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COMPILATION OP ILLINOW NEWS, Gnus* Financial Con p-Iunnnce Policies Mint Be Plain--Women Not Yet "Ooaatttn* III tiooal" Citizens. - . - ""il: m • A Chaia W Miss Cora Blakeslee, of Chicago, cop- led the Kaneville idea, and started a chain tot fifty letters, soliciting a dime from jfeach recipient, to aid an old and blind fe-omau. Each receiver of a letter was ifhbed to remit a dime, and write three ther people requesting them to do the amo. Misa Blakeslee told a reporter bout her success. "It don't work as well we expected, but we are enabled to ag­ ist the blind woman some. I got four tor fire letters a day on the average for, a tnonth, but they don't come as fast as Aiey did. I think the newspapers spoiled t by telling about the Kaneville cese." The post office officials think Miss Blakes­ lee is mistaken about the number of let­ ters she receives. Mail Carrier Peck id: "I take lots of mail to the house, think it will average twenty-five or letters daily." If Miss Blakeslee'# eme had been a complete success the tal number of letters would have equal- the sum of all the powers of 3 from 1 50, or 1,179,592,547,584,102,883,155,- If each of these letters contained 10 , Miss Blakeslee would be rich ough to bay the blind woman a nice me and then have enough left to make naires of every man, woman and !d alive in the world to-day. H&V To Fix Companies' LiabUltiM. Representative Graham, of White >unty, introduced a bill "to fix the lia­ bility of insurance companies and to pro- ct holders of insurance policies against bbfcure stipulations in such policies." Its provisions are as follows: "All fire, ma- lne, life, accident and other insurance ampanles doing business -in this State Shall issue to the person or persons in* by them a certificate or policy upon le face of which shall be expressed in aid letters the nature of the risk insured igainst, the amount to be paid to such >liey holder in case of loss, the time of the beginning and expiration of the risk, And other conditions governing the same, pt shall not be lawful for any such insur- , Unce company to limit its common law lia­ bility by any stipulation or condition in any policy issued by such company or by **ny statement or condition written or printed upon or attached to the same." I: Cannot Be Assessors or Collectors. c* * In reply to an inquiry, "Can a woman pjS|; liold the office of tax collector in a bonnty \lander the township organization?" the Ifollowing opinion is given by the Attor­ ney General's office: A "citizen," as men- £' jtioned in article 7, section 0, of the Con- (f, jstitution of Illinois, 1b a citizen of full i, {political power and right; that is, a male citizen of the United States above 21 I* years of age. The Legislature can ere- fete minor offices, such as township offi- cers, school directors, etc., in order to , carry on the government of the State as - Contemplated by the constitution. These •* ioffices are legislative, not constitutional, fend may be held by women, provided the - 1 ^Legislature authorizes them to do so. The f - i offices of township assessor and collector S? jare of the legislative class, and as the | - '^Legislature has not authorized women jto hold them they cannot do so. t'• For Intimidating a Witness. L* J! In the United States Circuit Court at P1" Springfield Henry C. Anderson, of Ben- Jton, Franklin County, was fined $50 and jcosts for intimidating a witness sum* jnoned before the United States grand .' jury, who was to have testified against 'Anderson in a criminal charge. He paid the amount and was released. James A. ^Norman, of Walpole, Hamilton County, pleaded "gQiity to "boot-legging" whisky, as fined $100 and costs, and sent to jail, the matter of the Belleville and St. mis Railroad Company, for use of Ed- ,rd L. Thomas, against Samuel H. ieathe, of St. Louis, judgment by de­ fault was rendered for plaintiff in the sum of $55,957.90. The suit was for the purchase price of a large amount of land. Record of the Week. ! Mrs. Daniel Walls committed suicide at (Brocton by taking poison. * Paul M. Rea, of Chicago, and Miss {Blanche Lewis were married at Rock- ford. John Fredorp, Geo lam Rogers were found Jb rgfr Sm ad gtdlt ed a W' e muj-d .Smith and Will- ty at Dixon of ward of erer of J. A. urglary, • Gov. Altgeld offered ifor the arrest of the jMyers at Springfield. #0^ The day of prayer for colleges was op- •:«ned with formal exercises at the Illinois ^College at Jacksonville. ' Miner Winfield, an old colored man fir­ ing alone in a shanty near Moline, died of xposure in Friday's blizzard. Mr. and Mrs. William Eaton Smfth oel- ibrated their 61st weddings Anniversary kt their farm home near La Con. ^ ..' Women's Christian Temperance Union ?%|of Rockford has decided to establish a jfree institution for curing drunkards. S; Dr. A. S. Beckel, of Florida, was fat- • sally shot by the husband of a woman (who had summoned him against orders. At Marshall John A. Miller, aged 23, !was drowned by breaking through thin : 'ice, where ice-cutterB had been at work. - Jrwin Myers, a prominent farmer, was found dead near Springfield, and is lie- sieved to have been killed by trespassers. - -1 William Schulte, of St. Louis, was giv- ; Jen a verdict of $6,500 at Springfield s? ' against the Quincy Horse Railroad Coin- ly for the loss of a foot. The Springfield watch factory, which been closed down since Dec. 1, will presume operations with some 200 hands. 4The remainder will be taken back as .work progresses. This is the second shut- , i... idown had by the factory in the last year. •When running full force over 1,400 men ; <are employed. * ; G. W. Watt, of Dewitjt, took his life . with poison. He was a veteran and a Mason and widely known. : j The friends of Clarence W. Lnnd and t Miss Mamie Cook, of Kockford, were very much surprised by the announce* ; jment that they were secretly married '.pijune 13 last The groom, who is several !'• years the junior of his pretty bride, is the V'.^son of a local jeweler, and scarcely 20 years of age. He is a leader, however, 4n several societies and a popular young •man. The parents of the bride reside at inneapolis, but she has made Rockford er home for several years. The Morgan County Sunday School In. Jstitute opened in Jacksonville. George ^Davenport, of Lebanon, was •thrown from a sleigh, sustaining fatal injuries. . At Decatur, a young woman named Winnie Conlin, going home from church, started to walk a portion of the way Along the railway track, between the jrails. It was dark, and a freight train coming behind her, caught her up on the w catcher and carried her seven miles ,^.n that position. She was thrown off at gv Ithat point, but lay two or Jtliree hours before sh^^^^Hpd. She - still alive, notvn^^^^^B^the tcr* ||,. ' *ible cold, ant may -Uia flli . pei i-?'- mi mm ittrtaa*. A party of twenty left Bight for atrip to Mediterranean ports and the holy land. Frank Bostian, a carpenter residing at Mount Vernon, committed suicide • by. shooting himself through the brain. : George Stewart's house in Wilming­ ton burned, consuming all the fonittofo of Henry Allott, the tenant. Loss, $6,- 000. . x " '! • • •' ( John. killed by an engine wldlft attxuipitinx t« cross the Big Four track at Simpson*! switch. . • , Joseph O'Neal was found guilty of bar glary and larceny by a Jury in the Circuit Court at Salem, and his punishment was fixed at five years in the penitentiary.. The Litchfield Paint and Color Com­ pany, of Litchfield, filed papers making an assignment for the benefit of credit­ ors. The assets are scheduled at $2,* 612.09; liabilities, $4,281.74. Rev. George Dunbar, aged 82, has miur- ried Miss Elizabeth Mystery at Peoria. As George has been married five times before, perhaps he is as well qualified to solve that Mystery as any one could be. R. EL Schulte, a German farmer resir ing seven miles southwest of Carlyle, was instantly killed while attempting to cross Shoal Creek railway bridge by * Baltimore and Ohio train. was 70 years of age. ..*?• Charles L Bturphy, of Quincy, was lodged in jail at Springfield to await the action of the Federal grand jury, in de­ fault of $1,000 bonds, on the" charge of raising the figures on silver certificates and passing them. The new long distance telephone from Rockford to New York, Washington other Eastern cities was opened and test­ ed, and worked satisfactorily, the tones being almost as audible as if the speaker were only a block away. In the trial of the case of Joseph Wick, administrator, versus the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company at Springfield judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff by consent, for $1,* 500. Hie suit was to recover $5,000 dam­ ages on account of the killing of the plaintiff's father, Dr. Aloys Wick, by the cars at Highland, Madison County. Word has been received by State's At­ torney Heydecker, of Waukegan, from Washington that applications for home­ stead entries on lands within the mean­ der lines in the Grass Lake, Lake Coun­ ty, region had been refused. Some Chi­ cago lawyers thought they saw a chance to secure by homestead entry the strip of swamp land around the lakes which had become dry by recession of the water and lapse of years. Six suits for damages, each in the sum of $500, have been instituted against Canton saloonkeepers by women who al­ lege they have been deprived of the sup­ port of their husbands, as they spend all of their money in the saloons. A similar case was tried a few weeks ago and the plaintiff was awarded $700* damages against the saloon proprietor and the owner of the building occupied by the saloon. The saloonkeepers are becom­ ing frightened and three of them have quit business since the suits were com­ menced. The mystery surrounding the identity of the young man who was drowned at Marshall Jan. 29 has at last been solved. Henry Sims, of Hamilton, Ohio, arrived and had the body exhumed, and at once identified it as that of his son, who left home nine years ago and had not been heard from since. He had grown consid­ erably and changed in appearance, but a large scar on his forehead was found which satisfied Mr. Sims that it was lUs long-lost. boy. The body was sent to Hamilton. He had been in Marshall for over two years, and gave his name as John A. Miller, his right name being Henry Sims. A decisive step was taken by the Illi­ nois Steel Company in regard to the Joliet rolling mills. Orders were given to dis­ charge every man at work except in the rod mill and blast furnace. All the yard men, mechanics, blacksmiths, roustabouts and office men were notified of their dis­ missal. The officers say that the mill will start whenever the men are ready to go to work, and it is for the men to de­ cide that. _ The difficulty is because the forty-two /tonnage men will not accept the 25 pejr cent, reduction in the scale. When tl^jB is adjusted the 1,400 other em­ ployes ^lll go to work. The strike of the tonnage men prevented the use of the other departments. The murderer of Irwin AJMFf^ers near Springfield had a dog which may prove •to be the means of bringing the slayer to justice. Shortly after the mysterious shot was fired that ended Meyers' life two men in the neighborhood saw a man with a shotgun and followed by a yellow dog walking hurriedly along a country road leading away from the scene of the murder. The man and the dog were af­ terward tracked to a point on the Blulf line track, where the trail was lost. The dog was found in a strip of-timber three miles west of the city, dead. He had been shot, and the shot were of the same size with which Meyers had been killed. There is little doubt that the dog was killed be­ cause he persisted in following his mas­ ter and the double trail was too plain a guide to those in pursuit of the murderer. The dog having been found and identi­ fied the next step will be to find some one to whom his ownership is known, and this Sheriff Baxter will use every effort to do. A thorough investigation at Madisoa race track, where several cases of small­ pox were reported, shows that no small* pox exists there, and that there have been no cases within a mile of the track for several months. 7 Joseph Ellis, a resident of Gage Coun­ ty, Neb., has conveyed to Louise C. Scully, of Lincoln, 111., a daughter-i of Lord Scully, of Ireland, 1,187 Grand and Midland < townships. The price, lAkh was paid in cash, was $44,- 000. A Silas White, an old veteran an d\ well- known citizen of Urbana, committed sui­ cide by hanging himself to a tree in his back yard. He was 65 years of age and had lived in Urbana since a boy. De­ spondency caused by ill health is sup­ posed to be the cause of the rash act. Two men, digging a well eight miles east of Quincy, suddenly disappeared af­ ter going down twelve feet. It was found they had struck an underground lake. The bottom could not be reached with any rope at hand. The men, however, were rescued, and a full exploration of the natural wonder will be mad* BURIED IN THE SNOW WHOLE COUNTRY IN THE GRASP : f OF A BLIZZARD*' --fl? ̂ Btorm thctetadfa from the the Atlantic -- Gives the South a Chill--Railroads Tied Uj>--Zero and /Stole* "•••'rty ifrrgry tviicrah er-in-law acris in Frt*MI Weather Is General. m--,- v- *: • - * • • grip of one of the most severe and distressing blizzards to be found in the rec­ ords of the Wea- O f W// " ""ther Bureau. That 4 has been tho con- dition of this coun­ try during the past week. From the •astern slope of the Rocky |(ountains even unto the big Allegheny chain en the east a storm of snow and wind, accom­ panied by the celebrated Dakota® icy tem­ perature, raged with a ferocity that struck terror into the hearts of all whose' misfortune brought than into contact with it. It was, in fact, m regular French revolution of weathes, and the sans culottes of the wild Northwest howled In the habitudes of the staid and respect­ ables of the South and East It was really a reign of terror that affrighted iill honest people and paralyzed the mo­ tives of the commonplace. Railroads abandoned freight -trains and passenger trains were tied up in huge and impregna­ ble drifts many feet high. One startling feature of the blizzard was the impar­ tiality with which it swept over the coun­ try. It measured out a minus 40 dose for the Dakotas and nearly killed the Izfmjiriwwupa by breaking the record at an even zero. Old Point Comfort, the fam­ ous resort, had the novelty of a hard snowstorm and the pan handle of Texas shivered with the mercury at 5 degrees below. Omaha was frozen at 18 below and Memphis had an even zero. There was enough snow on the sugar planta­ tions for sleighing. Water was frozen in the orange belt, and~the scarcity of It In the Chicago mains suggested a theory that Lake Michigan was solid to the bot­ tom. Peach men in Michigan have aban­ doned hopes for their trees. The storm was general. A blizzard raged everywhere. It roared like an Asiatic lion and drove all human being* indoors, where bread and butter did not demand that they labor in the very teeth of the monster. Not for many a year agone has the country suffered so gen­ erally what it suffered last week from wind, cold and snow. In the cities street cars were stalled and walking was like taking one's ears, nose and lips In one's bftiid, while in the country the wind and snow swept; the earth with such unbroken velocity that in places life was endan­ gered to face the blast. As recorded by the Weather Bureau at Chicago Friday, the average snowfall was eight inches, with the following table of temperature: St. Paul, ......--18Cineinnatl ... La Crosse » ..--14Buffalo Bismarck • ••««'.--36Memphis .... Williston ......--40Port Huron . Miles City ....--32Duluth ...... Havre --26Sault ....... Moorhead ...-..--30Grand Haven St. Vincent....--34Des Moines . Huron .....M.--32Davenport .. Pierre ...Wii.--;26Cheyenne ... Omaha .--180swego KansasOity ..lOPittsburg .... Concordia --16Albany ..... Wichita .......--12Winnipeg ... St. Louis ......-- 2Medicine Hat Green Bay ....--12Cairo ....... Detroit 4Marquette ....---10 Cleveland .....-- 2Alpena ...---10 Indianapolis ...-- 2Dodge City ....--14 Notes of The Storm. Oklahoma City, O. T., reports a blizzard. Business was practically suspend Iowa Falls, la. At Cedar RaiydjSfejA^all freight traffic was abandoned. A gorge formed Evansville, Ind. Eastern trains due at Dubuque, la., were all snow-bound. The Northwestern Railroad is blockad­ ed at several points. Charles Dewester frozen to death in the blizzard at Peoria. It snowed continuously for "thirty-six hours at Knoxville, Tenn. Zero was marked at Memphis, Tenn., the coldest weather in thirty years. William Douglass, a farmer, was froz­ en to death in his barn near Camden, O. Mexico, Mo., reports the worst bliz­ zard in its history. Stock is suffering badly. The 'Frisco passenger train stuck in a snowbank twenty miles east of Winfield, Kan. Thirteen trains were buried in snow­ banks within a radius of fifteen miles of Clinton, I<£ St. Joseph, Mo.» reports all trains on the St. Joseph and Grand Island road abandoned. Reports from Ashland and other cities In Wisconsin Indicate that the trifle, sit­ uation is serious. The whole of the southern section of Virginia is covered with snow to a depth ef eight inches. At Roanoke, Va., the wind blew a hurri­ cane. Street cars were tied up and the streets abandoned. Patrick McLaughlin laid down in an ice wagen at Rockford, 111., to sleep, and was so badly frozen that he will die. At Ottawa, Kan., the schools were dis­ missed and two children had their feet frozen. All trains were delayed. The wind blew ferty-seven miles an hour at San Antonio, Tex., with the thermometer at 12 degrees above sero. Reports reached Hastings, Neb., that a whole family la the southeastern part of the county had perished from cold. The mercury dropped 40 degrees at Jacksonville, Fla. Icicles a foot long formed at Tallahassee. Vegetables will be damaged. A Burlington passenger train stuck be­ low Carthage, Mo., all day. But for the food furnished by farmers the passen­ gers would have suffered severely. They burned .. 0 .. 8 .. 0 4 ..--20 ..--14 8 ..--12 , .-- 8 ,.--12 .-- 6 ,. 0 4 .-38 ..--22 . 0 sorere id«l at rmed ilK th< the Ohio river at • G. Johnson* •' ott'-»«^p!eeti of Par- kersfemg, W ^ 6ecaiMp«i rtdyxed with the eeld e* Ml and froee to death in rig* ui Us house. The severe cold at. Lr-Mle, Ala., will cause a loss to the vegetable „--*«ner* of hundreds of thousands of dollars. They give up hope of saving anything. Two Santa Fe freight engines were ditched in a snowdrift near Red Rock, O. T. Both engines were wrecked in an attempt to p*«s •hronsh. Siis3r.&? Ra- «rin « ti• r; h>irS. At Fort Worth, T«x., the weather la the coldest known for years, the ther­ mometer registering 3 degrees below zero. Trains from the north were delayed sev­ eral hours. Range cattle are suffering. Hundreds of cases and barrels of beer, aggregating in value thousands of dol­ lars, have been destroyed by the cold at Milwaukee within the last few days. Since the cold snap made its appearance shipments of beer have almost ceased. Indianapolis and other natural gaa towns in Indiana are in a bad way. In Indianapolis the natural gas supply is weaker than It has been since the fuel was piped to the city, and there is a great deal of sever* suffering. There are but few hemes In which tbe temperature can be raised above BS. / THERE'S ONE TV AY OUT THE LIONpr LONDON. The Oece-DeepisJd "Coffee Cooler" tho Hero of tho Hour* The pugilistic hero of the hour In Lon­ don la the coloredNboxer, Frank Craig, "The Harlem Coffee ^Cooler," who poses as an Indian prince, who is to marry a white heiress, it is said, and who pro­ fesses to be anxious to meet Peter Jack­ son in the arena. Craig whipped Ted Pritchard, the ISng- lish champion, with surprising ease and Is now matched to battle with Frank P. Slavin. Accord­ ing te his late man­ ager, Prof. Butler, Craig is the greatest swell in London. He hobnobs with the nobles and cuts a great flash on Fleet strati every after- noon. When he speaks of Craig, Butler waxes elo­ quent. "What 1 want to do la to warn young men suddenly into promi­ nence. It's no good," he said to a New York reporter the other day. "Just take, for example, the 'Cooler's' case. He used to b© a modest, well-behaved fellow. Gra­ cious alive, look at him now!" and Butler, holding his h*pds in the air, shook his head several times. "It's a sight to see him. You couldn't hand him a ripe peach on a gold plate now unless you had six pairs of gloves on." Craig is 25 years of age and nearly six feet tall. He '» a well-built young ne­ gro, and when he first took to boxing about five years ago a $5 bill for a vic­ tory suited him down to the ground. As many hundreds would now be sneered at by the rising, or risen, young Harlem star. TWO GOVERNORS IN ONE STATE. foA«& CRAIG. against jumping Tennessee la Now Able to Compete with Her Neighbor, Alabama. There are twe men in Tennessee who claim to be governor of the State. Gov. Peter Turney is holding over pending a contest between himself £nd Mr. Ev­ ans under a law re­ cently enacted"- the Legislature, and the Hon. H. Clay Evans has taken the. oath of omce uuu is demanding posses­ sion of the execu­ tive quarters at the capitoL Turney, who has been gov­ ernor for one term, was the Democratic h. cr.Ar kva'ksl nominee in the last election and Evans was the Republican candidate. The re­ turns sent in from the sheriffs of the various counties showed Evans' election by about 700 votes, but the Demo>crats claimed that the law requiring a poll-tax receipt as a condition precedent to vot­ ing had been disregarded in East Ten­ nessee, and that Turney was elected by a plurality of the legal votes. The con­ stitution provides that the speaker of the Senate shall publish*4the returns in the preseaee of tbe joint assembly of the Legislature, and that the candidate re­ ceiving the highest number of votes cast "shair be governor." The Legislature is empowered by the constitution to eiuict a law for gubernatorial contests, Dut that was never done until the present emergency arose, and the law enacted provides that the incumbent governor shall hold over until the contest is deter­ mined. KING OF GREECE* G ROVER CLEVELAND SHOULD FOLLOW CARNOT*8 EXAM PL?. Present Baler of the Country • Brother of the Princess of Wales. With the rumors of a rebellion and in­ surrection In Greece, attention is -lirec** ed to the ruler of the country. George, the present ruler, is the second son of the King of Denmark, and was" born Dec. 24, 1845. He is a brother of the Princess of Wales and uncle of the Czar of Russia. Otho I., the late King of Greece, abdicated in 1863, and the KING GEORGE. throne was then tendered by a majority of the Greek people to Prince Alfred of England, but the English Government refused to accept the nomination. It was next offerefl to Duke Ernest, of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha, and declined. Then it was offered to William Ferdinand Adol- phus George who accepted it and has since reigned as King George I. He was mar­ ried at St. Petersburg to Princess Olga, daughter of the Grand Duke Constan­ tino, on Oct. 27,1S67. His reign has been mild, and he has succeeded to some ex­ tent in winning the favor of the people. Mem of Minor Note. The grocery house of Gauvreau & Ber­ geron of Hustings, Neb., assigned, with liabilities ef $2,900; assets, $4,000. N. M. Hills, ex-ceunty superintendent ef schools at Yankton, S. D., has com- •«., f . ft • * •W- Let the Fat Man fat the White House Acknowledge His Incompetency to Deal with, mbA . Now It's Calamity Howling:. "Factories are idie, labor is unem­ ployed, trade is paralyzed, money Is a drug and gold is rushing from our shores." " The foregoing startling announce­ ment was made by the New York Her­ ald, Jan. 21,1895. The Herald Is one of the strtongest supporters of free trade In the United States. It made a deter­ mined fight, both with fallacies and falsehoods, in the political campaign of 1892 to elect a President and Con­ gress that were pledged to free trade. More than two years after its party was successful, and almost two years after they assumed the administration of our national affairs, the Herald is compelled to admit that the result has been as quoted above. This un-American sheet has from time to time suggested various reme­ dies to help its Administration out of the hole into which it has become suh- Yuerg&d tlyv its anti-American policy. We recolleet^how it clamored for the repeal of the Shertnan sliver law. ciaim- Ing that such repeal would lie the sttt \ation of the country. We recollect .jhow It clam<m?d for the passage of a new tariff bill, claiming that the aboli­ tion of I'rotocrto'b vWould be the salva­ tion of the country. More recently we have witnessed its struggles for a new currency system; and again for free ships, both of which were to be of untold benefit to tbe masses of our people. Its latest cry Is one of dire distress, and that the coun­ try can only be relieved by "a popular lean, the only practicable saving meas­ ure." Has the Herald forgotten that under Its free trade administration twojoans, amounting in the aggregate to $10®f- 000,000, have been floated? How then will what it is pleased to term "a popu­ lar loan" relieve the situation? As long as the administration of this coun­ try- remains in the hands of men utter­ ly incompetent to properly fulfill their .duties from an American standpoint, these men having been elected partly through the agency of the Herald--as long as these incompetents maintain a tariff policy that is of advantage to foreign countries and destructive in its operation upon American interests, just so long will our gold leave the national treasury, no matter whether raised by "a popular" or any other kind of loan. The Herald seems to think that money raised nt\d plncod in the treas­ ury by what It is pleased to term "a popular loan" will stay In the treasury. We should like to know by what pro­ cess of reasoning it arrives at this con­ clusion, and what sacred, preservative halo can be encircled around gold that is collected even by a Herald's "popu­ lar loan.", It must be that its overindulgence in its present diet of crow has caused the Herald to become dyspeptic, though it still retains some symptom of sound digestion when it says: "Check the outflow of gold and relieve Industry nnd trade from the paralysis which is inflicting immeasurable losses upon the people." Certainly this would be the remedy, and the manner In which the overflow of gold can be checked,Industry and trade can be relieved from the paralysis which "is inflicting immeasurable losses upon the people" is by the Immediate repeal of the existing tariff bill. By this means and by no other means con It be done. It is the "only one practicable way to avert the Impending crisis and lift the country out of the present slough" Into which the Herald acknowl­ edges the country has fallen under the two years' administration of the politi­ cal party which it helped to elect. Let, the President of the United States follow the example of the late ex-President of France by acknowl­ edging his incompetency to deal with our affairs of; state, and resign. Then let Congress wipe out the existing tar­ iff "and lift the country out of the pres­ ent slough" by the immediate restora­ tion of adequate protection to Ameri­ can labor and American industries. Th$ would be "a popular loan" to the people of an opportunity to exercise their ability and to Use their labor. It is "the only practicable saving meas­ ure," and the N^w York Herald knows it.--American Economist. Bepeal ithe Gorman Tariff. ^--Nlhe Senite is asked to consent to amend the Gorman tariff bill in its sugar schedule. Any attempt to do this should be vigorously opposed by every friend of protection. If one amend­ ment be agreed to, then others must be demanded in the interests of fur­ ther protection for^jLmerican indus­ tries and labor. The suggestion also comes from Washington that certain friends of protection in the United States Senate will lend themselves to the enactment of some financial meas­ ure that will enable the United States Treasury to. be in receipt of an income sufficient to meet its expenditures. If this proposed legislation consists of tbe immediate repeal of the Gorman tariff bill we commend those Senators for promptly coming to the support of the leaders of the free-trade party who acknowledge that the tariff bill which they have passed, and which need never have been passed it certain friends of protection inythe Senate^ad been vigilant, is a complete failure, and who also acknowledge that It does not supply a sufficiency of revenue to meet the requirements of the Govern­ ment economically administered. The country was prosperous before the present administration was elected to power and before It was proposed to abolish the policy of protection. The country has not been prosperous since it was known that the policy of protec­ tion would be abandoned, and there was no other cause whatever to dis­ turb our industrial progress. That no other remedy is needed, that no other legislation should be enacted in order to restore the country to the conditions existing in 1892 than the repeal of the present tariff and the re-enactment of a measure that will afford adequate protection, Is well and thoroughly un­ derstood by\all United States Senators who are protectionists at heart. Re­ peal the Gorman tariff ; restore the McKinley tariff. Then labor win be busy, furnaces will be lighted, money will be plenty, confidence will be re­ stored. and there will be no occasion for the enactment of compromise meas­ ures that are designed solely to deceive the ignorant, to conciliate the half­ hearted friends of protection, and to drag the country deeper into debt. Tho®e Foreign Markets. Wa-iufacturers have not a 'single ad­ vantage in reaching the foreign market Under the provlBimls'ofthe Wilson bill which they did not have under the pro- visions of. the McKlnley law. This was repeatedly shown tp expectant free traders, who were looking for a won­ derful expansion of our foreign trade under the influence of free raw mate­ rials. Every effort to make them un­ derstand that the McKinley law pro­ vided practically free raw material, when used in manufactures for export, was* studiously ignored. Even Mr. Cleveland, who should be supposed to know the law, over and over again gave encouragement to the deceptive Impressions concerning this fact All this, however, was In the line of con­ cealments so cunningly and for a sea­ son so successfully practiced upon the public by tho perfidious free traders. < Another English Peat. ̂ The English sparrow overran th. country last year and he was unani­ mously r^Qted a pest. This year the English gbeda are Overrunning our market, a much more^pestiferous visi­ tation. Steps were taken^fo-eartCTml- nate the offending bparrow through immediate processes, but, notwith- staruling the determination of the peo­ ple to relegate the later British Inva­ sion, the coincident Ills will have to be borne for two years more because of the power of the present executive head at Washington to have his own way about the matter, and, that way Is against the policy which would bring relief to American labor and Industry. Dump This Lot. THE STATE C Cheapness and Poverty. Eagerness of the merchant to sell at reduced prices is Indicated in almost every advertisement we read, and the cards of invitation hanging upon gftoda in every shop window indicate any­ thing but prosperity. Chango in the conditions of production means change in almost every department of legiti­ mate business; hence the present de­ pressing Influences flowing from the Gorman tariff into all the Industries of the land. Too Much Cheapness. Are cheap things good for anything? Yes, apparently, for the man who wants to buy, but certainly not lor the man who wants to sell, nor yet for the man whose labor is a factor in pro­ ducing the thing sold. Since everything is produced by labor, no cheapening system can benefit It, and, Incidentally, labor being a consumer, all of those ac­ tivities with which it has business re­ lations suffer together under the ruign of cheapness. Adrift In the Storm. kViC. a.\ w• / mT" ^"\ ^v>x'-vi/11: v r. ?i. Afc Thanks to Grover. "We see no Insurmountable obstacle in the mercantile march of this coun­ try during 1895."--The Trade World, London. This is in a great measure due to the adjustment of our American tariff to suit the requirements of British man­ ufacturers. Very Tired of It. Governor McKlnley voiced the feel­ ing of great multitudes of voters when he said: "The people are tired of this tariff-tinkering, bond-issuing, debt-In­ creasing, Treasury-depleting, business- paralyzing, wage-reducing, Queen-re­ storing administration." Need8 a Heavier Sinker. Impartial Secord of the "W* Accomplished by Those Who Ml Our Laws--How the TfaM Em Hi Occupied I>nring the Past Week. Doings of State Dads. Senator Crawford introduced a MB Monday providing fi. the incorpoi management: and regulation o£ societies and limiting the rate of con$Mi» sation to be paid for advances, storage , and insurance on pawns and pledges hi certain pases. A message was received from the House reporting a joint resolu­ tion asking Congress to appropriate suf­ ficient money to purchase flags for tho decoration of soldiers' graves in the Na­ tional Cemetery in the south. The House was in session only two minutes, with about fifty members. Senator Littler introduced a resolution Tuesday looking to the investigation ef the earnings and charges of the Central Railroad. Among bills int ed were two affecting insurance cea-. panies. These were passed: Amending the act for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes, pro­ viding that property sold for taxes be v v" given to the bidder offering to accept the , J lowest rate of interest thereon; to rep- A late the filing for record plats of landhi not within the boundaries of cities e# villages. Representative Crafts intro­ duced in the House a bill, the object ef - '* which is to remove the police from poli­ tics. The committees on State and muakt- pal civil service reform, in both Senate and House, Wednesday listened to * large delegation of Chicago men, urging . „ the passage of the proposed new civil a*r~ vice law. The situation is somewhat> ^ £ complicated by the presence of the polk* ^ commissioners' bill, which was prepared ^ by the chiefs of police in the various dtlee ; of Illinois. The police bill, if it becomes * a law, will protect the men now employ- /"f ed on the police force in all cities. They cannot be summarily removed, and if they -V"\ are successful in passing the required ex­ amination they are to be retained. The; Civic Federation bill permits the sum­ mary discharge of every man now ployed on the police force in any city. Neither house did any business of tance. The time of the Senate Thursday waa all taken up by the Introduction of resolutions and petitions. The Ho««« - resumed consideration of the civil ser . $-1 vice reform bill, and several new meai- «r« were presented. The Senate did no important business Friday and adjourned uatil Monday night. The House listened to the intro-i duction of several bills, but did nothing in the way of business. ^3,' i A Tale of Toombs. v'V Robert Toombs gj ve an account 0 his last day at Franklin College, the • State University. A pupil there a*id only 14 years of age, he was caught one night by one of tbe tutors while at_ _,.J, a g a m e o f c a r d s . C o n v i n c e d t h a t h e ^ would be expelled the next day information should be made to th ulty, he repaired to a tavern town (Athens, Ga.) whither, by accident, had come that very day' his home In the adjoining county, Thomas W. Cobb, a United States Sen-; ator, who was his guardian. Him he besought and prevailed upon for k let-:'---^ ^ ter giving permission to withdraw, from the Institution. He obtained from vi - „• the president early the next morning ^ 4^ his letter of dismissal Some time at- * terwards, the tutor's report having been sent in, he was met on the cam­ pus by the dignitary, who began to up­ braid him with accustomed sternneatk He bad uttered but a few words when Toombs interrupted him thus: "Dr. W , you seem to forget, sir, that you are now addressing, not m member of this institution, but a free citizen of the State of Georgia and of the United States." "What dia the eld gentlem asked one of hs. "I didn't hear his rejoli without any uneCeuary delay I to Mr. e$fcb."--Llpphicott'a. -- X The Account Was Bad. * Many years ago there lived In the North of England a man notorious for, his wealth, his extreme parsimony, and ; the great difficulty which people foand: in collecting their bills from him. One day his wife fell sick. After delaying the matter as long as ho could, he was obliged to call on a physician. "Will - you ever pay me?" said the doctor. "I will give you my note," said the man;| "and furthermore," said he, "I will make the note payable 'kill or cure.*" <- £$ ',:i| The lady died. The note became due, i overdue, and, after many months of pa- 7 tlent waiting, the doctor brought suit. 3-,J , -A The justice scanned the note, found 11 " "'V1 1 exact and perfect in detail, and asked c ^ the defendant if he knew of any reason ^ why judgment should not be rendered ? s jii against him. The old man arose and .. said that he had no attorney to repre- r sent him, for the reason that he did not ^ think It necessary; that he only wanted. , 'W to ask the plaintiff two questions. The ' court agreeing, be said to the doctor: * 1 "Did you cure my wife?" "No," the doctor, "that was imposslt "Did yon kill her?" No Larceny Alio1 During a heavy gale of wind one af­ ternoon last fall, says the Boston Bud­ get, a Brookline gentleman was strug­ gling to reach his home, aec ja.ptmied by his wife. Just as they reached the corner of a street, a window-blind was torn from a house by the wind and dashed to the groand just iu front of them. "Good heavens!' he cried, "that was a narrow escape for us, Hanrah,"* "If it had struck v us, it would have killed us both. stie said trem­ bling. The two stopped for a moment to examine Jhe blind, but just as they were scrutinizing it, the window above was opened, a tousled female head was throst out, find a shrill voice shouted: "Look a-here! You needn t think yoo are going tp carry that thing off, cause It beings to this house." Frederick William, the father of Frederick the Great, was half crazy most of his life. He tried to strangle his son Frederick with a window cord. He had him Imprisoned and would have put him to death had not several for­ eign embassadors Interceded for him. His lunacy took the form of malicious mischief He would kick and cuff the people whom he met In the streets, and the essayist, Macaulay, says that when It was known the King was walking abroad every human being though a tiger had broken loose. V „>*, v f'r 'V. '.3 e Wron(Muu Sir Thomas Robinson, who was% tall, uncouth man, , once set off in his hunting suit to pay a visit to bis sister 'n Paris. He arjived at the hou^e while there was a large company at dinner. Ehe servant announced Monsieur Rob­ inson, and In walked this remarkable figure, to the amazement of the guests. One of them, a French abbe, lifted hfa fork three times to his mouth and earl* time laid it dowjiwithout taaiiug th* food. Unable "at^St to festnsta hts ca­ riosity longer, W/imrst out eagerly: "Excuse me, mou^our, rt/j oti the fa­ mous Robinson Crusoe so geaaarkabis in historyr ; V • ̂ •.•> ' i £ : * . ..i* . * •! * *' V i