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THE BEGINNING---1892. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS THE SONG OF THE SEASONS. "Arc you going so soon?" Said the bee to the rose. "Must you follow Queen Jun« To the land no one knows? The sun Is still shining, ...The breeze whispers stay; The birds in the grove there Still WiftblO of love there. . W hkhors a way ?•" OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. Work of the Illinois Humane Society --Smooth Chicago Swindler Obtains $50--Revenue Officers Pour Seven Hundred' Barrels of Beer Into River. "I follow my June." Said the rose to the bee. "Is earth such a boon. Such a gladness t;o me? The clouds lower dreary. The rain sweeps the dell, The wind waxes chilly, The evenings grove stilly. Bid me farewell." A Grand Work. Following is a summary of work for the year ending April. SO, 1895, of the Illinois Humane Society Complaints and cases investi­ gated . 4,35S Children rescued and condition remedied '497 Sent to charitable institutions. 350 Persons prosecuted for cruelty to animals 16(1 Persons prosecuted for cruelty to children 22 Horses- ordered laid up from work, as unfit,for service. . /. 405 Disable*! animal# removed by ambulance/ ......., 133 Teamsters , and others "'repri-. mandwl . . .; J . . 858 Abandoned and Incurable ani­ m a l s k i l l e d . . . : . . ' . , . 2 8 1 Amount of fines imposed $2,538 Received from th't same.....' 499 Receipts ... .,. .,.;...... ,$9;448 88 Bxpendit ares .:. ... . ; .. . 8,627 39 It is the/mteji'tioi). of this society to ap­ point' special, agents ' in every, center throughout the State, and work in that direction is already commenced- The office is No. 5150 Wabash avenue, Chicago. M f f f m t u m The rose dropped her leaves, The bee flew to his, hive; Said August, "Who grieves' t am here and alive; I am touchiug to glory ' The woods and the leas; -With harvesters singing. World wealth I am bringing Sorrow who pleases!" Winter, snuled grimly. The murmurs, to hear: - ' Hoar frost brooding dimly v j Where Slept the now year He said, "Bee and blossom. And autumn's rich reign- Each has its own hour '.v.. 91 beauty ̂ hd .poyror. , •. But--I come again!". ; Household Words. This is the beginning of a Democratic era, and Democratic Senators are chosen to attend to the public business, not to their own.--New York World,' Nov. 25, 1892. DELY'S TWO TYRANTS A STUDY OF DEBT. law. As evidence otj the threatened extinction of the sheep industry, I have but to call your attention to the fact that in the world's greatest live stock market, Chicago, this season there has been such a deluge of lambs that; tho price declined 50 per cent, in less than ninety days, and lambs sold at a price less per hundred pounds than sheep, something never before known in the history of that market.--Hon. ,T. W. Babcock, M. C., of Wisconsin. Spill Beer Into the River. Seven hundred barrels of foaming beer were emptied into the Desplaines river at "Wheeling the other day, ii)uch to the in­ dignation of a large percentage of the male population of the village, and which stood on the edge of the stream and gazed at the sea of "lager. Several weeks ago the Wheeling brewery was abandoned by its promoters, a large stock of malt bev­ erage remaining on hand. The barrels were stored in the warehouse, and as the final disposition of the property seemed uncertain, the village tipplers patiently bided their time until the concealed pro­ duct should become treasure trove to all whom it might concern. To the horror of these individuals, unfeeling revenue officers appeared on the scene, and. roll­ ing the barrels to the river's brink, drove Jii-rtha-btuigs Sand let the amber fluid mitt-, gle with rhe murky waters of the stream. Some of the more alert o-f the townspeo­ ple got ont boats, and. rowing directly under the brewery platform, succeeded in securing a few tubsful of the lager, but the officers discovered the stratagem and foiled all further efforts in that di- .rectiwn. The figures representing the Republi­ can and the Democratic methods of treating the matter of public indebted­ ness are so impressive and instructive that they deserve to be urged strongly upon the attention of the people who pay the debts. Between March 1, 1869, and March 1, 1893 (when Mr. Cleveland returned to office), the debt payments of the Republican party amounted to $1,- 881,307,873. Between March 1, 1895, (ind March 1, 1896 (under the rule of Mr. Cleveland), the national debt was in­ creased to the extent of $262,602,245. That is to say, since Mr. Cleveland's return to office he has put back upon the people just about one-seventh of the debt that his Republican jpredecessors took off. Give him a little more time and no doubt he would restore the whole of it. The American Economist presents the fact in another interesting form, as follows: Republican monthly decrease of debt, 1805-1893 .$5,701,114.77 Democratic monthly increase of debt, 1893-1896 7,502,921.28 This is the work of the great states­ man whose soul burned within him, eight years ago, as he observed a sur­ plus in the Treasury. Iu his letter of acceptance, in 1888, Mr. Cleveland said: "In reviewing the bad effects of this accumulated surplus and the scale of tariff rates by which It is produced, we must not overlook the tendency toward gross and scandalous public ex­ travagance which a congested Treas­ ury produces." And now the question is whether a tariff that produced surplus is really more dangerous or extravagant than a , deficiency created by tariff legislation and made up by buying gold at 20 pet- cent. premium from bankers who take it out again at par. The American peo­ ple will supply an answer at the polls in November next.--The Manufacturer. Speaker Reed on Consumers. Necessities born of social life and ad­ vancing civilization are the real meas­ ure of wages. This question of wages is all-important as bearing upon the .question of consumption. All produc­ tion depends upon consumption. Who are the consumers? In the old days when the products of the manufac­ turers were luxuries, the lord and his retainers, the lady and her maids, were tho consumers, a class apart by them­ selves, but to-day the con&COiiers are the producers. Long ago the laborer consumed only what would keep him alive. To-day he and his wife and their children are so immeasurably the most valuable customers that if the shop had to give up the wealthy or those whom it is the custom to call poor, there would not be a moment's hesitation or a moment's doubt.--Hon. Thomas B. Reed. I, Trick ot' a Sharper. S. B. ('hapan. a Chicago broker, has been advertising in/the daily papers for several days, offeriWf. a reward of $50 for goods stolen fromfhis residence last De­ cember. Saturday a well-dressed young man called at the Chapin residence and told Mrs. Chapin that lie had tho stolen property and would return it for the re­ ward advertised. lie said he had the goods in a room at Thirty-first street and Wabash avenue. Mrs. Chapin gave $50 to one of her servants, Tillie Anderson, and told her to accompany t he man to his room and get the property. The girl was told not to hand over the money until the goods had first been delivered. Upon reaching the room the stranger opened a closet and took mrt a large satchel.-""The goods are all in here," he said, "and now give me the money." Without examining the contents of the satchel. Miss Ander­ son gave him the $50. He then rushed from the room and locked the door behind him. Mrs. Chapin's servant realized that she had been trapped .and she burst open the satchel. It contained a lot of old rags and paper. The property stolen was val­ ued at about $400. Ii consisted of jewelry and clothing. Labor's Burden Removed. Though many of the skilled work­ men in the window glass factories of the country did not go to work till late in the season, all the window glass fac­ tories in the country are to shut down Saturday for four weeks' "rest." It is a Democratic* "rest" just like Grover's, though when Grover "rests" he sur­ rounds himself with good things to eat and drink, and the Government pays the freight. To the window glass workmen the Democratic "rest" will come as a hardship. Democratic pros­ perity has not permitted them to make preparations for enforced idleness. Many of them were ba^ly in debt when the factories started upf^and have not yet canceled their obligations. That's the way the Democrats remove burdens from labor.--Daily Telegram, Worcester, Mass. Down with Free Trade. • Protection is the great issue before this country. One of the main features underlying our very existence is that here in America the laboring man shall have a broader and a,better life than was granted to his class in Europe; that he and his shall stand, in educa­ tion, in influence, in respectability, and in every hope of life, shoulder to shoul­ der with every other man and with every other^lass-^n the body politic. He knows and, by his ballots of 1894 and 1895, he proclaims that he will no longer heed the wild theories of those misleading iconoclasts Who have sought to enlist his beliefs and his ser­ vices in the interests of free trade.-- Boston Journal. Deficit the Cause. With an increasing balance derived from customs duties the scarcity of gold would soon have come to an end, for experience has shown that when the government was operated on a sur­ plus basis it was never menaced by a gold deficit. The revenue deficit is di­ rectly and indirectly responsible for the gold deficit.--San Francisco Chron­ icle. Study Them. When manufacturers get revenue, workers get revenue. When the manu­ factures close, and the work is done in Europe, as under the present rules, tho workingman goes hungry and ragged, it matters not bow cheap things are in tho market. These are bottom facts, --Vidette, Valparaiso, Ind. Another Costly Capture. American cattle, fresh beef, tallow, bacon, pork aiid lard that are shipped to the markets of the world last year, real­ ized less money for us than what wo sold in 1S94, the total loss being about $15,800,000. The Value of Lambs. The wool industry, which has made rapid strides since the passage of the tariff bill of 1890, under the provisions of which an increased duty was placed on foreign wool, is now threatened with extinction should this bill become a AND THE END--1896. "Yer didn't give me up,'!\interrupted Dely, almost angrily. "Yer couldn't, 'causc yer never bed me." "An' why did.u't I liev yer?" demand­ ed Alec piteously. "I Uowed 'twere all settled, only we hed to break it ter yer ma gradooal--Miss Townshend's so sen­ sitive. 'Oh, Dely. come out byear." "I ain't ergin' ter. You war eleven year a breakin'dt an' Bob Wilson only tuk two months," said Miss Dely, the wild apple tint in her cheeks growing rosier. "Ef you reely hed cared fer TO j