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' Tf 1 \r. . ~. . ^ \ ... •' • ; - •• ILMN0IS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. THE tiiBtilitics and Resources of'the State Banks--A Newark Man Tries, to Kill Himself--Nearly Slain by a Brother-- Bamsay's Creditors. •< Chicago State Bank Reports. The reports of Chicago State banks, showing their condition on the morning of March 20, in response to the call issued by the Auditdr of Public Accounts, have all been received and tabulated. Depos- 4fa have decreased $2,800,000 since Dec. 14, 1894, when the last call was made, as follows: Decrease ill individual deposits, -$3,000,000;-- decrease in bank deposits, $800,000; increase in savings deposits. $1,-. 000,000. Loans have' increased $3,000.- 000. Cash and sight exchange amount to $23,371,309 and deposits $73,006,629, or a cash reserve of a fraction less than 32 'per cent.; • c . Offer to Compromise. A fourth meeting-of the Carlyle cred­ itors "of the Ramsay bank was held , The amount necessary to pay the costs of the suit against the bondsmen has been rais­ ed, and every preparation is being made to test the validity of the $363,000 claim." The case, though, may never come up in court, as the bondsmen are strongly in favor of -compromise. ; They T&jffi&pia.de a proposition to Henry Setter, theex-bank- er of Lebanon J They hold notes of Seit­ er'^. amounting to $263,000, iind have of­ fered to take $125,000 for the notes--$55,- 000 cash,' the balance to be secured by a preferred lien on the Seiter assets. If a compromise of this kind can be effected, the claim of the Ramsay bondsmen will be reduced to $100,000, and lifcal credit­ ors will receive 40 cents on tin} dollar. ' I. W. Smith, of Burlington, himself at Elgin. Ill-health caused Mrs.*Mary'Qltman,' 23, to hang herself at Eairbury. The Edward Martin estate case came up at Yorkville, but 'was Continued until the October term. / i While felling timber John Blankensnip, of Vandalia, aged 19,;was struck on the head by a limb and killed instahtly. A committee from the House of Repre­ sentatives or the Illinois Legislature in­ spected the U-ffirtfrsity of Illinois' at Cham­ paign.' - ' • " A strange mantsvas found dead three miles east of Marshall. Foul play is sus­ pected, as^Jw^bad been bleeding pro­ fusely. -y t ./ William May was instantly killed and Lou Bollinger . seriously injured by the explosion.of a steam ditching boat which was in use east of Beardstown. WILSON HAS FAILED. HIS PROMISES TO WORKING GIRLS'UNREDEEMED. The Most Defenseless of Wage-Earners Unable tl Earn Enough to Pay Board --How Farmers Find It--Why* Grant WaS'"aReirabl-iean»----------• The Deadly Parallel. Tries to Murder Mer, Frank Wise, a youiTg-#ai'mer living near Davis, who is under bonds for manslaugh­ ter, having so brutally kicked his aged father last fall that the latter's death resulted, nearly succeeded in killing his sister a few days ago, and she,is now in a prebarious condition as the result of his assault. Wise's trial for manslaughter comes off in April, and his latest assault may cause his bondsmen to surrender him to the authorities. Trouble over the es­ tate, which is one of the best in the.coun- ty, led to the death of the old man, and, as the sister has charge of the farm by virtue of the will, the assault by Wise is regarded as an attempt to get the only remaining heir out of the way. Fortune Lost in Speculation. H. P. Coy, of Newark, made an.unsuc­ cessful attempt to commit suicide Sunday at the Windsor European He and H. M. Saundepif of the same town, had been roominy together since Jan. 1, spending SundaysW home. They have been operating on the Board of Trade, and Coy had lost nearly all of $20,- 000 with which ho started speculation. He had been drinking heavily for a week. Mr. Saunders says Coy has lost nearly his entire fortune, and repeatedly threat­ ened to jump in the lake or die from asphyxiation. Mr. Saunders had paid no attention to the threats, knowing they were made while Coy was under the in­ fluence of liquor. School History Was Objectionable. The North Dixon school board, by unan­ imous vote, withdrew from the list of text books in use by the schools Barnes' "Brief History of the United States" on the ground of the unpatriotic and unfair presentation therein of matters pertaining to the civil war. They also decided to •^introduce military drill and tactics into the curriculum, and have secured Lieut. A. C. Ducat of the United States army as instructor. Lieut. Ducat is at present stationed by the Government at Northern Illinois College in Dixon. Record of the Week. Thieves broke into two residences at La- rose and secured $60 in cash. John Henry Smith, on trial at Clinton for murdering James Kuykendal in July, was acquitted, Henry Maker, member of several De­ catur secret societies, was accidentally killed at Brightwood, Ind. Ollie Willis Sued Chris Tucker at Louis­ ville for $10,000, alleging breach of prom­ ise, and the jury awarded her $35. Rev. Otto Gruner, of North Plato, has accepted a call to the pulpit of the Ger man Lutheran Church of Rockford. The Springfield solon who wants to tax bachelors probably is a married man who believes in taxing the luxuries of life. Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, declares he has no knowledge of any intention to make him coadjutor to the Archbishop of Bos­ ton. The Moline Navigation Company's new steamer (ieorge~M. Waters was launched at Lyons, and made her initial trip to Moline. The State Board of Health has been in­ formed of two cases of smallpox at Sliaw- neetown. the disease having been brought fW>m St.. Louis by a colored man. Marshall, which has been operating under a liberal policy for two years, is now in control of temperance and reform citizens, who will inaugurate a vigorous campaign. Pastor .T. A. Ekstrom, of Zion Lutheran Church, Rockford. requested Sunday that his salary be cut 10 per cent., as he did not think it fair to preach hard-times ser­ mons for good-times pay. William Loo mis found a richly dressed 3-month-old infant under a carpenter shop at Sycamore that had been lying ex­ posed all night. The child was nearly dead, but with careful nursing will live. Joseph Toohey, engineer of the Spring- field division r>f tfrn Tlliririic t \>ti t_r.il ._-.l at Clinton of injuries received in the ac­ cident at Parnell. He' leaves a widow and two children. He was insured by the locomotive firemen and modern wood­ men. An organized band of firebugs started three fires in Decatur during one night: Among the losses are ,T. J. Heyon's burn, seven head of horses, and a large amount of hay and grain. »• The fast steamer Mary Morton, of the Diamond Jo line, lias b#en sold'to Captain Robert Taylor, a young steamboat man of St. Louis. The sale has been kept quiet at the request of Captain Taylor. The thirty-foot trestle on the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern crossing of the Illi­ nois Central near Wayne that Was de­ stroyed t>5"*&earjyas rebuilt so that traffic- was blocked only twenty-four hours. A real estate deal just consummated is to result in the founding of a new manu­ facturing town in St. Charles,, three miles' south of Alton. The transaction Includes the sale-o-f 700 acres of land on Missouri Point to a syndicate of Philadelphia cap­ italists. : ' .,' r J. It. King, a resident of Champaign, went tp Chicago March 15, taking with him quite..a..:Siii£V.of money to make pur­ chase;:.. O/i leaving he told his family that he would return on the, following Sunday or Monday, but he has not re- turned, and as no word has been received from him considerable uneasiness is felt. He was about 35 years old and unmar- ~ -- --•-- -- & . . .1. While making a,coupling at Chapin on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail­ way, John TheleniOUs was dragged under the wheels and instantly killed. Beards- town was his home. Ah epidemic of topsilitis and other va­ rieties of sore throat is prevailing through­ out central Illinois. There are many cases also of grippe.' The throat diseases are attributed to the dust. Mrs. Anna Ivalin has been taken frOni Belleville to Joliet prison for life. She declares she did not aid George Cent roll to murder her;husband, but was an in­ voluntary witness to the crime. Frank Marsh, one of the railroad, strik­ ers at Decatur, was arrested on a State warrant charging him with -attempting1 to murder Feliis Klley. a Wabash engineer, on the night of July 0. Kiley was struck with a car link while in his cab and netvrly killed. The Wabash'detectives say they have a strong case against Marsh. The Secretary 0f. State reports to the Governor the amount of fees collected for the half year ending March 31. 1895, as follows: Corporations, $28,108; nota­ ries, $1,896; justices of the peace and po­ lice magistrates, $26; miscellaneous, $1,- 7U9; anti-trust affidavits, $3,981; commis­ sions county officers, $551; total, $36,- 272. One hundred and twenty-nine Illinois State banks, reporting their condition on the.morning of March 20 to Auditor Gore, have increased their loans since Dec. 14 $4,000,000 and their savings deposits $1,- 400,000. There has been a decrease in individual deposits of $1,800,000 and in deposits of other ba^ks of $700,000. De­ posits aggregate $94,000,000, and the av­ erage available cash reserve is 32 per cent. A1 Cummings, a negro teamster of Champaign, murdered his wife Wednes­ day afternoon and is in jail. The wife, with her baby, applied at a boarding house for work. She said she had been forced to leave home on account of her husband's brutal treatment. She was taken in, and her husband found where she Was and went to the house. He entered the kitch­ en, where his wife was at work, and, af­ ter upbraiding her for having left him, pulled a revolver and shot her. Adjutant General Orendorff ordered an election in Company Iv, First Infantry, for captain, Willis J. Wells having de­ clined a commission as captain. The fol­ lowing are honorably discharged: Cor­ poral Fletcher D. Hull, Privates Robert W. Vaux, Sidney Hall, Henry T. Nieman and Henry J. Tappendorff, Company D, First Infantry; Private Fred II. Row­ land, Company E, First Infantry; Pri­ vate Charles M. Undgrsill, Company G, First, Infantry, and Quartermaster Ser­ geant William J. Turney, Fourth In­ fantry. A decision by the Supreme Court in re­ gard to the form of official ballots is "of general importance. Appeal had been taken from Shelby County, where election judges had rejected twenty-five ballots on which voters had written a name, pre­ ceding it with a blot and a cross. The local county court sustained the judges. The Supreme Court holds that the general election law was not intended to prevent a voter from voting for any candidate whom he chooses. "To hold otherwise," the decision runs,--'would be to disfran­ chise or disqualify a citizen as a voter or a candidate, and, in our opinion, would affect the law quite unnecessarily with the taint of unconstitutionality in such cases." This decision, by inference, jus­ tifies voters in using pasters, as is au­ thorized by the New York form of the Australian law. The Illinois Order of Foresters won an important case in the Circuit Court at Madison, Wis., succeeding in obtaining a dissolution of the iujunctionjiy^whicli the Canadian Foresters haX^kept them from doing business in the^State for some time. The court held pat the Illinois Foresters had prior right to the use of the name in Wisconsin, and that ex-Insur­ ance Commissioner Hoot had unwar­ rantably kept the company from doing business in the State by refusing them a license. The Department*1 of Agriculture Tues­ day issued its first crop bulletin of the season, showing the condition of the growing winter wheat crop. The area seeded last fall was fully 7 per cent., or 150,000 acres, less than the area seeded the preceding season. The plant got a fairly good Start before winter set in. and was rarely without the protection of a covering of snow during the prevalence of the extreme cold weather. The per cent, of the plant destroyed by freezing, floods and fly is so small that but few corre­ spondents took it into consideration at all Some alarm was caused by the drought of the past month, but little damage was done to the growing crops that will not be fully compensated by the general rain. The average condition of 96 points for the growing crop is rather remarkable, and promises a large yield at harvest if the conditions remain favorable. In the counties of Madison, St. Clair, Greene, 1'ike. ; Clinton. .lackson, 3iacoupni, Ad-' ams, Montgomery and Washington, where the largest crops of wheat in Illi­ nois are raised, tl'.e prospect is most en­ couraging. . , At Peoria, in the Circuit Court, Julius Schwabacher, son of a wealthy Peoria distiller, was found guilty of burglary and sentenced to the penitentiary forgive years. ~ Report is made to the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners that the num­ ber of cattle inspected, during the month of March at the Union Stock Yards at Chicago was 664; passed in the pens, 523; held post-mortem examination. 141; pass­ ed on post-mortem examination* 23; con- demned as being unfit for food, 118. Fif­ teen cases of tuberculosis were found upon post-mortem examination. "Edith Duvall disappeared from Quincy Nov. 13 last, and all efforts to trace her were fruitless. Her body was found the other day floating in the river'-aud--wtts identified by the clothing and jewelry." She was IS years old and had np known trouble. . " Great suffering exists in Galway Coun­ ty, Ireland, from destitution, and a train of cars, loaded with flour, and another train of twenty cars. loadedjwith stock, went north from Springfieldjfi^dnesday, Prof. Wilson's" The­ ory. I have on my ta­ ble, as I write, two samples of woolen- pil6 stuffs, such as make good aiid ser­ viceable cloaks or -sacks -for -wonting girls abroad, and which many her would be glad get. Under* law of 18S3 tihey were dutiabhr at\35 cents a pound, ai! 35 per cent, ad va lorem; making for one sample a duty of 207^ per cent., ,of which 172 per cent, was covered by the mild • looking spe­ cific duty of "35 cents a pound;" and for the other, 171 per cent., of which 136 per cent, was carried in this specific duty. - The MeKinley act raised the duty on these fabrics to 49% cents a pound and 60 per cent, ad va­ lorem. This would make for the first sample a duty of 303 per cent., of which 243 per cent, is imposed by the specific duty, and for the second sam­ ple a duty of 253 per cent., of which 193 per cent, is like­ wise imposed. And this in the name of American labor. The poor girl, earning the meager wages of 50 cents a day, having by two days' work made enough mon­ key to buy a dollar's worth of this ma­ terial, would then have to work six days longer To earn sufficient to pay the MeKinley taxes upon it. Those tax­ es increase the cost of the one from 31 79-100 cents to $1.28, and of the other from 44 88- 100 cents to $1.58. Under the bill now proposed, the cost o f t h e s e g q o d s would be raised to 44 and 64 cents re- s p e c t i v e ly, and these duties are to The Working Girl's Condition. Six Hundred Girls on Strike. C o u l d n ' t E a r n Board Money. They Worked in t h e T r e n t o n Woolen Mills, Where the Wil­ son Tariff Cut Their Wages. Between six and seven hundred girls and a nmjiber of: . men eirfployed the S. K. Wilson Woolen Mills at Trenton, N. J., went on strike yes­ terday. These mills have been the only important w o r k s that have been run­ ning in Trenton for some time. In or­ der to keep the hands employed a 20 per cent, reduc­ tion was made in their wages last summer. A refus­ al on the part the owners to restore the cut precipitated the strike. A committee of the girls called up­ on Mr. Wilson Wednesday night and told him that they had not been able to earn more than $3 in two weeks since the new scale went in­ to operation. Many of them live in b o a r d i n g h o u s e s , the leader said, and were unable to earn enough to pay their board. 1 They claim that since the Wil­ son tariff law went into effect the goods turned out have necessarily been of an inferior charac­ ter, in order to compete with the foreign goods, and consequently t h piece price is lower. The girls have the sympathy of the men employed in other depart­ ments,' and are ar­ ranging for public meetings, in orde to present t h e i r to the trades- , has not "reached out fortW markets of the world" to any great/extent: but the administration which has . worked his undoing lias been pawning the credit of the country to get a few dol­ lars . from alien money changers to keep the Government running. ~~ A blight has fallen upou the public rev­ enues as well as upon the revenues of the farmer. The prophets of free trade are singing sniall these times andilieir llngo.only serves to exasperate all who hear it--Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y. 1892. ease , i . neonle of the town be lowered one- ! i":.' R e i g h t h w i t h t i n apse Of New York Morn­ i n g A d y e r t i s e r , March 8, 1S95. of five years. c o u r s e t h e present rates are prohi bitory, and such articles never appear in the table of imports, but t h e s e e x a m p l e s serve to show both the working of spe- c i f i c d u t i e s o n cheap and common goods, and the mer­ ciless taxes imposed on the poorest and most" defenseless of our wage-earners. --Wm. L. Wilson, i in the Forum, Jan­ uary, 1894. ! This is a condition that confronts both Prof. Wilson and the working girls. "The poor girl, earning the mea­ ger wages" of "$3 in two weeks" under ^*===_ CHEAT FOREIGN WOOI.KX NOW 11EYOXD Ti l HI K MEANS. Mr. Wilson's free trade tariff, 1m,s been "unable to earn enough, to pay her board," although working for six days m the week. If, however, she worked on Sunday as well, and worked every Sunday for half a year, she might be able to spare money enough to buy a woolen-pile stuffs cloak, provided she made no purchases for any other arti­ cle of wearing apparel. This, Mr. Wil­ son, is the condition of your "poor girl" under one of your "merciless taxes im­ posed on the poorest and most defense­ less of our wage earners." Why Grant Was a Republican. The following lines, written and signed by Gen. U. S. Grant in 18S0, appear in his autobiography: "There is not a precinct in this vast .nation where a Democrat cannot cast a ballot, and have it counted as cast, no matter what the predominance of the opposite party. "He can proclaim his political opin­ ions--even if lie is one among th\ii> sands--without fear and without pro­ scriptions on account of his opinions. "There are fourteen States, and lo­ calities in some others, where Republi­ cans have not this privilege. This is one reason why I am a Republican." U. S. GRANT. A Condition, Now a Theory. „. The effect of reducing the duty on linseed or flaxseed from 23.31 per cent ad Valorem down to 15.54 per cent.- a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent.-- and thus breaking down that wall of pro­ tection which prevented us from sell­ ing cur flaxseed or linseed in those markets of the world that were im­ patiently waiting to purchase it, has Hjeen to reduce our exjH>rts from 2.200.- /000 bushels in 1803 down to 13,000 bushels iii 1894. This is not a theory. It is the actual condition of our export trade. on the Chicago and Alton Rai"lroad>Nbonnd for New York, whence they will be ship- ped to Ireland for distribution amohg the sufferers. The-suppli.es were sent by wei- dents of central Illinois. • -- ' -' : The Spring Blight. Tlie farmers of the United States who were foolish enough to believe the. Jingo of tlit free-traders are now sell­ ing wheai: for 50 cents a bushel and wool for 12 cents a uound. Tho fariher TO PUMP UP GUINEAS. 1895 MUSKRATS ARE SLY ANIMALS. How Farmers's Find It. Farmers will naturally be interested to learn how great is the competition in those markets of the world to secure our American farm products, and the latest statistics slio.jv our exports for the seven months ending Jan. 31, 1S95. In ^comparing these with the corre­ sponding months a year earlier we have the following: Exports of farm products, seven months, July 1 to December 31: 1894-95. Bushels. 1.143.5S3 9,066,528 333,105 8,8.10 48.2S6.579 Barley Corn . Oats . Rye . . Wheat 1893-94. Bushels. 3,755,025' 37,728,763 5,479,704 230,625 63,114,284 110,308,404 10,143,687 during the 31, 1895, we Total bushels. 58,838,505 Flour, barrels. . 9.206,486 Farmers can see that, seven months ending Jan. sold nearly 52.000,000 bushels less food stuffs to foreign countries than we did during the seven months ending Jan. 31, 1894, and also nearly 1,000,000 barrels of flour less. It is easy to imagine how the buyers in the foreign markets of the world are fighting among themselves to secure this smaller quantity of our products, which is only about one-half of what we sold them before the wall of protection was broken down in order that we could reach their markets. And the worst of it is, too, that they are only buying the smaller quantity at lower prices than they used to pay for the larger quanti­ ties which they bought from us under protection. A The American Laborer's Food. It seems to be a simple proposition that under free trade nothing but ocean freights, which are being lowered ew ery year, stand between American and foreign workmen. No one argues that home labor is not better paid than for­ eign labor. Protection, buying at home, keeps labor in demand, enhances wages, encourages the development of indus­ tries. Free trade, buying abroad, where labor is cheapest, leaves home labor un­ employed and wages, of course, go down. Protection increases the demand and free trade the supply for home labor. When the workman in the so- called protected industries is at work at good wages, there is building for the carpenter and bricklayer to do, and there is a market for the products of the farm as well as the factory. The work- ingman has found out that a cheap for­ eign market is a mighty expensive tiling when he cannot buy, and that a higher market is cheap when lie has work. The American laborer has had lots of food for reflection during the past year or two, and that's about all the food he has had.--New York Recorder. Reductions Are Necessary. Reduced opportunities for employ­ ment, reduced wages for the employed; reduced prices for raw materials, reduced earnings for every producer in the country; reduced exports, re­ duced balances of trade and reduced store of gold in the national treasury-- these are the free gifts of the "tariff for revenue only," and no revenue at all times.--The Canton, Ohio, Repos­ itory. Solid Southern Sense. We are glad to note the fact that some papers have shed the scales from their eyes at last, and now say no farm­ ers are so prosperous as those who have a^iianufacturing home market for their products. Home markets are, all that can be depended on in this coun­ try. It was a losing game to go off after the "foreign markets."--The Reaper, Sheffield, Ala. It Bobs Up Serenely, /rhe tariff issue will not down. The tariff issue cannot down. Tli? tariff issue is the one paramount issue of American politics. The tariff ,again en protective lines will do most to settle the question of national linance and returning imtiona'l j prosperity.--The Repository; Canton, Ohio. Larcer Tin-Plate Imports. Tin plale imports at New York dur­ ing the live months ending Jan. 31, 1895, when the Gorman tariff was in operation. aggregated 93,494,455 pounds, as compared with imports of 72,024,037 pounds during the ecu-re­ sponding months a year earlier. Mile. Subligny, a noted danse.ise, desiring to visit England professional­ ly1;' topkji letter irpm the Abbe Dubois to John Locke. The philosopher did all he could ff)t hei\vand for a time was Syndicate of Wealthy Men Will Hunt for Sunken Gold. There 1s a new plan'afoot to raise the' treasure that went down with the Brit­ ish man-of-war Hussar, when she foundered off Port Morris in 17S9 and 'carried to the bottom seventy prisoners who were manacled on her gun deck and British guineas to the amount Of $4,000,000. ' There have been many attempts to re­ cover the sunken treasure by the use of dynamite and the work of .divers, but, as far as is known, all have been fruitless, says the New York Herald. The plan which is to be put44 opera­ tion in a few days is the most novel yet devised. George W. Thomas, of Orange, N. J., who is^said to represent, a syndi­ cate with a capital of $750,000, has chartered the tug Chester, owned by E. R. Lo^'e, a Coenties slip wrecker, and fitted her out with wrecking appliances of the latest pattern. The boat has been undergoing repairs in Hallett's cove for some weeks, and is now about ready for her work. The Chester will be moored exactly above the spot where the wreck lies, and so moored that it will remain sta­ tionary regardless of tides. This in it­ self will be a. feat attended by no little difficulty, for it. will be necessary to carry two stout hawsers ashore, in ad­ dition to the four anchors which will be .got, down to seaward and from the bow and stern. ' : " ~ The work of previous explorers of the bottom has been interrupted by the rapidity with which the current filled up their submarine excavations. The plan upon which Mr. Thomas will pro­ ceed will avoid trouble of this kind. The wreck is almost completely buried, and the sand is packed com­ pactly about the hull. Divers will be sent down to loosen the sand and earth that hides the wreck at a given point. At that point a big tube, connected with a powerful suction pump oii board the Chester, will be applied. The loosened material will thus be pumped to the surface and tliefr*shot through a giant sieve. This selve will not permit the passage of anything as large as a guinea. That is the general plan. The wreck­ ers and divers will dig and pump until they have tilled the sieve with British gold or are satisfied that they have worked over an area so large that the story of the Hussar's treasure has been proved a myth. The men who have attempted to roach the coffers of the Hussar since 1780 have failed in every instance, if they are to be believed, but the story of sunken gold has just as many believers to-day as it ever had. No later than .Tune last a Connecticut syndicate was digging up the bottom'of the sound off Port Morris, and many similar attempts have been made between that point and Hell Gate. It Is believed now that the hull of the wrecked warship has been located to a nicety and that by examining with care an area of about two hundred square feet the treasure story may bo settled definitely at last. And if it proves true--this story of British guineas--the speculators will be richly rewarded. The Hussar was a thirty-two gun ship, about two hun­ dred feet long. She arrived here in November, 1780, in company with the •man-of-war Mercury. Together they carried $4,800,000, which was intended to pay off the British troops in America. The Mercury remained here, and the Hussar, taking on board the treasure of her sister ship, set sail for New Lon­ don. Although the pilot was not very fa­ miliar with the channel the captain de­ cided to save some time by taking a short cut in passing Hell Gate. The Hussar struck a sunken reef, and as she was badly damaged her commander decided to nhu her ashore. She had taken on board seventy pris­ oners of war from the prison ship be-., fore leaving New York, and as her hold was filled with stores they had been chained on the gun deck. As their fate was of little consequence the captain did not release them, but kept his crew at work inan attempt to get the Hussar to the beach before she foundered. Hawsers were carried ashore and fastened to trees, and an attempt was made to warp the vessel in, but before much" progress had been mado she tilled, heeled over, tore up the trees by the rodts and sank in eighty feet of water, drowning her manacled prison­ ers. Some of the crew escaped. From that time forward stories of the Hussar's sunken guineas led to all sorts of attempts td acquire sudden wealth by their recovery. A British company sent two brigs to the spot in 1819, but the United States Government refused to permit tliem to anchor over the treas­ ure. Later on attempts were made to blow up the wreck with dynamite, but up to date--unless some lucky aud secretive individual hid success and fortune under the guise of failure--the guineas have been undisturbed. There is one story that lias always caused the treasure seekers some un­ easiness. It is to the effect that the Hussar was wrecked intentionally, and that her treasure was carried away by men who hatched the plot, under her ensign. Mr. Thomas and his suction pump, however, are new, and lie, at least, be­ lieves that; he will pump up something more valuable than the rusty buttons and water buckets which have reward­ ed the treasure seekers who have pre­ ceded him. really her nunnager. Two Grades of Composers. There is among Boston celebrities a certain suiall-bodied, sensitive coto- poser "of music, who is gifted with a very witty wife. Her latest boil mot was tile result of a recent afternoon tea. Certain very giddy girls were clustered about the composer,, exclaiming ecstatic­ ally on the quality of his music. "I 'don't see, Mr. ," said Miss Gusliing- tqy. "how you managed to write all those lovely passionate things without being worried all the time. Dear\me, I should be as nervous as a witch." 1 "Certainly you would be, my dear," said "-Mrs. ----, with a suggestion of acerbity, born of the proximity of so many youthful faces, "but John only composes music; 1 compose John."-- Boston Budget He became a social favorite in The little.Western town, Until lie turned his trousers up-- And .then they turned him down. --Indianapolis Journal. their Fur Is Valuable and- Their Are f,;rvMtorty Ways of Catching Them. The number of skins of very small and common animals in demand In the business nowadays is.' surprising. The increasing scarcity, of handsome* fur-bearing animals has compelled a multitude of ingenious imitations from the fur of more „ ordinary.. creatures- Domestic dogs, cats and rabbits are skinned by hundreds every Bay, and after being subjected to various proc­ esses the fur,emerges as otter, mink, pr beaver, whichever it most nearl'y^'"re­ sembles as least likely |o be detected. But the favorite pelt "now is that of the muskrat It lias a thick, well-root­ ed hair, and, if killed at any time be- tween Sept 1 and May, is very durable. Its natural color is pretty and glossy, but it also takes all dyes better than any other known skin. Though, of course, a large part of the supply is from the north country above the preat lakes, yet thousands of bales of rat skins are collected and shipped from all the Northern States. Tlie itinerant dealers who travel through the sniall settlements and collect from the individual hunters and trappers usually pay about a quarter a piece for the-pelts, and when they have sof ted them into bales according to size and quality they ship them to some whole­ saler at a round profit Throughout tlie farming districts every boy and man does more or less trapping during the fall and winter months. Of course, the big or wealthy farmers do not bother with such busi­ ness, but their hired hands do. In New England it is a brisk work and the rats are being rapidly thinned out. Early In the fall the trapping begins in earnest. The muskrat# are setting about building their houses for the cold season, what the Ojibway trap-< pers of Ontario call-the "winter lodge of the mushquash." At such a time they are very active, passing about among the dry reeds on the marshes, and industriously pushing great float­ ing masses of grass and leaves, ma­ terial for building, ahead of them as they paddle up on down stream with only a nose tip in sight. Because they stir about so much the trapping is less restricted and tlie snares are set in all conceivable places on the bank by the new dwelling, in the jungle of dead cat­ tails, where tlie rats are harvesting, and in the entrances to their deserted summer homes. & Among the old-fasliioued or economi­ cal trappers, the "twitch-up," "dead­ fall," "figer-4," aud "pinch" traps are still largely used, but the progressive chaps all Juse the steel traps distin­ guished fifpm the others by them as "bonghten'Sor "storetraps." When one rat has been caught it is useless to leave the trap in the iRime spot, for no other will touch the bait. It must be moved and set in some new nook. If it was in a little hollow be­ fore, it must be shifted to a ridge, if at the water's edge at first it must be changed to a bog some rods back from the creek.) | A new bait, too, must be substituted) for the old. Fish is i.he usual bait, and a favorite one with the rats, but the most tempting is the fresli- wat^'clpm. CAPITAL! WHAT ILLINOIS' V LEGISLATURE IS DOING. An Impartial Record of the Worlc Accomplished by Those Who Make Our Laws--How the Time Has Beeai Occupied During the Past Week. . THE RETIRED BURGLAR. A Mortifying: Experience in a House in a Country Town. "Once in a country town," said the retired burglar, "I broke into a small but very comfortable appearing house that I didn't expect very rich returns from, but which I thought would pav for the labor. I skirmished around a little in the cellar, finding the usual as­ sortment of jams and preserves and things, and on the parlor floor I found about the ordinary run Of knick- knacks. The things in general were of rather less value than I had expect­ ed to find them, and there was not much of anything worth taking. So I went on up-stairs and into the front chamber. "I'd scarcely begun on the bureau, and hadn't got the top drawer open, when I heard from the bed a sound very much like a laugh. I thought I must be mistaken, for I really didn't see anything to laugh at, and I should have thought that if there'd been any­ body awake in the bed they'd have been more likely to be alarmed than to think it was funny to see me there. But the next minute I did hear a noise from the bed; no laughing now, just a mail's voice, deepv a®d solid, and no quavering, saying: " 'Well!' : "It <was a good big voice, but there wasn't any shootln' in it, not just yet any way, and I turned my light on him. He was sitting up in bed, a pretty good- sized, square-sliouldered sort of a man, and the minute I saw him I knew that I had heard somebody trying to keep from laughing and that this was the man. 11 'Wait a minute,' he said, and there was something in his way of saying it that made me feel that it was all right to wait He got out of bed and walked over to the bureau where I was and took a match out of an iron match-box that was nailed against the window- frame near by and lighted a lamp that stood on the bureau. Then he went across the room to a closet near the door I had come in by, which I suppose I should have looked into myself in the course of time if I hadn't been dis­ turbed. He opened the closet door, and reached in aud brought out a jimmy, which he stood up against the wall. I wanted to stop him right there, but I didn't exactly like to interrupt, and he reached • in again, and this time he brought out a dark lantern. He stood that by tlie jimmy, and was reaching in again when I stopped him. " 'Don't,' I said, and he respected my feelings and stopp^Vnd looked at me. I guess we both smiled a little bit then, and then I just went away."--New Y'ork Sun. " Girl (jokingly)--I'd like a place where I'll have everything 11 want, iiothiug to do, and no one to boss me. Clerk--This, miss, is an employment office, not a matrimonial agency.---Lon­ don Tit-Bits. v - ' \ Doings of State Dads. Two resolutions of general interest •were presented in the Senate Friday! morning. One by Senator Anthony, of Cook, calls for the reorganization of the judicial districts of the State and pro­ vides for increase in salary of Supreme Court Judges, The other resolution was presented by Senator Campbell, of Hamil­ ton. It charges the Illinois and St libiiiai bridge companies with forming a trust aiid being extortionate in their charges and calls for investigation. -By unani­ mous consent Senator Campbell's reso­ lution was considered at once and adopt­ ed. A committee consisting of Senators , Campbell, Green, Evans, Mussett and Kingsbury wa? appointed to make , the investigation. Pay-day in the Housed stopped all business.- . : The members of the" General Assembly : returned Wednesday from their vacation, and took up once more the legislative routine, Although both houses remained in session until after 12 o'clock, little business of importance was transacted ex­ cept the passage of the TorrenS land title bill by the Senate. Tbis bilJ was defeated last week, b?it the vote .was- reconsidered; and when the bill was again put upon its passage it was victorious by a vote of 32 to S. Senator Anthony's bill amending the law of eminent domain and the four west park bills of Senator Morrison were made special orders for Wednesday, Among the bills advanced to third read­ ing was that introduced by Senator Ha- mer to prohibit and punish hazing in col­ leges and other institutions of learning. Senator Herb introduced a bill to pro- for a chemical survey of the waters of-the Illinois river.-;- In the House noth­ ing of particular interest was done. A number of bills were advanced to a third reading. Most of the time the House was in session was consumed in the discussion of Mr. Lowenthal's bill in relation to the trial of criminals. The Committee on Conference having i» charge the bill for the appropriation for the militia, arrived at an agreement. The jtem of $30,000 for contingent expenses is to be stricken out of the measure. The item of $80,000 for uniforms and equipments is to be reduced to $61,000. This makes a total appro­ priation of $305,000. The most important event in the Ge eral Assembly Thursday was the passaj of Senator Coon's bill in the Senate p viding for a tax on inheritances. T vote was 32 to 12. The bill of Senat Nieliaus exempting 25. per cent, of the wages of any person subject to garnish­ ment for necessaries was passed byJ a vote of 30 to 7. The bill appropriating $12,S25 for the statutory revision com­ mission was also passed. Both houses concurred in the report of the conference committee on the military appropriation bill. Uniforms are to be provided, but the amount is to be reduced frpm ^§80,000 to $62,000. The money for the uniforms is not payable until July 1. This is the bill that appropriates $254,000 to pay the ex­ penses of the militia last summer. The bill of Senator Munroe providing for in­ determinate sentence and parole of con­ victs was favorably reported by the Sen­ ate Committee on Penal aud Reforim?tory Institutions. Senator Evans' bill was rec­ ommended for passage by the Committee on Municipalities. It provides for the punishnieut of makers and sellers of gold and silver ware that is of a lower standard than represented to be by stamps thereon. The House Committee on Parks and Boul­ evards ordered a favorable report on Mr. Crafts' bill to provide for the organiza­ tion of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering oo. navigable bodies of water. Unless a man loves a woman, he does not want her to pet him. He would hither put arnica on his own sore (fhan have a woman whom he. dislikes do it. * - .. The free and lovely Impulses of hos­ pitality, the faithful attachment of friends--these, too, are a holy religion to . the heart--Se The Master at the Atel er, Paris. ' He came about 10 o'clock; we had been at work since 8- He is a greasy, curly, dirty-looking man, with a large dress improver behind Mr. Lane, and a large waisteoat in front like you.: Aud such little, tiny legs and neat boots! Well, he paraded round our ea­ sels and corrected our work. He said in an encouraging way to me, "It ia% not bad"; only as he speaks French I! have to listen with all my ears. .After M. Carolus had finished cor­ recting us the model rested, and he took a wicker arm chair, and sat there­ in and lit a cigarette, and all the stu­ dents stood around and worshipped him, except Reidie and I, and a few English, who remained stolidly in the background. He asked who had left cards for him, and Reidie said she was the man; so we've to go and call. Then he pitched into one of the students who had got the head too large, and deliv­ ered a majestic lecture, at which Reidie aud I snorted under our breath, be­ cause we've heard our President de­ liver a lecture just the other way about. Carolus says you must make a, head 4 smaller than life, and Sir Frederic Leightou says make it quite as large, or larger. However, that didn't matter to us, as it wasn't a question of paint­ ing. At last the model sat again, and Mon­ sieur got up aud went around again, with a word or two to each. At last he got to the door and said solemnly: "I go. Good day. Mademoiselles," and so departed. He never smiled but once, and that was a blighted, watery kind of smile, suggestive of hidden remorse or indigestion.--Temple Bar. "Wicked." ~~ j The Scotch of the present day are- patriotic, but not inclined to militarism. The recruiting sergeant goes among starving crofters and idle workmen, but lie finds few willing to take the royal shilling and serve their country as soldiers. A writer in the Scotch Re­ view says that this reluctance to enlist, shown by Scotchmen, is due to a craze for personal independence, and to a rooted dislike to strict discipline. "We'll no pairt with oor Iuberty!" is Sawney's response to the appeal to follow his country's flag. By way of contrast to, this reluctance, the writer tells an in­ cident illustrative of the martial spirit, which animated the young Scotch re- eruit of former days. ~ r ^ The intended recruit was brought up to tjie orderly!room for inspection by the commanding officer of the regiment- On being measured, he was found to be a trifle under the regiiiieutal Stand­ ard of height „ -~- He was a stnrfngJmilt and likely look-; ing younjt-rfellow, aud therefore the colonel reluctantly decided that he could not be accepted. Expressing his regret he told the recruit that he was ' too short to be enlisted. "Oh. colonel." exclaimed the excited" recruit, "ye'll surely no turn me back! I'm wee. but I'm wteked.'Y ("Wicked" was Scotch for spunky, piettled.) r The colonel stretched a point and nassed hit;.