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ILLINOIS STATE NEWS .OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. Third Unitarian Church Society of Chicago Loses Its Building--One Dead and Two Injured by Accident at Peoria. Chicacro Church Burns. The Third Uninarian phurch at Chi-, cago burned Sunday. In addition" to the loss on the building the organ, which was recently put in at a largo expense, is a complete loss, and the pastor's li­ brary of 1,000 valuable books is probably more than half ruined. The loss was estimated by J^^jjstees at about $20,- 000, al thouglp^Sw^^ructure cost much more than that to baud. It carried $13,- 000 insurance. The Third Unitarian So­ ciety was organized two years before the big lire of 1S71. Make a Haul of $1,323. John Bredin, a grocer at (>15 West G3d street, Englewood, awolce Sunday morn­ ing to find himself $1,323 poorer than, he had been when he-went to bed dt 2\>'clock that morning. He was also minus a $1,- 000 gold bond of the Chicago .Spring and Steel Wire Company, on which lie had advanced $300 as a loan. A safe blower, with one or more confederates, entered the store after 2 o'clock in the morning. ?and without annoying the officer on the beat or.Mr. Bredin and his family, who live over the store, scientifically opened the cheap safe in which the valuables wefe kept and removed them. There was some evidence when Capt. Gibbons and his detectives began work as to how the robbers entered "the Store, but not the slightest indication as to how they got out with their plunder unless they had dupli­ cate Yale keys to the front or rear en­ trance of the establishment. The safe was broken into without the use of ex­ plosives and-the work was...that of an expert. The strong box was of a well- known make, and* one hole bored into it jgutficed for the introduction -e-f a screw thread which, on the proper pressure be­ ing brought to bear, broke the cast-iron wedge on the tumblers inside and permit­ ted othe door to swing back .with ease. Work of the K. of P. Grand Lodce. At Rock Island Peoria was selected as next year's Grand Lodge meeting for the Knights of Pythias of Illinois. Spring­ field was the only competing city, and of the 407 votes cast, Peoria received 353. The salary of the retiring Grand Chancel­ lor, .7. J. Brown, was fixed at $2,000 for the last year, while that of the Keeper of Records and Seal was made $2,000 for the ensuing year. The Finance Commit­ tee submitted its report, showing the re­ ceipts to have'been $34,058, the expendi­ tures $32,S92. Total assets are $517,153. The Committee on Judiciary reported a proposed lodge amendment to the laws of the Grand Lodge relating to -transfer cards which was adopted and the effect of which is to make it lawful to transfer an applicant from one lodge to any other in the domain of Illinois, provided the applicant keeps his dues paid to the lodge issuing the card. Hereafter only repre­ sentatives of the Grand Lodge can serve on its committees and there will be a deputy grand chancellor for each lodge in the State instead of for each county. Geo Iv. Linton, of Lewistou, was elected trus­ tee for three years. Peoria's Chapter of Accidents. Friday was Peoria's day for accidents, and all previous records were broken. As a result one woman is dead, a man se­ riously injured, a boy fatally hurt, a hfw.se in ashes and a span of horses badly used up. While cleaning carpets with gasoline' Mrs. ,T. E. Vaughn was fright fully burned, her death resulting within a few hours after the accident. The can exploded, throwing the fiery liquid all over the unfortunate woman. The house caught fire, and a team hitched across the .street, frightened at the noise and flames, ran away, throwing the driver. Newton Halstead, a farmer, to the ground. He sustained serious internal injuries which may prove fatal. A block away the team ran over Benjamin Mealey, age 5 years, and both of his logs were broken. Miss Sine Neilsen shot herself while !»« the law office of Robert• Redfield, in the Unity Building, Chicago, Tuesday. She had been a client of Lawyer Redfield in a breach of promise suit for $25,000 which she brought against H. W, Aylsworth, an engineer on the Northwestern Rpad. A verdict of $5,000 had been awarded her on the first tuial, but-on the second the verdict was only $250. She still loved the man, and his refusal to marry her Was the cause of her deed. At Fairmount the Mayor, acting in accordance with the advice of the Board of Health, proclaimed diphtheria to be ex­ isting in an epidemic form, and warned parents to keep their children ofE the streets. Several rallies that were to have taken place were declared off, and the people from the surrounding country are warned to stay away. A number of deaths have occurred and several new cases have been repotted. The schools have been dismissed, and people are great­ ly alarmed. 1 The second day's session of the fifty- second annual general convention of the Baptist Association of Illinois, in Ur- bana, opened Wednesday morning with increased interest and attendance. The morning was devoted to missionary work, many addresses and reports of work be­ ing given. Rev. W. P. Throgmorton, of Duquoin, delivered an address on "The Religious Needs of Our State and How to Meet Them." Rev. W- II. Geisweit, of Galesburg, delivered an address, and the program for Thursday night included interesting addresses by Rev. E. Rogers, of Springfield, and Rev. C. Perren, of Chicago. The music of the session was .-under, the direction of ex-Congressman Owen Scott, of Bloomingtori. .The trial of Germania Lodge, K. P*, No. 2, of Chicago, at ltock Island, for the use of the German language in lodge work resulted WedtSesday in the expul­ sion of the lodge from the order, but Up­ on application of sixty members the char­ ter Was reissued and the old name re­ tained. This establishes a pr&cedent. The following officers were elected: Grand Chancellor. John D. Benedict, Danville; Grand Vice Chancellor, A. G. Zervoss, Havana; Grand Master-at- arms, E. J. MeElwain, Murphysboro; Grand Prelate, A. J. Coming, Rockford; Grand Inner Guard. James E. Jewett, Shelbyville; Grand Outer Guard, C. H. Gushing, Chicago; Grand Master of Ex­ chequer, Charles Nieuman, Freeport; Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, H. P. Caldwell, Chicago. William Spavik, who was shot at Chi­ cago by George Maurowski Monday even­ ing while attempting to rob Michael Ma- hanuk, the treasurer of a Polish society, died Wednesday at the County Hospital. Mahanuk, with $200, the receipts of a dance which had been given by the Polish society, was returning from the affair with Maurowski, and when at Fisk ana Springer streets they were stopped by seven men. The robbers demanded the money which Mahanuk was carrying, and were taking it away from him when Mau­ rowski fired into the crowd. The bullet struck Spavik in the groin. Lawrence Spavik, a brother of the wounded man, was struck in the lu d with a club during the fight and slightly wounded. John Brazzok, Steve Ramski and Lawreuce Spavik were arrested at the time and charged with being implicated in the rob bery. A mysterious jail delivery took place at Bloomington during Thursday night, -- State News in Briefs The Bloomington stove works, which have been closed since early in the sum­ mer, resumed work with a force of 100 men. Five armed men invaded Fred Zeigler's saloon and restaurant at Chicago Satur day evening, relieved the proprietor and two customers of $41, and made their es­ cape. Although a telephone alarm was sent in only a moment after the departure of the robbers they eluded the police and escaped. Some cheerful idiot who signed the name of Herman Schmidt, bottled a note and threw it into the river at Vandalia, saying he had drowned himself, and re­ questing that his mother, Mrs. August Schmidt, of 207 East Randolph street, Chicago, be notified. Inquiry at Chicago failed to reveal any clew, j The declaration in a slander suit was filed in the Montgomery County Circuit Court at Hillsboro by Father A. Lyons, the parish priest at Nokomis, against Arthur Monaghan, one of his parishion­ ers, the damages sued for being $5,000. Father Lyons alleges that &e was giving satisfaction in his clerical work and re­ ceiving therefor $2,000 a y*ar when the defendant in numerous conversations with various citizens falsely said: "Father Lyons divulged secrets of the confes­ sional," and "Father Lyons is a poor ex­ cuse in the confessional and people are afraid to go and confess for fear be will tell their sins to others," and many other like statements. This the reverend fath­ er affirms has made him an object of sus­ picion among his people and has greatly diminished his influence and income. The case is probably without a precedent in judicial history of Illinois, and tile result will be watched with great interest. A social sensation was caused at De­ catur when it was learned tiat Dr. J. F. Fribley, a dentist, and Miss Virginia Ivrauff, only daughter of M. A. Krauff, treasurer of the Decatur Lumber Com­ pany, had been married in St. Louis. It was an elopement. County Agent Oleson, wh> has charge of the relief distributed t> the Cook County poor, says his busj season has commenced and he looks for the hardest winter the poor have experienced. Al­ ready the number of applicatpns for food and clothing have exceeded the number for the same period of any p'evious year. Homer A. Stillwell, manager of the Butler Bros.' wholesale hoise, Chicago, was attacked by two robbers. Stillwell put up a plucky fight, and, although he was beaten over the head iith a heavy weapon, he made such vigorous resist­ ance that he frightened away the robbers before they secured his morey. Two small boys smokiig |cigarettes started a conflagration which at one time threatened to destroy the bi; plant of the Chicago Gas Company, wiich occupies an entire block. It was onlr by the most skillful work of the firemm under the personal direction of Chiei Swenie and Marshal Musham that a terible disaster was averted. "which has occasioned much indignation and comment and is likely to lead to an investigation. During the Republican rally a noted professional pickpocket named Philip Cary, who is wanted in sev­ eral cities, was detected while at work in a crowd by Policeman Lisle. Cary re­ sisted arrest, and in the struggle that ensued struck Officer Lisle on the head with a coupling pin, inflicting serious in juries. Frank Mitler, who went to the officer's assistance, was also badly hurt. Cary was lodged in the city prison on the charges of pocketpicking and resisting an officer. Friday morning when the wit­ nesses were ready for Cary's examination it was found that the cell that had been occupied by Cary was empty. The State's Attorney has requested the City Council to make an investigation George Dunoon, an Evariston merchant, received a telegram Tuesday afternoon stating that his daughter, Mrs. Grace Farnsworth, of Cresco, Iowa, had been accidentally shot atul killed. Mr. Farns­ worth had been changing cartridges, and in snapping the barrel to place the rifle was discharged, the bullet entering his wife's forehead between the eyes. Death was almost instantaneous. Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth were married in Chicago in June, 1892, the sequel of. a romantic elopement from Evanston, where her mother, Mrs. George Dunoon, still re­ sides. Mr. Dunoon was nearly distract­ ed by the terrible announcement, and his wife was entirely prostrated. Mrs. Farns­ worth was but 20 years old. although she lias been married four years. She was born at Evanston and received her educa­ tion in the town high school. She was a pretty girl and had many admirers among the young men of Evanston society. Her husband is the cashier of the Cresco State Bank. Rev. E. Y. Smith, of Freedom Town­ ship, Carroll County, has a family that breaks the record for votes. The crop of big family votes has been large, but Rev. Mr. Smith's immediate connections will throw a bunch of votes into the box that will leave Nebraska, Indiana, and Ohio in the rear. Mr. Smith has a vote himself, so has each of his five sons. Then he has a round dozen grandsons, with two son-in-laws. That will make a full score of votes. The old gentleman and his tribe have a widely spread influence. Freedom Township's record is tied by the family of Mrs. Margaret Jane Wha- pies, of Oak Park. This lady has twenty votes solid in her family. These votes belong to her sons, grandsons and sons in-law. All the voters of the Whaples family, except three, are residents of llli nois. In addition to the t%venty male voters this family has eighteen female voters. The Western Catholic Union met at Quincy in annual convention. President Manning's message showed that St. Pat­ rick's branch at Alton had given up its charter, but that the members had joined other orders. During the year there was paid to the heirs of deceased mem­ bers the sum of $63,000. Several new branches were organized in the State. There are now 2,S21 members, an in­ crease of 475 over last year.' The dele­ gates and about 600 members of the local union made a parade, and a banquet was given the same night. As Clyde Miller, 8 years old, living at Chicago, was going home from school Wednesday afternoon he was knocked down by a cable car. His left leg was cut off and the other was so badly crush­ ed that it will have to be amputated. The police took the boy to his home. Mrs. Andrew Groves, residing three miles south of New Berlin, was passing some burning brush when the clothing of her two small children caught fire from the brush, , The mother went to save them and her own clothing caught fire and she was burned so severely that she died in six hours after being taken to the home of a neighboring farmer. The lives of the children were saved. AGRICULTUfiAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM ANDHON1E. Recipe, for MakineN the Whitewash Used by the United States Govern­ ment--Farming: a Princ^y Occupa­ tion--The Thrifty Hollanders. Weatherproof Whitewash. We are frequently, asked for a good whitewash for farm buildings and fences. Here is the recipe for the ^whitewash used by the United States. Government for the lighthouses and beacons, chosen for its permanence un­ der the most extreme exposure to the weather. Fresh hydraulic cement of any good standard kind, not of the more costly imported kinds, three parts, and clean, fine sand, one part, are mix­ ed well with cold water and itnmedi- ately applied. This gives a light, brown­ ish white that is not so glaring as the common lime and has been found to re­ sist moisture better than any other wash. It adheres to brick or stone or wooden walls or fences very firmly. In its application the walls are first wet With water, by which the adhesion of the-wash is made stronger than if ap­ plied to a dry surface. . v.; Another good wash is made Itt this way: Half a bushel of good fresh lime is slacked with boiling water and kept covered frotti the air during the slack !ng to prevent weakening of the lime by the carbonic acid of the air. It is strained through a fine sieve or cloth and seven pounds of salt are added; three pounds of rice flour boiled to a thin paste, half a pound of Spanish white and one pound of broken glue, steeped in cold water and then dissolv­ ed in hot water, are then added, and when well mixed by stirring, five gal­ lons of hot water are mixed in and the whole again stirred. This is kept a few days closely covered, w?hen it is ready for use. It is applied hot, being kept In a kettle over a Iflre. This may be colored a little brown by burnt umber, or a cream yellow by yellow ochre. A light gray is made by adding a small quantity of lamp black previously mix­ ed with water and thoroughly stirred. One pint of this wash covers a square yard. A wash for fences or bams is made thus and wTill last for five years; Half a bushel of fresh lime Is slacked, strain ed and three pecks of hydraulic cement are added, with water sufficient to re­ duce it to a proper liquid condition. Ten pounds of burnt umber and one pound of Venetian red are, well mixed dry, four ounces of lampblack killed with sufficient vinegar are then mixed with water and added to the other materials. The whole is diluted to make a barrel of thirty gallons. It must stand a few days and be frequently stirred before used. A wash for inside work that will not rub off is made of one pailful of com- mon little wash, to which is added n thin middle of the month in the late seasons. , Gather in three lots, about a week ^apart, to have a succession. Put the pears away in a close closet, and in a week or ten days they are in fit condi­ tion to eat. Treated in this way, there is no rotting, at the core, but instead a beautiful fruit, perfect throughout, and of a juicy; refreshing flavor. It is true that it is not a good keeper, but is there any early 'pear or other fruit that is? This quality Is not looked for or desired in early fruits, as they are paste made of half a pint of flour and boiling water.--Farm, Field and Fire­ side. f.' A Princely Occupation. Farming always was a princely occu­ pation, and 6o it. will be to the end of time. The farmertftnay- not wear such fine clothes'as the occupant of the city; but what of that? Is he any less the man because of that? What though his hands be hard, and his feet be roughly shod? Shall we give him less regard? In the words of the old song, we an­ swer, "Nay, nay, nay." What is better for a man privileged to be born in the country than that there he should re­ main, that there he should labor and live, and love, and die, while engaged In the safest and surest of all callings? Nine men out of every ten who set up in business fail. There is not one in a score of farmers who becomes bank­ rupt. As long as the world lasts there will be seed time and harvest. How pre-eminently wise, therefore, to go on and sow in hope and reap in joy, and at the end of the harvest to show our gratitude by uniting with happy hearts in holding a harvest festival every year?--Rural Life. Thrifty Hollanders. The proverbially thrifty Hollanders manage to make a success of agricul­ ture on very small farms. Seventeeu- twentieths of all the farms in Holland are less than 50 acres in extent, while less than 5 per cent exceed 100 acres. The average size is 30 acres. The sys­ tem of intense culture generally fol­ lowed yields large , returns. The an­ nual rental of farm lands varies from $4.50 to $8.50 per acre in the pasture regions, and as high as $27 in sections adjacent to big citi&s. Farm land is worth from $80 to $500 per acre, the highest price being paid for property suitable for the cultivation of hemp and flowers, these latter forming the only lands the price of which has not fallen during the past dozen years. supposed to be consumed as soon as ripe^ Not the least of its merits is the fact that it rarely misses a full crop.-- Granger Homes. Success in Dairying;. The foundation of your success in dairying will depend upon the quality of your cows._and the care and treat­ ment that they receive at your hands. Select cows with the recognized milk form; cows with a disposition to con­ vert food into milk. Avoid buying Ani­ mals with a tendency to lay on flesh. While some beefy cows have proven excellent dairy animals, this is the ex­ ception. and not the rule. There is as much difference between a dairy cow and a beef cow as there is between a draft horse, and a trotting horse. You would uot enter a draft horse in a speed contest with trotting animals and expeet it to win a place; no more should you expect to gain success in the dairy by using cows of the beef breeds, or with an. inclination in that direction. HIGH ART JUMP. EXPENSIVE FROGS. a.*. koat by Storing. r.; A Western New York farmer tried an experiment last season to see whether potatoes paid him best sdld from the field at current prices or stored till spring. He put away 100 bushels at 60 pounds to the bushel. In April he weighed them and found them shrunk to S3 bushels. After sorting there re­ mained 78 bushels. These at 60 cents per bushel brought $46.80; and for the same he could have taken in the field at the time of digging $75. In addition the cartage would have been saved, in­ terest on money and valuable time in spring. To Prevent Rust. A practical machinist says he has found the following mixture to be very effectual in preventing machinery from gathering rust: Melt together one pound of lard and one ounce of gum camphor. Skim the mixture carefully, and stir in it a sufficient quantity of fine black lead to give it a color like iron. After cleaning the machinery thoroughly smear it with this mixture and allow it to remain thus for twenty-four hours Then go over it with a soft cloth, rub bing it clean. Treated thus, machinery often retains its brightness for several years. Education a Benefit. Farming is not hierely plowing, plant­ ing, sowing and gathering the harvest. There are many other things to be thought of, and there is where a good education in farming is of great benefit. e must study the composition of the fearful-speed probably for thousands particular soil we have to farm, what fertilizers are best adapted to it, and what drainage is necessary. Corn Harvesters. Corn harvesters are a success under ordinary conditions, and they will he improved as experience points out the need and means of improvement. This invention promises to do more than any other, save perhaps the improved culti­ vator, to reduce the cost of corn to the producer. Confinement of Swine. Confinement of swine is not conducive to healthfulness and lack of exercise prevents a proper development of the body, making it much more susceptible to disease than when the animal is giv­ en a wide range and a variety of food, says a writer in an exchange. "We hear a great deal of late in regard to producing bacon, and fault is found with our corn-fed hogs because they are usually too fat. It is an old adage that 'there are none so blind as those who do not wish to see,' and the fact is plain to those who understand the sit­ uation, that no meat we can produce would be acceptable to European na­ tions. "The pork produced in the corn belt of America from hogs raised on clover pasture and finished on corn is not to be compared with that made In Europe from all kinds of swill and refuse, fed In a filthy sty. There is not and cannot be-better or more delicious pork pro­ duced on this globe than that made from grass and corn when the hogs are properly handled, and this fact taxes to the utmost the greatest "of European statesmen to circumvent its production among their people." Horticultural Hints. Better thin the fruit than prop the tree. California has only one-tliird of a crop in peaches and apricots this year. Peach trees often fail to do well, es­ pecially on old land, for the want of mineral plant food. Do not plant trees in the garden. One large tree, even in a corner of the gar­ den, will spoil a good portion of it. There is no better red raspberry than the Cutlibert. It succeeds everywhere, and under Jiigli culture Is exceedingly productive of high-flavored and large berries. Tlio best plants of the blackberry and rod raspberry are obtained by cutting etrofig, vigorous roots in pieces, four or flve inches long, and planting about eight inches apart in drills. There is^ room for the hybridizer in the case of gooseberries. Our native ones are too small, and the foreign ones too much subject to lulldew. Seed­ lings between two generally result in an improvement. I In the flower garden, as well^as the vegetable one, it should be remembered that when a plant is permitted to ripen seeds its growth for the season is about over. The moral is to cut off all decay­ ing flowers as soon as they are per­ ceived, that growth and other flowers may succeed. Gulls Steal from Ducks. Thousands of big white gulls and countless numbers of water fowl have been driven by cold weather to the South Jersey coast, where they find plenty of food during the wintry days. At the upper end of Sea Isle City, New Jersey, a bar juts out into Corson's Inlet, and this spot seems to be a favor- its place with the birds. Sand crabs and clams form the principal food of the birds. The clams find little protec­ tion-within their hard covering, for nature has taught the gulls a way of reaching the contents. Catching a large clam in their talons, the birds rise skyward to a height of twenty or thirty feet and let the bivalve fall to the hard beach below. This method of clam-openipg usually is suc­ cessful at the first attempt. The large Skua gulls are not altogeth­ er dependent upon themselves for what they eat. They are inveterate thieves, and not oniy will steal from one an­ other, but they will rob the ducks of many a hard-earned mors#. All winter long large flocks of ducks find a feeding ground on the bare in shallow water Just beyond the break­ ers. The gulls will loiter near by, and when a duck dives down and comes to the surface with a bit of sea food in its beak it is pounced upon by the big white-winged rascals and forced to give up its catch. Sothern's Substitute Made a Hit, bat ,4I»undi4ary" Was Mad. It is related of the elder Sothern that he was once acting the hero in a ro­ mantic play which required his leap­ ing from a window in a tall tower to the stage below where he alighted on a mattress behind a" wooden rock and immediately made off rapidly into a forest. One night he hurt his ankle and vowed he would leap no . more. Accordingly the next day his manager hired a professional circus performer to do the actual leap, wrhile the .actor should slip back under cover of part of the tower wall and descend by a safe, but unromantic ladder 'to his dressing room. The manager provid­ ed the circus man with a costume pre­ cisely like Sothern's, to the end that the illusion might be kept up with 'the audience, and sent him to the the­ ater to practice. The man made the jump and set up a loud Complaint. "What's the row?" inquired a young member of the company, who happen­ ed to be at the playhouse. "Why. see'here," exclaimed the pro­ fessional, "this 'ere drop is too dead easy. A man with a wooden leg and two, glass peepers could do it. Now, if they'd let me turn two somersets in the air I wouldn't make no fuss." "Capital!" cried the actor. "Do it" "You think the old cove wouldn't mind?" said the athlete doubtfully. "MindT' retimed the young player; "why, he'd be ticked to death, and probably raise your salary as well. Besides, it would bring down the house,., Do it; by all means." That evening when the part of the performance was reached wherein the hero took leave of the heroine Sothern w»s gratified to see his substitute crouching in J.lie shadow of the case­ ment ready to leap. "Love, good-nlglit -- good-night," cried Sothern. "Stay!" pleaded the heroine, cling­ ing round his neck; "stay, that leap is death!" "Nay, cay, sweet; 'tis'lionor! I leap, 'tis true, but what in my heart doth bear me up? Thine image, love! Good­ night--good-night!" He kisse<J her frantically on the fore­ head, tore himself from her embrace and rushed across the open space into the shadow. "Jump!" he hissed be­ tween his teeth. Out into the air shot the, circus-man, whirled around twice like the flywheel of a steam engine and lit like a bird on the highest point of the rock. The applause came in thunders. The man bowed stiffly and walked off into the wings with his arms folded. Unfortunately, the remarks of Soth­ ern are lost to history.--Chicago Post Days Wece One 3 Short. When the earth was young, says Dr. Ball, the eminent British astronomer, it turned on its axis so rapidly that it made one complete revolution once In every three hours! The earth was liquid then, and it spun around at that They Came From France an$ Cost $25 Apiece. •!§, ' A. P Cuming,„a lawyer, of this city, while spending Ms vacation in France during the past summer, bought three frogs, for which he.paid the high price of $25 each. Lest publication of that fact encourage local dealers to im­ agine that they may be able to work off more frogs on Mr. Cuming at that fancy price, it is well to explain that the frogs that he bought are not con­ sidered good to eat, that they are so small that a good meal of them would i£ost several hundred dollars, and that he is not passionately fond of that sort of diet These frogs are simply good to look at. Nothing more. -They are only about three and a half inches' long, when fully extended, and possibly a fraction over an inch high when sit­ ting up to take an interest in their sur­ roundings. or half that thicjkness when they flatten themselves on the glass of their aquarium home and stick there, for hours, at a time, like gobs of green mud. Their backs and sides are of a pretty shade of green, which changes to the exact tint of any foliage, lighter or darker green, 'upon which they place themselves/ Their bellies are white, their throats.bright yellow, their eyes' shining black, and over, eacli eye is a crescent of bright, gold. The variety of frogs to which they belong has been found only in the fresh water lagoons running into the M^nUt- terranean. and even there they- are not abundant, nor is their capture easy. They were bought at Hyeres, near, Tou­ lon. and were considered a good bar­ gain at the price Mr; Cuming paid for them. There is considerable diversity of color among those found, and their value depends -altogether upon their beauty. Sometimes one is found darkly beautifully blue, and it is worth $500, that color being exceedingly rare. They are very dainty little creatures. Fresh pure water must be given to them every day. and they will eat noth­ ing but live winged insects, flies, but­ terflies, motlis, and bees from which the stings have been extracted. Mr. Cum­ ing has ben urged to try the effect up­ on one of giving to it a healthy bee in full working order, but refuses to do so fearing that the experience might shock too greatly the nervous system of his costly pets, They will not touch insects with hard wing cases, such as cockroaches, and high-flavored ones are scorned by them. And they do not know that worms of any kind are good for frogs. When one of the little creatures is put in possesion of a huge night moth, bigger than itself, it begiu | to swallow by the head, and neatly fold­ ing in the broad spreading wings by dainty manipulations with its hands, gradually gets the insect down, some­ times taking as much as half ian hour in the'process. Mr. Cuming is now occupying his leisure time in. educating his frogs. .They know him. peareli fearlessly on his fingers, and have learned to jump over a trapeze, Climb a rope, and do other things that encourage him to A Good Rule for AH Pears. Because the fruit of the Clapp's Fav­ orite pear will rot at the core when overripe, this good early sort Is often unduly condemned. Joseph Meelian HOw many things we hear of every advises picking the fruit In the first day that could have made us famous if week in August, and not later than the j we had only thought of thein first! of years. The sun caused ever-increas ing tides on the surface of the great liquid planet, and at last it burst in two. But the break was not in the middle of what had been the great, swift-revolving globe of liquid matter. It was to one side, and the effect was to throw the smaller fragment out into space. That fragment kept on turning, and was soon fashioned into a globe. We see it to-day and know it as the moon. The larger piece also kept turn­ ing on its axis, and in the course o.' ages became the spherical, habitable earth. The smaller fragment of the great original globe, being held in place by the attraction of the larger, has been going around the earth oyer since, but has been gradually increasing the distance between itself and its pri­ mary, Some astronomers believe that eventually the moun will get so far away that it cannot be seen by the in­ habitants of our planet.--St. Louis Re­ public. , How "Uncle Sam" Got His Name. The nickname, "Uncle Sam," as ap­ plied to the United States government is said to have originated as follows: Samuel Wilson, commonly called "Un­ cle Sam," was a government inspector of beef and pork at Troy, N. Y., about 1812. A contractor, Elbert Anderson, purchased a quantity of provisions, and the barrels were marked "E. A." Anderson's initials, and "U. S.," for United States. The latter initials were not familiar to Wilson's workmen, who inquired what they meant. A facetious fellow answered: "I don't know, unless they mean 'Uncle Sam.' " A vast amount of property afterward passed through Wilson's hands mark­ ed in the same manner, and he was often joked upon the extent of his pos­ sessions. The joke, spread through all the departments of the govern­ ment before long the United States was popularly referred to as "Uncle Sam."---October Ladies' Home Journal. A Useful Institution. I suppose," said the school teacher's acquaintance, "that you are sorry to see vacation coming to a close." No," was the reply; "I think it last- fed long enough to serve its most impor­ tant purpose." "You mean that the pupils and their instructors have had a chance to re­ cuperate?" "No; that is an unimportant incident. What I mean is that vacation gives parents a chance to realize that their children are not the angels they always assume them to be when they get Into trouble at school."--Washington Star. hope for a high development f their abilities.--New Yrk Sun. Made a Living Easi!y< "There is no need of a man starving or begging in this would, and the speak­ er. a well-dressed man, bestowed a look of mingle pity and contempt upon a poor specimen of humanity that had struck him for a dime. "I came to Omaha a week ago without a red cent, a white cent or any other colored cent. Just one nickle was my pile. What did I do? Go out and strike some man for a quarter to buy a meal? Go out and rustle for a job wltile I was starving? No, sir; 1 went to a cheap hotel where my baggage was sufficient guarantee for a rooaii and a few meals. "After engaging a room 1 hunted up a drug store and invested my nickle in one of those little Iiottles of perfume. Then I jollied a cigar man into giving me several sheets of tin foil used in keeping tobacco moist. With these I returned to my room,and confiscated the slab of en stile soap which orua- It is an aged farmer-man; He standeth at his door And gazeth out where there has been A road in days of yore. \ Cut, ah! ye winter rains have come Likewise ye winter snow, A'nd the road is turned to a sea of mad Above and eke below. There is mud to the east and mud to the wjest • And mud is everywhere; ^ The hens they perch on top of the fences And the ca,i is in despair. - : , " ' ? Sad is the heart of the farmer-man, And wondrous wroth TO-he, v v . And these words, ih a savage undercoat* He innttereth-angrily: ; • " 'Taint because 1 can't haul my wood, I guess the stuffll keep, But I can't drive up to town-meetin' now. The mud's so thunderin' deep. And, as selectman of this town, I oughter be there, too, To vote agin that highway bill They're tryin' to put through. It's the boundea duty of every man To vote agin that movement; " This town hain't got ,2; no cash to waste In this here road inr provement." --Joe Lincoln. • • /-v.; • v ' ' ' I Contractors and Country^Koads. Street contractors used to Sight theif work in the most important streets in Philadelphia, but, thanks to the news­ papers and the Citizens' Municipal As­ sociation, this sort of thing has grown unprofitable. A complaint to the City Controller that could be shown to be well founded was apt to result in a refusal to countersign the warrant for the defective work, and as street con­ tractors work for pay, they have learn­ ed that it is best to keep in sight of contract specifications in repaving^ principal streets. But while the combined watchfulness of officials and private citizens has com­ pelled contractors to do reasonably fair work in the most prominent public streets, no amount of watchfulness will change the nature of the average Phil­ adelphia contractor. He will slight his ' "• vi: work If he thinks nobody is looking, and he neglects the country,s roads, be­ cause he thinks defective work on tha suburban roads and lanes won't'be seen or reported by anybody. He wants to increase his profits by shirking his work somewhere, and just at present -- the country roads seem to afford him the only chance of shirking without getting caught at it. , v . Fortunately, the Citizens' Municipal Association, through its agents, takes a look at the country roads occasional­ ly, too, and it has recently filed protests against the present condition of some of these roads with the Director of Public Works and City Controller which they are likely to cause derelict contractors some trouble. Weed-grown ditches and roadbeds lower in the cen­ ter than at the sides constitute a com­ bination that fails to fill contract re­ quirements to maintain good roads, and it begins to look as though the con­ tractors might yet be compelled to be hone^ in the unfrequented country lanes asT in the chief thoroughfares of men led the saucer qn the washsUtnd. the city . More power to the Citizens' Some Hope. Fond Mother--This is my son Clar­ ence. He is only 13, but he has written some beautiful poetry. Friend--Then there Is some hope for him. Fond Mother--I'm so glad to hear you say so. Friend--Yes, when they are so young as that it is easier to lick it out of them. --The Sketch. 1 cut It into pieces about a quarter of an inch square. Then I poured about half a pint of Missouri water into the basin and into it emptied the perfume. My next step was to drop these chunks of castile soap into the perfumed water and leave them until they were scented. "After they had become quite sweet scented 1 took them out. wrapped them in the tin foil and was ready for busi­ ness. Going into llie residence part of tli'* city where the houses were small, I made a canvass and sold these pieces of soap for twenty-five cents each. Peo­ ple thought they were samples of some wonderful new soap warranted to take out greese spots, no matter how deep or how ancient. "Well, yes; perhaps I did tell them so. But if I hadn't I wouldn't have sold the soap. I couldn't have paid my hotel bill, and if I hadn't paid my hotel bill I'd have been thrown out and maybe have brought up in the police court. So I think I did right. Anyway, my con­ science does rot trouble me. "After I had sold out the first install­ ment 1 had $1.50. With it I purchased some mere perfume and some more tin foil and was ready for the second batch.' These I sold in another part < ® the city, and realized so much that paid my bill and am ready to go west on the evening train." Municipal Times. Association. Philadelphia Flattery D4dn't Go. 'In eating well I praise the food," quoted the star boarder. 'Yes, and you're the most gushing, fulsome and persistent blarney that ever sa* down at my table," snarled the landlady.--Detroit Free Press. After a woman passes forty she has to begin to make her skirts longer in front than in the back. Acts Like Oil on the Waves. An English steamer, the Seandia, was recently overtaken by a terrific storm in mid-Atlantic, and the captain having no store of oil on board wiiicli he could throw on the troubled waters, tried the effect of soapsuds, and. it is said, with the greatest success. The effect was instantaneous. The height of the waves being immediately diminished and their crests becoming less threatening. The captain of a French vessel is also re­ ported to have employed soap solution with similar success. lie used three kilogrammes bf soap dissolved in sev­ enty liters of water, and dropping the mixture over the bows of his ship, he insured a quiet pathway for it ten yards wide. The trial, conviction and execution of Wright, the Nevada murderer, cost the State of Missouri only $4#0, ex­ clusive of the $100 reward offered by the Governor. . > Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., is to have a band barracks and additional officers' quarters, which means t'hat it will soon be a regimental post. A Navy to Be Proud of. Ex-President Harrison in writing of "This Country of Ours" in the Ladies* Home Journal, reviews our navy de­ partment, and tells of the reconstruc­ tion of our new navy. "We had no great ship-yards, and no shipbuilders with the capital, the skilled labor and the experience to fit them to enter this new field," he writes. "John Roach, however, had the courage to believe that he could create a competent 6hop apd build the new vessels. He put ev­ erything at risk and should have had better treatment from the government than he received. He was fairly en­ titled to some of the profits that have since accrued to those who have walked in the path he blazed. We have now, both on the Atlantic and Pacific, ship­ yards and builders capable of con­ structing any ship and of putting into her any machinery of the firsi effi­ ciency. We have great steel plants, costing millions of money and capable of making armor plates of the highest resisting power, and steel gun forgings of the finest quality. These great ship­ yards and steel plants are convincing proofs that the supremacy we once had in wooden ship-building may be at­ tained--if it has not already been at- taineQ--in steel ships. * * • Prac­ tically all of this work has been done within ten years, and the Secretaries of the Navy who have presided over and directed it; the constructors and ordnance officers of the navy who have furnished the plans and designs, and the steel-makers and ship-builders who have executed these plans are entitled to the highest praise. We have always had a navy personnel to be proud of, and we now have a navy to be proud of not a finished navy, but one on the way. A new battle-ship is a new argu­ ment for International arbitration--for you must have noticed that peremptory demands for a fixed amount of dam­ ages are usually made upon'^nations that have no battle-ships nor torpedo boats. It is not our plan, I am sure, to match the great navies of Europe. We may safely keep our register of ves­ sels well within theirs; but we do not intend again to leave the sea." ' •' | *' .hi! Bruised. He wheeled out into the country, . .. To breathe the sweet pure air; 'Tvas a rugged landscape and even he Was much struck by the scenery there, --Detroit Trifctti' msm