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•PfiPSSP spp % y - , XV t • T> mm .«r * >,* i» \ HILINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURING WEEK. *'«. *x % «Sil> Mf yor of Vcsicc Was a il"« QUS -- Much Sickness Among Live $tocJt--Murderous - -«-8purious Cote Ckptaidi . f MadiBon and Newport Quarantined. Secretary Scott, of the State Board of Health, received a telegram from the Mayor of Venice, Madison County, stat­ ing that quarantine had been established by Venice against Madison and Newport on account, of an alleged smallpox out­ break, and tfesiring the quarantine ratified by the State Board. Secretary Scott an­ gered that no one was authorized to establish quarantine excepting the State Board of Health, and advising the Mayor to raise it. Dr. Ivohl, of the State Board ©T Health, reported to the board that there was no smallpox at or near Madison. Strange Diseases Are Reported*. sfjrhe Illinois State Board of Live stock was notified of the appearance of a strange disease among horses at Rozetta, Martinsville and Montrose. Bureau County reports a new disease among live stock in that vicinity, while Quincy and Little Indiana, in Cass County, report several cases of glanders. The diseases are being looked into by the board and State veterinarian. The United States quarantine against the district affected With Texas or Southern cattle fever is ifow in effect. The several States, in­ cluding wholly or in part in the affected area, are asfollows: Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala­ bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Indian Ter­ ritory, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas. The law is very severe for •lolation of the shipment of cattle into tile district until the expiration set forth. The quarantine holds good until next fall. Thomas* Money Goes in BOM Hill. James Thomas, of Rose Hill, has been considered one of the shrewdest citizens of that village. He has not only manifest­ ed a shrewdness, but has developed an in­ dustry that landed him behind the strong bars of Uncle Samuel's jail in Spring­ field, under a charge of making counters feit money. Thomas was discovered man­ ufacturing alleged silver dollars that would readily have passed for World's 'Pair "hooli-hooli" medal*, and nickels that would easily be recognized by any one outside of Rose Hill as lead tags from aome freight car. Thomas' constituents, however, believed them good, and they were--in Rose Hill. A United States mar­ shal was given one of the pieces in change, and he nearly had a fit when told that it was "plum good; Jim Thomas made it" Did Not Provide for School Tax. Serious complications have arisen la He collection of taxes now in progress it Lincoln for 1894, and late Saturday night the county clerk took possession of the tax books to correct a clerical error. The City Council filed with the county clerk last year an ordinance providing for $30,000 appropriations for general city purposes and asking a l^y and extension of $21,000 of taxes. The Board of Edu­ cation filed a resolution asking a levy and extension of $18,000 for school purposes. The Board of Supervisors ordered the clerk to levy and extend on the books the levy asked for city purposes, plus the ap­ propriation, making $31,000, and the coun­ ty clerk neglected to levy and extend $18,- 000 for school purposes, consequently tliere is a muddle, and all parties are per­ plexed to know how to proceed. I - * , Crazy Man in the Streets. A number of Springfield people who ven­ tured out through the storm Sunday night for church and other purposes were given a bad dose for the rattles by a crazy man, who seems to be running amuck on the principal streets. The first report was brought into police headquarters by August Wilton and Bert Wuzard, two young men en route to church on Capi­ tol avenue. While going under the Alton bridge on Third street a strange man jumped out and began cutting and slash­ ing at the boys. The clothes of young Wuzard were cut to shreds, while Wilton was badly scratched. The boys covered ground rapidly, but were not pursued by the crazy man. The police are looking for the offender. Record of the Week. Champaigne is frightened by the at pearance of scarlet fever. Patrick" Kiley, of Bloomington, sat down to read, fell into a sleep, and when Ids family went to wake him they found him dead. He was 70 years of age and leaves a widow and family. Stephen H. Velie, secretary of Deere & Co., the Moline plow manufacturers, dropped dead of organic heart trouble at his home. Mr. Velie was a native of Duchess County, New York, and was nearly 65 years of age. He had been sec­ retary of the plow company since 1868. At Quincy the jury in the case of Wil­ liam Simons, wh6se home is at Prairie View, Ark., found him guilty of Man­ slaughter and fixed his punishment at twelve years in the penitentiary. Sim­ ons and John O'Kiefe reached Quincy OB* July 4 last. They were beating their way on freight trains. On the evening of July 4 they got into a fight and O'Kiefe was stabbed to death. The defendant claimed self-defense. In spite of the fact that the Chicago bondsmen paid the $360,000 to cover the shortage of the , late State Treasurer, it appears that the State will lose something like $14,000 on account of the Seiter-Rain- say failure. When Baker was appointed warden of the Southern Illinois peniten­ tiary Seiter and Ramsay went on /his bonds. In return it is alleged Baker' de- posited ajbout $14,000 State funds in Seiter's ILebanon bank, now financially defunct. /Jt requires some tall figuring to figure out how the State is going to get the money. Herrick was visited by a destructive fire Friday morning. Tallman & Evans, implements and grain, and J. H. Say lor, drugs, are the chief losers^ Losses ap- fVo:ritynnte $7,000, with $1,200 insurance. Fulton County Board of Supervisors rafused, by a vote of 12 to 16, to accept Lewistown's offer of $20,000 to aid in the construction of a new onrt house in Lew- istown, and also refused to order a new" building constructed. Canton, which the county seat four years hence, considers this a victory. A new court house will probably be erected at Lewis- tfewn during the year. Cary Gregory, aged 20, and George Harpole, 40, both of Fairfield, Wayne County, were found dead in bed at the Brunswick Hotel at Springfield. They had blown out the gas. They were wit­ nesses before the United States grand jury. • C. J. Bowman, station agent, operator and manager of the Wabash Railway depot at Riverton, committed suiclae by shooting himself through the head. He 25 years old and was married two irs ago at Concord, 111. Bowman's >unts are found to be several hundred/ liars short. The young man. took t »ney to perfect a short-distance »ne he had patented. > 7f".5TV \ •.O.. The Vulcan Iron Works sustained i loss of $10,000 by fire; folly Insured. Jeff Wiikins was sentenced at Cairo to three years in the penitentiary for burgs lary. Michael Berrigan, a prosperous farmer living near Champaign, was adjudged in­ sane. A home talent entertainment for th« benefit of the poor of Bloomington netted $1,000. Congregational women of the Bockford district listened to a number of mission­ ary addresses. Burglars at Jacksonville robbed Mrs. Phoebe Strawn's residence of valuable jewelry and silverware. Frank Adkinson, who killed Lena Zip­ per and tried to commit suicide, was in­ dicted at Peoria for murder. Charles Fairmon, LL. D., of Shurtleff College, died at his home in Upper Alton, of pneumonia, aged 72 years. H. V. Wilson's dry goods store at Ot­ tawa was closed by the sheriff on two judgments aggregating $700. William E. Winans, a feeble-minded man, aged 38 years, wandered away from his home in Olney and was frozen to death. Andrew P. Bowman was fatally hurt and his wife seriojifely Injured while at­ tempting to cross the Grand Trunk tracks at Chicago. f • Rev. T. V. E. Sweet, of Freeport, cele­ brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his conversion, which occurred in the church of which he is pastor. O. L. Hill, agent of the Chicago and Al­ ton Railroad at Jacksonville, narrowly missed being hit by a coupling pin thrown into his office at night. Miss Jennie Brown died, at Vandalia of consumption. Just a few'hours before the end came she was united in marriage to E. A. Jones, of Centralia. An explosion in the coal mine at Odin resulted in severely burning eleven of the miners. A large number of the 200 men in the shaft had narrow escapes. Governor Altgeld offered a reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of William Guthrie, who killed Wjlliam Hig- gins at Streator during the last flection. In the Sangamon Circuit Court at Springfield, Dora Cuttle, widow of Daniel Cuttle, of Decatur, was given a verdict against the Wabash Railway Company for $4,000 for the loss of her husband. Fred Ackerman, a prosperous farmer living near Thomasboro, was found dead in his barn. It is supposed he was crush­ ed to death between his two horses while putting bedding under them. He was 66 years of age. John Beregan, a farmer, up to two months ago worked on the farm of Philip Whalen in Symerton, Will County. Ho left the farm to go South last December. Nothing has been heard of him, and it was discovered that his trunk was at the depot. Beregan had about $100 when he left Symerton, and his friends fear he has met with foul play. His two brothers are searching for him. The State Board of Agriculture, after heated discussion at Springfield, de­ cided to continue the fat stock show in Chicago. The board decid­ ed to erect on the State fair grounds at Springfield this year a grand stand with a seating capacity of 10,000, a ma­ chinery hall, administration building, farm and orchard building, dairy build­ ing, three speed and exposition barns, Btorage warehouse, sheep and swine pavil­ ions, and other improvements on the grounds, the cost to aggregate $325,000. News was received at Alton of the death of Henry Tanner; at Buffalo, N. Y. He was the last survivor of that brave band of men who fought in defense of Elijah P. Lovejoy on that fatal night of the 7th of November, 1837, when he was shot down in the Godfrey & Gilman ware­ house in Alton. The Alton City Council has just appointed a special committee to petition the Legislature for State aid toward the erection of a suitable monu­ ment to the memory of the martyr over his grave in Grand! View Cemetery. O. A. Brookshirp, of Springfield, sued the People's Electric Railway for $5,000 damages inflicted by his getting tangled up, while walking home one night, in a lot of live wires. He was crippled for life. The jury disagreed. He next brought suk for $15,000, and again the jury disagreed. By reason of his inabil­ ity to stand the expense, and to get wit­ nesses, the case was thrown out of court, and now the company sues the American Employers' Surety Company of New York, which had agreed to hold the elec­ tric company safe against judgments foi personal injury, to recover the cost of defending Brookshire's suit. An unheard-of procedure on the part of feeders of swine is being practiced by some farmers around Bowen. They are buying plug horses and feeding them to hogs. John Markley has fed to his hogs about sjxty horses, and Jess Finley, an­ other hog raiser, has utilized the same number. They pay for them from 50 cents to $3.50 each, knock them in the head, skin them, then throw the car­ casses in the hog pen. It is said that Mr. Markley has fed his hogs on horse flesh so long that now if one rides or leads a horse into the pen the hogs will rush at him and it is with difficulty that they art prevented from devouring him. Deputy MarshaU Brinton of Springfield dispatched a deputy to Mill Shoals, White County, with an order remanding "Rick- etty" Dan Benton to the penitentiary at Chester. It will be remembered that Ben­ ton was convicted in the United States Court for impersonating William Newby, a Union soldier who was killed at Shi- loh, for the purpose of securing a pension. He was sentencedto the penitentiary for two years, and entered upon his term, but was released < on bail, after having served about two months, pending a final decision by the United States Supreme Court, to which his case was t^ken on appeal. The upper court dismissed tho. appeal several weeks ago, but it wijsntff until a few days ago that the remanding order was issued to the marshal. At Bloomington, the following deaths occurred Tuesday night: Robert M. Hog- kins, aged 65, a former resident of Lex­ ington; Mrs. j. J. Bell, aged 27, of La- con; Mrs. J. W. Riggs, aged 57, formerly of Sandusky Ohio. An Iowa gentleman who loves human­ ity omitinues to advertise a "$500 span ofyKorses given away for the best bushel corn in the ear sent to him before larch 1, freight prepaid." The fact that e has been advertising this scheme for ve months carries the conviction that ih^re was no shortage ,4n the crop of suck- erslast year. Dr. samuel £r. Wobdmfacy, one of the early settlers of McLean County, whose home was in the town of McLean for forty years, died at Hammond, La., where he had landed interests. He was aged 72. He was an old friend of Abra­ ham Lincoln's. The woolen mill at Fairfield, which is one of the largest"in the State and has been closed down for more than eighteen iijlontks, will resume operations again. A ^pntract has been closed with H. C. Cow- gill, Frank Hill and A. H. Baker, woolen mill men of Carthage, Mo., who have leased the mill for a period of two years. It is expected that by May 1 at least 100 looms will be in operation. PATE OF THE FARMER SOLID FACT8 KNOCK OUT FALSE- if HOODS AND FALLACIES. Cheap Food and Clothing Offset by the Reduced Price* at Farm Prod- veto--Effects of Free IrtHsbwr Why Wheat Sella Low. Democratic Delusions. With cotton at five cents and ,thef price drooping, Southern planters are in a state of bewilderment and conster­ nation. Bankruptcy and impoverish­ ment stare them in the face if the pres­ ent rate, which they assert is below the cost of production, be maintained. In like manner the wheat producer sees ruin confronting him in the continu­ ance of low prices for grain. The Southern planter and the Western farmer, the two agents who were large­ ly instrumental in ordering In 1892 a re­ versal of the industrial and protective policies of the nation, are now suffer­ ing directly from the evils of under- eonsumpton. Manufacturing interests were the first to feel the effects of business uncertainty ^d the flosses wage-earners. The great agrlcul- thelr qpaployes so that they can meet the Csuiadlan competition or to close their mills entirely, throw the employes out of work and surrender the market to the Canadian producers. In the face |of thousand^ of such cases of direct ruin wrought by the sugar-whisky- trust-tariff monstrosity, there are fan­ atics and fools, doits and imbeciles in this country who prate about "the in­ estimable benefits of tariff refawm to the laboring men of the United States." --3C,fee, Lumber World, December, 1S94 FARMS AND HOMES. the'Ofhpring of Democracy, of tural producers South and West are now learning to their cost that the marked decline in the purchasing pow­ er of a prosperous nation reacts neces- sarily upon cotton planters and wheat farmers. If cheapness of food and clothing were the main factor of national pros­ perity, Americans would now have full cause for gratitude to Democratic tariff meddlers. But when flour is low, and cotton sells below the cost of pro­ duction, and every other commodity is cheap because the supply runs far be­ yond the demand, they need not be thankful. The practical experience of the last two years has taught Ameri­ cans that, whatever may be the truth about free trade or the protective pol­ icy, nothing can take the place of na­ tional prosperity under which all class­ es of the population are employed at good wages and all industries are In fuHj unimpeded operation. Those are the conditions which develop the purchas­ ing power of every consumer and make the American market the main safe­ guard against overproduction at home and abroad. nited States H.05 Bustoels for Mch persrt in tk United States^ sanee, „ Wa9«> ore-poor,'jl •a»wS the fc&e " 10 not as supplied. "Up people cat eart'iU) Dm rale <5 as work Bttikfi ILSTREASURY U%U)M Sdfe slow A Tlh Plate Crista. A crisis is looming over the Welsh tin plate trade, and the aspect points to a struggle between masters and men on the wage question. The Llanelly manufacturers have issued a notice to their men that a 25 per cent, reduction is required in order to keep the works running without sustaining a loss, con­ sequent upon the competition of Amer­ ica. The workmen of the various works met and resolved to refer the matter to a joint conference of employers and em­ ployed, but the decision arrived at was to adjourn the conference in order to give the workmen an opportunity- of further considering the proposed re­ duction. Great excitement prevails through­ out the principality, and in the event of no settlement being effected there will be no alternative but for Welsh manu­ facturers to close their works, and this will mean a lockout of fully 50,000 hands. \ The men consented to a 10 per cent, reduction in wages, but maintain that there is no occasion for a concession to meet the competition of the American trade, as the tin plate works here are practically quiescent A strong resolu­ tion to this effect has been passed by the tin plate njakers of the Llanelly rendering the Llanelly workmen awk wardly situated. The joint conference between masters and men having proved abortive, nothing remains for the men but to accept the masters' alternative, a lockout. The wages hitherto paid tin platers in Llanelly amounted to about £15,000 a month.-- Metal World. ^oreisn Lead Imported. The lea)d mining trade finds itself in a condition similar to that of some branches of iron and steel production, where it becomes a question of shut­ ting downer lowering the cost of run­ ning. The ability of the importer to sell foreign ifjad at 3 cents in New York makes it exceedingly difficult for the American producer to remain in the market Comparatively little foreign lead was sold here previous to the pas­ sage of the Wilson bill, even though the American lead miner had to meet the product of Mexican mines, where labor was extremely low.. With the home supply so nearly equal to the demand any excess in Imports niust be severely felt by the home producer. New Mexi­ co and Spain are both given Increased advantages in the American market Western prosperity will be greatly re­ tarded by the closing down of American silver lead mines.--American Manufac­ turer and Iron World, Pittsburg. No Show for Honesty ̂ The opportunities afforded the Import­ ers of silks by the "Perfidy and Dis­ honor" taHff are numerous, and they are being taken advantage of to the fullest extent Undervaluations are now a matter of course and an honest man has no Bhow. Through the medium of resident agents the foreign manufac­ turer floods the market at prices lim­ ited only by the ability of the custom house broker as a "swearer." Invoices that are sworn to as being correct value are pro forma when once clear of tho custom house, and the saving on ad valorem is a growing fortune for tho importer and a continually expanding loss to the taxpayers of the country, who In some other direction must make good the loss of revenues. A large New York dry goods concern sent a buyer to the German market a short time since, but to his dismay he found that he could not purchase the goods he wanted to lay down In New York at prices that Would compete with others in the trade. The prices named him at the mills were as low as the market would allow, but the freight and duty added made the goods figure too high--in fact, higher than the pub­ lished prices of others In the trade. How to get over It the buyer could not see, but the seller cut the Gordian knot by naming a price in dollars and cents, delivered at the buyer's store in New York. That was entirely satisfactory and the purchase was made. The rest is a story of ad valorepis, custom house swearing and "revenue" tariff. It Hurt the Railroads. -The Railroad Gazette gives the fol­ lowing account of the extensions of our railroad system in 1894: <•- "Railroad building in this country would certainly appear to have reached its lowTestebb, when the total new mile­ age built in one year amounts to only 1,761 miles. That is all the new rail­ road that has been built in the United States in 1894. That figure Is lower than any that has been reached since 1875, when the net increase for the year was 1,700 miles, the amount built being somewhat greater. The new mileage reported for 1894 Is Apparently the smallest actual amount of new railroad built In any year since the civil war, and it Is hiuch the smaller per­ centage of Increase. Taking Poor's figures of the amount of railroad built at the end of 1893 (177,753 miles), the railroad constructed in 1894 has added less than 1 per cent to that total." The Tariff Pendulum. The tariff was claimed by those In power to have been excessive on for­ eign trade and productive of too much revenue, but the protracted agony and Caesarian delivery of the tariff reform bantling, and the, progressive treasury deficiency thus provoked, far tran­ scends the sentimental agony of a sur­ plus, which long ago ceased to vex any financiers. It Is always something too much, whether of a surplus or of a deficiency. Two years ago some thought we had too much of McKlnleylsm. More now think we have got too much of Wilsonism. The tariff pendulum swings to and fro between protection and free trade, tiring out even the President in dreaming dreams, alas! district but in other districts the men ^ «Iron and coai."-From speech of have granted 25 per cent reductions^ Senator Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont Free Lumber Effects. Free trade In lumber works infinite mischief tcTour interests. For example, Marine City, Mich., is a salt manufac­ turing towTi. A stave factory employ­ ing 125 men has been one of the Indus­ trie^ of the town. Now the free staves coming In from Canada have been laid down In that town at prices belo1 those of the native product, and the 125 men are out of work. In other large stave towns the Canadian staves, cheaper because of the lower Canadian wages, are forcing the American stave mills either to oat down the wages of Americans Can't Be Beat. Commenting upon the statement of tin plate production In the United States for the quarter ending June ,30, 1894, the London Mining Journal says: Figures like these are certainly astori-, lshiug. Clearly the Americans are learning to make tin plate In spite of all attempts to prevent them. Every­ thing goes increasingly to show that the Welsh manufacturers are well ad­ vised to paying heed to the counsel which, since Welsh workmen first crossed the Atlantic, and a protection­ ist Government more than doubled tho tariff on tin plates, has been given them to lose no oportunity of seeking new and additional markets. V^T CENSUS STATISTICS SHOW V CONCERNING THEM. f Ah, There! The people of the United States have |$een the end of protective tariff legis­ lation. Congress will never pass an­ other tariff bill increasing the duty on any manufactured product for the ptrf^ pose of giving protection to the manu­ facturer.--Chicago Herald, Sept. 25, 1894. Is that so? J. Bnll Goes to Market. 004*- 'Ssi l']- Of the 12,690(152 Families in the United 8tates 47.80 Per Cent. Own Their-O^n Farms and Homes, While 52.20 Per Cent Pay Rent. Some Interesting Figure*. Washington correspondence: THE final and complete statistics concerning farms, homes and mortgages in the United States have been issued from the census of­ fice, and offer a most inviting subject of study. There are 12(690,152 families in the United States. Of these 4,707,179 occupy farms and 7,922,973 occupy homes in cities, towns and vil­ lages. Of the total J|47.80 per cent, own i i i • ' t h e i r f a r m s a n d ' homes and 52.20 per cent pay rent Of the farms or homes 72.03 per centdBe entirely free from in­ cumbrance aH*r27.97 only of every 100 test under mortgages. These mortgages represent but 37.50 per cent, of the valus of the property, and the average rate of interest paid upon them is 6.65 per cent per annum. The average value of the in­ cumbered farms or homes is $3,352, the average amount of the mortgage is $!,• 257, and the average int^pegt charge is $73.59. It is shown als^> that thc greater portion of the mortgages represifU de­ ferred payments of purchase money. The remainder represents permanent improve ments, farm machinery, stock and other investments that add to the value of the property. Very few mortgages are the re­ sult of misfortune or improvidence. In the new States of the West are found the largest percentage of people who own the farms or homes they occupy, and the smallest number are found in the South. In Illinois the average of ownership is nearly 2 per cent above the average for the entire country--viz., 49.66 per cent, of the population own and 50.34 per cent, rent. In Indiana the condition of the peo­ ple is somewhat better, the percentage of ownership being 57.52. In Wisconsin it is still better, where the percentage of ownership is 68.85; in Michigan, 63.12; in Iowa, 63.18, and in Minnesota, 64.94. The highest percentages of ownership are found in Oklahoma, 86.89; North Da­ kota, 78.16; South Dakota, 75.28, and Idaho, 71.76. The lowest percentages of ownership are found in Louisiana, 29.56; Alabama, 34.64; Delaware, 37.98; Georgia, 31.43; Rhode Island, 29.02, and South Carolina, 28.77.. Many Farms in Ohio. The statistics show that Ohio has the largest number of farms of any State in the Union, 256,264; Illinois comes second, .252,953; then Missouri, 250,832; Texas, 248,782; New York, 226,632; Pennsylva­ nia, 211,472; Iowa, 205,435; Indiana, 205,- 331. No other State has more than 200,- 066. The percentage of ownership in farms is largest in the North and Wpstf as is the percentage of homes also. With­ out including Oklahoma, where the con­ ditions were scarcely settled enough when the census was taken to make a fair com­ parison, Maine stands first as a free-farm State. There 92 out of every. 100 of the farmers own the places on which they live. Utah is second, with a percentage of 90.67, and the next highest States come in the following order: * Per, Per State. < cent. State. cent. North Dakota.90.10|Massachusetts 84.94 N. Hampshire..89.08] Nevada 83.88 Idaho 88.57| South Dakota. .83.81 New Mexico. .88.18| Vermont 83.38 Wisconsin ... .86.90]Michigan 82.99 Montana . ... .86.60|Connecticut ...82.32 Minnesota ... .84.95|Washington . ..81.59 In the matter of mortgages, however, the percentage is much smaller in the Southern States than it is in the North and West In fact, the difference is so great as to be phenomenal. As has been stated above, 27.97 per cent, of the faTms and homes in the United States are mort­ gaged. That is the average for the whole country, but in Georgia the percentage is only 3?18, in Tennessee 3.87, in Florida 3.63, in Alabama 3.98, in Louisiana 3.94, and in the other Southern States it is pro­ portionately small. The highest percent­ age of mortgages is found in South Da< kota, where only fifty-one out of every one hundred people own their farms or houses without incumbrance. Kansas and Nebraska come very close to ths maximum, and, strange to say, North Da­ kota and New Jersey have almost the same percentage, the former showing 45.42 per cent, of incumbered farms and homes and the latter 45.84. in Illinois 82.68 per cent of the farms and homes carry mortgages, in Indiana 29.72, in Iowa 42.40, in Michigan 40.99, in Minnesota 42.47 and in Wisconsin 37.96. It is an Interesting fact that Utah has the small­ est percentage of mortgaged farms and homes of any NortlTern State, 92.67 per cent of the owners there being absolutely Without incumbrance. In Washington, also, the proportion -i§ very small com­ pared with other new Statea^the percent­ age of mortgages being 23.45--less than In Massachusetts, New York, Pennsyl­ vania, Ohio or any other of the Eastern States. Mississippi Mortgage Ridden. In Mississippi the farmers suffer more from the mortgage evil than in any other State, and only 37 per cent of their homes are free. South Carolina comes next with 38.51 per cent; Georgia, 41.90; Alabama, 43.15; Louisiana, 44.99, and Delaware, 60.58. In Illinois 63 out of every 100 farmers own their homes, in Indiana 70.75 and Iowa 70.43. Dke lowest rate of farm mortgages is found in the following States: Per Per State. cent State. cent Florida 2.9o| Louisiana 4.00 New Mexico.. ;?.99 Kentucky 4.00 Virginia ...... 34G| Dist. Columbia. .4.13 Tennessee 3.2l[Arkansas 4.18 Georgia . 3.38|A|abama 4.35 The highest rate of farm mortgages is found in Jtansas--55.48. Iowa stands second, with 53.29 per cent, and the other highest States in the following or­ der: South Dakota, 52.88; Nebraska, 51.99; Michigan. 49.35: New Jersey, 48.91; North Dakota, 48.67; Minnesota, 46.99; Vermont 44.35; New York, 44.17; Wisconsin, 42.85. Speaking of farms alone, Utah also stands the highest in regard to mortgages of any of the North­ ern States, only 5.5 per cent, of her farms being incumbered. The percentage in" Wyoming is 13.05, in Montana l§dS8, Idaho 16.32, Oregon 23.36, Colorado 25.48 and Washington 26.76. Nearly 37 per cent of the farms in Illi­ nois are mortgaged. In Indiana the farm­ ers are in a little better condition, the percentage being 33.10, and in Ohio they are a little better still, the percentage being 28.90. It is shown, however, that 76.51 per cent, of the mortgages upon farms in the United States represent de­ ferred payments of purchase money, and 85.30 per cent purchase money and per­ manent improvements. The remainder, as has already been stated, represent farm machinery, stock and other Articles that add to the value of the property and make its cultivation more profitable. In Illinois 74.43 per cent, of the mortgages represent deferred payments of purchase aoney; in Indiana, 69.97; Iowa, 69.49; ichigan, 70.20; Nebraska, 47.02; North Dakota, 36.29; Ohio, 69.58; Oregon, 54.84; South Dakota, 25.47; Washington, 46.51; Wisconsin, 69.30. The percentage of mortgages due to all other objects than deferred payments of purchase money, im­ provements, machinery, stock and other articles of permanent value is only 2.80 in the entire United States. The highest rate is found in the Southern States, where the planters are in the habit of se­ curing advances upon their crops, which often are not sufficient to meet them, and then mortgage lapses over upon the prop­ erty. In Alabatna the percentage of such farms is 6.09, in Georgia 4.09, in Louisiana 6.12, in South Carolina 6.52, in Virginia 15.58. Of the mortgaged farms and homes in the United States 19.74 per cent, are worth less than $1,000, 16.19 per cent, are worth between $1,000 and $2,500, 25.25 per cent, are worth between $2,500 and $5,000,13.24 per cent, between $5,000 and $10,000, 15.46 per cent are worth $10,000 and over%nd 10.30 worth $25,000 and over. OUR MILITARY STRENGTH. Uncle of Batn Could Put an Army 9,000,000 in the Field. Secretary Lamont recently sent to the House an abstract of the military force of the United States for the year 1894, compiled from the latest returns received by the Adjutant General of the army. The statement shows the organized strength by States, gives the numblr oti commissioned officers, noil-commissioned officers, musicians and privates and the number of men availabU duty unorganized. A grand shows 9,505 commissioned officers, 20,410 non-commissioned officers, 4,047 musi- Sjians, 107,39^., privates, and places the nutetJCF of men' available for military duty unorganized at 9,582,806. Given by States, the aggregate organ­ ized strength (commissioned and non­ commissioned) and unorganized men avail­ able is as follows: for military aggregate Alabama ..... ee* e e e 2,982 165,000 Arkansas ..... e e e e e 1,079 205.000 California »••••• 4,948 "188,072 Colorado ...... e e e' e a 1,621 ̂ 85,000 Connecticut .. e •' e; • 2,842 98,779 Delaware e:ee<* e. 421 28,080 Florida » « i « t 1,011 60.714 Georgia ....... e e • e e 4,194 2t>4,02l Idaho ......... »•. 304 13,932 Illinois ....... • e » e e' 5,313 700,000 IndUna e « e » e 2,581 - 481.-92 Iowa ee e e a 2,478 '169.310 Kansas s •• • » 1,724 loo.ooo v Jos.ooo Kentucky 1,471 loo.ooo v Jos.ooo Louisiana ..... e t:e e e 1,249 } ' 138,439 Maine eeve 4 1,241 " , "t)S,978 Maryland • e f e.e 1,907 1160,000 Massachusetts . *e•ee * 6,006 889,529 Michigan M««e, 2,878 ' 200,000 Minnesota ..... S IJI, 1,900 . 160,000 Mississippi .... s • • • • 1,760 *233.480 Missouri .... f. • • • • • 2,096 880,000 Montana • ••• s 517 25,000 Nebraska . . . i . s • • s • l,34g 1S2.00Q Nevada .. « • ••• 549 6,*48 Js'ew Hampshire • s e e s 1,337 t>5,000 New Jersey.... • •• • • 3,970 284,887 New York ....42,846 7(30,000 North Carolina. e e e e e 1,659 240,000 North Dakota.. 545 50,000 Ohio »ee e ee» 6,057 ' 645,000 Oregon e e"e e e 1,565 46,305 Pennsylvania .. • • • • P, 8,932 806,230 Rhode Island.. i M i e i 1,372 73,§l5 South Carolina. * e • • e 4,674 181,000 South Dakota.. ik e 799 35,000 Tennessee e e *• # e 3,369 109,000 Texas ........ • %.• # « 3,000 . %8Q0,000 Vermont ...... • • e e * m - - ',144,164 Virginia i *M • * 3,107 ;i2o,ooo West Virginia. e e 838 : : *22,475 Washington ... • •••• 1,530 v |85,000 Wisconsin • e e e e 2,571 - #8,717 460 8,000 r < 7,600 Arizona ...... ses e a "503 _ 8,000 r < 7,600 New Mexico... • e e e e 470 25,000 Oklahoma .... • see e 130 Vjo.ooo 1,080 25,000 STARVING ILLINOIS MINERS. Pitiable Condition of Men Km ployed by the Spring Valley Coal Company* The condition of the miners employed by the Spring Valley, 111., Coal Company Is pitiable in the extreme, and if a change for the better is not soon forthcoming those hardy men and their families will succumb to starvation. They are hardly able to purchase the bare necessities of life, and were it not for the generosity of kind-hearted neighbors many of the miners and their families would have succumbed to the pangs of hunger and cold long before this. Not long ago a horse was killed near the railroad station, and within a couple of hours not a trace of the animal was left except its bones. The starving miners had carried home pieces of its carcass to their wives and children. It was the, first time they had fresh meat to eat in many months. Spring Valley contains a population of about 6,000, most of them being miners and their families. The houses they live in, the groceries at which they trade and the places where they obtain their supply of fuel are all owned by the Spring Val­ ley Coal Company. Before last summer, when the men went on a strike, in which they were unsuccessful, they averaged 50 cents a day, bnt did not have steady work. Since that time wages have been reduced one-third. When one takes into consid­ eration the fact that many of the men are without any employment at all, while others are engaged but part of the time, some idea of their condition may be gain­ ed. In those cases where miners do not live in company houses, the landlords find it impossible to collect rents, as the miners have not enough to buy the nec­ essaries of life, while those miners who live in company houses have their rent deducted from their wages, and often­ times find little or nothing left. After their rent and coal is deducted from their work checks on pay day most of them receive the balance in orders on the truck store wherkrthey get their goods, if there is any balance. If they do mot trade at. the truck store they take their checks straight to the grocery and give them up, leaving it to the business men to cash them. The truck store gives no credit If the miner has no wages coming to him from the company he can starve, as far as the truck store or coal company 1* concerned. THESTATE wMfe/rftiMow uMwnm, IS DOING. ̂ V.J Aa Impartial Record of the Woifc Accomplished bjr Those Who M*lr» Our Laws--How the Time Baa Bns Occupied D the Past Week. There wi tors in th when Presi order. Unai Senator Cra measure cont the distributioi Commissioners to the absence o convened without ing. About twei their sekts. Mr. 3 usual order of busi: that the House take ing. Mr. Lowenthal, objection there was J ent, whereupon Mr. M te Dada* riokUn* of day afterndoa the Senate to nt being given, a bill. The 1 change in the Board of >unty. Owin| in the House n of bless- were in ed that the _ ended and son first read- f Cook, raised the t a quorum pres- rdock moved as adjournment which motion prevailed. In the Senate TuesdaW morning two bills were passed, one to increase ̂the number of school inspectors in Joliet ftgg six to seven, and one to authorise dlfci 1 to establish houses of correction QtttsWi® their corporate limits, and\t™_-- and control for that purptMvdHIl extent of eighty acres. Mr. Needles presented a citizens of Centralia, prot the bill changing the terms Mayors of cities to four years which Mr. Kaiser's bill to pro! under 16 years of age from car1 ly weapons was passed was n The age was reduced to 14 years dents at military academies were ex* ed. The bill was then ordered to reading. The military appropriation was ordered to third reading and a li number of bills were advanced" to reading. The Senate joint resobrt§MI au­ thorising the Governor to recei^Hfc# Lin­ coln monument on behalf of referred to the Committee A bill to prohibit the loai funds to private banks or indf introduced in the State Legists nesday. Committee on Banks a: ing of the House favorably repol bill abolishing days of grace. Op| of the bill to amend the libel law its recommitment in the IIoux, and broke the quorum when it was attempted to re­ consider the vote. The Senate and House got Into * wrangle over adjournment Thursday and finally decided to meet at different hours on Saturday. Resolutions of sorrow at the death of Frederick Douglass were adopted by both branches of the Legisla­ ture. A bill to repeal the law giving the Catholic bishop of Chicago the right to acquire and hold property as a corpora­ tion sole was introduced in the House. the request of Senator Palmer, eX- Speaker Crafts will offer in the House a resolution indorsing President Clew- land's efforts to maintain the natioiral credit. Uncared-for Cats. Women and Bicycling. Dr. Douglas Hogg, of Paris, recently requested In the columns of the Paris Journal of Medicine the opinions of medical men as to whether bicycling was healthy or injurious to women. He has received forty-eight answers to his question from distinguished Eng­ lish, French, and other physicians. Of these thirty-six approve the exercise, if practiced In moderation, three recom­ mend It under certain conditions, while nine are totally opposed to bicycling for women. Among her most favorite treasures and reminiscences of the past the Queen keeps a brooch which belonged originally to Robert Bruce. o( Scofe> land, i My heart goes out to these homeless a> and uncared-for creatures, especially the cats of cities, to whom even area- doors are closed. The country abounds > with refuges, and even in the suburbs a cat Industriously disposed can pick up a living. But Into stone pavemenjp the poor parlali can not burrow, brown" stone fronts she can not scale; and though avenues are open on all sides, from her environments she can not escape. Nor can she find shelter. The street boy Is better off, In that he can contrive to get taken In whenever ho likes,̂ ut a cat in the city looking for a situation Is so entirely out of place that even the policemen leave her alone. Are there, then, too many cats in the world? Is it to no lasting good thai quiet neighborhoods have been dis- >' turbid by their noisy midnight gallan­ tries? ft would seem there is no need 1 of more than one cat to a mouse. But on the back yard on which I look I've counted seventeen of an afternoon, and not a mouse In sight Why cats art given to back yards is not easy to say. In no sense can they be called happy hunting grounds. Game is more plen­ tiful even on those Long Island rcachee that one ranges on autumn days (when the season Is said to have opened) In quest of quail. In these back yards, their seemingly favorite preserves, cat* catch nothing--if we except fits and the occasional tin can or old shoe fiung at them, the latter perhaps for Ittet&r* Llpplncott's. , i The Destructive Jackdaw. " In a gentleman's park in the county of Durham, says an English writer, m number of pheasants are reared every year. The keeper on going to feed then! was surprised to find the bodies of four of the young pheasants lying on the grass, outside of the coops, ivlthovt heads. He made careful search for vermin, such as rats or weasels, bnt without effect He left the dead pheasants for a while, and on his re­ turn found a considerable number nore disposed of in this way. He was quite puzzled and resolved to *eek as­ sistance. Fully tweaty young ones were disposed of all In the same way. After watching for a considerable time a pair of jackdaws made their appear* ance and were not long In commence ing their raid on the young ones again. They quietly dragged them out from below the hens and pulled their heads off and carried them to clump of trees, where they had their nest with young ones, and fed them with the heads. As soon as the keeper was satisfied that the jackdaws were the delin­ quents he shot them. In a tame state jackdaws arc- partial to a little raw flesh of any kind^^but I have never known them beforeNo^commlt each wholesale destruction. If they had not been detected they wonld meet probably have destroyed tbe whole % HI lot In a very short period of time. '.a..,,«.«sii, Mi t. \ L a > V . .iv,' :,AiHr ..tf/'5'*, kia *. .. - •»*,. "jit.a..* v..i WW..V f ; The Bishop's Triumph. The late Bishop Selwyn delighted to tell the following racy incident In his varied experience: While bishop of Litchfield he was walking one day in the Black Country, and observing a group of colliers seated In a semicircle, with a brass kettle hi front of them, inquired what was go­ ing on. :::% "Why, yer Honor," replied a grave- 6 looking member, "it's a sort of wager. - Yon kettle is a prize for the fellow wh6 can tell the biggest lie, and I am th* . umpire." . Amazed and shocked, the good b!sh» f op said reprovingly: "Why, my friend, I have never told " a lie that I know of since I was bom.'* There was a dead silence, broken only by the voice of the umpire, »k |IT|4||' 1 a deliberate tone: *• ^4; • "Gie the bishop the hettfe,* ̂ ̂ >, ' x ' - i ^ " i " \\l si ' * ' 6 * « • ' 4 ; *' y TV _ * *