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/ ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR SfARTUNG, FAITH- v FULLY RECORDED. JLaat Act in a Terri torney-General Mali Tradition About Legal Residem Gambler Rccov'erb Money. Anna Kahn Goes Up for.life. Last November Geo. Centrill was bang- f l i n S t . C l a i r C o u n t y f o r t h e m u r d e r o f . Frederick Kahn, Aug. 7,-1894. TKahn's '*>r*soa w i f e , . A n n a , w a s jSsfej-- charged with com- * Plicit-V ®u t^ie crime and her trial end­ ed at Belleville At Champaign Mrs. Kate Gillander fell 1 down a stairway and broke her neck. "Senator J. C. Burrows* of Kalamazoo, will speak in Elgin on Memorial Day. City Council of Hillsboro passed an or­ dinance prohibiting screens°in saloon's, Mfembe^s of the First Presbyterian Church of Rockford have voted to build a new church. a • y ' - - An investigation at Bloomington show­ ed the Aldermen had not interfered with the Mayor in the enforcement of the rs. * .• •• ^ ' * ert Feakin, who sTiot and danger- ,ously\younded Chris Meyer last fall, was 'sentenced at Freeport to twelve years in MRS. ANNA KAHN. naming the death ^ p e 11 a 1 t y. Mrs. M Kahn heard the terrible sentence without flinching or showing any emotion. U p o n Mrs. K a h n' s re­ turn to the county jail one of the fe­ male "prisoners asked her what was to be done with her, and she replied coolly, "Oh; they are going to hang me." Some one then said, "Our Governor don't hang women," and she quickly asked, "Will he let me get out then?". She seemed jjot to realise her situation. A monster petition was forwarded to Gov. Altgeld asking commutation to life sentence, and in the meantime her attorneys succeeded in getting a new trial. Saturday Judge Wilderman granted it on "the ground that the 'male accessory was "the more guilty. She thereupon pleaded guilty,, ^claiming, however, that she had not murdered her husband. Judge Wilderman then sen­ tenced her Yo life imprisonment at Ches­ ter penitentiary. This closes the last chapter of the history of one of the most brutal crimes in the annals of the crim­ inal history of the State. Rev. H. D. Onyett, pastor of the Cum­ berland Presbyterian Church in Virginia, has resigned, at^d will enter the Decatur presbytery Apri] 1. Thomas J.effersOn, of .Quincy, who served seven years in tiie peiii veifr' of guiltjv the-jury J.for robbery, has been^restorM fo citSeu- Feb. O in a verdict CANADIAN COMPETITION LOW­ ERS THE--PRICE OF EGGS. Large Importation Since the New Tar­ iff Went-Into Effect--Jefferson as Democrat--The Income Tax rJH'ade Necessary--What Free .Woo: His Washing Cuts No Figure. It has long been a tradition that a man could establish a legal residence in a par­ ticular voting precinct by ^ having his washing done in that precinct, even if he slept elsewhere, but Attorney General Moloney refuses-to recognize the validity of this tradition. He declares that the place where a man has his washing done cuts no figure whatever in determining his legal residence and his right to vote in a particular precinct. If. this depend­ ed upon where a man had his washing done, he says, thousands of men in the United States would be unable to estab­ lish their right to vote. Every intra-' is supposed to have a residence somewhere, but the Atorney General holds that whether he has his washing done in a cer­ tain place or whether he has no washing done at all, has in law nothing.to. do with the question as to what place is his legal residence. _ Decision Against an Kx-Sheriff. Judge Roily, of Edwardsville, rendered judgment against George Ilotz, late sher­ iff of Madison County, in favor of P. W. Mullally, manager of a gambling house at Madison, for $301. The money was ,captured in a raid made upon the gam­ bling den some time last November by Hotz, who was at that time sheriff of the county. He retained the money until last month, in order to let the courts deter­ mine ,to whom it belonged. Some time in February the Board of. Supervisors directed Ilotz, whose term of office had expired, to pay the amount into the coun­ ty treasury, which lie did. He has taken an appeal to the Appellate Court from the judgment. Record of the Week. Mine operators in the Springfield dis­ trict have reduced the scale of wages, and jar general strike is likely. >Tiiie saloonkeepers of "Naperville were indicted by the Grand Jury for selling to minors and violating the Sunday law. Gov. Altgeld granted papers restoring the rights of citizenship; to Thomas Thorpe." of Chiciyjo, who served eighteen months at .Toliet prison. District Lodge, No. 1, I. O. G. T., comprising the Good Templars in the northern part of the State, has closed its semi-annual session in Freeport. Burr Bros., of Rockford. one of the largest wholesale grocery houses in Illi- iwu; outside of Peoria, have arranged to move their business to Freeport from Rockford. Henry Hixon. a saloonkeeper of Cairo, was waylaid while returning home from his place of business, knocked in the head with a sTting-shot and robbed of over $:-K)0. Hixoii will die from the injuries re­ ceived. The 11-year-old son of Ralph Camp­ bell. of Versailles, was killed while trying to board a freight train. Five cars passed over his body, cutting it in two. Mississippi River fishermen returning to Keithsburg with the first catch of the season report many of the sloughs and bogs almost covered with dead fish. Tliousaiids of lish smothered under the ice during the winter,- At Springfield n mass meeting was held in Representatives' Hall by those inter­ ested in the reform of indigent inebriates and to stimulate interest in the bills now pending before the House and Senate providing a method of curing drunkards at the expense of the county from which they arc sent. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Klein, who, after prayer by Rev. M. F. Troxell, chaplain of the Senate, spoke at some length. This wps followed by an excellent address by wol. N. A. Reed. Jr., of Chicago, editor of the Banner of Gold. Mrs. I. N. Ives, of the Woman's Auxiliary Kceley League of Illinois, made an address. Mrs. Mary A. Seymour, M. IX, of the Illinois Nonpar­ tisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, also spoke. Thomas E. Barry, national secretary of the Kceley League, spoke of the benefits derived by those who have taken the cure. An address was also made by Ben F. Mason, of Bloomington. who was followed by other members, who gave short addresses. Canton Odd Fellows dedicated their pew $2O.«0O temple. Grand Master Phil­ lips. of Virginia, participated in the ex­ orcises. A ball was given in the lodge rooms. Mayor .Tames M. Truit. of Hillsboro. has tendered 0his resignation- to the City Council and Aid. Joseph F. Pollard, the only Democratic member of the Council, was elected acting Mayor. George Hastings ("lied of typhoid pneu­ monia at La Prairie. The members of two families are in,a dangerous condition and a score of people are ill, caused by drinking Water from a" slough well. The City Council of Blomington lias Settled tlje water supply question by agreeing to adopt the air lift plan. The power house of the Bloomington Electric Light and Power Company at Bloomington was totally destroyed, by fire. The loss i's'$50,4300; insurance, about one-half. The building had just been equipped with new electric and engine plants. The Ottawa Council has passed an or­ dinance forfeiting the'Ottawa Street Rail­ way Company's franchise so far-as it re­ lates to the South Side system, which extends from Lafayette street across the Illinois River and runs to the end of Center atreSw ship by the Governor. Dr. Clark B. Provins, of Ottawa, lias filed a cross-bill in the case for divorce brought by his wife. He asks for a di­ vorce,/alleging cruelty. A large bridge on the Chicago1 and Great Western fliree miles southwest of Freeport was partly destroyed by fire, thought to have been incendiary. The Hillsboro City Council has passed an ordinance prohibiting saloonkeepers from having any shrub, show-bill, parti­ tion or other article in any saloon which shall tend to obstruct the view of the in­ terior of the saloon from persons in front thereof. John. Tadlock has entered suit in the Marion County Court against Odin Coal and Mining Company for $50,000, Luther Wemgartner for $10,000,. John Christy and George Bain for $20,000 each and Samuel Smith for $10,000, for injuries received in the mine explosion there. C. E. Pierson, employed as a temper­ ance lecturer at Chicago, fell down stairs in the Midland Hotel and was probably fatally injured. It was said Mr,. Pierson "had passed the greater' portion' of the afternoon in several downtown resorts. He was barely able to asceM the stairs ' without assistance, and when he reached the top. fell backward. Jonathan Pierce, of Fayette, was ar­ rested on a charge of swindling Charles Walters, a Green County farmer, out of $520. Pierce, it is claimed, and a third man, whose name is not known, contract­ ed to sell Walters $3,000 in green goods for $520. Walters paid over the $520 to the third man. who stepped into a house in Carrolton, to count over the $3,000 for Walters. Instead of returning he went out. of the back door, and has not been heard of since. •3 Gov. Altgeld issued the following'proc­ lamation designating arbor day: "The statutes of our State provide that one day in each year shall be set aside as arbor day. Now, therefore, by virtue of the power thus in me vested, I hereby designate Friday, April 19, as 'arbor day,' to be observed throughout the State as a day for planting trees, shrubs" arid vines about the homes and along the high­ ways and about public" grounds within this State, thus contributing to the wealth, comforts and attractions of our State." The bank of Mount Morris was robbed Tuesday. The job was the work of ex­ perts. After getting into the vault, they drilled into the steel safe and exploded dynamite. The charge must have been heavy, as the safe and vault were com­ pletely wrecked. The steel chest inside the safe, in which was between $7^000 and $10,000. was not opened by the ex­ plosion. The robbers secured $150 in silver, which was in a different depart­ ment of the safe. The damage to the vault and safe will be $1,500. At Springfield burglars visited the house of Mrs. Mary Berger, aged 08 years, Wednesday morning and demanded- $2,- 000 which they declared she had secreted in the house. They gagged her, held re­ volvers in her face, and finally placed her on the floor, covered her with straw, and then set it on fire. As she still insisted she had no money they put out the fire before she was seriously burned. Then they chloroformed her and made a search of the house. They secured only $11. Mrs. Berger, tliohgh greatly shocked, es- caped serious injury. At Otawa. last month, a verdict for $3,- 500 was entered against H. E. Gedne.v as a result of a suit brought by his son's widow on two notes made in 1879. The son died about a year ago and the notes were among his effects, although Mr. Gedhey claimed to have paid theni in. 1885, and alleged that his son represent­ ed to him that they had been mislaid or lost. After the judgment Mr. Gedney made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Afterward among,some old papers lie discovered a receipt taken from liis son in 1885 in full of all notes held against liini up to that date, and a vaca­ tion of the judgment will be asked for. Through the efforts of J. B.-Tinims and other prominent citizens, a bill .will be introduced in the Legislature making an appropriation for a monument and Statejiark on the site of the decisive bat­ tle of the Black Hawk war. which was fought fifteen miles west of Freeport, June 25, 1832. The site of the battle was Kellogg's Grove, where Col. Dement, with 200 white settlers of Illinois, de­ feated Black Hawk, with 500 savages, and followed him to Bad Ax, Wis., where his band was cut to pieces. Stephenson County erected a monument on the battle­ field some years ago, and tjfirteon set­ tlers, who were tomahawked there,- lie buried beneath it. „. Much public interest is being manifest­ ed in Effingham in the Illinois College of Photography. This is the only college of the kind in the world. The faculty is composed of eight professors, who will give their exclusive attention to the work, and the board of directors comprises some of the best and foremost citizens of the city. Much is expected of this new college. Effingham is now making a great effort to become the leading city of Central Illinois, and will soon be made the most important point on the Vandalia Railroad between St. Louis and Indian­ apolis. The proposed new Eastern Illi­ nois Hospital for the Insane wilj. be lo­ cated there if hard work can get it. f Grace, the 11-year-old daughter of Will­ iam Stanley. 411 East Dixon, was playing near a line in the yard and the strong wind* blew the flames against her dress, and before they could be extinguished she was fatally burned?^ Thomas McKonna, a .TeiWyville police­ man. was pounded by hoodlums and his life is almost. despaired of. McKeuna was on a jury that sentenced John Kin- sla, a member of a gang, to the peniten­ tiary for a term of four years for high­ way robbery a few days ago, which was the cause of the trouble. Several arrests have been made. The burglar who has been so- indus­ trious at Quincy. was brought to bay twice by the police, the other morning, but escaped both times with an exchange of shots. He is a negro, Dan Lion, known to the police of Chicago and Kansas City, and has served a prison term. Thomas W. Wright was arrested at Dixon 011 a warrant sworn out. before Justice Brad well, of Chicago, by his wife.- The charge is abandonment of his family. His wife claims he is also wanted in Chi­ cago for embffif^lnent, on which charge he was arrested in Chicago about a year ago, his wife-going his bail. When re­ leased lie disappeared He is also wanted iu La Salle. . .. The farmer's Wife Loses. It is? soAe time since we looked Into the farmer's egg basket. Then it was well filled with good fre-sh American eggs that sold readily in all American markets, the competition from Canada, Europe, China and elsewhere having been stopped under the McKinley tariff. --wn havfi--n nwy tnViff novr^ a Gorman tariff, which reduced' the duly on eggs from five to three cents a doz­ en. In order to learn how this is work­ ing for the benefit of American farmers we have looked up the imports of eggs since September 1, 1S94, a few1 days what Free-Trade leads to Inevitably,, Although Great Britain's industrial ac­ tivities, hi some important lines, are' greater than for several years past, thanks to our Free-Trade administra­ tion, she has, nevertheless, by lipr Free1" Trade policy, created a pauper class'of which she cannot now rid herself. The United States would do well to note the decline Of trade and labor condi­ tions in England traceable unmistaka­ bly to Free-T&ide heresy. 1 Dairy Farmers' Losses. Now that the markets of the world are waiting anxiously to purchase our supplies of farm products, it is well to. let the farmers know "what enormous quantities of our. butter and cheese they are purchasing under the Gorman tariff. The greait increase in this Lbranch of our foreign trade can be seen from the following figures, show­ ing our exports for the seven months ending Jan. 31, 1S95, as compared with the seven months ending Jan. 31, 1894, as follows: ' BUTTER AND CHEESE EXPORTS.) Seven months ending Jan. 31. - < Butter, pounds. Cheese pounds.' 1894 ...........5,067,7S3 . 43,750,345 1895'.. V...... .2,863(826 39,236,358 HAIRY MONSTER IN KENTUCKY. Lives in a Cave, Looks Llkfc a Man" * and Lives by Robbing Farmers. ° Over in Washington County, near the line pf Mercer, reigns a being whether man or beast mystifies all the neighbor­ hood, says a writer in the Courier-Jour­ nal. For months the housewives have missed thplr chickens, egg-s, milk, meat f?om meathouses and half-grown pigs and young Itlmbs. At first all efforts and schemes to catch the guilty one proved of no avail. Joseph Ewalt arose one^morning before day and went to the spring-house, a hundred yards disr tant- from his dwelling. His-wife and son, becoming alarmed at his contin­ ued absence, went ip search of him and found him at the door of the spring- house in a faint. They restored him to consciousness, and lie. told them he 1S92. after the new bill became law, and find, from the figures of the Treasury De­ partment, that the imports of eggs com­ pare as follows: Four months. Sept. 1 to Dec. 31. 1S94 1893 Value. $169,113 139,471 Dozen. 1,365,096 1,105,408 Increase 29,642 259,688 .IPTiiknew* tariff had been in effect only four months when we imported almost 260,000 dozen more eggs than during the corresponding lour months of 1893. The money loss to the farmers was $29,- 642 in this short time, which is at the rate of j£350,000 a year. This much money distributed among the farmers' i wives would come in mighty handy I during these hard times, when even I the treasury has run short and had to j buy gold at a high rate of interest. This J Gorman bill! is not doing much good for the farmers iu this country, and tlie^Canadiams know it. This is what we find iu thfc Canadian Trade Review of February 15: "We seem to be getting back our egg market across the border. Last week ten carloads were shipped from Mon­ treal to New York, and realized a net profit to the shipper of- three cents above what lie could get at home. The demand there is still far from exhaust­ ed, and further supplies from Canadiail points will probably find a rising mar­ ket This reminds us of old times. Be- iTrrrm mCTiifl 1S95. fore the passage of the McKinley act our egg exports across the border ran into quite large figures, amounting in 1889 to 14,011,017 dozen, of the value of $2,156,725. The 5-ccnt duty of that tariff cut down these exports to the value of $324,355 in the fiscal year ended June 30. 1893. The present duty is 3 cents a dozen, a rate which should not make it impossible to do an egg trade of the former magnitude with our neighbors." This Gorman bill seems to be gor­ mandizing every little profit that the farmer used to make. He lias lost money 011 his wheat, corn and cottop crops, and now the Canadian eggs are coining in again, which means more eggs in the market. Too many eggs mean too low prices, and no pocket money for the farmer's wife after she has paid for the chicken feed.- What Free Wool Means. The free wool schedule of the Wilson bill went into effect 011 Aug. 28, 1894, and from that time to the end of the year, embracing four months and three days of August, Xhe importations of for­ eign wool, duty free, amounted to 75.- 182,033 pounds. For the corresponding period in 1893, under the McKinley law, the importations of wool amounted to ,13,900,498 pounds, making a difference against our wool growers in favor of the foreign grower of 61.221,535 pounds. We estimate the receipts for the last three days in August, 1S93, at 750,000 pounds. The leveling of prices under the influ­ ence of this enormous increase in the foreign supply is luit one of the serious aspects of the situation which will "tend to destroy the American produc­ tion, the main factor working in that direction being the loss of the home market through its occupancy by the foreign article.,. If our growers are willing to meet the .prices of foreign wool there will yet be a sufficient dimi­ nution in the quantity to be taken from the American grower to seriously re­ duce his production. Kiiffl'sh Free-Trade Results. In England the House of Commons is considering plans for the relief .of the unemployed. At a recent sitting of the committee Mr. James Kiev II;mlie, M. P.. testified tliat the-distress wiis so \ widespread that the proposed'grant of $5,000,000 would tide over the needs of the unemployed for a few weeks only. ""Trills condition of affairs in England is Decrease . ..2,203,957 4,513,989 Here is another instance where wq fiud that, with the markets of the world wide open to us, our export- trade of American products has fallen off, the shipments of butter during the, s^yep months showing a decrease oft £,20LOOO pouuds and the shipment of American cheese showing a falling off of 4.514,000 pounds. The buyers of dairy products of foreign countries must have forgotten that our wall .of protection has been broken down, be­ cause we are hardly letting ourselves out to such advantage as the free­ traders promised the farmers when soliciting their votes before election.^ There is uo theory about our dairyj export trade. It is a condition that! confronts American farmers--a condi­ tion of smaller exports under a free- trade tariff. '•< , THE STATE CAPITAL. WHAT ILLINOIS'^ LEGISLATURE IS DOING. An Impartial Record of the Work •» Accomplished by Those Who Make Our Laws--How the Time Has Been Occupied During the Past Week. Jefferson as a Democrat, ' Mr: Cleveland and his nondescript Cabinet talk much of the love and good faith we owe to England, and how 110 financial measures should be adopted in the United States which might put us iu a bad light with "the dear old mother country." This subservient dependence is an outgrowth of tiiej many weaknesses of the latter-day Democracy. It la in painful contrast with the strong utterances of Thomas Jefferson, the founder of Democracy, to whom Mr. Cleveland and his in­ competent followers so frequently and misundorstandingly point as the em­ bodiment of Democratic principles. Mr. Jefferson's attitude in regard to the presence of foreign influence in American , legislation was unmistalc-' able. "Nothing,"" he said, "is so im­ portant as that America shall separ­ ate herself from the systejns of Europe and establish one of her own. Our circumstances, our pursuits, our inter­ ests are distinct; the principles of ouf policy should be also." Mr. Jefferson has been, for gener­ ations, called the father of Democracy, but this term should be understood as applying strictly, in this connection, to government by the people. He was In 110 sense the father of the Democratic party. His principles-were absolutely and irreconcilably opposed to the pol­ icy and the principles of the free-trade,' un-American, dishonest organization which claims descent from him. He stood for protection to American labor and industry, Cor the protection of American interests everywhere, and for independence of our policy of gov­ ernment as our interests, not those of Europe, might dictate. The Democrat­ ic party stands for none of these. "The Tariff Is a Tax." Under the McKinley tariff our im­ ports for January, 1894. 011 the average tariff of 50 per cent, ad valorem, would have given 11s a revenue of $2,414,000 for the month. Under, the new law our imports for January, this year, at the average of 40 per cent, ad valorem, would give us a customs revenue of $3,956,000. Thus, upon the supposition made by all free-traders that "the tariff is a tax," we find that the Gorman tariff taxed them for the month of Jan­ uary $1,542,000 more than they were taxed under the McKinley tariff, while it doubled our imports of English goods, decreased the products of our factories and farms to the extent of $5,000,000 for a single month, and enabled 11s, in| the same month, to sell $2,500,000 worth less of our own goods in one of those markets of the World that are supposed to be waiting ready to receive every­ thing that we can grow or manufacture. 'We thus have, during the first month of the present year, under the new tariff a direct money loss of $7,500,000, with.a direct increase in the burden of taxation of $1,500,000, 011 the theory of the1 free-traders that "the tariff is a tax," without reckoning the increased taxation necessary through the increase in our bonded indebtedness. had seen a man-beast, and that iie ran' out of the spring-house as he opened the door; that he had great, long white hairhanging^roni his head and face that was as coarsens a horse's mane. Ills legs were covered with hair, and the only particle of clothing he wore .was a piece of sheepskin over the lower portion of his body, reaching nearly to his kpees. When it became noised around that Ewalt had seen a man- beast, sober-minded men began to set a plan to catch the monster. ; In the neighborhood near the mouth of Deep Creek is a cave of Considerable propor­ tions, and the natural conclusion was that there would be the place to find their game. , Early Sunday morning Eph Boston and his soils Torn and Janies saw the object of their watch walking in a half-gallop, half-run" for their barn. Notwithstanding the men we're armed, they were badly frightened, and after they saw the object enter the barn all three .were afraid to enter to try to cap­ ture the terrible-looking creature. They kept hid and wpre not seen by the mon­ ster, standing in a half-erect position, nearly six feet and a half. His feet were like the claws of a bear or brute, with loug claws. Ilis hands also were like those of a feline more than a hu­ man. Before the me® could come to some action or get over their fright the creature came out of the barn in the same half-gallop-run gait and made for the creek. By this time the men start­ ed in safe pursuit, Tom Boston fool­ ishly shot at it, and the creature half turned and glanced at them, increasing his-gait, but uever dropping the three large chickens he held in his claws. The Bostons managed to keep in sight of the creature for only a half-mile or so, they vowing he ran swifter than a horse. Just as they got to the top of a hill about 500 yards off they were re­ warded by seeing the brute-man turn j and other expenses of the Chester peni- witli a wild, scared look, glance around j tentiary and enter the cave. The men went to the mouth of the cave, but would not enter. They saw j Doings of State Dads. > Representative Schwab introduced in the House Friday a joint resolution pro­ viding for the submission to the voters of the State of a proposed Constitutional amendment Which will enable the Legis­ lature to submit to the people at one time propositions to»amend three articles of the Constitution, instead of one, as at present. If jt is adopted by the Legis- r.j.the. .li.iny of the alleged defects in the Constitution can be cured from time to time, Mr. Mauritzon called up thcresolution report­ ed by the Committee on Sanitary Affairs providing 1 for the appointment of a spe­ cial committee of five to investigate the charges that distilleries, slaughter-houses and rendering establishments are empty­ ing slops and refuse matter into the nav­ igable streams of the State. The resolu­ tion, was adopted without opposition. The -Senate did nothing of importance. The House convened at 5 o'clock Mon­ day with less , than thirty merhbers in their scat's. A few. House billsl were read a- first time. Crawford's elevated rail­ road bill, as passed by. the Senate, was read a first time and referred to the Com­ mittee on. Municipal Corporations, The only business transacted, by the Senate was the report from. Chairman Littler, of the Revenue Committee. Mr. Littler reported with favbrabie recommendation the committee revenue bill which the joint House and Senate Revenue Commit­ tees have discussed 011 several occasions. It was read the first time by title and advanced to the order of second reading. In the House Tuesday Mr. Bailey's bill "to preveiit extortion and compel the pay­ ment of?debts contracted for labor in bankable:' currency," was the subject of warm debate, its constitutionality being attacked. It is aimed at truck stores, and passed with but three dissenting votes. "Mr. Perry's bill concerning travel upon public highways, Mr. McKenzie's bill providing that the conservator of an idiot, lunatic or drunkard, upon the death of the ward, may proceed to settle up the estate without taking out letters of ad­ ministration, and Mr. Bryan's kindergar­ ten bill were passed. In the Senate the following bills were passed: Senator Hunt's--Fixing the rate of interest on high school funds at not less than 5 nor more than 7 per cent. Senator Craig's-- Providing for State scholarships in the University of Illinois. The appropriation committee bill appropriating $422,000 %o pay the ordinary expenses and for im­ provements at the State University, of Champaign. Senator Chapman's--Ap­ propriating $170,000 to pay the ordinary feathers, bones, etc., scattered around the entrance. They returned home and reported what, they had seen and Tues­ day they, with a half-dozen other 111011, went to the cave and made a partial survey, proceeding in several hundred yards. They saw fresh indications of habitation by bones, feathers, pieces of calf and sheep skin being strewn around. The passages grew smaller and dwindled and 110 one of the party would enter alone,- though one Joe Smith woiit in thirty or forty feet, when the most unearthly yell the men ever heard greeted them. They were good, stout men, but they cowed before that yell and beat a hasty retreat to the main passage of the cavern, but after consultation they agreed it would not do to kill or be killed and they gave up their search for another time. A resolution fixing May 2 as the date for filial adjournment was adopted Wed­ nesday by the Senate. The Insurance Committee of the House agreed to a bill to abolish the State department, and de­ cided to investigate Supt, Durfee. The bill to tax inheritances in excess of $20,- 000 was advanced to third reading in the Senate. The bill to increase the sal­ ary of Election Clerk Hertz, of Chicago, to $5,000 a year was defeated in the House. The Torreus bill failed to pass the State Senate Thursday. The bill had (or "im purpose the establishment in this State of the Australian system of transferring land titles. The movement to bring about a reform in the system was begun about six years ago. The Chicago real estate board was the leader. A new hill, in both House and Senate, introduced at the re­ quest of the Mascoutah Kennel Club, pro­ vides that a license of $2 shall be paid on every dog or cat for the first year and $1 for every year thereafter. It does away with the muzzling of dogs. Whenever ii dog or cat is found bearing a license t.-yr the owner is at once notified.' Instead at placing stray dogs in the charge of a pound master they are turned over to the Humane Society. The following hills were passed: Senator Wells', fixing the com­ pensation of the General Assembly mem­ bers at $850 for the session; Senator Nie- liaus', to amend the act creating pleasure drives; he explained that it" merely ^^Utrgd objections to the existing law re- gulimtig- parks in Peoria; the House bill limiting the time for contesting wills and Ingenious Bohemian Dcutlbeat. There was once a celebrated Bohe­ mian named Bart, who prided himself on never paying any bills. One of the least striking of his financiil feats was once when he happened to be "hung, up" in a hotel without the wherewithal to settle. He left behind hi 111 a heavy trunk, telling the laiuj^ lord that he would soon return. When a number of days had gone by and bequests to two years. Bart did not reappear the landlord went uj) to examine the priceless coffer which his guest had left behind him, and was much amazed at the weight, of it. His most inusciilar porters could not lift it. Therefore they broke it open to see what was inside, and when they opened it they found nothing, for Bart had simply nailed it to the floor. But the achievement 011 which he most prided himself was once when he was in a strange city for several days. He wanted a new pair of boots. So he went to a shoemaker and ordered a pair, giving minute directions as to their style. From this cordwainer he went to another, some squares away, and gave him a similar order, couched in exactly the saiAe language. He made both shoemakers promise to finish the Revival of the Curl'ew Bell. There is to be a revival of the curfew in Canada, and if it prove successful in the cities and towns of that domiu- lou it is not unlikely that it may be jschI in some parts of the United States, writes John Gilmer Speed in a short history of that historic bell in the La­ dies' Home Journal. The law which has been enacted by the Legislatures of Quebec and Ontario was drafted by the Society for the Protection of Wom­ en and Children, and provides that the municipal councils in cities, towns and incorporated villages shall have power to pass by-laws for the regulation of the time after which children shall uot be in the streets at nightfall without proper guardianship. The law also shoes in two days. At the expiration ! l)rov'des that these Councils shall cause Let This Tool Runt. The appointment of Professor Wilson to the office of Postmaster General was, without any exception, by far the wisest official action that President Cleveland has ever performed. The tool that the President used in wrecking American industries and ruining American labor has now been laid aside upon a shelf where it will be harmless. The master mechanic in the art of destruction will newr find another tool so ready, so willing or so well molded to the shape" of his hands, nor will lie "ever -again have the occasion to use one. " Income Tax Now Necessary. Tariff for revenue only and ad -va­ lorem undervaluations are convenient handmaids for the uses of the avetyge importer. They open up large oppor­ tunities for increasing the introduc­ tion of foreign goods into the domestic market, and for creating deficiencies of revenue for the Goverumenr. An income tax, though a very undesirable expedient at any time, must serve now a very necessary part in supplement­ ing the inadequate receipts from un­ dervalued imports. of the allotted time both pairs were done. Bart tried 011 the first pair, and said to Shoemaker Number One that the left fitted him perfectly, but that the right pinched him, askiug him to stretch it, which the shoemaker prom­ ised to do, and Bart carried off the left boot. He then went to Shoemaker Number Two, and tried on the second pair, telling-44m that while the right boot fitted him perfectly, the left pinched him. and requested him to stretch it and lie would call for it in an hour. It was done. Bart then took the two halves of-his two pairs of shoes, put them on his feet, and silent­ ly'stole away. a bell to be mug at or near the time appointed, as a warning, to be called the curfew bell, after which the chil­ dren so required to be at their homes or off the streets shall be liable to be warned by any constable or police offi­ cer to go home. All for $10. An Anglican vicar recently advertis- -ed for an organist who was to receive $10 a month, in return for which he was to "play three services Sunday and one Wednesday evening, when, also, Mie" A Horrible Fate. Long she stood at thep.window and mused. The rays of the setting sun en­ tangled themselves in her Titian hair, I or surrounded her glorious height of 1 five feet eight with an aureate halo, i Proud, queenly, limbed like a goddess, j she Was indeed a magnificent specimen 1 of femininity. ^ "Strange," she muttered. And then a soft, self-pitying, half-happy smile flitted across her face like a gleam of April sunshine. "Strange." she mut­ tered again, "to think that I.•ho only six short months ago was the quarter back of the Emancipated Maidens' foot­ ball eleven, should have lost hiv heart American Labor's Vacation. Foreign steamships are unloading plenty of foreign goods on- our shores, but our laborers are not yet worked ta death making goods to be exported to the "markets of the world/'--The.News, Providence, It. I. •9 : r No man is more to be pitied than the one who is satisfied with, himself. Carelessly picking up a forty-pound dumbell, she tossed it out of the win­ dow and then sought lier boudoir.--The boys must have an hour s practice; Fri- I to a man whose collar is-a size and a day he must conduct a full choir prac- j half smaller than mine: But such is tice, first giving the boys half an hour | fate. And I love him." by themselves, and attendance is ex­ pected on the usual feast days. Fur­ ther. no pupils may be taken to the church organ, nor may that instrument j- Amusing Journal. be used by the organist himself save ! ' , , -i_ Sunday afternoons." Drawing-Room's Decoration. ; - j The walls of a certain drawing-room John Calvin was the Pope of the Rer I are very effectively.treated, and in a formation, from his influence among j unique manner. Deep maroon brocade the reformers. j has beeu tacked over it to simulate * Aristophanes was the Father of Com-1 *•» " Itb f edv, because he was the fust Greek , than the eosthes't variety of paper Jhe , ,, heavy fabric forms a superb back- 11 ' ground for the pictures and ornaments Henry VIII. was called Bluff Old Hal, i of the loom, and is Splendid in its ef- frouKhis rudeness and harshness of 1 fect wllen U»hted oy the many glitter- Bpeeck"- 1 l ing candelabra with which the apart- . . - • ' meat shines at night. OLD-TIME l&QUNTAIN CABLE, j Pennsylvania's Allegheny Portagd Line of Sixty Years Ago. - j Street car traction by means of a ca­ ble driven by stationary engines is a comparatively new thing, but there was „ an important cable railway in the Uni­ ted States more than sixty years ago. The Allegheny Portage Railroad of Pennsylvania, esteemed a great engi­ neering^ feat of the time, uset^ for part of its length the principle of the cable. The length of this line was rather more than thirty-six and one-half miles, and it included ten inclined planes. No. 1 rose 250 feet in three-tenths of a mile; No. 2, nearly 132% feet in one-third of a mile; No. 3, 130% feet in a little more than one-fourth of a mile; No. 4, nearly 188 feet in a little over two-fifths of a mile; No. 5, 201% feet in abont one-halt i t r n S o v N o . 6 , 2 8 0 % f e e t - i s ^ - 9 ? one-lialf a mile; No. 7, 260% feet in the same distance; No. S, 307% feet in about three-fifths of a mile; No. 9, 189% feet in a little over one-half a mile; and No. 10, 1S0% feet iu a little over two-fifths of a mile. „ : : . ' ,.n' Between the planes were light grades, absurdly called levels, and at the head of each plane was a stationary engine and the other machinery adjttnct to the motive power. A vertical grooved wheel of cast iron, eight and one-half feet iu diameter, Was placed In the cen­ ter of each track aboiit 100 feet from the head of the plane. These wheels at the highest point of the Circumference rose sisj inches above the rails. The shafts of these wheels were geared together by spur wheels four feet in diameter, sp as to revolve in opposite directions. In a pit between tiie vertical wheels was a horizontal grooved wheel equal in diameter to tlife distance between the tracks. This wheel was fitted into a strong frame, that could be moved fif­ teen feet toward the head Of the plane by means of a weight atta.ched to a chain and hanging in a welk Another horizontal grooved wheel was placed forty feet from the foot of the plane. It also was fitted into a strong frame and could be moved fifty feet. The end­ less steel rope passed over wheels eigh­ teen inches in diameter and twenty-four feet apart. At the head of each plane was a double-cylinder, high-pressure, horizontal steam engine without a fly* wheel. The engines at six of the planes were of 35-horse power, at the other four of 30-horse power. A hydraulic regu­ lator was used when the descending load exceeded in weight the ascending load. The whole cost of the Portage railroad was a little short of $1,500,000. : 1 • .\ Scotch Fishermen. i Ashore he is the laziest of operatives, lolling -about the wharves and harbor corners with his hands invariably deep down in his "breeks" pockets, his wom­ en folk meanwhile doing most of the work, and toiling along bent early dou­ ble under their heavy creel loads of fish. Well does Jenny, Oldbuck's serving wench, put it: "As suue as the keel o* the coble touches the sand, deil a bit mair will the lazy lisherloons work, but the wives maun kilt their coats, and wade into the surf to tak the fish ashore." Their method of baiting the lines with a multitude of hooks is very neat aud pretty to watch, the whole -Joeing arranged so systematically. In this branch of shore labor the men do sometimes take a share. Some of the fishing villages along the north aud east seaboard of Scotland are singularly quaint and picturesque, Netherlandish almost in their details, worthy studies for a Ruysdael or a Van de Velde. The rows of little split fish skewered on sticks or triangular lath frames nailed along the cottage walls are quite distinctive features. So also are the cottages themselves, *vicli their vermilion, pan-tiled roofs and outlying stairways; but these are fast disap­ pearing and giving place to a modern style of tenement, which makes one miss the old world forms and warm col­ or. Well were it, however, if primitive dirt and archaic scavengering could in many cases make way for more sani­ tary arrangements. The fisher folk of both sexes are very commonly of a serious, inscrutable cast of countenance, generated, I suppose, by the precarious nature and constant risks of the seafaring occupation. "It's 110 fish ye're buying," quoth the mas­ terful Maggie to Monkbarns, "It's iiiqu's lives." The men do, indeed, carry their lives in their hands, and it were strange if this did not give a cer­ tain solemnity and God-fearing set to their characters. The Eyemouth peo­ ple still speak with bated breath of the terrible catastrophe which overtook them in the great storm or cyclone of some years bacl^, and turned well-nigh every homestead-into a house of rnourn- lug. The fisherman has a long memory for such visitations.--The Scottish Re- Songs They Sing. Many insects make a noise of some sort, at least most of them do. And as the noise is of different kind in differ­ ent animals, so it is produced in differ­ ent ways. Scarcely any two insects make their music in the same manner. There is the little katydid. You all know the katydid, of course. It is in color a light green, its wings are gauzy ami beautiful. Just where the wing of the katydid joins the body there is a thick ridge, and another ridge cor­ responding to it 011 the Wings. Ou these ridges is stretched a thin out strong skin, which makes a sort of drum­ head. It is the rubbing together of these two ridges or drum-heads Which makes the queer noise we hear front the katydid. It is loud and distinct; but not very musical, and the next time we hear the sound "Katy-did! Katy-didn't!" you may know that this katydid is rubbing the ridges ot her body together and perhaps enjoying doing it. The moment it is dark she and ail her friends begin. Perhaps some of them rest sometimes, but if they do there are plenty more to take up the music. Then there is the bee. The bee's hum comes from under his wings, too, but is produced in a different way. It is«' the air drawing in and out of the air tubes In the bee's quick flight whieh makes the humming. The faster a bee flies the louder he hums. Darting back and forth, he hums busily, be­ cause he can't help it. until presently he lights on a flower or even a fenee, and all at once he is still again. "My furnace," said oue man who keeps house, "is out of sight." "So la mine." replied another; "out <!xf'anthra­ cite."--Washington Star.' •1\' ~