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A ensures or wuss. . Mr.'Grant also said the question of water was the issue in his ward‘ last spring. We never heard of that before. A large per cent of his sup- port consisted of transient voters now gone, who cared vastly more for beer . than for water; in fact about all We heard of themlast spring} was beer. Mr. Grant’s speech would almost lead one to suppom he and his col-- league laid awake nights to devise ways and means to get this filter bed ' in,‘ and that nearly every voter in , the feurth ward was very anxious for it. Perhaps he thinks so, but we don’t believe it In fact 11 Well informed, candid. honest tax payer and real es late owner in the fourth ward told 'us this week, as the result of his per. - sonal' inquiry that the water takers- _ and veters over there do not want it. They don’t want to bestaxed $12, 000 to $20, 000 for a filter- bed besides , yearly cost of maintenance and oper- ation on top of a $25,000 ublic schoolhouse and then S30,0)to 40, 000 for a new Big 11 school build¢ . ing, besides all the city, county and ‘ state taxes. Who blames them 1’ The veters of ward four haVe some sense and public spirit, whatever Mr. Grant may say, and they will show it when they get a chance. Miss Grace Elvoy has been spend- ing a fevrdays in Chicago, the guest ' of Miss Tappar, » [oomowblo no. um non] ,' word do not. That come: very near hating a percoml insult to some of tho pooph of ward four and perhaps flay will jhonkhim‘ for outing that slot on them. The citizen's of thug Ind are not idiots, nor are they wanting in public spirit; b6: they don’t care to be taxed for the bego- fit 0! some one else, for things they do not need and do not want. Thin council. he said, did not need the advice of the Citizen‘ 3 Commit- tee. Pethapa all the aldermen do not feel themeelvea eo wiee u Mr. ,Grant. r's'l‘hereuhave been mayors and aldernten in thie city of High- land Park who welcomed the advice and suggestions (if this same Citi- zen’e Aseociation; but that was be-. fore the presentrace intellectual and political prodigiee appeared on the Aidan:- Onit’s Swath. THE SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS-LETTER. The eighth regular meeting at the Ono“ was held at the club rooms on Thank). Jan. 25th. The undicnob again bud the plenum '0! hearing Miss Bate bf Chicago, who sang for WM winter, render three numbers, “When the World in fair," “My true love gave me I ted, rad roe,” “And I,” with d 'Ipirit- d style that did credit to the training of her-teacher. Hia- Wycofl, who playod her accompaniments. The subject for the afternoon m: “ Reforuu, moral, social and civic, ” by Mrs. Pfanstiebl, and the bad per fact control of her subject. _ Mrs. Pfanstiehl said she would. like to begin with the 15th century and Savonarola’, that brave reformer who was ready not only to do battle for his convictions, but to die in their defense; of Luther, who was the hero of the 16th century reformation; of brave John Howard. who in .1773” began his- firison reforms in England; » of Benjamin Franklin, who founded the first American anti slavery so- ciety in 1775;0f Robert Rsikes; who in‘1780' inaugurated the Sabbathâ€" school movement; of Dr. Benj. Rush who in 1785 began the modern item; perence‘ crusade; of 1833 the year of th'e‘reform 'bill in. Great Britain. ~ In the middl our: 'tury, emancipa- tion’sweMian world free of slavery. She said she Would like to read every one of the 167 current reform bills now before congress, from the establishment by our gov. ernme'nt of a court of arbitration se- curing concurrent action of leading nations for. the settlement of inter.- natio'nal disputes. up to the discon. tinuanee of the hideoins and cruel .practiee of docking horses’ tails. It is true that a growing interest in lmmanity' l8 being awakened and this in itself 19 a long step toward reform. The essayist then teak up in order firstâ€"~mumcipal and state reform. “It' is true that so long as the party idea dominated and the chief endeav. or is to get our men in and the ‘other men cum-every election must be a disappointment. The way cities have been’ehangiug back and forth from (State control to house rule and hem council to mayor romincfi lover in Biglow pipe": 2,, Samoa: Tenement I form; a strong plea III nude [or t betterment of the houses of the r. Startling outktics and (not: rogivon show. ing the necessity us all no the op- portunit‘x for refo along those lines. J‘hitd: The labor relom; What we need in America today is leaders -men of influence and page: wiip am willing go spend and bespent (or the uplifting of humanity. ' We need a- Gladstone, a” Wilberforce, an Earl of Shaftebnry." - ' Fourth. prison. diVBrco and tom pounce reforms were all discussed briefly and summed up with this statement: “and last of all and in- finitely higher than all, is this,.“The soul of reformation is the ‘ reforma~ tion of the soul.” After the paper. Mrs. Smoot told of the latest good work being done by the Consumer’s Lengue~viz: the adoption of the white label; this la- be] is found on all goods made by factories which conform to the fac- tory laws. In New York and Beston all the largest firms have been com pelled to adopt the white Iabel and the Chicago branch (of the league hope that the buyers who refuse to take goods that do not have the white label will become so numerous that in self-defense the merchants will use it. A; spirited discussion followed and this most interesting meeting closed with a cup of tea with Mrs. C G. Phillips and Miss Turnley,the hostesses for the afternoon > Mrs. Merryman of West Deerfield, a sister of Mrs, Patrick Sheéhen, diedlast 'Slaturdaytaged 63 yearé. The funeral was held Tuesday in St. Mary’s church in this city. and the interment in Waukegan. She was the mother of a large family, who rise up’ and call her blessed. “mm a while on one 9‘ can. macadamcuon't . Magnum beach emu-t [couldn‘t-toldovyou er." Mrs. R. G. Evgns has been gon- fined to her bed with an attack of netwoun pfostration. but her friends hope she; will soon be about again. of the