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FORTY-FOrn PAGES. IrF4 CHICAGO TREBITN SUNDAY. FEBR UARY 7, 18 9 30 i restao 4 lative produce markets were moderately and fArmer in tone. Shorts are being forced to cover. As compared with the last prices of the previous day May wheat closed cents higher.

corn 110, cent higher, oats cent higher, cash rye steady, barley easy, flaxseed steady, May pork 121,,.2 cents higher, lard 1'1'2 cents higher, and ribs 5 cents higher. RIMED JUNE 10, t847. other worlds, possible or impossible. They just know they are here. that there is work to de done and that upon them devolves 'rifle duty of doing their share.

It has helped to form the solid, steadfast character which kept Gen. Grant fighting steadily to the end. It has partielpated largely in many of the greatest triumphs of the human race: wheth(u of peace or war. It is a bard creed, but it produces strong Me it Ii brain and hraxvn and courage, and such fruit never grew upon the tree of pessimism. 1 TI St niv I k.

in Ev, c'ss whitt it ri-1 i TInit iis it thitiv, I asli -I tN -r I t-1 71r it 1 tr i It'd! it be 1. tii 'T 1,114 it.s, if It ti, Iti' I ttlit I 3 ititt in Ili, ur ''6 1th. TLC' ci Fri. Irs Lit it Ni '41 it ti 11., in that nr-r iti. ry lkr.

Ft. er utsr itnN 1ri In I ittri hitt-Lt. rk thtit tnai 1 ti the farnii Thy' iii IA. in it, rtret-1 ,1 I ft.t ttlit TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. IN CIT CARRIER DISTRICT.

Daily, I cent FIngle cents Daily. week 8 tents Daily ant' Sunday, per week II cents OUT OF CARRIER DISTRICT AND ON TRAINS. 2 times the diameters as they used to be but a trifle more in Indiana. The immediate effect of this change will be to give to all circles when they enter Indiana either greater circumferences or less diameters. An Illinois eirele or a circle originating in will find its proportions modified as soon as it lands on Indiana soil.

It will find itself under the sway of a modified Pi. But this revolutionizing effect on circles will be a small circumstance compared to the healthy moral tone that will be restored to the young laople of Indiana who have been suffering from a Pi blight. A Pi that is so simple us 3.2 ought to he free from any entangling features, but if perchance it still proves Idslurate li iloulit the Legislature will promptly lop off decimal alrd call it 3. This simplification of the mathematical Pi may be the forerunner of some similar modification of its elymologiml associates, both of which are known as Pie. Pie, as at present.

consists of a mixture of foodstuffs or lead type. according to the cireumstances of its production. Both mixtures are frequently vague and cent ain ingredients of their kind as multitudinous as thuse flint have eumbered the usefulness of Pi. Any lig-klat ion that NN-ill assure a fixed and simple identity to pies. such as has twill provided for Ii.

should be welcome to lite pie Inn kerst or pie eaters in theland. Daily. single Sunday. sInkle 3 cents Daily, per week 12 cents und week 1 7 tits 1iY 11 it'll, IN l'ftago tl.e of eit," nn 1 and 1 one yea.r S4 04:1 w.inotzt I nt.ns 6.00 three, 1.30 Sunday edlt un ly. 11M0 11ve in full.

Including and State. Itemit liy money orcier. draft. or In tstered letter at our risk. ceeds of bonds and stock sold to third parties.

of course they expect that the interegt on the bonds and dividends on the stock will be paid. The rates of fare must be kept up in order that the purchasers of these securities may not be disappointed. Mr. Yerkes has just succeeded in disposing of ten millions of new West Side bonds. The proceeds are to be used to extinguish a floating debt of more than a million and to redeom some outstanding obligations.

Presently more indebtedness will be contracted iLL SOIne mysterious way, and then noire bonds will have to be issued. At the last meeting of the Nora' Side company 1 r. Yerkes suggested that the V011i Inv Of stock be doubled, so that the dividenils might not seem so large and the public might not think the profits core excessive. This duplication may take place, but the dividends, halved at first, will gradually increase with the rapidly increasing business of the road. Chicagoans will be compelled to pay dividends on Nvatered stocks and bonds just as long as they elect Aldermen who can be bribed to perpetuate the present systenn Th, voters are at fault.

If the voters eltet Aldermen WhO can be bribed or bullied into passing ordinances which allow excessive rates of fare II) I charged. alnl into defeat ing ordimt nees under which he Peulat could go into court and show they are chargeil much, the voters must expet to have to pay 5-cent instead of 3-ent or -I-cent fares. Thirty-four Aldermen are to be elyeted Iwo months hence. If the peoplis choose they can elect men Who will not sell them out to street railroad officials. but who will frce them from the burdensome exactions of the street railroad companies.

The general custom ill the past has been to clect bad Aldermen and then scidd because they were had. Is it not time for a change of method? 0 e. aui hor silt we hp) Ail). by tire 11, I. 1 breiiltrast.

reeth 4 ii What aro tJr lea I self with kn eftrt. a alp in my 41roatos. It V.a, st, Any nutgAzinc it pay tor it ttory, (Jeth'01? Alia it to you al a Then you nhglit tO 9,11,1 It (uld do a great deal ith Vrit. IL ri.zht away." 1Vhit ii I eati.t recall it. It has rno Yet you say you out Yes." Arhi sent it away7" Yes.

an.I the it Vfly. 1w h.ine you laren 11.111 Ihrur." Then when all tliis Las, 1 wrote It out i mr dreani sont it a wa yin 41ream. III, S77, he up Ow pekt I- and stirring- tlio tire in ail aimless PP rt uf the dream. I think tint the steak 44ut then all rignr, the biscuits burneI a crisp." NEW YORK OFF147E-164 WORLD rifILDINO. Per.ons I Tri at their tnmes can it Iv card rtquest llverv is Irregular please immcTate cm1alflt this rtnMESTIO pags.

tp 4 pages. '2 tu 44 pag, cents; over 44 pages. 4 2 centi; 1r; 3 rc-rTs: 24 Tag. 4 cents: 32 pages. 5 ve-Its; ti vents; 44 tct pages, tents; yvf-r 4x741ires, I the Departm-nt Ere strtct.

anti newspapers insuflklently prevaid be on this ruinous war much longer. There can be no question that the Cubans will reject it anti elect to continue their war for liberty. They have had one experienee of Spanish perfidy, and laid down their during the last revolution at a time wlum their cause had no element of hepefulaess to (ompare with their present situation. They have made infinitely more progress in the last two years than they then made ill ten years. It is universally conceded by every observer that Spain cannot put them down and that before long it will have to bring this infamous and murderous war to an end on Cuban term's.

They have every incentive to fight oa for their liherty. They have no reason to rely npon Spanish honor again. There is not sufficient ibf. home rule la this decree to indue them to aceept it. even if they Were iStire Spain W011111 put it in operation.

MORE PAY FOR LETTER CARRIERS. Congress should pass tlit lull providing for an inerease in the pay of letter carriers. The measure has been favorably at upon in committee and if it beeomes a law Nvill give to these faithful and hard-working servants 44f the goVerlintent and the peopfe in cities of more than Wototi population for the tirst year of for tlm cond year, for the third. J1141 a year thereafter. It was pointed out in the eolunuttee report I hat the free delivery service was now a source of large ineome.

81141 even if this hill should hts-onte a IttW it W4 411141 iiil la' more than self-sustaining. The report It 'el believea that the carriers IA ho are faithful and hit are to lie ativantied under previsions of this hill. having full ktitiwiedge er their dui iiet and the restienees of those they to, willing to centinue in the illsobarge of their luties and xviitild not be looking other iiiisitions if this change in salaries ciould tibtaintide It wtiI the se ice tin a more stable finnilationi aril the lienetits intended to lie deriteil frern the seri i. laws weutil lie realized in part should hill leiconei a law. '1'114 letter carriers are very close to the people.

and this increase in their remutteralion would meet Nvith general approbation. I'lley are subjected to continuous expesure for hours every day to the inelentenea k'8t tier, 81141 are not able to relax their outdoor labor even NV ii SIMIDitnit illtellSe 441 he cold of utter most severe. From this cause all 4114. it is a deunoistrated fact that I heir physical constitutions are gravely taxe41 and they age rapidly in the serviee. It is aIso true that in hundreds of eases the limit of ork to eight hours a day is a theory of the law only.

They are more often olklige'l to work ten hours. and sometimes more, anti yet there is sehhon any protest heard front them by the public. It is tittle the g4ivernment showed a 'oral tical appreciation of the fidelity and tnti'lligenee of the men in this imp44rt ant broch of the pnblie service. The operation ot the merit system, has brought to the xvork a high elaSS ot employt-is, the beiltitils to the service tlitis obtained would be augmented if these Melt Were remain and not seek other poSitioliS NVInirit the emoluments are more in keeping with their abilities. 41ive the letter carriers ing salaries and the public will rejoice and the Postoffice Department will be 171' i7j)44r1ionately benefited.

SOCIETY MEETINGS. WILEY M. EllAN CHAPTER No. 12(1. B.

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AL NlIndiry evening. Feb. S. Arch Oegree. tsiting companionA welc-uw.

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FREI, 1iNIFt1 S-el KILWINNING LoTIGE No. 711. A. F. 8:: A.

M. Emergent Thesaay 9. at f.d- the the funeral late flugh Mae Milian. SMITH. W.

M. ADAM 11... St-eretary. THE ELECTORAL VOTE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. According to the Washington dispatches of THE TRIBI'NE a protest against the Counting', of the Electoral vote of South Carolina will be presented when the two Houses of Congress meet in joint session next Wednesday for the purpose of canvassing the Electoral vote.

It is stated that the protest will be based on three grounds. The first is that the legally reialltled voters et tms was trteveritid from expressing their hoice rr Presidential Electors by the enforcement en the part of the mam gers or the election of ill, gal The seeontl ground is that the Constitution adopted last year is invalid a Ad' the electors were Tut II, tb for flottegzttes to convention. anti because certain clauses of he Constitution disfranchise a large majority of the electors. The third ground is as follows: 'your menterialists further deelare that a AI tublieoti government does xist in cttrolina: that the Win of the people has been overthrown: that a military despotism is in control of the State governtlf and that the peo1 le of Catalina appeal to Cocgfess for the taltuttnunt to the state or -south Carolina of the States constitutional aigreement of a republic ta form of government. Last November there were east in Sttuth Carolina votes.

of which Bryan got In 1s00 there were in South 1aotlina 91034 native whites and colored males voting age. That is tt tortal if 7.21:-2.1l,s3 There were mitre adult males in 1s9tt than in and yet the State. cast less than 70.01 i0 votes. There is no dispute as to hy the voote Wi( s)) stnall. It is admitted too all sides that it was beeause only a few colorett citizens WtI'V a 110 VC vote They have not beton per-, witted to do so shop They Vure kcpt front the polls by forett at tirst and then 1.y fraud.

At present they art denied I ile hit by a Constitution they had no IA in making. If there had. been a free election in $4 path Oarolina last November the Eleetoral vote of the State tvoubt have been east foot- MeKinley by a heavy majority. But the State is governed by a minority if its citizens. and hence Bryan goot the Eleetors.

This is unrepublican and undemocratic. But while the statoments of the petitioners are substantially correct. there is no reason to expect that the Electoral vote of South Carolina, will not lw counted foir Bryan. There may 'be an animated tlebate. but nothimr more.

The. law regulating the Electoral con itt provides hat No Electoral vote or front any State which shall nav been regularly given by Electors whose appoint Ment has ijkOn laWfUnY 4'ertitlea ta according to Sec. 3 of this act, from which hut one urn has been ceived, shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they aeree that such vote or have been so regularly given by Electors who appointment has been so certified. It is DM ttiaittied I hat the votes were not regularly but that the Eleetors were not lawfully chosen. If the tirst claim were made the two 'louses wonlol not concur in rejecting the VtbteS.

'rhe Senate certainly would insist on their ito jug ttombott. But the next Congress should take, up and toss on one phase Of this South 4 Which applies to some other rottoon States also. South Carolina has seven tl'ongressmen and nine Electoral votes. But she is given four if those Congressunt.n and four oof those Eloctors beause she has a large number of colored citizens. But those citizens aro not allowed to vote.

serve simply to swell the number of Congressmen and Eleetors dIptsert by the whites of the State. The tooloorood voters have no political power. What they shottlol exercise is eXt rriseil by he whites. In i 118 more ha their share. The fourteenth amendment declares that when State a loritigotS the right ot citizens toi vote-- The basis of representation therein shall he re-, in the hivh the number of suell male citilf-ng Shall bi the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such State.

Smith Carolina has abridged the right to vote of four-sevenths of her male population. Therefore Congress should deprive the State of four-seventbs 4-if its representation. The number of Congressmen should be cut tlown from seven to three. Then the white Stonth will have all the representation they are entitled to and no more. el.

Clemens, who has just Leen made re, for the Kansa-. Supreme Court. is, a cousin ittland rrli ms.A,Irunv.di 4.1-11t one in many year. who wns horn lir pie state. ciie timo the Governors of l'entisylvania.

and Delatitre ere all natives oi 'They were Gov. Pattison Gov. Delaware, arid of Maryland. all er t11 i on the eastern shore of Alai. yland.

Strauss ii vri ten a new called The the beak hv Willner and Pahlildlider. I Is to be produeed the Eeld nary in Vienna at the 'I-heater an der 'iVien. Tile title represents the l'arisian 'woman Vi itt I inie (if th, ti in, was thrugh ttlit STNets to represent the lo.wiesi. Congressman F117.1.,11i1,1 of Mitreaehusetis has Presented, in the House the, petition 9f. the 3Iassa(-tinseU- al asking that action he taist to repair rind preserve '11, cam us war If consiitution.

known to song history a4 '1 I At present the is lying at the New Flail yard in an almost sinking condition. Qu, en Victoria's apartments in the new Cintlez comprise more than I 10 rooms. tit them have ireen sumptuously decorated oecupaney. much of the furniture having iaie4 rairehaseil in London. The ctreetis bed.

aid too 1 were hrought Wintiser Castle. ias; heal! ti Is said to, he reaseirihly good, anti a. Jr the talk of her 1T-espeetive abdication Henry Iatlean.here sax Queen nci more conternplattes abdication than swimming across the Solent: Miguel Aliunirola lia hints.lf a model Governor of the State of hum M.exten. Irtiring his first term or i taxal ion. he paid off about three-quartets or' tile if the State, anitdanting ltt the same time more than deuhlimz he edueritional fr the seeuriint the estahlishnient i Mtge nuinher of new con inerial and manitfaeturing and ennstrileting viiich are in tlik.

Ex Spea ker of House and 1-tei Teseni ce A. i 1.r Pennsylvania 19 73 year but lie a rites tvithout glasses as readEy as a hey of Is. The oilier day he Writing in the Seeretarys the some to, I he' 1 1'ry. 4111,1 si hI. IT I tii ear glasises as in it, I needed ti, stid the veteran Yankee.

Is it mitt', 0 I t. at home the r-- I wore when I roueh younger, rind they still lit I use them sometimes for rending tlia clIEVAI.JETZ. 'BAYARD NO. 2, K. T.

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t'ARKE11. M. LEWIS, NO SCHOOL BONDS POSSIBLE. The Superintendent of Schools figures it out that the needs and demands of the whole city call for the early expenditure of for new school sites. new buildings, and additions to old buildings.

Ile admits it Ns-oubl be hard on the taxpays to raise that noreb money this year and next. Therefore he suggests that bonds be sold to the amount of The Superintendent claims that the fact that the City of Chicago is indebted beyond the 5 per cent limit will not hinder the sale of school bonds. because 46 the Legislature clearly intended to authorize Boards of Education to be au independent corporation. exercising the right to issue bonds." The Legislature intended nothing of the kind us far as the Chicago School Board is concerned. It is not elect's by and responsible to the people.

as other school boards are. Hence it has not he power of taxation of her rds have. It cannot issue bonds except with the concurrence of the Conned." When the board borrows money it et111 do so only on the e'redit of the city." The" concurrence of the Council makes the bonds city bends. The interest on them has to be paid out of the proveeds of a tax levied by the Council. School bonds always have been considered as city bonds becanse the School Board never has been a municipal corpowation exercising the taxing power, like the park boards or the drainage district.

So. as the city ean S4H no more Invilas. ii-catise it (1(44 beyond the constitutional limitation, no money can be olitained for sehool purposes by the sale of bonds. The Board of Edueation will have to get along with Avhat money it can get directly from the taxpayers. But it must not be exorbitant in its demands on them.

It must practice economy. as most private citizens have been doing for the last four years. (IA 1ITY A A. M. ortintuffleatt4-11 We.i.tesaav eveffing.

to. at tu Temple. Business and work. t'raf are invite. N11.I nool).

Master. GIL. BATINATtl). Seuretary. RUSSIA STRENGTHENS ITS GRASP ON TURKEY.

The neWSparerg (if St. aro ontspoken in the assertion that nothing yin ont)) of the European convert regarding Turkey. Their utterances are made simultaneously with the return of Count front Franey, and doubtless are based 'on trust vothy information as alleged. The important purport of it all is that Russia will VOTItilitle to protect the Sultan from any possible attacks by the other powers, and Russia has received through Count Muravieff renewed assuranees of the sine 1)4)11 of 1'ranc4. One Russian paper says specifieally: The European concert is without force.

The Sultan has nothing to fear. The powers are not now demanding his territory, as in the past. but are all yalling for the Turks to remain and giving them money for the net cssarN reforms. The Sultan has now not only the d-stitiles of his O11-1 country in his hands but also those of the peace of Europe. Allot hor Russian paper says: Russia ani France Will never aoyept Lord sansory's of the Turkey.

Gernttny trt3 interet ill England's game, and it is inconxenient fr Austria to uet e.ntrary 1,, Thi-st' are doubtless only mild reflections of the truth that Russia is determined not t4) permit any other nation to have a hand in instituting reforms ill Turkey under threats. Count hurried trip to rania) wax 'ft sione4 by tile fear that Fra IWO NViilltd NVideSpead demand of Christian for an immediate check on the power Of the Sultan to Or sever its bond wit Russia ami cast its with England on the TIIIkiSli jolt. ItIlS7Sia (Vidently lia' fI1111 hat it has mulling 1-4 fear in that quarter and is lbetter prepartst to 41ely any interference with the $ultan's domains. It is not to be supposed.of COlirSO, that the m1 reform is to be entirely removed. That will be held up and waved now and again for the purpose of quieting the more insistent protests of the civilized xvorid.

But it seems to be demonstrated with lanowel force That no amount of massacres or other Armenian atrocities will turn Russia a jot from its natiomd aim to possess Turkey. It has been the settled indiey of the Russians to obtain this dominion for years. and there has never been an act in a score of years on the part of Russia inconsistent with this theory, It has been 4.heked at times when its advances have I een too but it has stopiked patiently viten the check was put up4ni it and has not gloo Lack. suggest iOn 1MR been made that Russia is not averse to a continuation of the massacreQ beranse it has seen that the time might and probably veld)! arrive when. by continually keeping the 4 0-her powers impotent.

the entire civilized world would unite in a request for Russia 14) step ill and end the wholesale assassination. That would be the full realizat wt. Russia's Ilream. the c4)voted conquest NVithollt a Nvar, and in fact even at the invitation of its ouivious enemies. It is difficult to credit such a plot, but there is much in the diplomacy of Russia to give it a semblance of probability.

VAN nExssELAHR 1,1,411:: CflTT1IIfl i-ri -1'hur-zda. evt-ning-. II. Ttittple. work 4.n 4th anti 5th I'll AS.

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GIL. W. Seeretary. TENEMENT REFORM IN CHICAGO. Philanthropy and 3 per cent is the (geld iig ha racterist lc a 11'liVI1 tl) the (Verat ions of the a philanthropy that pays: aStorm of business model tenement-house reform-- enterprise which.

as business. loses nothing by being at the same lime tt form of the truest benevolence. he movement for tenement-house reform Chicago lead. not lag behind. he other chief cities the world.

Chicago is of place and does not look well at the tail end of a proeession. While Chivago May hP some other cities in the unsanitary and otherwise disgraceful charaoter of a large tonemPont-lionses are allowed to exist ill varion parts el the city. it is vent ain that our city has nothing- to boast if in his respect. h'hiere are in more till half a dozen wards of thecity hunZieds of tenements fibariness would defy on back lots. below grade, of ramshackle structure, reeking vit all manner of putreseence.

where proper Eghting and planation are inolassiblee where the sunlight. if it ever did enter. would blush with shame; Where the decencies of civilized home life are rout of the quest ion; and where the murderous death rate of known to be five or six times greater -than in other parts 4of the city. Even if lort-onling centers of tliseaso had northing- to do with the general health oonsidt, of their immediate precinctswhich, of orairse, is noever the aS4.to allow them to exist would be like the ('ti1li murder. Fortunately, the entire practicability of tenentent-house refiorm, even as a paying investment.

has been tried and has been proved. over oVe a gain, in so many of the- more enlightened munit nullities in I hk. WOlti Ithd iii the NVW that the real question IlOW is whether there are here the individuals wise and courageous enough to lead If in the tuovemont. A spasm u1 sens, as 41ail Hamilton used to call it. is sometimes a good thing.

If lit the right dins-lion and public attention gets called to it. the spasm may get to In common and acquire the vita racteristles tof a freshly awakened and enhghtened common sense----it eounnon sense such as makes the must radical reforms inevitable. slat-hod by ft bla via IIill, lord Shaftesbury, i'onirge I II nd others have nut been in vain. The Stlott.tanwtat invested remuneratively in ilreat Britain in such enterprises, and the various similar eperimental enterprises this country. ore eloquent with persuasion.

But considerations Of the public sztfety also denurtiol it. There no social torineiple better established than the right of a eity abate a It is a part of the supreme law of self-protection. Should -the City Connell ant hoorize the Itomrd tot Health tfi condemn any building deemed unsanitary and etitopel its inoval. it woufd ektitly within its power to do so. And tie oiniy too tho vould be as dear as its rig-lit.

The balance of IH)wer having- passed from the country to the city. 1111, problem of eiviliyalion is now the problem of the city; and tile problem of the city is first of all Olio to do with the shuns. And the only way to amend the slums is. in parliamentary phrase, to St ri ke out I he enacting The bubonie plague leiw spreading its haver in Bonduly and other cities of India had its origin in the neglected shims. The terrible devastation is the penalty paid for such negleet.

Ilut when -the shim aggregations 01 people. so often mainly made such by the slum conditions of tenement life into which they Seeni to haVe lCen fUd, breed natural results. the poison ill the blood. the plague in the air. can never stay lecalizeil in any one spot.

The battle with the shims j. tone NVIlich no city can avoid: no decent city will with to. Individuals of means and aggressive enterprise. who know how at onee to turn business into a philanthropy and philazithropy into a philanthropy and five per emit "will ha ye their part to do. And then such other vital ageneles as the public school, the kindergarten missir on.

the social settlement. and all the ot hr various moral DIA rtlirii us fOrtilS of effort and of influence will ha vas now they have not something- like a fair eltance to join hands. mot only ill helping the submootged tenth tout of their slough of despond," but in preventing their next neighbors also from slipping into the bottomless pit. There is. moreover, the consideratioon of justice to the less fa vorell classes of working people.

It is the almost utter helplessness of -their situation Nvhieh makes their ease so hopeless. They are not in position Ito make their own homes. While no doubt individual character and personal habits have much too do in the matter, it is rather too much to expeet sainthood with such tor-. tilde (odds of advantage against them. So that what, from the nature of the case, they could not do for themselves alone it is lout fair that others more favored should engage to help them in doing if the City Health Department needs any power to act not 3-et direetly conferred upon it, the City Council, it is to be hoped, will lose no time in voting it.

PARK 'UAPTER XI. 177. R. ana N. Special (0 i11 tip- Past anI Mt Ext Feb.

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A. SIEVERS. Master. JOHN LINCoLN A. F.

A. Friday Fel). 12. at trup-rkint elconte. tHAS.

T. Master. 4'11AS. J. )11 St-t rv t-y.

THE conferrees on the immigration bill have reached a second agreement which remove9 every objection which its critics have made against it. instead of providing that the immigrant must be able to read the English language or the language of their native or resident country," it now requires him only to read the English language or some otUer language." This does away with a technical objection which was made to the bill, and at the same lime bars out the illiterate. Another section was also amended so as to admit illiterati, wives and minor children of immigrants who are otherwise qualified and capable, does away with the objection that' families might be separated. The bill should be passed in its amended form and passed at once. PLANET F.

NI 271. F. A. 741. Frated v.oranuritcaT, 7M IA' t-t 7,, -A 0 '11 AS.

H. Gilt W. H. F. ETT.

Secretaty ToRK ellArTEtt I-14 I. A. 11 ItTrolison Dna Feb. II, Work on ttiP It. A.

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EDW. E. RATH. did your friend take thee dootor's Certainly: "And did hee pay for it I should rather li. did! Iles Statesman.

you rectify mistakes heree? asked a gentleman Hs ho into a chemisrs. YPK, we do if the patient is still alie. reviled the urhane clerk. Glasgow This. Cause of the Defieleincy I think the phture lacks atniesphere." said thee kindly (Tali Fact saiI the artist.

I tool a hard time raising tioi, wind N-hile 1 Journal. 'What di I heali about you guin into lunnelEtihrahaim?" Niistah Flack. ue issued a ytilior kid SLINAPTIIHA 'OW1; tit nil house las' xyeek. datis Ji. urnal.

No." said the patient IA'flan. with the of the horn saint. I not like to assert thni hee regards his newspaper AS his Bible. I am sore that he believes his Cincinnati Enquirer. I Uppose uPpPet what I came tor?" be sa hi.

as he prepared to ask her father fur her hand. L. Yes." reddied the father; 3vu want to bob row money. but I haven't a cent." And the Yantn4 man deferred his Nunn Amtriean. -Miss tidgirl doesn't look pleased at the ac- count of lifer club in tis morning.8 paper." I guess she- isn't.

The club is called th, Ancient Order of Itaeheinr Girls. and the vane. has it the I i.ohel,r irder of Ancient Giris cinnati Commercial Tribune. I heard 7.our minister resigned from his charge." no. ni.it edzite'ly." How was it Why.

you se we'd been resigned ttt him as long as Le could stand it. auel we thought it Wuz time for him to reeippereatee. He didn't resign. Wei resigned Times. The Cannihal chief was clearly rinicrY.

not inforin me." he demanded. that the new znissbinary was a man of innate delicacy?" The It was so slated in the invoice. Sirt'." be faltered. The savage nabob laid down his napkin with a jar thst spilled the gravyimat. tw blundered.

you find IL! I'M 1.4)n1 of York ATargerv has lust begun to go to the kindergarten. and is filled with a due. sense ut the importanie. of her siudies telere and the solemn value of the attatimunts that haL thus been within her reaeh. Th, other afternoon.

after ing ime from in a brown studY tor a time and nen said: Iarnme.d0 I litiAN- as much wiw a. I dultt. knuw'r--Boston TransctiLot. A HOTEL guest tried to smoke in bed, and his success would have been complete it the Fire Department had not responded so promptly. lie should now get a gun that isn't loaded or go to a thtater and shout Fire!" That is the logical next step in his career.

cORINTII I A 111A 'TER NO. R. A. Itpt-qla I Mmalav. F.b.

N. at .:111 P- trt a IRA -FRANTZ. E. II. P.

A 11. ST Cf 'IMMANDERY K. S000ial It- ri Wodnos.lav to. at 7::10 p. IlL.

f.n- 11,011 o-very Monday night Ity Aor of ADAM It. POLLOCK, THE complete report of the World's Columbian Exposition Commission has been sent to Congress by the President. It is not known why he has taken this hasty action. According to past progress it was not due in Congress for a dozen -years. )t tt4t! AND A.

NInday It Z711.to The 4-raft 11 rit ItEitT IIILM()ItE. W. 11. wiSit Al'. cA 0.1MAN I N4).

1. K. ts. at work. Visitingr courtoisty cROoKS.

E. FRANK CALVIN AND PESSIMISM. The between Ibsen and 11j6rnonin adds another chapter ttO tlIf vtly shall eontain a full if the Is 0t. One N0i'Wegia it writer is a cp-used by his kinsma a nd former friend of having made family secrets the theme of a drama w-hieli is now attracting particular attention. As a preliminary to his threatem41 revenge in fp pm of a novel.

says that lbscii is not a Norwegian. but a Seotchnian. whose traditional Calinisti NieWS itit-e deluged Seaudinavia with pessimism. I I may be true that I bsens ancestors were Scots ziml Calvinists. but it is by no means historivally true hat the followers of: Calvin ha Ve ever Iss-n prone to pessimism.

I I ere 4 'hieago there are many I its who have been brought up ill the nurture and admonition of ti ereed which is imived suilielntly stern. Some of them are prominent in the as business or professional men. l'hey have given Of siteli va Ii as they possess to ehurches. charities. and in-satin ions of learning at least as freely as members of other religious denominations.

Ii pulplic or private life they are not specially remarkable fill- sourness of visage or hardness of heart, though they have never received any credit for peculiar softness of head. In hours Of relaxation, as after-dinner siwakers. they have been known to contribute to the gayety of nations. Calvin and John Knox, no doubt. were very serhots persons.

awl some of their severity hovers around most Presbyterians during church hours on the Sabbath day. It is said that in some remote districts there are a few good people from Scotland and the North of Ireland Irlio would sacrifiee anything on earth rather than abandon the blessed hope of everlasting perdition. But, such idealists are rare. Like other 'professing Christians. the Presbyterian is more human than his creed.

and fortunpotely lite Westminster Confession has been modified for pract ical purposes by Robert Burns and Sir Walter Soott as well as by Dr. Briggs. Strange as it may seem. it has been provpd over am! over again that if is 4111ile 0 the acceptance of a rigid creed with a remarkable eapacity for sublunary enjoyment. So that the followers of Calvin are not too wise and good for human natnre's ilaily food." Norway imports most of its whisky from Scotland.

aud may have sampled some of it. This useful article of cilium-Prep is said to have quickened the divine afflatus in many poets and other Nvriters. and the wayfaring man may drink it in imaginary bumpers from every page of Noetes Ambrosiame. We do not say that Rjrnson derives his inspiration from this source, even the nalsr itaili1844, acquaintance with Scotch whisky does not qualify any man to Pa ss profitable judgment on the results of Calvinism. However somber and severe that creed, may be, there are Scotehmen and Vresbyterians among.

-those people of the present time who make as well as money. who gather roselPints while they and who generally do their utmost to get the best out of life. 'Witness Mr. McKinley and Mr. Bryan and Grover Cleveland and President Patton.

For the most modern instance let us take the Rev. John 'Watson. who. as a lecturer, has made more money in a short time than any of Maj. Pond's recent diseoveries.

Is it necessary to mention Barrie and Crockett and other Scots whose duties seem to he to stem the tide of decadent and soul-destroying literature? These men who use life for sueh purposes are all spiritual heirs of Calvin. and it is certain that not one of them is a pessimist. Men and women who have been brought up in Calvinism donot regard this planet as the best or the worst of all possible worlds. They cannot adopt the inductive method. because they have not yet boen able to 'procure scientifte informatiwa concerning TWO-THIRDS of the session of the Oregon Legislature has passed in a fruitless effort to elect a United States Senator.

But in addition to this good fortune the State has not been burdened with a new law in all this time. OVENANT 52'1. F. AND A. NI.

1.0 ovenl 1:1,. 12. V1sit1g' WM. J. TURNES.

W. M. L. clIICAt14 I 041MMANI.ERY No. 19.

K. T.NO Mtahtay ning. 1VATKINS. E. C.

AVM. H. SEWRIE14. Da. JANHEsoNs r(solution to step aside and let othf-rs do the work is not surprising when it L4 considered that Jamieson doesn't do any stepping aside when the fees and salary are given out.

NI1 tIIAPTER NO. 1. R. A. vv-ning 1-'U, 1.

P. P. WATKINS, E. H. P.

WIT. II. SEIFRIE1). LOD(IF: Ni). 41 i U.dfl II.

und 111, IL K. SIA PAN. NV. :s.1 RECOMMENDED for the consideration of the So Ions at Springfield': Be It enacted. That on all poetic licenses grantea in the State of Illinois, there shall be a fee of $1, payable immediately to James Right Bower Van Cleave of Chicago.

Be it enacted, further, That as an emergency exists, this act shall take effect immediately after its passage. SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 1ST. WATkRED STREET RAILROAD STOCK. According to the statement of the editor of a local lina Mehl paper.

There is a total in round numbers of 31 millions of stock issued by tliC, YaritAlS Ioeal SUrfave line street railroads that represents absolutely no investment of money." 'Aluch of this stock is not dividend-paying HMV. But the expectation of the holders is that it ill all pay heavily in the course of time. if the present rates of fare are maintained. This total of :11 millions does not, include the three old street car eompaniea of the city. But their stock and bonds do not represent money actually invested.

Concerning the reorganization, of the West and North Side companies some years ago this statement is made: Yerkes set about to secure control of the two systems. Ile first got an option int one share more than a and then organized a stock company and issued of bonds for the North Side and for the West Side. The North Side cost him $tino a share, or 000 in kill. No money changed hands in this operation. Mr.

Yerkes securing a lease and agreeing to pay 15 per cent dividends fr the amount. The entire amount of the bonds was turned rr to a construction company. and the motive power of the roads changed. Forty-nine miles were built, costing about so that half of the bonded indebtedness of the two systems was water. These two roads had been paying their former owners about :15 per cent a yea i on the smaller and honcster capitalization.

The extensive Watering of stocks and bonds carried out by Mr. Yerkes put a great deal of money in his pocket. and at the same time reduced the dividend rate. Thus the actual profits were hidden from the people. They could not see how unreasonable was the transportation tax they had to pay.

According to the recent statement of the Presidett of a Chicago street railroad The profits in street railways lie in the gelling of them. and in dealings in their stocks and bonds. and not in operating the roads. Mr. Yerkes' career shows that there is much truth in this declaration.

Starting with nothing, he has been able by juggling with stocks and bonds to accumulate in a short time an immense fortune. He has built a million dollar house in New York. lie has purchased costly paintings. For all those things, however, Chicagoans have had to pay. of the stock representing nothing.

created by Mr. Yerkes out of nothing, he is a large holder. The dividends on that stock, which are paid out of the excessive profits derived from the operation of the roads, go to him. Chicagoans are taxed unjustly in order that those roads may make profits to be expemded by Mr. Yerkes in New York City.

Part of his fortune consists of the pro IT bt-gin to lock ac if Mr. liar: ra may decide not to the arduous labors of United Szatt: THE CUBAN DECREE. The full text of the alleged reforms which the Government of Spain pretends to Ile ready to eoneede to Cuba in case tin-Cuban patriots lay their arms and surrender and pat their trust in Spain's tender mercies has heen puldialost 'no, decree proposes. first. that i ho Alunicipal and Provincial Connei Is may nominate the Municipal .1 udges.

elect their Presidents. and control education; and. secolid. the creation of a Cuban Assembly, to be knOWn as the Council of Administration. This body will he composed of thirty-tive Councilors, twenty-one whom are to be elected directly by the 1c4alle.

Nine of them will he appointed by the Governor-General. and the other five NVill Is, Senators or Representatives to the Cortes who have been elected in the greater number of general elections in the island. The Governor-General is to be the Honorary President of the Co Uneil. and all IlleaSItres of home rule which the Municipal and Provincial Councils desire and which he disapproves may he laid hefore the Administrative Coupon and finally referred to the Colonial Minister at Madrid. The Spanish tli o-ernment meanwhile reserves to itself the right TO preserve order in the island.

to determine the amount of the imperial expenses and the total of the budget, and will regulate the tariff. allowing the Spanish prodnets entering the island a rebate of dutios of 40 per cent as compared -with the Inties imposed, on foreign products. The tiovernor-Goneral will appoint in the offices of the general government and in the offices of the civil government of the provinces, and he win also name delegates in the tuunicipalities to exercise executive fnn'-i ions. Th, last artiele of the decree says: The date for the application to Cuba of the law and the present decree to Cult and Puerto Rico will loe fixed by the government as soon as the state of war will permit This nitwit-vaunted magna charta for Cuba. it will be observed, is in the nature of a bribe to the Cubans to lay down their arms.

It is far from granting autonomy to them. Every concession is hedged in by the authority of the Goernor-Gcneral and the Cortes. It has given dissatisfaction in Spain. It will give more in Cuba, as it already has done in Puerto Itleo. It is an acknowledgment of weakaess by Spain and of the conviction on the part of the government that it cannot carry I I-; A MINCR I 'V How About Thin? 1 TuE arld prompt of the of the Pope to be part of a plot Mace-olze the Pontiff.

THE prisoner who wants to produce spirits In a court at Sprinstid is described as a The Rev. I r. JitilitS; Quigley has received the Pu Pal appomthig him Bishop of Buffalo. The Rev. Edward Ahtilynn contributes to the current Forum a paPer un The Results Of Cardinal satolli's Atission." hloodY hires Tremont Host''n his own tit'CoUlst.

ri.l kS 'JO vital to defray the r-xperse. The collections. however ineet The Rev. Julius H. War for Ina" an eultorisi vrit.

for the il-sten Persid. is seriously fl. lorge library. whieh he has been collecting f-r thirty year. will tiuon be EiOld A SC etch tlergvman in Nielleatrae.

Australia. It Is said, luls arrayed his hot isters in Highland 41rPgt4, wPl wir.r are attired in the osturnes of the Lai," of the Lake." The13111ml are sung to the strahls ot- the hagpiPe. and the church is crowded. Archbishop Keane lias been appointed bY the Pope Canon of St. JOhn Lateran.

in 1-tame The appointment as Canon," the Baltimore 81114 Is cii of the most lucrative gifts in Rome Mtn power of the it is In the nature of at least as long as one remains in for the (I 'anons put in an appearance at theirchurch when they please and as they The hundredth anniversary of the Austrian national hymn was celebrated Ir. Vienna on 2s. A hundred years ag, on that day Haydn; handed the hymn to 'ount Saurau. then President of the administration in Vienna. and obtained Per' mission tr) have It sung' puldiely as the natinned 11N MIL Two weeks later.

on the birthday of the. Emperor Francis. the hymn was solemnly lung la all the theaters of 'Vienna Dr. Edward P. Allen.

the new PrnMan eathale BIShOlb of Alohile, is a native of and is now about 38 years old. In be wotked in the Middlesex mills. and got hisedu- cation by determined work at his studies, while laboring through the clay. at a commercial College from local priests. He was a Mount St Mary's College and Seminary.

of wawa he was at a later period President. Cardinal Mertel, who. In point of age, Is the dean of the Sacred is now dying at Born of extreme old age, being in his ninety-third year. la a lawyer by profession arid a lay member of en Synod of Cardinals. Minister of Finance and of the Interior during the temporal reign of Plusae.

he became after 1s7U the principal legal adviserof. I the Holy See. Like his friend and ministerial colleague, the late Cardinal Antonelli, he ranks in the Sacred College as Cardinal Deaeon. and hal never received the consecration QI priesthood. 4 INDIANA'S FINGER IN THE FL The Indiana, Board of Health having taken radieal towards the suppression of kissing, the State Legislature has felt impelled.

apparently, to attempt a siinilar crusade against an established custom, and ha voted for the repression the mathematical Pi. Since the days of Euler, Pi has enjoyed a eombination of all the numerals with the exeeption of 6 and S. and when delineated in all its glory has been known as 8.1415927. Its early use was confined to multiplying the diameters of circles by itself to find the circumferences, but it has subsequently played an important part in the development of the species by bringing out in the young all their latent and innate depravity. Young nten of unquestioned morality have been known to battle successfully with the trials of life up to the time they first made the acquaintance of Pi.

but the uncompromising obstinacy of this debased array of nu, merals to contribute to correct solutions of problems has unsettled all sound principles and sown the seeds of reckless plofanity. The Indiana Legislature undoubtedly has been inspired by this historic circumstance to restrict the pernicious influence 4)f this unholy mathematical factor. The House has therefore decided that hereafter in the State of Indiana Pi shall be 8.2. All that comet-hke tiii of perplexing figures is to be cut off. Circumferences of circles will not be the same number of IF thfs street railway scout consolidation idea." as reported.

look out for trouble. It bodes 111 when the railway dials' scouts are out. Inger!" Did order the fifty poundsof sugar I Et skpft yno to order when you down-town yesterday I 43id Did you order just fifty pounds?" 1 did. Sure you ffidn't pay for sixty pounds?" I arr. NVely Because when the sugar came this morning it was marked Sixty pounds.

Well. what's the difference, Lobelia? A few pounds either way wouldn't be worth making any fuss over." you want me to keep it?" Why not?" Pilliger MeSwat, it would be dishonest! For the sake of half a dollar's worth of sugar are you going to peril your immfrtal soul and-" Now. see here. Lobelia! For the sake of half a dollar's worth of sugar do you wantme to go cut of thy way and take half an hour of my time-'' If you don't go around to that store and straighten this thing put on my wraps and ge myself That's all there Is about it!" Weil, it wouldn't hurt you 0, no! And I have so mueh time! It's so handy to have a man abut the house! When vou him to do anything and it Isn't any trouble he'll do it! But if he is asked to go out of hts way to do a simple act of Ipstice and honesty-- Ill Don't make any more fuss about Lobelia. go." Well.

Lobelia," said Mr. MeSwat, the next I went around to that grocery store this morning, as you desired, and told the proprietor I wantcd to pay for ten ppunda of sugar that had A BILL Ls before the Senate to make The Star Spangled Banner the national song Now let the Yankee Doodle Doites speak out or forever hold their pieee." PERRY S. HEATH and Col. Jack Gcra-dy. both of Indiana, cannot both serve as Consul-General to Paris.

They ought to get together and modify those acceptances of the appointment. 'rum New York stcek market yesterday opened irregular aril lower. Local stocks were mainly strong and active. Sterling rates were steady. New York exchange soad at to 40 cents discount.Leading specu.