The Bessemer Herald from Bessemer, Michigan • Page 3

NEWS OF OUE STATE. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO MICHI- GANDERS Welcome Ituliuc for Attorncyn-- Once Powerful State Fair Society Is Now -Uaukrupt and Korccd to Abandon Its Work--Vuclory for Midland. An Important Rule. A rule which will it ninny 1orm-'s a trip to Lunsinj; to JUti-ml the Ccmrl has hci-n udnpU-tl by (lint Iriuuiial. It will take vSlvel JIIMU 1, mid is follows: where the reeonl fails )o show that the HUiount in- volviil, exelusive of eosts.

is more a ami all motions, shall be submitted on briefs unless otherwise ordered by Uie court." This rule will have a far-reaeh- inj; effect. Heretofore Tuesdays have Ijei-n devoted to motions, the entire day frequently beitiK consumed by the oral arguments, and a score or more of out- side attorneys are Kenerally present. A number of eases presented do not in- volve property of the value of S5M), aud Hiese niiisl also fro in on briefs. No State Fnlr Tliin Year. The officers of the Michigan State AR- rirulturiil Society emerged from a secret meeting in Lansinc Thursday with a dis- couraged nud announced a mi fair will held this 3'tlir under the auspices of the society.

Beyond that ihey 'liinl nothing to say. but there is reason to believe a no fair will perhaps ever be fin-Id by the society. Bankruptcy and de- spair stares this mice powerful associa- tion in the face. The days of nRricultiiral fairs in Michigan arc over. Then- is no money in them any more and the State Society has found this out.

after KO- inx into debt and tlei-per every year. It now has in debts, with mulling but a glorious reputation to di- vide among tin: creditors. The society claims to have remaining an equity iu the valuable fair grounds iu Lansing, which is a perfect park, but it has been discov- ered that such equity is not marketable, as tlie Central Michigan Society, to whom rthe grounds originally belonged, claims to jiossess the grounds by virtue of a rever- clause jt contract with the State society and has commenced proceed- ings in the courts to regain control of the grounds. The creditors who were offered uiiH- tin ttie dollar for their claims against the State society are now kicking themselves for not accepting the offer, as they will probably now gel nothing. Booai fur Sliillanll.

II. U. Dow has succeeded in making ar- rangements for locating a chemical plant at Midland for the manufacture of chlo- ride of lime. Mr. Dow has been working oil the project for some time, and tins suc- ceeded in interesting Cleveland capitalists, and tin- Dow Chemical Co.

has been or- ganised and incorporated with a capital of $3nMUD. all paid iu. with II. II. Dow president.

This plant will need a large tract of land, as the buildings nloue will occupy thirteen acres. They will employ about 100 men. Chloride of lime has not been manufactured commercially in this country heretofore, ami has all been im- ported from England and Germany. Mid- feela elated over the location of the plant, as it means for many who Jieel it. and whose occupation went with the passing of the pine log.

Counterfeit Dollars. A tifteen-year-old boy. named Itickle. whose home is iu West Bay City, was arrested at La Pearl's circus grounds for a i four counterfeit silver dollars in Iiis possession. He gave one of tho bad to a boy to pass on the ticket seller and this led to his detection.

Kickle says a a man in Banks made the counter- feits and tolil him to pass them. The dol- lars are very poor imitations of the gen- uine. Minor State Matters. Peter Swanson, who was arrested at Muskegon charged with criminal a-ssault, was discharged on examination, there be- -ing no proof against him. Homer Loring of Newton.

has been appointed receiver of the Union and Consolidated Street Railways of Sagi- uaw. He is very young for the position-- 21 years old. He is a son of S. D. Lor- jug.

a wealthy broker of Boston. who represents the interests of the bond- Sioldfrs. The bond as receiver is tixed at Oscar C. Isinond of Owosso. by the has taken possession under a chat- tel mortgage of a stock of dry goods which lie recently sold to Simon B.

Lockwood of He claims that he deems him- self insecure. When Mr. Ismoiid sold the Ftock he accepted as the purchase price a farm near Howell and this chattel mortgage for for the balance. A farmer iu Michigan states that he reduces old newspapers to a pulp by soak- ing them in sour milk, and feeds the com- liounii to a Hock of hens, tvliich said to irrvatly relish the new diet. A hen is sometimes astonished by hatching out a family of ducks, but "canards" will be the regular result with the Michigan hens, whose owner seems to have cultivated his imagination with the new journalism.

William Millies of Battle Creek went and. it is alleged, found his sou Jim. daughter Belle and an invited guest. Hank Oldtield, having a high old time beer. He attempted to drive the jiarty out of the house, when they all set upon the old man and used him up so badly that a doctor had to be called to dress his wounds.

They are now all tiu- -Irr arrest upon the charge of assault. A sad accident occurred at Mauceloua. by which Norris Elliott was verv badlv injured. He was riding on the tender o'f the engine of the Handle Company's railroad when the tender jumped the A heavy log came ahead, striking liis left leg. smashing it to a jelly so thai it had to bo amputated below knee, besides bruising him on the head and in other places.

Hopes are entertained that he wiil recover. Albert Jackson of Port Huron was driv- ing' into a liam with a load of edgings, when he was caught between the wagon the door jamb and badly squeezed. His right hip was fractured, and it is Ihuught he also sustained serious internal Injuries. At Saginaw. Edward Whitman, aged 2(i.

an employe of the Linton Manufac- turing fell from a 'scaffold at the company's drill house while "purling poles." striking on his head thirty-two below, breaking his nock and (lying dnstantly. Deceased leaves a but aao children. Miss Johnson, used eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs! K. M.

-Johnson of Northvillc. died Friday. The young lady hud been very HI for than a week, caused, it is snid, by too much bicycle riding. The Port iluron Board of Estimates cut the annual budget submitted by the Common Council Jjvl.HM), leaving the amount (o be spread on the tax rolls being a rate of about on the valuation. Ililing Hrothers ISverard if Kuhima- 7,00 were awarded the contract for fur- nishing the State with Hat.

bond and lodger paper. The contract was let by the Hoard of State Auditors and will be in force for two years. Rev. Mr, tvlw haw jusi sinned the pastorate of the First Congre- gational Church nl Kalamaxoo. was giv- en a largely atlcndeil roceptuin.

He is unmarried, but lives i his mother, who also was present at the reception, Miss Mtmre died at Keatou Har- bor brain trouble. She had been ill for riro weeks, but the parents tried to cure her by the faith treatment and would not allow a physician to administer medi- cine. This is tlie second case which has occurred there recently, and much indig- nation is felt. A mercantile firm in Flint had an at- torney srizea piano by-writ of attachment from a poor woman who was about to the city, because was unable to jmy small grocery bill. Tlie musical instmnient was replevins! and the wom- an won in the law suit.

The merchant paid the costs which amounted to At Boy nc's Falls. II. Costillo. who re- cently cleaned out a spring, claims to have found one end nf hay wire, which lay in the water, to beVif a bright nickel color, while the other was rusty and black, tlie water having evidently galvanized the inetnl. To satisfy himself, he put an old.

rusty fork in the spring. Two days later the fork was as bright and shiny as sil- ver. Judge Bitek of Kalatnazno sentenced a butch of erimhmls. Martin goes lo Jackson four year and six months for the (Jaleslmrg burglary, and his partner, Charles Tracy, gets three years and six months at Ionia. Zachnrhi Burnett goes to Jackson for one year aud six months aud Charles Burnett to Ionia for one year.

They robbed the Lake View school build- ings. .1. Foster Myers, also stole some plunder there, gets three months in jail. Hose Sullivan of Detroit applied for a decree- of separation from Policeman Mi- chael Sullivan after about two years of unhappy married life. The parties Outlmlies and the complainant did not ask for a divorce on account of religious scru- ples.

An absolute was granted, however, which the Supreme Court has decided must stand, although Judge Moore, in a dissenting opinion, demurs to the principle of giving the aggrieved per- son form of relief which is not asked. The Supreme Court Tuesday sustained the constitutionality of act No. 13-. of the public acts of ISOo, which provides that when business is accumulated in any of the Circuit Courts of the Slate beyond the capacity of the judge of such circuit to properly dispose of it. the Governor may designate judge of some of her circuit to lurid court temporarily.

Tlie court says a the law is fully authorized by sec- tion 11 of article of the constitution, which provides that the judges of circuit courts may hold court for each other when required by law. Twelve years ago Harry Lpwenborg. a hid of Hi, left his home In the old coun- try aud came to America, to make his for- tune. HP corresponded with his. parents for two years and then neglected it for time.

When lie wrote again he found that his letter came back unanswered, his par- ents, too. having moved away and couie to this country. After several attempts to ascertain where his parents were, he was informed that, they were in Bay City. Lewe-nberg went to the city from his home, and the re- union with his parents was a very happy one. The heaviest pine land owners in the lower peninsula, aside from David Ward, are Juhri Cimfield and E.

G. Filer of Manistee and D. A. Blodgett of Grand: Rapids. Their aggregate holdings are es- timated at $20,000.000.

In the upper pe- ninsula Theodore M. Davis of Newport, U. holds 400,000 acres of rhe old canal grant, valued nt J. M. Long- year of Manjuette.

200,000 acres, 000.000: Michigan Land aud Iron Com- pany. 404.000 acres. Dr. J. C.

Aver estate, acres, Chicago and Northwestern, Juud grants. $1,000,000. David Ward, in the pe- ninsula, is said to have 400,000,000 feet of cork pine and tJOO.OOO.OQO of hardwood. Nancy Stevens. 70 years of age.

was by a Jackson street car aud both legs below the knees badly crushed, oue so badly it will have to be amputated. Mrs. Stevens is very deaf. Those who saw the accident state the motorman, Frank Reynolds, did aJl he coirld to alarm Mrs. Stevens, and to stop the car, and the only criticism made of the motorman isr the dangerous high rate of speed the cars are allowed to run at that point.

The accident is doubly sad. The old ladv cared for her son, who hua been in bed nine years with rheumatism, aud also all invalid daughter, which makes up the househo-ld, received considerable attention from her. It is said the injuries, with a cumpIk'Aiion of ailments, ivill prove fata). The Hnckley Park assembly grounds at Lake Harbor, near Muskegoti. were sold by Albert Dodge of Grand Rapids' to Thomas Torkildscn of Chicago, the stated consideration being $3,000.

The was placed on record, and accom- panying it was a quit claim from the Grand Lodge, I. O. G. of the Good Templars temple just outside the assem- bly grounds, the consideration being 000. Immediately preceding this there was filed in the county clerk's office a declaration in suit in ejectment by Ed- ward It.

Swett. recently of pro- prietor of the Lake Harbor resort hotel, who chums to own the assembly grounds by title from the Lake Harbor company. He seeks to dispossess Mr. Dodge, making him tlie defendant. Ten residents of the northern portion of Jackson County were arraigned before justices on charges of violating the fish laws.

On'pica of guilty they were assess- ed Sll.tfO each. Deputy Game Warden "Watkins is bound to enforce tho laws, aud more arrests, it is said, will follow. A company has been organized at Hills- dale for the purpose of manufacturing heating furnaces with a capital of OOO. E. M.

Washburn is president. S. H. Smith vice-president, Geo. X.

Smith secre- tary and treasurer. C. H. Armstrong of I Toledo, who was the originator of the i enterprise, will U- manager. DAY WITH M'KINLEY.

PRESIDENT'S BUSY LIFE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. One Day Mun Crazy--Every Moment of HU Time Occupied-- Uaa Time tbau He Who DiKB a Btiny Life. tVaBhlDgtou correspouueuce: The office of the President the United States is no sinecure. It is ouc the hardest in the sift of the nation to till, as sample day lived by President McICin- ley will suffice to show. President McKinley rises at 7 o'clock and breakfasts with his family at 8:30.

For lialt all hour after breakfast he lounges around with the family, a half hour which is probably the pleasantcst of all the day. By 10 o'clock the President gets into his office. His special mail is all laid out for him to glance over. Here is where the secretary of Che President, Mr. Porter, sets in his line work.

He gets to his desk at least an hour before the President, and, with the stenographer, goes through the three or four hundred letters that are the advance guard of the avalanche that comes during the day. The President docs not see much of that mail. however. It is carefully culled, applica- tions for office going into the proper bu- reau, political tirades into the waste bas- ket; begging letters, crank letters and let- ters of unsolicited advice are all conslsn- ed to the same cavernous maw, which yawns for them handily. It would doubt- less astonish the writers of this class of letters to know that the President never sees one of them.

In the nature of things lie could not, because life is short aud time is fleeting. The Raid of Visitors, From among the hundreds, yes, thou- sands, of letters that coiuc to the White House bearing the uauie of the President, tOOKISQ OVER HIS MAIL. perhaps a dozen or two are found worthy of his special attention, and these are on his desk for his perusal. He also finds lot of documents ready for his signature. These disposed of, he talks for a few mo- ments with the private secretary about the business of the day, act! by that time the great American public is clamoring to be turned in on him.

At 10 o'clock the raid begins. The waiting room is a study at this time. There are legless and arm- less veterans, in "faded blouse of blue," and in the nattiest of spring attire, but the bit of bronze button on the lapel of each is often associated with a tiny knot of ribbon, which means a "'medal of hon- or" man. There are cranks who have inventions that they want the President to see and recommend. There are other cranks who have presents for the Presi- dent, which they desire to present in per- wn.

There are myriads of curious peo- ple who want to shake hands with the President in bis own office, instead of performing that ceremony down stairs in the East room, as they would have an op- portunity to do each afternoon. The women have schemes all their own. It is not often that they are after office, though some women who want postoffices prejudice their chances by coming to make a special piea of the President, "because they are women." Many of them have sons whom they wane appointed to cadet- ships st West Point or Aaaipolia. Doz- ens of them have schemes for raising money, which they are sure will go like hot cakes if the President will just in- dorse them. Others work the charity racket.

They have concerts, or fairs, or plays, or something equally as frivolous, which they desire the President and his wife to "patron" with their names. Legions of Office-Seekers. Among the waiters will be found as- pirants for foreign consulships and the under offices, who are seeking pre- ferment in this country, and those who come to. give timely protest against cer- tain appointments. Each, and every one of them has an ax to grind and they use the President's nerves for a grindstone.

This Senator has a candidate for a berth abroad, and he rings the changes on his right to have this appointment, day in and day out, day after day. while his col- league, who is at his heels, urges some other man with just as much persistency for the very same place. Here is a po- litical "boss" who wants to "place" one of his lieutenants in political work. He talks and argues and all but tries to brow- beat the President into appointing the ward heeler. There is an all-around good fellow, who has friends everywhere, to all of whom he feels aader obligation, and he comes in with pockets and hands filled with recommendations for half a dozen or more.

He urges the claims of each, and in effect toils the President that his place in the House or Senate, as the case may be, depends upon his getting just these particular offices. For two long hours this sort of thing keeps up, the President listening, always listening, nev- er talking much, except to ask a few point- ed questions, and then at noon the com- mon herd is run through into the secre- tary's room, and from there is cut ont in bunches and corraled in the President's room, where he gives a few moments to each. This is perhaps the most trying hour of all. Among the cranks who slip in at such times are women who are "slaving them- selves to death to pay off the mortgage on the homestead," so they inform the Presi- dent, and they hare come to him, as ho ia rich, because he draws such an enormous salary, and ask him to five them a hun- dred dollars, or fifty, or five, as the case may be. toward that desirable end.

Others want him to indorse notes for them. The fiend there In force, and the bric-a-brac hunter is omnipresent. One hour Is given up to this class of call- and 1 o'clock the President goo to lunch with his wife. One hunt is sir- en, to lunch and to family gossip, then goes back to his desk. At 4.o*clock promptly he flings care and business aside and goes out for an hour.

Somutimes he walks, sometimes he rides a horse, sometimes goes in a. carriage. On returning the President glances over the daily papers and reets until dinner time. Dinner is scrred at 7 o'clock promptly.and the President dons evening dress for it. He often invites friends to this meal in- formally, and it is very seldom indeed' that the President and his, wife sit down to a meal by themselves." After dinner, if there are men to entertain, the PrcsioVnt takes them into thoiitUe room off the hall, where they smoke and Tell stories.

There'. No Lct-nji. In the evening there is very often music at the White Houte, and music of the best character, and there are always call- ers. It would seem ua though public men might respect the evenings of the Presi- dent and leave him his family, unless specially invited, but they dou't. They invade his home life, and talk consulships, secretaries, ministers, revenue collectors, appraisers, commissioners, and so on through the list, till 30 o'clock or after, when they go and leave the President.to BO to his office to look at the bushel of telegrams, the two bushels of letters, the half a ton of documents to sign, all of which must be cleaned up before he goes to bed, else one day's work would soon cover another, and hi- would never get through.

By the time the last paper is at- tended to the President is as tired aa though he had been working iu the har- vest tield all day. Three days in the week he gives an hour to shaking bauds i the general public in the East room. This time is 3 o'clock, and it is a motley assembly that greets his eyes. There are old men and young ones, old women and young ones, all colors, classes and conditions of humanity, and little children make a large contingent. Two days a week are given over to cab- inet meetings, from 11 to 1.

and it is'then that affairs of national importance are considered. These days are particularly hard upon the President, because he must consider eontlictiug interests and harmon- ize them, he must keep his finger on the pulse of Ih people through nil TTis cab- inet otliriala, ami decide firmly and wise- ly the questions that are brought to hitn. All this work is crowded upon the Pres- ident, and ho has mic state dinner a week, to say nothing of the dinners he must at- tend, the slate receptions ami other so- ciety functions which demand the time and presence of President; with bills of Congress to read find sign, and mes- sages to write, it will be seen tbnt the man who digs cellars has much the best of It as to time; he works eight, and the President nearer eighteen hours of the twenty-four. WRECKED BY BANK PRESIDENT. Reports Received at Washington on the LoKurmport Failure.

Reports received at the Treasury De- partment tend to show that the failure of the State National Bank at Logans- port, was caused by the dishonesty of John P. Johnson, the president of the institution, who. it is claimed, appropri- ated not only the capital stock of the bank, $200,000. but also the undivided profits, amounting to $100.000 more, and falsified the records so that the extent of his peculations canuot be determined at present. The bank examiner in charge believes that can be realized for JOHN" F.

the benefit of creditors from the sale of property which Johnson has surrendered. The directors of the bank do not seem to have taken any interest in the mauuge- ment, but permitted the president to con- duct the business to suit himself. The liability on deposits is reported at 000, but an examination is necessary to determine whether an assessment will be made on the capital stock. Johnson was taken to Indianapolis, and now occupies ceil at the jail. He went in the custody of United States Commis- sioner Funk and Deputy United States Marshal Clark.

In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. George W. Prescott of Torre Haute, father-in-law and mother-in-law of the prisoner, arrived. They were ac- companied by Mr.

Johnson's 9-year-oid daughter, who was visiting them when the crash came, and who does not yet know of her father's disgrace. Johnson was taken to jail at o'clock in the oven- ing, and there parted with his wife. Both were perfectly self-possessed, even to the point of exciting comment. Johnson will plead guilty to some of the charges against him, but others he will fight. Com- missioner Funk says that if the Logans- port bank is promptly reorganized it will be able to pay out.

Tclecrajihic Brevities. The president of the British Iron and Steel Institute, in his annual address, call- ed attention to the remarkable growth of American competition. The Agricultural Department has sent out 10,000 rounds of beet seed to fanners in various parts of the country and the supply is now exhausted. Cardinal CitniiP.o Siciliano ili Rcndi, archbishop of Honeveiitn, is dead at Rome. He was born in 3847, aad re- ceived the red hnt in 1SS7.

The Spanish Government has malic an- other loan of from the Bank of Spain to pay troops in Cuba. Foreign financiers refused to lend. President Errnzuris of Chili and the Chilian minister to Rio Janeiro declare that though the Chilian populace wants war with. Argentina, the better classes in Chill ore opposed to it THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON, HeflectiouH of unKlevutincCliiiracter --Wholesome Food for Thought-- Studying the Scriptural Iicauoii Iti- tclliccntly and Profitably.

Treason for June G. Golden iliy tungiiu from 2vII, and thy lips from speaking Ps. 34: 13. The subject of this k'ssun is Sins of the Tongue--James 3: 1-1H. A more prac- tical passage it would be litird to find.

It Is nevertheless not more ethics, or pro- verbial philosophy, for tho warning against sius of the tongue is grounded on duty to God. The lesson would upply to anybody, 'but with peculiar force to one who professes to be serving Christ, and to hove submitted nne.se!f lo his control. Soberness nud self-restraint in speech were commended especially by tho Greeks. While thi; heroes of Homer let their run with them, and made violent and insulting speeches 1" their best friends on slight provocation, the Ureeks of Inler limes deemed such ex- cess to be disgraceful. Poets jihilos- of the i century, the guidon jigfi of (irrorc.

proclaim the of tho man who keeps his word under con- trol and is known as a man of action rath- er than of words. Boasting and calumny were discredited. But the Jews and Christians of the first century A. I. were under different inlliiences.

The Jews were extravagant 7 speech. any one may see by rending iheir Talmud. They were profane, in their own fashion, swear, ing strange oaths like those which Jesus rebuked iu Matt. 5: All orientals think it necessary to fortify their words by form of oath. The Arabs, fol- lowing the practice of the Koran, swear by almost every conceivable thing in any way connected with the prophet, or i tho sjiered places of their religion.

Kur- ther. Kastern peoples i not by nature truthful. They will go out of their way to tell a lie. just from force of habit. This infirmity is even in Far Kasr, in some missionary countries, and does nut aL oiler disappear i runvtr.siou to James knew a he was i i about, therefore, nnd his admoni- tions were aimed at a mark.

Kxplanntnry. "Ho not many the revised ver- sion has "teachers," which is the modern word for the now ambiguous The thought of course is plain: do not all of yon set yourselves up as teachers of your brethren, for a good many of you are'not qualilied for a position and will get into trouble. Tho horse is guided by the bit and the ship by the rudder. It is of course not perfectly correct to say a a man is guided by his tiingue. a is.

by his words. The guiding power is rather the will with- in, expressing the character of the man, and that finds outward expression in speech. But the point is sufficiently plain that James makes--the contrast between the, little bit or rudder and the great things they control, whose progress and direction they indicate. "Behold, how great a matter a littlo fire this also fails to convcy the moaning to modern reader. Tho word "matter" is commonly understood to mean an affair, a controversy, where aa it is here used in its physical sense, and means wood or fuel.

The revised version reads, "how much wood is kindled by how small a. fire." Of course the sense is not materially changed. Hero again the new version has a smoother rendering: "And the tongue is a fire; the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which deiiU'th tile whole body, and setteth mi fire the wheel of nature, and is set on tire by hell." On the rather obscure figure of speech, "setteth on tire the course of nature." the Cambridge Bible says: "The best interpretation seems to be that which sees in the phrase figure for tlm whole of life from birth; the wheel which then begins to roll on its course, and con- tinues rolling until death. What is meant, if adopt this view, is a from the be- ginning of life to its dose, tho tongue, isr an ever present inUauuualory element of evil. It is possible a there, may be- a reference 10 the potter's wheel, as in Jer.

IS; On tins view, the tongue would bi; represented as the flame, a by its un- tempered heat mars the vessel in the hiutds of the Teaching Hints. The sin of garrulity is Hot the -least of those winch cause disorder and strife in the world and even among Christians. Most people talk tow much---that is. too much about the wrong sort of things. This is true in the home, iu the prayer meet- ing, hi church.

"We are apt to attempt to conceal poverty of thought by a profu- sion of words; to hide a Jack of re.il spir- itual experience under a woll-tnnied sen- tence. The more pronounced vins of the tongue such UK lying and boasting and profanity are not so common among tho class of people who will study this lesson, except among classes in mission schools or children of a sort. But ev- ery pupil needs to be taught i simple, fundamental lesson; that as the turning of the bit or of the- rudder ever so little to right jr left slmws htnv the horse or boat is going, so the apparently trifling "idle words," the little mean things a children like to any, nre noted by (lull and arc displeising to him. Shis of the tongue nre nearly the outgrowth, of selfishness. The sin of mere- ly talking 'too much about oneself, of boasting, of setting oneself up as a judge of others, is more lightly esteemed a it deserves.

It is contrary to the example ami precept, of Christ, and though sadly common among his professed disciples, is none the less wrong a pro- harmony, breaking up friend- ships, making Christianity a mockery bis fore (he world. Next Lesson-- "Paul's Advice to Time, Tim. 1: 1-7: 14-17. MICHIGAN SOLONS. These bills passed tho House Monday: To punis-h attempts to wreck trains by life imprisonment; to compel telegraph, companies to exchange message i other lines at intersecting points nearest sender of message; prohibiting females from being employed as barmaids.

In (lie Senate the.se hills passed: To rcqtiin; township boards to make and publish an- nually itemized statements of the condi- tion of finances; permitting villages to? vaoute their charters iu certain cases; fix- ing per diem of railroad crossing board at repealing obsolete statutes; to author- ize sale of land by State Board of Agri- culture ami purchase of other laud; for the specific taxation of gross earnings of express companies at per cent; amend- ing law relative to Hens upon real prop- erty; amending divorce law relative to support and maintenance of minor chil- dren. The fight over the Merriman bill which, was expected in the House. Tuesday gave way (o what ended iu a most harmonious session. Governor had put his min- imum at an increase of $1,000,000. A.

careful canvass of the situation, how- ever, revealed a nothing better that? the increase of provided by the conference commit tec's report could be hoped for from this Legislature, so it was decided to accept that amount and: renew 1'he attack on the railroads before the next Legislature. This advice waa given by Col. Atkinson, the chief lieutenant early in the session. It was readily accepted by all of the Governor's adherents and the con- ference report was adopted with a rush. Under it Mie revenue of (lie State from this source next will be an compared with $740,000 this year.

Tho Senate Committee on Stable Affairs had made a favorable report ou bill restoring rapital punishment, and both houses have passed rhe IVrry bill, which makes a sweping reduction in the number of State reports and other documents to bu published annually. Gov. Pjngree sent a special message (he Legislature Wednesday afternoon rec- imunendiug a the session be extended least fortnight, saying the additional expense would be insignificant compared with the advantage of having pending bills properly considered. measures mentioned by the Governor, i the ex- ception of the appropriation bills, up in committees. They reijuiro paying a specific tux to adopt a uniform system of bookkeeping, 1m presented by the Stall', require railroad companies to sell interchange-able mileage, and filio-milc hooks for $1U.

and include. anti-trust bills aud bills to tax titid express companies and to prohibit discrimination iu freight rates. Tim House adopted the Governor's suggestion and adopted a concurrent resolution 1 rescinding its former action and extend-; ing the session to 14. The Senate, however, rejected this resolution by a vote of three to one. The Senate defeat- ed the bill cutting passenger fares on the 1 A Fccrct.

'Tis not in seeking. 'Tis not in endless striving. Thy quest is fvuiid; lie still and listen. Ke still and i tiie Of all around. Not for thy crying.

Not for thy loud beseeching, Will peace draw near: Rest with palms folded: Rest with thine eyelids Lo! peace is here, --Edward R. Sill. i i 111. Ulll I I I I the exhibition of prize fights, was passed by the Ilou.se. The Senate Thursday refused to take from the Ha it road Committee three im- portant bills.

The bills sought to reijuin; Tlie sale of interchangeable mileage and "oo-mile hooks, and ropeaJ the Midiigaik Central special charter. The Semite also refused to concur in the action Urn House in voting to extend the session un- til June 14. The Senate declined the re- quest of the House that a conference, committee be appointed to consider this subject. The Governor's veto of the. bill making an appropriation for the Macktnuc Island State Park was ignored and the.

measure again passed. The general ap- propriation budget for the expenses uf the State Government outside uf spe- cial appropriations came frym the Ways and Menus Committee. It calls for 1.451 for the years 1807 and or IMSS than appropriated by tlm last Legislature. The commit esti- mates the total saving effected this year at A State board of urblrm- lioa and mediation been appointed by Gov. ringree.

It consists Carl Schmidt of Detroit. Jerome Roberta of I'ontiac a.nd Thomas Roberts of Ne- gannee. How Chinese Do Various Things. The Chinese do everything backward. They exactly reverse order of civilization.

The men carry ou dressmaking and the women carry burdens. The spoken language of China is riot written, aud the written languuire is iwt spokeu. Books tire reail backward, and wIKU we. call foot notes are Inserted in iho top of the page. The Chinese surname comes first in- stead of last.

The Chinese shake their own hands instuiid of the huntU ot" those they greet. The Chinese dress in white a.t funer- als, and in mourning at weddings, while old women ahvuys serve bridesmaids. Note lirst that the Chinosp compass points to tho south instead of north. The Chinese launch their vessels ways and mount their horses from tlie off'sUK The Chinese begin dinner with des- sert, anil end with soup ami fish. The Orjjaii Popular.

The demand for organ music iu thi country, outside of churches, seems be quite limited. Boston's great regarded as a wonder, lias bee stored iu a shed for thirteen a will soon lie sold at auction, it built Germany at cost of One troulde about a great organ i lliat it not easy to keep it supplie witli a great organist. Newspaper Statistics. The total nr.mber of copies of uows- 'papers iirin'icd throughout, the world in oiie your liUOO.OUO.UOO. To print these requires 781 tons of paper.

or pounds, while it would take the fastest single press years to print a single year's edition, which would produce a stack of papers nearly. tiftv miles high. Falestrina lived in poverty most of his days, and died in great want..