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Derrick for Hay. This hay derrick for fidd stacking Is reported by a correspondent of the National Stockman as bavins worked satisfactorily. The frame can be bolt­ ed together If the maker wishes to take it down and put under shelter for use in after years or spiked together If he wishes to let it stand In the field. A pulley is used at each end of the long arm across the top. The pulleys can be best attachod to the arm by clevises of suitable size. A third pulley is at­ tached to one of the lower corners of the frame as most convenient when the derrick is in position for stacking. The base of the frame illustrated is 10 feet square, 10 feet high and 5 feet square at the top. Three sides are cross- braced. The fourth side Is not, as K FIELD HAY DERRICK. makes it more convenient to take the pole down. The pole is 25 feet long. It should be 7 inches in diameter at base and 5 inches at top. Across the runners at center use a piece of tim­ ber 2 Inches by 12 inches, 10 feet long, with 2-inch hole--or larger--in center for tenon, cut at end of pole to rest in, the shoulder around the tenon resting on the timber. The long arm is 15 feet long, and the correspondent thinks it should be two feet longer. Short end is 5% feet long, long end 11% feet. About three feet from the base of the pole will be noticed a projecting rod. This is one inch iron about four feet long, fitting in an auger hole in the ^ pole. This is used as a lever to turn the arm around over the stock when loaded. The high end of the long arm as shown in the illustration is about 28 feet from the ground. The frame must set close to the butt of stack or rick, the bulge of the stack coming out against the frame. To Stop Growth of Horn*. For stopping the growth of horns upon calves this mixture has been suc­ cessfully used in experiments conduct­ ed by the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Animal Indus­ try. Take fifty parts caustic soda, twenty-live parts of kerosene oil, and twenty-five parts of water. An emul­ sion is made of the oil and soda by heating and vigorously stirring, and this is then dissolved in water. The mixture should be placed in a bottle with a solid rubber cork. Thfe calves should not be over three weeks old, from five to twenty days being the proper age. A horn will sometimes be killed that is even from four to six weeks old, but It can not be depended upon with certainty. In applying the solution the following directions should be observed: With a pair of scissors clip the hair around the embryo horn eo as to expose a spot about the size of a nickel. While an assistant holds the calf securely drop two or three drops of the mixture on the horn, and with the ends of the rubber cork rub it thor­ oughly in over the bare spot. Apply the fluid fir^t to one horn, then the other, until each has received three or four applications. The rubbing should be continued until the caustic has soft­ ened and removed the hair and surface skin around the horn. Care should be taken that the fluid does not spread over too large a surface or run down the side of the faee.--The Jersey Hus­ tler. Moisture and Strawberries. Although strawberry plants will not thrive where the soil is permanently wet, they do require abundant mois­ ture both during the growing and fruiting seasons. The non-observance of this requirement is the occasion of heavy losses. In the first place, the ground for strawberries is often left until planting time before plowing, and breaks up in clods, occasioning much labor In preparation with harrow and roller. Although it may be possible to put such a soil into fairly good condi­ tion for planting, the water which lias been lost cannot be restored, and weeks may elapse before sufficient rain falls to keep the plants alive. It has been shown that more than 1,500 barrels of water per acre may escape from unplowed ground In one wees in excess of the quality which will pass off from an equal area which has been plowed early and harrowed at frequent Intervals. Moreover, the ground which has been plowed late will continue to' dry out during the sea­ son at a rate in excess of the early plowed. This shows plainly that plowing and frequent harrowing are essential in order to retain soil mois­ ture, even though planting may be de­ layed.--Ohio Agricultural Station. The Tomato Rot. The tomato rot is caused by a fungus which is blown by the wind from plant to plant or carried by insects. The best preventive for this Maeaw is to pbot on frtgfc sod ground tfeathas been fall* plowed, and use well-rotted manure mixed with a little phosphate. . As soon as the vaung fruit commences to form, spray the vines with the Bordeaux mixture after the dew is off. The vines should be sprayed once every ten days. The spraying not only kills the fungus, but it helps the growth of the vines; larger, finer and more perfect fruit can bo grown when the vines are thoroughly sprayed. It takes but one hour to spray thoroughly five hundred vines. Orchard Treatment, Good drainage, natural or artificial, ts essential to success. Trees are Im­ patient of wet feet. Good tillage increases the available food supply of the soil and also con­ serves its moisture. Tillage should be begun just as soon as the ground "is dry enough In the spring, and should be repeated as often as once in ten days throughout the growing season, which extends from spring until July or August Only cultivated crops should be al­ lowed In orchards early In the season. Grain and hay should never be grown. Even hoed or cultivated crops may rob the trees of moisture and fertility If they are allowed to stand above the tree roots. Watch a sod orchard. It will begin to fail before you know it. Probably nine-tenth^ of the apple or­ chards are in sod, and many of them are meadows. Of course, they are failing. The remedy for these apple failures is to cut down many of the orchards. For the remainder, the treatment is cultivation, fertilization, spraying--the trinity of orthodox apple growing. Potash is the chief fertilizer to be ap­ plied to fruit trees, particularly after they come into bearing. Potash may be had In wood ashes and muriate of potash. It is most com­ monly used in the latter form. An an­ nual aplication of potash should be made upon bearing orchards, 500 pounds to the acre. Phosphoric acid is the second im­ portant fertilizer to be applied arti­ ficially to orchards. Of the plain su­ perphosphates from 300 to 500 pounds may be applied to the acre. „ Nitrogen can be obtained cheapest by means of thorough tillage (to pro­ mote nitrification) and nitrogenous green manures. Barn manures are generally more economically used when applied to farm crops than when applied to or­ chards; yet they can be used with good results, particularly when rejuvena­ ting the old orchards. Cultivation may be stopped late In the season, and a crop can then be sown upon the land. This crop may serve as a cover or protection to the soil, and as a green manure.--Prof. Bailey, Cornell University. ' The Farmer Boy's Advantage. A sturdy American of the self-made stock is Tilly Haynes, known the coun­ try over. He said in Atlanta the other day, of the degeneracy of the Boston youth of Yankee stock: "Just look at that sign on Washington street. The first name is the patro^m of a Massa­ chusetts family which has been promi­ nent since colonial days. The second is that of a young German whom he has taken into partnership. When he dies the German's name will have first place. Our young men have begun to part their hair in the middle, and do not know how to roll a barrel. The young German and the young Irish­ man can lift up the barrel and carry it off--later they carry off the business, too." There Is a point here for youth In both city and country. The world wants workers--young men who mean business., who are reliable and who will develop capacity with experience. The farmer boy has a great advantage over the city lad in being "raised" among surroundings that bring out this spirit of Industry, that develop ability. The older we grow and the more we see of life the more do we realize that the country-bred man has a tremendous advantage In the battle of life. The boy is indeed fortunate who Is a farmer's •on.--Orange Judd Farmer. Way to "Cool" Sitting Hens. If rightly handled, the hen m.iy be induced in a few days to go to scratch­ ing and give up all idea of sitting, without being cruel to her, either. Get a grocery borx, or something similar, and convert it into the affair shown in cut. It has no botom, but one eud has a sloping top to throw off rain, and also protect the hen from the sun. The IRONY HISTORY. SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS FACING ' " TOWARD PROTECTION. A. SITTING HEX COOLER. remainder of the top is covered with slats. The two holes at the side, give the hen, or hens, access to dishes of water and food, which, by the way, should be light and small in quantity, to reduce "bidy's" condition. Oats are about the best substiute for "bread" when refractory hens thus have to be placed on "dungeon diet"'--Ohio Farmer. How Ringing Affect* Grapes. Ringing grapes is practiced by many growers to secure early maturity and larger bunches. It consists simply of removing a ring of bark from the bear­ ing arm between the main vine and the buds which are to produce fruit^the first season. This does not IrtteiTere with the ascent of the sap, btit It does prevent the return of the food that has been formed in the leaves. The parts'of the branch above the ring can draw upon all the food formed in the leaves of that branch. As a result the overfed bunches grow faster and become larger than they otherwise would. Neighbors' Trees. ' More than one court has decided that a person may chop off the branches of a neighbor's tree which hang over his line, first giving notice to the neigh­ bor of his intentions, that the owner ma,y chop them himself if he wishes to. The branches, however, belong to the owner of the tree, and must be thrown over the fence. Roots may also be chopped off, but nothing put into the ground to cause the death of the tree.--Practical Farmer. i They Are Urged to Forget the Free Trade Follies of the Past and to ••all Themselves of the PpiicfOwt Bring* Prosperity. "Between prosperity and tradition the choice should be prosperity." Such Is the closing sentence of an article of exceptional interest which lately ap­ peared In the New Orleans "States," a Democratic newspaper, over the signa­ ture "W. H. R." It is a conclusion full of force and strength. Well indeed it would be for the*South if It had long ago chosen for Its motto, "Prosperity rather than tradition." The tenor of the article printed by the "States" Is Protectionist. Obviously written by a Democrat and a former free-trader, Its argument is all the more effective in favor of the support of protection by the people of the Southern States. He •ays: If the South forces the tariff issue to the front again it will be detrimental to the best interests of this section. • • It is an inexorable fact that the South now needs a protective tariff more than any section of the Union. With cotton and its other agricultural staples at pres­ ent prices there is no apparent possibility in this section of rivaling the North in the accumulation of wealth as long as the chief local interest is agriculture. The South is naturally the best manufacturing region of the country. It has the ores, the coal, the timber and the intelligent popu­ lation to compete in industrial enterprises with any portion of the world, and its fu­ ture prosperity depends more upon the number of factories that are bliilt here than the quantity of cotton which can be raised to the acre. The South for years has borne what tvas to this section no doubt a burden in the form of a protective tariff, and at this hour when its industrial development has just begun it would indeed be superlative folly to cast aside what in the future will not be a load, but a fostering influence in the development of its resources. What the tariff has done in the past foe the North it is calculated to do in the fu­ ture for the South. The infant industries of the present are located below the Ma­ son and Dixon line, and it is a question if a large percentage of Northern manu- facturers^ would not soon be better off with free trade and unrestricted European competition than with protection by tariff and the South doing as much industrially as its resources warrant. Then follows a stirring appeal to the Democrats of the Southern States to follow Samuel J. Randall's advice and "get together." But it is to be a new sort of getting together. Instead of maintaining an unbroken front for free trade, as they have done for nearly three-quarters of a century, they are now urged to "get together" on the tariff question and concentrate their strength for the continuation of the protective policy. rerliaps the oddest feature of this rallying call is the rea­ son cited in support of the plea for prompt action--namely, the possibility that the flourishing industries of the North may, in a few years' time, de­ cide to abandon protection rather than see its aid extended to the establish­ ment of powerful competing Industries in the South. It is the dread of such an eventuality that impels the wrltef In the States to say to his fellow Demo- era ts: The Republican party is not so wedded to the protective tariff theory that it will seek to perpetuate the Dingley or any other variety of the article a day longer than it serves the mercantile interests of the States it controls. It would be the irony of fate, indeed, if tariff for revenue only, or free trade, became a national pol­ icy at the hour when it would blight the infant industries of the South like a Da­ kota blizzard. Whatever the irony of fate may have In store for Southern Democrats In the far future, it is the irony of history to find so aueer a turn as this In the me­ andering ways of politics--to find the party which followed Calhoun's lead into the ranks of free trade chiefly be­ cause protection was building up New England and the Eastern States into great manufacturing commonwealths whose potency lu national affairs men­ aced the Soutli's supremacy, now con­ templating a swift right-about face to protection lest that policy should be abandoned by the North through fear or jealousy of a great industrial rivalry from the mills and factories which the South shall build up by the aid of pro­ tection. Politics has furnished few de­ velopments more unique than this. In any case, however, It is to be construed as a cheering Indication of the dawn of better things in the South. That por­ tion of our common country will pros­ per mightily when its people shall once for all turn their backs upon a past full of mistakes and stand with their faces toward a future full of promise. As "between prosperity and tradition the choice should be prosperity." Un­ doubtedly.--American Economist The Significance of Peffer. Among the various recent signs of the break-up of the Populist party the return of ex-Senator Peffer to the Re­ publican party is significant in Its evi­ dence that the original sincere Farm­ ers' Alliance element is recognizing that the cause of the troubles from which it sought relief in political action was not in politics at all. This, as proof of conviction of error among mis­ guided Populists, is more important than the defeat of misguiding Populists like W. V. Allen, Jerry Simpson and J. Hamilton Lewis, or even the admis­ sion of that defeat by practical profes­ sional Populists like Senator Harris, Peffer's successor. The man whose "whiskers" were for six years as much the sign and symbol of a militant party as were the horse tails. of the Janissaries, represented Populism both at its worst, or at least wildest, and best. In his day, the day of the defeat of Ingalls, the day of the Ocala platform and the pumpkin sub- treasuries--the day, too, of the-remark­ able strength displayed in the election of 1892, even under the lead of such a man as Weaver--the party was most revolutionary, but also most sincere, in its alms. It really thought that some legislation could be found which would make crops permanently dear and money normally cheap, and it set out honestly to find it. Meantime, those of its members who practiced frugality and cultivated patience have found, not the millennial heights Which they sought--though they have been nearer J to them than any other farmers on ( earth--Hie steady level of welfare which mtfirtJ attend every land, such our agricultural West where the soil Is rich and cheap and the people hard­ working, intelligent and free. This sort of Populist came out of the Re­ publican party, and thousands of him have- been returning, as the elections to Congress of last year showed.--New York Press. In Colonel Bryan's State. The report of tbe Labor Bureau of Nebraska^ which has recently been is­ sued by an official of Colonel Bryan's faith, will not become a part of the 16 to-1 literature of 1900. It deals With that, mortgage question which Mr. Bryan never failed to turn to his ad­ vantage in his speeches in 1896, by tell­ ing farmers that they were being ground to death By the "money power"' of Wall street and by waning them that unless the country should get rid of the gold standard and adopt a 45- cent dollar, they would fall into hope­ less bondage. The farmers of Ne­ braska believed Mr. Bryan, at least, a majority of them did, aud gave him the electoral vote of that State, and the farmers of Kansas did likewise. With the rest,of the country, the farmers of Nebraska now know that the ruin and perpetual bondage never came. In­ stead, Nebraska is one of the States which, to the amazement of the Popu­ lists, has been having a season of un­ usual prosperity. That such Is the case the following table, giving the aggregate amounts of the mortgages filed and released each year in Ne­ braska from 1892 to 1898, both Includ­ ed, shows; • Filed. . Released. 1892. $38,847,633 . 131,912,267 189 3 ..s. 34,001,318 26,178,745 1894 31,690,054 2< >.438,090 1895 25,753,364 22,<548,917 189 6 16,474,(i06 18,213,382 189 7 15,630,721 22,215,758 189 8 21,303,855 27,498,070 The foregoing figures embrace farm mortgages only. The auuual amount of farm mortgages filed exceeded the amount released by more than $23,000,- 000 during the years 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1895. During 1896 the tide turned so that during the three years ending with 1898, $14,000,000 more of mort­ gages were paid off than were filed. The same report shows that there Is much more money in the banks now than ever before, and that those bor­ rowing money on farm mortgages get it at a much lower rate of interest Of all the men in the country who have been benefited by the defeat of Mr. Bryan in 1896, the farmers as a whole have had the largest share. The voters in the uewer West aud, indeed, in the West generally, gave Mr. Bryan and 16-to-l the most cordial support because many of them were deceived by his fallacies. Tlie elections of 1898 showed a reaction In the agricultural portions of the country against the sll- verlsm of Bryan. Suppose Mr. Bryan does not take note of the Improved con­ dition of the farmers of Nebraska and other States and comes to them with his argument of 1896--what will they say?--Indianapolis Journal. American Trade (expansion. Everywhere American mechanical genius and American workmen com­ pete and win.--New York -Evening Journal. American genius, in the form of agri­ cultural implements, finds favor even on the estates of Englishmen.--Balti- mote American. "American locomotive--get off the track!" is the warning that resounds through tbe manufacturing centers of England.--Detroit Free Press. Our present trade expansion is but a prelude to the vast proportions which the American export trade will assume a few years hence.--Philadelphia Rec­ ord. Now that London has taken to order­ ing Its locomotives here, It appears to be time for chappies to stop ordering their trousers iu London.--Baltimore Herald. Every European market has been In­ vaded by the United States and Great Britain's trade has suffered in conse­ quence. It is not difficult to supply an explanation. A better article at a lower figure has been furnished to consum­ ers by American manufacturers. The English make many articles by hand, which we make by machinery. They have thus fallen l>ehind American man­ ufacturers in trade competition be­ cause of inferior skill and higher cost of production.--St. Louis Republic. WEST HAS SIX TORNADOES. IeWa, "Nebraska and South Dakota' Are Great Sufferers. Sioux City was ia the center of six tor­ nadoes Tuesday night which did much damage in Iowa, South Dakota and Ne­ braska. One storm struck near Kings- ley, Iowa, a second near Jefferson, S. D., and three across the Missouri river is northeastern Nebraska. One life is re­ ported lost and several were injured. A tornado swept over the northwest part of Mills County, Iowa, doing consid­ erable damage to farm property and ruin­ ing crops. The house and barn and out­ buildings of John Rohrburg, a prominent farmer living two miles north of Mineoia, wer» totally destroyed, his little girl, aged 11 years, was killed, one of his boys had a leg broken and the balance of the fam­ ily were more or less seriously injured. Barns and corn cribs were destroyed and farm implements scattered. A cyclone formed about three miles southwest of Kingsley, Iowa, and moved north about one mile, where it struck and demolished the large barn and outbuildings on the William Adams farm west of town. From this place it moved north to the farm own­ ed by W. A. Stevens, where it demolished every building on the place. A family by the name of Johnson, who lived at this place, was saved by going into the cave. In South Dakota the damagp was all confined to the farms. No loss of life is believed to have occurred. The tornado, which swept through a thickly settled country, did not hit many farm houses, although it passed very close to many of them, their escape from destruction seem­ ing almost miraculous. There ,were three twisters in northeast­ ern Nebraska. The storm that passed be­ tween Ponca and , Newcastle followed along the ground for several miles befow it broke up. John Wilber lost everything but his house. Charles Murfin's house and barn were'wrecked, Samuel Green's barn was destroyed and Jacob Dennis lost both his house and barn. James Cone's house was totally destroyed. George Wal- beck's barn was blown away. A sec­ ond storm destroyed a great deal of proj> erty near Martinsburg and killed consid­ erable live stock. A,third wrecked a school house at Plainview and did other damage. North of Dixon, Neb., the tor­ nado completely leveled all the buildings on several farms and badly injured others. Considerable live stock was killed and crops destroyed. The funnel-shaped clouds were seen by many persons, who hastily betook, themselves to cellars. NICARAGUA CANAL ESTIMATES. Alm«nwor of State Department Gives Commission's Report. The State Department has made public an official abstract of the report of tjie Nicaraguan canal commission as present­ ed by Admiral Walker, the head of the commission. It is understood to be the intention ot the President to submit the full report to Congress at the beginning of the next session. The report goes into minute details with respect to the construction of the canal, aud says after mature deliberation the commission has adopted and estimated for the route from Brito to Lake Nicaragua* called Childs' route, and from the lake to Greytown, called Lull route. The line leaving Brito follows the left bank of the Rio Grande to near Bueno Retire, crosses the western divide to the valley of the Lajas, which it follows to Lake Nicara­ gua. Crossing the lake to the head of the San Juan river, it fallows the upper river to near Boca San Carlos, thence, in ex­ cavation, by the left bauk of the.river to tbe San .Tuanillo, and across the low coun­ try to Greytown. passing to the north­ ward of Lake Silfico. It requires but a single dam, with regulating works at both ends of the summit level. To determine the proper unit of prices for excavation the average of prices ae tually paid to contractors on the Chicago drainage canal were taken. To these prices certain percentages were added for the difference In Ideation, climate, etc. The commission believes that a canal can be huilt across the isthmus on this route for not exceeding $118,113,790. ABOUND A BIG STATE NATIVES SEEK VENGEANCE. Massacre and I'illaee Follow Betlre- ment of UtUVArnr. Massacre and pillage have followed tbe retirement of the United States army from villages captured during the present Philippine campaign. It was found im­ possible to leave garrisons at all'the towns and withdrawal from many was neces­ sary. In each case armed Filipinos have reoccupied the cities, their first acts being to punish all suspect^ of approving of American sovereignty. jFrieudly natives arriving in Manila vfcQm flie country around San Isidro and San Miguel report i that a reign of terror has prevailed since the American troops were withdrawn from those parts of the islands. The in surgents who ate returning there deal ven­ geance upon those of' their countrymen who showed any friendship toward the Americans during the latter's occupation of the territory. The t'riendiies declare that unoffending people are being murdered daily, their houses burned and their property confis­ cated. Plenty of sympathizers with the The Difference. People are never aware of their own peculiarities of dialect. The cockney i insurrection remained during the Ameri can never understand what people mean in saying that he drops his h's, aud the New England woman will not believe that she pronounces Haunah "Hanner" and Esther "Estha." The Scotchman, being naturally an opin­ ionated person, is quite sure that he is faultless of accent, although no one Is more richly endowed with it. It is related of a Scottish literary man who lately visited in this country that he was taken to task one day by his own daughter for the broadness of his utterance iu pronouncing the word "difference." "How do I pronounce it?" he asked. "You say 'dufference,'" she an­ swered. "And what do you say?" " 'Difference,' " she rejoined. Looking at his daughter a moment and getting her to repeat the word, he said: "Well, now, will you be so kind as to tell me the dufference between duffer­ ence and dufference?" Their Preference. Certain politicians of the nobler class --there are many of them--have the soul of an honorable but shrewd mer­ chant, who sells in the dearest and buys in the cheapest market. He wish­ es to get his money's worth for his money, but he always gives full and just measure. There are also politicians, and they are not few, either, who may say with the Scotch trader on his death-bed: "Oor faimly were aye middlin' hon­ est; we neither liked to chate nor to be chated, but o' the twa, reyther to chate." In some parts of the, old world the charred fragments of a yule log, If placed in a building, will protect It from lightning. In a town of Perugia not long ago discussion resulted In re­ jection of a lightning rod in favor of tbe yule log ashes for use to protect a church. cans' stay and they have been reporting these instances of friendliness toward the United States troops. The refugees add that tbe inhabitants were badly <»ppress- ed by the native soldiers before the Amer­ ican occupation, but that their condition is worse n'ow. Doubtless there is much truth in the reports, though such stories fpom Filipino sources are always magnified. News of the Railway**. London capitalists intend to build a rail road line in Alaska from Norton sound to the Yukon river. Word from the cogst says the Van do in­ tuits are about to complete a line from Salt Lake to Los Angeles. Official notice has been given of the pur­ chase of the ST. Louis and Northern Short Line by the Chicago aud Alton. It is believed by officials that no change will be made iu the present arrangements for transporting United States mail from Chicago west. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois road is laying eighty-pound- steel rails on its north-bound track between Chicago and Danville, 111. Intervening petitions filed in tbe suit to foreclose the Wisconsin Central Company mortgage wive withdrawn in the Milwau­ kee courts, and the way is cleared for re­ organization. Extensive improvements are to be made on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad be­ tween Chicago ami Pittsburg. Over fifty bridges will lie rebuilt, heavier rails laid and the track doubled in a number of places. Central Passenger Association lines have decided to institute low rates for the annual convention of tin* National Educa­ tional Association to Los Alleles. Cul. Prospccts for a peaceful settlement of the differences between Western railroads are now poorer tlian ever before. The fu­ ture management of the immigrant bureau is the problem ou which tbe" passenger agents are unable to agree. Omaha is eujoying a war <>t words over freight rates. The State Business Men's Association has taken up the complaint of the Norfolk Business Men's Association charging Nebraska roads with discrimina­ tion in freight rates and criticising the State Board of Arbitration BRIEF COMPILATION &: ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. AMtrbjRrlatllhll Made by the Last Legislature--Supposed Dead Man la United with Hia Relatives-Ladd la Nearly Depopulated - Bad Wreck. The total amount of appropriations passed by the Forty-first General Assem­ bly, as shown by a compilation made by Chief Clerk W. H. Eubanks, in the Audi- tor's^office, is $12,537,<555.57, of which $7,- 95(>,i <5.71 is payable during the year end­ ing June 30, 1900, and $4,600,879.86 dur­ ing the year ending June 30, 1901. The appropriations are classified as follows: "Courts, $03,341.33; University of Illi­ nois and State normal schools, $1,134,- 424.68; charitable institutions, $4,418,- 461.10; State Government commissions, etc., $2,056,873; penal and reformatory, $1,085,600; agriculture and horticulture, $206,186.70; libraries, $21,480; Lincoln home and monument, $106,700; military, $1,027,898.02; school fund, $2,114,000; commission 6f claims, $34,391.72; miscel­ laneous, $258,300." The tax levy hill au­ thorizes a levy annually for State pur­ poses of $3,300,000, and there will be on hand on the 1st of July approximately $2,- 000,000, which, with the estimated reve­ nue from the Illinois Central Railroad, Secretary of State, insurance department and other sources, will bring the total much above what is required for the first year. The amount required for the sec­ ond year is not so large by $3,000,000, and the demands can easily be met. Find a Long-Lost Brother. There was an affecting scene in St Jo­ seph's hospital in Breese the other day, when Leon, Frederick and Martha Huber- isch met. The first-named was thought to be dead. Leon Iluberisch, about 40 years of age and a complete stranger in Clinton County, was dangerously wounded in a cutting affray near Germantown and was removed to the hospital in Breese. A let­ ter addressed to him there passed through the hands of the mother superior of the sisters. Her sister had been married to a man of similar name, and Huberisch, when questioned, admitted his identity. The brother, a wealthy citizen of New York City, was notified, and, accompanied by a sister, left immediately for Breese. The last time they had seen each other was twenty-five years ago, when Leon Huberisch left a comfortable home ia Ger­ many to seek his fortune in America. Bad Wreck on the Northweatern. The northern Illinois division of the Chi­ cago and Northwestern Railway was blocked for ten hours the other night on account of a freight wreck at Henrietta. A heavy train, bound for Milwaukee, was running in two sections, each section be­ ing a double header. Near Henrietta the first section broke in two, and the second section ran into It. The crash was ter­ rific. The two big moguls plowed their way through several cars and then plung­ ed over into the ditch. Engineers Tom Hendricks and Dan McCoy stayed at their posts until a moment before the crash, and both miraculously escaped death. Hen­ dricks was thrown into a barbed wire fence, and McCoy was nearly caught un­ der the debris. Both sustained injuries, but uot of a serious nature. Warrants for Illegal Voting. The village of Ladd has been thrown in­ to considerable excitement by the whole­ sale swearing out of warrants for the ar­ rest of nearly 100 men, charged with ille­ gal voting at a township and village elec­ tion held there this spring. Several are said to have voted at the township elec­ tion, a few days later took out their citi­ zenship papers and then voted at the vil­ lage election. So many have fled to es­ cape arrest that the village is nearly de­ populated. Only two arrests have been made. ( hoota Wife, Son and Himself. James Lynch, a prosperous saloonkeep­ er of East St. Louis, shot and mortally wounded his wife and stepson, William Kelley, aged 15, and then put a bullet into his own head. The shooting occurred during a quarrel between Lynch and his stepson, when Mrs. Lynch took the boy's part. This infuriated Lynch, who shot both in the back. His two victims were mortally wounded. Lynch, who will not die from his wound, has been placed un­ der arrest. Brief State Happenings. James Neweomb, father of Blossom Newcomb, the Richview girl who died under suspicious circumstances in St. Louis, has been guarding her grave with a shoturun and defies any officer to disinter the body. . The jury in the case of Dr. J. W. Ai^n of Tennessee, on trial for murder by nial- practice, returned a verdict of guilty and recommended punishment at fifteen years in the penitentiary. A motion was at once made for a new trial. Chester Hettinger, 7 years old, was hit in the head by a baseball in Chicago and his skull was fractured. He was watch­ ing a game between local clubs. A foul ball, glancing from the club of the batter, struck him behind the left ear. W. II. Moore of St. Louis, president of the State and Interstate Good Roads and Public Improvement Association, has been waking up the State in the interest of the "good roads" convention which will be held in St. Louis in November. M rs. Mary E. Russell of Wataga has begun damage proceedings for alleged slander and libel in the Circuit Court at Galesburg, demanding .$25,000 from her mother, Mrs. Ellen Sopcr of Wataga. Mrs. Russell alleges that her mother has for a long time been saying and writing defamatory things about her. severely re­ flecting on her character, harassing her and damaging her reputation. Mrs. So- per is a Wealthy woman. The trouble grows out of a family quarrel. Mrs. Rus­ sell has also brought a suit for $10,000 damages against Mrs. Mary Butler of Wataga ou a similar charge. Adjt. Gem Recce has issued *n order honorably discharging from tire military service of the State Privates Coral S. Jones and John It. Wright, Company C, First infantry, Chicago. Mrs. Fred Morse, a pioneer resident of Belvidere, died after an extended illuess. She was the mother of W- E. Morse, sup­ erintendent of I he Galena division of the Chicago and Northwestern. Mrs. Lucinda Pratt, believed to be the oldest ""person in Illinois, died at the home of her (laughter in Chicago. Mrs. Pratt was li>3 years old, having been born May 5, lT'.Hi, at l'ittslield. Mass. Ada Bothner, the actress who made a pronounced success as. Teddy in Hoyt's "Bunch of Keys," died at Sherman hos­ pital. Elgin, of spinal meningitis. Her trouble was brought oa by overwork and constant traveling. Miss Bothner was born in England thirty-three years ago, and first appeared in opera. W. H. Binnian went to New York re­ cently to arrange for tli? shipment of one of the largest orders of agricultural ma­ chinery to South A me 'ca that has ever been made from the United States. This machinery will go to the Argentine Re­ public and the shipment will consist of seventy-aeven *-ar loads ©f Peoria harvest­ ers. * • A. Harmon of Chicago wis jfawt--g to Atlin lake, Alaska. , ̂ ̂ Wisconsin Central freight depot, cago, burned. Loss $40,000. ^ Isaac Petersen of Sonth Chicago kfflat himself by cutting his throat ^Eleavy rains la Chicago overtaxed the sewerage system, and streets were flood­ ed. Marcus A. De Coudes, 98, Chicago^ known for his support of missions 1b China and Burmah, is dead. August T. Sickman was arrested in New York, charged with embezzling $3,800 from a Chicago building and loan com­ pany. Gov. Tanner has appointed Henry G. Bothwell as chief clerk of the northern penitentiary at Joliet vice R. W. lie- Claughry, Jr., son of Warden Mc- Claughry. Trustees of the sanitary district let the contract for the Bock Island Railroad bridge over the Des Plaines river at JoBet to the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company for $14,720. Pierrepont Isham, Chicago, a society leader and bar partner of Robert Lincoln, has been sued for divorce by his wifc^ Emma, who alleges cruelty, drunkenness and neglect. Hugh Todd, a pioneer resident of Illi­ nois, died at his home three miles north­ east of Elgin. Mr. Todd was born hi Scotland July 24, 1818, and came to Illi­ nois in 1837. A collision between the St Paul limited train of the Chicago and Northwestern rind a passenger engine at Desplaines re­ sulted in the death of one maxi and the injury of three others. The Akron Mining, Milling and Manu­ facturing Company has bought the plant of the defunct Hercules iron worka la Aurora and will move there. The works have been located at West Pullman. It is believed there will be no tug trust to control towing properties on the lakes. The price placed on their business by the two tug companies of Buffalo Is said to have caused the collapse of the project Litchfield has been unable to raise the money for the annnal meeting and tourna­ ment of the Illinois Firemen's Association, and Peoria thinks of raising the necessary $3,000 to get the meeting Aug. 1, 2 and 3. A. W. Durham, aged 67 years, died at Harrisburg of catarrh of the stomach. He was prominent and quite wealthy. In 1863 he was sheriff of Saline County, and in 1889 was elected Mayor of Harrisburg. In addition to the $500,000 endowment by Mrs. Lydia Bradley to the Bradley In­ stitute at Peoria, she has deeded land in Mason, Tazewell and Kankakee counties to the value of $112,000 to that instituted Loaded with eight persons, an elevator in the Marquette building, Chicago, drop­ ped from the tenth floor, but was brought to a sudden stop between tbe second and third floors by the action of the safety clutches. As a result of strong winds and a dust- laden atmosphere, an epidemic of sore eyes prevails in Chicago. In many cases the inflamed eyes develop sties, which, while not dangerous, are painful and not things of beauty. Censure for a Christian Science healer was contained in the verdict handed down by the coroner's jury in the case of Edna Hollo, 4 years old, who died of diphtheria at 755 West Chicago avenue without med­ ical attendance. Two switch engines of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Nos. 1123 and 941, pulling freight ears in the yards at South Chicago, collided. One man was killed, two others slightly injured and both en­ gines demolished. Officers of the Second Illinois volunteer infantry presented Col. George M. Moul- ton with a sword and belt. The hilt is solid mother-of-pearl and gold and the blade genuine Damascus steel, while the scabbard is plated with gold. Lawndale, six miles north of Lincoln, was struck by a tornado and much dam­ age is reported, but no fatalities. The path of the storm was 150 feet wide and about half a mile long. Houses were un­ roofed and many barns were overturned, besides chimneys blown off and big trees uprooted. Mrs. Gertrude V. Reber, 4029 Ellis ave­ nue, daughter of Dr. W. B. Farwell, at one time one of Chicago's leading citi­ zens, has begun proceedings, as conserva­ tor for her insane mother, to recover a dower interest in an estate of $2,000,00% which includes real estate in Chicago, Iowa and Wisconsin. At Crystal Lake,-Sullivan S. Shepard, commander of Nunda Post, No. 226, G. A. R., dropped dead while leading the mem­ bers of his post on their return from the services at the cemetery. His son, Frafrk L. Shepard, is chief commander of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America and resides in Chicago. Mrs. Annie Guderyham of Chicago wai " taken to a hospital with a set of false teeth in her skull. She was not revived until the superfluous teeth had been ex­ tracted. Mrs. Guderyham acquired the teeth in a strange way. She was crossing Cottage Grove avenue when she collided with a tandem ridden by A. J. Nicolet and C. J. Cutthett. Nicolet was riding in front. In the collision his teeth were jarred out and Mrs. Guderyham's head struck them with such force that they en­ tered it. A few days ago fifty Elgin men, from all walks of life, ranged themselves on sides and started to hunt crows. The total number killed was over 600. The losing side was to pay for a supper for all. There is a discrepancy in the reports.- As a re­ sult another big hunt will soon be had. with other leaders. The Burlington (Kane County) Gun Club, thirteen members* slaughtered 419 crows in one day, an av­ erage of over thirty-two crows to the man. Tbe highest number killed by one hunter was sixty-nine. Farmers made up a parse, which was divided into four amounts. Will Pratt won first money, Fred McGough second, Louis Struck third, and Frank McConnell fourth. Crow hunting in that vicinity is all the go at present. The Board of Supervisors will be petitioned to pay a bounty on crows. The Circuit clerk of Henderson Couaty has completed an abstract of the tax sale records of the county for the last seventy years. It shows that there has scarcely been a tract of land in the county that has not at some time been sold for taxes, and some ol them as often as forty times. An examination of the records in Ma­ con County shows that since July 1, 1892, the aggregate amount of money loaned OB farms iu sums of $2,000 and up is $3,268^- 100. Of this sum the total amount paid off since July 1. 1892. is $893,000. This leaves §2,374,200 that is still owed ia mortgages ou Macon County land. • * Teachers in the Chicago public schoolabf who have taken advantage of the l*w which puts them beyond the fear of nishment proceedings are to be made to pay "their just debts or resign their posi­ tions. At Moutieello. Mrs. Charles Osborn, 25 years old, was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning ami two other women and a -small child in the same room were uncon­ scious for nearly half an hour. The child of the Osborns was ill and the father had gone for the doctor. When be returned home he found the dead body of his wtf» on the floor of the kitchen and conscious fcrms of the other three tered Her. tit dtffll • *• • 4i •C 3- 'i " * v $ 4 ' ̂