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. • y' - PIONEERS OF A PARTY J SURVIVING REPUBLICAN^ DELE­ GATES OF '56, MAY MEET. Such an As seal I) I age Would Be a Prac­ tical Celebration, of the Fortieth Anniversary of the National Repub^* lican Party--General Political Notes A Republican Anniversary. It has been proposed in the East to as­ semble on the 17th of next June a con­ vention of the surviving delegates to ithe Republican convention held in Phil­ adelphia in that month of 1856. The proposal has much to commend it, and has met with such warm approval that it may be fairly counted among the po­ litical probabilities of the coming year. The only objection to the proposition as it has been stated is that a conven­ tion , thus coustituted would be too small for the occasion. Such a meeting would be practically a celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Nation­ al Republican pai'ty in the city where its foundations were so widely and pat­ riotically laid, and in such, a celebra­ tion every old Republican who has survived from that time should have a representative. The survivors of the original delegates must be few in num­ ber. There were but 600 of them orig­ inally. In the natural order of events most of these must be dead, for forty years is a long time in the life of an in­ dividual, and among the survivors many are too worn with years or with disease to make a long journey, even to attend so glorious a reunion as that would be. A better plan would be to call upon all Republicans throughout the Union who indorsed the action and the plat­ form of that historic convention and supported Fremont in the campaign that followed to organize in their vari­ ous States and elect from among their number a full list of delegates to the convention designed to celebrate the anniversary of a date so important in the history not of our country only, but of liberty and republican institu­ tions throughout the world. A convention of this kind could not fail to renew the ardor of the old pion­ eers of the party and would be an in­ spiration to all the patriotic youth of the land. It would recall to public at­ tention the early history of the great party organized for freedom and the Union, and remind men of the fidelity with which those early pledges have been kept and the arduous labors by which so much has been done to ac­ complish them, to maintain them and to render them the inviolable heritages of the American people. The platform adopted by the conven­ tion of '56 pledged the party to the prin­ ciples of the Declaration of Indepen­ dence, declared it to be the duty of the people to oppose any attempt to intro­ duce slavery into any territory of the United States, denounced polygamy and slavery as twin relics of barbarism, condemned the Democi'ati© administra­ tion of the time for the crime against Kansas, called for the immediate ad­ mission of that territory as a free State, proclaimed the foreign policy em­ bodied in the "Ostend circular" as a disgrace to American diplomacy, called for the construction of a railroad to the Pacific ocean and indorsed a policy of public improvements of rivers and har­ bors by the general government. Such is the early platform of the par­ ty that ever since .its foundation has represented true Americanism at home and.abroad. It is certainly worth while celebrating the .fiftieth anniversary of such an event, and the old pioneers of the party will have the earnest support of the younger members if they under­ take to carry it out. Our Portrait Gallery. 01 0, This is a good picture of the man who sees ho harm to the United States in free trade. Cotton in the Markets of the World. An examination of the returns of our export trade in raw cotton, during the months of July and August, 1894 and 1895, is as instructive as it is interest­ ing. The figures are as follows: 1894. . Pounds. Value. July • 41,947,541 $3,125,245 August 44,699,289 3,239,655 Total.. .. July . .. August . 86,196,830 $6,364,900 1895. Pounds. Value. .29,084.412 $1,918,979 20,341,553 1,292,735 Total 50,425,965 $3,211,714 Pounds Value. Loss two months, 1895 35,770^65 ^3.153,186 During the first two months of the 1894 fiscal year we sold almost 86,200,- 000 pounds of raw cotton, worth nearly $6,365,000. During the same months of the current fiscal year, July and Au­ gust, 1895, our sales of raw cotton amounted only to 50,426,000 pounds, worth less than $3,212,000. The decrease in our sales of cotton in the markets of the world, almost a year after the wall of protection was broken down, amounted to 35,770,865 pounds, worth $3,153,186, in sixty days. This fact should be both interesting and in­ structive to cotton planters, chiefly be­ cause the actual .truth of it varies from the false free trade fiction that the cot­ ton planters have so long been accus­ tomed to believe. . '.. ; • '• j_. . Another point for them to consider and one, perhaps, that may appeal more directly to their individual interests is that, where the export value of raw cotton during the two months >of/1894 was almost 7.4 cents per pound; it was less than QA cents per pound In the 1895 period. A loss of 1 cent per pound to cotton planters is a serious matter. On a. crop of five billion pounds ft amounts to fifty millions of dollars. It is idle to say that the ;whole of this decrease falls upoh the shipper and the exporter. The planter knows better. The Rise and] Fall of Wages. I** |8* IOO%~l89QUJej6 00% of 1890 UJag6 60% OF 1890UJFLJI How the Wilson Bill Works. Exports are growing smaller and im­ ports are increasing. The consumption of foreign wool is increasing and ^hat of domestic wool is declining. Larger quantities of dry goods are being brought into the country from foreign lands, and fewer domestic dry goods of the Wilson tariff bill, Which was to have increased exports of American manufactured articles and thus pro­ mote the prosperity of the country.-- San Francisco Chronicle The Price of Wheat. The wheat crop of 1895, as given by Dornbusch's list, was 305,795,000 quar­ ters. This is less than 5,000,000 quar­ ters larger than the world's wheat crop of 1892. On July 1, 1892, the price of wheat in New York was 89*4 cents, but on July 1, 1895, the price was only 73% cents, a decrease of 15% cents a bushel. Does the increase of 1% per cent in the world's wheat crop between the two periods account for the decrease of 18 per cent in the value of wheat within the same period ? ABOUND A BIG STATE BRIEF COMPILATION OF , NO IP NEWS. ILLI- Grandmother Rearick's Experience: as a Pioneer in Illinois -- Quarterly Report of the Various Charitable Institutions in the State. * are being manufactured In the United States. These are some of the results^ house for him tptyspeak in, so lie selected Mother of the First Girl Baby. One of the most romantic characters in Jacksonville is Grandmother Rearick, mother of the first girl baby ever born in Jacksonville, and now (Kj yours old. Her maiden name was Emma Abra- m a s . S h e w a s reared in New York City, but bus- i n e s s r e v e r s e s ' t i m e u p o n t h e family and the father sought his fortune in the far GRANDMA KEARICK. West. The his­ tory of those early days is graphically told by the old lady, who said-: ; "When we arrived I was but'a child, compara­ tively, although nearly 20 years of age, for I had always been used to the bright side of life and it .seemed to me I never could get accustomed to our pinched surroundings. Onr first home was in a structure composed of bark and puncheons and roofed with straw and bough's of trees. Our great difficulty was in getting something with which to make bread. We hardly knew the luxury of flour, our main dependence being corn meal, and to get that we had to take pur corn many miles to the mill and then wait our turn to have it ground by horse power..' I was married comparatively young and as is weli known our first child was a girl, the first one born in this vicinity. The event was very notable in the settlement. Peo­ ple came from miles around to see the little prodigy, and I never had so much attention in my life, before or since. She is now grown and has children and grandchildren of her own, but none of them have ever created the excitement she did at her advent into the world. I was rather pleased with the attention, but when a big Indian chief came and wanted to see the white papoose my heart trem­ bled not a little," but F'tltdn't dare refuse him, and with many grunts of satisfaction he picked her up, something he had never done for his own offspring, and then said: 'Strap on board and carry on neck like Indian baby,' and off he went. I shall never forget the first sermon 1 heard in the settlement. We had been here a num­ ber of years, but no man of the gospel ever was able to give us a visit until one day it was announced that a good Metho­ dist brother would speak. He was a large, brawny man. There was no meeting Exports of Wheat. Year. Value. 1892 (McKinley) $299,363,117 1895 (Gorman) 114,604,780 Decrease, 1S95. .$184,758,337 Free Trade Not Free Breakfast. "Revenue reform," deprived the American wage earner of the free breakfast table which the McKinley act gave him. a spot in tlie^Vlearing and mounted a stump, while the people stood or sat re­ spectfully around hiin as he expounded the word of God. A few smart young men came to undertake to make a disturb­ ance, and the minister several times ask ed them politely to behave, and all but two heeded his words. Finally the good man said frankly:- 'Young men, 1 am a soldier of the cross, but (here he doubled up his lists) I can use carnal weapons if necessary, and I want you to behave.' This brought only a shout of derision, and they told him if he thought that he was a better man than they to come on. This was too much for flesh and blood to bear and he got down from his stump and went for them, and in less time than it takes to tell they sneaked away, each with a pair of eyes as black as your shoe. In these times of coml'ort and plenty it seems hard to realize what we had ta.es dure and the privations of those •early days, yet we saw a great deal of pleas­ ure in life, and I often long forthe honest hearted good-fellowship and the warm, sympathetic neighbors and the bond of sympathy which existed among the early settlers of Illinois." He Is a Humbug. The renegade Protectionist is always overzealous. He makes a display of his supposed sincerity. Had Too Much. No more experiments in free trade are desired. The country has had enough of that sort of thing. The Selfish Man. The man is narrow minded and fool­ ish who asks industrial protection only for his own products. Political Notes. Democracy has always objected to everything national.--New York? Re­ corder. The Allison boom ventures to open a gun, or two outside of Iowa.--Detroit Tribune. The Monroe doctrine and the Cleve­ land doctrine continue to be on exceed­ ingly bad terms.--New York Advertiser. David B. Hill now says he "points with pride." He will "view with alarm" after the returns come in.--Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. If Gen. Lamont has not lost all his influence in traction circles he must be­ gin at once to labor with Mr. Whitney. --New York Advertiser. The Hon. Carl Schurz has come out from under the bed and again claims to be in command of the German-Ameri­ can vote--Atlanta Constitution The Republican party has always had to make good the deficits of the Demo­ cratic party, both in the State and na­ tion. It will have to do so again.-- Detroit Journal. Ex-Gov. McCreary says Carlisle will be nominated for the Presidency, which shows how easy it is for a Kentuckian to talk through his "nightcap."--Kan­ sas City Journal. Senator Allison's friends are/giving it out cold that the Senator will hiave^the first place on the Republican national ticket, or none. No vice presidency for him; he would rather remain in the Senate.--Minneapolis Tribune. More Cotton Coming. Cast of State Charity. The financial record of the State char­ itable institutions for the last quarter shows the average gross cost per capita and the average number of inmates in each institution to have been as follows: Av. No. Av. cost per capita. $33.24 32.83 27.79 30.72 47.39 232.34 222.07 35.35 25.55 41.70 30.72 j in­ mates. Northern insane Hospital. .1,139 Eastern Insane Hospital.. .2,077 Central Insane Hospital. .. .1,293 Southern Insane Hospital.. 836 Asylum Insane Criminals. . 126 Deaf and Dumb Asylum.... 56 Asylum for the Blind 37 Asylum for Feeble-minded.. 584 Soldiers' Orphans' Home.. . 332 Eye and Eear Infirmary.. . 142 Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.1,038 Home for Juvenile Female Offenders 31 334.17 The total expenses of the twelve institu­ tions was $272,026.67 and the total cost to the State $242,979.47. The number of tenants in all the institutions at the begin­ ning of the quarter was 6,479. There were 704 new and 159 former inmates admit­ ted and 1,031 absentees returned, making the total for the quarter 8,433. The num­ ber discharged or absent was 908, died 404. State News in Brief. Charles J. Rieffler, of the Illinois State Board of Arbitration, will visit scenes of labor troubles at Murphysboro, Coffeen, and Glen Carbon. Mrs. Joseph C. Parry, of Tolona, aged 60, died of lockjaw, the result of stepping on a rusty nail. Her granddaughter died from a similar cause a few weeks ago. The case against George Jacob Schwein- furth will be heard at the January term of court at Roekford, attorneys on both sides agreeing to the continuance. Flavius J. Briggs died at Bloomington at the age of 84 years. He was a native of Barnard, Vt. He was a minister of the Universalist Church, and during the war owned and edited a newspaper in Bloomington. Burglars looted the stores of George Gibb &. Son, William Gray and the post- office at Wing. Considerable casl), post­ age stamps and supplies were taken from the- postoffice and a largo amount of goods from the stores. The case of William J. Edwards, of Roekford, against the Home Forum Ben­ efit Order, which plaintiff sued for $2,000, the amount of a policy held by his wife in the order, resulted in a verdict in favor of. the defendant in the Circuit Court. The essential point maintained in this case and successfully proved, was that the applicant's father and sister were seriously ill with consumption when she made her application for insurance, and she concealed the facts. Had the family history been correctly given in the appli­ cation the Home and Forum would never have accepted the risk. George W. Church, of Crystal Itf-ke, died at tie Elgin insane asylum, ag(M 73 years. He had been confined for thirty- three years and was two years at Jack­ sonville. Previous to l$o0 he escaped from the latter institution and was at large about eight years. Mrs. John L. Davery caught a burglar in her home at Elgin. She seized him by the coat, aud in the struggle the gar­ ment was torn in two. Mrs. Davery tele­ phoned for the police and the man was taken to jail. He is of very respectable appearance and had letters in his pocket addressed to Thomas J. Ritchie, ypon the burglar was found two gold watches, • quantity of jewelry and skeleton keys. > • ' " ' • 1 '1 ' • ' & ~f - At IJillsboro Charles E. McGown, of Pana, and Miss Addie C. Glenn were married. G. P. Houston and Miss Waverly Henry, youngest daughter of Judge B. W. Henry, of Yandalia, were married. A meeting of the people of Bloomington; was held to give expression to the popu­ lar sympathy for the Cuban insurgents. Standish S. Budlong, of Roekford, was married at Sedro, Wash., to Miss Nina Cook, formerly art teacher in Downer College, Washington. William Barry, of Springfield, was ar­ rested at Anderson; Ind., for attempting to kidnap his daughter, aged 10 years, who is \vith her grandparents. He was armed and dangerous. The body of John Sullivan, an aged man, was found in a vacant lot in Spring­ field. He had been making his. home un­ til recently in Chicago. There were no. marks of violence 911 the body. Col. Hugh E. Bayle, assistant adjutant general of the Illinois Rational Guard, visited Alton to investigate and report upon any practicability of establishing a division of the Illinois naval militia at that point. . J " - All Elgin's schools have been closed for an indefinite period owing to the preva­ lence of diphtheria. The 3,200 pupils will be given a vacation until the disease is Subdued.* Miss Jennie Archibald, a teach­ er, is ill, ; • Vh •' ~ Joseph Kellogg, a. Roekford merchant, fell down a flight of stone steps while carrying a lamp. Broken glass cut a hor­ rible gash in his throat and also put out one eye. His jaw was broken in the fall. He cannot live. . :.- By a vote of 69 to 58, the village of South Springfield voted against becoming a part :0f- the city of Springfield. Th» fight against annexation was made by a plow factory, which objected to "the in­ crease in taxation which would be the result of an alliance with the city. Mrs. Peter Blomberg, wife of a prom­ inent Roekford plumber, secured a di­ vorce for her husband after trying three years, during which time Qlaf Anderson, the plumber's apprentice, has been wait­ ing for her. As soon as the divorce was secured the couple went to Chicago with the intention of being married. Five persons of Henry Baldwin's fam­ ily at Chicago were bitten by a mad dog Wednesday afternoon; two others nar­ rowly escaped its venomous jaws. The wounds inflicted by the dog are not re­ garded as serious. They were not deep, and the doctors say the cauterizing will prevent any farther trouble. Adjt. Gen. Orendorf has Ordered Capt. William S. Campbell, adjutant of the Fifth Jnfantry, Illinois National Guard, to proceed to Chicago and muster into the military service of the State, on Nov. 4, four companies, to be designated as companies A. B, C and D, Ninth Battal­ ion, Illinois National Guard. The order is issued in compliance with a law passed by the XXXIXth General Assem­ bly increasing the national guard by the addition of a battalion of colored troops. Maj. John C- Buckner, Representative of the Fifth Senatorial District, Chicago, in­ troduced the bill. The breach of promise suit of Mrs. Barbaria Kastner against Carl Seibirt was tried in the St. Clair County Court. The jury agreed on a verdict and award­ ed the plaintiff $25 damages. Mrs. Kast­ ner sued for $5,000. SeibiVt is a lively old man of some 70 years, and it appears made some sort of a promise to marry the widow. Later, however, he fell in love with another widow and married the latter, hence the damage suit. The testi­ mony of the leading witnesses was ex­ ceedingly hidicrous~ahd it was necessary to clear the" <Wirt room on account of the "mirth aroused by the droll stories of the courtship of the aged defendant in the case. Newe was received at Eflingham of the death of J. N. Givin at Hot Springs, Arte. He had been suffering for some months with Bright's disease. He went to Hot Springs for his health, and died in the evening of the day he arrived. Capt. Givin was one of the most prominent Republicans in Southern Illinois. He was well known as a lawyer throughout the State. Mr. Givin was born Feb. 25, 1836, near Robinson, 111. He entered Me- Kendree College when 19 years old, and completed his course at John Asbury University. He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1857. In 1863 he enlisted in the Fifth Indiana Cavalry and rose tb the rank of captain. The 86th birthday of Mrs. Eliza Stev­ enson, the mother of Vice President Stev­ enson, was happily celebrated Wednes­ day at the home of her fourth son, John C. SteV6if&>n, in Bloomiftgton. The company, which was quite large, included Vice President and Mrs. Stevenson and Messrs. W. W., John C. and Thomas H. Stevenson, and her only daughter, Mrs. McCaugliey, of North Dakota. Many- other relatives were present, and several ladies of venerable years who have been intimate friends of the family since they came from Kentucky in 1852. Mrs. Stevenson, despite her years, is physi­ cally and mentally active and enjoyed the celebration of her anniversary with keen zest. Lewis G. Stevenson, son of the Vice President, started upon a pleas­ ure trip to Yokohama, Japan. James Walker, an old farmer living near Springfield, was sandbagged and robbed on Wabash avenue, near 12th street, Chicago, at 8:30 o'clock the other evening. Mr. Walker was 011 his way to the Illinois Central depot to take a train for home. He met two men, who sep­ arated, forcing Mr. Walker to pass be­ tween them. - As he did so one of the men struck him on the left side of the head with a sandbag. The force of the blow knocked the old man down and stunned him. In an instant the footpads were on top of their victim, rifling his pockets. Bv the time Mr. Walker had sufficiently gained consciousness to knew what was going on. his assailants had taken his money and were running. The assault and robbery was a most daring one and was committed within twenty feet of an electric light. So well was the robbery planned and so quickly executed that the thieves were able to secure their booty and make their escape without being ap­ prehended. J. M. Ivrause, president of the Chicago Brewing Company, purchased property at Romford on which will be immediate­ ly constructed an $11,000 cold-storage house, to be used as the company's West­ ern distributing depot for 100 miles sur­ rounding. At noon Wednesday the powder mill of the American starch works at Wau- kegan was blown up by^a dust explosion and wrecked. Several workmen were in­ jured. All are expected to recover. The ruins took fire, but the main buildings escaped damage. The property loss is about $5,000. Dr. E. E. Gould, indicted for arson, has left Roekford. W. L. Lighthart, of Freeport, received a gallant man's reward for1 a brave ,and gallant deed at Chicago the other day. A well-dressed woman, crossing State street, uear Madison, slipped and fell on the tracks in front of a rapidly moving car. Mr. Lighthart, who is a powerful man, jumped in front of th» train and by sheer strength raised the prostrate wom­ an and sprang clear as the cars ran by. The woman burst into tears, then clasped her preserver's hands gratefully and be< stowed a resounding kiss on his cheek, Mr. LighthartPbluBhed like a ppony and forgot to ask her name. AN AMERICAN ABROAD. _ » / y oh cola JBohave as ifrfie Wai at Home. An American-who had made business arraugements.for residing several years in England, asked a group of friends at a club for hints respecting the best way of getting On there socially.^ , "I shall want,"., he said, "to meet prominent people, to "see something of English social life, and to make as few mistakes as possible." --$ Various suggestions were offered. "Keep your business in the back­ ground," said,onet "and affect to be a gentlema'h oM&fcsurfe."- "Never be the first to speak to an En­ glishman," remarked a^otjfer. "They have a great horror of the ambitious American, who iis always elbowing his way and asserting' himself unneces­ sarily." . „ "Join a good club," put in a third, "make a study of the peerage, and learn to use titles aright." "Let me tell you a story," said the fourth man. "I made a voyage to Pana­ ma on the Pacific side with a company of Englishmen who sat at the captain's table, and amused themselves with abusive remarks- about Americans.; "They contrived to have me sent to a side table with some Spanish passen­ gers,' and hardly spoke to me during the" voyage. Having books to read and writ­ ing to do, 1 paid no attention to them. "At Panama," lie continued, "where •yve had to waffteeveral days, I received many attentions. My arrival was noted in the dally journal'as 'ah1 affair of some* importance. The consuls called upon me; I was entertained In private houses; and a group of friends accom­ panied me to the station. Meanwhile my English fellow-travelers, who had sent me to Coventry on the ship, were idling away the time In the hotel bar­ room. "At Colon we took the steamer for Liverpool. On the first night I was conducted to a seat of honor at the cap­ tain's table, while my fellow-travelers were placed far down at the long table as people of no consequence. "They soon ascertained that the man whom they had affronted without cause was regarded on the second Bhip as a person worthy, at least, >of some con­ sideration. One of them attempted to apologize for their previous treatment of me on the ground that they did not know that it was possible for an Ameri­ can to be a well-bred gentleman. That Is a favorite theory with underbred En­ glishmen. , "My experience In England." conclud­ ed the traveled man, "convinced me that a well-bred man has little to learn socially in any part of the world- He will make himself known, wherever he may be. to those who have similar In­ stincts. "When you go to London, neither con­ ceal your business, nor imitate iCnglish manners, nor be ashamed of your coun­ try. Act as yoj,i would at home among Americans of education and refine­ ment, and you will be accepted at your full value by those who like coin of a true ring." <5hHstla»ltjV all hall from India, where Islam has long ceased to be a ruling power, feoS tuuf therV^ire;'beeu uria$i& to exhibit its real spirit---Quarterly Re­ view. ELECTRICAL NOTES. Good at Remembering Faces. An elderly passenger with a long drooping mustache, who sat in the smoking-car of ap Incoming train from the East a few mornings ago, was ap­ proached by a smiling young man, who held out his hand and said: "You don't know me, but I know you. I've seen your picture in the papers too many times to be mistaken. You are Mr. Jones-^Jones of Binghamton, and you pay the freight." "Young man," responded the elderly citizen, "you have made a mistake this time. My name isn't Jones at all. It's:--" "Ha! Ha! That won't do," broke in the other. "But you needn't be afraid of me. I'm not a reporter. So far as l am concerned you needn't travel incog. There's only one man in the United States with a mustache like that, and his name is Jones of Binghamton, ex- Lieutenant Governor of New York. I can spot a well-known face when I see it. I never forget a face. I merely wanted to shake hands with you That's all." - & "But hold on!" persisted the elderly passenger. "I can't let you rest under a false impression. If there is any re­ semblance between Jones of Bingham­ ton and me it is purely accidental. I am not Jones of Binghamton or Pough- keepsie or Skedunk or any other place. My name is Wilkerson and I reside in Urbana, O." "In that case I beg your pardon, sir, for troubling you, and I wish to good- day." "No harm done, sir, at all. Good- day." --' ' ; " The smiling young man raised his hat respectfully and went back into the rear car. When Mr. Wilkerson, of Urbana, O., got off the train at the Polk street sta­ tion half an hour afterward he casual­ ly encountered a grave, somber youth who called lym by jiaSie, introduced himself as a son of a leading banker in Urbana, and the two went to the same hotel. When they parted at 10 o'clock that evening Mr. Wilkerson of Urbana had a check for $250 and the somber young man had Mf. Wilkerson's cash.--Chica­ go Tribune. ., Too Long About It. Tjhe Roxbury Gazette Is responsible for a#i amusing. story of a falling out between a Boston grocer and a lady. The lady was one of the fussy and long- winded customers--fortunately not very numerous--who try the patience of shopkeepers, and the grocer on this particular occasion was perhaps suffer­ ing from ah attack of dyspepsia. As every one knows, grocers in general are models of patience and politeness. "Are those eggs fresh?" the lady asked, in a provokingly suspicious tone. "Yes,- ma'am," replied the grocer. "Are you quite sure?" MNo doubt about it, ma'am." / "Now, if there is any doubt about It, I shouldn't care to buy any." "You can depend upon it, ma'am, 1 wouldn't say they were fresh if they wasn't." "There were three bad ones In those I* bought the other day." y "'You won't find none of these that way.". The lady took time to "consider. Then she began again: - "Now, you say you are positive there are perfectly fcesh?" ; ! . "That's what I said, ma'am." V: "You'll take back the bad ones If l i find any, won't you?" "You must take them" juat as they frame." "You'll warant that there are no bad ones among them, won't you?" "No, ma'am, I won't. I'd 'a' warrant­ ed them when you came in, but they've grown old since then. You can't expect eggs to last forever, ma'am, and another thing " But the lady waited to hear no more. The door slammed, and the bargain was off. Communication of Ideas. What should we do without the means of communication furnished by the twenty-six letters of the alphabet? How could we carry on our business ? • And, indeed, those races who are ig­ norant of writing have remained in a state of barbarism. The ancient Peru­ vians were an exception to this rale, but they were not altogether without a means to communicate their thoughts to those absent. They transmitted their Ideas' by means of the guipu. The in­ strument was a cord about two feet long, composed of threads of different colors tightly twisted together, with a number of smaller threads suspended from It in the manner of a fringe. The colors denoted sensible objects and S.TW LUFU, uiatiuu IUI1 Tiiuoc * H •* ested in Science. No Insulator of magnetism Is known. The pull of a magnet is increased by reducing its polar surface. Electro-magnets with long limbs are practically no better than thoee with " ehort limbs for sticking onto masses of Iron. It is eatd that electric famps^ruiF&jr storage batteries last twice as long a* lamps operated directly by dynamos. Any galvanometer having a ersist- ance which is large In proportion to the^ current to be measured can be used as a voltmeter after calibration. In making a spark coil, or, In fact, any electrical apparatus, the main re­ quirements necessary for success are patience and determination jso con­ struct each part thoroughly. The strength of the solution in each cell of storage battery should be tested with a hydrometer once aTmonth. When the bateery is fully charged, ft should indicate 22 degrees Baume. In an are lamp, supplied with a direct, current, the consumption of the posi­ tive carbon is in round numbers one Inch per hour, and of the negative car­ bon one-half that amount. Aluminum has the least electrical re­ sistance for a given length and weight and mercury• lias the greatest; but for a given length and sectional area, anneal- ed silver lias the least resistance and bismuth the greatest Before beginning to charge-a storagd battery it should be gone t^ver carefully and any cell that Is not up to. the stand­ ard should be taken out of the circuit and put in working condition before be­ ing replaced. S. P. Thompson says: "You will get the given amount of magnetism and traction with the least amount of mag­ netizing force, when you have the area (of the magnet) as great as possible and the length as small as possible." In the construction of a voltmeter, It is usual to allow a resistance of fifty ohms for every volt to be measured. This gives sufficient accuracy for most purposes, as the error is within 3 per cent of the total readings. - - According to Thompson, a thin, round disk of iron, laid upon the flat, round end of an electro-magnet (the pole end being slightly larger than the disk), the disk is not attracted, and will not stick on, even if laid down quite centrally. The conductivity of metals decreases and that of some bad conductors or in­ sulators increases with the tempera­ ture.--Boston Transcript. Christianity ttnd Mohammedan;sin. Outside of Christendom what we be­ hold is stagnation and decay. No­ where is there the faintest sign of progress, except in Japan, and Japan has advanced by adopting the methods and imbibing freely the spirit if not the actual creed of Christendom. The horrors of Port Arthur prove that the assimilation of the Christian spirit is very imperfect without the formal or­ ganism in which it has been historically enshrined; but at least these horrors were apologized for, and the war was otherwise Conducted according to the rules of civilized warfare.'" Japan is, therefore, the exception which proves the rul and the exception is due en­ tirely to the influence of Christianity. In all oiher non-Christian States whatever movement there may be is backward. And nowhere is that ten­ dency more marked than under the rule of the Crescent, It is, therefore, an un­ fortunate time for a Moslem to choose for instituting a comparison between Islam and Christianity, 'much to the disadvantage of the latter,, both in­ tellectually and morally. Yet this Is what some Indian Moslems' have lately been doing. It is significant that these vindications of Islam, at the expense of In Spite of the Conditions. It has beeu asserted that the best lit­ erary work can only be done under . . ^ ^ , , prosperous conditions of life. Tenny- even abstract Ideas Arithmetical pur- ]lns bwn OTlled (h * -V f , M and LoasM'o™. Lowell and Browning breads. Indlctting ciphers? Urer could to have led 8imUar „ , , * be associa ted so as to work ont com-, rated ease; but did not Burns sing some plex calculations. Combined sr th oral of hl8 SWGetest gongB ^ the » bJect tinditlon, and u01 king by the laws of j surroundings of the poorest'scotch association, be guipu preserved the an-! Carl , f a ! of the Pemvlan Empire "frith this ^ oonj,aonSi drew t£ Btwa ,h mperfect substitute tor writing and no-i (OUnd expregalon ln Ms tre£endoUB tatio tlie Peiuvians advanced to a tirades agninat almost all existing things. Chatterton and Keats were the swan-poets breathing their souls away in sweetest music, but their short lives, though burdened with every care and sorrow that springs from poverty, boro richest fruit in poems that are Immor­ tal. Charles Lamb's bright and gentle spirit found expression in the essays that are household treasures in so many homes, their influence not being les­ sened bj the thought that the man who wrote them fought a harder battle than comes to most people. And, not to fur­ ther lengthen a list that might be made° almost endless, what shall be said of Homer? No; hard conditions act as a Spur to effort, whether In the ninth Or the nineteenth century, -aud the golden fruit that so many would pluck grows oftener at the end of a rough and toll- some ptath than of a broad, smooth highway. j high degree of civilization. They con­ structed magnificent roads, they main­ tained an elaborate religion, they con­ structed solid and elegant buildings, they overcame the difficulties of their arid climate by means of a stupendous system of irrigation, their aqueducts being among the wonders of*tlie world, and they cultivated the fine arts with some success. Cost of tiiving in Paris. An able statistician has been est^ mating the cost of living in Paris at the present time aud has compared 1* with that of forty years ago. He shows that in the '50's an average middle class family could do with a budget of 10,000 francs, or £400, annually. That did not mean luxury, but it was sufficient for comfort, and required no economical engineering for the purposje^of making both ends meet. Nowaddfps the case is different, and an official wjtli a wife and three children dependent 011 10,000 francs a year has to work miracles of saving in order to avoid getting into debt. Accordingly, ln less than half a century the conditions of life in Paris have been completely modified. It Is 110 exaggeration, in fact, to say that prices have doubled, and with them has increased the desire for a more luxuri­ ous mode of living than that led by the average Parisian of the '50's. The statistician has revealed nothing new, but his figures serve to emphasize the fact that the French capital is the most expensive place of residence in Europe.--London Daily Telegraph. Small itt Comparison. When it comes to emoluments, au­ thors rank below lawyers. Itudyard Kipling's seven words for one dollar, said to be highest price paid any liter­ ary man of our times, reads very small in comparison with what was paid Judge Paxon for a literary article. Until McLeod came on the scene the Reading Railroad had used an old sign at the crossings, "Beware of the En­ gines and Cars," with a mass of fur­ ther instructions in small print. In some suits fer damages it was claimed that the warnings were not clear. Mc­ Leod went 1o Judge Paxon, who com­ posed this admirable notice: "Rail­ road Crossing--Stop, Look and Listen!" For this little composition he received the modest sum of four thousand seveu hundred and ninety-six dollars and six­ ty-six centtt a word. Hearse for a Peddler's Cart. The Yankee has always had the rep­ utation of being an ingenious fellow He (has(been ^-edited with doing a great- many things he never did and he has done a good many things he has never been'credited with. But H re- centlyv devolved upon a real Vermont, Yankee .to,a second-hand hearse and turn it Into a peddler's cart. He fixed It over a little, boarded up the sides and "daubed" a little red paint in several places to take off the funeral air. He also took off the plumes and built a canopy over the drivers seat- '* No Stoves in Mexico; "In old Mexico we have no stoves," said Antonio Estrado. - "Most of the houses are built of adobe bricks, with­ out floors, and the fires are built on the ground, where all cooking is done. In the more aristocratic families tlie Amer­ ican pattern of cooking stoves has been introduced, but only a few of them are in use."--New York Journal. When children have to "wait" at din­ ner, they will hate the guests. In a High Wind. * We were paddling up the lake in a birch-bark canoe. The breeze blew so hard and constantly that, try as I might, I could not keep a match ablaze long enough to light my pipe; "Let me show you how to do it," said my companion, an old Californian, who was handling the bow paddle. "Hand me a bit of that newspaper sticking out of your pocket" He took the piece of paper and crumbled it up into a wad, which lie retained in the palm of his hand. Then, striking a match, he closed both hands about It to shield it from the' wind, after the traditional manner of the railroad navvy in light­ ing his pipe. The flames instantly set the paper smoldering on top without fts breaking into a blaze. He then passed the burning wad to me, and It served as a pipe lighter equal to a live coal, the high breeze fanning instead of extinguishing it. It was the simple in­ vention of a practical mind, which served my turn and afterward, and I commend the device to sportsmen need­ ing tinder for a pipe light or to start a camp fire. Royalty on Vacation. Kings and queens, like other people, are now enjoying itheir annual outing. The queen regent of Spain and the lit­ tle king are at Miramar, near San Se­ bastian; the king of Portugal is at Casceas, King Leopold of Belgium is at Ostend, Queen Wilhelmina of Hoi- • land and her mother are at the chateati of Sandryth, near Utrecht; the czar and czarina are at Peterhof. Kink Oscar and his family are at the Palace of Tull- garn. the queen of Italy is at Cressan- ey and King Humbert is at his shoot­ ing lodge in the Valle d'Oroco, in the Graian Alps. The Geranium Leaf in Jelly. Arose geranium 'leaf dropped into each tumbler of apple jelly is said by a good housekeeper to impart a peculiarly de­ licious flavor. It is true that Western- efs have by no means achieved the art -of using flower life in their sweetmeats. As prepared in the orient these concoc­ tions are most delicious. The Armen­ ian women and their neighbors, but not friends, the Turkish wives, excel in the compounding of such confections. -- TTT.--. . Meanest Man on Record. "Many a mean man has b?en discov­ ered," put in Suoggs, as he ate ids quick lunch, "but we have one of them cut in Stockton that's entitled to con­ sideration." "What's his records in­ quired Boggs, as he calculated that he . had time for another piece of pie. "He makes his wife live on soup, so she will not wear out her false teeth," replied Snoggs.--Scranton Tim**