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1 s EYAS'S EGG MAEKET. 66Y ORATOR'S METHOD OF FIL­ ING THE'PRICES. -- -- ' : Barnyard Argument on the Free Silver Issue---Plain Scheme for the Repudi­ ation of Honest Debts. and wood. you may . You havefn to com th is all ther is not in or dollar can have IIpSMMB &v"*.V Hi -5> -\V \ •» '». -'.v..' w. ' T5TP it Sl- Mi*. Bryan recently said, in one of his free coinage speeches ip Kentucky, that free coinage of silver "would establish "the market price of that metal at. $1.29 per ounce, and nobody would sell it for a. cent less." To prove his assertion, he stated that "if any man in tfcis com­ munity would offer to buy all the eggs produced at 25 cents a dozen, and was able to make good the offer, nobody would sell eggs for less, no matter what the cost of production, whether cne cent -or five cents a dswen." Then some peo­ ple in the crowd cheered and some shrieked and the locomotive whistle tooted, and everybody felt good. Mr. Bryan's comparison is very weak, in that neither lie0 nor anybody else pro­ poses that the government shall buy sil­ ver at $1.29 per ounce. All that free Coinage proposes is that the government, shall put its stamp upon tin silver "brought to it, and shall make that silver legal tender for debts, public and private. It will take just as much coined silver as it would take bullion silver to buy oats, wheat. Hour, bread, p}eat, clothing or anything else, except labor, unless the United States [iroposes to exchange gold for silver, at the coin­ age rate; and the United States has not gold 'enough to do so longer than a day or two. Mr. Bryan, therefore, should put his case in another form,. If a storekeeper or anybody else in the community should offer to take eggs at 25 cents, f&ying in return eggs at 25 cents; per dozen, his offer would have not the slightest effect upon the market price of eggs. They would sell for just what they could command in actual cash, so tint if the highest price to be obtained elsewhere would be 20 cents, the man win offered 20 cents would get the eggs, yhile the man who offered 25 cents, to be paid in the shape of twelve eggs, would not find a single patron, unless somebody owed liim 25 cents and made him take the eggs in payment. This brings the free-silver issue ex­ actly to where it belongs; tint is, in the class of schemes for the repudiation of honest debts. The moment .he Unit­ ed States goes on a silver basis, and re­ deems its obligations in silver; as the free-silver advocates propose, that mo­ ment the entire amount of money in cir­ culation other than gold would lose half its value, while gold itself would nat­ urally and inevitably be retired from cir­ culation. The effect of such v tremen­ dous change in the currency of the Unit­ ed States would be ruinous to many branches of business. It is hard to find a single experienced business man in the United States, out of all the hundreds of thousands in the country, who does not know that a free-silver victory in November would bring about t. panic. Repudiation has never been popular with the American people. The average American may be shrewd in business, eager to make money, and keenly alive to the importance of business success, but he has never shown liimseli in favor of national dishonesty. Mr. Bryan's of­ fer of repudiation of 50 cents on every dollar of debt has not been wel l received in this section of the country. | We do not believe that it will be well received in the West when the true clicracter of the issue is made plain. The farmers of Vermont and the working people of Maine as well as the planters of Ar­ kansas have given their verdict, and in every case the signficant Republican gain is evidence that the American peo­ ple do not want a dishonest dollar, eith­ er for payments to themselves or for their payments to others.--Boston (Mass.) Advertiser. THE MEANING OF FREE StLVER. Method Used by Moses H. Cone to Show the Effect of Its Use. That experience is the best teacher is the creed of the Cone Export and Commission company of 105 Franklin street. The Cone Export and Commis­ sion company acts -as the agent of some twenty cotton mills in the South, employ­ ing in the aggregate several thousand men, the combined capital being about $15,000,000. Moses H. Core of the firm, learning that many of the em­ ployes of the company were preaching free silver with gusto, decided to give them an« object lesson that should be convincing. The company owns at Greensborough, N. C., a lar?:e factory known as the Southern Finishing Ware­ house company, employing about $00 hands. When pay day came last week the employes were surprised to receive all their wages in silver witti the im­ print of the Mexican government upon the metal. A Mexican silver dollar, as is generally known, is worth about 53 cents in our money. In paying his men in Mexican money, Mr. Cone paid them at the bullion rate. That is, lie allowed about two Mexican silver dollars for each dollar's indebtedness to his em­ ployes. With the pay envelopes went an explanation of the matter, and re­ ports from the South say tha; the free- silver sentiment among the men was ef­ fectually crushed. The employes were able to pass the silver money, but they received in exchange for it material equal in value only to the bullion worth of the metal. Thus it was evident to them that while they got twice as nucli silver, the purchasing power was clipied in two, and so they gained nothing. When a Tribune reporter called at the offices of the Cone Export an I Commis­ sion company, in Franklin strjet, yester­ day, he was unable to see Moses H. Cone, who is out of the city, bat another member of the firm gave the following explanation of the firm's acton: "Mr. Cone," he said, "has a greit deal of dealing with foreign nations, and he knows the value of having a noney sys­ tem that is unquestioned. He saw that in the South and West the leople did not understand the matter, and he de­ sired to bring the truth home in as tell­ ing a manner as possible. Accordingly he adopted this method. He wished to show to his employes that the fiat <f the gov­ ernment would not make 53 cmts worth of silver equal to 100 cents, stve in our own country, and that as soon as it passed out of this country it leturncd to its bullion value. He further wished to show them that the 53 cents worth of silver by, the government's fiat could only be made worth 100 cents within the lim­ its^ of the country_as long as tie nation's •credit was untarnished, and to show to them that the most vicious attack that could be made upon the nation's finan­ cial integrity Was embodied in the adop­ tion of the free-coinage system.. I think •our people, by the force of oui little per­ sonally-illustrated argument, see the matter in a true light, and vill desert their false idols. I do not know whether the experiment will be repeated or not. That remains for Mr. Cone to say, but I think the lesson has been satisfactory all around."--New York Tribune. Don't be Humbugged. Hon. Frank S. Black at Chatham, N. Y. I would ask the voters irrespective of party, irrespective of previous political affiliations, to look out this fall that they don't put themselves in a position where they say the American people like to be. and that is where tbey can be humbugged and fooled. The Democratic party at Chicago issued a cow list of promises, and the Democratic policy takes you from one promise to another, from one condition to another, each prom­ ise more unreasonable, eacfc condition more deplorably, and if you accept them you wpl finally "place yourselves by hard­ ship and distress in a condition from which you must find relief. Now, in reference to silver, permit me to say only a word. Don't mistake the phrase "free silver" for the free coinage of silver. There is a vast difference be­ tween free silver and the free coinage •of silver. Free silver might possibly mean that it would be easy "for you to -get that money now afloat, but free coin­ age of silver would not be a help to you "unless vou have bullion. When it comes to the "coinaee of potatoes, and lumber have these things, r of free coinage, o coin. Don't vote u have not. That situation. There y one solitary cent bullion which you money. There is not a dollar's, worth of bullion in this state, there is not a dollar in any state, barring five or six. These five or six have a total population of less than the city of New York, and these small states, representing small interests, ask you and Pennsylvania and Ohio and Illinois and Massachusetts and Maine and all of the great commonwealths of this country to take the bullion of that little population from that little territory and make it worth 100 cents for their fifty-three. This is what free-coinage rn^ans, and this is what they ask you to adopt as the policy of the American people in this coming election. I say to you it is a mis­ take. It is the worst mistake you are asked to commit and you will find it out if you commit it this fall. I say to you, consider this question. Think your­ selves, don't listen altogether to what other people say, and let it be settled not by your partisanship, but by your citi­ zenship, and you will make no e^ror.-- Rochester Democrat. DOUBLE-DEALING SEW ALL. lie Demands Gold iu Payment for Tim­ ber Transportation. Attention was lately directed in these columns to the significant fact that Alt- geld of Chicago, although a rip-roaring, champion of silver, so far as his vocifer­ ous talk in conventions and out of them is concerned, when it comes to business is a goldbug. We demonstrated this flat failure of Altgeld's practice to conform to his preaching by reproducing the clause which forms a part of all the leases which are made out by the Unity company, a business enterprise of Chica: go, of which Altgeld is president. He was a leading figure' in the Bryan con­ vention which made the dishonest de­ mand for the free coinage of silver, but nevertheless the lease clause in question expressly stipulates that the tenant shall pay his rent "IN STANDARD GOLD COIN OF THE UNITED STATES." And now Arthur Sewall, who is run­ ning fbr vice-president on the Bryan ticket, is caught in the same glaring hypocrisy. He. too, is expressly com­ mitted to free silver. Indeed, he is more thoroughly committed to it than Altgeld, since he is making the canvass for the vice-presidency upon the silver Chicago platform and has professed loyal alle­ giance to it. But a little matter like that, it turns out,- does not prevent Ar­ thur Sewall from ignoring silver and in­ sisting upon gold when it comes to -the payment of debts due him. That is the sort of a brave knight of silver he is. He Is unmasked in the New York Trib­ une of yesterday. Sewall recently took the contract for carrying four shiploads of timber from Maine to Long Island City for the ereosoting firm of Eppinger & Russell, and insisted upon the inser­ tion of the following clause in the con­ tract: ~ The party of the second part agrees to pay to said party of the first part, or agent, for the transportation of said timber, dol­ lars and cents, UNITED STATES GOLD OR ITS EQUIVALENT. What do you say to that Mr. Bryan? Or you, Tom Watson? Imagine the feel­ ing of the Populists when they read this exposure! The soldier company which on its formation adopted a resolution reading, "resolved that in case of war this company will immediately disband," would have been an organization after Sewall's own heart. In his canvass, when his aim is to fool the voters he poses as a free silver soldier, but when it comes to getting pay for timber--pres­ to--he disbands his free silver convic­ tions and exacts gold,' "United States gold or its equivalent." Further comment is not called for. We may well leave Sewall to be dealt with by his party associates, whom he has so basely deceived.--Rochester Post-Ex­ press. JOSHU1 IH'ZKNBKURY'S MKDITATIONS I've been thlnkln' this thing over, and been readln' every line What the silver folks has written, and at present I incline To the sensible opinion that as long as bank­ ers see An advantage in gold dollars, they cannot be good fer me. And I won't touch food nor water while the bankers drink and eat. And I'll travel on my shoulders while they walk upon their feet. For I've come to the conclusion that what they do I must not. Or I'll surely come to sorrow and lose every­ thing I've got. I will cease to clothe n_y body till the pluto­ crats go bare. , And until they shun the barber I will never comb my hair: I will use my ears for seeln', and I'll listen with my eye's, And whenever they do so-and-so, why, I'll do otherwise. And, Mellssy. while the bankers are con­ tented with their wives. You and I must take to llviu' widely sepa­ rated lives; 'f"wont do fer me to ape them, so the silver fellers say-- I hate to throw you over, but there ain't no other way. We're in need of 'mancipatin', if I've got the right idee, And whatever rich men favor must, of course, be bad for ire; If they want one kind of money, I must want some other kind- Bryan says we form two classes, and the- line is well defined. So, I've joined the silver forces, and we'll show them rich galoots How we can lift ourselves, b'gosh, by the straps upon our boots'. When we,get iu we'll fix it so the streams'll run up hill. And we'll have our flour double the wheat we take to mill. There, Melissy, stop your cryin'--there ain't no cause for it: Don't look at me so scared like; I ain't quite crazy yit! I've only been a-jokin'--what if the bankers do Sometimes have cause to favor things that's good for me and you? --Cleveland Leader. Facts for Farmers. Additional evidence shows how the Wilson-Gorman tariff operates to injure the farmer. The consumption of wheat in this country has been as follows: Per capita. Bushels. 1S90 6.0!) 1804 - 3.41 1S95 4.51 7.95 This shows (7.95 divided by 2) that our average per capita consumption of Wheat in 1894 and 1S95 was a trifle under four bushels. This was .33;. per cent, below the per capita homo c6n-> sumption in 1890 when times were good. Surely any intelligent farmertought; to be able to understand what that very low consumption of wheat by our people meant in 1894 and 1S95. He realized its force in the low price of wheat. Our people were out of employment under the Wilson bill and unable to buy and consume as much as they did in 1S90. With a consumption in 1894 of only about 50 per cent, of what it was in 1890, the value of our home market and labor fully employed in relation to the price cannot be overlooked. The value of "the markets of the world" supplied largely by Argentina and Russia with cheap wheat are as nothing compared with our own market. In 1890 wheat was worth 98 cents, in 1893 only 73 cents and in 1894 only 61 cents, the de­ cline in price being in about the same ratio with the fall in home consumption per capita. This presentation of facts ought to be convincing.--Buffalo News. A Quack and His Remedy. Bryan's reply to Maj. McKinlev's sen­ tentious statement that what we need is not the opening of, more mints but of more factories, shows the shallowness of the "boy orator." The substance of Bryan's reply is that more money coineel or issued by the government will open the factories. - The "boy orator" fails to comprehend the fact .that money is a tool to facilitate exchanges or the production and distribution of products; and that it is not the multiplication of tools that makes business, any more than the multiplication of hay racks makes hay. Given the grass to be cut and there will always be found a sufficient number of hay racks to harvest the hay; so given the demand for products ;and the inevita­ bly resultant supply, and there will al­ ways be found monetary vehicles for the distribution of such products. 'As a mat­ ter of fact the volume of money per capita today is 20 per cent, larger than.in "1873. The trouble is that the large vol­ ume of money we haye is not calculated and used because Bryan and his support­ ers broke down our industries and busi­ ness and tlie earning power of the masses at the end of 1892, and the people are therefore consuming less. DEPEW CALLS BRYAN DOWN. Quotes Henry Ward Beecher and Charges Misrepresentation. The most remarkable of the citations of Mr., Bryan during his address in Brooklyn last Wednesday. evening was the one in which he said, referring to Henry Ward Beeclier: I only wish that the distinguished divine, whose name has added to the great fame of your great city were with us tonight, that he might again champion the cause of the people in their great fight of today. Chauncey M. Depew used this as a text in his address at the Clermont ave­ nue rink this evening. The occasion was the formal opening of the Kings county Republican campaign in Brooklyn. Six thousand persons -crowded into the hall and cheered the speaker. National Chairman Hanna Was one of the dis­ tinguished men on the platform- In referring to Mr. Bryan's statement Mr. Depew said in part: During the fiat money and unlimited pa­ per currency excitement of 1877 Mr. Beech- er delivered a famous sermon Thanksgiving day on the perils of the day. In it he usee! this language, which is commended to the study of the Populistic candidate for t.he presidency, since he has called Henry Ward Beecher as witness: . . > "Wherever, in any nation, there is such an attempt to tamper with standards that the moral sense of man is bewildered and, liberty is given , to unprincipled men at large to cheat, to be. unfaithful to obliga­ tions, to refuse the payment of honest debts --whenever that takes place, it is all the worse if done with the permission of the law. I hate the devil riding on a law worse than I do the devil riding without a law under him. Whoever tampers with estab­ lished standards tampers with the very mar­ row and vitality of public faith. "Gold is the world's standard.' Gbld Is the unversal measure of value. Other kiuds of money--silver, copper, paper--all must conform to gold and be measured by it, and be interchangeable with it, in fixed and definite proportion. Gold is king to com- fiierce. All other money must represent gold. "Gold came to Its supremacy as a repre­ sentative of property by the long-estab­ lished consent of mankind. Congress can­ not change it for the world, nor even for this nation, except upon past transactions. It may give impunity to men to cheat con­ fiding creditors, but it cannot rule the value of currency in all future transactions. "The crime of paying a debt iu a currency inferior In value to that in which it was contracted, base at all times and every­ where, has a deeper guilt and a baser in­ famy1 in our case. When in our mortal struggle capitalists were solicited to lend their money to us on the faith of the_ nation we were too glad to premise to pay in gold and were most grateful for their aid. Now, our dangers past, we revile them, finding no eoitliets too violent, and strive to pay them", not gold for the gold they lent our misery, but in a dishonest measure of an inferior metal. To return their aid by a base treachery is to deserve an infamy as deep as the lowest depths of hell.".--Chica­ go Times-Hera'.d. The Home Market. McKinley speaks with wisdom and truth when he says "the home market is the best market in the world." It is the home market that opens factories, furnishes employment for wage-earners, and fills the land with consumers of farm products. One great cause of the hard times is the denial of these facts by the tariff re­ formers of 1894, who undertook to sell the home market in exchange for the "markets of the world." The result was that they lost the former and did not gain the latter, so that the whole scliein# was a lamentable failure. The truth is that protection and reci­ procity have demonstrated their great value to our home industries and for­ eign trade. The former achieved their greatest prosperity under protection, while 1892, when the McKinley law was in operation, was the banner year of our exchanges with foreign nations. Comparing 1892 witli 1S90, the result is as follows;. Our exports fell from $1.030,27S,148 in 1892 to $803,200,487 in 189(3. -a decrease $167,077,001; and our imports fell from $827,402,402 in 1892 to $779,710,024 in 1890, a decrease of $47,092,438. The bal­ ance of trade favorable to the United States in 1892 was $202,S75,908; for the fiscal year just closed it was only $83,- 490.403, a decrease of $119,385,223. Thus the common experience of the peo­ ple shows the wisdom of taking care of the home market, while the record dem­ onstrates that with the market in a flourishing condition the foreign markets take care of themselves. The step to­ ward free trade was a colossal failure, and an attempt to mend matters by adopting the free and unlimited coinage of silver would bo even a more stupen­ dous blunder. -- Rochester . Democrat- Chronicle. No Issue. Washington Press: Bryan shows that he is a demagogue in these ways: 1. He says, to incite prejudice, if you burn down all the cities, but leave the farms, the cities will spring up as by magic. The farm is all in all. But what is the farm without cities, that is, markets? Nothing. * One is as necessary as the other, therefore there is no issue, can be no issue. 2. Ho constantly sets employe against employer, labor vs. capital. But capital is as necessary as labor, and la­ bor as capital. What can a workman do if there is no one to pay him wages? What can a producer do without work­ men? There can be no issue between two equally necessary things. 3. He rubs the ears of the West and South, as sections, as if they were dogs, and sets them on the East as a section, and yells, Sic! The East is 200 to 250 years old. and lias saved money and is rich, while the South was impoverished by the war she brough on herself, and the West is new, and both need capital. The East is as necessary to them as they are to the East, yea, more so, for the East could loan her surplus money elsewhere. But to buy and open farms, make improvements, get stock, etc., the West and South must have capital. The East loans it, but wants it paid back, in as good money as it lent. Bryan gets mad at this; \^jmts to pay back half of it and call it square, and lyingiy pre­ tends that farmers are as mean and disr honest as himself. Because the East insists on being paid only its just dues as stipulated, Bryan arrays two sections agjainst one. That's the breadth of his manhood and Americanism. One section 'heeds the other, the one as much as the other, hence there can be no issue, and tb,make one shows that he is not only a demagogue but a repudiator and a scoundrel. The farm needs the city, the city must have the farm. The capitalist needs the workman, the workman must find the moneyed man. One section must have another, if only to swap knives with. We are one coun­ try, we are brethren. Silver Mine Profits. The New York "World has been doing some investigating in the West, and it finds that the Ontario mine, in Utah, has- paid over $13,000,000 in dividends, the Horn Silver $5,080,000, the Dalv $2,887,500, the Bullion Beek $2,105,000 and the Centennial-Eureka $1,800.000, and these are small compared with the Comstipck and .other of the great mines in Colorado and Montana. Yet. accord­ ing to Mr. Bryan's doctrine'and belief, the profits of these mines, controlled by tlie silver trust, are to be doubled by free silver, and Michigan farmers wiil please note that the law is not to carry with it any wheat-purchasing clause that Will make the cereal leap up 100 per cent. ^ • , --A few days ago a young otter was captured by an angler In a Very curious manner. Mr. Brown of Sutton, England, was fishing near Castor, when he hooked what he believed at first to be a large fish. To his surprise, he found he had taken an otter. He succeeded in bring, ing it to bank. ADVICE TO THE VOTIR HOW TO REGISTER AND A BALLOT. MARK Brief Synopsis of the' Provisions of the Illinois Election Law Which Are at This Time Important to All- Women at the Polls. Lotik to Your Ballot, Below is given in brief the necessary information, ^ompifed from the law on the subject, that \Viil refresh the yoter's mind and prepare him to use his electoral franchise intelligently and satisfactorily to himself: 1 - Eligibility.--A person to be entitled to vote in the State of Illinois must be a citizen of the United Stites, either native born or naturalized, must be above the age of 21 years, a, resident of the State one year, the county 90 days and the voting precinct 30 days next preceding the election at. which the vote is offered. If a person fills this requirement he is eligible to registry, even though he may not be 21 on the day of registry or may not have filled the residence requirements on that day. ' . • - Women May Vote.--All women who fill the above requirements as to citizenship, age and residence are at the coming elec­ tion entitled tp vote for Trustees for the University of Illinois, ou the grounds of being entitled to vote for school officers. Registering.--A board of registry con­ stituted by law shall meet in their re speetive towns, cities, wards, districts or precincts on Tuesday three weeks pre­ ceding any State election, making the day of registry this year Tuesday. Oct. 13. The board meets at ;)' o'clock and will remain in session long enough to com­ plete its work. At this meeting they .shall enter on the register in alphabetical order the names of ail in their voting precinct known to them to be legal voters, and to aid them shall have access to the poll kept at the previous election. Three copies of this register will be made, one hung up conspicuously for inspection, the other two deposited with the town or city clerk Correction of Register.--On the Tues­ day previous^to the day of election the board of I'egistry will meet for correcting of the registry^ They shall meet at 8 o'clock on this tlay and in cities remain in continuous session until 9 p. m.; in oth­ er districts they shall begin at 9 a. m. and continue in session until 4 p. m. At this meeting no name shall be erased except by affidavit by two legal voters asserting that the person whose name desired erased .from the register is not a legal voter. No name can be placed on the list except the voter apply in person, and if there is doubt as to his legal right to vote he may be required to make affidavit and prove his eligibility to vote before his name be placed on the register. Women Must Register.--Women are required to register the same as men, and the custom of the registering boards is not to place their names upon the list in­ discriminately with those of the men, but in a separate place on the register. A woman failing to register will have to swear in her vote, same as the men. Official Ballot.--The names of all the candidates on all the tickets nominated will be placed upon the ballot, which will be prepared by the County Clerk of each county. This ballot will be nearly or quite two feet in size each way. Following is a specimen of the ballot: the-bottom of the ticket. This proposition will appear on the ballot something after the following fashion: To Amend See. 2, Art 14 of tlie'-Cdnstttutlon. YES NO. The voter will make a Gross after the word as suits his conviction, on the sub­ ject. A simple cross inrtlj.e^Circle of one of the tickets records no vote on the Constitutional amendment. ILLINOIS DAT AT CANTON. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES lOURINQ PAST WEEK. - ,,i*. THE • Tncker Open o o 'A M K > O o H § .' I 'A. z | = 2 2 -"5 o tu o H --J O c* o LU £ c£ tu 0 01 z o £ o z z £ o o on z E • • • O c* tu z z < b- c£ Z 3= o ;' f-o E H- C4 o z • £ • • Preparations for a Grand Exctirsion front All Parts of the-State. Never before , iu the history of this or any other country has thereoibeen pre­ sented a spectacle of so many thousands of people traveling such distances." to seie' any one man, and that man a private cit­ izen of the United States, as has been seen* during the present political campaign, go^ ing to see and shake hands with the sol­ dier, statesman and candidate of the Re­ publican party, Hon. William McKinley, of Ohio. So great have been the delega­ tions from all over the country visiting Canton that the Illinois Republican State Central Committee found it neces­ sary to -ask that all contemplated excur­ sions from Illinois to Canton,^Ohio, com-1 bine in one grand movement from all over the State; and, after consultation with Maj. McKinley, Oct. 21 lias been agreed upon as "Illinoi^day" at Canton, Ohio, and that day. has been set aside by Maj. McKinley for the exclusive reception of delegations from the State of Illinois. A burean has been established at the Republican headquarters* at Room J 24, Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, with F, D. Higbqfe, who has so successfully han­ dled the1 excursions from Chicago that have so far visited Canton, in charge, and it is the desire of the State Central Com­ mittee that all parties or clubs desiring to visit Canton report to this bureau the number desiring to go, whether one per­ son or 5,000, and what lines of railroad they are located on. Mr. Higbee will supply all information as to rates, time tables and eating accommodations in Can­ ton. together with the position of all dele­ gations in the grand parade at Canton, on Oct. 21. Mr. Higbee's plan contemplates the running of special trains on every road crossing the State. Those from Galena and Northern and Central Illinois, includ­ ing as far south as Monmouth, will go through Chicago. Trains will start from Dubuque, Savannah, Rock Island, Keitlisburg, Burlington, Quincy, Peoria, Springfield and East St. Louis, and will leave Mississippi River points at about noon on Oct. 20, picking up all who wish to go at each station. Arrangements have been made whereby cars will be run through to CantQii without change, from all points in the Stafa, while parties de­ siring sleeping cars, either single or by clubs, can arrange for them through Mr. Higbee. Hon. C. r. Hitch, chairman of the State Central Committee, issued a circu­ lar to the chairmen of all county commit­ tees on Sept. 2i>. and the responses were instantaneous, Mr. Higbee having appli­ cations already for over 4,000 people, and Illinois day at this early hour is an as­ sured success.^' It is expected that, ex-Govs. Oglesby and Fifer, Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, and every Illinois man of national reputation will be in Canton on Illinois day, and all important meetings scheduled for Oct. 20 and 21 have been cancelled, so that all may go to Canton, and beyond a doubt fully 20,000 people will go from Illinois. The arrangements made are such as to insure every comfort to all, no matter how large the number, and ladies will find up inconvenience if they go. The rates 'are the lowest ever made. One feature in Canton on Illinois day will be a serenade to "Mother McKinley," 89 years old, who will receive all ladies and will review the,grand parade. OVER THIRTY PKR CENT, IDLE. P. R. Bucklnnd Gives the Result of an Investigation of Free Trade. Mr. P. It, Buckland, editor of the American Economist, has been making some investigations regarding the-condi­ tion of manufacturing interests in the United States, as compared with that of four years ago, when the people entered upon the free trade experiment. He sum­ marizes the result of his investigations as follows: "I have just completed the returns from 577 reports in thirty-six States, as to the employment and wages of labor in July, 1892, and July, 1890, being respect­ ively two years after the McKinley law and the Wilson law went into effect. Where 577 factories or employers gave work to 114,231 hands in 1892, there was work for only 78,700 this year, 35,531 -being idle, or over 30 par cent, of the en­ tire number. "Wages paid to the same hands de­ creased from $3,927,200 for July, 1892, down to $2,409,712 in July, 1890, a loss of $1,457,488 or 40 per cent. The per­ centage of loss to labor in wages has been especially heavy in the New England and Middle' States, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Georgia." Commander Booth Shelter f»r-' Released Prisoners in Chicago--Chicago Jews^.Give Liber­ ally to the Poor of Their Racc. I.' • Home for Ex-COnvicts. Commander Booth Tucker of the Sal- > vation army opened the Prison Gate Home at 184 North Clark. street, Chiea- go.»the other night in the presence of 400 people. Among them were a few ex- convicts. Commander Tucker said: "I am glad that we have started a Prison Gate home in America. It is an institu­ tion which is in great demand in every large city throughout the United States. We have started homes like this in Lon­ don, Australia and Buenos Ayres and have met with unbounded success. I know we will have the hearty eO-opera- tion of every official in the city, and by the help of God will make a success pf this prison work, I.jiow open the gates Of the prison home to receive all ex-con­ victs who wish to be helped to lead an honest life." Assistant State's Attorney Ramsey told of the good the home would do for the many unfortunates that walk the streets of Chicago. Brigadier Brew­ er also spoke in commendable words of the institution. The Prison Gate Home will be in charge' of Mrs. and Mr. J. G. Galley. It will be fitted up with manu­ facturing implements, and those that have a trade can elo work in their line and those that have none will be taught now to make shoes, brooms and other things, and will be paid for their work. As soon as the men are proficient in their work an attempt will be made to get them positions in factories. tu C/3 o 04 m tu < •-5 • In addition to' the tickets named above there will be four others on the ballot, two Prohibitionist, Populist and Social­ ist; altogether seven distinct tickets. The women's official ballot will only contain the names of the candidates for Trustees of the State University, three on each tficket, or twenty-one on the ballot. These will be headed by the party names the same as the other ballot. The women's ballot will be deposited in a separate box. Marking the Ballots.--The voters have had experience of a number of elections since the Australian ballot law came into force and -pretty well understand the manner of marking. Briefly, it is. as follows: A voter desiring to Vote • the straight Republican ticket makes a cross thus (X) in the circle at the left of the word "Republican." This> votes the straight Republican ticket; same proce­ dure as to other tickets. If the voter de­ sires to vote for some candidate on a ticket other than the one in which he puts a cross in the circle, or; in other words, "scratch" his ticket, he puts a cross in the circle of his ticket, then a like cross in the square to the left of the can­ didate tipoii the other ticket he desires to give his support. Same procedure as to additional candidates. Constitutional Amendment.--In addi­ tion to the candidates the voter will be called-upon to vote for or against the law amending tbe Constitution. The amend­ ment in brief gives the Legislature power to submit as many as three amendments to the Constitution to be voted on at'one election, whereas under present provisions only one amendment can be submitted at a time. The proposition will be placed at Campaicn Notos. More than 100,000 men will march in the Business Men's Sound Money Asso­ ciation parade in Chicago Oct. 9. For the first time in the history of Illi­ nois the Socialistic Labor party of the State lias filed with the Secretary of State petitions for placing on the official ticket the national and State candidates of the party. Col. R. G. Ingersoll, in accepting an in­ vitation to speak in Illinois, writes: "It does not seem possible that there is any danger in Illinois. I think that Bryan is making all the. speeches that McKinley needs." Col. Ingersoll is to speak at Chicago, Galena, Galesburg and Bloom- ington. Petitions are being circulated in the thirty-four counties comprising the south­ ern grand division of the State for placing the names of David Holmes, of Mount Erie, Wayne County, and Wallace Snook, of Chester, Randolph County, upon the ballot for Clerk of the Supreme Court and Clerk of the Appellate Court, respectively. The number of signatures required is about 3,400, being 2 per cent, of the vote cast at the last election. These men are candidates as independent Democrats. Prohibitionists of . Sangamon County met at Springfield in large numbers Sept. 25 to grasp the hand of their leader, Josh­ ua Levering^ candidate for President. George W. Gere, candidate for Governor, and Oliver L. Stewart, chairman of the State Central Committee, were also pres­ ent and spoke. In the evening, there was' a large crowd in Representative Hall at the State House to listen to the address of Mr. Levering. W. S. Forman is making "sound mon­ ey" speeches in Southern Illinois, in which he roundly scores Gov. Altgeld and the Populists. In one of his nddresses he said: "To my so-called Democratic friends who have criticised me," said he, "I will say no one has been more faithful and loyal to the party than I, and would be yet had it not been captured, bag an<J baggage, at Chicago by such men as Till man and Altgeld. It leaves its old teach­ ings and declares for1 principles unheard of before. They can lead me to the dooi of the Popiulist camp, but I won't go in­ side." j Hebrews Give Much for Charity. The annual statement of the United Hebrew"Charities of Chicago covering the period from September, 1895, to Septem­ ber, 1S9G, shows a total expenditure of $27,050 and an added deficit of $1,115.32, the last named amount being an increase of $093.00 over the precediug year's de­ ficit. By the relief account it is shown that 972 cases, benefiting 11,771 per­ sons, received attention, S5 per cent, of the beneficiaries being Russian Jews. The applicants for work numbered 837, work was found for 095, 110 refused the work offered and 124 did not call again. At the West Side dispensary medical at­ tendance was given 21,317 times to 10,- 505 patients, and of the 17,539 prescrip­ tions, 2,934 were free. The creche cared for 1,874 children, 101 permanently. The cost of maintaining the creche was $4,- 905.99 and the account shows a balance of $927.48. The account of the hospital, hospital dispensary and nurses' school shows a total expenditure of $47,G1S.42, while the receipts from donations, the Michael Reese trust fund, etc., were $47,- 041.18. The hospital endowment fund presents a total of $151,150, of which amount but $50 remains uninvested. Do­ nations to this fund during the year amount to $10,750. The relief endow­ ment fund, $10,400, remains the -same as last year and is invested. The West Side dispensary building fund is placed at $10,385.07, of which amount $10,000 was donated by Mrs. Emanuel Mandel. It is invested with the exception of $190.07. The State Fair. , Prese nt information is to the effect that the 'Stat? fair was a financial., success. The attendance Thursday was over 35,- 000, and although much bad weather was experienced the dftendance was large on other days. The various railroads cen tering in Springfield brought thousands of people from outside points. The liberal facilities provided for transporting vis­ itors from the city to the grounds were taxed to the utmost. The display was remarkably good; much better than was expected. Such excellent precautions hod been taken by the police that the pick­ pockets and other criminals were very scarce, and there were few complaints on this score. The races were well-contest ed, and were witnessed by thousands. ^£he awards were made Friday on county exhibits of grasses, cereals and other prodve^s of the farm and garden. Fol­ lowing is the result: For the northern di­ vision, Stephenson, first; Knox, second; McHenry, third. Central division: Han­ cock, first; Sangamon, second; Morgan, thinV Southern division: St. Glair, first; The first premium for each of the divisions is $250, $150 for the second and $100 for the third. State News in Brief. Daniel J. Wren, the notorious Chicago politician, is dead. Thursday Mrs. Frazer, of Cairo, a bride of four days, shot herself thvough the heart, dying instantly. No reason can be given. The young couple were prominent in church and society and were both mem­ bers of the choir of the Church of the Re­ deemer, in which church they were mar­ ried. Secretary of State Hinrichsen has sub­ mitted to the Governor his semi-annual report of fees earned for the half year ending Sept. 30, 1890, as follows: From corporations $43,118 From notaries' commissions .... 1,S0G From justices and police magis­ trates' commissions 419 From miscellaneous sources .... 5,175 Total $50,519 Christian Endeavorers at the- State fair passed scathing resolutions censuring the fair management for permitting immor.-J exhibitions. It seems that some of the "privilege" owners conducted side shiws where the World's Fair midway danoe.-i were the principal features. They we-e shockingly indecent. Several memb?.*s of the State Board of Agriculture subse­ quently declared that the censure was de­ served that they were glad the action was taken. Incidentally some of them scored Mr. Johns, the superintendent of privileges, for not exercising more care lis admitting "side shows" to the grounds Mrs. G. Lutz was riding to the second floor at the B. & M. clothing store in Peoria with her two boyst when Oliver J., the elder, was caught between the ele­ vator and ceiling and instantly killed. Thieves reaped a harvest the other night at the Foraker meeting in Chicago. Among the victims were John R. Tan­ ner and City Clerk Van Cleave. Mr. Tanner's pocket was picked as he was leaving the meeting, and $150 was stolen from him. "Mr. Van Cleave, who was with him, was robbed of $125. Several other persons were robbed of smaller sums and watches. Paul W. Krause, an iron jobber, of Chi­ cago, was made, unconscious by a fall. A policeman thought he was drunk, nd took the injured man to a station cell and left him over night to sober up. Next morning Mr. Krause was still unconscious and he was taken to the hospital where he soon died from concussion of the brain. Squarely in front of Mayor Swift's house at Chicago Otto B. Klaus was held up, beaten and robbed m the dark' hours the other morning; His cries brought Officers Casey and Sullivan to the scene, and an exciting game of hjde-and-seek about a laurel bush in the Mayor's yard resulted after a time in the capture of i&mes Harris, the robber. Bernice, the little daughter of H. bert, of Rockford, while visiting at th«( home of her grandfather, ate some bread containing rat poison, and after suffering terrible agony for ten minutes, died. ' David Deubenspock, a carpenter, lin­ ing at Chicago, was at work shingling tho roof of a house, when he slipped and fell to the ground, a distance of ten feet. His chin struck the ladder he was using in hia work, driving his teeth throhgh hia. tongue, severing it. At the Ehglewood^" Union Hospital, a surgeon sewed the dis­ membered part together. DeUbenspecfc was told not to use his tongue for a Week and allowed to go home. The regular annual meeting of the Illi­ nois State Board of Dental Examiners was held at Springfield. The examina­ tion was begun of a class of seventeen, candidates to practice dental surgery in Illinois, representing the cities of Chi­ cago, Peoria, Jacksonville, La Salle, Men- don, Clinton, Maroa, Barry, McLeans- boro, Gilman and Oakland, Ind. A per­ centage of not less than 80 must" be made in every branch examined upon. D. S. Thaman is postmaster and pro­ prietor of a store in the little town off Vera. Monday night he Was locking hiss store, in which is located the postoffice, when a man wearing a mask' approached him, and at the pioint of revolver com­ pelled him to open the door, and when in­ side ordered him to open the safe, taking therefrom $110>" The robber then took the key, locked the postmaster in the» room and fled. There is no clew. Mrs. William Hickey, of Evanston, met her brother-in-law at Rockford on one off the principal business streets and chas­ tised • him with an umbrella before a. large number of spectators. The man ran. a block before he escaped from tha woman, who broke het weapon ever his head. Mrs. Hickey said he had slander­ ed her. He is the traveling representative of a Chicago house, and Mrs. Hickey went from Evanston a short time ago to visit his wife, \Vho is her sister. Thomas J. Larison, one of the oldest settlers in that county, died Friday; night in Stanford, where he drove Thurs-t day to visit a Sister. Maj. Larison was and came to Logan County in 1S30, and and came to Logan Conuty, in 1830, and to Lincoln in 1854. He was twice elected Sheriff, and at the breaking out of the war raised Troop B of the Second Regi­ ment, Illinois Cavalry. He served for - nearly four years and attained the rank off major. He was the father of Catherine Beach, the actress, who became dement­ ed in New York a few days ago. The Grand Loelge of the Knights of Honor will meet in Springfield two years' hence. The principal action Wednesday was the appropriation of $1,500 per an­ num to the grand dictator to expend in building up the order in this State, The following officers were elected: Grand Dictator, J. L. Livingstone, of Chicago; Vice Dictator, D. W. Greer, of White­ hall; Grand Assistant Dictator, A. J. Miller, of Cobden; Grand Reporter, H. F. Day, of Moweaqua; Grand Treasurer, N. C. Nason, of Shelbyville; Grand Chap­ lain, A. Zick, of Bloomington; Grand Guide, A. Klein, of Chicago; and Grand Guardian, William Jaquess, of Belleville. At Tuesday's meeting of the State Board of Equalization at ^Springfield the personal property and lands and lots com­ mittees submitted their reports, which were referred to the committee on gen­ eral equalization. Tho committees have added to the personal property of Cook County 45 per cent.; to £he lands of that county, 40 per cent., aud to the lots 34 per cent. In distributing the surplus, how^ ever, which is $87,000,000, Cook County will get the benefit of $29,510,880. This will leave the lots of that eoainty a net addition of about 19 per cent, over the assessment valuation, 20 per cent., on per­ sonal property and 25 per cent, on lands. The equalized value will stand at about $251,545,118, which is $45,077,048 in ex­ cess of tho assessors' valuation. j. . There has been in Illinois a continua­ tion of cool weather, with good rains on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Frost Occurred over the State on Wednesday and Thursday morning, being quite he%vyi over north and central counties and ligh,t.n throughout the southern section. Little or no damage resulted, owing to the ad­ vanced stage of all farm products. Farm work has been pushed rapidly, the soil having been placed in excellent condition for work by the rains. Plowing was gen­ eral over the State, and seeding in central counties; the work is just beginning in the southern section and in some central coun­ ties, especially along the east side of the State, where fears of damage by fly and chinch bug have retarded the work. Early sown grain is up and growing finely; pas­ tures are generally good or reviving; rap­ idly. * The quail shooting season, how open in Illinois, and which opens in Indiana oil Nov. 10, promises well for the sports­ men. Reports from every section of the States indicate that quail are more plenti­ ful this season than for many years. This is due to several causes, the chief of which is the better respect shown in the past two years for the game laws. The Illinois State Sportsmen's Association, with its members scattered all over the State, has been able to keep in close toucH* with the pot hunter, who has no regard for the rights of others nor respect for the laws made for the protection and preser­ vation of game. The association, by its persistent prosecution of offenders, haa made the laws of value, and there is<no longer the promiscuous killing of game birds in and out of season. The farmer, too, has of recent years been glad to as­ sist the associations in the protection off game. Last winter was favorable for the birds, and the springtime found "Bob White" piping out his merry song in every field. The hatching season was generally favorable and the rank growth of weeds has given protection to the young birds from his arch enemy, the hawk. The southern portions of the State furnish the most favorable resorts for the sports­ men. The northern counties are not so well suited to quail as those of the south. In mauy sections birds are too scarce to warrant a trip afield. In others good sport may be had so long as the season is open. Dr. Loewy, who dismissed two attend­ ants at the insane asylum at Elgin for beating patients, has found another one guilty of the same offense. This time he had Owen Carr on the rack and decided he \Vas responsible for some of the wounds on the back of James Cork. Delia Harding, of Elgin, who has a. weakness for going to sleep and remaining so for two or three days at a time, is missing. It is feared she has wandered into the country and has been seized with one of her sleeping spells, or boarded a train while in a sem.i-conscious state. She is 19 years old. A. M. Ray, who murdered Joshua Big- gerstaff Aug. 19. and :s being held at McLeansboro under a $7,000 bond for his appearance at Circuit Co.urt, attempted' suicide by shooting.. He cannot live. His dread of the trial is thought to have prompted the act. In her little cottage at Peoria Mrs. George King began washing Monday morning and left her 3-months-old daugh­ ter in charge of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jennie King, 37 years old. The woman had been insane on previous occasions. Suddenly she grabbed a cobble stone a»§ crashed the skull of the sleeping infanti The murderess was conveyed to the1 couikr tj- jail. She was once adjudged insane. ; •m v: mwM