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7" -^r- IN THE MORNING. 'Twas morn, And day was born, Bright in the west the stars still burned, But ever, as the great earth turned.^ The eastern mountain tops grow dark Against the rosy heaven--and hark! A single note from flute-toned thrush Drops downward through the twilight hush; -Half praise, half prayer, I heard -the song: "Oh, sweet, sweet. V , Oh, life is sweet and joy is long!" • The sun ° -^Touched one by one The firs along the" distant crest-- A silent host with lance at rest; Flashed all the world with jewels rare, Quivered with joy the maiden-hair' Beside the brook that downward sprang And rippling o'er its mosses, sang With silvery laugh the same glad song: "Oh. sweet, sweet. Oh, life'is sweet and joy is long!" . When lo'!. 1 Swift to and fro. A somber shadow crossed its path, Deep thunders rolled in awfp.l wrath. 'The thrush beneath the fir-trees crept. , The maiden-hair boWed low and \yept: The heavensKvei;e black, the earth was • gay, "" • • The hills all blanched in the spectral day-- The .night-wind rose, and wailed this song: - ' • ' ~~;i . "Oh. long, long, - Oh,, joy is fleeting,.life so long!"' . Behold. / A shaft of gold ; Shot- through the wrack of cloud ' and • Storm, •' * .-" The heart of heaven,, beat' quick and warm; From bird and stream, with myriad tongue, The glad day carolled, laughed, and sung. 'Twas morning still! Her tear-drops bright The maiden-hair raised to the light; I heard, half prayer, half praise, the song : "Oh, sweet, sweet. Oh, life is sweet and joy is long!" •w^ilch Dbrman's useless arm hung. He tore the haml open fiercely.. "Fall! some senorita. whose dark^ eyes and filibustering gold lure these troublesome allies to encourage the out­ breaks; so I would like to c?ush out every life that lcCtipsijUs in this caul­ dron of commotion, away from placid messenger. She was nurse now, and the bright, deep eyes that grewrsad­ dened at Dorman's story of a beloved brother's death glowed with enthusi­ asm at a modest recital of that wild" night dasli from the red, riven battl# field--for the sake of.Cuba! When he started for his old com­ mand again, a new and higher military commission at his breast, Bryce Dor- man held against it for a parting mo- jnent the brave, beautiful girl to whom lie had given his love, who plighted now. her own troth, in a hopeful mur­ mur that was <but the echo of thous­ ands of waiting, courageous souls. "When Cuba is free!" . . • THE "UAG-lttU" BILL. PRACTICED ON CORPSES. IIF. 'TORE' THE It AX I) OPEN FIERCELY; "Madre do Dios! It is hard to die 'so slowly when life is young." With the intensity of a tropical noon, the sun seemed to expend its force of terrible heat upon the unsheltered spot where lay the dead of the Cuban battle- Spain!". And an aide, entering to sum­ mon the officer t'ql headquarters, stared vaguely as his ' superior ground the miniature to powder under his spin-fed heel. , , " '. "v. Whffa he had gone and the others with him the young American raised on his arm. glanced, angrily at the "wreck and ruin of -a' face that haunted him, _ and then staring., groped to the spot and lifted from-the fragments a tiny folded paper. lie had learned Spanish on a Mexi­ can ranch. Since coming to- Cuba he had brushed the rust from his disused knowledge. Without difficulty he read the compact note, and realized that his possession of it might involve the ran­ som of a nation. Gonzalez must have been started on an important mission when the battle came as a surprise, for the note, though unaddressed, was certainly destined for t/ie leader of one of the insurgent coast bands: -It-detailed a plan of the oppressors to land, surround and mas­ sacre; and, through this open gate to the interior sweep every patriot across the island to liberty's last ditch. For whom was it intended? Ah! that lovely face, the fervent brother's death-driven words--"Caspita!" she would know-- and a flashing memory of the story of a brave senorita, who had held the FOREIGN RAGS'AND SHODDY TO CLOTHE AMERICANS. •Snaking" the Wprd •'Shoddy" from Our Import Statistics --\Democratic Officials Ashamed of Their "Rag- Bag" Pfoanctioh, ' ^ J Invention of a Humane Physician as a ' Substitute for a Policeman's Clnb. Dr. Abiel W. Nelson, a practicing surgeon ol* New London, lias invented a hum&ne police club, which he claims may be used in subduing obstreperous citizens without inflicting permanent injuries on them. It. consists of a rub­ ber envelope oyer a wooden core--a Club with a soft rind, simulating the bark of a tree, similar to the flesh on the bones of a list; ,11cis simply an elon­ gated arm and gives the policemen the advantage over the other man without the necessity of disfiguring 'him for life or causing other permanent injury. After securing the proper patents and before,the club was used the doctor feared fracture of the skull might ie- sult from a blow on the top of the head---that 1s, the fraotu.ro might be transmitted to the ..base of tlie skull instead of at the place of contact.. Dr. Nelson could not-get any dead bodies in the \%cinity to experiment on. .so he got permission to use subjects at the morgue in New York. -- He tried skulls by hitting them on the forehead and top of the head, strik­ ing with more than ordinary police­ man's foiVe, but did not lacerate the scalp, and there was no fracture at the place of 'i ntact or base of the skull. The heads were opened, and there was no apparent injury of tlu brain itself. The tests were made in the presence of three reputable physicians. Dr. Nel­ son wanted to see the actual efl'ect on the living brain, so he selected calves as his subjects. His first subject was an active, fierce calf, weighing 200 pounds. It was knocked down and out, but got up in a few seconds, somewhat dazed, but soon recovered muscular power and was then killed. There were bloodstains under the skin of the scalp and limited blood stains in the inner membrane over the front lobes of the brain. There was no injury to the brain itself. Everything indicated ..at the calf would have fullv recovered. Senator Hill's Stigma. "Anticipating that their bill would flood the country with shoddy they (the Democrats in Congress) were careful to "snake" that odious word entirely out of the new law." This, from the New York Press, is hardly accurate. The word shoddy does appear in section 279 of the Gor­ man tariff where the tariff is reduced to a 20 per cent, ad valorem rate from the specific duty of 30 cents per pound that existed under the McKinley law. This was equivalent to an average ad valorem rate of 52% l>er cent., so that the reduction made in the rati; of duty by the free-traders wils 71.43 per cent! Now as to the "snaking." This has been done" by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. Under the Mckinley law all of these adulter­ ants were classified together as shoddy, are being used In place of their wool The peopter_eaivt£H the ^quantity1 foreign ra^s that they., must w&tr on their backs, besides^ all the shoddy goods that are coming from Yorkshire. And everybody knows the increase in our supply of foreign free trade rags. Senator Hill did well to stigmatize this shoddy tariff as "a rag-bag production." WHY THE TRAIN STOPPED. ^ Don't Be Deceived. The free trade papers are starting their old war ,cry that tariff agitation will unsettle business. That depends upon the kind of tariff agitation it is. Tariff that will afford proper protection has never checked or injured business in any respect. It is the threat of a free trade tariff that unsettles mercantile and industrial conditions. When the people know that a protective tariff will be passed, they know that "there will be'more factory fires lighted, more work for labor, more demand for goods, more general trade and more prosperity. When the people know tliat a free trade tariff is to be passed,- they know that the factories will be working abroad, that labor here will be.idle, that Wages here will be lower, that the demand for goods will be less and that business will be at a standstill. Protective tariff talk does good; Free trade tariff talk does harm. The. business of the- country to-day Is not "so active as the free trad- SENATE . AND HOUSE. HOW FOREIGN MARKETS CAPTURE IT. THE MAN WHOM IIE THOUGHT DEAD STIRRED WITH THE VIGOR OF THE KICK. field. The soldiers had pushed on as best they could after the wary, scat­ tering body of "insurgents." The wide, tortured eyes of one so young among those grizzled veterans that he looked a mere boy, stared fear­ fully upward to the blazing zenith, past the voracious birds watching his IT IS A WOXPERFUI. FACE, SEN OK: sufferings with calculating vision. He thought with sick brain of the vine- clad hills of home, the running streams, the quaint cottage--the mother! He had come with a little band of sympa­ thizers from the far West, impetuously responding to the call of the down­ trodden fighting for their independence. Striving to arise, his foot touched the nearest prostrate form. The man whom he thought dead stirred with the vigor of the kick. "Santa Maria!" he groaned. "I am bleeding to death. Camarado--ah! the 'young American?" "You are horribly mangled, senor,"' the boy said pitifully. "Y'es, but it is for Cuba! Can yon use your hands?" "The right one." "Try to find my belt. There, there." continued the dying man in feverish eagerness, "you find it? A locket. Caspita. my sister! Lpok!" "It is a wonderful iV-ke, senor." "You will take it to her, if you live? You will do so quickly? At Bareyo-- the old Gonzalez villa. Listen, for the sake of Cuba! She is an angel--the message intrusted to me--by the Gen­ eral--In the locket -" A death rattle closed the lips. The volunteer swayed weakly and fell back. The vague incident seemed part of a dream now--voices, a little jolting prog­ ress. a new section of the same expe­ rience. Then Bryce Dorinan knew he was in a hospital tent of the victors. A sur­ geon bandaged his. arm, forced some medicine through his lips, a voice spoke roughly. Revived by the draught, he recognised'a Spanish officer. 'Who is this?'4 lie intoned. "A rebel! And you wasteitime on him? Zape! so be it He shall be a target at the exe­ cutions on the morrow. An American? What is that glittering in his fingers?" He strode to the cot, over the side of A - . ' western bauds firm by her devotion and courage at the darkest hour in the history of Cuba, illumined Dorman's groping mind. Rest and medicine had overbalanced the weakness caused by the loss of blood. The young voldnteer arose as dusk came on, a mighty purpose in view. He made sure only oi distance and direction, and then lie rushed blindly into the night. Looking back the way he had come, rapidly approaching the villa Gonzalez, this refugee saw a vast panorama of horror. Once he had been shot at and missed; once a lurking sentinel sprang from a bush, and he still carried, sunk half liilt-deep in one shoulder, that enemy's knife lie dared not withdraw. He had come across a horse tied near the smoking ruins of an inn, had got to saddle. Then one thought, one aim, one destination in view--the villa Gou- galez--Caspita! Along the route the victor army was pillaging, burning, slaughtering- were scattered the carcasses of the slain, the wrecks of once tranquil homes. The last mile young Dormau could just lie across the saddle bow and gasp, as an ambuscade sent a rain of bullets after him. One pene­ trated the side, one the thigh. His sight was dim, his senses blurred, but reeling, breathless he slid to the ground as he reached what was ordinarily a villa, now half camp, half hospital, panted one name--Caspita--saw a daz­ zling face looking eagerly into his own, Un\le4w States Oimrvo^ tVifc tiuo \\sco\ ̂ ears End\ng iwne 30 189M 1895 : ; ^ O o S j o o o ^ . • ' ' ^ • > v v Our Cities Saved by Russia. Two interesting and significant sto­ ries were told in the Brooklyn navy yard the other day, ,which have a spe­ cial bearing on events now in progress of development. The first relates to the young German emperor, who made- several visits to the While Squadron when it was at Kiel. One day he was talking with a cele­ brated American captain. "Captain," said lie, "I see that most of your country's Avar ships are fast cruisers. What do you call them, ah, commerce destroyers, do you not?" "Yes, emperor." said the American. "We've been watching you on this side." the emperor went on. "and we have come to the conclusion that these ships are built for a war with Eng­ land. What other nation has any com­ merce to destroy?" There was a silence after this, for our captain had said more than he intend­ ed. The Grand Duke'Alexls, who is a full Russian admiral and the head of the Russian navy, was also a frequent vis­ itor to the Americans at Kiel. One day. watching the Columbia, the grand duke said to a captain: 'I'm glad you Americans are rebuild­ ing your fleet. Do you know what most impressed me when I visited your coun­ try? The first thing was your wonder­ ful natural wealth and the second the absolutely inadequate means at your disposal for national defense. Twice in my career ! have heard the project of capturing one or two of your great cities and holding them for ransom deliberately discussed by officers of European fleets whose .countries had hard work to make ends meet. And they meant it. too. but they were told that Russia and the United States are f riends." Sparrows loosing Their Pugnacity. The English sparrow is evidently los­ ing some of its pugnacity, or the other birds are learning that the sparrow's "bark is worse than its bite." A few years ago the quarrelsome immigrant had driven out all the native songsters, but they have now returned, and are living in the same groves with the in­ truders in apparent harmony. The queerest instance reported is from a Maine town, . where the bluejays brought the sparrows to subjection by hiding in thickets and imitating, the notes of a hawk, afterward coming out into the open with the same cry, which continued to prove effective. or man >1^00.000!^;"/.*; 1 1 ------ V)1 IIE RUSHED j?MNDI.V INTO "THE NIGHT. held out a crimpled, blood-drenched fragment of paper, and--fainted sheer away. _1 They told him, a week later, how that night the intrepid senorita rode fifty miles, how the coast camp was aroused from mistaken serenity, bonfires lit on the beach, the ships of the enemy dis­ covered stealing upon them. Brighter blazes soon sprang from mast and rig­ ging, and the menace was beaten back that might have paralyzed Cuban in­ dependence, quivering in ah uncertain balance. Then the insurgents recovered their lost ground. The daughter of the patri­ ots hqd served her duty as scon t and Railway Passengers Fight Hornets. A conductor on a passenger train on the Wilmington and Northern Rail­ road was recently presented by a friend with a large hornet's nes't. After it had liung in one of the cars for a few minutes the hornets became warmed up and made an- attack on the passen­ gers. A hard fight of ten minutes laid many of the hornets low and then the nest was thrown out of a window. The exasperation of some of the passengers was intense for a time, says the Philar delphia Times. Collided with a Shark. A curious thing occurred on the last homeward voyage from Australia of the p. O. Royal Mail steamer Himalaya, when the ship while steaming-up the Red sea, ran 'into and killed an enor­ mous shark. The sea was dead calm at the time, and the brute must have been basking in the sun on the surface. Norwegian Waterfalls. o In Norway there is at present con­ siderable speculation in waterfalls, which are purchased for their water power rather than for scientific pur­ poses. The fall at Rafos, for instance, on ,tlie River Kniva, wHs recently dis­ posed of for $75,000. It will be used by an aluminium factory. * Briglit's disease seems to^ave a pref­ erence for great statesmen, and others of the same kidney. noils, waste, rags, mungo, flock, etc., etc. For purposes of comparison it is necessary to use the same classification, although under the Gorman law they j are returned under different. heads-- i sonic free and some dutiable. The to- j tal showing is a bad one for the free I trade tariff law. But we don't intend j to allow them to escape from the re­ sponsibility of having made a law . which admits free of duty, as in the | case of rags, or of such a trifling duty as that upon shoddy. The fact remains that the imports of > all of these wool adulterants have in­ creased in one single year of the new SHODDY (Rags,Noils, ond UJoste) Produced in Foreign Countries end Ulorketed. in the Un ited States ̂ Fiscol years Ending Jun& 30 I ers promised it would be, and they are I looking round for an excuse. They are | trying to shunt it on to the talk of a | tariff for protection. It is one of the i regular shuffles of these "placid old i fogies." Don't be deceived by it. ' 1893 1895 Gorman -14 Ttlillion Pounds- I4,0(>6,05ij Pounds -12 million Pounds mfUJ - -10 million Pourrt^-s^--- -8 Ulillion Pounds- • b faillioti Pounde- -tflti'.llion Pounds -2 Million Pouitds- ..35 Pounds -Zero- Sho&dij CMVnnqis bfeller than none, buturnericon tDool ij much better t)um Ehodjtaj law over 16,000,000 pounds above the imports of the same articles during the whole four years of the McKinley law, and as they were once scoured wool, worked over and over until they had lost the length and strength of fiber and durability of pure new wool, they are still as clean as scoured wool, though thoroughly rotten. The increase in these importations during the first year of the new law has been so great as to exceed the entire yield of scoured wool produced in the annual clip of our two largest wool growing States of Cali­ fornia and Texas. . B-nt the free-traders sometimes object to comparisons being made with 1894, so let us look back to 1S93. And as they have "snaked" the word shoddy from their statistics we will accom­ modate them by using their own term - Rags. Here are the imports of rags for the two fiscal years ending June 30,-1893 to 189.-.: Inmpojjts of foreign rags to he manu­ factured into clothing for men, women and children: Year ending June 30. 189."), free trade 1893, protection. American Quantity. Pounds. .14,066,054 30 Increase of free-trade 14,060,019 v Under the McKinley tariff the pro­ tectionists were not ashamed to call this stuff shoddy. But the free-traders shirk shoddy and "snake" the word out of their statistical reports. But what's in a name? There are the facts. Farm­ ers can tell the quantity of rags that Stop the Bond Talk. Some friends of protection have been talking in favor of another issue of bonds. Thhs is amazing. What do protectionists want with bond Issues? Were any bonds issued, or needed, af­ ter the close of the war until the free traders assumed entire administrative control of the country in 1893? Why this talk about bonds now? The debt incurred through the war was infinite­ ly greater than the debt incurred re­ cently by the free traders in time of peace. The larger war debt was reduc­ ed to a minimum, almost entirely paid off in fact, by the adoption and perma­ nent enforcement of a policy of protec­ tion. The smaller free trade debt can be canceled in a similar manner. It is the duty of the friends of pro­ tection In the House of Representatives to pass a tariff bill that will afford am­ ple revenue for all Government needs, and a little more that can be set. aside for the payment of our debt as it be­ comes due. This has been Republican policy in the past. It is Republican policy to-day. The United States Sen­ ate will, we believe, concur in the ac­ tion of the House of Representatives. Should the President assume to veto such a bill as Will afford ample reve­ nue for the Government needs, which his own party failed to do, then let him take the personal responsibility of meeting the deficiency in revenue. If lie wants bonds, iet him issue theih. It is not for the friends of protection to do so. The people expressed their opin­ ion of a bond issuing administration very decidedly in the elections of 1894 and 1895. They will do so again when necessary. They Want protection, not bonds. They want wages, not interest to pay. A Democratic Stock Market . There seems to be no legitimate buy­ ing power. No matter how much stocks decline they offer no temptation to the public; hence, "the dry goods plan of marking goods down to figures that will create buying must be followed. Until a genuine absorption of securities takes place, it is idle to expect any perma­ nent improvement in prices. For the moment, the uncertainties in the situa­ tion will undoubtedly prevent any gen­ eral or large buying for long account. Aside from the fact that farm products are at starvation prices and that there is a halt in industrial activity, is the coming meeting of Congress and its unsettling consequences. There is also the question of gold exports, which are likely to take place at almost any mo­ ment.--Wall Street Daily News. Reports from all hands on the general condition of trade in every line of busi­ ness, and from all authorities, are indi­ cative rather of the nature of a wake. Perhaps this is the Democratic notion of a revival. Customs Receipts . McKinley, monthly aver­ age, 45 months .$17,065,774.51 Gorman, monthly average,, 10 months. .13,167,533.63 Bat theStatioh AgrentBefused to Slake "mi'Iiinovatittn Upon the Rules. ' A resident of Y'onkers called at the of­ fice of the superintendent of the New York Central in this^ity the other day. and, sending in his card, was promptly admitted to the private room of that official. As he ships considerable freight over the Central's tracks his reception by the superintendent was a cordial,one. "I am about to take my family up to Saratoga .Saturday morning," he said, "and have come to ask you as a favor to have the 8:30' train flagged at Yon- kers, so we can get to Saratoga early in the afternoon. It would be extreme­ ly inconvenient for ug to be compelled to go (|own to the Grand Central sta­ tion in order to board the train, and I think I can safely ask the favor of hav­ ing it stopped for me at Y'onkers." The superintendent picked up a time table from his desk, glanced it over and said: "Well, the rules of the road are very strict on the subject of flagging trains to take on pasengers at stations not designated as stops on the train sched­ ule. We seldom grant Such-'requests, Oven to important officials Of the road. If we were to comply wifh one-quarter of the requests of this sort that we re­ ceive our express trains would be able to make up better time" than the ordi­ nary way trains. But we appreciate | the fact that we receive a good sliarg of your shipping business; and for that reason are disposed to accoiimiodate- ybu. You cab depend upou the 8:30 train stopping at Yotikers next Satur­ day morning. Have your family ready to get on board, as the train must not be delayed." The caller expressed his grateful thanks to the superintendent and de­ parted. At 8:20 o'clock the'following Saturday morning he and his family were driven up to the station in great haste in two coaches, while an express wagon unloaded several trunks. Hav­ ing purchased tickets for the party, the gentleman bustled out upon the plat form, and, approaching the station agent with the haughtiness of a rail road magnate, said: , | "I suppose- you have received orders from the superintendent to flag the S:30 train for me?" The agent looked at him meekly and replied: "No, sir; I received no orders what­ ever." "Why, that's strange," he said. "The superintendent told me positively that the train would be stopped here for me." The smile that spread over the shu tioii agent's face was interpreted by the gentleman to indicate a doubt as to his veracity, and lie became properly in­ dignant. The agept still insisted that In- had received no orders regarding the flagging of the train. "Well, the order must certainly have been sent out and may have miscar­ ried." said the gentleman. "Can't you flag the train, anyhowV" "No, sir; that is out. of the question. I wouldn't flag that train for Chauhcey Depew himself, unless I had orders from headquarters to do so. It would cost me my job if I did." At that moment the train was sighted in the distance and the gentleman be­ gan to prance around the platform in a state of great! excitement. He pleaded, begged and entreated the agent to flag the train, and finally threatened to re­ port him 'o the superintendent, but all in vain. As the train drew near the station its speed slackened and it final­ ly stopped. The waiting family was finally bundled on board in a hurry, and as the gentleman climbed on the car steps just as the train started he looked back at the station agent tri­ umphantly and shouted in a voice that was audible to everyone on the station platform: "Didn't I tell you this train was or­ dered to stop here for me?" The agent grinned and retorted in stentorian tones: "Why, this train lias been stopping here every morning for the last fifteen vears."--New York Sun. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW- ' MAKERS. I A Week's Proceedings in the flfalls <H? Congress--Important Measures Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An Impart tial Resume of the Business. Cleveland "Tariff for Rev­ enue" loss per month. .. . $3,S9S,240.S8 Cause Will Be Removed. We fail to see such cause for alarm about our financial conditions as the free trade papers exhibit. They forget entirely that Mr. Cleveland and his for­ eign emissaries will not be permitted to. run the country further into debt Dull Times in Sight. Tt has always been claimed that the New York stock market reflects the future of business. If so. there are some mighty dull times in sight. Some Fun in Sight. It will be worth a good deal to see the. Sun fighting for the re-election of Mr. Cleveland should he receive the Democratic nomination in 1S96. The National Solons. In the Senate Monday a speech by Mor­ gan of Alabama opposing the settlement of the Behring Sea claim Vas the event of the day. The Senate in executive ses­ sion confirmed the following nomina­ tions- Elmer B. Adams of Missouri to be "district judge for the western district of Missouri; Itufus H. Peekham of New York to be associate justice of the United, States Supreme Court The House held' a short session and devoted most of its time to discussing the appointment of House officers. The first lrasiness propo­ sition brought forward in the House was _• a- bill by Mr. Hopkins' to amend the statute fixing the customs district of Chi­ cago so that: the district would embrace all of the Stated of Illinois and Indiana. The .bill was passed by unanimous con­ sent A resolution was passed for the, appointment of. three new assistants to, the superintendent of the document-room.;; . The Senate was in. session less th'an two hours Tuesday. The proceedings consisted of the iutrodiiction of aboutj < 100 bills, followed by & speech .on .thei ";:7 "Monroe doctrine by SenatorCullomJ Representative Batrett of Massachusetts1 enjoys the distinction of being the author!^/ c<f the first thrilling incident in tile pres-f cut House of Representatives; "He threw* - ft bombshell into that body by offering aj resolution impeaching Thomas F. Bay-! ard, Uftited States ambassador to theS court of St. James, for high crimes and misdemeanors, embodied in the ufter-i ances of Mr. Bayard before the Edin­ burgh. Scotland, Philosophical Institute Nov. 7. In this speech, ijt is said, Mr. Bayard spoke of "protection" as a form of "state socialism" and said it had dond more to "foster class legislation," "breed inequality," "corrupt public life," "lower the tone of national representation," "di­ vorce ethics from politics," than any other single cause. Mr. Barrett's resolution was: "Resolved, by the House of Rep­ resentatives, That the Committee on * Foreign Affairs be directed to ascertain whether such statements have been pub-' licly made, and if so to report to the. House si.ch action by impeachment or otherwise as shall be proper in the preir® ises. For the purpose of this inquiry iht« committee is authorized to send for per­ sons and papers." Upon motion of Mr. Cannon, the words "by impeachment or otherwise" were stricken out, and the resolution adopted. ? Proceedings of the Senate Thursday covered the entire range of legislation, from the introduction of petitions, bills and resolutions to the passage of bills, and included two formal addresses. A. bill extending the Chicago port of entry so as to cover the State of Illinois re­ ceived the final indorsement of the Senate. Almost an hour was devoted to a speech by Senator Peffer in advocacy of his bill curtailing the expenses incurred in Con­ gressional funerals and providing that a sergeaut-at-arms shall take the place of the committee now sent out by tht> two houses as escorts to their homes of tho remains of deceased members. Mr. Call addressed the Senate upon his resolution" -upon the cruelties alleged to be perpetrat­ ed upon the Armenians by Turkish au­ thorities. He thought the United States should at least express encouragement to the civilized powers in the effort they are making to suppress these outbursts of bigotry, superstition, cruelty and crime. The House listened to a speech by Mr. Grow. ex-Speaker, relative to President Cleveland's utterance concerning tariff and currency. Both houses adjourned to Monday. __ AVERAGE PRICE OF PRODUCE. Wanted a Whole Corpse to Bury. "I remember one time when I was a deputy messenger," said Clerk Donald, of the coroner's office, to a Philadelphia Bulletin reporter, "being detailed, In company with the office physician, to investigate a case of sudden death in a tough downtown neighborhood, known as the Devil's Pocket. We had to perform a post-mortem examination. When we commenced the deceased, who wait a sufferer from dropsy, looked as if he might have pulled the scales down at 200 pounds, but when we got through the body looked like a skeleton. The man's wife came |p as we were about ready to take our leave, and, throwing up her hands, exclaimed: 'Saints pre­ serve us; yez devils, vez have the best part of him along wid yez and yez may as well take the rest of him! Oi'll not hauId a funeral on half!' " What the Farmers Were Asking for Crops the First of This Season. The December returns to the statistical division of the department of agriculture relate principally to farm prices Dec. 1. The farm price of corn averages 26.7 cents, against 45.6 last year. The aver­ age price of wheat is 53.2 cents per bush­ el, against 49.8 last year; of rye 43.7 cents, against 50.5; of oats 20.5 cents, against 32.9; of barley 35.4 cents, against 44.3; of buckwheat 49.2 cents, against 56.2 cents last year. The returns show; the average price of hay to be $9.38 per ton, against $8.35 same date last year. The average price of tobacco is returned at 6.6 cents, against 6.7 Cents last year. The price of potatoes on the farm is re; ported at 28.8 cents per bushel, against 56.5 cents last year. The condition of winter wheat Dec. 1 averaged for the country S1.4 per cent., against S9 last year and 91.5 in 1893. Tn the principal winter wheat States the percentages are as follows: Ohio, 74; Michigan, 79; Indiana. 80; Illinois, 79: Missouri, 70: Kansas, 80; Nebraska, 90; California, 102. The returns make the acreage of winter wheat.just sowh 104,8 percentage of that harvested in 1S95. This estimate, which is preliminary to the completed estimate of June next, makes the area sown for the harvest of 1896 23,647,000 acres. Telegraphic Brevities. A receiver has been appointed at Kan­ sas City for the Pennsylvania Invest­ ment Company. The liabilities are esti- niated at $365,000. The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce has decided to erect a new building on the public square, which is to cost, to­ gether with the site, half a million dol­ lars. The Ivirkham cold storage buildings at Anderson, Iud., were wrecked by a natural gas explosion and Harry Gaither was severely but probably not fatally burned. Senator Sherman receives a royalty on his book of $1 for each copy sojd. As over 127,000 have been sold the Senator is reaping a satisfactory financial return from his effort Murderer Lewis Martin Miller, who has been imprisoned in Fremont since the recent yiot in Tiffin, Ohio, has been taken to the'latter city to await his trial. No further rioting is apprehended. Emma Davis, the sixth victim in the fire in a Cincinnati tenement, died. She made an ante-mortem statement that she was the common law wife of the- late Thomas Hanna, a millionaire whose es­ tate owns the building that was burned. Prof. William M. Willett, 93 years of age, died at his home in Jersey City. He was a professor in the Wesley an Uni­ versity. Middletown, Conn., and after­ wards in the Concord Biblical institute in-Concord. N\ H. His father Col. ; > rO'.ur ed -a _ win do w Marinas Willett. succeeded De Witte one in question and Clinton as Mayor of New York. The only sensational eveut in connec­ tion with the trial of Sheriff Tamsen at New York was a rumor to the effect that "Old" Bill Yosburg" told the district attorney that the three escaped prisoners. Allan. Killoran and Russell, had formed a plot to blow up -the jail with dynamite, but; that he was not in the plot. Russians were the .instigators of the conspiracy of Li Hau Shin against the King of Corea. The Russians who as­ sisted in the affair have identified some of' the Americans who participated ift the plot. It is alleged that the latter joined In the conspiracy owing to the revocation oij the fold mine concession* granted by the Queen and because their salaries .advisers were reduced. . A Bullet-Proof Skull. Soon after he reached his ottice the other morning William N. Marcus, a member of the firm of Fuller & Mar­ cus; dealers in lubricating oils, Phila­ delphia, shot himself in the head. A bookkeeper employed by the firm was the first to reach the wounded man, and placed him upoii a chair. Mr. Mar­ cus was taken to the Pennsylvania hos­ pital. where the physicians found that the bullet had merely flattened itself against the skull and had not Injured the brain. Mr. Marcus is, therefore, likelv to recover. Telling Evidence. Tom Wolfe was sentenced to two years and tlire months in the peni­ tentiary by a Connersville. Ind.. court the other-day for burglary. The con­ viction ol' Wolfe depended largely on whether a man of his build could have crawled through a seven-inch transom Prosecutor Smith sash the size of th demonstrated his theory before the jury by getting down on the floor and wrig­ gling through the hole. ,lie convinced the jury and clinched his case. Badge of Married Women. Among the Germans the badge of a married womaii consists; of a little cap or hood: of which they, are very proud, and "donning the cap" is a feature of the wedding day among the peasants of certain localities. American Indians do not improve morally because they have Lo! associ­ ates. * II