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* i ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. ' . " • - . ' SOBER OR STARFLING, FAITH- FULLYJ RECORDED. threats of Lynching Acainst Two Murderous Alton Footpads--Legls* lation of Interest to Illinois Physi­ cians. iXlton Thutrs in Jail. Two of the three thugs who shot Chief Ktthn and Officer JSudde at Alton late Saiurd'ay "night. were lodged in jail Sue- day. They are Emanuel and Thomas Wright of Upper Alton. Their identity was.fixed by a woman, whose store they had robbed just before meeting the of­ ficers. Excitement is at high pitch, a big crowd pressing about the station and threats of lynching being frequent, the execution of which threat it is feared will be undertaken if either of the wound­ ed men die. Both are so seriously wounded that the chances are very much against them. Chief Kulin has been at the head of the Alton policy force for many years and is. known throughout the State. Two other suspects were arrested. Send Their Children Out-to Be«r. Portunato, Maselli, and his wife, Maria, and three children, Achillo, Nardirosa, and Maria Santa, aged 11, 7 and 5 years old respectively, were taken from their home, No. 3TO South Desplaines-street, . „ Chicago, under warrants swortf to by*-"000'employes have availed themselves of Dr. Dorothea Moore of Hull House, and lodged in the Maxwell Street Station. The children are all partly blind and the two youngest will probably be sent to the blind asylum and school at Jackson­ ville. The charge against the; children is begging, that against the pa.rents expos­ ing the little ones to inclement weather. Six months ago the family were arrested on warrants secured , by the Humane Society and Maselli at that time charged with tampering with the eyesight of his children for the purpose of exciting com:" passion. Their eyelids were glued to­ gether with mucilage. Maselli was fined $40, but his name Fortunato proved to have been well-chosen, as the fine was re­ mitted and the children were again sent forth td beg. When Maselli was arrest­ ed the other day he had a considerable sum of money, and it was proven he had a comfortable bank account. State Deaf and Dumb Asylum. The twenty-eighth biennial report of the trustees, superintendent and treasurer of the Illinois Deaf and Dumb Asylum located at Jacksonville has been laid be­ fore the Governor. The superintendent's report shows that at the commencement of the year 1894 there were 626 pupils enrolled. During the last two years there were admitted 164 pupils; readmitted, 3; graduated, 13; honorably discharged, 11; expelled, 8; died at home, 3; dropped from the rolls, 79, leaving 678 pupils now in attendance. Of these Cook County had 180 pupils. Of the 2,564 cases re­ ported 139 were children of parents be­ tween whom there existed blood rela­ tionship. The financial report shows that the per capita cost of the" institution was $181, while a general average of twenty- five other States shows the highest aver­ age to have been Colorado, with $377, and the next lowest to Illinois, Michigan, with $186. The treasurer's report shows the expenses for the last year to have been $114,427, leaving a cash balance now on hand of $15,275 from the general fund of the institution. <• Immunity for Doctors. One of the first bills to be introduced at the coming session of the State Legis­ lature, which assembles next month, will be a measure granting the same immunity to doctors in legal proceedings as is now extended to members of the bar and to religious advisers. During the last two years there have been a number of nota­ ble cases in which physicians have been compelled against their will, while under cross-examination on the witness stand, to divulge professional secrets, and it is insisted that they have as much right to protection in this regard as have lawyers, to whom have been confided the secrets of their clients, or priests who have been the recipients of confessions made under pressure of sickness or of probable death. Considerable data concerning the privi­ leges accorded the members of the med­ ical profession in this particular in other States and in foreign countries has bean collected, and the course of the legisla­ tion will be followed With interest by the profession throughout the country. Ill-Treat an Aged Woman. Just before midnight Saturday night three men broke into the house of Mrs. Caroline Bingler, who lives alone east _ rru. . . of Secor. One of the three seized Mrs. °rd was made, over 3,500 persons takin Bingler, who is 90 years of age, threw H. G. Van Doren, of Buckingham, shot himself in the head three times at Cin­ cinnati with suicidal intent. He Is 22 years old and a student jit the Eclectic Medical College. His wealthy parents live on a farm near Buckingham, and a brother is a practicing physician at Say- brook. ' A corporation is being organized for the erection of a new hotel in Springfield. It is to be located at the northeast cor­ ner of Fourth and Jefferson streets, and is to cost $185,000. The sum of $85,000, including a subscription of $45,000 by Chisago capitalists, is said to be already assured. Three men employed by the Illinois Central at Mounds--John Flynn, Michael Linzee and another whose name has not; yet been ascertained--fatally assaulted Eric Parker in a Cairo saloon. The dif­ ficulty grew out of a religious discussion. After crushing Parker's skull the men escaped. Contradictory rumors have been in cir­ culation for some time in relation to the transfer of the Chicago, Paducah and Memphis Railway to they Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company. Gen­ eral Manager Johnston of the former road gives out positive information that the transfer has been effected. The Illinois Central Railroad has adopt­ ed a novel and effective method of har­ monizing the working force of the com­ pany and the management. Inducements are offered to the men to purchase stock on the installment plan, and already, it is said, more than one-fourth of the 22,- the opportunity, while applications are coming in at the rate of 300 a month., The men are taking an active interest in the scheme, and it is attracting the at­ tention of railroad managers in all sec­ tions of the country. Tlie vandals who slashed the portrait of President Cleveland in the clubrooms of the Cook County Democracy have been named by that organization, and their prosecution for the oftense demanded. Evidence was brought before the Execu­ tive Committee to show that James Hee- ney and Jeremiah Sullivan were guilty of the act. The men are1 not members of the organization, but loiterers about the clubrooms. All of the members who were present condemned the work of these men as a piece of ruffianism. Peter Demeacakeis, a Greek fruit ven­ der at Chicago, got too close to the gaso­ line torch in his stand at Canal street and Jackson boulevard. His clothing was almost burned off his body as he ran screaming down the street and he died in great agony. Demeacakeis had been a resident of America but three months and was 25 years old. His last words were of his mother, whom he left behind in Greece and whom he had promised to bring to this country when he had gained sufficient knowledge of the land and ac­ quired enough money. H. W. Price's creditors did not meet at Rockford as expected, his trip East having resulted in a settlement at 40 cents on the dollar with most of those to whom he is indebted, making the con­ ference unnecessary. Mr. Price will or­ ganize his affairs into a stock company, local parties taking an interest, and his extensive glove manufacturing business will be continued as usual. With any kind of revival of business Mr. Price says he hopes to be able to pay dollar for dol­ lar on every bit of his indebtedness, in­ cluding those with whom lie has made a compromise. Frank Zimmer, of Chicago, 14 years old, heard that his father was preparing to give him a thrashing such as he had never received. Frank immediately de­ parted from his home, with the avowed purpose of never returning. To provide against possible contingencies Frank se­ cured a cheap revolver, and this he car­ ried cocked in his pocket. Mrs. Jacob Zimmer, Frank's mother, is now" lying at her home with a bullet in her knee and is in a serious condition. Henry Held, a 16-year-old boy, has a bullet wound in his right hand. These are the results of Frank's flight and return. The shoot­ ing was accidental, but the thrashing Frank received was not. For sixteen years the Young Men's He­ brew Charity Association of Chicago has marked the opening of the winter's season with a ball for charity. Each year the recurrent function has grown in splendor and in size. Each new ball has diinmad the glories of its predecessors. Tuesday night in the Auditorium the sixteenth outshone them all. Whatever way one measures it, it was grandest and best. In financial returns the highest mark has been left far behind. In rough numbers $24,000 will be realized and turned over to the general charities of the city. In attendance, too, the same surpassing ree- her into a dark room and held her there, stifling her cries and threatening to kill her. Another man went through the house and secured $200, while the third kept guard. The miscreant treated Mrs. Bingler in an inhuman manner, tearing her clothing from her body and beating her terribly. She was bruised about the head and one of her feet so badly crushed that it is believed bones are broken. Mrs. Bingler after the outrage madeTier way to a neighbor's house, which she reached half frozen. It is feared she will not recover from the shock. She says she recognized two of the men. Threats of violence are made and in case of arrest there may be serious trouble. State News in Brief. The Burnham Athenaeum, a $50,000 gift to the city of Champaign from A. C. Burnham, a local capitalist, was dedi­ cated and the public library opened. Mr. Burnham'^gift provides Champaign with one of the finest public libraries in the State, both as to accommodation and beauty. O. E. Culbertson, who owns a large tract of land in the western part of To- lono, concluded to prospect. At a depth of 104 feet an excellent vein of gas was struck. When ignited it throws up a column of fire twenty-five feet above the top of the casing and will burn in that way for several hours. At Decatur Frank Cunningham, alia* F. S. "Fox, was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in jail for attempting to de­ fraud the Citizens' ^National Bank of $450 by a false draft. E. A. Whiteside, of Decatur, com­ menced suit in the United States Court at Springfield against Minor B; Neal, Sheriff of DeWitt County, for trespass, placing his damages at $10,000, for false impris­ onment and illegal confinement in the DeWitt Cotinty jail for seventy-six days without authority of court. Whiteside ihad been convicted on a board-bill case and sentenced to ten days in jail. The body of George Lautenschlager, who disappeared from the home of his uncle, George Vetter, in Pekin, Nov. 15, was found floating in the Illinois River. He hqd threatened to commit suicide. Richard O. Rosen, an architect, of De­ catur, has returned from St. Louis, to which city he was called by the death of his father, a piano manufacturer. In ac­ cordance with the wishes of the deceased his body was cremated, and on May 23, next, the ashes will be carried to the Eads bridge at St. Louis and there scattered to the winds. The date selected is the birthday anniversary of the deceased, and the program is one that he it- part in the pleasures of the evenin; The Eastern Veterans' Association held its annual reunion at Rockford with a large attendance, eleven States being rep­ resented. Mayor Brown delivered an ad­ dress of welcome, and at noon a banquet was enjoyed, followed by a camp-fire in the afternoon. A nuniber of speeches were made. The newly elected officers are: President, S. N. Jones, Itockford; Vice President, Rev. S. W. Eaton. Itos- coe; Secretary, C. Q. Alley, Rockford: Vice Presidents, A. C. Fassett. of Belvi- dere; A. R. Graham, of New Milford; M. A. Jones, of Byron; C. H. Noel, of Cher­ ry Valley; D. B. lledington, A. A. Sny­ der and L. Jaycox, of Rockford. Edith Church has filed a sensational bill for divorce from Asa. Church in the Elgin city court. She alleges extreme and repeated cruelty. They were mar­ ried a few years ago, and lived first at Genoa. After returning to Elgin she re­ fused to live with her husband, and has lately been housekeeper for Owen O'Hern in West Elgin. The husband will make counter cha/ges. She was formerly Edith Randall, and had two suitors for her hand. One was Edward McGraw, and the other was Church. They arranged a fistic encounter. The fight came off, and Church whipped his antagonist. The latter was not satisfied, and another en­ counter resulted the same as the first. The young lady accepted the situation and married the victor. John Ferris, aged 32, and Rheda Pil­ lars, aged 13, were married at Quincy. Ex-County Treasurer Joseph T. Rainey was lodged in jail at Marion on the charge of forgery. He forged the names of his wife and Squire McNally to a mortgage on eighty acres of his home farm. With this instrument he secured a loan of $500 from Isaac A. Atwood, a neighborboring farmer, and before day­ light the next morning, so he claims since his. arrest Tuesday night, he had lost it all save a few dollars at his favorite game of poker. Rainey has heretofore had a good reputation. Within a hundred feet of the Harrison Street Police Station, Chicago, Henry Bell, a laborer, was sandbagged and robbed of $60 Wednesday afternoon. The act was committed by three colored wo­ men, and all of them succeeded in mak­ ing their escape. Miss Nellie Carey, formerly postmas­ ter at Kempton, Ford County, was ar­ raigned in the United States court at Springfield on an old indictment for be­ ing short in her accounts with the govern­ ment. She entered a plea of guilty and was fined $25 and costs, amounting in the aggregate to something over $100. Miss Carey's shortage, which was $1,500 or $1,600, was long ago made good. DEMOCRACY IS DEAD. . POPULIZATION OF THE PARTY CAUSED ITS DEMISE. Can Never Make Another Fight on Free Riots and Repudiation -- Tb«t Silver Issue Will Not Be Revived-- Grover's Attacks on Soldiers. \ The Democratic Party. The declared policy of some of the Bryan Democratic clubs in the Eastern States to prevent the return to the par­ ty fold of all Democrats who voted at the late presidential election for Me- Kinley or Palmer has caused a great deal of. comnaeiit bn .the part of the press. As the Democratic papers which opposed Bryan are included in the proc­ lamations of outlawry, they are natural­ ly taking, a lively interest in the sub­ ject. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says that the only asset left of the ancient party is its name, and that unless some­ body codifies its principles and puts them upon a sound basis very soon the organization will break up and forever disappear. . v* v Another Democratic journal, the Sun of New York, lias t declared that even the name is worthless unless there is a reorganization. This journal argues that the party leaders in the Senate haying: passed a protective act, and hav­ ing renounced the time-honored Demo­ cratic principle that a.protective tariff is unconstitutional, the only .principle left, besides the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1," is the income tax. As that has been declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, it can scarcely be called left--unless "left" is used in the slangy sense. Moreover, the Late election shows that a very large body of the party will not support free coinage at 16 to 1. Hence that is not an available principle. It is perhaps a waste of time to dis­ cuss this matter. The potent fact in tlie Populization of the Democracy is that it has lost a large number of voters who will never return to it until it is reor­ ganized. The silver Republicans are bound to return to their party in time, for the reason, principally,, that there is no other place for them to go. Thus, with the dissatisfied Democrats added, the Republican party will be greatly strengthened. So it would seem that the outlawry talk of the Bryanites is suicidal. Tlie middle of the road Popu­ lists will hot join them, the gold Demo­ crats have left them and cannot get back, the tariff issue has been sold out and is dead, the income tax cannot be revived, and it is useless to make a fight on free riots and repudiation. Talk about what is to become of tlie Democratic party under the circum­ stances seems idle. That party appears to be dead, anyhow. Outlawing a few members of it more or less can make little difference to anybody. Large Increase in Circulation. Bradstreet's states that the increase of the money in circulation in the United States last month was 23 cents per capita, estimated on the basis of a population of 72,030.000, which, makes the total per capita circulation; as esti­ mated by treasury experts, $22.86. Dur­ ing the year ending Nov. 30 there was an increase of over $52,000,000 in tlie money circulation, which includes an increase of nearly $36,500,000 in gold coin. The following table gives the total stock of money coined or issued and the amount of each kind of money in circulation at the beginning of this month: Amount In circulation Dec. 1. 1890. $ 510,720,882 58,493,845 01,233,340 38,616,74!) 350,312,121 80,147,901 274,705,488 Gold coin I Standard sliver dollars Subsidiary silver Gold certificates Silver certlf Treasury notes, act July 14,'90 U. S. notes Currency certifi­ cates, act June 8, 1872 .r. Natl, b'nk notes. General stock coined or Issued. $ 034,287,157 441,400,141 75,803,540 39,433,139 307,903,504 121,G77,2SO 340,081,010 38,510,000 235,398,890 38.470,000 222,335,419 Totals ?2,301,100,073 $1,040,444,740 The money coined and in circulation is steadily increasing, and if this great big nation was only receiving sufficient revenues to enable it to pay expenses the confidence of the people would be more nearly restored, and the usual active season for a new year wduld find labor and business more energetic and prosperous than for several years past. More money Is not so necessary as more labor and business to bring the money we have into active circula­ tion. This Congress could so provide, but the same members and the same policies that have caused the unequal­ led hard times of the past four years are still blocking legislation. The peo­ ple of the United States should united­ ly demand that Congress proceed to "business in the only manner by which the labor and business of all the people can be restored and maintained.--Des Moines Register. Gold Democrats and Protection. There is a report abroad that the sil­ ver men propose to divide the sound money men by supporting a tariff bill. They hope by assenting to Republican demands for a protection act to irritate the sound money Democrats wrho are now leagued with the Republicans. The plan is astute, but it will not be a suc­ cess. The sound money Democrats who assisted McKinley either by supporting him outright or by voting for Palmer, appreciated that they were aiding the election of a Republican and a protec­ tionist. They cannot expect the Re­ publicans to abandon their belief ,n protection, nor will they be apt to be driven aw.ay by that policy. They went fnto the allianace, if such it may be called, with their eyes open, and will not now claim they have been deceived. The silver men may plot as they please, but their day is gone and they can n£v- er gain such strength as an organiza­ tion as they did in the late election. The Republicans propose to enact a pro­ tective tariff as soon as^possible, but they have no purpose whatever of alienating the support or injuring the feelings of the gold Democrats. There is to be no extreme protection legisla­ tion, but an act will be constructed that will give us the requisite protection and revenue at the same time. It will be scientifically drawn and prove bene­ ficial. With the revenue question dis­ posed of and industries stimulated by protection, the prosperity that will fol­ low will destroy the silver agitation and leave the field free for the consld- tlon. That cannot be had yet, but the discussion of the. question will be ad­ vantageous if agitation is avoided. The silver' men will find they have little rea­ son for existence, and that the organi­ zation that now stands for national honor and safety will not be dismem­ bered by the tactics proposed. The union will be continued until it is re­ quired no longer, and even then many of those who supported McKinley this year will remain in alliance with the Republican party. The good" feeling between Republicans and gold Demo­ crats will not soon disappear. Make the Nation Stronjr. While the National Government is being steadily compelled to face an av­ erage deficit of $8,000,000 per month, and is thus paralyzing all the efforts of the people to revive their own lar bor and business, "it is folly to talk Dingley or anti-Dingley bill. Who cares what bill it is, or who is. to be entitled to credit for framing it, pro­ vided the sound money Democrats and Republican Senators and Congressmen come together and agree upon and en­ act a bill into law that will provide sufficient revenue to pay the expenses of the Government, and to thai extent protect American labor"/ If the Re­ publicans and Democrats cannot come together on a measure that will be to that extent protective to American la­ bor, let the Republican Senators and Congressmen accept and -vote for any tariff bill the sound money Democrats may present that will provide suffi­ cient revenues, it is no time to stickle over old time partisan policies while the steady bankruptcy of the Nation is carrying down the industries and business interests like the long fabled TOW of bricks. Let the Republicans ac­ cept any tariff measure that will re­ store the Government's income this month. There will be am^e time to repeal or amend such a law later on. Just now, the business and labor of the United States demand that the Govern­ ment be promptly made able to pay its expenses, without steadily and large­ ly decreasing the cash in the treasury and thus destroying the confidence of the people in their own ability to with­ stand the hard times. The people of no country can be strong and confident when their government is steadily drifting Into bankruptcy. Let Congress do something quick, that will enable the Government to pay as it goes.--Des Moines Register. The Attacks on Soldiers. Senator Gallinger did a good service in showing in a mild and moderate way the liumbufggery of President Cleve­ land's references to the pensioners of the Government. The men who fought during the war were the most charita­ ble after the fighting was over. They were in it, and they knew what service meant. Thus it has happened that many of the bravest and most consist­ ent defenders of the pension system have been soldiers on the other side. It lias also happened that those who have been most bitter are men who never smelt powder, and who stayed at home when the country called. That Mr. Cleveland sent a substitute to the war is a matter of familiar history, but it ought to be no reason for his harping upon the alleged abuses of the pension system. Only 167 convictions in pen­ sion cases have occurred within the year, and these, as a rule, were not against pensioners. As the number on the pension rolls is far above 100,000, it can readily be seen that the propor­ tion of attempted fraud amounts to nothing. The critics who stayed at home and made money while these men forsook everything dear to them, and went to the front, simply show their own meanness and cowardice when they abuse their betters, who did their duty and did not skulk because there was danger in the work.--Baltimore American. Director Preston's Report. The report of Mr. Preston, director of the mint, contains some interesting fig­ ures. It will be noticed that the orig­ inal gold bullion deposited with the mint aggregated $68,769,383. Most of this was American gold. During tlie last fiscal year we coined $5S,878,490 gold and $7,500,882 in silver dollars. But from July 1 to Nov. 1 we coined $S,- 782,100 silver dollars. In other words, the silver dollar coinage during the first half of the present fiscal year will be greater than that for the whole' of the last fiscal year. Mr. Carlisle seems to feel justified in this coinage, but it does seem as if it were unnecessary and un­ wise. It is decidedly interesting to note that the commercial value of silver for the last fiscal year ranged between 70.204 cents and 66.081 cents per ounce. But since July 1 silver bullion lias fallen and now it is worth just a fraction over 65 cents an ounce. The commercial ratio between gold and silver for the last fiscal year was 1 to 30.58. That ratio, is now about 1 to 31. The silver men have talked of a scarcity of gold, but on July 1 the supply of gold in tlie United States aggregated $599,597,464. Since then we have imported about $61 ̂ 000,000 in gold, so the supply of gold i-5 this country is now over $660,000,00*. The gold production of the country laST fiscal year was $46,610,000, and that of the world $200,406,000. The production for the present fiscal year will greatly exceed this, which was the largest on record. Silver Is Dead. Says the Detroit Free Press: "Nevci again will circumstances and condition combine in a manner so auspicious foi the cause of silverism as they did in the contest which recently terminated in its overthrow. The long and stealthy cultivation of silver sentiment; the pow­ erful representation in the Senate; the., fruition of well-laid plans to capture the Democratic convention; the unex­ ampled coalition of forces and the diS-- content and unrest arising from a pro­ longed depression were factors favora­ ble to the success of silver which wil* never be found in combination agaifo It was silver's svpreme opportunity this year--its leading champions so regard­ ed it--and such a chance will not recur.'* David BrtHill again asserts that he ^ a Democrat, and it must be so, becausej like Cicero's antique Roman belle whu was always just 20, David has beetf sticking to that same statement thesa twenty years. Anyway, in three shor* months he will be merely "a statesman out of a job" and without a constltu eratiou of remedial currency te&isla-1 ency.--Louisville Times. v.: HANDS TELL A STORY, Palmistry Will Beveal Many Secrets of Character. "A person has but to open his hand and he opens the history of his life to a person well versed in palmistry," said a professor of the art "The palm reveals more of a person's true char­ acter and disposition than could be learned in a. life-long friendship. A person's peculiarities are written there as plainly as if in a book; each line is full of meaning. Chronic diseases as well as acute ailments leave their marks upon the palm. I have known Instances where diseases that hare nonplussed learned: doctors have been correctly diagnosed by persons know­ ing nothing of medicine or physiology, who formed their opinion from the ap­ pearance and condition of the hand alone. The moisture, color and con­ dition of the cuticle and nails are just as important to the palmist in deter­ mining disease and condition of tlie system as the lines upon the hand. "Malformations of the body are re­ flected in the hand. So far 16 this true that Rice, the promoter of - so many spectacular productions, selects . lii§ chorus girls who are to appear in tights by looking at their liaiids, and that his system is not a faulty one Is evidenced by the appearance of the girls on the stage., I have never known a case where the hand of a criminal or tljrtef has not shown just what he was. In examining the hands of people who come to me just for the sport of the thing I have frequently seen, the line of tlie thief well developed In hands whpise owners are away up in the so­ cial world. Naturally, I watch with interest the careers of such people, but only in one instance have I ever discovered a proof of what the palm revealed. I have no doubt the thief ex­ isted in the life of the others just as In this man's life, but undiscovered. "The case I refer to was a bright society man of Gotham who moved in the best circles. About three years after I examined his hand a theft of tens of thousands of dollars from a bank in which lie was employed was hushed up, but not before rumor had given it to the winds among his friends. "So firm Is mv faith in the^isrchom^ etry of the hand that I believe sus­ picious characters could be judged by a well-informed palmist so that crimes could be prevented by the detection of such parties. Bankers selecting their clerks and business men their trusted men would have a test for honesty as sure as any acid in the requirements of chemistry. The life of the street car 'spotter' would be at an end, for none but honest men would obtain positions. If the science of palmistry develops in coming years as it has in the past ten, the time may not be very far distant when every well regulated business house will have a palmist in its em­ ploy as it now has a typewriter." Wash ngton as Fireman. Some interesting,little stories are told of George Washington in connection with the "Friendship Fire Company," organized in 1774, in his home, Alex­ andria. At first the company consisted of citi­ zens who, out of "mutual friendship," agreed to carry to every fire "two leath­ ern buckets and one great bag of ozna- burg or wider linnen." Washington was made an honorary member, and when he went as a delegate to the Con gress of 1774 at Philadelphia, he exam ined the fire-engines in use there. On his return to Philadelphia to the Conti nental Congress in 1775, lie bought from a man named Gibbs a small fourth-class engine, for the sum of eighty pounds ten shillings, and just before he set out for Boston Heights to become commander-in-chief, lie dis patched this little engine to the Friend­ ship Company. During his younger days he always attended fires in Alexandria and helped to extinguish them. In the last year of his life a fire occurred near the mar­ ket. He was riding down King street at the time, followed by his servant, who was also on horseback. Washington saw that the Friendship engine was insufficiently manned, and riding up to a group -bf well-dressed gentlemen standing near the scene of action, he called out authoritatively: "Why are you idle there, gentlemen? It is your business to lead in these mat­ ters." After which he leaped off his horse, and, seizing the brakes, was followed by a crowd that gave the engine such a shaking up as it had not had for many a day. Standard for Light Wanted. A subcommittee of the American In­ stitute of Electrical Engineers, ap­ pointed in 1S93 to investigate the sub­ ject of a suitable standard of light for photometric purposes, has recent­ ly issued a preliminary report. Of all the standards thus far used it finds the candle the least reliable. It is also evident from the bolometric curves that naked liames are subject to sud­ den and rapidly recurring fluctuations that may be almost entirely eliminated by the use of a properly constructed chimney. It seems likely that many of the difficulties which ai'e unavoid­ able with flame standards may be overcome by the adoption of a stand­ ard consisting of some surface elec trically heated to a standard tempera­ ture. With this object the results of the committee's experiments on incan­ descent carbon will be looked forward to. KUBLA; KHAN. '• The Revolt of Nay an, a Great Chiefi Against His IVephew. Now thla Cublay Kaan is of the right Imperial lineage, being descended from Ohingis Kaan, the' first sovereign of all the Tartars. And he is the sixth Lord in that succession, as I have al­ ready told you in this book. He cane to the throne in the year 1256, and rhe Empire fell to him because of his abil­ ity and valor and great worth, as was right and reason. His brothers, in­ deed, and other kinsmen disputed his claim, but his it remained, both be­ cause maintained by his great valor, and because it was in law and right his, as being directly sprung of the Imperial line. Up to the year now running, to wit, 1298, he hath reigned two and forty years, and his age is about 85, «jo that he must have been about 43 years of age when he first came to the throne. Before that time he had often been to the wars, and had shown himself a gallant soldier and ah excellent cap­ tain. But after coming to the throne he never went to the wars in person, save once. This befell in the " year 12S6, and I will tell you how lie ^ ent. There was a great Tartar Chief, whose name was Nayan, a young man of 30, Lord over many lands aind many provinces, and he was Uncle to the Epiperor Cublay Kaan, of whom we are speaking. And when he found' himself ih authority this Nayan waxed proud in the insolence of his youth and his great power; for indeed he could bring into the field 300,000 horsemen, though all the time he was liegeman to his nephew, the Great Kaan Cublay, as was right and reason. Seeing, then, what great power he had, lie took it Into his head that he would be the Great Ivaan's vassal no longer; nay, more, he would fain wrest his empire from him if he could. So this Nayan sent envoys to another Tartar Prince exiled Caidu, also a great, and potent Lord, who was a kinsman of his, and who was a nephew of the Great Kaan and his lawful liegeman also, though he was in rebellion and bitter enmity with his sovereign Lord and Ui»cle. Now the message that Nayan sent was this: That he himself was making ready to--march against the Great Kaan with all his forces (which were great), and he begged Caidu to do like­ wise from his side, so that by attack­ ing Cublay on two sides at once with such great forces they would be able to wrest his dominion from him. And when Caidu heard the message of Nayan, he was right glad thereat, and thought the time was come at last to gain his object. So he sent back answer that lie would do as requested; and got ready his host, which mus­ tered a good hundred thousand horse- ment.--"The True Story of Marco Polo," St. Nicholas. .. LEGISLATIVE G0SSIPJ J BILIIII ---- ~ ~ ~ -- 1 ' * ' • -- SUBJECTS THAT WILL COME UP THIS SZSSION. Preparations for the Inangnral Ball Have Overshadowed Everything Else--Variety of Matters Needing Special and Immediate Attention. - mi Sim Work for Illinois Solon*. Springfield correspondence. * Preparations for the wedding of GOT- - oernor Tanner and for his inauguration have absorbed so nxuch of the attention of Springfield people that there has been little speculation concerning the work of the Legislature. Unless precedents fail, the election of Senator Palmer's successor will be one of the first official acts of the Legislature* and the election will take place even be­ fore the Speaker of the new body has an­ nounced his committees. It is likely that the contest over the seat in the upper branch of the United States Congress will have mucfc to do with the organization of the Legislature-- . particularly of the House of Representa- j tives. The Legislature meets Wednes« day, Jan. 6, and on the evening of the 5tbi the various party caucuses will be held*. ;The important matters'with which these conferences will deal will be the selections of party candidates for Speaker of the Hovise and President pro tern. * of the Senate. Candidates for clerks/ sergeants-? at-arms, doorkeepers, postmasters and? custodians of the cloakrooms will be se-i lected and steering committees will be appointed. . .... f - • ,» ' ag The Senate and House will meet at noon. The retiring Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Gill, will call the Senate to order and! the new members will be swoaai in. After the President pro tem. is elected "the Senate selects its secretary and other officers. The organization being perfect­ ed, the Senate sends a message to the House announcing that it is ready for the transaction of business. It also sends at greeting to the Governor, stating that it is prepared to receive any communicationi he may desire to submit. In the meantime the House is called taj order by the retiring Secretary of State* Mr. Hinrichsen. Temporary officers are first elected and the caucus nominees are then voted on and a permanent organiza­ tion effected. When this is done mes- sages similar to those of the Senatf sent to the Senate and to the Governor. Joint resolutions setting a date for the' canvass of the State vote and for the) inauguration of the Governor and other! State officers will probably be presented* at the first session. Provision will bei made also for the joint session, when the first vote on United States Senator wilR be taken. -Joke by Holmes. At the time of the Peace Jubilee, Dr. C. B. Porter, of Boston, returned to his office one day, and found the slate iu the hall -covered with Latin words and signed O. W. Holmes. He immediately got down his dictionary, and with much effort discovered that he had been to the Peace Jubilee, had soiled his boots so thoroughly with dirt that he did not like to go down town in such a plight, and had stopped and asked-Mr. Porter's servant for a foot- brush that he might clean up his boots; and he had dignified this rather menial performance by writing it all out in Latin and leaving it on the slate. He squandered $10 for roses, you seo-- Her joy in the gift was immense; But little she dreamed that his dinner would be Three buckwheats that cost him ten cents. . - - Chicago Recotd. It costs as much to be popular as to pend a 16-year-old daughter away to boarding school. Hazing. Members of entering classes in out colleges this autumn will doubtless be subjected to various forms of insult and brutality. The general name of hazing is given to these violations of private rights and public de%enqy. The hazed students of one year become the hazers of the next year. There is an unapostolic succession of these offend; ers. Assaults which would send the per­ petrators to prison cells, if prosecuted in court, are unpunished, often becaust the victims will not testify against their tormenters, but not infrequently, ap parently, because the college authorl ties practically confess their inability to deal with this form of law-breaking Whatever be the reason for the im­ munity, the barbarism goes on. In approving the finding of a couri martial in the West Point hazing cases President Cleveland recently said: "Tho jffense of maltreating and abusing new cadets by upper classmen is so mean and cowardly and so opposed to every trait that should characterize a gen­ tleman and a true soldier, that a severe sentence should not be necessary to its prevention. If, •however, punishment must be resorted to to effect a discon­ tinuance of this disgraceful practice, 1 can do no less than resist all appeal;' for clemency." These words of truth and soberness may be applied' to college hazing, and tlie spirit of the Chief Executive of the country may well be imitated by the overning bodies of educational insti­ tutions. When clemency stops, hazing will stop.--Youth's Companion. No Such Witness in the Case. No man in Chicago has a greater repu­ tation for winning over a jury than A. S. Trade, but lie met a worthy foeman r>ne day. It was during tlie trial of Cornell vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad, in action for damages. It was a cele­ brated case, which had been to the Su­ preme Court three times, and was con­ tested bitterly to the end. Trude repre­ sented tiie defendant. The plaintiff, who had been the city attorney of Oma- ha, and later member of Congress from Nebraska, claimed to have been injured permanently in a scuffle with an eni- iloye of the defendant road. Mr. Ilynes, the plaintiff's attorney, had made a very flowery and exceedingly eloquent speech. Mr. Trade, in order to dissipate the effect of his opponent's speech upon tlie jury, found it neces­ sary to quote the language of the fam­ ous Athenian Pisistratus, which had a direct bearing on the case. There he stood with his hands in the air in a pose :raly delsartian, when Mr. Ilynes, who is an accomplished classical scholar, af­ fecting a look of ignorance, quickly re­ marked: "If the court please, no such witness testified in the case!" Mr. Trade was. of course, greatly dis- oncerted, the judge, jury and court spectators bursting out in a guffaw of laughter at Mr. Trade's situation. •J Do Little the First Week. The Turtle. Formerly the turtle was taken by means of harpoons or spears; but this process injured the creature. It is now taken in nets or captured upon the beach. Certain fishermen prefer to live and take the animal by hand, but when the reptile is powerful this is not accomplished without some difficulty. There is probably no time in a man's life when he looks so sneaking as when tie returns the chairs and tables lite wife borrowed, the day after the party. We want it understood right now that ao girl need buy mistletoe to tempt us; we are open to temptation without such i useless expenditure. It is probable that the vote will bat canvassed Thursday. The two houses) will hold a brief session Friday and aaj adjournment will then be taken untili Monday in order that the House may be> put in shape for the inaugural ceremonies.; The hall is to be converted into a ball-: room for the festivities that are to take* place in the evening, and it will be neees-! sary to put down a false floor. Following! the inauguration, another adjournment! will be necessary, that the workmen may; have time to remove this floor and put; the seats in their places. Whenever the introduction of bills un­ der the order is reached there will be aj flood of measures "to be referred to the! proper committee when appointed." Aside from the measures that are being framed^ in Chicago for the benefit of that city andi for the better government of the metrop-i olis, it is not likely there will be many: bills that will present new subjects fo*f the consideration of the Legislature. Sev-1 eral members will introduce measures for the regulation of stock yard charges, but they will be only copies of the Crawford and Jones bills. Some statesman will present a bill for compulsory closing of barber shops Sundays, but it will be nothing more than an evasion of the Su­ preme Court's objections to the Cody law. Kailroads to Be Looked After. Bills to reduce railroad fares and freight charges; to compel trains to stop at wayside stations; to remove the death damages limit and to abolish the law of fellow servant in its application to damage p suits for personal injuries will provide work for the raiiroad lobbyist. With these bills may be enumerated the in­ numerable measures for the suppression of trusts, and combinations that come in at every session. Each of the State boards will probably propose some legislation that has been drawn from their experience.. The Board of Health will have two bills which will be urged. One of these gives the body additional authority for the supervision of sanitary matters, and provides that all plans of sewage systems and plants for supplying municipalities with water shall be examined and passed upon before th« work can be done. The second bill makec provision for the appointment of a sep­ arate board of commission of medical ex­ aminers, whose sole duty it shall be tor pass upon the competency of persons who desire to practice medicine in the State. A favorite measure of the State Board of Charities is one that will make pro­ vision for removing children from the county poor-houses.. Additional recogni­ tion of the auxiliary boards of visitOES will be asked, and it is expected a bill ' will be presented enlarging the powers and duties of these organizations. The claim is that the visiting committees are doing good work in rooting out abuses int public institutions that naturally escape the attention of the State Board, and thai ' Legislature will be requested to encour* age the work. ~ > ly The condition of the State Treasury makes it probable that serious considera­ tion may be given to revenue legislation! at this session. Senator Littler's revenue bill will no doubt again be introduced andj there will be measures to tax corpora-* tions and franchises. Amendments tai meet the objections to the inheritance taxj law will be proposed and some of the members will favor the repeal of thie statute. •r The Sangamon County members of thai Assembly will champion a bill to irestorai the bribery law to what it was before the Legislature made it unlawful to buyi votes. The recent experience of a locaf grand jury is responsible for this. Sev-I eral witnesses were before the jury whof testified that they had received money for Hil their votes, and, when the jury under­ took to find indictments against thet bribe givers, it found that the law would! only reach those who had been giving testimony. ' T 3pf*ll Eminently Fair. In his "Leaders of Thought" Arch-* deacon Sinclair tells a good story of aikf Eton head master, known as "Flogging! Keate." Finding one morning a row of boys in his study, he began, as usuaL to flog them. They were too terrified at the awful little man to remonstrate until he had gone half way down the row, when one plucked up courage to . falter out: "Please, sir, we're not upi for punishment--we're a confirmation^ class!" "Never mind," said Dr. Keataj r'ijj **I must be fair all round, and It will dty |, good." So he finished them cJC. I •MPT*; f4