froai fluke to fluke, by wire ropes of smaller dimensions and of varying lengths, so as to bring the line of anchors on a level. On the flukes are supported two wire road cables, one inch iu diameter* on which run the pulleys which sup­ port the ear. The cars are iron and 7 ^ wire cages, seven feet by five, carry5- ing eight passengers. They are moved by an engine on the bank, driving an •' :"f endless wire rope to which the ear Is *•' gripped, like our, cable cars. The cabto * , ̂ is 220 feet above the bottom of tha: ravine, and the trip takes two minutes 4 -J and a half. ^ if--. The Ldon and the Mooae* v Thackeray used to rail against t&ii ̂ "snobbish" custom of publishing the ^ names of guests invited to great ent«y ' ^ tainments, declaring that they were sup^ " *• 4 plied by the footman, "Jeames, of 1 Buckley Square." Yet, such is huma* weakness, when there came a time 1 when the famous novelist was a power M in society, and was asked to all the great - entertainments,he was rather surprise^ ^ to see his name always omitted frooa > \l> the reports. At last he went up to a «•» \ porter who was writing down the style and the titles of the guests as Uwg came into a mansion, and said, stgotft* eantly, "My name is Mr. The reporter, who was attache^ to tmm of the greatest of the "dailies." sah| quietly, "And mine la J«a'&KD** Ttot novelist's name did not appear «#t tbe list all of which goes to sli<?w lion cannot auu never could adlfi.%» •im .. . w