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cV -PIERS BUNCOflD.fa6' Qf latli.--Midflleburgb, X. ICETS OF THE WORLD HAVE NOT BEEN CAPTURED. *£i ;X,nrger Qnantitiea of Our Prod- ucts,but (Grave Us I/'ess Money-Heads ThiiJ Wtoand Tails "We Lose Under Free Trade. W.e Give, They Take. It is unnecessary remind the Amer­ ican people that they were to capture the markets of the world-Us soon as the wall-of protection was broken down and they could reach out beyond the confines of the markets of the United States. Volumes have been written up­ on this subject by the free trade news­ paper editors, volumes full of theory and volumes full of promises. Now let us look at the practical side of it. At the present time the only details of our exports of American products for tue fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, that have been issued by the bureau of statistics of the Treasury Department are those relating to. mineral oils, breadstuff's, ̂ cotton and provisions. The Official: returns show the quantities and values of each of these commodities that have been exported -to foreign countries, dui'ing this and the previous fiscal years. v Instead, of there having been a large increase in our exports during the 1895 year, ten months of which" period the Gorman tariff was in operation, strange to say our official statistics, show that we have been selling less of oiir pro­ ducts in the markets of the world since our wall of protection was" broken down, and that the promises made by the free trade writers were misleading airO then - theories based upon false premises. In the following table we give the decrease in o'ur exports.'with the quantity and value of mineral oils, breadstuff's, cotton and provisions dur­ ing the fiscal year ending June .'50. 1895. as compared with the previous twelve months: . . Decrease "in exports for year "ending June 30. 1895: Mineral oils-- Quantity. Value. - Crude, galls. .. 10,099.805 $7<i5.979 Napthus 798,889 M7,441 1 ), lu minuting. galls., 15,408,951 a 1.070,200 It e s i d-.u u in, trails ........ Hi.208 a'2,475 Kroadstuffs-- Ilariey, bush. . 3.183.871 1,417,117 Corn, bush. ... 37.917.W2 ir>.712..SON Oats, hush. .. . 5,130,377 l,N0t>.r»2o Kye, hush. . . . 221.957' 121,380 Wheat, luisli. . 12.12<>,041 irUO? .4.V! Wh't flour bris. l,594,o l^ 17,35ti,001 Cotton, ten. months. lbs..aS00,802,795 3,430,301! Provisions-- Cattle, num'er. 28,982 2,934,4(59 B.-ef-- <'aimed, lbs.. a7,590.2(53 a51.">.537 Fresh, lbs.... 2..'>10.1,77 145.:5">S 'Waited, lbs. .. . 599.2(57 :50,20:i Tallow, lbs... 28,588,800 1,4(52,478 Hog products-- Bacon, lbs a34,744.3.*50 023..149 Hams, lbs al8.0S9.318 al.078,812 Pork, lbs (5,030,89(5 987.8TS Lard, lbs a23,(503,974 3,51(5,8(59 Dairy products-- Butter, lbs... 0.195,7(50 1.157.22S Cheese! lbs... II',.45(5,0(1,S 1,<5S.'5.7:',S Net money loss $08,(5(54,819 a increase. Out of 22 different articles it appears that of five only did we export larger quantities last year than in 1894; that in the case of four articles only was there an increase in value; of 17 out of the 22 commodities we sold less in quantity ami of 18 we sold less in value. •„ In the case "Of illuminating oil, which shows an increase of over $4,000,000 in the value of our exports, there was a de­ crease of 15.400.000 gallons in the quan­ tity exported. The recent sharp rise in the price of coal oil accounts for this difference. Among the provisions it will be seen that we sold over 23,(500.- (>00 pounds more lard last year, but re­ ceived $3,510,000 less money than in 1894. We also sold 34,744.000 pounds more bacon, but received $023,549 less money. Capturing the markets of the world on any such basis as this, where we have sold larger quantities of our com­ modities at much lower values, can hardly be a profitable undertaking for the producers of such articles. No doubt the cotton growers will bear us out in this statement, because, although <luring the break in the wall of protec­ tion we sold upward of 800.000,000 pounds more cotton in ten months than during the corresponding period of the previous cotton Crop year, yet the price received for our total exports of cotton was $3,430,000 less than when we sold over a million bales less. In other words, we have practically given away 1.024,000 bales of cotton for nothing, and have also received $3,430,000 less money than we did when we sold a smaller quantity in 1894. Y.^ That Restoration of rt'asfes. While the free trade papers jubilate over the restorations voluntarily made in the wage schedules of some factories, t hey invariably forget to state that such increase does not make the rate of pay now received by the wage earners equivalent to their earnings of 1892. Another point to which they fail to refer is that, where wages have been advanced, it is very often the case that such an advance was made to far fewer people than were employed in 1892. A firm may then have been employing 500 hands, and even , if the same rate wages should now be paid it is often t case that only 350 hands are employtfcl (. What, then, has become of the othAr 150V Has some other industry made such marked progress under tariff re­ form as to.be able to absorb these idlers? If so, why have not the free trade editors recorded the fact? It is most likely that the 150 have either left the country or are tramping around still looking for that job which they had before they voted for President Cleveland and tariff reform. Down on the- Goose. During eleven months of the last fis­ cal year, up to May 31, 1S95, we im­ ported almost $1,500,000 worth ol' crude feathers and downs. Under the Mc- Kimey tariff a protection of 50 per cent ad valorem was accorded to American •feathers and downs.1 The free trade slaughterers abolished this "protection, placing crude feathers and downs upon the free list. „ ' The largest goose growing "State in this country is Missouri, where Senator Vest' comes from, In Missouri two French breeds of geese, known as the Emden and Toulouse, have been im ported and improved upon. The Stated of Kentucky and Tennessee are the4wo next largest producers, and the three best markets for goose feathers are at St. Louis. Nashville and Louisville. classes of the United Kingdota. at once to take steps to restrict the importation of goods made in foreign prisons by the iWced labor of convicts and felons." After a long and interesting debate a division was at first vigorously chal­ lenged from the Government si<$ey but was not persisted in. the motion being unanimously adopted amid opposition c h e e r s . • • • • • • • , Of Course It Does. l^e CQnsmnpuon of homo products and manufactures has been very ef­ fectively agitated by the Manufactur­ ers and Producers' "Aissocintton of Cali­ fornia. This association has 850 State factories affiliated with it, employing about 34.000 working people, and it be­ lieves in protection in the.. strongest form. -a OCCURRENCES " bURING PAST WEEK. THE c A Businesslike Revivalist, An Ohio revivalist named Jonas ap­ pears to have gone into the business of An Object Lesson for Farmer's Wives. 2,153,0m 2lT)j!lion zMIUori Dozen uczen; i,698,266 !/i Uflren'.' Oczen. Dozen' ls>l Ekmt BloniW under Tile, Kin\s^ Imnjf 1st under An Object Lesson for Farmers. 139,157 Tons .Tons Tons-Tons'- Tons: 'Sorts'- iWM# 'l v\j,, . 'AtV,'«'.w\ ikMM Thousand Toils; • • . * • . : n f / < j \ \ • , < \ , • I 1 1 . " i ' * v \ t !?}• PlrtW lllftnlliC )HiJnv [ct Cl/llil 1st Ei^Vtllleiilhs under tecSfeieyTarlff isfc Ei^htfcitbs under Gomm Tariff these three cities receiving and distrib- | reviving as a profession. 11 is "ad r in uting fully two-thirds of all our do- jthe paper declares that "he has a strong mestic goose feathers that are grown in t.he United States. The protection given to this Southern industry under the McKinley tariff largely stimulated an increase in the number of geese, but not even the boss free trade gander, Senator Vest, raised his voice for protection to a Southern industry, but he was content to pluck the last feather from the goose that lays so many golden eggs for his fellow citizens in his own State. Home Market for Home Goods. Every farmer in Faulk County should wear woolen clothes. Every person who owns a horse in Faulk County should have a woolen blanket for it. Every bed in every home "in Faulk County should be provided with at least one pair of woolen blankets. All of which should be manufactured in Faulk County. We produce the wool in ample quantity, now let us provide for i t s nia n u fa ct n re.--Fa u 1 k Co.u n ty T i mes, Eaulktou. S. I). We are pleased to see the spread of the doctrine of protection in the far Western section of the country. Every 'State that produces wool should have its own woolen factories and manufac­ ture its own woolen goods for its home market. The object of the policy of protection is to secure a home market foy American products. - " A Good Topic to Discuss. A'e observe with satisfaction that the frotection journals of the entire coun- voice, and is able to speak to the larg­ est audiences at grove meetings. He is not backward about speaking twice a day Where opportunity is afforded. Ilis heart is full of the work, and he is anxious to reach people with his mes­ sage of deliverance. lie can preach on Sundays as well as talk polities on week days. He is a very efficient re­ vivalist. He' has a wonderful faculty of entertaining, holding and convincing audiences, and can speak in the same place night after night with continual­ ly increasing attendance." Hard Times on the Cow. An exchange tells of a man out in the western part of the State who went into his cow stable the other night and by mistake mixed the cow up a nice mash in a box full of sawdust instead of bran. The cow merely supposed "ilie hard times were the cau£e of the econ­ omy, meekly ate her supper, and the man never discovered his mistake until the next morning, when he milked the cow and she let down half a gallon of turpentine, a quart of shoe pegs and a Close (Quarters. An Irish mud cabin consists of two rooms, and possibly a semi-detached outhouse, which is used as a storeroom. The narrow chimney seldom satisfac­ torily answers the purpose for which it .was built, and the doorway aids in emitting the smoke. What little light penetrates inside through the tiny win­ dow discloses the deep chocolate stain from the eternal turf-reek which per­ vades the atmosphere of the interior, and literally paints walls, roof and fur­ niture a uniform color. The furniture is rough and also scanty, a few stools atoning for the occasional complete ab­ sence of chairs. The mud floor is al­ ways more or less wet from the patter of the children's bare feet or from the animals which have free access to the house. At night the children sleep in j two or three box beds or berths in the inner room. In the state berth in the try combine to defend the national pol- ,.ai]j0<rh. or recess at the side of the icv of encouragement to home indus- j hoar t] ) - t lu> father and tries with ability and "success. Their arguments are up to date and deal with new phases of the question. The wel­ fare of the^vhole country, and especial­ ly of the wage Earners, is an/inspiring theme and merits the ability with which the subject is discussed in con­ nection with the tariff. Try It at Home. The San Francisco Journal of Com­ merce urges its local manufacturers and producers' association to institute a California week, or even a California day'each month, when the various busi­ ness houses of San Francisco will dis­ play in their shops aiid on their shelves goods of California manufacture. Keep the ball rolling. mother repose unscreened from the live stock of the farm, and breathe the same atmosphere /firs some eight quadrupeds besides the poultry. Pigs, cattle, dogs, cats and probably, a horse or donkey, have their bed space, respectively, and jealously resent-any encroachment by a bedfel­ low. Astonishing its It -may appear, there are hardly, any. disagreeable odors. The overpowering smell of the peat smoke evidently acts as a complete disinfectant, and fortunately it is in­ noxious t& the inhabitants of the hovel. Equally astonishing is the fact that the whole community are in compara­ tive harmony, and even the babies rare­ ly cry. " .$!eai-nst Con vict Labor. In the House of Parliament Colonel Howard Vincent moved, on Feb. 19. 1S95: "That in the opinion of this house it la incumbent Upon her majesty's govern­ ment, in the interest of the industrial Senewed Interest in the Blenkliaiisen .Murder. Case--Factory Refuse< Kills Fish--Great Excursion from Elgin- Missionary's Wedding Postponed. Confesses She Swore Falsely. The alleged confession at Mascoutah of Mrs. Muttie England revives interest in one of the ino§t noted murder cases in the history of Southern Illinois, Mrs. England was one of the chief witnesses against ex-Policeman Gu stave Menk­ hausen, and largely on her testimony Menkhausen was sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife. The evidenc against Menkhausen was strong, bi: purely circumstantial, and Governor A1 geld commuted his sentence -to life mil prisoninent. The England woman now avers that she swore falsely at the bidding of a rival lover who wanted Menkhausen out of the way. Upon the strength of her alleged confession a pardon will be asked for the ex-policeman. .In October. 1893, Menkhausen'-s wife died* suddenly one night after drinking a bottle of beer at supper. The beer had been .bought and 'opened by Menkhausen; who did not drink any of it or. give ,the- children any. MenkluiuSen was found after the -wo­ man's death at a disreputable resort .and .was arrested,.charged with her murder. . • Illinois Rivei* Fish Killed. The fishing industry of the Illinois River .is a- thing of the" past. Mr. Curtis, of Lacon, who does the largest wholesale fish business oh the river, said "My men went out and seined only a few diseased bullheads that were so sickly they could not swim?" All summer the TState com­ missioners have labored to save the spawn that was perishing in the slough and in stocking the river with game fish. But the fish died as soon as put in the river. The water is rank with poison, and that is accountable for the clams dying. The shells are floating down stream by tens of thousands. What few fish there are in the river alive are hud­ dled around springs, and they are not fit to eat. The zinc works, gas works and Chicago sewage have driven 500 fisher­ men out of employment. All Elgin Visits Chicago. About 8,000 Elgin folk paid 40 cents each Saturday for a trip to and from Chi­ cago. The watchmakers devised the scheme, but employes of nearly all the factories in the city of watches took ad­ vantage of the low rate. Hundreds of the excursionists wore, enameled watch dials and ribbons to show that they came from the watch factory. Many of the party went up the lake, others,spent the day in the parks,' especially on the site of the World's Fair, and all the "cranks" went to the C. A. A. field to, see the class A and class 1? men fly around the track. When the rain began to fall at 4 o'clock there was great confusion among the Elginites. Many were soaked through and through and were glad enough to take the trains for home. .here is a policeman called Time, and he says tO-ei"£r.y-XingeriBg--s©n of man: ".Move on." _W.e will find no permanent resting place in this life, and to-morrow may find us gone. In Austria a credit of six months is generally allowed. Postpones Her Trip to China. Miss Lona •an Valkenburg, a well- known Rock ford young lady, was to have started for China soil to wed Rev. Mr. Openshaw, a Baptist missionary sta­ tioned at a mission 2,000 miles from the seaboard. Word has just been received that he has been obliged to abandon the post on account of the outrages there, and the Roekford young lady will not go un­ til next year, continuing a course of hos­ pital studies in Chicago. New Female Prison at Jotict . Plans for the new female prison at .Toliet are completed and work will be commenced soon to erect the building on the State grounds east of the peniten­ tiary. Seventy-five thousand dollars has been appropriated-and it will be the best female prison in the Fnited States. It will be built by convict labor. The yard will be 300 l'eet long and.the same width. At present there are fifty-live female con­ victs in the prison. State News in Brief. Ilichard Wallace. -"">7, committed suicide by shooting at Peoria. Oval Ashhrook, el .est son of T N. Ashbrook, a farmer near Humboldt, was killed by a fall. At Bloomington P Bobbins, aged 11, was mortally won' , by being run over by a wagon loadc: h 2,000 brick. Jacob Krolin, pres lent of the Freeport Second National Bank, was married in Chicago to Mrs. Carrie Feltler, of Cincin­ nati. Mrs. ('. A. Swan, of .Jacksonville, shot herself through the heart. Her act was caused, by despondency, due to a long sickness. William Hack, of Chicago. Who has served two years in the Joliet penitentiary for burglary, was restored to citizenship by Gov. Altgeld. The Illinois Platideutsche Gilde held a four days' session in Elgin, with an at­ tendance of over 100 from cities in Illi­ nois and Indiana. Frank Hoffman was captured at Roch­ ester. He is wanted at Boonville, Mo., on five serious charges. He escaped.from the jail there several months ago. A very strong flow of natural gas was tapped at the depth of 205 feet on a farm two miles southeast of Heyworth. The well is four inches in diameter, and was being sunk for water only. The pressure is thirty pounds to the square inch. This is the fourth gas well developed in this im­ mediate neighborhood, there being now three four-inch tubes and one two-inch. For some years the town of Heyworth. with 1,500 inhabitants, has used the gas from the two-inch tube for fuel. The pre*?rit supply is far beyond the needs of the community, and steps are being taken to utilize the gas for local manufac­ turing or to pipe it to Bloomington, a dis­ tance of thirteen miles. Frederick S. Weckler, sheriff of St. Clair County and ex-representative from St. Clair. County in the General Assem­ bly. died of typhoid fever, aged 47 years. Gov. Altgeld issued a requisition for Nelson R. Shearer, in jail at Kalamazoo, Mich. lie was collector for Frank Stoer- cor, a Chicago newspaper deliverer, and is charged with embezzling, funds. In. reply to the question "Can first 'cousins marry in Illinois?" Assistant At- tornfy General Newell answers that sine'e .July 1. 1887; marriage between cousins of the first degree, in this State is incestu­ ous and void. I. H. M. McCowan, a wealthy farmer living a few miles north of Raritan, was gored to death by a bull on. his farm. He was about 60 years old and a bachelor. An extra freight train on the St. Louis, Chicago and St. Paul Railroad (Bluff Line) ran off the safety switch at Curran, near Springfield. The engine and four cars were turned over and were, badly de­ molished,. as was a Wabash car on an adjacent track. The engineer and fire­ man sayed their lives by jumping. En­ gineer D. Donaldson, Fireman H. Bur­ ner, Conductor Thomas Hale, and Brake- man Jam^s Welch, and H. Schwab were all more or less bruised? and cut up. Welch waS thrown several feet. .Tnmes Fitzsimmons, foreman of- the Northwestern Rliad, Kenosha division, died from sunstroke. ' ,j Rev. Edugr L. Williams, pastor off! Grace PreSByferian Church, of Peoria, has resigned. He will enter the evangteli- i cal field. - • j Wright & Wright, dealers in wagons, j buggies and harness at Olney, made an j assignment. Liabilities, .$10,000; assets, j unknown. ' . \ j Prof. C. A. Wendell, of Augustnna Col- j lege. Rock Island.' has been called to the pulpit of Roekford Emmanuel Swedish Lutheran Church, ' 1" , In the United States Court at Peoria Lorenzo D. Benner began suit in equity against Kingman & Co., of Peoria, large farm implement dealers, for an -alleged infringement of a patent on a check ; rower. Prof. G. E. Morrow, recently at the ! head of the department of agriculture in j e University of Illinois, Champaign, ! accepted the presidency of, the Okla- ; la Agricultural and Mechanical Qol- lejj£e; also the presidency of the State ag- j riculturnl experiment station-. The State.Superintendent of Insurance ' made public the result of the recent ofli- ! cial examination of the affairs of the 1 lli- j nois Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Chicago, which is declared insolvent. The * income of the concern from October, 1894, to Man. L 1895, on premiums was $19,- 101.11. and from Jail. 1 to July '27, 1895, was $25,743.15. /Assessments were $l,t. 102.80. Other receipts made the total in­ come $40.755.27less return premiums, etc., of. '$4,727.10. making the total net income $42,020.17. The company "is found to be over $40»000 short. Herman Lauer, whom the police of Ra­ cine, Wi.s., arrested on elvarges of forgery. Was very much wanted by the police' of Chicago on charges of. obtaining money under false pretenses during the past few weeks. While in Chicago Lauer repre­ sented himself as the agent of the Butter- ick Fashion Company in Wabash avenue, and by his swindling operations succeeded in victimizing .many small store-keepers throughout" the city out of sums ranging from $2 to $7. Nearly all his victims were women and the keepers of small liiv tion stores. Lauer"s scheme was to sell the agency for the fashion company, at the same time soliciting -subscriptions to the Delineator, a fashion paper, publish­ ed by the Butterick company. He also sold advertising space in the publication, obtaining the cost of the advertisement in advance. Judge Allen, in the United States Cir­ cuit Court at Springfield, made an order for the sale of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Road at auction from the steps" of the Federal building, in Springfield, Sept. 14, 1895. The road will be sold in three parcels--the first including the line from Pekin to Havana and Jacksonville; the second being the line from Havana to Springfield, i?250,000 of stock in the Pe­ oria and Pekin I'nion Railway, and the line from Springfield to East St. Louis, and the third is the,line proposed to be built from Havana to Rock Island. No bid of less than $250,000 for the first par­ cel, $200,000 for the second, and $50,000 f>r the third will be accepted, and after or.ch parcel is sold the property will be offered and sold as one piece if a greater -price tlian the aggregate bid for the three parcels can be obtained. The suspicions which have aroused the entire Tipper end of Rock Island County that a frightful double tragedy was in­ volved in the discovery of the unknown colored woman's dead body near Cordova Sunday were confirmed by the unearth­ ing of the remains of the cluld with which she had been seen. The body was found after the most diligent search buried in the sand three miles above the town. The baby's head was crushed as if struck with some blunt instrument, whiltt an arm and a le^ were broken. The discovery of this shocking evidence of a Woody deed had the effect of intensifying the excite­ ment of the people. The last seen of the three togejherr-the colored nnn, woman and child--was Friday evening. Satur­ day morning the man was seen at the Milwaukee depot in Cordova, where he purchased a ticket for Chicago. Sunday morning the woman's body was found in the river, and Monday it was buried. Tuesday came tin- first evidence that the woman had been seen Friday evening with the mail above Cordova. With her was a , child apparently 18 months old. The fact that the child was unaccounted for led to the investigation and the dis­ covery. The probabilities are that the body of the woman will now be disin­ terred and examined for evidence of vio­ lence. as this was neglected at the time the remains were buried. The coroner has ascertained that before leaving for Chicago the missing man had five $20 gold pieces, which gives some ground for the belief that he may have murdered the woman for money. George Dudenhoffer was shot by Carl Rahn and James Younger, two Elgin po­ licemen, recently for running away from them early in the morning and failing to stop when commanded to do so. He was badly injured and flow brings suit in the Circuit Court against the officers for $5,000. Ensign Joseph C. Ludgate is the cham­ pion "long-distance" singer of the world. His specialty is singing fifty-one Salvation Army -songs in sixty minutes without missing a note. He gave an exhibition of his powers the other night at the Salva­ tion Army training garrison, 184 North Clark street. Chicago. Five hundred per­ sons heard him. It was announced as a "battle of song." The Ensign had a con­ certina. He got away at just 8:33 o'clock. Everybody arose and sung "I Will Fol­ low Jesus." They sat down and helped out on the choruses of four songs. For four more they clapped hands, and on the next relay waved their handkerchiefs. The Ensign then gave some solos and the lassies sung the choruses. lie was get­ ting along toward the home stretch and found he had time to take it easy. He in­ terlarded a few things not down on the program. First was "Sidewalks of New j York." "Old Kentucky Home." "Razors | in the Air," and "Roll the (>ld Chariot." Only thirty seconds remained when En­ sign Ludgate arose to lead the doxology. They finished in the half-minute. i Judge Lnndes refuses to dissolve the temporary injunction restraining the City Council of Grayville from purchasing the waterworks and electric light plant just completed by George C. Morgan, of Chi­ cago, by paying $7,193 cash and assuming a mortgage of $21,500. At Mount Vernon a. jail delivery was nipped in the bud by Jailer Ryan. lie in company with two police officers made a search and discovered one of fhe prison­ ers with two pieces of iron, half an inch' by three inch by fifteen inches in 1 ertgth, j with which ho was cutting a hole in the i wall. Mrs. Alice Trainer died sit. Peoria in terrible agony as the result of poison taken , by mistake. ' , The "Holiness" people, who ar$ numer­ ous near Bingham, held a meeting. In a short time, they claim, the spirit of the Lord struck down sinners and caused old and young converts to go into a trance^ in which state they remained for from twelve to twenty hours. They claim that during the n;anee they Were permitted to see spiritual things. A peculiar charac­ teristic of the service is that the old, halt and lame, wtftm they get happy, jump and shout with all their might.' The meetings continue as late as 2 o 'cleck a. in. People flock to the meeting by scores SHIFTING THE TAXES. INDIVIDUALS. MADE TO BEAR RAILROAD BURDENS. A.11 County Returns • In--Companies Having Lines in Cook Especially Be­ friended--Low Real Estate Values-- Lp.nd Assessed at Low Figures. j The General Assessment. * ;• Springflelticorrespondencc: According to, the returns of the various ( local assessors, the aggregate assessed ; valuation of property ill Illinois, exclusive i of railroads and corporations, is $5,895,- , 060 greater this year than last. Following is the total assessed valua- i tion by counties: , > . 1894. 1S95. Adams .. .$12,065,202 $12,S04,515 Alexander 2,324,0S2 2,314,552 Bond 2,378,840 2,412,909 Boone .... 3,189,059 3,143,545 Brown, 1,881,338 1,876,285 Bureau ....... ... 10,011.314 10,168,907 Oalhoun 1,414,578 1,404,822 Carroll 4,005,697 3,842,193 Cass .... & S.665;885 3,666,518 Champaign .. . ... 9,857,370 10,029,609 Christian . ..'. 6,936,330 6,965,122 Clark .... 1,677,481 1,668,212 Clay ........... . ... . 1,600,341) 1,618,373 Clinton 2,725,160 2,661,641 Coles . . . . . M i a , 171 ' "5,889,422 Cook .. .. 207,928,853 212,479,886 Crawford .-. .... 1,665,692 1,697,869 Cumberland .. 1,151,332 ,1.158,663 DeKaib •.. ..". .'7,704,642 • 7,636,S7S DeWltt ....... ..... 3,578,797 3.623,844 Douglas ....... . ... 3;798,659 3,97-3,585. Dupage .....,, 0,192,276 , 6,183,513 Edgur , ...... . . '. . 5,45)2,736 5,520,194 Ed wards .... i . 1,421,349 1,456,984. Effingham . . 2,273432 2,265.021. Fayette »" 2,871,637 2,759;339 Ford .......;.. 3,432,890 3,548.889 Franklin ... ... . . .. . 090,260 .9S1.306 Fulton ......... .... 7,696,760 7,667,028 Cijdlatln . .. , 957,468 ' • 895,405 Greene 4,727,740 4,589,831 Grundy .. .. 3,990,027 3,853,617 Hamilton 1,208,089 1,177,037 Hancock ...... 7,337,434 7,350,466 Hardin 752.518 757,214 Henderson . .. . 2,55)8,559 2,568.468 Henry 9,740,601 9.847,094 Iroquois 8.801.033 8.959.49S Jackson 2,531,923 2,485,001 Jasper .... 1,351.306 1,447.440 Jefferson .... 1.710,316 1,648,834 Jersey 2,976.527 2,892,357 Jo Daviess.... . .. . 4,092,568 4,053,048 Johnson .... 1,336,045 1,521,432 Kane . .... 14,104,045 13.S33.736 Kankakee .... 4,593,370 . 4.586,164 Kendall 3,595,376 3,638,700 Knox . .. . 9,628,160 9,649,197 Lake .... 6,92.4,358 6,985,490 La Salle.-.:.... 17,028,344 16,948.073 Lawrenco 1,288,118 1,298,129 Leo 7,342,931 7,355,257 Livingston .... 8,996.826 8.986,508 Logan ... . 6,793.390 6,904.213 Macon .'... 9,893,360 10,179,550 Macoupin .... 6,660.737 6,523.960 Madison 12,163.810 11,944.696 Marion ' 3,466,608 3,431,604 Marshall . ,< . 4,034,533 4,019,210 Mason , .. . 3.183;683 3,192,706 Massac . . . . 1 . 5 1 5 , 2 2 7 1.505,739 Mcponough ... . . . . 6 , 4 9 6 , 6 4 3 6,438,792 McIIenry . . . . 7 . 2 ' . > 0 , 1 2 5 5,764,353 McLean . .'. . . . ,. . 16.044.801 16,624,493 Menant .. 4.089.144 4,155,807 Mercer • . . . . 4 , 3 6 1 , 8 7 6 4,492,229 Monroe . . . . 2 . 4 . S 5 . 7 3 0 2,504,230 Montgomery . 5,647.172 5,586,822 Morgan 10,024,112 10,995,581 Moultrie . . . . 2 . 4 9 1 . 2 0 2 2,503,687 Ogle . . . . 7 , 3 0 2 , 1 8 8 7.250,904 Peorta . . . . 1 6 , 1 4 7 . 4 9 8 16,406,723 Perry 1.815.954 1.960,067 l'iatc . . . . 4 , 0 6 7 , 9 0 0 4,094.743 Piko . . . . 5 , 0 3 0 , 0 4 6 4,894,528 Pope . . . . 1 , 0 7 4 , 9 8 ' . ) 1,116,955 ruklgiyi . . . . 8 8 8 , 5 7 8 058,562 Putnam 1.388,442 1,408,025 Randolph . .T T: ..l-rf 3,368.594 3,329,923 Richland . . . . 4.231.2$ Uo£k Island.. . S a ' l f u e ' J . . . . ! . . . . . 1,224.173 V.zoI.Ml 1.459,704 Bajigamon 16,871,001 16,846,00!) Schuyler . . . . 2 , 6 0 5 , 1 0 0 2,567,837 Scott 2,497.104 2,543,936 Shelby . 5.711.015 5.811,401 Stark . . . . 3 . 1 6 1 . 8 8 3 3,244,331 St. Clair . . . . 1 3 , 3 0 0 , 0 8 4 13,068,885 Stephenson . . Tazewell . . . . 8 , 6 9 0 . 9 0 6 8,821,130 Stephenson . . Tazewell . . . . 6 , 8 5 6 . 0 0 5 6,878,598 t'nlon . . . . 1 , 7 9 7 , 8 7 7 1,897,129 Vermilion . . . . 1 0 . 8 0 1 . 6 2 5 11,276,067 Wabash . . . . 1 , 5 6 6 , 7 7 5 1,599,079 Warren . . . . 5 . 6 4 1 . 4 6 8 5,627,409 Washington . . . . . . 3 , 0 0 2 . 3 3 2 3,001.433 Wavne . . . . 1 , 7 6 0 . 1 0 ! ) 1,776,536 White . A 1.624.657 1.621,606 Whiteside . . . . 6 , 0 8 7 . 4 3 1 7,466,463 Will 12,815.451 12,459.712 Wiliamson . . . . . 1 , . 8 6 2 . 3 5 1 1,913.30!) Winnebago ... . . . . 12.379.299 12,412,446 Woodford .... . . . . 6 , 2 0 6 , 3 3 5 6,213.102 Total . $T.'!7,080.010 $743,840,070 Returns on Railroad Property. The assessed valuation of railroad prop­ erty throughout the State shows some re­ markable features. According to the re­ turns of the local assessors throughout the State the railroads own but $2,524,- 02f> worth of real and personal property in Illinois, of which $1,210,008 is in Cook County. The assessment of railroad property in 1895 by counties is as follows: Cook §1 B o o n e . . . . Delvalb. . . K a n e Lake McIIenry .. tjarroll .. . Jo Daviess. Ogle Stephens'u Win neb'go Bureau . .. Henry .... Lee P u t n a m . . . Whiteside . DuPage .. . G r u n d y . . . K e n d a l l . . . L a S a l l e . . . Will Kord Iroquois . . Kankakee . Llvlngst'n •Marshjd! :. Woodford . Fulton Knox 1 ' e o r l a . . . . Stark Hancock .. McDon'gli . Hend'son .. M e r c e r . . . . Hoek Isl'nd Schuyler .. Warren . .. A d a m s . . . . B r o w n . . . . C a l h o u n . . . Cass G r e e n e . . . . J e r s e y . . . . Pike Scott Christian .. M a s o n . . . . Menard . .. M o r g a n . . . Tazewell .. 210,068! DeWltt ... .S 3,607 1.190 Sangamon 18,835 2,513 Logan .... 590 122,520 Macon 3,960 13.175 McLean .. . 77,780 3,776 l ' i a t t . . . . None 5,375 < 'hamp'gn' 5,073 1.951 Coles • 46,375 2,546 Douglas . . 4,605 4,847 Edgar 1.142 9,315; Vermilion ' 13,481 6,544! Clay 755 5.396 Clark 648 2,740 Crawf'd .. 77 113 Cumb'l'ud None 102,511 Edwards .. 80 20,0651 Jasper . ., Nono 1.069 Lawrence . 372 323 Kichland .. 1,500 6.726! Wayne ... None 51,765 Wabash . . 177 800 Kfflngh'm . 3,265 1.917 Fayette .. 205 7,272 Macoupin . ^ontg'ry . 2,558 3^'Ov Macoupin . ^ontg'ry . 495 900 Moultrie . 395 1,522 Shelby 5,685 3 727 Bond 1,985 30,014: Madison .. 3,467 16,483; Monro6 •5oi> 18S,f04 535!St. Clair.. •5oi> 18S,f04 1.231 Wash'gt'n 1.268 1,178 Clinton ... 2,572 720 Franklin . 115 l,009|0alh>j:ln .. 3,105 11,418!Hamilton . 260 1,100:Hardin ... None 1,083 Jefferson . 225 15,303 Marion . .. 1,226 120 Saline None N o n e ! W h i t e . . . . 620 3,442 Alexander None 1.202 Jackson . . a 11.337 <570 Johnson .. None 4.527 Massac ... None None P e r r y . . . . 1,045 9,899; Pope None 2,160!Pulaski ... 815 230, Randolph . 325 730; I'nion .... 40 2,119| Williams'p, None Total $2,1 OS,302 In Cook County,' according to the re­ turns of the local assessors, the railroads own 392 acres of land and 818 lots. The land is assessed at S184.84 an acre, ag­ gregating $72,458. The lots are assessed at an average of $1,032.27 a lot, the ag­ gregate valuations being $844,395. As a matter of fact, the total value of rail­ road property in Cook County has by real estate experts been estimated at $300,000,- 000. The assessed valuation of all rail­ road personal property in Cook County in 1895 iS $293,215, making a total valuation of railroad property of $1,210,06$. This is "$381,308 less than it was last year, when the total assessment was $1,591,- 376. Miiior .Hi'uuan. At a meeting of the various Knights of Pythias bodies of Peoria it was decided lo offer a site and $35,000 for the proposed Pythign orphan home. „ Charles Alcorn, arrested for embezzling $400 from the Singer Sewing Machine Company, at Hillsbofo, has been placed under botjds to await the action ,-pf the Grand Jury. Four tramps stealing a ride on the cow­ catcher of an Alton locomotive were knocked off by a cow,hit by the engine near Marshall. Tw° were.killed and one fatally injured. It has just leaked out^that J.. Cloyd Monnette and Miss Fannie Gordon, a popular young couple, each of whom took a brief- vacation, eloped to Des Moines, where they were married. Few people who know Bcsant believa . that he can be 57 years old. His plump flics and clssr ccmplsxicn liis V0j*jr* thick and very brown hair and beard, make him look a mpcb younger man. II. Satdou has written a novel, taking his play "Thermidor" fpr a theme. And' now the author fears to publish it, feel­ ing doubtful concerning the reception of this first effort in the writing of tales. Lord Rosebery's mother the Duch­ ess of Cleveland, it writing the life of Lady Hester Stanhope, her aunt, who began life as the private secretary and coutidilnt of William Pitt, and for thir­ ty years had her own exact way as an Arab sheikh in Syria. A volume of political sketches is to be published under, the title-of "South­ ern Statesmen of the Old Regime."' The author is Professor VV. P. Trent,; the Southerner who wrote the biogra­ phy of William Gllmore Simms, pub­ lished in the American Men of Letters .Series. , , : "What with the newspapers and the newspaper syndicates offering prizes varying from ten thousand to live hun- ; dred dollars," exclaims the Critic, "that, author will be particularly unlucky; who does hot find 'his income for 1895 materially much larger than it was" In 1894." The first three volumes of an im­ mense Italian work dealing exhaustive­ ly with the voyages of Christopher Co­ lumbus are nearly ready for publica­ tion. It is to be complete in fourteen volumes, and the Italian government 'Us bearing the expense of bringing it out. In the third volume are to be found one hundred and seventy fac­ simile plates of Columbus's autograph writings, both authentic and doubtful. The author of an article in the Inde­ pendent quotes Mr. Ruskin as declar­ ing that if he had followed the true bent of his mind he should have been a civil engineer. "I should have found more'pleasure," he added, "in planning bridges and sea breakwaters than in praising modern painters." And with a sigh, he said, "Whether literature and art have been helped by me I know hot, but this I do know, that England has lost in me a second Telford." Rider Haggard says that there is too much talk about a successful author-- what lie makes or does not make by his pen. He asks, mournfully: "Why can't authors and their earnings be left alone? Many men make tlieir incomes on the stock exchange and at the bar without being purused l>jr prTragrapli* grs. Whyjshould a man who makes his living by his pen be pursued by para­ graphs? I believe people often make more money by paragraphs than the authors about whom they write." 7r----: < Up to Date. ^ A story is going in England of a man who took a book manuscript to a pub­ lisher with the statement that it was the greatest novel of the century. "We want it," said the publisher. "Is it up to date?" "I'p to date?" said the author, "I should rather "think it is up to date; it contains two problems and a wife who confesses all on the day of her mar­ riage." The publisher's eyes glistened, but as he turned over the pages of the typo- script his face lengthened. "Great heavens!" he said, "it's written . in English; there's not a Scotch phrase iu it! And you said it was up to date." "What do you mean?" asked the au­ thor. "What do I mean?" cried the publish­ er. "My dear sir, are you really serious In expecting me to publish a novel that's not written in a Scotch dialect? Take it away--take it away." Well, the author took it away, and was somewhat disheartened, until he suddenly recollected that he had an aunt who had lived in Scotlaud, and had mastered the language so that she could go through Edinburgh without the aid of an interpreter, and couljl al­ most understand a Glasgow man when he spoke slowly. He hurried to her side, and with her assistance turned all the "froms" into "fraes," all the "longs" , iuto "lungs," all the "aways" into "awas," the "friends" into "freens," 1 and the "flies" into "flees." With the aid of a few "hoot mons," "bonnies," and a judicious flavor of the brose pot, the book was transformed, the publish­ er accepted it with enthusiasm, and its appearance is now expected every day. Friend of the iting. ! M. Godiliot the founder of the great Paris factory which was recently de- stroj'ed by fire, did something more than give hi* name to the French sol­ dier's boot. Once upon a time' he played a humble part in history. When Napoleon III. was kept a prisoner at Ham, Godiliot I., a working mason, was employed in repairing the mansion which served Louis Napoleon for a prison.. And it was disguised in God- illot's blouse and trousers that the prince made his famous escape from Ham. The escape was not altogether dignified, and the -heavy plank which he carried on his shoulder-was doubt­ less irksome to Napoleon. But God­ iliot had laid the foundation of, a' for­ tune, and the linen trousers were in a sense symbolic of his future greatuessl For Napoleon never forgot a service, and once upon the throne he sent fbr Godiliot, rewarded him with an imper­ ial gift of money, and permitted the mason, who once had trousered his em­ peror. to'Supply the emperor's soldiers \yifh boots and breeches.-- Telegram. '* Worth Trying. Those who have tried the experiment affirm that a sponge hung in the room at night or in the day time, if it can be behind a convenient screen and kept -constantly wet, will greatly assist in keeping the room cool, or a wet cloth hung in the window over the blind will cool the room as if a shower had fallen. All know how fresh water, sprinkled ott the pa-vement in front of windows and doors, will freshen hot, dry air. If two youtig' men call on a girl at once, it is no sign of popularity, but rather that the nien are afraid to a,lone. '