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lie sat on the sliding cushion, The dear wee woman ofEfour; 'Her feet in their shiny slippers - • Hung dangling over tlie floor. She meant .to be good; she had promised; And so, with her big l)r<»Vn.;,eyes, She stared at the meeting house windows, And "counted the crawling flies. She looked far up at the preacher; But Bhc thought of the honey bees Droning away ib the blossoms That whitened the" cherry trees. Bhe thought o^: the broken basket, \yhere, curled in a dusky heap, Three sleek, round puppies, with fringy • ears, 1 . ' Lay Bnuggled and fast asleep. Such soft,-warm bodies to cuddle,--: Such queer little hearts to beat. Such swift, round tongues to kiss, Sti.ch spraagling. cttsiiioity-fefeti She could feel in her clasping fingesrs > The touch of the satiny skin, And a cold, wet nose exploring The dimples under lier chin. Then a sudden ripple of laughter I{art over the parted"lips, . "7 So quick that she could not catch it With her rosy linger tips. The people whispered, "Bless the child!" As each one w aked from a nap; But the dear wee woman hid her face . For shame in her mother's lap. --London Amusing Journal. - IN THE FACE OF DEATH , SmpmSrI id fallen at first fire, and the rest, fighting desperately, had at last sue-" ceeded in taking refuge on a mound about a hundred feet lofig by fifty wide rising some ten feet from the plain. Irregular lines of stone walls, jul- tirig from the ground, and hollow pits, wherethe roofs of the lower chambers had fallen In, showed It to be the ruin oL one of the old "pueblos," once so common all through that country. It furnished a position impregnable ixt the dashes of the undisciplined In­ dians, who lmd at last settled grimly down to-starve the defenders out. The whites had food enough, for several days, but no water. This the Indians could procure from a little branch of the Colodado Chiqtilta, --which ran abput five miies away, but the be: sieged had no such .recourse. --One- of th eirnu mber, Aleck--Pike, HE horse is mine, and you nor any ; other man sha'n't ride, hfm without I say so!" . "And I sax the , horse - is. mine, and I'll ride him without asking your leave, or anybody else's!" two men each other lowering brows and defiant looks, when a small, quiet looking man limped for­ ward and interposed. "Come, now, drop this foolishness! If I hear another word about that mus­ tang I'll shoot him, and end the fuss. I'm captain of this outfit, and as long as I am, there's got to be peace in the family!" There was a ring of authority in his voice, and a flash in his blue eyes that showed him to be a natural comman­ der, and one not to be trifled with. The two angry men stood sullenly si­ lent, while lie went on more genially: "Come, shake hands and call it a draw; at any rate till we get out of here. I can't have the two best men in the outfit quarreling! You can't either of you ride the horse now anyway, and from the way things look, it's a mighty *lim chance whether you ever will. - If you're spoiling for a fight, those redskins out yonder will accommodate you. at the drop of the hat! Come, drop it, I say, and shake hands like men!" But the two belligerents looked scowl- ingty at each other and then at Clay. His influence was too great to permit of a continuance of the quarrel in his presence, but instead of shaking hands they turned and strode sulkily away. They had trapped, hunted, starved, revelled, dug gold and fought Indians together for years. Each had more than once risked his life for the other, In the same matter-of-fact way in which lie would have handed him his pouch of tobacco. When Sam Finch had been stricken by small-pox in a Crow village, and all the Indians who were not yet attacked had fled iii terrified haste, Tom Collins had stayed, and for six lung weeks waged his solitary fight with death-- his only companions the snarling coy­ otes and the heavy-winged buzzards, his only rest the few brief moments he could snatch when the raging de­ lirium of his patient was overcome by bodily exhaustion; till at last the sick man crept feebly back to life, and could be taken by his devoted nurse j a man to the fort by sun-up. to where more efficient, though not tenderer, care and help could be given. And now these two were as bitter in feud as they had been close in friend­ ship. The question at issue was the ownership of a grand black stallion that had been lassoed while leading his wild herd on the plains between the MogOllones and the Colorado Clii- quita. His neck had first been encir­ cled by Collins' lasso, but the tough hide of thp lariat had been gnawed by a coyote, >so that it broke when the wild horse plunged. Before lie could thunder away the lasso of Finch held him. "My horse!" said Finch. "I stopped him," said Collins. "Held, have got away without me, for your lasso broke," cried Finch; and so the quarrel began. At first they spoke laughingly, then angrily, till things were" said on both sides that neither mail thought he could ever forgive. Meantime the black., which had been broken to saddle in one day's rough riding, was used by none of the prospecting paj-ty. As the disputants strode away Clay muttered to himself* "Queer what fools men will make of themselves sometimes! The idea of . those two men quarreling about a horse, when the chances are a thous­ and to one that their scalps will both be fluttering at the end of Apache lances within twenty-four hours!" The sun was about an hour high, and the wide, level mesa glowed and quivered in the heat. North.'Ssoutli," east, west, wherever Clay looked, h- saw the cordon of Apaches, jsoine sat on their ponies like bronze statues. some were stretched on the ground asleep, some galloped down the little canyon, for water, but all waited quiet­ ly for the time when their grinrallies, heat, thirst and exhaustion, should de­ liver,the prospectors into their hands. These were a party of twelve strong men who had started from Taos three ;ff, weeks earlier under the guidance of John Burt, who came in from no one • knew where, sorely wounded, and pro­ testing that he had rediscovered the famous long-lost Canyon de Oro of the '"Valley of Death" in Arizona. He brought with him a nugget of gold as large as a baby's hand to bear out his • story; he told how he had barely eluded the Apaches, after they had killed all his friends; he swore "that the Canyon de Ore "literally shone with gold; and tlur upshot was this prospecting ex­ pedition under the leadership of Clay. Two days beforb this, Juh's band of Apaches, out on the war-path, had at­ tacked Clay's party with an over- wounded in the first day's fight, was already delirious from his wounds and from thirst, and the rest were suffer­ ing greatly; for the two days' siege and loss of rest, joined to the burning sun. which aggravated their thirst, was telllfig fearfully upon them. "Sweet prospect, this; for a man with a wife and two kids waiting for him in Taos!" said Clay to himself. ^Weli, Sallie, you're a plainsman's daughter, and you knew what kind of life mine was before you married me--and--I wish you'd been home so that I could have kissed you good-by before I started. But I've been in worse places than this before now, and saved my scalp, and please God, I may see' you and the kids yet before the redskins get me.". „ \ ... ... •" He limped over to where the men were standing, and spoke aloud. •; "Well, boys, something's got to be done: Those fellows out there seem to have taken root We can hold out a couple of days longer, maybe,'but after that we'll be past praying for. We've got to do something, and do it quick. Anybody got anything to pro­ pose?" "Only thing I see," said one of the men, "is to make a dash and cut our way through, if we can."- "Yes, if we can, but--we can't Those fellows out there are too many for us." "Well, anyhow, I'd rather go under with a bullet through me than stay here and die, like a trapped ki-yote!" "So'd I; but there's Alack," pointing to the sick man; "we can't take him with us, and it won't do to leave him behind." "No use of the rest of us staying here to die, when it won't do him any good." "That may be, but we promised to stick together, and I'm going to do my share of it" "Cap," spoke up Collins, "how far are we from Fort MerrittV" "About sixty miles. "And what way?" "Due north, as far as I can make it Why?" "Well. I was thinking mebbe one of us might slip through the redskins yonder, and get to the fort and let the troops know how we're fixed. Cap'n Kirby wouldn't ask anything better than a chance for a slap at old Juh." "Hum! yes; but I don't think any one could get through." "There's no telling where lightning might strike; and a fellow might as well die there as here." Clay hesitated. "Well, what do you say, men?" he asked, presently. "There aint no show to get through," said one. "We might as well try it; we can't do any. worse," another protested. "We'd better stick together--we're snowed under anyhow," stilf another said. "Well," said Clay, "if it's our only chance, will any one here try it?" "I will!" said Collins and Finch, in the same breath, both springing to their feet. "I spoke first" growled Collins. "I'm the lightest weight. Cap," said Finch, eagerly. "Sh!" said Clay, gravely, "let's see. The moon will be down by nine o'clock and that black stallion ought to carry Kir by'11 not wait a minute when he hears what's up, and the troops ought to get here by the middle of to-morrow night, anyhow; we can hold out till then, I think. It's our only chance; guess you'd better try it." "Which one of us?" asked Finch': "Collins. I reckon; he spoke first." "Just my luck!" growled Finch, an­ grily, as he turned away, while Collins smiled triumphantly. One would have thought, from the aspect of the two men, that the prize won or lost had been some great satis­ faction. instead of merely the desperate chance of saving the lives of others, at the risk of his own. In one of the hollows of the mound, screened from the sight of the Indians. Collins began, an hour before the moon went down, his preparations for his ride. As each ounce of weight would tell in the struggle for life which lay before him, everything not absolutely essential was discarded. A lariat, looped around the horse's lower jaw, and a saddle blanket strapped tightly on the back, formed the steed's outfit. Pantaloons, light moccasins, and a handkerchief around the head to keep his long hair from blowing into his eyes, made up the rider's toilet. "If I get to the fort I can get a jacket and hat from the soldiers; if I can't get there there'll be less fur old .lull to tote," were Collins' reflections. Into his pocket lie supped a Derrin­ ger, saying: "I don't take any chances oc being taken alive." Strips of blanket were tied deftly around the horse's feet, that no chink of hoof on stone might warn the keen- eyed besiegers^ of his passage; and when the moon was fairly set Collins led his stallion down the slope of the" mound, vaulted upon his back, and saying quietly to Clay, "If the troops aint here by an hour after mOonset to­ morrow night you may know I'm gone under," stole slowly away In the dark­ ness. Those left behind waited., listened, with anxious hearts, dreading any mo­ ment to hear the tumult which should announce that their messenger's flight had been discovered. Five minutes passed--ten minutes- twenty minutes; Clay had just drawn a long sigh of relief, and was turning away with the remark, "I reckon he's safe by this time," when a flash caught his eye out on the plain. Another and another succeeded; and the report of rifles came to their ears. "i'hey-ve seen him! They're after | him!" exclaimed Finch; but vainly did I the beleaguered watchers listen and tlbns as to the fate of their courier. Would he outstrip his pursuers? Had lie-escaped, or was b „ . . . & pinioned prisoner, helpless, to. aid uieiu ? These >vere questions which.no one on the mound could answer. ' The night dragged by, and another day of thirst and suffering ̂ wned. A feeble groan from Pike, th|p|6unded man, drew Finch's attention; lie walked back to where poor Aleck lay, ajid-a^vkwardly but tenderly adjusted his heaikMn an easier position. As he stood looking down' upon him, he thought of another sick man who once lay delirious ill a Crow lodge, and loathsome from head to foot, with fes­ tering disease. He remembered, too, who it was that had nursed that,sick man through that time of horror, who had Stayed by him and watched over him as tenderly as a AJtUUOT A"8TAXE BRIEF COMPILATION OF NO IS NEWS. • " ' ' • > >'l • .. V , • , ILLI- niother over her child, when even the stoical Indians had fled appalled--who, when the grip of death was broken, had -painfully carried him for weary mile upon mile, till help was reached; and then; laying down his helpless bur­ den at the post-surgeon's feet had fal­ len, senseless, iu the middle of the parade ground. ."And I have quarreled with this man--this friend--this brother--about a horse!" thought Finch. "Bah!' All the horses from the Rio Grande to the Columbia weren't worth one hair on Tom Collins* head! Oh! what a fool-- what a fool I've been! Can I ever make it up to Tom for the wrong I've d o n e h i m ? " ' ' • ' ~ V ' The day,. with ever-increasing mis­ ery, wore away. With mouths too parched for. talk, the men lay watch­ ing at. their posts. Aleck had died at noon. Save now and then a plaintive neigh from the thirsty horses, or a distant whoop of^derision from the expectant Apaches, scarcely a sound broke the wretched monotony on the mound. Clay sat and watched the red sun sink behind the distant range. "I, nor none of us, will ever see another sun­ set" he murmured to himself^, "unless Tom did get through, and perhaps not even then." Gradually the darkness descended and night gathered about them; but still, grimly at their pfaees, the front­ iersmen lay, well-nigh hopeless now, but none the less determined to die fighting to the bitter end. But what clear, sweet sound was that which suddenly broke on the.dull and oppressive stillness of the dry night air? It was--and what a shout rose from these parched throats!--it was a br»Tle call. Hark! It sounded: "Open orders, fours!" "Draw sabers!" "Trot! Gallop! Charge!" Then came flash on flash, and loud hurrahs, blending with wild, fierce yells and the rumble of charging cavalry. Soon a d^k forni/of a horseman de- i. _ J Iu. 1! Galena Honors Her Two Illustrious Bona, Grant and Scott - l^te -Town Observes a Day of Reverence--Nast's . Historic Painting Presented to City. Grant and Scott. Homage to -the memory of Gen. U. S. Grant, once a citizen of Galena, was|; on the anniversary of his birthday, the sole thought and occupation of everybody in that good old town. The national colors were everywhere unfurled, all business abandoned, and the city filled with thou-. Bands who came from neighboring towns and countieB. and even from neroaa tho i Iowa border. The principal event was the presentation to the city of a magnifi­ cent oil painting of Lee's surrender to Gen. Grant at Appomattox. It is ""the gift of H, H. Kohlsaat «and the work of Thomas Nast. The services in memory of James .W. Scott demanded by the sin­ cere and spontaneous sentiment of the whole community, were simple and touch­ ing. Judge C. C. Kohlsaat, of Chicago, spoke briefly of the life and character of this genial man whom all Galena loved, and he was followed by J. S. Baume. The unveiling of the painting, "Peace in Union," followed, and the drawing aside notified of a case of smallpox at War- kanda. . James Quint, a farm hand living near Chatham, Bhot and killed .himself Satur­ day. No cause is knqwn. The Rev. A.B. Welch, of Lincoln, has accepted a call from the Cumberland Presbyterians of Virginia. Florin Patrick died-at Marshall. He was driven insane by seeing one of his workmen killed in his sawmill. Samuel M. Shroeder, of Oakland town­ ship, Schuyler County, committed suicide by shooting. He was a dealer in live stock and had lost heavily int several deals. ~ .•. ; The Fruen Bambreck Construction Company, St. Louis, sues Peoria to re­ cover $60,000 for the paving with asphalt of Peoria street. The Peoria Water Com­ pany also sues for $15,000 hydrant rental. Rockford school children are contribut- ing a cent each to raise a fund with which to purchase a flag for the Rutter Indus­ trial School at Athens, Ga. Commander- in-Chief Lawler promised" it to the 100 pupils of the school while on his recent trip south. At Cairo, Frank Axley, night watch­ man at the box factory of the Carey- Halliday Lumber Company, was found murdered Tuesday. He was on duty Monday night, and when he was missed search was made for him and his body was found in the Ohio ^river in'front of the factory. There were wounds in his BY A CYCLONE. TERRIBLE HAVOC WROUGHT KANSAS. S Ten Persons Are Killed and Many In­ jured in the Vlcininy of Haiatead-- Property Loss Will Be Larue--Chil­ dren Narrowly Escape. Farmhonaea Leveled. Wednesday afternoon a fearful cyclont devastated a strip of:country several hun­ dred yards wide and at least sixteen miles in length in the vicinity of Hal- stead, Ivan., killing ten persons out­ right and seriously injuring seyeral others, while*many have received slight injuries. The cyclone struck the house of Mrs. B tached its^if ^g£ofn~~the surrounding obscurity and* dashed up to the foot of the mound. An anxious voice called out, "Hello! All safe?" "All safe, thank God!" answered Clay, reverently. "Show a light, then!" In a moment a fire of dry sage-brush shot up, and the light glistened on the bronzed faces and the panting horses of Kirby's troop of dragoons. But in the middle of the group, on a black charger, reeled a swaying figure, sup­ ported by a trooper on each side. On his bare breast was a crimson streak. Rushing down the slope of the mound Finch reached his side. "Tom, are you hurt?" "Killed, I reckon, old pard!" he gasped, faintly; "the redskins have got me this time. Ease me down." They lifted him down tenderly from the horse, and laid him on a blanket on the ground. "Sam," he whispered. "Yes, old pard; what is it?" Finch's arm went tenderly under the dying man's head. "Sam--the mustang's--yours. Don't --hold it--agin me--that I said--I'd ride him. How dark it is! Say--say --good " The hand-clasp loosened, the head fell back, and the quarrel between Sam Finch and Tom Collins, as to who owned the mustang, was over forever. T. S. F. ORDWAY. Eight Lives Saved by a Dog. Some years ago a vessel was driven on tlie beach of Lydd, in Kent, Eng­ land. The sea* was rolling furiously. Eight poor fellows were crying for help; but a boat could not be got off, through the storm, to their assistance, and they were in constant peril, for any moment thy ship was in danger of sinking. At length a gentleman came along the beach accompanied by his Newfound­ land dog. He directed the animal's at­ tention to the vessel, and put a short stick in his mouth. The intelligent and courageous dog at once understood his meaning, sprang into the sea, and fought his way through the angry waves toward the vessel. He could not however, get close enough to deliver that with which he was charged; but the crew understood what was meant, and they made fast a rope to another piece of wood, and threw it towards him. The n^ble animal at once dropped his own piece of wood, aud immediate­ ly seized that which had been thrown to him; and then, with a degree of strength and determination scarcely credible--for he was again and again lost under lie waves--he dragged it through the surge, and delivered it to his master. A line of communication was thus formed with tlie vessel, and every man on board was rescued. of the curtains, displaying the graphic portrayal of the crowning episode in the life of America's greatest military hero, whom many here remember as a plain and quiet neighbor and fellow citizen, was the signal for a tremendous outburst of applause, which must have been the most powerful and feeling tribute to the suc­ cess and genius of the artist guest. Judge C. C. Kohlsaat made the presentation speech and the picture was gracefully ac­ cepted on the part of the city by Mayor Bermiugham. The size of the painting is 9x12 feet, and it contains the figures of Gens. Grant and Lee, Maj. Gen. Phil H. Sheridan, Maj. Gen. E. O. C. Ord, Brevet Maj. Gen. Rufus Ingalls, Brig. Gen. John A. Rawlins, Col. Horace Por­ ter, Col. Ely S. Parker, Col. Theodore S. Bowers, Col. Adam Badeau, Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt, Capt. Amos Webster, Maj. Gen. Seth' Williams, Confederate Col. Charles Marshall and Col. Orville E. Babcoek. After the pleasing ceremony of presentation was over the chief orator of the day, Henry D. Estabrook, of Oma­ ha, Neb., was introduced,. He was lis­ tened to with attention throughout his masterly address. Mr. Estabrook com­ menced his address with a tribute to the memory of James W. Scott. He said: "How the hearts of this old city must thrill when, like the mother of the Grac­ chi, she welcomes to her bosom so many noble sons! Return, Galeneans, return each year to this mecea of patriotism and lofty manhood! r Take inspiration and courage from the lives and memories of such men as Rawlins, Grant and Scott." Iu eloquent words Mr. Estabrook reviewed Gen. Grant's earlier life and carried the history down to the breaking out of the war. The condition of affairs in the na­ tion at that time and President Lincoln's perplexity were graphically narrated. His Last Commission. There is a story current in tlie profes­ sion respecting a Jew proprietor of a small theater near London. Cue night the spectators were few, very few ih number. They were playing the immortal bard's masterpiece, "Hamlet." The proprietor, after counting the nignt's receipts, flew around to the stage door in a rage. Meeting the stage manager he blurt­ ed out: "Misther Shmith, vat kind of houth do you call thith?" Solemn silence on the part of the stage manager. Proprietor (returning to the attack)-- I tliay, Mr. Shmith, who wrote this pieth? Stage Manager--Why, Shakspeare, sir. • * Proprietor--Did he? Veil, he'll never write dfaother for me as long as I lif!" Every boy should remember that ev­ ery decent man in the wqnU. has tried to quit swearing. * jvwStt Schweinfarth Is Indicted. George Jacob Sehweinfurth was arrest­ ed at Rock ford Saturday, an indictment, being returned against him by the grand jury for living with Mary Weldon, Mrs. Tpttle and Margaret Teft Weldon, all "an­ gels" in the Sehweinfurth "heaven." He will enter a plea in the Circuit Court, and the trial of the noted "messiah" will doubtless take place very soon. It has been learned that Sehweinfurth borrowed $10,000 in Freeport for a defense fund. In case he is not found guilty he will be arrested and taken to the Cook County jail to work out the $50,000 judgment se­ cured against him by George W. Coudrey at the rate of $7 per week, Coudrey being obliged to pay his board, $3.50 per week, in advance, in order to keep him behind the bars. Sehweinfurth is now out on bail, the $1,000 necessary having been furnished by Peter Weldon, on whose farm the "heaven" has been conducted. An attempt was made to levy on Schwein- furth's personal property to satisfy a por­ tion of the Coudrey judgment, but the "angels" were too sharp for the ollicers and barred the doors. Record of the Week. President A. S. Draper, of the Univer­ sity of Illinois, has sent out invitations to all the leading educators of the State for a conference May 1(5 and 17 at the university touching the relations of the university and the secondary schools. Commission men of Chicago and other cities are exercised over an order from Washington that circulars printed from type which resembles typewriting must pay full letter postage. It will make a difference of several thousands of dollars yearly to some houses, unless they change the style of their circulars. the jury in the case of the people vs. Dan Thompson at Marshall for killing John O'Hara, after being out sixtj hours, returned a verdict of guilty and fixed his punishment at one yen* iu the peniten­ tiary. s---^ Dr. Henry B^ll, whose attempt to secure his little daughter,"fcellie, who was taken from his home in Chicago last June by his own son. Dr. William Bell, of Spring­ field, created such a sensation on the street at Springfield, was taken before a magistrate on a peace warrant sworn out by his wife, bit was discharged. The magistrate also decided that Dr. Bell could visit his children twice a week. head and many marks on the grouild, showing where the body had been drag­ ged from the top of the hill to the river. Two negroes are under arrest on suspi­ cion. Attorney General Moloney decided road commissioners could not legally appoint themselves road overseers. He. holds they have no right to draw pay for such services. The sale of the $15,000 school bond of the Fairbury district was made to N. W. J Harris & Co., of Chicago, at a premium of $346. The money will be used to erect a high school building. Sheriff Johnson, of Peoria, offered a reward of $100 for the arrest of the con­ victed post office robber, Thomas Noonan, who escaped the jail. Not a clew has yet been obtained as to the whereabouts of the fugitive. John Smith and Joseph Hoffman, farm­ ers residing in Seminary township, Fay- "ette County, have not been friends for some time. Hoffman is a single man and lives in the same neighborhood with Smith, who is married.^ Monday morn­ ing they met and had a quarrel over the matter. About S o'clock in the evening Hoffman and several other young men of the neighborhood went over to Smith's, and the latter shot Hoffman, mortally wounding him. Hoffman lived only three hours. * As a result of the wrangle over the baseball game at Mascoutah Sunday, it is likely that the Belleville Clerks and the Mascoutahs, two leading aspirants /for championship honors, will take an in­ ning or two in the courts of St. Clair ^County. The trouble is over the gate re­ ceipts, which amounted to about $200. As the Belleville club decHWpd to finish the game, the Mascoutah managers re­ fused to give them any percentage of the proceeds. The Belleville managers de­ clare they will appeal to the courts to se­ cure payment of 50 per cent of the money taken in. Chicago is dry. So is the State of Illi­ nois, but not to the point of parching, like its chief city, Only once in tweuty-five years has as little rain fallen in the month of April. The grass in the fields round about the city is full of dust and is taking on the brown appearance of late July. In the parks the sprinklers are at work all day loaig, being moved con­ stantly from place to place. It is eight years since this was necessary thus early in the season. At places which the sprays cannot reach the grass is rust^T Lack of precipitation of moisture caused the ruin of much winter wheat in the West and Southwest, but showers pretty generally distributed have saved the planted crop for the present at least in most places where the first damage wi'.i felt. Illinois, Southern Michigan and Indiana are the States now suffering. Ti e corn is mostly in, but it will rot unless rain comes quickly. Reports from the fruit sections in Illi­ nois indicate a generally large supply. Strawberries, peaches, pears, n^nles, plums, blackberries and cherries a^ all looking well, alul now that the danger of a late frost is practically ended a heavy crop is predict era. Services at tlie Emmanuel Swedish Lu­ theran Church of Itockford, oue of the oldest Swedish churches in the country, will hereafter be conducted in the Eng­ lish language. The change to an Eng^ lish-speakingi organization is the first step in a reform that Is exacted to become general. The canvass for the hew Waukegan di­ rectory, just completed, indicates a pop­ ulation in that city of 9,500. The esti­ mate, in 1892 Was T,2b0. It is somewhat surprising to the native of Illinois to read tlie repeated state­ ments of the Chicago press that Maggie Tiller is the first'w'Oman in this State'to be condemned by- law to death. So far from being a fact, it improbably true that, asidte from witcli-burning in puritanical times, Illinois Witnessed ;the first legal execution pf white woman since the establishment of the Government. The case in point Vas the hanging of Eliza­ beth Reed in Lawrenceville on jS^a^ 23, 1845, for the murder of 'her husband. Frye, a widow, who lived about nine miles southwest of Halstead, completely destroying it and slightly injuring Mrs. Frye. It picked up the house of John Sehultzback and carried it away. The fine »wo-story house of Joseph Weir was entirely swept away, killing Mrs. Joseph Weir, Grace Weir, aged 11; Herman Weir, aged 5, and a five-weeks-old baby. Mr. V/eir had previously left the house, tind when the cyclone struck was about fifty yards away. . He clung to a tree, but was badly injured by flying debris and will die. Joseph Weir, Jr., and sis­ ter, Maud Weir, the only ones in thp family who took to the cellar, escaped with only slight injuries. The home of E. C. Caldwell, which was sixty yards west of the Weir's, was unroofed and the side torn away. The family escaped by taking, to the cellar. The next house in the path of the storm was William „ Armstrong's, ^rhich was completely wiped from the face of the earth. Mr. Armstrong was killed, Mrs. Armstrong seriously aud perhaps fatally injured, and Grandma ^hapin, who was there sick in bed, Was killed. About 100 yards east of the Armstrong house the large two-story residence of B. E. Frizzell was picked up, as was also a large two-story house of J. F. Frizzell, across the road, and both, together with all the outbuildings, were completely swept away, leaving only enough debris to show that a house had stood there. The families of both the Frizzells escaped un­ injured. Spencer Ross' house was in the line of the tornado, and was carried away, as were also the houses of A. S. Powell, J. A. Comas, Andrew Thomp­ son and Menno Hege. Miss Daisy Neff, at Powell's house, was badly injured, as was Mrs. J. Comas. School Children Safe. At the Hege district school the school children had jttst been dismissed. Hege saw the storm approaching, aud, fearing, its results, hurried the scholars to his cyclone cellar. His foresightedness pre­ vented an awful _ loss of life, for just as the last child had been safely stowed away in the cellar, the cyclone struck the house over them and demolished it As it was, not one of them was even slightly injured. The fury of the storm seems to have done its worst about five miles west of Halstead. Near the Friz­ zell home dead_ cattle, horses, hogs and chickens are scattered all over the wheat fields. Those who first saw the disaster com­ ing say it made very slow progress, trav­ eling not faster than a person could run. It seemed to w /er first in one direction and then in another. As far as heard from, covering a distance of eighteen miles across the country from southwest to northeast, twenty residences, nearly all of them large ones, were destroyed. The loss will be not less than $200,000. Everybody in the track of the storm lost everything. JOHN BULL ACCEPTS. Nicarasnaii Incident Considered Prac­ tically Settled--Ships to Sail Away. The understanding is that the British fleet will immediately withdraw from Co- rinto. It is not known what guaranty Great Britain demands for the payment of the indemnity, but it is believed iu offi­ cial circles that- the affair is practically settled. It is said in Washington that the guarantee of the payment by Nicara­ gua of the indemnity as required by Great Britain will be made iu the amplest manner possible, so that thi?re appears to be no further obstacle between the two countries as to a fiual adjustment. From the British standpoint the ac­ ceptance of the compromise and the im­ mediate evacuation of Corinto establishes the good faith of Great Britain iu her declaration that there was no purpose of occupying territory. From the first tho British authorities have assured Ambas­ sador Bayard, and the latter has so ad­ vised Secretary Greshani, that there was no purpose of aggression, or o.i securing a foothold in Nicaragua. The only pur­ pose, Earl Kimberley has said, was to collect a debt by such force as was nec­ essary and then depart. Nicaragua, not­ withstanding these assurances, h.us main­ tained that the collection of the $77,500 was merely a covert means of occupying her territory. This view has prevailed very widely in Washington, even in some official quarters, although the policy of the Government has been to accept the good faith of Great Britain's representa­ tives. | The withdrawal of the troops frota Co- rinto and the departure of the fleet vtould not only end all questions of British terri­ torial extension in Nicaragua, but also put at rest the fears entertained that the control of the Nicaragua Canal route would be seriously affected by the prox­ imity of British forces. The affair has cost Nicaragua more than the original $77,500. It was necessary to raise 3,COO -extra troops at a cost of $3,000 a day. The abandonment of Corinto as a customs port has also resulted in much loss. The disturbance to business and commerce Is a loss which cannot be measured in dol­ lars. Dr. Robert N. Iveeley, Jr., of Philadel­ phia, who recently returned from Blue- tields, says that he is well acquainted with pro-Consul Hatch, for whose expul- siou from Nicaraguau territary Great Britain demanded smart money to the ex­ tent of $75,000, the enforced payment of which has led to international complica­ tions. Dr. Keeley asserts that Hatch, be­ fore his trouble, was the keeper of a sa­ loon called "The Cactus" in Bluefields, and that his expulsion could not have caused him more than $500 damage at the utmost. Mrs. John R. Jarboe ba&' joined tlje ranks of Callfornian writers. A New York publisher Is bringing out her novel, "Go Forth and Find." J tiles Marcou, who writes the book entltled "Louis Agasslz; His Life, Let­ ters and Works," which Macmillan & Co. announce, is the la&t surviving Eu­ ropean/Nationalist who came to this country with Agasslz, and was closely associated with him as pupil, asstst- ant and friend. / TRAIN ROBBERS' PLOT FOILED. Resalt Is the Fatal Shootins of Two Men Near St. Joseph, Mo. Two man fatally shot is the result of a frustrated attempt to rob a Burlington train coming into St. Joseph, Mo. For some days a gang of tough characters has been hanging around, and information was brought to the Burlington officials that the Omaha express was to be held up. William Haagrtv hotcl manrfurnlsh- ed the information, aud the officers sent guards, who frustrated the design. Wed­ nesday evening, while Richard Rau, an employe of Haag, was sitting in the bar of Haag's place, Thomas Farrall, one of the gang, stepped inside the door and, without a word, shot Rau through the stomach, inflicting a fatal wound. Citi­ zens quickly gathered and captured the men after a long chase, not, however, un­ til Farrall had been fatally shot. Charles A. Dana has edited, revised and added to his lectures on the mak­ ing of a newspaper, •which will be pub­ lished in book form by the Messrs. Ap- pleton. Few lectures have attracted Tnore attention than these by the'editor of the Sun, and the book is sure to have a wide reading. Here is Andrew Lang's story of Ste­ venson slapping a Frenchman's face: "Stevenson was in a Paris cafe, when he heard a native jStigmatizing the Eng­ lish as cowards. |He slapped the. face Of the .tradueer./who said: 'Monsieur, you have struc^ me.' To which Ste­ venson blandly retorted: 'So it seems.' Yet there was no bloodshed!" W. J. Courfchopes "History of Eng­ lish Poetry," which the Macmillans will publish, is to be a prodigious work in four or live volumes. The first volume, which Is nearly ready, contains chapi­ ters on the character and sources of medieval, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Nor­ man poetry. The author's aimx(is to in­ terpret the developments English po­ etry by showing the relations of thought existing between the Middle Age^a.nd the Renaissance. An irate correspondent of tlie Pall Mall Gazette wants to know why Wil­ liam Watson, who is an able-bodied man in the prime of life, should, on the plea of having written two or three small books of imitative verse, be pro­ vided with one hundred pounds a year of the public money for the term of his natural life. The correspondent inti­ mates further that Mr. Watson is "a pauper on Parnassus" and a "cockered- up nursling of a clique." At George Cable's home, In Northamp­ ton, Mass., there was lately a double celebration--that of his own silver wed­ ding and the marriage of his eldest daughter, whose advent inspired her father's only published verses: "There came to port, the other day, . The queerest little craft, Without a stitch of rigging on, I looked and looked and laughed. "It seemed so strange that she should come Across that stormy water, And anchor there, right in my room, My daughter, oh, my daughter!" Come to Stay. There are many reasons for thinking that the bicycle "has come to stay." Undoubtedly some of those who take it up because of its vogue will tire of it after a while, but these will not con­ stitute a large proportion of the whole number, says Century.- The great body of riders find in the bicycle a aew pleasure in - life, a means for seeing more of the world, a sourceqf be^t^r health, through open-air exercise, a bond of comradeship, a method of rapid locomotion either for business or pleas­ ures, and many other enjoyments and advantages which they will not relin­ quish. The bicycle has, In fact, be­ come a necessary part of modern life, and could not be abandoned without turning the social progress of the world backward. England and France, notably in the larger cities, have bpen so given over to it for some time that a large proportion of their population come and go on their errands of busi­ ness or pleasure "on a wheel." Ameri­ cans who have recently traveled abroad have been astonished at the general use of the bicycle there, and haV?o\becn still more astonished, on returning to their own country to find what headway the passion has made here. It Is said to be a conservative estimate by compe­ tent authorities that during tlie past year a quarter of a million bicycles have been sold in this country, aud that the number of riders approaches a mil­ lion. There are said to be over fifty f thousand In New York and its neigh­ borhood, and fftlly half that number in and about Boston. The latter city caught the passion from Europe some time before^New York did, and has a larger proportion of its population, male and female, regularly devoted to It. Why He Was Silent. A physician describes, in the AJJanta Journal, a remarkable case of a pa­ tient's confidence in his physician: When I was a student in Philadel­ phia I had a patient, an Irishman, with a broken leg. When the plaster band­ age was removed, and a lighter one put in its place, I noticed that one of the pins went in with great difficulty, and could not understand it A week afterward, in removing this pin, I found it had stuck hard and fast and I was forced to remove it with the forceps. What was my astonishment on making an examination, to find that the pin had been run through the'skin twice instead of through the cloth. "Why, Pat," said I, "didn't you know that pin was sticking in you ?" , "To be slnire I did," replied Pat "but I thought you knowed your busi­ ness, so I hilt me tongue." He Gave Her the Shake. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, while vis­ iting, feeling rather weary and wishing to rest was asked by a fellow-guest whom he did not admire, if he did not wish to accompany her for a walk. Glancing out of the window, Sheridan replied: "It is very cloudy. We shall be caught in the rain." The other wait­ ed awhile. Shortly the sun came through the clouds. "Shall we go now?" yes; so I see," said Sheridan; "it has cleared up enough for one, but not enough for two. You go." "Don't you find it rather difficult to get rid of them?" was asked of the man who is makina'a specialty of Tril- ' by tableaux with spciety,,women in the ^ title role. "Oh, no( Whenever a wom­ an doesn't suit I tell her that .her feet are too small."--Hartford Courant