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' * ( f i f , AUGHING. REAPING ER REWARD FOR TI1E BANQUET. SOMETIMES we 'find a creature calling herself a f woman, w ho In her own estimation la inot only competent fto manage her own {business but that »of several others J besides, and she /therefore sets in to [ regulate and r e - formaccording to her notion, and as that notion always -collides with the other person's ideas "the reformer is frequently dubbed a "busybody," a ter,m that she would undoubtedly resent most indignantly tf she knew it had ben applied to her. Now, as a rule a woman has all she can do attending to'her own affairs-- that is, if she looks after them as they should be. • To those girls who never feel for a moment the least inclination to do un­ derhand „ or unprincipled things it seems Impossible that women can set to work deliberately to make mischief,, yet how many torn and bleeding hearts can testify to the fact that there ire such creatures in the world. The wom­ an of honor would sooner cut off ber right hand than write an anonymous letter, yet the records show that the majority of the writers of scurrilous communications have been discovered to be women. There are certain hall marks of manners stamped upon the personality of the busybody. She be- gins her conversation generally by say­ ing, "I am sorry to tell you what I have Jbo, but it is a matter of conscience and I feel obliged to do my duty." "Matter of conscience," fiddlesticks; it is merely the desire to stir up a great rumpus and then calmly fold her hands and dis clare complacently that she is so glad she was not mixed up in such a shock­ ing affair. , Let us all learn more fully the lesson of looking after our own faults and foi­ bles before we think it necessary to en­ deavor to erase those of others. We will be kept busy if we faithfully fulfill this contract that nature has given us. The influence that we are so anxious to exert should not be of the aggressive, bristling character that is regarded only as impertinent interference; let our lives be the silent witnesses in our favor, our own example the best code of* morals that we can set for others to abide by. Rich, bat Not Happy. In constant fear of assassination-- that is the state in which Hetty Green declares slie has been for nearly thirty years. That is why the richest woman in America, if not in the world, has gone about dressed like a poorhouse in­ mate, living in shabby lodgings in Brooklyn, cooked her own food and washed her own clothes and hustled for herself generally. Her $40,000,000 have brought her no happiness. On the contrary, she has suffered endless .anxiety, fear and trouble on account of F who spends $55 Is poorer than a worn- an who, receiving $8, lives on $6. The first step toward keeping clear of debt is to know what one's income is. The next is to plan expenditures so that they will fall within the.amount of the income. An account-book aids in this, because it enables one to keep track of her expenses and to stop spending when she is reaching her limit. A savings bank account is another way of escaping debt. The woman who is saving money generally-takes such a pride in watching her littio hoard grow that she is able to deny herself many costly luxuries for the pleasure she takes in saving. And denying one's •elf costly things means avoiding debt. Sk-- Those Vanished Virtues. "Oh, women are not what they used to be," Said my friend, the Grumblesome Man; "The way that they carry on '• shocking to see, At least it is terribly shocking to me, For I'm set dead against this new plan, Of letting them think they must put in their say, Ap^fthinking that they can ran things in their way, Expecting to rule when they ought TO obey. They think that! Deny't if yon cant "No, women are not what they used to be," > Continued the Grumblesome Man, "My, my, what's become of all true mod­ esty, And moekness, those virtues expected to be In woman since hist'ry began? What are they?" He paused, and a small voice put in, "If woman has lost them, perhaps they have been Monopolized lately by man!" --Johnstone Murray, in Womankind. MBS. HKTTY GBKE3V. jher wealth. Yet she is constantly striv­ ing to add more to her vast fortune. , Hetty Green's eccentricities are odd stories. Her persistent longing to ac­ quire wealth and her equally ^insist­ ent practice of not enjoyi|j$| it fr&well iknown. But the motive of her strange actions has only been guessed at here­ tofore.1^ The other day she gave her own «^plapation of them. She de­ clares thai she is in momentary dread of being murdered, and in support of this theory she tells a wild, weird tale. She says, first, that, her father was killed; second, that her aunt's death was hastened by drugs, and third, that she. herself has had several attempts made upon her life. Mrs. May Wright Sewall. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, recently made President of the National Council of Women, Is a very active member of ^number of other women's clubs and organizations. She was born in Mil­ w a u k e e , a n d i n 18 6 6 graduated from the North­ western Univer­ sity, Evanston, IH.i She taught for a few years and was theft •; married t o Edwin W. Thomp­ son, of Paw Paw, Mich., who died in 1875. In 1880 she married Theodore L. Sewall, of Indian­ apolis, which city has "since been her home, where she has a large training school for girls. She is an able speak­ er, writer and organizer, and has been called to preside over many meetings and conventions. m MAY WRIGHT 8EWA1..L. Some Sound Sense. been so frequently observed not large fortunes) but modest a, constitute prosperity, that the "remark is a trifle wearisome. Never­ theless, old as it is, the statement de­ serves more respect than is usually ac­ corded to, antiquities of literature. A. fftfpaaa with an income of $50 a week • • • Every true woman ought to enjoy the process of making over an old gown to do for her "second best," but she fre­ quently makes mistakes. She some* times buys new -trimmings instead of new linings, and fresh linings are tho first requisite. Nothing makes a skirt hang as well as crisp new liuings, whether they be silk or sateen. Noth­ ing makes a bodice fit better than a lin­ ing which is properly stretched, whale­ bones that are stiff and sleeve protec­ tors that are fresh. The material must be carefully, cleaned and pressed, and after these preliminaries have been ar­ ranged the pattern must be chosen and cut carefully. The skirt should be made and finished to last hook and eye before the waist is attempted. The lin­ ing for the bodice should be cut and fitted before the material Is touched. If sleeves need lengthening piece them down at the wrist and cover the joining by a cuff of some pretty shaps. Never piece a skirt down from the top to lengthen it no matter how long the bodice of a gown may be. It spoils the shape of any skirt Piecing at the bot­ tom may be concealed by a wide braid or a bias fold of the goods or a ruffle of ribbon. In thes<| days of combinations mak­ ing over dresses is a comparatively simple matter and there seems to be no limit to the colors and materials which may be (harmoniously) put together. Big sleeves, revers, glrdles^and stock collars a**e all friends of the home dressmaker. The clever needle woman can take her least promising old dress and with a band of braid to outline the bottom of the skirt, revers of new silk, a crush collar with a lace jabot and a crush girdle make a chic little gown of it In putting on skirt braids it is a wise plan toVirink them by dipping them into hot water and hanging them over a line to dry, cJse you njhj; find you? skirt puckered a*#und the bottom after the first rain. * A black silk may be freshened up for a young woman by covering the waist and sleeves with chiffon with jet ornaments or with some color such as crushed collar, belt and rosettes of blue or apple-green ribbon. A Hint from England. Many English women who rid^ bicy­ cles "follow the convenient plan of turning the skirt hind part before when they are riding, and turning it back again when walking. This, with the new 'flare' skirt brings the fullniws^ where it Is needed. Full knickerbock­ ers should be worn beneath. Tweed is the best material. Neat shoes and stockings are essential, and gaiters are comfortable in cold weather. The jack­ et should Jt>e close-fitting, with a short basqu^and the skirt short." A Winter Jacket. Out of 1,000 men who marry 332 marry younger women, 579 marry women of the same age and 89 marry older women. The newest velvet ribbons have a jet­ ted edge, making them very effective i American nnance: for hat as well as dress trimmings. v'lPome and abroad.' Well fiepnid for Condescension to the Apostle of Free Trade--With Free Wool, English Goods Drive Ameri­ can Cottons from the Market̂ ^London's trade Improved Among tlie majby facts that show how businessJbsfs be^n injured by the tariff reform policy Jot Cleveland's adminis­ tration are the following, in regard to the transactions of the clearing houses of the co; In the month of December, 1892, the clea/ing house returns of New York City amounted to $S16,G5S,92(>, while in December. 1894, they were $4S5,553,9S3, showing that the business in the New York clearing house during the month oC December, 1894, was $331,104,933 le^p than it was in December, 1S92. The business done in the clearing houses outside of New York in Decem­ ber, 1892, was $599,5S3,372, while in December, 1894, it was only $406,743,- 883. This shows that the business ia the clearing houses outside of New York City was $192,839,489 less in De- ceniber, 1894, than It was in December, 1892. The total falling off in the busi­ ness of the clearing houses of the United States in December, 1894, from that of December, 1892, was $523,944,- 422. Now notice the loss of business In the New York clearing house as compared with that of the London clearing house during these periods. In December, 1892, the business of the New York clearing house, as above stated, was $816,658,926, while the bus- Iness of the London clearing house was $602,526,200, showing that the business In the New York clearing house sur­ passed that of the London clearing house in December, 1892, by $214,132,716, while in December, 189-1, the business flone in the London clearing hjyise was $284,564,976 more than th^fmsiness done through the New York clearing house during that month. While the business in the New York clearing house fell off $331,104,933 in December, 1894, from that of Decem­ ber, 1892, the business In the London clearing house Increased $165,592,559. By footing up the total amount of bus­ iness done in the city of New York dur­ ing the year 1892 and that during the year 1894, we find the following results: Business done in 1892 amounted to $8,- {>43,094,727; business done in 1S94 amounted to only $5,845,659,078, which shows that the business through the clearing house of the city/6f New Yoik alone had decreased in ^1894 from that of 1892 to the amount (Of $3,097,435,649. This great decline in lousiness is due to the disastrous tariff a»ul money policy of Cleveland and his party. E. If. MILLER. "Country Is Cursed." The New York Times in its issue of Jan. 24, referring to the outflow of gold from the United States, asks the follow­ ing very pertinent questions. "Why did it go? It <#d not go for nothing. It did not go to pay fo» pur­ chases of goods. It did not go in so great a degree as in the past to pay in­ terest on borrowed capital. It-went to pay for American securities which foreign holders were not inclined to keep--were, in plain English, afraid to keep. Why were they afraid?" ! Assuming for a moment that the New York Times Is correct in saying that our gold has gone "to pay for American securities which foreign holders are not inclined to keep, were, in plain English, afraid to keep," let us answer the ques­ tion "Why were they afraid?" English capital was not afraid of American securities in 1S92. There was nothing the matter with American- affairs during the two previous years, or while the McKlnley tariff, was in effect without any certain knowledge that it would be overthrown, so "Why were they afraid?" The weakening of the value of Amer­ ican securities became noticeable to­ ward the end of 1892 and immediately after the election to Congress of a ma­ jority of the party that is pledged to free trade, the election of whom, by the way, was somewhat assisted* b£ the New York Times itself. V Early in the following ypar,in 1893, the depreciation in the value of Ameri­ can securities became still more mark­ ed. The .system of currency was the same then as it is now and as it has remained for many years past There was no hesitation as to the value of American securities between 1890 and 189U when our currrency was of the same stability as it Is to-day. During tlipse years neither the New York Times nor any other free trade news­ paper could have thought of saying with any degree of truth, as it does now, that "disaster and bankruptcy are possible at any moment." The New York Times knows Just as well as the New York Herald knows that the value of American securities has only been depressed by foreign holders since the advent to power of that political party which was elected by the New York Times, the New, York Herald, and their ilk. The New York Times knows just as well as the New York Herald knows that the deprecia­ tion in the value of these sfecurities has nothing whatever to do with our cur­ rency, but that it is due to the fact that this American "country is cursed" frith unpatriotic sheets as the New York Times and the New York Herald, which are forever advocating a policy that •will render "disaster and bankruptcy possible at any moment" ^ But now having brought this "dis­ aster and bankruptcy" right to our / very doors, or to their very doors, per­ haps, like the contemptible cowards that they are, they are afraid of the result, and are squirming around seek­ ing for some other reason than the true one and seeking to shift the responsi­ bility on to other shoulders than those to which it rightfully belongs,® which are the shoulders of those editors with which this "count*y. is cursed" by their contemptible advocacy of the policy that cheapens wages, ruins the people and makes "disaster and bank­ ruptcy possible at any moment" Following the lead of its two broth­ ers in sin, the New York Evening Post of Jan. 24 said: "The fact is not to be discussed that the financial situation is serious, and that the feeling of distrust in American finances is growing both at On the following morning, Jan. 28, the World also fell into line, saying: "The condition of the treasury is again growing serious. * • • It is not strange that the President is a quan­ dary. With chaos in Congress and helplessness in the administration, the outlook is not agreeable." As far as New York is concerned, we have now seen the four leading free-trade papers, every one of which worked its hardest for the election of a free-trade Congress and a free-trade President, "acknowledging that their administration has brought the , coun­ try into a condition of bankruptcy bordering upon ruin. It must be pleas­ ing for the Post to say that the pres­ ent Congress "sits supine and Imbecile from day to day," when Its editor re­ members how hard he fought to secure that supineness and imbecility. It must be gratifying to the World to have to acknowledge that there Is "chaos in Congress and helplessness in the administration" which it fought to eleftt by the/publication of an unin­ terrupted tissue of deliberate lies. Each one of these four Democratic papers--the New York Herald, the New York Times, the Evening Post and the New York World--has to ac­ knowledge the utter failure and in­ competency of the leaders of its party to administer the national affairs of the United States without bringing the country to the verge of bankruptcy. If we felt assured that the lesson thus learned would be of benefit to the fools ifrho edit these papers we would be content, but this will not be the case. They have seen things go from bad to worse during the last two years under the administration which they wanted. They have suggested one remedy after another, and they know most positively that the fault is In the utter incompetency of xheir leaders and of their party now, as it has been in the past, to enact any legislation that will benefit our American conti­ nent t There is but one remedy--the utter and complete overthrow of the party which these papers represent and the restoration to power of the party that has, and ever has had, the welfare of Americans and the prosperity of Amer­ ican interests as the fundamental principle of its political policy. It the! editors of these four papers would openly acknowledge their error by working for the complete annihilation of the party in which they formerly professed to have confidence we would respect them. Will they do it? Or will they later revert to their old policy of clamoring for destruction by continuing to write lies and to publish lies for the benefit of the foreign countries which may, or may not, be buying up the editorial columns of their papers, or which may, perhaps, have some pecuniary interest in their management which' prevents any advocacy of the re-enact­ ment of the McKinley tariff, which would mean the immediate restoration to their proper value of all American securities. ̂ Free Trade's Offspring. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURIN8 THE PAST WEEK. Belleville's Murderess to Share Cea- trell's Fate--Sam Doss Doesn't Wait to Serve His Five Years' Sentence-- Kockford Has a Destructive Fire. • " -- # Annie ̂ ahn Sentenced to Diet At Belleville the jury in the case of Annie Kahn, who murdered her husband, a farmer, with the help of George Cen- trell, returned a verdict finding, her guilty of murder in the first degree, and fixing the penalty at death. Her paramour, Cen- trell, suffered death on the scaffold some months ago for the murder, which was a peculiarly cold-blooded affair. Mrs. Kahn appears to be wholly indifferent to her fate, but stated to a deputy sheriff that she had ndt expected that the jury would Sentence her to hang. The woman is densely ignorant, if not simple minded, and apparently does not realize the awful position in which she is placed. There is a strong feeling in favor of commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment. A petition will be presented to Governor Alt geld asking for the commutation. Five Years for Fake Foot Racing. Samuel Doss, of Murphysboro, who was sentenced a half hour before to the peni­ tentiary for five years for participating in a fake foot race, escaped from jail at 8 p. m. Saturday. He was committed to jail after receiving his sentence and asked to see his alleged wife. While the jailor stepped out Doss jumped through a side window, mounted a horse and rode away toward Carbondale at breakneck speed. Doss is wanted at several places in Mis­ souri and Illinois. He is a tall man, with dark complexion and mustache and black hair. Fifty dollars reward is offered for his capture. Timothy Pryor, a farmer of Quincy, wa# killed while rolling logs. William J arret t and Miss Effie Viera, both of Jacksonville, were married at, Virginia. i Michael O'Donnell, of Canton, was run down by a Chicago, Burlington and Quiny}, cy train and killed. . ; At Rockford Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wheat,' a prominent old couple, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. ( William Hamilton, sneak thief, was sentenced at Cairo to pay a fine of $100| and serve a year in the county jail. j John Brittin, farmer, and resident of) Cheney's Grove Township, near Bloom- ington, committed suicide by hanging, j The Chicago Corset Company is trying the experiment of employing men at maki ing corsets in its factory at Aurora. It is, impossible to secure enough women help. Mrs. Eliza E. Voorhees, a Jacksonville widow,{deserted by her ion, a Baptist minister, was married to her brother-in- law, whom she had loved in her girlhood. James Alsop, of Beecher City, a track walker on the Baltimore and Ohio South­ western, was struck by a train while rid­ ing on a track velocipede.As he paid no heed to the engineer's warning it is supposed that he was dead from the cold: before the train struck him. Mrs. William H. Vest died at her home in Mount Zion township, near Decatur, of injuries received when she was as­ saulted by Negro Sam Bush, June 1,1892. He was caught by farmers, put in jail and lynched in front of tl^e court house. Mrs. Vest has never been well since. Eight of the cases against the Cleve­ land, Cincinnati, Chicago ^uid St. Leuis Railway Company, growing Qut of the THE SPATE Ci WHAT H.UNOIS' LEGlSt ; IS DOING. Farmers Feed Belated PaMeHfnt. The thermometer at Quincy registered 21 degrees below zero Friday, the coldest known in years. Trains ran with some regularity Except on the Carthage branch of the Burlington and the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City. On the first named road a passenger and a freight train were stuck in a drift since Thursday morning. The passengers were fed by farmers, and burned fence rails for fuel. Nothing was visible of the trains except the smoke­ stacks and the tops of the cars. tgyyotflr Transition. 1892. racy, the party that e in in '92, set upon our country's homes iron heeled shoe, s filled the nation all around With want and dire distress, - While starving wives andvchfldren pale Stagger about with piteous\tale Of how the specious Free-Trade hai Has chilled the life blood in their'vi And brought them many a grief and And men, with mournful steps and slow^ Seek work and wages as they go, i But seek .in afnT^ 1894. •The'people long eoMld^rfoY To Democratic Free-'grade sway. And so in '94 t^ey rose t And took their pawer away. What may we look for, citizens, Now that light once more appears? This we may look for, and will find, And may God y rite it on the mind Of all America: 1896. Confidence will resume her sway And plenty scare pale want away. The rose of health again will blush And children's cries for food will hush. The Wilson bill no more will croak Nor English goods our markets choke; Our wheels of industry will hum For Free-Trade's ides of March have come. --E. W. Screven. Columbia, S. C.> January 17, 1895. He Got His Change. A man who was recently riding on a street car entered into conversation on hard times with the conductor and motorman at the end of the run. The conductor said: "It was by iio vote of mine these hard times came about. I always voted with the protec­ tionists." ."Bad luck to me," said the motorman, "I wish I could say us niuch. I voted for a change, and d--^ me if X didn't get it I got changed from 30 cents an hour to 17 cents, and say, Just tell your protective tariff folks that I am ready to change back, and don't you forget it!" Australian Wool Hovelhent. to AMERICA r Business Block Bnrned at Rockford. The most destructive fire of the year In Rockford occurred Sunday morning at 5 o'clock, when the Syndicate block, ,on Seventh street the principal business street of the Swedish district, was com­ pletely destroyed. The upper rooms of the block were occupied as dwellings, and twenty families were compelled to hasten into the street to escape the flames. Tho building was owned by a syndicate com­ posed of John and J. W. Bartlett, Berg & Palmer, and R. W. Emerson. The. loss is about $30,000, fully insured. Killed by a Coal Bank Caving;. One man was killed and several others were badly injured in Klaess's coal mine near Belleville. While a number of min­ ers were digging a bank of coal it eavod in, crushing the men beneath it. Their fellow workmen, after an hour's ̂ Jiard work, succeeded in digging them out. Record of the Week. Mrs. Edney was found dead in bed Sat­ urday at Decatur. A successful Masonic school of instruc­ tion has closed after a week's session at Fairbury. The death of D. F. Robinson occurred at Fairbury. He was well known in Masonic circles. Frank Jeffrey,' who was to be tried on the charge of murder, escaped from jail at Murphysboro. Thomas Jeffries, while returning to his home, three miles from Joliet, was froz­ en to death sitting in his sleigh. Henry Mack, who escaped with two others from the Springfield jail six months ago, was captured in Belleville. William Rask, a farmer living west of Clay City, was iustantly killed by a saw log rolling from his wagon on him. He. leaves a bride of a few uumths. D. P. Willis & Co., of Percy, proprie­ tors of the Willisville mine, have sold out to the Garland Coal Company of St. Louis, Mo. (ius Blair, the present super­ intended,, will retain his present posi tion. Charles Benzen and brother were saw ing cord wood at Aviston, using a porta­ ble engine. They stepped inside the resi dence for lunch. While they were eating the boiler exploded, completely wreck ing it. Saturday evening Charles Payne and a companion named Laws, both young men, were crossing the Vandalia track in a buggy at Brownstowij^when they were struck by the New Y<#£ limited ami kill­ ed instantly. --& No trace has been«5und of Harry Me- Culloch, the cashier and operator at the Alton bridge, who has now been absent from his post for a week. His friends have become satisfied that he has been foully dealt with. In the Federal Court at Springfield, John Collard of White County, Charles A. Myers and Fred Myers of Alto Pass, Union County, pleaded guilty to "boot­ legging" whisky, were fined $187 each and sent to jail in default. The regular monthly meeting of the Sangamon County Teachers' Institute was held at Springfield, \fith a very large attendance. Dr. Austin K. de Blois, pres­ ident of Shurtleff College at Upper Al­ ton, deliverd an able address. Herman Thiele was found guilty of the manslaughter of John Van Valkenberg in the Circuit Court at Itockford and sen­ tenced to a term of four years in the peni­ tentiary. Although the punishment is light, the verdict gives quite general sat­ isfaction. Elwin D. Scott of Des Plaines, was horribly burned about the face and hands while starting a fire with oil. By mistake he took a can of gasoline instead of kero­ sene] Charles Funderbuck, a deaf mute, em­ ployed in the car shops at Mount Vernon, was struck by a locomotive and sustained injuries fromwhrch he died in a few hours. A. V. Thomas, of Peoria, has instituted suit in the Sangamon Circuit Court against the defunct firm of Felix P. Scal- zo and others. The Suit is over a con­ signment of lemons valued at $170. An Evanston boy who has ftnoked on an average sixteen packages of cigarettes a day for the past six years, died. The cause of death is uhkaiwn. Lotus Niles, an old and respected citi­ zen of SprinrfK?lcft died at the ageV>f 76 years. He was assistant secretary and secretary of the/Board of Equalisation. A big sensatfon was caused at Fair­ bury when the announcement was made through at-home cards of the wedding of Thomas D. Karnes, Fairbury's postmas­ ter, and Miss Hettie, daughter of L. J. Lough, of that place. The wedding oc­ curred at Milwaukee Juiie 22. Not even the parents of the twain* were aware of their marriage. Impartial Record of Accomplished by Those Who Mak4| Our Laws-How the Time Has Beef.$ ̂ OcGByicd Dor ins the Past Week, .. «i,. . ... Doingsof State Dads. ~"y.; . Both houses met at 5 o'clock Mondayy With nothing to do practically hot a#l ' journ until Wednesday; for on Tuesday# Lincoln's birthday, both took a rest n# ; bills regulating fares charged by the Pull* man Sleeping Car Company have as yet -.-J been introduced in the Senate. Their ap»/•* pearance may be expected at any time* "1, There are two in the House. One offered by Representative Ellsworth impose#* rates a little more than half of those e*. acted now; the other, presented by Repr»» seritative StickDey, allows a charge of $1 a berth or $2 a section f6r twenty-foa# hours or less occupancy. A heavy fine iht ; imposed for violation, a half of whicfc goes to the informer. Gov. Altgeld in hi® message recommends a reduction of rates. The Legislature in its present mood wi® pass one of these bills any time an oppof* tunity presents itself. A dozen bills sia®» ilar to those offered by Ellsworth aiu! Stlckney, which are referred to the Com­ mittee on Corporations, will be presented^ The task of killing the entire batch wSK by no means be an easy one. * - In the Senate Wednesday many JMAK bills were introduced, and Senator Dun* lap's bill providing for the narrowing «f public roads from sixty to forty feet on Wann disaster of Jan. 21. 1803, 'were set- ^petition by the property owners was That of James Law^ passed. Several bills were introdueed. ~ ^CJic Senate did no business of import^ special order for the day. Senator Berry% '.;>y amendments providing that the land rs» ceived should revert to the original own­ ers instead of the present holders and !•». quiring that the petition include prop* - ~ erty owners within two miles instead those along the line of the road merely, * •:. were adopted-and the bill ordered to M third reading. The House did no Irari* ness. . The Senate on Thursday received a 1st » > of petitions, discussed several bills, lis- vJ tened to the introduction »f others, and adjourned. The House rejected the blD making incurable insanity a ground fo» anco^ Friday. Mr. Eakin introduced In tho Hotijpe a bill to provide for the forma­ tion and disbursement for a public school teachers' £ffd public employes' pension and retirement fund in cities having a" population exceding 100,000. Accom­ panying the bill was a petition signed by 3,113 teachers in the public schools of Chicago asking that the bill be passed. . A resolution to request Congress to se» : that no further reductions or stoppages of pensions occur, was the cause of hot Jz% debate. The resolution was referred. ' -ySj Both houses adjourned until Monday. ' ->/ A • vente of soa tied in the United States Court, at Spring­ field by plaintiffs being given a judgment against the company of $150 and costs each. The cases were on account of the deaths of the following named persons: George W. Rucker, James W. Murray, W. E. Miller, Willie Carter, H. W. Miller, William ^ftattuck. Charles Utt and B. Nieuhau& The removal of p^ops in the coal mines which underlie the * Springfield suburb, Ridgely, and tho neighborhood adjacent to the State Fair grounds, threatens great dangejr and destruction. Huge fissures seam the earth, houses are cracking, and in some Instances threaten to fall t« divorce. The bill prohibiting minors un- I>Weej8. P. H. Healy's house is almost der 16 from carrying deadly weapons w« a complete ruin. ter, next door^ is also damaged badly. A cistern recently Built by Mr. Healy is destroyed, its bottom having dropped out Tho catastrophe iB a source of consid­ erable danger to the fair buildings. An important test case as to whether physicians should be allowed higher fees as expert witnesses than other witnesses was appealed to the Appellate Court from Sangamon Circuit Court, where Dr. John N. Dixon, a prominent physician of Springfield, was fined $25 and costs by Judge Creigbton for refusing to testify as to injuries received by Mrs. Olive Pur- dy in a damage suit against the city of Springfield unless he was paid $10 for ex­ pert testimony. The court held physi­ cians were no more entitled to such fees than ordinary witnesses. For three w^eks or more the city of Vandalia has been without street lights on account of the electric light company and the City Council failing to come to an agreement. For five years the city paid the light company $2,500 for half- night service. At the expiration of this term the city desired tho light company to furnish all-night service, and offered $2,700 per year for said service. Tho electric light company declined to accept the offer, but proposed to furnish the light at $21 per night or $2,835 per year for 135 lights. The city refused to give the ad­ ditional $135. Finally the electric light company agreed to accept the city's offer, §nd the citizens are happy. A. complaint was filed with the railroad and warehouse commission against the Big Four Company. It is on behalf of tho citizens of Westville, a mail station on the Cairo branch of the Big Four, five miles south of Danville, at the intersec­ tion of the Big Four with the St. Louis branch of the Chicago and Eastern Illi­ nois, and sets forth that the citizens of the hamlet contributed $100 toward the erection of a station house. Such a liouqp was built, and an agent placed in charge. Something like a year ago, however, the company withdrew its agent there and abandoned the station, bdarding up the doors and windows. The commission ia asked to afford such relief as is in its power. The matter will be looked into. The astounding Revelations concerning tho deficit of the late State Treasurer Ru- fus N. Ramsay are the one theme of con­ versation at Carlyle. Tho terrible crash is just beginning to dawn upon the citi­ zens, who had such unbounded confidence in the integrity and good business judg­ ment of their townsman. It has now de­ veloped that Ramsay was making deals to open a chain of banks in Southern Illi­ nois. One had already been operated at Columbia, but closed on the opening day, caused by Ramsay's death. The safe and fixtures of the new bank were not paid for and claims against the estate have been made. Ramsay was a man who had great determination and would take des­ perate chances in his speculations. It is said by his closest friends that he had been carrying a heavy load of indebted­ ness for ten years or more. His first finan­ cial embarrassment was caused by dealing in wheat and corn options on the St. Louis Board of Trade. He is reported to have been a heavy purchaser of options and got caught in a heavy slump. This was about 1883. Several other persons residing at Carlyle were connected with the deal. They lost about $30,000. It is known that Ramsay lost a large amount in-^his transaction--possibly $40,000 to $50,000. Ramsay was badly ove^oaded with Kan­ sas lands and lots, having made heavy pfiff??hases while the "boom" 'was in its (palmiest days. He persistently held on to thesfe: purchases, trusting in a higher market, ^bicb of course never came. When Ramsay took the oath of office JLB State Treasurer he was being pressed by one'claim in particular, a St. Louis bank holding his note for $30,000; also, a num­ ber of heavy Carlyle creditors were press­ ing him for cash. Over $120,000 of these claims have fceen paid since he was elect­ ed treasurer. Ramsay's method of bank­ ing was a very one-sided affair. He was always a borrower, and seldom made loans of any consequence. He secured a host ^ of depositors by paying, them ruinously- high rates of interest. He would pay, a* high as 8 p6r cent on time deposits, and, if the money should be drawn before the expiration of j%e time, the depositor would lose the acbeued interest The City Council of PeFcy held a spe-< cial meeting and passed an ordinance pro­ hibiting the sale of cigarettes in Percy; also prohibiting minors 6moking them in the city, under severe penklties. In the Circuit Court at Bloomiqgton Jennie Dubois got judgment for $5,000 against the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company for the killing of her husband. Mr. Dubois was an engineer and met death in a boiler explosion on that road near Joliet in 1801. The fireman and a brakeman were a&:o killed at the same time and 6uits are pending. In the opinion of the jury the boile%was defective. The A New Phonograph. pie phonograph has been Ia­ in France, the cylinders being instead of wax. The soap cyl­ inders last~arlong time. When the sur­ face Is covered with Impressions, it may be washed off, and a fresh surfaos exposed. The Impression need not be more than a thousandth of an inch In depth, so that one cylinder can be used to receive and transmit two hundred and fifty thousand words. Any im­ provement that will develope the nograph Into an Instrument of pi utility Is welcome. To say nothl the moral effect that would be duced on people by having their o' hasty words preserved and repeated to them, by the unerring cylinder, such a machine would be of great use In busi­ ness. Some very rich men keep » stenographer ooneea led behind a scree® in their offices, within hearing of what may be said to tbem, or what they may say in reply; and their conversation* with strangers are reported and th* notes preserved, fcr use in case of at­ tempts to pervert «uch conversations for blackmailing purposes. Where it Is inconvenient to employ a special stenographer, a good a&d silent acting phonograph would make an excellent substitute, and its testimony mlght, in many cases, effectively frustrate tin schemes of knaves. Worthy of Imitation. .. .r/:; The Supply Kitchen established tiii Providence for the benefit of the many who are affected by hard times is * most sensible charity. It *ls prepared not only to feed the poor at Its room, but by orders from societies and indi­ viduals benevolently inclined will -dis­ pense food to the needy ones who have come under their notice. The aim la to have all the foods prepared at the kitchen of a wholesome, nutritious * quality, and alt the materials which are purchased in their uncooked state atl of the best class of food products. 11m scale of prices hardly above that of thn mere cost of material, has changed but little from the first and nowhere in the.:. city can as good a meal be obtained for the money as at the Kitchen. The aim is not to make money, but to providn well cooked food at cost. Why should not every city of importance support a similar establishment? This one has proved a boon to hundreds, and It woulfc seem as though a little properly di? rected energy, ought to bring abont as good resultsAn Vther localities. Th# practical phiratrflirophist has a chanet here; 14t us hope he will improve it, y g v A Century of "Wedded Life. In this day of record breaking one is not surprised to read of a Wedding re­ cently celebrated in Hungary--the one hundredth anniversary of the marriage of Jean Szathmary and his wife. This appears to be a circumstance which is entirely impossible." But the marriage of this aged pair is duly and officially recorded as hatfngtakeri place in May, > *• ^ 1794, at which time, according to th%":% 'p. ^ record, they were of marriageable agfj>*, , 4 -PM As in Hungary at that time a bride- * groom must have reached the age of - 4^|| 20 and the bride 15, the pair must now, '~i be at least 120 and 115 years old rer ̂ spectively. Not a relative of either sU*> • , * ^ irlnnn *'• ^ t On with the Hat. "i * In a picture gallery, usually a tnl 4 and airy place ventilated from the top. > a man maturely be permitted to keep ^ on his hat. particularly if nature's head f T" ' covering is conspicuous by its absence t ^ It is a public place, like hotel lobbied* ,* A stores and railroad stations, and po* ,A -J liteness does not require anyone to • ^ 'Z "uncover himself" there, though a man'" J < may take off his hat, if he likes, to a ' ; If! good picture. To wrestle successfully * with a picture catalogue, he needs at - % | ^ least two hands--which is another at* . ^ defendant maintained that the explosion j gument for putting tfce hat where It '• * ^»/j was caused br inattention '• ff |>elougs, that is, on the hta4 ' ' :v-. j- JifMh •