St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 April 1895 — Page 2

INCOME TAX MUDDLE. The president urged to convene CONGRESS. People Are Confused Over the Supreme Court Decision —Treasury Officials Will Be Surprised If the Whole Community Does Not Dodge the Tax. Unjust to Business Men. Washington correspondence: The President is being importuned personally by men of highest influence in public affairs and avalanched with weighty letters and telegrams urging him to convene Congress in special session for the repeal or correction of the income tax law. These appeals are grounded on the broad proposition that the law in it-s present emasculated shape discriminates with brutal injustice against the mercantile, manufacturing and bustling business interests in general and in favor of the coupon clippers and heavy owners of real estate, who were especially aimed at. They contend that the law its it now stands is so rankly and cruelly wrong that common justice requires either its immediate repeal or its amendment in some form that will reach the rich classes who arc exempted from the payment of their share of the taxes. How the President will act in the premises cannot be stated. He has permitted the statement to be made with authority that ho would not call an extra session if the Supremo Court annulled the act, but that was t > 1 quiet the fears that the Government might not have enough money to get through the calendar lyfcraT if deprived of 1 revenue front the income tax. huh<situation as IC is now presented to ■ now altogerfiter different one. It is not grave injUtion of revenue, but one of 1 of men, whHito hundreds of thousands I there is to tho t^esent substantially all brain of the countftps push, energy and the question he had Whis is a phase of ' into consideration, and Ki’viously taken 1 how he will look at it. is no telling Curtails Government Re High treasury officials turn "CHfront to the world and publicly inshrave the income tax will yield a large reVIM in spite‘of its horrible mutilation by ft! Supreme Court. In confidence they will tell you that the law is as good as killed, and that, instead of $15,000,000 to $25.000.000 revenue, they do not really expect to drag in more than $5,000.000 or $lO,00(1.000, and will not be greatly surprised if the amount should drop below the inside figure named. They admit that busi ness men will be assailed by strong temptation to dodge the payment of a tax that imposes a burden on them and relieves those who are better able to bear it. They will be pleasurably disappointed it' the whole community does not turn in and deliberately “beat the tax” by the discovery of convenient “offsets.” And then, again, here is a possibility that confronts the revenue bureau: Suppose legal proceedings are instituted in Federal Courts in several States to enjoin the collection of taxes, new points being raised. And then suppose the judges of the lower courts should uphold the contention and the Governn ent take an appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is a tie on the main question of the constitutionality of the law. Reverse the position and let the Government be the party making the appeal. The appeal would fail in that case as it did in the ease just heard. That would leave the remaining remnant of the law dead in some parts of the Union and alive in others. If not. why not? Altogether the situation is full of complexity and confusion. Instructions have been sent to colic, tors of internal revenue all over the United States to withhold returns made under the income tax law until regulations can be prepared at the Treasury Department in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. “Our work is going to be much more difficult,” said the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, “in consequence of the action by the Supremo Court, and it may be quite a while before we get matters straightened out. Hence it was deemed advisable to let the returns accumulate in the collection districts rather than have them pile up on us here at Washington and necessitate double labor upon us. Advices received from the collector's office for the District of Columbia and vicinity show tt remarkable increase of returns of incomes. There has been a crowd of people asking for blanks and information in regard to the proper construction of the law. We have experienced a sort of overflow here at the department, too, and the mail from all parts of the country lias been unusually heavy. Particularly is th s true of the big cities in the East, where the largest corporations are located. There will bo no difficulty encountered about collecting the tax, inasmuch as tae law makes provision for a levy against the property of persons failing to comply with the regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Os course there is a remedy'’ by an injunction, but pending such procedure the taxes much be paid.”

Views of AttorncyXicucral Olney. i “So far as the lower courts are concern- I ed,” said Attorney General Olney, “the division of the Supreme Court u:» n ihe income tax law is as binding as if the whole court had been unanimous in its favor. I cannot believe any judge .would grant an injunction to prevent a collector from collecting the tax on incomes derived from other sources than rents or State and municipal bonds in the face of the Supreme Court's action. The only way I can see by which persons who object to paying the tax can secure judicial action is by their paying the tax under protest and entering suit for its recovery.” BOGUS POSTAGE STAMPS. Uncle Sani Has Been Carrying Thousands of Letters for Nothing. United States secret service operatives in Chicago and Washington have unearthed probably the most unique and at the same time important swindle ever perpetrated upon any government. Its magnitude can yet only be guessed at, but it is believed thousands upon thousands of dollars have been secured by a gang of skilled counterfeiters, who have reproduced with wonderful skill and accuracy the pink 2-cent stamp of commerce. It is thought the country is flooded from New York to San Francisco with these spurious stamps, and the United States lias been carrying millions of letters from which not one cent of revenue was received. Chicago apparently has beer the head«»orters of the gang, and its product has

been shipped to distributing agents through the express companies. The stamps seized Monday night by Capt. Porter at the Wells-Fargo express office were addressed to Nathan Herzog, the cigar dealer in the rotunda of the Chamber of Commerce building. In the morning the express messenger took the package to Mr. Herzog. He examined the stamps, found them to be counterfeit and refused to accept them, and the package was taken back to the office, where they were seized in the evening. Herzog says that ho answered an advertisement of a firm in Hamilton, Ont., offering to sell slls worth of stamps for SIOO, and ordered as many as they' could send him. and that the package was sent in response to that order. Four other packages received by Chicagoans have been taken in charge. The secret service agents at Buffalo and (hose stationed in Canada have been notified regarding the stamp shipments. WESTERN CROP REPORTS. Drought Broken Generally and Seeding Is Well Under Way. Prof. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau at Chicago, sends out the following report as to the conditions of crops throughout the country’ and the general influence of weather on gro. th, cultivation and harvest. It was made by the directors of the different State weather services of the Weather Bureau: Illinois Drought conditions broken, temperature and rainfall above normal; winter client, rye, mendows greatly improved. ground in excellent condition; oats and spring wheat sown, early potatoes planted, gardens made in central and southern counties, one-half to threc-quar- । tors in northern; fruit trees in good con- 1 dition, buds bursting in southern coun- , ties. Wisconsin General rains during last , two days of great benefit; farm work progressing rapidly’ under favorable condi- । tions; seeding general in central and • southern counties; winter wheat and , clover badly winter killed; stock in fine . condition. । Minnesota Temperature in excess, rainfall deficient, although distributed 1 well; showers occurred Saturday and Sunday; soil in excellent shape for plow- | ing; seeding of wheat and oats well along; ' barley and flax seeding and early vegetable planting begun; condition of winter wheat very poor; winter rye good; grass ^prning green; wells and streams unusu- ; behl o "l more diversification in crops . whe:it >nf> ’ which correspondingly lessens NorlWvage. done, bupakota—Some seeding being the drv wea"’ or ^ * ias been retarded by of great belief- Rain of last week was South Dakota ! over most of th?lTorhine precq itation ’ age temperature and above averI generally in exeelhnfavorable; ground ! and eats seeding condition; wheat southern portion and p r pd\aneed over elsewhere; wheat sprimnr''"*' rapidly counties. in southern Nebraska Seeding veil ad. soil in excellent condition; most**, nn< ’ I grain sown before general rain tho s!l| all j the week and now coming up in tine’ ”f 1 dition: fall wheat considerably injti’U ! by drought and high winds; rye generally I uninjured. Michigan Temperature above normal; precipitation slightly above in northern and central ami below in southern counties; sunshine below; plowing and seeding in southern part of the State; fruit buds and winter wheat reported in generally ! good condition. ! Ohm Showers and warmth of latter J part of week have advanced the growth ■ of wheat and grass; oats, clover seeding, ! and plowing for corn in rapid progress; I early potatoes being planted; more rain ; needed. | Upon the whole the week has been very j favorable. Corn planting has progressed I rapidly under favorable conditions in the i Southern States, win re a large proportion j of the crop is in the ground ami some , has come up. Preparations for corn I planting have been made in the Middle I Atlantic States, and planting has begun ■in Missouri ami Kansas. Oats seeding | is progressing rapidly in Ohio, ami nearly j the entire acreage of this crop has been I sown in Illinois, Indiana. lowa and Misi souri. Seeding has begun in West Vir- ! ginia. and is well advanced in Maryland, New Jersey, Minnesota ami South Da I kota. Winter wheat has greatly improvjcd during the week. Spring wheat seed- ’ ing is well advanced. The general out I look for fruit is excellent. ; Th© Japan wants gold—China needs gold. An Ohio girl who dislocated her jaw by yawning will now be obliged to avoid indulgence in that pleasure. Secretary Carlisle has a sense of the eternal fitness of things. He has made a

I Kentucky colonel superintendent of the mint. i English writers complain of the diffiI culty of getting money from America. A good many Americans have noticed the same com! it ion. Hold on. John Bull! Don't try to grab the Nicaragua Canal. There was a chap named Remus who got pretty badly hurt for jumping a ditch. If China doesn't get through with that war and settle down to business pretty soon we may find ourselves short of firecrackers on July 4 next. Pasquale Julian and Antonio Revello court the same girl. Each tried to pave the way to her heart by killing the other. The girl is still undecided. Ponciano Diaz, the greatest Mexican I bull tighter, has just been gored and tram- ’ pled to death in the ring. So long as ' t hey have bulls in Mexico they don’t need a fool killer. . There’s a chance for Dr. Parkhurst in ’ Oklahoma. The whole Legislative As- ' setnbly of the Territory has been indicted J by the United States Grand Jury for “crookedness.” Religious journals which attacked the Senate for Sabbath work should rememj her that there is Scriptural authority for , working on Sunday if it is necessary to . get an ass out of a pit. i A Grand Rapids paper says concerning - the Venezuela complication that “John Bull has been cowed.” Who would have • imagined that the Monroe doctrine would > do such a thing as that?

OPEN TO THE WORLD. THE RESULT OF JAPANESE CONQUEST OF CHINA. The Immense Empire to Be Thrown Open to Foreign Commerce and Ilir 400,000,000 Inhabitants to Compere with European Labor. Conditions of Peace. The Japanese minister at Washington confirms the reports from Tokyo that iis Government has made the opening bf China to foreign commerce and immigration one of the conditions of peace, which will make the country the most attractive spot on earth for investment and speculation during the next fifteen lor twenty years. The interior of China, and, as a matter of fact, the entire empire, except the treaty ports, is 2,000 years behind the age, judgeil by companion with France or Great Britain or the United States, but with its marvelous foil and 400,000,000 of a naturally ingeuilus and industrious population it is capable of almost any degree of development, nts advantages over Japan in this respect lire very great, and the latter country Bas shown what progress a people can nake when they accept modern ideas and mathods. ’ Tho conditions of peace include admission of mnchineij - China and the establishment of facj^.' |e s by foreigners under the protectionwjj'he Government. This has hitherto been qTc■ hi bi ted outside the treaty poits, there is practically muuachinery in The abolition of the “linkin tax,” ns called, is also insisted upon. This 15 n local duty or tax that may be asses&d upon foreigners or foreign goods by 4iy province or municipality to such ftn amount and ns frequently ns the local Hq. thorities desire. It it i.t effect a black - mail upon foreign trade and has been (he cause of a great deal of trouble and c&nstant complaint. Another condition!' is the granting of free concessions, cilarters and pri- ileges tn Japanese and otiier foreigners for the construction of railways after the manner of civilized Nations. There is only one short railway in China, and that belongs to the Government. i It is understood at the Japanese legation nt Washington thnt all of these conditions have been accepted by 'the Chinese envoys, and thnt the only point nt Issue now in the cession by China of the peninsula known ns the Regent's ! Sword, nt the point of which stands the ! citadel of Port Arthur. Therefore it may I be assumed ns certain thnt the wall which has kept foreigners out of China is to be ; thrown down within the next few months. The motive of Japan in exacting from I Chinn the conditions described is the sub- I ject of much discussion, but it is generally i assumed that it wns done in compliance ■ with t) e suggestions of the European nn tions which desire to extend their markets. It is nlso n question of serious discussion among diplomatists whether It is n wise policy to encourage the industrial development of China by educating the masses of the people in mechanical i pursuits and the use of labor-saving ma- | ’nery. I extraordinary crp”< ity of fltfeCmn- I ' ingenU l r " ”* n I ability Xnnd nudity of imitatM _ fourteen nnd mxtTOBW* willingness'" h^dfuls of rice nndTw.r not par for f"'"™ f " r wa « es tb “ »f uld ■ American nu < l/‘’ ba, r *’ 1 con ^ um « l geroUS competitor." ll tb «» faetures. particnla/" nl! , , o£ ®° nu f silks, cottons and ot ln ‘ h ': P roduc£l *? of j should enter g-neraG f i abncs : If ,bey faeture of textiles witA uto ’he manuown cultivation they '’ ,r close the mills of Manchester, e . ££ . c ' ’’' l / i already been seriously crippled ut ’ ’ | velopment of the industry in Indk j. T i the increase of spindles during t)i .* r ' , -last ten years has la'en greater than other part of the world. Chinn is now the largest market fol British nnd American dtons. W>« send to thnt country very little else except petroleum. Our exports Inst year tISSH) were valued at SS.sSS,4NS, of which $2.8M.220 were cotton cloths and $2,4^.(»36 petroleum. Our imports from China amounted to $17,1 ,‘15,028, of which $3,1(3.3,(584 were silks, $7,307.253 ten, JSO7,635 matting and about $1,000,000 worth of furs and skins. Our exports to Japan were valued at $3,D56,515, of whiep $2,226,247 was petroleum. Our imports from Japan amounted to $19,426,3k2, of which over $10,000,000 were silk* and $5.500,(MM) (on. The Chinese market for manufa tured goods will never be much greater ■ The wants of the people are few, and it will be generations before they are ed icated to the need of luxuries. Therefd k the demand for foreign merchandise ! till in no wise compensate for the comd pition they will offer. The opening of thl ’country to manufactures will occasional temporary market for machinery, tools; railway construction material and s&plies and improved agricultural implements/ but the Chinese are such clever imj&jM| that they will soon be able to

themselves. •_ Ar RUSSIAN BEAR GROWLS’* May Interfere with Japan’s Scheme of Squeezing C Ilina. The St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya! says that if Great Britain has approved the territorial demands of Japan in regard to Manchuria and Corea, Russia will consider herself relieved of the obligations of common action and will oppose Japan on land and on the sea. Referring to this a Washington correspondent says: The unmistakable threat against Japan held out by Russia in the short notice in its semi-official organ, the Novoe Vremya, has caused much surprise in diplomatic circles her^. It was supposed that Russia had a gold understanding with Japan as to the terms of peace to be held out to China; that there was an entire agreement upon the propositions touching Corean independence, the acquisition by Japan of Formosa and Port Arthur and the exaction of an indemnity. As to Great Britain, which now appears to be reproached with failing to maintain a stiff front against Japanese demands where they involved the acquisition of territory, it has ail along been understood that she was the one power that was disposed to resist aggressions, and was only prevented from actual interference through inability to secure the co-operation of Russia in such a movement. The Russo-Japanese agreement was understood to include the concession to Russia of a right of way through Corea for the Siberian railroad to

afford a winter terminus, and It Is sug- [ gested that the change in her attitude may be accounted for by the possible fail- I ure of this part of the program by the Japanese iTndertaking to guarantee the absolute Independence of Corea, thus preventing the acquisition of the needful territory for the right of way and the terminal facility. An authoritative statement of the terms °t Peace being negotiated between Japan and ( lima has been secured from official sources. Tie statement is made in order] o clear up much misapprehension arising from speculation as to the terms of peace. Ihey are five in number, as follows: 1. Independence of Corea. 2. Permanent cession of the island of r ormosa to Japan. 3. Indemnity of 300,060,000 taels (Chinese com worth $1.3,3). 4. Permanent occupation of Port Arthur and the immediate contiguous territory. 5. A new Japan-China treaty opening the interior of China to commerce. THE SOUTHERN DEAD To He Honored by a Monument In Oak woods cemetery, Chicago. Union and Confederate veterans will 1 unite Memorial day in the dedication of the inonument to the unknown dead of Southern armies in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago. All the South will be there in spirit, and the 7,000 graves will be xtrewn with arbutus blossoms from the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee, I tiger lilies from Georgia, roses nnd moss from I-lorida. And the shaft of the monument will rise from a bed of flowers gathered by daughters, wives nnd sisters of ' those who fought and fell on Southern soil in the woods and fields for which they died. Gen. John C. Underwood, who went to Georgia to secure the flowers, has sent word that his mission has been sue- ' cessful. They will be sent to Chicago In | refrigerator ears. While the veil is being lifted from the monument generals of the Union and Confederate armies will stand by, shoulder to shoulder. From the Southern side will be Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Gen. John B. Gordon, Gen. W. W. Cabell nnd others, and from the Federal ranks will be Gen. Schofield. Gen. Flagler, Gen. Lawler. Gen. Palmer nnd others. Hundreds of Confederatsa will be present, nnd Grand Army posts will participate in the dedicatory exercises and afterward will assist the Confed- . i COXFI PIJIATE MOXbMEVT. erntes in strewing flowers over the graves ■of their dead comrad. s Surrounding the monument will bo four cannons, which, were appropriated bj a spe. iM m t of Congress. They have not yet been placed in position, but will be before Decoration day. They were captured from the Federals nt Chickamauga and were afterward used with great effe.-t by the ('onfederates in the battles of Missionary Ridge, Dalton. Resina, Kenesaw Mountain. Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta and ■ Franklin, nnd were captured still later ' v the Union men at Nashville. ,"hen the veil falls an imposing nmnu--1 1 ’orty feet high with-pedestal of Tennessc ~u ^ ,|c a n(j statue of bronze will 1 ' S '.' "■7 he figure will be recognized by 1 *!'/ l> mfederate as that of a typi- . cal k outaer. j n f antrvnian . j n tattered . clothes, uidlj orn s j loes vith stockings > over the ho standrf with , folded arms. havm. uo mugket and look 3 . down as )f in sorro, on th? field where , many of his comrades . The fjlpe of ’ the monument will show . bronze spal of i [ the Confederacy enlarged, w j tk tke j n _ scription: I , : Erected to the Memory ot c, qqq : I : Southern Soldiers, Here Bu; ed . [ Who Died in Camp Douglas Prist^ । . : 1862-65. ’ , I• • . The words “Confederate Dead” are > u ; the base in large letters. On the easter, face is a bronze panel representing “a call to arms.” The return of the soldier i to his home is pictured on the west face. ' On the south side the soldier’s last sleep I she is au ue

Lucie Faure, Daughter of ihe French President, Soon to Wed. Mlle. Lucie Faure, whose engagement to Paul Deschanel, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, is announced, is one of the most brilliant Parisian society leaders. As daughter of the President of France, she plays an important part in the social functions given at the Ely see, where a hospitality, with a princely show O Ai Jv OL MLLE. F.UTE, M. DESCHANEL. not equaled since the days of MacMahon, is extended. Miss Faure is a lady of great natural ability, cultivated, fond of poetry, somewhat of a philosopher and an author. A little book of hers, dealing with an excursion into Algeria, has been favorably commented on and holds forth the promise of more pretentious labors. Joshua H. Stover, of Staunton, Va., has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life for stealing three and a half pounds of bacon worth 37% cents. Stover is a white man, a carpenter, and a confirmed thief.

I BIG DEARTH OF BEEF. RISE IN PRICE OF MEAT DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES. 1 ackers Deny that a Combination Ilas Been Formed to Corner the Product —Long Drought Has Proved Dej strncti ve on Runges in the West. Eighteen months from the present time, when the frisky calf of to-day is ready for the slaughter house.and the packing industry or an exhibit ou u butcher’s marble slab, there will be a fall in the present, high price of beef, whether purchased on the hoof or at retail. This assertion is borne out not only by the assertions of the interested packers of Chicago, Omaha, St. Louis and Kansas City, but by the statistics prepared quarterly by the Government concerning the shipping, receiving and killing of cattle in the four American cities which control the delivery of beef diessed or on the hoof to the remainder of । the country and Europe. The statement 1 that a combine among the four principal packers of the (Vest has caused the in- | creased prices is indignantlv denied by them. Clay Robinson & Co., from the Union Stock lards ot Chicago, have issued a circular referring to the cattle scarcity. 1 in which they estimate the shortage at 40 I per cent, for the whole country in com- ; parison with 189-1. The same estimate is ’ made by ('al Favorite, of Armour & Co., ; and is partially wistained by the figures I of the Government given out in January ; of this year. These figures show the num- ! her of cattle in the United States, being a comparison of January. 1595, with Jan- । nary, 1801. In beef cattle the decrea.e in (he whole number in the country was 2,243,953. or 6 per cent. Large Decrease Shown. The Government cattle report includes all classes ami grades, while the estimate of the Chicago packers as to the decrease is in reference only to cattle tit for immediate sale. By the Government report it is shown that the decrease in cattle in Nebraska has been 18 per cent, sim e ISPI, 1G per cent, since 1803. ami I'' per cent, since 1892. In Wyoming the decrease is 0 per rent, since 1804 and 20 per cent, as compared with ISO 2. In Tez ’ as a decrease of 7 per < ent. since 1.894. 5 per cent, since 150.3, and 12 per cent since 1802. M Mana has lost 4 per cent, since 1893, 5 per cent, since 1802. The State gaind 2 per cent, in comparison with 1804. lowa’s loss is 6 per cent, since ISO I, 5 per cent, since ISO 3 and 6 per cent, since I*o2. Colorado has lost 6 per cent, in comparison with I*o4 ami gained 12 as compared with 150,3. If the coming scarcity of cattle had not been foreshadowed by the January Government report data of a similar nature would not be lacking now. For the week ( tiding March 30 the decrease in the re(•('ipts of < attle at the < ’hicago stock yards in comparison with the same week in 1894 was s.."s:: head. Sim-e Jan. 1 then* have been rec ited nt the stock yards 572,857 head, a decrease of 1 10.<M’>.S for the same (>eriod in Iso4. Shipments (luring the same period of time (b-, leased 51.ti.80 head ami ihe t'm! sDeghier Gt;.o7i) head. The figures nr, ■tn. int. (in Aprd lUaUv ( stimated shortage in the receipts ot < at the Inion Stock A a rds since Jan. 1 in c..i ;l |.a> i-,n w ith the rei eipts for the same I . ri'-1 in I*o 1w as 270,000 head. The si.or age in pound- of dressed be"t for the -.■ -. p.- : ,1 u ,sii ma tod to be 1 । .>JM :().- (hhi p or sin average of 2.(MM).()00 j i.cmi.- de, t, a- i' (lay. *Hi the same day the receipts of catth at the yards were Oo'.iM) hc-o! 1 s th.m on tie- same day in I*o4. No Combine Among Packers. <’al Favorite, speaking lor Armour A Co., said: ’ rhe Big Four is a mythical organization. I do not know that it exists. If yet view the situation in the light of an actual shortage of marketable i att;e existing 40 t• r cent, less than a year ago in the whole country it is not difficult *0 explain why tiure is a scarcity in beef and higher pries. It is simply impossibie for us to g< t ehoier cattle in any quantity.” I’. D. Armour said: “The AVestern ' ranges have been denuded of cattle, and I believe it will take four or five years to i have a reduction in the prevailing beef prie.The scarcity of catth. in my "pinion, will outinue for that length of tiiiie. I do not see how it is to be avoided. I Months and years will be required to re- ! store to the barren ranges the cattle • which once kept the supply ahead of the j demand. 'The situation is the logical end i (,f a scries of disasters on the cattle ■ ranges and destruction of crops needed for feeding purposes." Comparative tables were secured show- ; ing the figures of the receipts, shipments and killings in the Chicago. So'.tth Omaha. Kansas City and East St. Louis markets i for the three months ending March 30. j ISIG. with ihe same periods in 180-1. ' 1 These are the tables. CHICAGO. 1895. 1-894. 189.3. ' ' Reu.jptg 574.052 692.125 76.3.338 1 Shipments .... I-**. 130 241.0*4 240.419 i-..v\Aa s ( 1 ry.

1895. 1894. ' Receipts 328.379 37G.745 ■ Shipments 132.G29 1.89.387 ’ । Killing 195.750 187,358 1 I The increase in the killing at Kansas J I City of 1825 over that of 1891 is explained . I by the statement that Swift & Co. and ' i Nelson Morris art- diverting, for the pres--1 I ent, business to that point and East St. ' 1 Louis and increasing their output. SOUTH OMAHA. 1895. 1894. Receipts 123.753 181.950 Shipments 55.617 58.403 Killing 68.136 123.G47 EAST ST. LOI IS. I Receipts . ..168,772 140.897 ( I Shipments .50,245 54.627 I Killing 118,527 <86,270 FOUR CITIES C< IMBINED. ■ Receipts 1.194.956 1.391.717 [ Shipments 42G.921 543.501 Killing 768.035 515.218 The Size of Them. r I Arizona is almost exactly twice the [ size of Missouri. ; Asia is the largest continent, 16,000,1 000 square miles. i Anan, 106,000 square miles, is about the size of Idaho. ’ Corea is exactly the size of Kansas, ■ 82,01X1 square miles. Pennsylvania is almost thrqe-fourths the size of Missouri.

The Ibsen fever is about over. It was too violent to last long. Mr. Zangwill has lately been making fetudies of art student life in the Latin quarter in Paris for a long novel. In six months 75,000 copies of Hall Caines “Ihe Manxman” have been sold, one-third of them in the United States. The Danish critic, Georg Brandes, has finished a work on Shakespeare, which is to be published in German in Paris. Arthur Sherburne Hardy’s novel, “Passe Rose,” illustrated by A. E. Ster. nor, is to be one of the holiday books of next season. Margaret Doland. Sarah Orne Jewett । and Mrs. Burton Harrison will try to settle in a Philadelphia magazine when the word “woman"’ and when the term “lady” should be employed. The magazine Poet Lore has entered Its seventh year of existence. Nobody supposed at its birth that it would live so long, but It has survived by remaining true to its name. Miss Katharine Pearson Woods, the author of "Metzerott, Shoemaker,” !• writing a novel of the first century,, which is to involve the question of Christianity and social reform. The late Professor Leving’s style was true to his name. It. was manly, hearty, cheerful, sympathetic and earnest. Two volumes of extracts from his sermoxs and addresses have just been published, and their contents are wise enough for the wisest men, yet within the comprehension of the simplest. A critic who has read Miss Harra. den's Californian story in manuscript says that it is so good that it could no* be better. Besides going on with he© novel, she intends to write three moi’* Californian stories. “The life out here Interests me,” she writes; “it is so different from anything else.” It is amusing tc read that “solve favorite short stories" by Miss Mary H. Wilkins are being translated into French. Perhaps it will be even mor® amusing to hear what French readers think of them. Indeed, there is no living writer whose work belongs to the soil of this country as hers and presents such great difficulties to the translator. We shall know more about Honduras when Richard Harding Davis gets home again. About Jan. 15, Mr. Davis started from the eastern coast of that country to ride to Tegucigalpa, its cap-T-n-n rc."'AH s , he made the ride on muleback, over mountains In sixteen days- From Tegucigalpa they went on to the ’apital oi Nicaragua, and thence to Corinto ok the Pacific side (a ten days' trip), a*© from that point took a steamer south k Caracas, in South America, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on their way. When Mr. Davis gets home, he proposes to tell what he has seen in a series of articles. The Omnivorous Italian. To the Italian everything is edible; It Is a nation without a palate. It steeps a hare in fennel and eats salt with melon* The craze for devouring birds of all kinSs is a species of fury from the Alps to Etna; they crunch the delicate bodies betwees their jaws with disgiEStng relish, and a Is?k represents to them a succulent morsel fG? the spit or pasty. The trade in larks all over the world is enormous and execrable, and Is as large in England as in Italy. It should at once be made penal by heavy fines on the trappers, the venders, and the eaters, or ere long no more will the lark be heard on the earth. It is admitted by all who know anything of tho subject that agriculture would be im possible without the aid of birds, as the larvae and developed insects of all kinds would nm«e a desert ot the entire area of cultivated land. This is well known, yet all over tho world the destruction of birds rages unchecked, and no attempt is made to protect them, to interdict their public sale, and to enable them to nest and rear their young in peace. A scientific writer has said that the destruction of the Individual is unimportant, but the destruction of the type is a crime. (He was spi-aKiu^ trie destructioa of the

great auk.) As matters go now, unless ;; 11 some striugent measures are taken, birds of Europe will in the next century be as extinct as is now the diornis. The ornithophil societies of France and Switzerland have more than once written to me that unless birds be protected in Italy they must perish all over Europe,.since so great a variety of races wing their way to the South in winter, and there are ruthlessly murdered.— Onida, in the Nineteenth Century. The clucking hen with little chicks Can’t talk, nor does she care, Yet when she in the garden strays She teaches man to swear. • —lnter Ocean. ’ Friend—Have you had any luck letting your house in Sundown street? ' House owner -Splendid luck! I’ve let It to no less than five families in four months. —Boston Transcript. “Well, is your wife all ready? The train is abo.it duo.” “Heavens, no! She’s only packed and unpacked her trunk twice.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. A great many people won't take a morning paper because they have a good newsy milkman. When a man refuses to give us an i advertisement, we appreciate a little noliteness with it.