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Rockford RIOTERS SHOT DOWN, SPANISH MOBS ASK BREAD, AND GET BULLETS. Violent Demonstrations Are Report-, ed Throughout 'pain--Restaurants. Shops, and the Homes of Merchants' Stoned by Hungry Crowds. Many Killed or Wounded. Dispatches indicate that the crisis in Spain has become intensified. The queen regent is rapidly losing the little popu­ larity she has, and is now insolently re­ ferred to as "that Austrian woman." It is believed she would quit Spain at once should she beiieve that such a stop would promote the interests of tjhe infant kin::. Meanwhile the trouble in the provinces increases and the rioting may become a revolution. Thus far a number of per­ sons have been killed and wounded and several buildings wrecked^ In the finan­ cial wprld all is chads, lluns on banks everywhere prevail, and the funds with­ drawn are being hoarded. The speech of Lord Salisbury in London enraged the, Spaniards; They discern that with En­ gland -in sympathy with America the other European powers will hesitate to act for Spain. The outlook in Madrid grows darker every hour that passes. Reports of riot pour in from the provinces, an«l in most cases there has been bloodshed. A se­ rious disturbance occurred at Oaceres, and a still more : violent dejpo|i^*aTi3a took place at Leon, where la^e^Vrowds of women and children paraded the streets crying, "Give us bread or work." These paraders were joined by large numbers of men, and the disorder became greater. The mob stoned the restaurants, provision shops, and the houses of njer- chants, breaking doors ahd windows 'and seizing everything they could lay hahds on. The civil guard called upon jjbe crowd to disperse, but the demand refused, whereupon thqK tcoops firet* volley into the mob. ,A mob of 10;i persons rioted at Helquist and piunde houses on all sides. The.poliee'Ered | the crowd. Eight thousand miners, who are on strike at Murcia, paraded the streets shouting "Death to the thieves," "Down with the octroi dues." The mob tried to set fire to the railway station- and a number of other buildings, but was not successful. The mob then marched on Cartagena, but was intercepted by troops, who fired upon and wounded sev­ eral of the rioters. All these disturbances are due to eco­ nomic causes, to the great dearth of wheat and the consequent advance in the price of bread, a rid the closing of fac­ tories and workshops, owing to the com­ plete paralyzation' of trade and the pro­ hibitive prices of coal and raw materials. The government is adopting drastic meas­ ures to keep food in the country. A bill passed the cortes, to come into immediate operation, totally prohibiting expert of wheat, flour, and potatoes. . ARMY DEFICIENCY BILL. BiR War Measure Hurriedly Passed by Both Houses of Congress. Both houses of Congress Monday pass­ ed the $36,000,000 deficiency appropria­ tion war bill which contains several items of interest. It appropriates $350,000 for torpedo work and $150,034 for the ex­ penses of the Cuban expeditionary force. The latter item is particularly significant just at this time. With it was a foot note from Maj. Gen. Miles urging that the fund was required with the least pos­ sible delay, explaining that the $50,000.- 000 appropriation for national defense has been allotted and there is no money avail­ able for this particular object. The Cuban expedition^ paragraph in­ cludes $42,000 for "mifcn^seen contingent expenses which iuvoly©^§lime d i a te expen­ diture for purposes {^Minperative urgen­ cy;" $33,500 for portable electric outfit, and $12,095 for intrenching tools. The largest item under any head is $10,000,-, 000 for clothing, camp and garrison equip­ age. The other big items were published with estimates. DOLE OFFERS HAWAII. Makes Formal Tender of Islands to Uncle Sam. President Dole has sent a long com­ munication to President McKinley, offer­ ing to President McKinley, offering to transfer the Hawaiian islands to the United States for purposes of its war with Spain, and to furnish American ships of war in Pacific waters with iarge quantities of coal, supplies, and ammuni­ tion. This action was unexpected in Washington. There, is a general senti­ ment in Congress favorable to the ac­ ceptance of the offer, and a Washington correspondent says that when it is for­ mally received it is probable that the President will send to Congress a mes­ sage recommending the passage of a bill granting him authority to act. / JUPITER : JENKINS, "Jovi rum Placet" wrote the: red- headed girl in the back scat of the Wide. oblong sehooi-room. Harrison Jenkins, the presiding genius of the place, stood scowling behind his desk, straggling with the class in Latin. These young boys and girls, who look­ ed pityingly up to his dark face, were struggling with the verb "sum." The lesson had been poorly prepared and the issue of thunderbolts was soon expected to shower from this pedagog­ ical Olympus. At last it came. Mr. Jenkins brought his fist down vpon the plain deal board with a thump that awoke every languid mind in the room. "Is this what you come to,school for?" he began, as if address­ ing a jury. "Is this the way you use one of the most precious gifts that God has given to you? Here you are, a whole class of bright boys and girls, with brains enough to do anything you desire in this great world, throwing away the greatest opportunity of your lires. If this was an institution for weak-minded children I would have some compassion for you. But your faces are all bright and your eyes are dear, and yet you will come to me with such a lesson as this!" Mr. Jen­ kins punctuated every sentence with that echoing thump on the desk which carried conviction and mortification to the minds of each boy and girl before him. it was then that the red-headed girl on the back seat wrote "Jovi non placet" ("It is not pleasing to Jupiter"). Geraldine Coffin was Mr. Jenkins' pride. He had no favorites; at least, such never appealed in the little com­ monwealth which he held in the hol­ low of his hand. But in Geraldine he was intensely interested, and he often found in her his greatest irritation. While Mr. Jenkins held the whole of his fifty odd young spirits in the hol­ low of his hand, the red-headed girl was the one person he was not quite sure of. Geraldine had given him the name of "Jupiter," and it fitted so well that it was at once adopted by all his subjects. "When he pounds his desk and that great shaggy head shakes so, and his Wue eyes flash, all I can think of is Jupiter sending thunderbolts to earth" --and in this remark Geraldine had christened him. Many times he had thought he had heard the name of Jupi­ ter Jenkins, but he had never been able to capture one of these erring mortals. Of course, he knew he was called Jupi­ ter--he had been told so by admiring parents, who knew he would be pleas­ ed, and he was. But it was with the red-headed girl that this story is chiefly concerned. 8he was the only human problem that Jupiter Jenkins could not solve. Ger­ aldine Coffin had been an inmate of the schoolroom only a fe-^v days when Mr. Jenkins discovered that she possessed an unusual mind. He laid his plans to make the most he could of her. He was accustomed to use the parable of the talents in the schoolroom, and to say that to whom much was given much would be required. The getting of lessons was an easy matter to Ger­ aldine Coffin. She not only learned them, but the truths and principles were digested, and sank into her mind, dearly understood and stored away, until the day which would call them into use. Jupiter Jenkins was accustomed to say that hardly more than one child in twenty really digested knowledge. II. He had come to complain to Geral­ dine's mother that her daughter some­ times failed in her lessons, and that it was, inexcusable in one who had sbch a mind. "I have come to tell you this, Mrs. Coffin, when I would not take the trouble to inform another mother, for this reason and it alone: Geraldine has an unusual mind,, and she can make anything she pleases of herself. If she knows you and I are one in this mat­ ter, she will not care to trouble us by neglecting to get her lessons." Geraldine's mother was as much flat­ tered as any other woman would be, and, of course, Jupiter Jenkins was up­ held. Thus he dealt with Geraldine. conscious of his power. He endeavored toimakcher fail, and, whenever she did. she was compelled to remain after school and get her lessons. But, with a wonderful mind, there was a somewhat wayward nature in thetextureof Geraldine Coffin's person­ ality. She was often rough and hoy- denisb, and she caused no end of trou­ ble^ TftTith the deep interest the young master took in her. a sense of power developed. When Mr. Jenkins suppos­ ed he bad her solidly in his control, there would burst forth a fit of "don't cartf* ip her which astonished and alarmed him. Then the thunderbolts flew to punc­ tuate the master's fluent words of in­ dignation. "When one has the mighty gift of brains." he thundered, "and life's road lies before to choose what is best arid highest, to be? lazy and lan­ guid, and not to reach the arm to grasp the golden apple of Hesperides. is the greatest wrong." It was then that Geraldine, her color slightly brighter and her head a trifle higher, would return to her seat and write, "Jovi non placet"--"It is not pleasing to Jupiter," There were certain rare , facts about Geraldine that Jupiter Jenkins,, in his Cher's enthusiasm, had not noticed. One of these was that she was a very pretty girl. But if he had been imper­ vious to this fact there were others who had not. and among those were some of the big boys in the school. Geraldine was growing, and she was now tall and lithe of figure, with her big blue eyes clearer and more express­ ive, as she looked at people. The true soul of a rather designing maiden was showing forth from them. She was j glad to receive attentions, and it smote Jupiter hard when he observed that she walked with one and then with another in the still and balmy spring evenings. Just why it smote him as it did Mr. Jenkins never knew until a few years later. But it did, and Geraldine's face seem- to relent In the hard opinion they had) entertained of her, and saw another person in the tall and earnest young woman who had appeared before them. Jupiter Jenkins had ended his work as schoolmaster in the' little seaport town. He had been studying laVv, and was |now employing the same forensic tal-* ents he had used before his schoolroom in a more lucrative if not a higher court. He was "up in the city," and was making a name. When Geraldine had finished her course In the normal school she received1 the highest commendation, and the old- principal happened to find a good place for her in the same city where Jupiter was making his way. • When Geraldine had come Into his office at the end of the first quarter It was the first - intimation that he had' received of her presence in the city. She said she had come to make a pay­ ment, and while she spoke poor Jupiter was turning all sorts of ruddy colors. "But I hadn't heard you -^ere here,/ Geraldine." he said. "I have been thinking of you, too ,and wondering if I should l^ar from you. Of course. I knew I should. But somehow I cannot get you out of my head, girl." This was punctured with one of the old-time thunderbolts. "Fact.Is, Geraldine, I've only just found out why I treated you so hard when in school. And it was simply this--I loved you! I want you always; I want you to make me happy, to be my wife!" , 8 ; Geraldine smiled as' she raised her face and received the salute from his lips. "I knew that was the matter all the time," she said.--Cincinnati Commer­ cial-Tribune. Odd Notices. The following notice Is displayed in a hotel in Norway: "Bath! First-class bath. Can anybody get. Tushbath. Warm and cold. Tub bath and shower bath. At any time. Except Saturday. By two hours forbore." And this is the notice that was posted up recently In an AND IT WAS SIMPLY THIS-I LOVED YOU! I WANT YOU ALWAYS-- ed to have framed itself into the center of his thoughts. She recurred to his consciousness constantly, and when he thought of these big boys he was truly uncomfortable. He had another conference with Mrs. Coffin, in which he suggested that Ger­ aldine had better be kept in the house and made to give closer attention to her lessons. When he called her in recita­ tions he was also doing his best to make the girl fail. And when she did fail he did his best to make it uncom­ fortable for her. She had to remain after school and get the whole lesson. Jupiter made her recite it all, "precept upon precept," so to speak. He had conceived the ambi,tion to make a teacher of the girl. He broached the subject to Mrs. Coffin. "Geraldine," he began, "is cut out to be a teacher." Mrs. Coffin started in astonishment. "Yes she is," he affirmed, With a thun­ derbolt, "and she ought to be sent to a normal school. I never went to one, and what I know about teaching has been gained by. experience. But there is no mistake. The learning of meth­ ods means something in these days, and I'm sure that if Geraldine is sent to a normal school she will make a first-rate teacher." Mrs. Coffin thought it over for a few days, and then came to the conclusion that Mr. Jenkins was right. That was the usual conclusion about Mr. Jenkins in the little village. The idea was placed before Geraldine, and when she heard of Jupiter's proposal she smiled a smile thai made her mother look at her twice. But Geraidine had the key to certain kinds of human nature which was far beyond her years. She thought she would like to go, and it was a great joy when she came to Jupiter's throne, and in her sweetest and calmest man­ ner thanked him for his$kindness, and said she would do her best to deserve it. That was the happiest day that Jupiter had ever had in the school. He did not understand it, but there >vas a singing in his. heart as homelike as the singing of a tea kettle and as soft as a cat's purr. Geraldine took new interest in school. She tried no more of her subtle ways to disturb Jupiter, and the boys found a change in her, which at once set their former interest at naught. "She ain't no more fun," they all agreed, and they troubled her no more. Geraldine entered the normal school and passed her preliminary examina­ tions with extraordinary success. She was one of the highest three out of a large class. The veteran principal of the school knew human nature at a glance. He wrote to Jupiter a letter which confirmed all that worthy had said about the wild, nomadic Geraldine. When Geraldine returned at the end of her first year the townspeople began art exhibition in Tokio, Japan: "Visit­ ors are requested at the entrance to show tickets for inspection. Tickets are charged 10 cens and 2 cens for the spe­ cial and common respectively. No vis­ itor who is mad or intoxicated is al­ lowed to enter in, if any person found in shall be claimed to retire. No visitor is allowed to carry in with himself any parcel, umbrella, stick, and the like kind, except his purse, and is strictly forbidden to talk within himself dog, or the same kind of beasts. Visitor is requested to take good care of himself from thievely." ACT DECLARED VOID. STATE APPORTIONMENT IN ILLINOIS. FAILS Supreme Conrt of the State Says the Work of the Legislature in Defining New Senatorial Districts Is Uncon* atitutional, and Therefore Invalid. Supreme Court Gives Seasons. .The senatorial apportionment passed by the recent extra session of the Illinois Legislature is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The opinion is written by Judge Cartwright. It sets out" that the relator, William Morning, applied to the county, clerk eLAS^ill Coun­ ty**'for certification as the Democratic nominee from the senatorial district com­ posed of the county of Will, as appor­ tioned by the act approved June 15, 1893, and in force July 1, 1893, and that the clerk refused certification on the ground that said district, the 25th. now consists of the counties of Will and DuPage, un­ der the apportionment made by the act approved Jan. 11, 1898, and in force July I, 1898. The case was an agreed one, and came to the court as a petition for a writ of p&remptory mandamus. The court dismisses the writ and finds the for­ mer act in force. The court, enters into a full discussion Of the functions of-Government a ixl the powers of the different departments. The constitution says the General Assembly shall apportion the State every ten years, beginning with the year 1871, by dividing the population of the State, as ascertain­ ed by the Federal census, by 51, and the quotient shall be the ratio of representa­ tion in the Senate. Acting under the provisions of the constitution, the Legis­ lature by act of June 15, 1893, "divided the State according to the last Federal census into fifty-one senatorial districts, and by that act the county of Will was made the 25th district. The act of Jan. II, 1898, was in form an amendment which remodeled and changed forty-three of these senato^al districts, and in the case of the 25th district added to Will County the county of DuPage. The court says: jU- ,i" The passage of an apportionment act is the exercise of a leglslativel power, and If there were no other provisions .relating to apportionment than the general legislative authority conferred by section 1 the Leg­ islature might apportion the State at its pleasure at any time. There is no express denial in the Constitution of the right to exercise this power whenever the Legislature may see fit, and It is therefore argued for the defendant that it may be exercised at any time and that the Legislature may make an apportionment whenever it chooses. Tlila does not follow, however, and it is not es­ sential, In order that the Constitution may operate as a prohibition, that it shall con­ tain a specific provision that apportionments shall not be made otherwise than according to its provisions. Where there are provis­ ions Inserted by the people as to the time when a power shall be exercised there, is at least a stroug presumption that they design It should be exercised at that time only. The Legislature must keep within the bounds of the legislative powers granted to It and observe the directions of the Consti­ tution. This doctrine was upheld In State vs. Wrightson, where an apportionment of assembly districts in New Jersey was In question. It is here admitted that the pro­ visions for apportionment are all exclusive PTPPTit the particular time. The only claim is that the time is not exclusive, and we cannot see any substantial ffeound for es­ tablishing a different rule respecting the time than the mode of doing the act. The Federal Constitution adopted in 1787 pro­ vides in section 2, article 1," for an enumera­ tion within three years after the first meet­ ing of Congress, and every subsequent term of ten years, as a basis for the apportion­ ment of representatives and direct taxes. Under that Constitution a census has been taken in every period of ten years, com­ mencing with 1700, and under it there will be at every period of ten years provided for by the Constitution bt this State a census taken as a basis for division of the State into Sen­ atorial districts. The conditions for the exercise of this power of apportionment are particularly pre­ scribed, and we think that those acting under it cannot vary its conditions. We are convinced that the construction we have given to the Constitution is the correct one and we feel ourselves under the necessi­ ty of declaring the apportionment act of 1898 unconstitutional and invalid. A per­ emptory writ of mandamus is awarded ac­ cording to the prayer of the petition. Judges Wilkin aud Carter dissent. HOW IT HELPS COMMERCE. ILLINOIS TEACHERS' MEETING. Present at took posses- day, and the Big Gains in the Exports of Farm Products and Manufactures. The fear that the Dingley bill was designed to kill the foreign commerce of the United States is hardly bdrne out, as some of the figures from the "Monthly Summary of Finance and Commerce" from the Treasury Depart­ ment of the United States will show. While the exports of last year were In excess of any previous year, this year is making a new record. For the first eight months of the fiscal year the to-, tal,, exports exceed $800,000,000, or $100,000,000 a month. In the same period lastyear'tiie total was but $735,- 000,000. '/ " The farmer comes in for his share of the mereasp, the Exports of agricul­ tural products in, the eight months be­ ing $575,000,000. Manufactured goods have increased in the eight months $6,- 500,000 over the corresponding \ime foar laist year. Nevertheless, it is the farm Which has done' the best. The exports of ^readetuffs were $212,000,000 in the eight months, almost 50 per cent, more than last year, when the total in the same time w&s $142,700,000. But the exports of breadstuffy are not the only gains in favor of the farmer. . The ex­ ports of cattie and hogs increased from $22,850,000 to $26,170,000. Horses and mules made as phenomenal an increase as breadstuffthe advance being from a value of $2,T25,000 to $4,240,000. The export value of fruits and nuts increas­ ed $500,000, and of hops quite that much. Cotton seed and linseed oil and oil cake increased $4,000,000, and pro­ visions $13,500,000. Under the Dingley bill the farmer has gained $75,000,000 in two-thirds of the year. It is at the rate of more than $2,000,000 a week. From the farm standpoint there is nothing the matter with the Dingley bill as a promoter of commerce.--Pittsiburg Times. Our Flourishing Foreign Trade. The following table comparing the foreign commerce of March, 189S, with that of the corresponding month in 1897 is even more encouraging than the February report. The authority for the figures is the Government "Statis­ tical Abstract:" Exports Imports March, '98. .$116,821,370 . (k>,721,618 March, '97. $92,221,570 78,350,379 Excess of imp.$53,099,758 $13,871,191 With the $60,000,000 in gold which has recently come into the United States from Europe, causing the Bank of England in self-defense to advance its rate of interest, and with the free gold in our own national treasury upon the verge of $180,000,000, it is certainly reassuring to contemplate the fact that the March exports exceeded the imports by $53,000,000, as compar­ ed with an excess of only $13,000,000 in exports over imports a year ago. It is computed that the settling in gold of the trade balance in favor of the United States at the present time would require at" least $75,000,000. A very pleasing change has certainly come about since President McKinley's inauguration. The international strug­ gle for gold has since that time pro­ ceeded wonderfully to the advantage of the United States. The only thing that clouds the commercial future is the war. The money paid abroad for fight­ ing ships will make a new and costly addition on the import side. . Such ex­ penditures will help other nations to gain gold and force us to lose it.--Mil­ waukee Wisconsin. PROLIFIC LIFE IN ALASKA. Full of Fnr-bearing Animals and Feathered Songsters. John Muir, who has summered and wintered in the Alaskan lands, toward which all men's eyes and many men's feet are now turning, says in the At­ lantic: Nowhere on my travels so far have I seen such warm-blooded, re­ joicing life as in this grand Arctic res­ ervation, by so many regarded as deso­ late. Not only are there whale in abundance along the shores, ana in­ numerable seals, walruses and white bears, but great herds of fat reindeer on the tundras, and wild sheep, foxes, hares, lemmings, whistling marmots and birds. Perhaps more birds are : born here than in any other regioi.' of equal extent on the continent. Not only j do strong-winged hawks, eagles and ; water fowl, to whom the length of the | continent is only a pleasant excursion, I come up here every Summer in great numbers, but also many short-winged warblers, thrushes and finches, to rear their young in safety, re-enforce the plant bloom with their plumage and sweeten the wilderness with song, fly­ ing all the way, some of them, from Florida, Mexico and Central America. In thus going so far north they are only going home, for they were born here, aud only go south to spend the winter months, as New-Englanders go to Florida. Sweet-voiced troubadours, they sing in orange groves and vine- clad magnolia woods in winter, in thick­ ets of dwarf birch and alder in sum­ mer, and sing and chatter more or less all the way back and forth, keeping the whole country glad. Oftentimes in New England, just as the last snow patches are melting and the sap in the maple begins to flow, the blessed wan­ derers may be heard about orchards and the edges of*fields, where they have stopped to glean a scanty meal, not tar­ rying long, knowing t-bey have far to go. Tracing the footsteps of spring, they arrive in the tundra homes in June or July, and set out on their return journeys in September, or as soon as their families are able to fly well. The free lunch attracts more men than the church festival. •< Fifteen Hundred the Fifteen hundred sion of Rockford tihe city was patriotically decorated with flags and bunting in honor of the annual con­ vention of the Northern Illinois Teachers' Association. The visitors were met at the trains by guides, fifty school boys volunteering for this work, and escorted to the headquarters at the Nelson House, where they were registered, provided with badges and assigned to the homes of the city which had been thrown open to them. The opening session of the convention was at' the First Congregational Church. After a musical program Dr. Charles Mc- Murray of Normal read a paper on "Class Room Methods," which was discussed by II. M. Slauson, Moline; F. W. Nichols, Evanston; J. E. Lemon, Blue Island, and Homer Bevans, Chicago. F. A. Kendall of Naperville followed with a paper on "School Libraries," which was discuss- ecyby W. J. Johnsou of Morrison and I. J. lloffman of Ottawa. At the general afternoon session at the State Street Baptist Church "Child Study" was the main subject considered, Charles-II. Thurbcr of the University of Chicago serving as chairman. Among other papers given were "The Bearing of Fatigue on Education/' by F. W. Snied- ley, University of Chicago; "Appercep­ tion and Child Study," .Manfred J. Holmes, State Normal University; "Car­ dinal Sins and Virtues in Child Training," M. V. O'Shea of the University of Wis­ consin, and "Applied Child Study," Fran- I eis W. Parker, Chicago Normal School. I The sectional meetings were held in • many of the school houses of the city, to accommodate the visitofs, there being a meeting for each grade besides the high school, drawing, music, county superin­ tendents and the general meeting. At the evening meeting an address of welcome was given by Mayor Brown, which was responded to by President J. M. Piper of Oregon. Prof. Frederick N. Starr of the University of Chicago gave a lecture on "The Origin of Number," and a musical and literary program occu­ pied the remainder of the evening. A Misplaced Coupling Pin. Of course, with war hanging over the country, nobody cares to discuss the tariff or currency, but, to change the subject, have you read the Chicago live stock market reports? Note these ex­ cerpts: * 1 Cattle receipts for the first three months of 1S98, about 52,000 head larg­ er than the corresponding period of 1897; commission firms look for large receipts at all points during the next three months. Tlog receipts for first three months in 1898, over 30,000 more than corre­ sponding time in 1897. Sheep receipts «for the first three months of the current year exceed all records, footing up 956,980, or 135,811 more than same time last year. When we put these facts alongside Mr. Bryan's theories and predictions, we are puzzled to find the coupling pin. --Burlington Hawkeye. Exercise in Kariy Mornlnjr. , Early morning exercise is denounced nowadays by the majority of hy^enic teachers. At that time, they say, vi­ tality is at its lowest ebb, and needs the stimulation of food. The King of Sweden has bestowed on the Scandinavian authoress, Clara Tschudi, the medal for art and science, It being the first time that a Scandin­ avian authoress has received this hon­ or. Clara Tscliudl's works have al­ ready been translated Into German, and are mostly on historical subjects. A suggestion has been put forward to raise the Ill-fated battleship Victoria, which sank in the Mediterranean With nearly all hands, by means of, among other things, heavy electromagnets. The successful raising of the vessel wotrtd cosf" nearly $560,000 Reason to Be Proud. , The effect of the Dingley law upon manufacturing may be inferred in part from the great activity iu most lines which has been observed during the last few months.' A proof of its bear­ ing upon industry is found in the fact that importations of manufactured ar­ ticles during the first half year of its existence fell off more than 20 per cent, from tne importations of the corre­ sponding months under the Wilson law. As to the benefits of the protective character of the act, however, there uever has been any question in the minds of the mass of voters. Thus far the Republican party lias every reason to be proud of the legislation which it enacted with such expedition.--Buffalo Express. A Gain in Both Directions. Ill the eight months of the present tariff law the balance of trade in our favor is in round numbers four hun­ dred and twenty million dollars, a gain of one hundred and seven millions over the same period under the Wilson bill, and, what is best of all, our exports are continually increasing in spite of the fact that we are spending millions for home products which formerly were purchased abroad.--Tacoma Ledger. New Southern Industries. Since the first of the year 015 indus­ trial enterprises have been started in the South, forty-two Qf which are lo­ cated in this State. This makes on the total number 31 per cent, more than the number reported for the fourth quarter of 1897, and gives encouraging indications of the progress being made by this section of the country!--Colum­ bia (S. C.) Register. None but a Spaniard. Do you suppost there is one man in the whole country who would honestly want the Dingley tariff law repealed and the Wilson law put back on the statute book§--that jis, any one but a Spaniard?--Hutchinson (Kan.) News. Why is it that the man who drinks 5- :ent whisky and smokes 3-for-5 cigars aever swears off? EARLY DAYS IN CAMP. 6,000 ILLINOIS SOLDIERS AT SPRINGFIELD. Camp Tanner Looks Busy and Warlike --Discomforts and Privations of the First Few Days--Small Number of Sick-Companies Are Overcrowded. With the Soldier Boys. Springfield correspondence: Eight thousand men were gathered in the Springfield fair grounds, newly chris­ tened Camp Tanner by the first general order, when the mess call sounded at noon on the first day of the encampment. From 5 o'clock in the* morning they had been pouring in. Train after train dis­ gorged its long files of armed and unarm­ ed men at the camp track. Train load after train load disembarked at the union depot in town. They marched, their slop­ ing rifles glistening in „the sun, through the quiet streets which the heavy beat of their drums suddenly roused to teem­ ing activity. They packed the street cars, which bore them tjy serpentine ways past long rows of old-fashioned age-browned" wooden houses, each in its setting of em­ erald lawn and leaf and erf pink and white peach and apple blossoms, to the muster place. They swept in eager columns over the camp grounds and entered the big wnpty buildings which echoed with hol­ low sound-to their tread and shout. Emerging from thence they dispersed and reassembled, marching hither and thither and 6till gathered by company and by battalion, until Gov. Tanner was able to telegraph to the War Department that eight regiments were mobilized at Spring­ field and ready to be mustered in. The most concise returns the colonels have been able to make at this time show that the total roster of men is 9,472. This amazing force of citizen soldiery, ready for business, in camp within forty-eight hourj after the issuance of the call, is divided as follows: First Infantry 1,381 Second Infantry 1*194 Third Infantry .*!.'!."!.!!! 1246 Fourth Infantry ....1250 Fifth Infantry , 11R9 Sixth Infantry .'l|202 Seventh Infantry '945 First Cavalry 850 Battery A (first section) 15 Total number of troops 9,472 Quota called by President 8,039 Col. Henry L. Turner, with the First battalion of the First regiment, was the first to arrive in the morning, but he found some of the Fifth regiment there before him. Company L of this com­ mand, under Capt. Edward Couch, had come in from Peoria the afternoon pre­ vious, and the smoke from their fires was already curling up from the front of the horse barns. The First battalion of the Second regi­ ment got on the grounds early, and Col. Moulton, with a bunch of carnations in his black slouch hat, was soon pre-empt­ ing his quarters iu the dome building. Then the country regiments began to ar­ rive--stout farmer boys, fresh from the spring plowing, their faces tanned a clear, healthy brown by sun and winds. Many of these had neither uniforms nor arms, and they turned to the left when the command was to the, right; Their hands seemed a hopeless incumbrance to them as they stood in line, but the hands were strong and muscular and the tanned fac4s earnest, and veteran^ eyed the lads ap­ provingly and said they were "good stuff." There had been no time for preparing the buildings for the reception of the men. Just as they had been left after the State fair so they were. The show stands, bearing tufts of timothy, wheat sheafs and-broom corn, were still stand­ ing. Rows of chairs were still in place, and other emblems of peace, of plenty and the fruits and the fat and fullness of the land cumbered the ground on every hand. Worse still, the solid, palpable fruits and fat were not forthcoming and the boys were hungry. They got an immediate opportunity to show their patience under petty annoyances. The quartermaster's department of the State had nothing ready, and it was 9 o'clock and in many cases long after before the men who had ridden in uncomfortable troop trains all night were fed. In short order the fire trenches for the camp were dug. Piles of refuse were gathered for fuel; sidewalks and plank platforms were split into shape, and soon bright fires were blazing under the coffee boilers and meat pans. Great panniers of bread were borne to the mess tables; the smell of good coffee swept through the dismal buildings. Daily now the recruits are being put through their paces, and sergeants are drilling them on every side. AH com­ panies are overcrowded, and each regi­ ment may have to send back some of the men who enlisted so eagerly. The greatest enthusiasm prevails among the enlisted men. The. privations of the early hours of the encampment were ac­ cepted with the mos/t perfect cheerful­ ness. The heaviest/work is rushed out of the wray with alacrity. Clerks with their white hands take to the ax and shovel with whoops of delight, and order does not wane as backs begin to ache. The troops suffered for a night or two from lack of an adequate supply of blan­ kets. One remarkable feature of the first night in camp, which the First spent un­ der such unfavorable circumstances, was that not to exceed four men were report­ ed at sick call. There were two men in the hospital from the First who were af­ terward sent home. One had pneumo­ nia, while the' other had heart trouble. Both of these men were recruits who joined the regiment just before they left Chicago. How they passed the medical examination and came with the troops is a mystery. Col. Turner, however, said that these were not the only ones who came with his command without his knowledge. When he counted noses at the armory a few hours before Gov. Tan­ ner made his call he had 1,208 men, and when he reached Camp Tanner he found he not only had a full regiment, but men to spare. He has 1,399 men with him, which exceeds his limit. He says, how­ ever, that this was due to the fact that many of his men were without arms or uniforms, and as a consequence these in­ terlopers slipped into the camp with the troops. Every one of the 1,399 men, how­ ever, wants to go to the front. In a day or two life settled down to an unbroken routine of drill. At 5:30 o'clock came the first call for reveille, at 5:45 reveille, at 6 fatigue call, and at 6:30 mess call. Sick call was at 7 and drill call at 7:30. Hours of drilling followed. Tl^e recruits, some with arms, some in uni­ forms, some in citizen clothes, have been getting it hot. Already it begins to tell favorably upon them. Their shoulders are broader, their step more alert, their color better. The camp has been christened Camp Tanner, in honor of the Governor. Briga­ dier General Barkley of the Third brig­ ade was in command temporarily. Short State Items. Consolidation papers have been filed At Springfield by the Chicago, Hammond and Western and the Chicago and In­ diana State Line Railroad companies, forming the Chicago Junction Railway Company. The capital stock is $2,200,- 000. All records in baseball were broken Friday a week, when two National League teams were shut out without a! base hit. Jack Daly and Kid Lavigne are to tackle each other again in the latter end of May. This time they are to try con- elusions at Long Island City. Peter Jackson has retired from the ring, giving as a reason the statement that the youngsters like" Jim Jeffries, who are coming up, "are too speedy for, him." Major Taylor, the colored cycle rider, is matched to ride against Jaap Eden, Riser, Gardiner. Boulay and August Lehr, five races, each on a different track. On March 21 the stallion Boyets trot­ ted four miles in a race in Russia in 10:07%. This performance lowers all rec­ ords for the distance, not only in Europe, but America. John C, Knowles, the century rider, who made a 00-century run in 1894, died at the Belleviie hospital, New Y<n-k, last week from consumption, • brought on by excessive riding. Cordang, holder of the world's 24-liour record of 616 miles, is again in great form, and will make an attempt to ride even further in the double revolution of the clock some time during the spring. In his day Bobby Mathews, who died the other day, had no peer. He was the second pitcher to knack the art of curv­ ing the ball. The first to throw a curve was Arthiiif Cummings. The pitching rules in those days called for a 45-foot distance. Bobby's curves furnished col­ umns of sensations in the newspapers at the time. The League of American Wheelmen has secured the support of the State De­ partment in pushing the claims for indem­ nity against Turkey for the death of Frank Lenz, the American cyclist; who was murdered by Kurds while making a tour of the world awheel. The Turkish Government has signified its willingness to pay an indemnity, but thinks $40,000, the amount claimed, too high.