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:tnctnnciun is: :9: at: Inu§_ chuLAxu PARK. ILL. Feb. u. Editor SHERIDAN ROAD was-Lmluz I am uurpriged that any person, in or out of the city council. Iho'uld be in favor of the filter bed. _ Then have been folldwm o! the Villa'- theawisp through all time. In the religion- ond we hue had our Joe Smith, and we now have our powie. We have had perpetual motion cranks and will have so long as we have men incapable of understand- ing'cause and eflect. We have had the Keeler motor and a‘thousand other humbugs that have come and gone. all of which have met with ' that measure of success which their promoters expectedâ€"filling their pockets at the expense of f their dupes. Now comes the sand filter bed.’ And here we are, with the gold brick before us. If the ques- tion Were whether we should stull‘ $12,000 into a, ra’t'hole or not, it would be of little consequence; it Would be gone and that would be the end of it. But if put into the filter bed, when built and its .worth: lessness demonstrated the same per- sons who are now laboring to pro- Am‘ote this scheme will assure us that 312,000 more would complete the filter and make it perfect andable to supply the city with pure water. And so on until we haye expended $100,000 with a small supply of filtered water. Joe' smith was a fraud; all perpetual motions are frauds; Keely motors and sand filters are all frauds. ‘ How are we to distinguish these and like frauds in advance? By ob- serving the laws of nature applying to the case in question. ‘Any propo- sition that muet’transgress or reverse the natural laws r‘elatingthei‘etq is a fraud; If the water is to be filtered it muet percolate through sand and gravel for a great distance, and this can only be done while the filter is new: In thirty to ninety days all filteration will cease until the filter iH'refilled. This is a natural law. Efith, stone, sand and gtawl, o‘r any combination thereof, when flushed with water soon seeks its original density, and become. u impervious to water as the solid earth. ‘ On this subject I speak from twoniy yun' experience in damning, controlling and conducting water, and with forty years of observation and Itudy. Thoee who difler from me by ob- ‘ serving the drainage canal, estimat- ing the percolation now at difl‘erent points, and again three months hence, and again . marking the time when all percolation (that is, all filtering)-eeaeee, will learn maria. above statements are far short of what would be necessary to furnish the required amount of filtered water. 'Last summer E. L. Hamilton per- mitted a sand filter enthusiast to build one to filter the water for his summer residence here in the Park. Its promoter'claimed for it a capaci- ty euficient for three such establish- ments. - It was built; the promoter went home; night came on, not a drop of water. The‘ne'xt morning it was the..same. The third morning the promoter was sent for. He came and examined it, ' pronounced it an absolute failure, cut it out and rolled it donn into the ravine east of Mr. Hamilton’s house, where it may and should be inspected by all lovers of the sand filter. It remained in position and in service three full days and furnished less than a half pail of dirty water. This is High- land Park’ 5 sand filter in operation. Sean. SHERIDAN now NEWS-LETTER. i the Coming Year ? We presented a small hill to Where will You Attend School , This lasagna-8n, ofiers gbwyounfivnenme denlrlnir a thbmngh. practical educaâ€" tlon the very best possible advantages. and for less money than any other school in the land, ~ School I: In Session {ninth-e Year. . Stride-an may Enter it any. ‘11:»;- There are nineteen departments and flflyqslx instructors. The schnul is thor- unghly “lumped In every way. Speciallsfi are empldyed as inslrucump in each departmem, no that no matter what students may desire tu‘ take they will be certain to find themselves with thoroughly mined instructors. 'Before decidjnu this fih‘poftant question. fiend for chta‘ingue of the 'Nnrth- em Indiana Normal School and Business Coliege. V-albgraiw. Indiana. "27"“va invitfilil $10.00 p‘ur ’i'cm. "660d mm and Well-furnished room; 01.50 to 81.90 per week. The decommodauuna at these rates are no satlslactory that! the lame majumy of thwe who attend avail themselves of the ndyantanes thus offered. A For catalogue or particulars. undress. ' H. B. BR0WN,PnnsmnN'r. ‘ or 0. P. KINSEY. VICE~PRI§IDINT. Park buoipm gum one duy this week, and what do you think he said? Why, 00!! “138:“! have been look in; for this Lill; I wanted to pay it.’ out he put down the cash That Is til-Put Ityle, you. see. Dead beats and . “pinball” come from out of town: real Park folks are impatient to ply their binsâ€"36m of them. Some 0! the conservetive members of the Woman' 5 Club have euggéeted briefer report- of their meetings; they don’t. went to seem to over- shadow I“ else. We think there xe eound sense in that. and hereafter we shall ask the oficial reporters to confine themgelves to 200 or 250 ivords' in each report. There are so many things going on and our space being limited, we are qurnpelied to do this. Mr. Thomas P. Evans went to- Floridn a few weeks ago fer a rest and for the benefit of his health. No sooner was he settled in his hotel than his old friend,._ the grippe, called, and like all mean relations, stuck to him closer than a brother till he was tired out and disgusted. He then left for a visit to home friends, in Dayton, Ohio, 'and thence” home. arriving on Tuesday evening Raflen Baker have put in hun- dreds and hundreds of tons of ice, having filled both big houses at the pond, and are now filling the extra one by. the office.