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THE IDOL NODS. fened again, ami he drew himself up and fell faint 'and trembling on the board floor of his bedroom. Screwed to the jamb of the window was a'stout eyebolt; fastened to this was a long coll of rope. These things are the ordinary aecompaniment^of American hotel bed­ rooms anywhere above the first flooii and Carr had seen them scores of times before. Still feeling ,sick" and dizzy, Carr gathered himself up from the floor,- and with trembling fingers set about casting the rope from its coil. The stfiff tangled, and in his hasty clumsiness lie tied it into hard knots. Time was wasted. At last, however, the long, snaky length of rope was cung out of the window; and gripping it with his hands and legs, the fugitive started his de­ scent. He was no? practiced climber, and the rough hemp ate the skin from his hands as it passed through them, but such an .inconvenience was only of slight moment. A far greater dan­ ger encompassed him. During his delay the tire had gained in strength and fierceness, and torrents of yellow blaze were pouring from dozens of the •windows. " • lie had to pass through two of these, and emerged at each lower end stifled and blackened. But the rope remained, hanging like a thin, black snake in the heart of the licking tongues of fire, get­ ting deeper and deeper charred every moment.. IIow long would it continue to hold him? . -Fully conscious of his new perU, he let the cord slip .past him still more rap­ idly, till it felt as though his hands were being cut through to the very bone by a red-hot saw; and then--it broke. He felt a numbing msh through the air, a jarring thud as oj. ten thousand earthquakes, suns shboting before his eyes--and that was all. Oblivion held him entirely. LABOR LOSES WAGES these countries. !t will be noticed, was $35,914,001 for the three months, op at the rate of nearly $150.000,000 a year. The improving.irade/that the free-trade papers write about ̂ undoubtedly exists --but it exists in foreign countries, not in the lTnited States. 1 Thomas Reynolds was arrested Greenville forr burglarizing the store of Porter & Son at Sinithboro recently. "William Black, of Fairfield, *vho Shot- his mother, wa? adjudged insane. Heap* pealed from the decision and Bas employ* ed counsel to contest it. - ••• At Bloomington the jury In the Jacob Alexander Schroyer murder trial were un­ able to agree upon a verdict ami were discharged. They wfere out seven days. J. W. Ferris, secretary and treasure® of,the Troy Bakery C o rap a n y, d e I i be r a t e- ly placed his head on a rail of the Illinois Central tracks at 31st street. Chicago, and allows a train to pass over his neck. •, His head was severed from the body. A head-end collision at Peoria on the 7 Iowa Central Railway a few nights ago resulted in the killing- of George Byronj engineer of the regular west-bound freight. The coroner's verdict holds Con­ ductor \Y. W.. Dugan. of incoming No, 14, and M. E. I.loyd. conductor of th<* outgoing extra, responsible, for the acci­ dent. The train orders gave Byron the right of track. Application will be made^ to secure the release of the conductors Oil writs of habeas corpus. ' Gov. Altgeld accepted the resignation of George P; Bunker, of Chicago, as chief . grain inspector of Illinois, ami appointed; Dwight W. Andrews, of Cehtralia; to th« . position.' Mr. Bunker assigns a press of! <*. private business ap the reason- of his res-v ignation, and - Gov. Altgeld assures him' that he holds him in high esteem. Thar resignation of Mr. Andrews as a member j of .the Boar d of'Public Charities was ac­ cepted. and Dr. Arthur II, Reynolds, q£ Chicago, was appointed to succeed him. • The -case, of the people against E. B. Schoenhut and -Tohn Schlatter, proprie­ tors of hotel barber-shops, who are charg­ ed with Violation of, the State law ia keep­ ing open last Sunday, were called- at Peoria before .Tkiistiee Sucher, After the. testimony of Thomas Allen, a representar tive of the Peoria Trade and Labor- As­ sembly, the people rested their case. The defendants offered no testimony, but Geo. B. Foster, their attorney, moved to dis­ miss on account of the unconstitutional­ ity of the act. He cited a number of au­ thorities and requested time to submit others. The magistrate took the matter under advisement. The coal operators along the Chicago, Burlington and Quiucy Railroad met at the National Hotel in Peoria and "com­ pleted their organization by the election of officers. Eighty per cent of the opera­ tors along this line have agreed to com­ bine with the general organization form­ ed recently, which is designed to control the coal trade of the North and North­ west. The different railroads will organ­ ize separately and a directory will he- selected from each, and all the coal will: be sold by one person. The business will be prorated apiong the several mines. Those present from Chicago at the meet-' ing werje J. B. Cavanaugh and C. E. Phelps.*" John Jacobs, 74 years old. thought only; of his approaching marriage. The am­ bulancemen of the Maxwell street sta-' tion, Chicago, picked up the old man at;, the corner of 12th and Morgan streets! Sunday night. He had fallen from an; electric car. "Take me to 140 West 13th street," he moaned. "I want to go there- so that she Can take care of me." "Who lives there?" asked the ambulance men.; s»"The woman I'm going to marry," an­ swered Jacobs. "She will take care of me better than any nurse in the hospital." Jacobs' affianced refused to tell her name,; but blushingly declared that she would- take care of her intended husband and said that the wedding would take place at the appointed time. •*?. Northwestern University trustees liavo decided to build on that portion of the Grand Pacific Hotel site, in Chicago, owned by the university. At a meeting of the trustees a quorum of the committee instructed Dr. R. D. Sheppard, the busi­ ness agent of the university, to prepare plans for a modern office building. Defi­ nite information concerning the cost and style of building is witheld. as the trus­ tees liave -not decided what amount of money and what funds can be used for the building. The plans will help them to. decide. Good authority has it that the cost will bo in the neighborhood of $L~, 500.000. The building will be as high- as the law allows, 130 feet, and will have; from eight to eleven stories. It will lie, a modern office building. j When Hugh McCaul, a Chicago burg­ lar, borrowed a box of matches Tuesdayi evening from Harry Hansen, of the: schooner Truman Moss, saying that he! had "a job to do," he heard his last warn­ ing on earth. Hansen bade him beware; of burglary. McCaul went to F. R.J Molles' commission house, 274 South'. Water street, pried a wire screen off 5^ rear basement window leading into the elevator shaft, accidentally pulled a rope, setting the elevator in motion, and was crushed to death while attempting to es­ cape by the opening through which lie had entered. When he was partly through the windpw the machine struck him, crushing his chest against the- win-, dow sill. Death was instantaneous, it is thought. He hung there till 3 o'clock in the morning, when a night watchman found him, his hands and arms protrud­ ing from the window. r Fire, which started in Frizzell & Riden- liour's dry goods store Tuesday at Vien­ na, swept away property worth ?a0,- 000, on which there was an insurance of $45,000. There are hints of incendiar­ ism and talk of arrests being made. With- the exception of two buildings, the busi­ ness block on the west side of the square was destroyed. Following are tie lossesr Bratton & Ridenhour, $12,0W: Mike Knable, $10,000; J. Rosenberg, $5,000; D.' W. Whittaherg. $5,000; J. K. El kins. $8.- (XX); F. Burnett, $5,000 stock; J. A.' Parker, hardware, $3,000; Frizzell &' Ridenhour. dry goods, $10,000: Ed Boyt,; drugs, $3,000; M. Knable. stoves. $2,000;' J. Rosenberg, general merchandise, $0,000; L. C. Oliver, $3,000; J. Iv. Elfins, grocer, $r>,(X)0; P. C. Demau, restaurant, $500;' Murray & Thornberry, attorneys, $100;. 1. O. O. F„ $250; Ivnights of .Pythias,*' $100; Spanu & Cowan, $200; RidenhourL. & English, attorneys, $1,000; Dr. Brat-! ton,451,000; damage small to W. O. Hate,; Sarah Ballowe, J. K. Pest a in. F. Bur­ nett, H. Dunn, W. E. Beal. W. P. John­ son. Maid & Co., F. M. Sumpsou a act Perkins House. At Fairfield .lames Pope, aged 40, and Sadie Cordrey. 20, an eloping couple from Pana, were married at the Methodist' Episcopal parsonage by Rev. J. B. Rav- enscroft. opposition on the part of the. ; groom's mother was the reason assigned for the elopement. . . . . II. C. Becker, of Chicago, was arrested on a charge of highway robbery, and a' stolen pocketbook found in his possession. In his pocket was also a letter he had just written to his aunt in Chicago, telling her what an upright, exemplary life he was leading, and what a wicked town Chi­ cago was. Elmus Baker, aged 00 years, sou of tho founder of the city of Freeport, died Monday from dropsy, His father took up the land on which the city is built from the Government, and the deceased was the oldest inhabitant of the city du point of residence, having lived, there sixty, years lacking but three days. Two masked men boarded ap electric car in the northern portion of Decatur Tuesday night. They threw off the trolley.' and at the point of revolver's compelled; tho niotoruian, Noah Davis, to hand oveij ,his cash, amounting to about $6. The* also took his watch and bellpuaeh, aftef> which they escaped into the darkness^ There were no-passengers oil the cat. When a man forgets his ideals he may hqpe for happiness, but not till then.-- John Oliver Hobbes. The tender, love-sick youth believes That lovely woman ne'er deceives He curses cynic pi'ods. Alack for belle! alack for beavi If one fine day he comes to know The idol sometimes nods. 59 She may, indeed, be passing fair, With sparkling eyes and golden hair That charin him. What's the odds If lie should ever get a hint That lovely, tresses change their tint? Ah, me, the idol nods! Again, the merry maiden's feet Look very small, divinely sweet, In glossy leather shod. What praise he'll lavish, goodness knows; But if he saw her tortured toes The idol then would nod. OCCURRENCES DURING THE \ PAST WEEK. How thc Democratic Policy of. " Cap­ turing the Markets of the 'World," Has Affected tlie Man Who Toils for Hia Daily Bread. pish Commissioners Differ as to the Value of the German Carp--Dyna­ mite Used by Springfield Prisoners In a Vain Attempt to Escape. , Railroads and the Public. Let us refer to tlie condition of the railroad business of the country under this administration, qs affecting the public!* In 1894 the railroad companies were compelled to throw 93,994 men out^ of work. Nearly one-half of these men, over 40 per Sent, of the whole, had been employed in maintaining the roads in proper repair aud In conduct­ ing transportation. For every 100 miles of road there' were 18.54 per cent, less men .employed in the maintenance of way and structures;-there were 10.50 per cent, less employed in the proper maintenance of equipment, and there were 11.11 per cent, less employed in conducting transportation. It will be very interesting.for tlie public to know that in a period of hard times, such as this administration forced, the country into last year, tlie roads upon which they travel can hardly be kept in proper , repair, nor adequately protected. As the . Interstate Commerce Commission's re­ port says; _ "What the effect of this is likely to be upon the character of track and conse­ quent safety of travel need not be sug­ gested." ' V' The transportation division, of the census, of 1890 confirms this by saying "that economy , in operating expense's . always struck 'maintenance of way and structures harder than other class­ es of expenditure." The' significance of this will be appreciated when we state that the number of passengers carried on all railroads in 1894 was 52,- S72,413 less than in 1S93. but the num­ ber of passengers killed was twenty- five greater than in 1893. The German Carp. The game and fish wardens of Ohio and Ihdiana unite in pronouncing the Ger­ man carp almost useless as a , food fish, and a source of great damage to other varieties. They say the carp does not prey upon other minnows, but he wal­ lows about in the mud and makes the water so foul that other fish cannot breed. The flesh. of the carp is softr and as a game fish he is worthless. Oil the other hand, the 'Illinois commissioner defends the carp. A few years ago it was quite the fad for farmers to have carp ponds. Freshets caused overflows, and then streams became filled with them; wher­ ever the carp has be,en transplanted--arid the breed is wonderfully prolific--other varieties of fish have grown-vastly fewer. One farmer declared that after be had raised two crops from a dried,-up pond bed, when a freshet came and filled .the pond, spawn of the -carp began, to hatch and has sijiee thrived. The general opin­ ion seems to be that the earp is a" regular hog^-the scavenger of inland .waters. For him her face is wreathed in smiles- Misogynists would call them wiles-- There's joy where she has trod; But then due day he sees her frown, His airy fcastles tumble down, Why does the idol nod? '• Ah, Well for him who comes to think That life has' drab as Well as pink, - That man is not a god; And.happiness he'll only find. As; .soon as he makes up his mind That idols always nod. --Sketch,' . ', ;• • -: A HUSBAND • •[ ' . Two Chicago Murders. Angelo Parent) was locked up. at 1 lie East Chicago avenue vpolice station,; flhi- cago, Sunday night, tlie self-cwt,Jessed. slayer c>f Alexander- Georges, a fruit .'ped­ dler. The murderer claims to ha,Ve acted in self-defense, and the police are inclined: to accept his explanation. A brawl had begun in Parenti's home. "I tella him go hom'e," said Parenti, as lie related the story of the killing. "I no wauta trou­ ble in my house. He calla me no good, and say he punch,me. 1 tella him again go 'way, and putta him out a door, lie hava big knife--a stiletto--see. so long, and he say 'I killa you.' 1 shoota him frrSI* and throw my revolver away. 1 kissa my wife gooda by, and now 1 a in here. Yes, I killa him." Orello Pouel, a witness of the shooting, confirmed Pa­ renti's story. Jealousy led Edward De­ courcey, colored, to shoot and instantly kill, Dora Perkins, 19 years old, atso colored, Sunday night. Decourcey, it is said, also made a move to shoot Thomas Buckner, but was thwarted. The latter is the man of whom Decourcey is said to have been jealous. Decourcey was ar­ rested. TAKES BACK The bed stood in the middle of the room,,its foot in the opeii window. From far beneath came the night hum of Chicago, but it was quieted by the dis­ tance to a mere lullaby.- So high was the top of the great hotel that the gar­ ish blue-white of the electric lights, which so lavishly clotted the city, was toned down to a gentle luminous haze. The man on the bed tossed from side to side uneasily, rolled on his back, lay with his mouth upon the pillow, in his right hand he held crunched a letter written in a woman's writing, aud as certain waves of dream crept over him he rumpled the letter savagely and mumbled through his clinched teeth words of iifarticulate fury. At last bis dream seemed to culminate, and he broke into a paroxysm of coughing, which awoke him. His senses, dim at first, drew rapidly to the alert. His eyes, so recently glued with sleep, op­ ened , quickly to their fullest stretch. His nckstrils worked like the nostrils of a dog on a trail. "Smoke! Tobacco smokeV I don't think so. It smells to me like the reek of burning wood." His eyes were beginning to open wider, with the unnatural expansion of terror. George Carr had been in America before, and knew what these things portenwed. Quickly dropping his feet, on to the boards of the floor, he walked across •Jiem. unlocked his door, and, opening It. looked into the passage. He had no Joubt then as to what had occurred. Not far below him was tlie crisp crackling of flames, and with it came the cries of badly frighten­ ed women and men. "Mv God! the hotel is on tire." he ex­ claimed. "It is built of wood from cel­ lar to roof tree; it is crammed with people, aud I am close under the shin­ gles on the eleventh floor!" He went out on the landing in his night gear as he was, and attempted to descend. Columns of gray vapor which stung the eyes and nostrils rolled up the shaft of the stairway, and, looking over the balusters, he saw through the smoke arms of tawny flame which shot greedily up toward him. The heat was terrific; it drove him back to bis room even, before the smoke forced a retreat. Baked by'the continued heat of sum­ mer, the great wooden hotel was burn­ ing as though it had been anointed with tar. Carr ran back to his bedroom and stood in the midst of the floor, trem­ bling like a leaf. He still held in his fingers the crumpled letter in a woman's handwriting--his wife's, but, remember­ ing it. broke out into new fury, aud tore it into tiny squares, which flut­ tered like white butterflies before tho rising draught "(Jrasping, heartless wretch that she is," lie crie-\ "If it had not been for this letter, goading me to make more money and still more money, I should be catching this morning's home boat from New York harbor. As it is, I'm here to burn slowly to death unless 1 choose to make a quicker ending of it by jumping out on to the road 200 feet below." lie gave a fierce snort of a laugh. "Suicide is wrong, we are told. I wonder if it would be sinful for me to end my miseries quickly, instead of re­ maining till life is tediously roasted out of me here. It is a nice point, but 1 shall not argue it out now. I'm going to shut my eyes and jump--into eter­ nity." He walked steadily across to the win­ dow, put one leg over the sill, and look­ ed down frojn a dizzy height which no tire escape on earth could span. Flames were beginning to jet through many of the windows below. In the street two steam fire engines were already at work; others were coming up with teams at a furious gallop. The black carpet of people in the Vacant space had a curious white mottling of upturn­ ed faces. Carr threw the other leg over the sill, and, stooping over, wondered where he should drop. He wanted to fnll clear, and--the ghastly thought rt'ould come--he did not want to splash anybody. The booming roar of the flames in the shaft of the stairs drew nearer and nearer. It was of no use to wait. Of earthly hope none <«uld come. ' He made up his mind that he would jump then without more torturing delay. But, when it came to the actual leap, his limbs somehow failed him. He seem­ ed physically unable to leave his seat on the ledge. "Bah! what a coward I ami" he cried, "fearing to leap into necessary death with my face toward it I suppose I have a woman's nerve just now; I must liumor myself like a woman." , -- Hp* turned about breasting the sill and lowering himself steadily down till, all his body hung down against the wooden wall suspended only by the finger tips. And, then he saw some­ thing which caused such a .revulsion of feeling that lie was within an ace of relaxing his old and being dashed to lags in the street below. Gradually, however, his muscles stif- Increase, September, 1895....! Labor cost, 50 per Cent Loss to each one of 153,057 employed in woolen fa dories Less gain» as above. ( LABOR Earning Capacity of. Later on the doctor presented the patient, over whom there liacl been some controversy, with a paper which contained a lengthy account of the fire, and the patient marveled at the inven­ tive powers bf Chicago journalists. When, however, lie came to tlie list of the killed, about which there could not well be any sent!menta-1 romancing, he put the paper down with a start. For awhile lie lay still with his eyes on the ceiling. Then his glance descended again and roved round the ward rather guiltily. Finding that no one was no­ ticing him, he .once more picked up tlie paper. Yes. there it was,, in uncom­ promising black and white, described with gruesome adjectives and Carr of Wingford, England. Curiosity made him search further among the columns, and he found the method of his death described with gruesome adjectives and startling headlines. This last owned to being imaginative, as it mentioned that he had never been seen alive after retiring for the night. Yet it was a bad conjecture of what might,have occurred to a man who was slowly suffocated to death. Again the paper fluttered to the flopr, and agaui Carr's eyes sought the ceil­ ing. He was thinking very hard in­ deed, and couldn't quite make up his mind fto something,--, A course seemed open before him, a course which had some drawbacks, but a multitude of good points. For one thing, it would ease him forever of h-.s wife, who has tormented his love into something akin to hatred; for another--- The doctor came and broke into his reverie. "Say, friend, I want to know your name. The hotel registers are burned, and the papsrs wish to print a list of survivors, so that we may tot up with more accuracy bow many poor wretches are missing. It's been a sad business, this, all around; a mighty sad business. Many death*, and--what did you say your name was, sir?" It was now or never. The choice bad to be made or the chance missed. "Carey." The doctor noted it down an his cuff. "Initials, please?" "Henry G." "Where of? You're English, I guess --isn't that so?" "Yes, a Londoner." "Thanks. I won't ask you how you like our city, because, perhaps, you've got rather a bad first impression. But that'll wear off, sir. You'll like it be­ fore you've clone." "I hope so," said the patient, dream­ ily. "I'm here, in America to stay. 1 hope I shall get on." "Hope so, I'm sure," saici tlie doctor, briskly. "Wish you every kind of luck." 0000.05 Net loss to each wage earner in one month's woolen trade. .. . $12.07 Taking the same month as Mr. James Gordon Bennett selected, we find that our imports of woolen goods increased by $3,958,929. The increase in our ex­ ports was $14,842 for the month. The labor cost in producing the larger im­ ports was $l.P7!}r4iji>. In producing the larger exports the \labor cost was $7,421. Had the larger quantity of for­ eign woolens that we bought last Sep­ tember been made by the 155,057 work­ er^ in our own mills, the extra amount of wages earned by each would have been $12.72. As it is, every American hand lost $12.72 worth of work in Sep­ tember under the free trade in wool policy. But each one gained 5 cents' worth of work through increased ex­ ports. The net loss, however, was $12.67 to each American hand, or over $150 a .year. This is what Mr. Bennett terms "peculiarly encouraging."--American Economist. What Kentucky Farmers Know. In connection with the recent up­ heaval in Kentucky, it is of some inter­ est to note tlie production of liemp in Kentucky and the protection once given it. In 1850 tlie production was 17.787 tons, equal to 35,574,000 pound*. The tariff was 30 per cent ad valorem by the act of 1840. In 1800 the production was 39,409 tons, equal to 78,S1S.U0<) pounds, the tariff being 24 per cent ad valorem by the act of 1857. Hemp was a very expensive agricul­ tural product, which made tlie duty (in 1850 at 30 per cent, and at 24 per < or,it in 1857) highly protective. In fact, from 1810 to 1824, the duty on hemp was $23 a ton; in 1825 it was fixed at $35, from 1828 to 1830 it was from $45 to $00, Reduced to $40 in 1830, at which figure it remained until 1840, as above stated, ^he result was that its pro­ duction between 1850 and 1800 increas­ ed over 100 per cent. The war ran the production down to 4,583 tons in 1880, but it had increased again in 1890 to 10,794 tons, or 21,588,- 000 pounds, because of the duty being maintained. The Mills bill proposed to make hemp free, and the Wilson-Gor­ man bill actually did make it free in the interest of the cotton planters who want cheap burlap. These facts show that it had bepn the policy of bbtli political parties to protect hemp, and Henry Clay was a true KentuckianAvlien he so frequently came to the rescue of Kentucky hemp producers. But that day has gone by. Kentucky lias since been represented by men who strike down her agricul­ tural industries, and are finally them­ selves stricken down. It was time for Kentucky to vote a change. Her hemp farmers cannot compete with the cheap hemp labor of Russia, and they should not be asked to do so. The recent vote tends to show that "free" hemp is not regarded in the Blue Grass State as sound policy. Mr. Bow­ man, who was Commissioner of Agri­ culture in Kentucky in 1885, said hemp was then one of the best paying crops in Kentucky. In the very nature of things domestic hemp cannot survive the free trade blow leveled at it by the Gorman tariff of 1894, and the farmers of Kentucky seem to know it. Where Trade Flourishes. Some trade statistics supplied by the State Department afford information as to the exports from different countries to the United States during the three months ending June 30, 181)4 and 1895. Coming through the routine of the con­ sular service they are a little late in reaching the public, but as the facts are for the most part new, it is well to give, them as follows: , Exports to the United States: Quarter ending June 30. From 1894. 1895. " Algeria .« $48,47(1 $82,037 Austria-Hungary . 1,488,357 1,846,328 Belgium 1.472,777 3,322,226 Canada (Maritime Provinces & New­ foundland 1.358,540. 1,980,105 Cevlon 247,951 291,694 Denmark 45,937 135,494 Dutch W. Indies.. 13,561 21,301 Germany 0,153,297 8,811,847 Italy .... .... .. 5.440,242 6,428,606 Mexico 4,880,756 6,159,811 Russia 796,766 1,021,311 Sweden & Norway 450,19S 717,002 Switzerland . . "... 2,133.793 3,325,042 United Kingdom. 25,587",609 45,233,001 Yoiinn Women Fight Fire. At 6 o'clock Sunday night fire broke out in the building occupied by the Mor­ gan Park Training School for looting Women, a preparatory branch of the University of Chicago. The bla/.e 'was caused .by the explosion of a lamp. The damage was about $10,000 on the build­ ing and contents. The latter loss con­ sisted chiefly of furniture-, as the, young women succeeded in saving most-of their private effects. Fire started fifteen min­ utes later in the gymnasium, which is 150 feet from the school. The second blaze was caused by some one who ex­ citedly threw a rescued mattress against a stove in the gymnasium. The damage to this building was $1,000. 200 Dollars per jjlor (00 Dollars Increase mTcii Bears 39% James H. Swan Dead. James II. Swan, a Chicago pioneer, whose name has been prominent in busi­ ness and social circles, died-suddenly at his residence Sunday at 0 a. in. At 4 o'clock his groans awakened lus wife. He assured her it was nothing serious, and declined to "allow her to send for a physician. Mrs. Swan aroused her'niece, and they watched at the bedside of the sufferer, after applying remedies which gave him temporary relief. At 0 o'clock he suddenly sat upright in bed and ex­ claimed: "I feel very sleepy." AN ith these words on Ins lips he fell backward and died. Peoria Masons to Build a Home. Peoria Masons have united in a move­ ment to secure thel location of the Ma­ sonic Eastern Star/widows and orphans' home and already A fund has been start­ ed for the purpyse. The Masonic or­ phans' home in (Chicago is in control o€» St. Bernard Coixrmandery, Knights Tem­ plar, though it nas received appropria­ tions from the Grand Lodge. The pro­ posed home in Peoria, however, will bo under the supervision of the Masonic fra­ ternity of the State. The movement re­ ceived an impetus at the last meeting of the Grand Lodge held in Chicago, Daring Act of Prisoners. Two postoflice robbers, James Connors, alias Conway, and John Rogers, made a desperate attempt to escape from the Springfield jail Friday night by exploding what is supposed to have been a stick of dynamite in an end wail. Tlie shock caused by the explosion was terrific. The whole jail was shaken, every gaslight was extinguished, glass was shattered and the walls and cells were filled with a dense smoke. The damage done to the jail was not extensive and nobody was injured. State News in Brief. Mr. and Mrs. Albertson, of Henry, cele­ brated their golden wedding anniversary. Frank Benjamin, a resident of Rock- ford for half a cenutry? dropped dead at his home, aged 70. E. Porter, of Joliet, purchased the south half of the Gold King on Mold Hill at Cripple Creek. Colo., for .$35,000. Thirteenth Warders of Chicago who live within a quarter of a mile of the quarries of the Artesian Stone and Lime Company have a grievance which they propose to fight out in the courts. They say that the stone company's fences not only encroach upon Huron street, Camp­ bell avenue and Rockwell street to. the extent of destroying those thoroughfares for traffic, but that the houses and lives of residents in the neighborhood are en­ dangered twice a day by the blasts of dynamite that are fired in the great chasms from which the company is tak­ ing stone. C. P. Mars, of Rockford. has invented a pocket typewriter weighing three ounces and thc^jpize of a watch, and which can be operatecl\faster than a person can write by hand. A company has been, formed to put it on the market. William Gill, of Lawn Ridge, lost $1.- 000 by ravages of hog cholera and at' tempted to smoke out the cholera from his hoghouse. He was successful. I* ur- thermore, he. will not be troubled by the noxious germs in his machinery shed, corn crib and other outbuildings. Loss on binders, mowers, plows and buildings, about $2,000. No insurance. County Clerk Hartley, of Lacon. will pay no more bounties on sparrow heads, taking as a precedent the stand of the Clerk of Cook County. This will throw, the small boy out of a job and entail a lot of dissatisfaction, and no doubt precip­ itate the county into a lawsuit. Recent developments point to a new theory as to the death of*R. H. Helli- well, who shot himself, supposedly with suicidal intent, at his home in Oak Park. Mr. Helliwell always carried the pistol In the breast pocket of his coat. ' It is now thought by his family a^<§!nie police that in stooping to wash the pedal of his wheel the revolver dropped from his pocket and was accidentally discharged. . Average Annual Pay to IDage Earners in manufacturing Industries / CAPITAL Earning Capacity of. Fun for Bank Clerks. A New York merchant has a portrait of himsedf engraved on his checks, so that when be pays a bill his creditor has the additional satisfaction of gaz­ ing upon the counterfeit presentment of the payer. These checks go to dif­ ferent cities and pass through various banks and clearing houses. In the parlance of the variety actor, the bank clerks "do not do a thing to liiui." . When the gentleman who thus ad­ vertises himself lias his deposit book settled at the end of the month, and get.s back his canceled checks, it is a question whether he is pleased or vexed. The portrait on each and every check is ornamented, aud its facial expres­ sion changed iu a manner that is, to say the least, startling, and the more banks the check has passed through tlie greater the change. *Tlie first clerk through whose hands tlie paper passes will adorn the picture with a fierce mustache; tlie next will add a beard; the next a pair of goggles, and tlie next may change the aquiline nose to a retrousse. All the changes capable of being made are rung, and by the time the check gets back tlie self-ad­ vertiser doesn't know himself--or rath­ er doesn't know his picture.--New York Mail aud Express. The Obstacle Overcome. They are telling the story in London that the impossible American in Paris alighted at a hotel to find it absolutely full. "1 have nothing," expostulated the host, almost tearfully, "nothing. The first floor is taken by the King of the Ostenders; the Queen of Monte- garia occupies the second; the Duke of Cottonoplis is sharing the third, floor with the Caliph of Port Said; and the Crown Prince of Nova Esperanza is sleeping on the biliard table. As for myself. I have to make up a bed in the office, and there only remains tlie chamber of "'my daughter. Of course " "(s that your daughter?" inter­ rupted the American, - pointing to the young lady at the desk. "Yes. sir." "All right; I'll marry her after lunch." And, giving his valise to the speechless Boniface, he added, "Now, you can take my baggage up to our room." New Form of Blood Poisoning. A 4-months-old infant, Maria. Care- gitTa del Domino, died at New York recently from convulsions and septi­ caemia, a form of blood poisoning. Not long ago the parents of the little one, as is the custom of Italians, had tilt- ears of the child pierced for rings. Af­ ter the operation" a piece of fine green floss was run through the ear and fastened, so that the hole should not grow together. Tlie-d^e in the piece of floss, it is believed, caused the blood poisoning. Camels Cannot Swim. Camels are perhaps the only animal# that cannot swim. When a tramp insolently demands a meal of a Texas woman she shoves a pistol against his bread-basket, and proposes to give it to hini by the barrel. f 8 Tenths ont jtr cent 6 Tenth 6 of one ptrcent H(t Earningsojtk Capital and surplus of \ National Banks / How to Raise Revenue. There is one means of raising rev­ enue, which is also a means of justice, which the House of Representatives should pass at once. A duty should be placed oil wool and a compensating spe­ cific duty on goods. It is grossly unjust that there should be one policy for the wool grower and another for the coal miner. It is un­ just that manufactured wool should lie protected and unmanufactured made free, when both forms are exposed to foreign competition. New England manufacturers have never asked for free wool. They pros­ pered most greatly without it. Free wool and an ad valorem duty on goods has encouraged tlie use of shoddy, in­ creased the imports of wool to nearly double the amount imported in previ­ ous normal years of business, lfugely increased the foreign competition on goods, and given us in return a foreign market neither for American wool nor American woolens. Let us have either national protection or national free trade. The, variegated stripe of legislation that protects iu spots is neither logical nor honest.-- Boston Commercial Bulletin. An outcast, ragged, bent and prema­ turely aged, slopped along beside a high park wall. The slushy snow of an Eng­ lish spring ebbed and flowed across the soles of his bursting boots; the chill of the wind bit savagely through his ragvS of clothes, presently the wall gave place to a sunk fence, and tlie tramp stopped and gaxed at the view. Over an Expanse of pork and lawn and ter­ race rfose tlie timbered walls and ga­ bles of an Elizabethan country house, trim, solid, graceful. As he watched, a fallow deer came out into the open, gazed at him for a moment in haughty impudence, and then trotted into cov­ ert. The tramp, with a sigh, started wear­ ily oil his way. "It seems even grander than I was told of," he murmured to himself. "Wealth, comfort, happiness everywhere. And it might all have been mine, livery stick and every shrub left to tli# wife and me between us. It fell to as by will the day be­ fore I died; the day before 1 was burue<| to ashfs in the Chicago fire. Fancy the irony of that! The day be­ fore! Why didn't the news reach me? I'd a fiue fund of selfishness about me then. "And Louise was right-rafter all. It was lic-r duty to urge me to business.. I was as lazy as the day was loug then, and .she.told me of it, and 1 bated her for speaking. I've thought since over that letter, and the pain it must have caused her to write: "Eh, well, that's all past and done with. I died. I was full of conceit in myself, and thought an American for­ tune was easily made, even if it was sometimes lost with suddenness. Pah! I never reached the first rung of the lad­ der. I never rose above laboring with my luilnds at unskilled trades, and it was being constantly shown me how I was an indifferent laborer at that Area of Bulgaria. Bulgaria proper has 37,000 square miles, about the size of Indiana. Wages Break but No Opening. flARKET S v . OF THE WORLD Total increase $29,152,390 Here are fifteen countries all of which show larger shipments of their products to the United States than in the.corre­ sponding quarter of 1894. The aggre­ gate increase in tin!; export trade of