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ABOUND A BIG STATE I BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Plans of the State Board of Agricul­ ture- Preacher Defends Robt. G. Injc- ersoll -- Mystery About the Corpse Found'at East St. Louis. Plan for Next State Fair. The Staffe Board of Agriculture held Its annual meeting at Springfield and fixed-the date and revised the premium list for the next annual State fair. The fair, will be held Sept. 20 to Oct. 1, in­ clusive, and $45,000 in cash premiums will be paid to exhibitors, $10,000 of which is to be awarded in the speed ring. The board adopted a resolution to pay 66 2-3 per cent of the indebtedness and premiums of the recent horse show in Chi­ cago, and hold the balance pending the result of the litigation between the board aud the local management. Pastor Defends Irigersoll. Rev. Dr. G. R. Stocking of the Gales- burg Universalist Church preached on "Universal Salvation" in reply to the Rev. Mr. Geisweit, pastor of the Baptist Church. After enumerating the Bible passages, "For I was an hungered and ye gave me meat,, thirsty and ye gave me drink," and others, Dr. Stocking said that if these declarations of Christ showed the necessary qualifications for salvation* as was contended by the orthodox churches, then Robert G- Ingersojl had just as" good a chance for entrance into the celes­ tial city as the Rev. Mr. Geisweit. Mystery About Dayton's Death. There is -a mystery surrounding the death of the man supposed to be Charles Dayton of New York, whose body was found under a railroad trestle in East St. Louis. At first it was supposed that he was one of the robbers thrown from an outgoing train the night before, but no such evidence was given to the coroner's jury. Nothing definite could be learned about him, and the jury found that Day­ ton's death was accidental. Condemned Man Would Wed. James Mingle, the condemned murderer, has asked his former mistress, Mary Briscoe, at Springfield, to marry him be­ fore he hangs. On July 5 last Mingle assaulted the Briscoe woman and her child with a hatchet, braining them both. The child died instantly, but the woman has almost recovered. She lived fifty- six days without anything to eat, and her recovery <is considered as something re­ markable. Hurled to Death by Dynamite. By the accidental explosion of a dyna­ mite cartridge, Thomas Riley, a laborer working in a sewer excavation in Chicago, was thrown thirty feet in the air, his mangled body falling back into the ditgh with a shower of shattered rock and earth, spattering his cowering mates with blood. Three others were hurt. Shakespeare Is Lynched. Because they placed a rope around the neck of a bust of William Shakspeare and swung the bard from a chandelier a dozen members of the senior class of the Rock- ford high school were suspended. The Kfi!<1<Mits liirerl thpir tpacher. Miss Rnn- dall, to the telephone, and during her ab- sence performed the lynching. Waukegan Man Badly Burned. A gasoline stove in the rooms of Attor­ ney J. K. Orvis at Waukegan took fire. In throwing it out his clothes caught fire. The flames mounted to his face and neck despite his frantic efforts, and he would have been fatally burned had not Downey Hill rushed in and extinguished the flames. Train Wrecked at Harvey. An open switch on the Grand Trunk Railway threw a freight train into a sid­ ing at Harvey and caused a wreck that fatally injured two men, hurt another slightly and resulted in the burning of an engine and a passenger coach and the demolition of twenty loaded freight cars and their contents. John T. Ingraham of Chicago commlb* ted suicide at Indianapolis. 7 Enoch Long, an old resident of Quinct, dropped dead in the street. He was 73 years old. Sixty-four workmen iys the pearl button factory at Keithsburg have struck for higher wages. Joseph Englehardt was seriously and perhaps fatally injured in the coal shaft at Mount Pulaski. At Carlinville, Emil P. Behrens, aged 28, a prominent _ pharmacist, shot him­ self through the heart. At Marquette, Ed Madrill, employed by the Marquette Coal Company, ,was fatally injured while oiling an engine. •The coroner's jury in the case of Mrs. M. Currie of Coal Valley township re­ turned a verdict of death £rom. alcohol­ ism. ,0>T , a-; •. Otto Breeden of Maquoketa, Iowa, sur­ rendered to a Rockford police officer, stat­ ing that he had stolen a horse from his father. James . Cadier, .14 years old, fell from the balcony to the pit in Hopkins' thea­ ter, Chicago. He escaped with a few bruises. Gov. Tanner lias appointed R. Hall McCormick of Chicago vice-president of the trans-Mississippi exposition for the State of Illinois, Ezra Marquiss, one of the pioneer set­ tlers of Piatt County, died near Leland. He was the father of Representative Mar­ quiss of that district. John Dougherty, an unmarried man about 34 years of age, Was instantly kill­ ed by a passenger train on the Rock" Isl­ and road at Minooka. v . - The fourth annual exhibition of the Northwestern Poultry Association at La­ nark was a great success. Over 1,000 birds were on exhibition. The police of Pana believe that in the arrest of William Hatfill and Charles Orev they have captured the leaders of a gang of counterfeiters. John G. Chick of Rockford, proprietor of one of the largest flour mills in the State, is dead. He had been engaged in business in Rockford since 1855. , The appointment of James M. Carson, the deposed State president of the Unit­ ed Mine Workers' Union, as superintend­ ent of the Alma coal mine has precipitat­ ed another strike there. Michael Shevlin has been convicted of stealing in Chicago and will be sentenced to the penitentiary. This is the first of the notorious Shevlin boys to be convict­ ed of a penitentiary offense. The State Board of Health has re-elect­ ed Dr. L. Adelsberger of Waterloo presi­ dent and Dr. J. A. Egan of Springfield secretary. Dr. C. B. Johnson of Cham­ paign was elected treasurer. Eric Parnell, the 5-year-old Chicago col­ ored boy who was poisoned by a drink of whisky, died in St. Luke's hospital. Mon­ roe Pointer, the negro who is said to have given him the" liquor, is a prisoner. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Com­ pany of New York has asked for a re­ ceiver for the Kankakee Water Company, which has defaulted on the payment of in­ terest on second mortgage bonds since 1894. The Secretary of State has licensed the incorporation of the American Steel and Wire Company of Chicago, with a capi- j taiization of $>o7,0G0,0o0, the fvu for which was §87,500* the largest in the history of the United States. Gov. Tanner has appointed as dele­ gates to represent the State of Illinois at the national fishery congress to be held at Tampa, Fla., Jan. 19, S. P. Bartlett of Quincy, N. II. Cohen of Champaign and August Ilirth of Chicago. An important slander suit was filed in the Circuit Court at Galesburg by Fred Seacord against S. W. Frohlieli, asking for $10,000 damages. The case grows out of the struggle for the possession of the C. W. Williams race track. The property of the Peoria rolling mill, the original cost of which was over $200,- 000, has been sold in the receivership proceedings of 1894 to George T. Pape of Peoria, who represents a large majority of the creditors, for $30,000. PULSE0F PROSPERITY INCREASE OF RAILROAD EARN- INGS BREAKS RECORDS. t!usy Industries, Active / Trades* and Large Crops Show' Their KfFects by ,^n Unprecedented Volume of Busi­ ness by the Railroads. In Dread of San Jose Scale. Fruit growers of Illinois are very much alarmed at the ravages of the San Jose scale, which infests nursery stock. They called on Gov. Tanner to see if a bill could not be passed by the Legislature to regulate the selling of such nursery stock as is infected with the dreaded scale. Bums Eleven Buildings. The main business part of Patoka was wiped out by fire one night recently. The fire originated in Altom's large store building, and before the tire was under control eleven buildings were consumed. Loss about $25,000. Brief State Happenings, Henry Clark was drowned while skat­ ing at Rockford. George Moore, aged 20, while at work in the Carlinville coal shaft, was struck by falling coal and instantly killed. The Ivewanee Tube Company is testing the free iron ore found in large quantities in the sand along the lake shore north of Waukegan. About 450 city orders, said to aggregate about $500, are missing from the city hall at Mount Vernon. Two orders aggregat­ ing $75 have been presented for repay­ ment. The impending cut of 25 per cent a 1,000 announced by the cigar manufacturers of Canton to their employes, about 500 in all, has roused considerable indignation among the "jours," who have for years been fighting the "cub" system. The 500 local cigarmakei-s will announce a strike if their employers persist in the reduction and will organize a union. In a fire on the second floor of 174 West Monroe street, Chicago, Mildred Wil­ liams, a 2-year-old colored child, was burned to death. The child had been left alone upon a bed in the i;oom and a light­ ed lamp rested near it on a trunk. It is thought that the child pulled the lamp upon the bed and an explosion which set the bedclothes on fire resulted. In the County Court at Waukegan, Judge Jones found Mrs. Florence L. Gould, a prominent Highland Park wom­ an, to be sane and restored her to her property rights. Three Illinois men have been confirmed as"\consul^ They are Louis H. Ayme, / Onqdahmff, West Indies; M. J. Burke, J Port'"Stanley, Canada; E. D. Winslow, Stockholm, Sweden. Marengo .capitalists, headed by F. W. atrick, who owns many creameries in t vicinity, will start an industry at ,ord for the manufacture of crude -,.vsugar from milk. Anyone sending a sketch. • f i , „ V. •. . „ , quietly ascertain our opinion e v ^ Kanka- inventioti is probably patentabfe.'^er-strike by the coal tions strictly confidential. Handbook.- Bent free. '-- s Patents tpeeial notice. Oldest «ipency'forsecurinKpir *he famin'e. taken through Munn & Co. 'i.n forco of Am ice, without charge, in the ^ ^ m~ Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest dr. MIINN & Co.36,Broadway' New York Branch Office, 635 F St., Washington, D. C. he« ground in Chicago and up a Th\ of the ,amous Beloit Duck i V.est«» cotton and wool Pants >t s. Stofete? 'etc" now ia 8t°ok Seven agents of the Western Weighing Association are busily engaged superin­ tending the taking of stock at the Wash­ burn & Moen factory at Waukegan. Their work is done for the new wire trust to ascertain the value of the property. The young men of the Jericho Church, near Aurora, engaged in a sparrow hunt­ ing contest, and in two parties started to scour the country for birds. They slaugh­ tered 3,200 birds. The bounty paid by the State--$04--was given to the church. Cooper & Son, operators of the Nilwood mine at Carlinville, have locked out their 125 employes. The operators granted numerous concessions to the men and de­ manded in return that they send up clean­ er coal and do honest work. The men's refusal resulted in the shut-down. Auditor of Public Accounts McCul- lough has granted a permit for the organ­ ization of the City Bank of Anna, at Anna. Union County. The capital stock is $30,000, and the organizers are Charles L. Otrich, E. G. Kerth, W. II. Rhodes, M. V. Ussery, J. C. Lamar and J. B. Roberts. The total amount of taxes assessed in St. Clair, the third county in population in the State, for the year 1897 is $735,- 5lG. The Eads Bridge Company is the largest taxpayer in the county, the east end of the great St. Louis bridge being assessable in the county. The amount is fixed at $34,140. " A number of farmers in the northern part of Kane and adjoining counties are receiving gifts which are decidedly un­ usual. Fourteen years ago Charles S. Kilbourne, now of Aurora, was conduct­ ing creameries in Harrington and Dun­ dee. He met with financial reverses and was forced to settle with his creditors for a percentage of the face value of their claims. He has always cherished the hope of some day relieving the moral obligation and paying off the balance of these claims, amounting to $10,000, and is now doing so. Confessions of judgmeht aggregating $37,000 were filed in the Superior Court at Chicago against the Warmau-Schub Cycle Manufacturing Company. Writs of execution were secured and the plant of the company was taken possession of by Deputy Sheriff Lee. Suit has been begun at Quincy by Ed­ win M. Harrison and others, natural heirs of Richard Smith, who died in 1852. to recover possession of thousands of acres of farm lands, worth $2,000,000. in Adams, Hancock, Warren, Knox, Hen­ derson, Mercer, Peoria and other coun­ ties. • Bunker Hill is stirred up over the elope­ ment of Harry Poffkamp and Nellie Fred- rickson. They left the other evening for Chicago to be married and.thwart the op­ position of relatives. Hoffkamp is just 21 years old, and has come into a legacy of $2,000 from the estate of his father. The girl is 15 years old. By virtue of a decree issued by "the q. United States Circuit Court for the south- OllOe Ol»Vn district of Illinois the Randolph Coal at l Coke Company's property, consisting _ • '"•e largest mines in Randolph County SIMdeluding 1,500 acres of coal land, bid at public auction at Nashville receivers to the bondholders for j0. Increase for Three Months. Burlington Railroad .$2,279,157 Pennsylvania • 2.078,900, 'Southern Pacific 1,884,930 Santa Fe 1.377,581 Illinois Central • • •• 1,300,417 Canadian Pacific 1,105,900 Union Pacific . 1.140,240 Erie 1,129,005 Increase for September: Gross earnings--$10,101,090, or 14.87 per cent. * Net earnings--$5,491,94S, or 24.21 per Cent. The figures of railroad earnings for the month of September show an in­ crease that bt'oke all records. Rail­ roads are a barometer of prosperity, the Chicago Times-Herald remarks. Their earnings are the mercury, the rise and fall of which tell the tale of business conditions. When farmers get good prices for their products these are turned over to the railroads to lie taken to market. When factory chim­ neys are smoking the output of the hives of human industry is carried by railroads far and wide. When' mer­ chants sell goods, they have to be. trans­ ported to the consumers. Railroad earnings respond to fluctuations in these industrial and com in ere. il activi­ ties with all the sensitiveness of the del­ icate meteorological instruments that ate affected by slight variations in the pressure of the atmosphere. Big railroad earnings mean good times. They are the proof that the pro­ ductive forces of the country are at work. They are the evidence of the faith of business men. During the past five or six months they have been roll­ ing up like a mighty tide. Since the protective tariff set the factories a-hum- ming and foreign nations have demand­ ed more American breadstuff's, the fig­ ures have been swelling in size and in­ creasing in number with joyfiil rapid­ ity. At the head of this column are the figures showing the increase in the gross earnings of several of the large railroads for July, August and Septem­ ber. Not one of them shows an in­ crease of less than $1,000,000 for the quarter of a year, and two of them had gains exceeding $2,000,000 each. September is the last month for which there is an approximately full report or earnings. These show an in­ crease in gross earnings over hist year of the enormous sum of $10,101,090, or 14.87 per cent. The increase in net earnings was $5,491,948, or 24.21 per cent. It is said there is no record in the history of American railroads of j another such gain. The movement of grain has been of extraordinary proportions, but all rail­ road managers agree there lias been also a splendid revival in general trade. On the other hand, the traffic might have been much greater but for dis­ turbing factors. In the South yellow fever lessened business, and in the North the miners' strike cut down ship­ ments. Trade everywhere and in ail branch­ es is active. Manufacturing industries have started again and are working full time. Crops, particularly in the West, have been large and depleted stocks of goods are being replenished. All this nieajis business for the mil- roads. Here is a statement for the second week of October, showing the gain in gross earnings over the corresponding week of last year; Baltimore and Ohio Southwest­ ern $27,07 4 Canadian Pacific 204,000 Chesapeake and Ohio 23,445 Chicago and Eastern Illinois. .. . 23,031 Chicago Great "W estern 19.152 Monon 10.0H1 Milwaukee and St. Paul 04,572 Big Four 38,885 Denver and Rio Grande 29,7-00 Grand Trunk 25,313 Iowa Central 2,313 Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf. 42,524 Lake Erie and Western 3,010 Minneapolis and St. Louis 7,253 Missouri, Kansas and Texas.".. 2,090 Missouri Pacific . 101,000 Norfolk and Western 32,83(5 Northern Pacific 00,992 Bio Grande Western 29,900 St. Louis and S.ln_ Francisco... 42,095 Southern Railway 5,947 Texas anil Pacific W.823 Wabash i 47,491 Wisconsin Central 15,458 The gains in gross earnings for the second week in. November, so far as re­ ported, show a continuation of the rec­ ord of prosperity as follows: Canadian Pacific $150,000 Chesapeake and Ohio 5,110 Chicago and Eastern Illinois.... 7,834 Chicago Great Western 30,842 Monon 10,890 Milwaukee and St. Paul 147,105 Denver and Itio Grande 41,400 Evansville and Torre Haute.. .. 1,707 Iowa Central 0,220 Kansas City, Pittsburg anil Gulf 45,573 Lake Erie and Western 2.701 Minneapolis and St. Louis • 5,538 Missouri, Kansas and Texas... . 70,025 Missouri Pacific ^ 115,000 Rio Grande Western 11,840 St. Louis and San Francisco. .. . 20,880 Southern Railway 30,990 Texas and Pacific 52,515 Wabash 30,090 Wisconsin Central 18,221 Two Kinds of Deficits. This from the Cleveland Plaindealer fs an unusually frank acknowledgment for a free trade newspaper to make: "Certainly during the last six months, when our revenue has fallen short at the rate of over $0,000,000 per month, our people having been purchasing more of our own goods than at any time for two years previous, and more money has gone into circulation and more men have been at work." Enemies of protection and fair play would win more respect and obtain a more attentive hearing if they told the truth more frequently. Admissions from a free trade writer as candid"as that quoted from the Plaindealer are as rare as white blackbirds. Deficits occurred with great regu la r ­ ity during the four years of low tariff aud no tariff, and upward of $200,000 of indebtedness was incurred to bridge over the shortage in the revenues. None of the free trade people tlieu had spasms oh that account; it is only since protection is once more in- operation that tl^ey worry about deficits. But there are worse things than defi­ cits, and the Plaindealer tacitly ^ac­ knowledges as much when it bears wit­ ness to the fact that times have been extr&inely prosperous in spite of the shortage of $0,000,000 per month. If we must have deficits, let us have the kind that have temporarily occurred under the Dingley law, where every­ body is prosperous, instead of the Wil­ son sort, when, in addition to deficits in government revenues,, there were disastrous depletions of the revenues of the gr&at mass of wage earners and wage payers. SOME THINGS NEEDFUL. Deficiencies Which Bright Americana Might Supply in Knrope. There are several thiugs which Amer­ ican travelers in Europe should carry with them in sufficient quantity to last the journey through, says a traveler who recently returned. Shoes is one such article. Shirts is another. No­ where on the continent or iu England do they make a satisfactory shirt. Tne cuffs are to^ long or too .short, the eye­ lets for studs are too big or too little, the. bosom lacks finish. Americans should take their own pens with them, too. European steel pens are misera­ ble affairs. One cannot be blamed for failing to write home to his friends if he is com pellet! to use -the scratchy, awkw*ard things they call :pens on tne other side. The experienced American traveler will take with him, also, his own playing cards, his American-made, suspenders and, above all, his razor and his smoking tobacco. If I were eager to make money-- which I thank goodness I am not--I should take to London, Paris, Berlin and other European cities about 500 good negro barbers from the United States, and set them up in about a hundred nice little shops of the Ameri­ can style. There is a fortune in-such a chain of real, civilized barber shops, in which one may be shaved without being made to think that an interna­ tional war is at hand. , The foreign barber doesn't talk you to death. He has other ways ol' carrying out his mur­ derous designs upon you. If you sur­ vive the operation, which ds fast and fierce--once over--then you are per­ mitted to wash your own face and dry it, comb your hair, arrange your mus­ tache, and brush your own clothes. Or, I would establish throughout Eu­ rope a chain of American drug stores-- not simple chemist shops, with their bad smells and funereal air, but gen­ uine bright American drug stores, with a fine sizzling soda fountain and all the usual accessories. The foreigners dote on cbol drinks and ices and refreshing things such as our drug stores offer, but they don't know how to make or get them. American ice cream soda would sweep Europe like a nor'wester and put more gold into the pocket of its promoter than he could dig in Klondike in a lifetime. He Likes Steel Roads. An Interesting series of experiments with steel rail roadways fpr earth high­ ways by a prominent engineer and con­ tractor of Pittsburg named F. Melber has attracted the attention of the De­ partment of Agriculture, which has de­ cided to begin experiments on its own account in order to test the value of the plan. Mr. Melber's statement is as fol­ lows: "My road is now in position about a month, and among other interesting things I have watched the temperature of the steel when exposed to the hot afternoon sun. Every steel worker knows that steel bars lying in the yards of a bridge works, for instance, will get so warm in a few minutes that the men cannot held them in their hands. I find that my steel stringers remain cooler than the adjacent broken stone. I think this is as well a remark­ able as an important fact, and it goes to show that there takes place an in­ terchange of the temperature between the inner substances and the steel, and that in this class of steel highways we do not need to provide for expansion. Altogether I find the steel road to ver­ ify all I have said at various times about it, even as to cost, ahd-Wltli re­ gard to traction advantages I am now- able to give figures. I have made twen­ ty trials, using a gauged spring bal­ ance, and find that the average forte needed to pull an iron wagon weighing 1,550 pounds with a sixteen-foot wagon bed is 2.5 pounds, which reduced to a load of 2.000 pounds means a traction force of 3.23 pounds per ton. My tests demonstrate that the steel roads need for traction one-twelfth the power aa compared with macadam, and one- twenty-seventh the power as compared with earth roads." Congress is to be petitioned at this session for the...necessary siitu, to' equip a number of roads in different parts of the country with the steel rails aud the plan will be tested ou a whole sale scale before any decided action is taken to make the system general throughout the country. It is an im provement of such an important kind that there will probably be a popular demand for its as soon as the general public, especially that portion of it whose business lies In the way of coun­ try roads, becomes aware of the fact that experiments are goiug ou. Then the inhuman spectacle of weary horses dragging heavy loads through mud and clay that clog the wheels almost to the spokes will be a thing of the past. Turning Over a vc?; I.euf. mmr/c Mlf MiEHUU •Uncle Sam's New Year Resolution. 8par.ni of Good Sense. The New York Evening Post is good enough to say that "the Republican res­ olution to make no change in the tariff this winter.is in every way commend­ able," because "the country has suf fered so much from tariff tinkering that it desires above all things steadiness in one experiment or other." This is a remarkable spasm of good sense on the part of a free trade organ which in the past five months has done little else than raise a series of frantic hullaba loos about deficits and prate about the "failure" of the Dingley tariff. Success of Irrigation in the Sahara. No fewer than 12,0'>0,000 acres of barren land have been fruitful in the Sahara desert, an enterprise represent­ ing perhaps the most remarkable ex ample of irrigation by means of arte sian wells which can anywhere be found. Algeria owes to this method of cultivation that it is becoming a most important wine-producing country, as may be gauged from the fact that it sent to France in 1890 10,500,000 gal­ lons. More Work and Wages. Hundreds of thousands of men who were idle at the beginning of the Me Kinley administration are now em ployed, thanks, largely, to the passage of the Dingley bill, which gives sus­ taining protection to our manufactur­ ers, and there has been, too, a noticea­ ble increase in wages.--Kansas City Journal. Died Jnst in Time. It is a good thing the Wilson act was not given an opportunity to show that it could raise enough revenue. By the time that point had been reached the sap would have gone from our own in­ dustries.--Wilmington News. With His Little Hatchet. Getting Out of the Ruts. I The L. A. W. Bulletin offers prizes for the best photographs of choice stretches of our bed roads. Van Buren County, Michigan, has c, goodly-increase of 'mileage in gradtir and graveling to add to the good roads record for 1897. If Missouri wants to be in the line of marcliQ>f that promised advance of prosperity it might be just as well to let the good roads movement pave the way.--St. Louis Republic. A large and enthusiastic good roads State convention has lately been held In Columbia, S. C. It recommends the organization of a State commission or bureau of road improvement. New Type of Westerner. Time was when the Westerner of fiction was a rudely heroic figure, eliiv alrie and resourceful, reckless of life as the new school of novelists, and in­ ured to adventure as one of Mr. Da­ vis' heroes. He lived by preference in a mining camp, or if geologic consider­ ations prevented that he was apt to be a rancher, an Indian fighter or at least a cowboy. There was more than a suggestion of the untamed wilderness about him, and though generally im­ possible he was always interesting. The Westerner of recent fiction is an entirely different character. Ills home has been changed, for one thing, and instead of the Rockies of the great plains he now affects what might be called iu semi-nautical phrase the West-middle-west. He lias lost his naively reckless ways in the removal, and his chief purpose in life now seems to be to set forth the iniquity of exist­ ing social conditions. Octave Thanets missionary sheriff, it is true, is a lineal descendant of the old type, as engaging if perhaps as improbable as the gentle­ manly and high-minded gamblers or the simple hearted desperadoes in whom Bret Harte reveled; but turn to the character of that self-proclaimed prophet of the Northwest, Hamlin. Gar­ land, and what a falling off we find! Ilis people do not live; they work. Life, as he sees it, is a ceaseless round of fierce toil performed angrily and re. belliously -by men who lack the force to make their rebellion effective.. They complain, and sometimes' they grow brutal toward their womankind, but their revolt carries them no further. They have altogether lost the fighting spirit. They shrink aud cower before' the winters cold; they shudder and wince at the pain of husking corn witli worn fingers; they swear and rage over the discomforts of heavy work in hot weather.--Scribner's. A Moscow Church. One result of the Franco-Russian alli­ ance is to be seen in the proposition to erect for the Paris exposition the fa­ mous church of Vassili Blagennoi, in Moscow, built in the sixteenth century, of which tradition says that its archi­ tect was blinded by Ivan the Terrible, that he might never produce another building so beautiful. To Western taste It seems odd rather than beautiful, but Moscow is a city of oddities. "There are two notable things here," said a citizen of Moscow to a traveler, "Tol­ stoi and the great bell--they are both cracked." Takes His Part. "Well," remarked -the comedian; who. had been promised a small part after; being idle half the season, "even a small role is better than a whole loaf." --Philadelphia Record. When a woman spends^fully half Jier time soliciting for "her church," she may depend upon«it that the people kave a mighty poor opinion of her. ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS . The House was in session ten minutes vFriday morning without a quorum jpresent. The Senate bill making an ap­ propriation of $15,000 to pay the employes of the present extra session was advanc­ ed to second reading. There was not a quorum present in the Senate. Senator Crawford reported the primary election bills. An adjournment of both houses was taken till 5 p. in. Monday. There was no quorum in either branch Monday afternoon, but both House and Seriate held sessions on Tuesday. In the House the most characteristic feature the debate in committee of the whole Was the disposition to incorporate drastic pen­ alties for concealment of property from the assessor. Mr. Allen of- Vermilion, Col. Merriam and others spoke warmly on this head. Finally,Mr. Perry offered an amendment to the Compton bill pro­ viding that all property not listed in the sworn schedule,$,eiit to the assessor shall be confiscated. One-half of it to go to the .informer. In spite of some doubt as to the constitutionality of a confiscation law, trie amendment was adopted by the com­ mittee of the whole. tx In the matter of revenue reform the Senate did nothing beyond having introduced the revenue coiuniittee's. bill. The primary elections bill has been reported back to the Senate with amendments^ On Wednesday the House took up on third reading McEniry's bill taxing gas companies 4 per cent, on their gross earn­ ings in addition to present taxes. Several speeches were made and upon roll call tile bill failed to pass. Yeas, 01, nays, 48. LaMonteV bill taxing grain hr elev.ators was advanced'to third reading. Nohe's bill authorizing the State Board of Equalization to assess the personal prop­ erty of foreign corporations, as well as of Illinois corporations, was adopted by an overwhelming vote. The only business transacted in the Senate was the reading of the Senate revenue bill a second time. When the Secretary concluded the read­ ing, Senator Crawford moved that fur­ ther consideration be postponed until Tuesday, immediately after the reading of the journal. The motion prevailed and an adjournment was taken. Thursday's session of the Senate lasted only five minutes. Senator Crawford's primary election bill came up as a special order, but consideration was postponed until the following Tuesday, after Mr. Crawford offered an amendment, which was ordered printed. The object of the amendment is to change the provision that primary*districts shall constitute two election districts. The amendment pro­ vides that in Congressional townships a ;primary may be held in one election dis­ trict. The amendment further provides that the county committee of a party may conduct a primary election where the judges and clerks of election belong to the opposite party. In the House Mr. McEniry moved to reconsider the v<vte by which his gas and electric light tax bill failed to pass on Wednesday. He then had consideration of the question postponed until the next Wednesday. The Wrong Words. She was a good girl, and when the boy told her of the love that he had ex­ perienced for six consecutive weeks, she felt sorry that it was so, says John Walker Harrington, in the Criterion, lie was younger than she. Most boys fall in love with women who are at least three years older than they are. She was the boy's first love. She could tell by the way he acted that he had never made love to a woman before. "I am so very sorry," she said, "that you feel as you do. I should regret it still more if I thought that I had ever said anything or acted in a way to en­ courage you." "You haven't," repHed that boy. "Still is that any reasou why a man should uot hope?" "But you are so young," sighed the girl.. "You're not a man. You won't be for several years yet. Of course you must know that it cannot be. Don't think about it any more; you've been very foolish. One of these days you will thank me for speaking to you as I have." The boy went away and became a man. Ills cheeks lost their roundness, and strange lines came into that youth­ ful face. Success seemed to go before him. The town got in the habit of calling him a "rising something or other." It doesn't matter what. | He and the girl met after years, and the said that she was very glad to see him. She didn't think of him as a boy. She had married, and a youngster was toddling by her side. "Do you remember the old days?" she asked, as they were walking by the shore and watching the child, who was playing over the clear white sand. "I do. What a fool I was! Do you know you said I would some day thank you for speaking to me as you did? Well, now I admit I was an idiot then-- and, really, I must thank you " "That's enough, sir," said the wo­ man, her eyes-ablaze as she spoke. "I have no wish to be insulted any fur­ ther. I bid you good-morning." And she went away before the man could get a chance to thank lior for the sensible way in which she had talked to him in the years gone by. Strange \VeddingcGifts. In England, of course, the umbrella is much more in necessary evidence than with us, and a part of house-furnish­ ing absolutely and constantly required. Yet it always strikes the American mind as odd to see how many umbrellas are given as wedding presents. Every British bride has any number among her gifts. ^ Slight Misapprehension. "Don't you go wild over the beauties of auturuu?" "I don't know; they don't look any prettier to me than the summer girls." --Detroit Free Press. fftrrrrrr Manufactures of One City. Birmingham, England, turns out ev- erory week 300,000 cut nails, 100,000,- 000 buttons, 4,000 miles of wire of dif­ ferent sizes, five tons of hairpins, 500 tons of nuts and 20,000 pairs of spec­ tacles. Cable Messages. It will surprise some people to know that during the busiest time on the At­ lantic cable, between 10 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon, an average of 900 mes­ sages pas^ each way every day. Kansas People Have Money. The Kansas commissioner of banks reports that 374 banks, iu the State have $22,000,000 iu deposits, which, added to the deposits iu national banks, will' run up to $40,000,000. The loans are over $10,000,000- $1,000,000 more than last year.' Use of Steel Wire. A German paper calls attention to the extraordinary fact that at Aachen alone 800 tons of steel wire are used up annually in the manufacture of nee­ dles--4,500,000,000 in number, valued at $1,500,000. One of f the most skillful counterfeiti that the secret service detectives hare ever come across was brought into the treasury last week. It is a $100 silver certificate and the counterfeiting had been so cleverly done that the experts of the Treasury Department could not de­ tect the fact that the notes were forger­ ies until they had been put through a se­ vere test. Altogether five bad notes have been discovered, and they are all evi­ dently the work of the same skilled hand. In view of .the dangerous character of the counterfeit Secretary Gage has called in all $100 silver certificates, of which there are about $26,000,000 outstanding. These will be exchanged for silver certifi­ cates of smaller denominations and the plates destroyed. , • • . * * * The destitute in Cuba need all kinds of summer clothing, new or second-hand for men, women and children, blankets and sheets, medicines for fevers, particularly quinine; meat extracts, condensed milk and prepared soups and other formS of fo6d suitable for invalids are particularly desired; also bacon, rice, lard, flour, corn- meal, potatoes, beans, peas, preserved meats, fish, fruits and vegetables, din­ ned goods of all kinds and every other form of food that will not .be injured by a five days' voyage and exposure to the tropical climate of Cuba. The distribu­ tion of these supplies will be made through the several consuls and consular agents of the United States and: such oth­ er agencies as Gen. Lee may find usefoL * • • Col. Morrison is now at his home in Waterloo, 111., and does not expect ever to return to Washington again as an offi­ cial. His six years' term as president of the Interstate Commerce Commission has expired. He is now 72 years old, and by the time President McKinley's term ia out he will be 75, hence he does not con­ sider himself any longer an available presidential candidate, but he is quite con­ fident that after his long official life he has strength and brains enough left to earn a living, and offers his services to any person or persons who desire the ad­ vice and counsel of a good lawyer. He ia going to hang out a shingle on the main street of Waterloo, and will whittle the arm of his chair until he gets a client. » * * The pension lists will not be published. The Secretary of the Interior is decidedly opposed to the proposition. He does not believe it would result in any good, bnt would furnish the claim agents with ma­ terial for another raid upon the treasury. He thinks that the experience of the de­ partment when the lists were published before, some twenty years ago, would be repeated. Then the old soldiers were de­ luded with enticing circulars from claim agents, who offered to secure them an increase it they would :idvnnco nionev to pay the expense of working up the evi­ dence. It is the opinion of the law offi­ cers of the department that they can find cases of fraud without publicity. The plan of using reindeer as means ot transportation from Dyea to Dawson in the Klondike does not promise success, owing to the inability of the Government agent in Lapland to get animals to this country in time for service this winter. There is also some question about the value of reindeer iu Alaska. There ia plenty of moss there for the animals, but' It will be buried under many feet of snow, and some of the most experienced arctic explorers say that the reijC transport enough to from Dyea to Dawson.„ dogs will be When the pqn&ir<«>Ki$$8s jhebffrWash- ington la#t yeMp^S^UdfcIaed that on or before Jan. IjjpKwS, the three principal denominations of the postage stamps of the world should be of uniform color. The 1-cent stamp of the United States and the frank of like value in foreign coun­ tries is to be green, of the same shade as the old 3-cent stamp. The 2-cent stamp is to remain vermilion in color, and Great Britain's penny purple must conform to it, while in the case of the 5-cent stamp we will adopt the blue of her 2^-pence piece. * * * In the course of the removal of the books and papers of the Congressional Li­ brary to the new building, an unexpected find has been made in the shape of a large box of papers written by Thomas Jeffer­ son. These were found stored away in a little room next the entrance to the li­ brary, which had been under lock and key for many years. • • * •.; i<. a i The complete consolidation of Nicara­ gua, Salvador and Honduras into a sov­ ereign republic is progressing steadily, ac­ cording to advices received by Senor Cor- rea, charge d'affaires of the greater re­ public o£ Central America. * # * t V The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Reform Bureau have en­ tered protests against <the permission granted for the sale of wine and beer in the restaurant of the new Congressional Library building. * *• * The Secretary of State has received al­ together about $7,000 in cash as the re­ sult of his appeal to the public for con­ tributions for the distressed eitizetj^of Cuba. * * * Mr. Lippmann of Olyphant, Ark., sug­ gests that it would be a good idea for the Government to publish the names of the old soldiers who are not drawing pensions. • • • Secretary Alger gave a Christmas pres­ ent in the shape of a $5 bill to every one of the forty-eight charwomen and mes­ sengers in the War Department. •;> ' The Washington Post recommends Grover Cleveland for the chair of duck- ology at Princeton. It looks as if Japan could find a few countries to practice ou before opening war with the United States. If England tackles Russia over the Chiuese matter, cannot Great Britain be found guilty of rushing the growler? England is becoming more active in this eastern imbroglio, and while the Mongo­ lian may turn tail, he won't twist the lioii's. New York ought to experience little difficulty iu convicting another Guldea- suppe murderer, having once learned the Nack of it.