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The Reason Why. The junior partner of-‘the firm of Rafien I Baker wants a filter. bed. He don’ t want his son “Jack” otherwise John Milton Bakeruthe heir to his name and eetateé, to be poisoned by drinking Impure water. But that 18 not all. He sells lime land cement. Besides his firm Owns a pond over sou'west on the Hamil- ton tract which is filled every winter with water from our ’city water Works. Then when the mercury drops down to 40 below zero and holds there a week or two, it freezes over and they fill their ice houses. “Filtered ice” would knock Wiscon- sin ice into “pi." That is business, of course, and no one can blame him. but the Green Mountain Boy as well .111 some “ suckers can see through a lzulder. Pass the cigars, Charlie and all will be well. It was a long and close call for “Ross," but a good constitution ‘and any amount of pluck pulled him through, and when he does return, he will be a “veteran”. of the war. "Rah for Ross Fletcher. r-uuntry among .hh was good. 4‘ in Manila, was sent to :hruce. after mh his life was transferred to m-r still to No. 3. « urn ordered home .Ilnl h» ‘ :in mu «htered on the lifit, lmt llu‘ ~urgmm said llt! would die on m) age. so he was detained. Holiday things sent from home in season to reach him before Christmas were. not given him till the first of February, as he was too low to bear the possi- ble excitement . He has now. so far recovered as to be up and about the hospital and out of doors in suitable 'weath'er. When told he could cOme home, he decided to remain with his regiment and come with “the boys," 8 glory- covered hero. ' ‘ mink A Park Soldht Mr. ’and Mrs. A. W. Fl Iv w 50H “VS f. Flam-were 3 ago by a long 1. Rom Cont. Wheu he first xi~ regiment In The last week or two shows the wisdom of our theory of ' laying our cement. sidewalks on a fanciful, theo retical grade, from one to six inches below parkway, with the result of the walks being several inches under water all the time as the snow melts away; like that on the west end of Mr. Boulton’a walk, the whole new strip in front 51’, Mr. Hawkins’ residence lot. A little more sense Now that the filter bed question is on, be sure you sign the petition for a special election to vote for or against the filter bed, and then when election day comes, see that you vote against it. we don “want a filter of any kind till after we have taken care of the sewage, and extended the water pipes 2000 feet into the lake. Not. nob or a bill Ol,nlo.0ra mortgage, but one of the petitions for a special election on that filter bed question. Petitions m :3 Ju. McDonald's. A. A. Moun’ and G. B. Cummingu’ ‘utom There is in Highland Park at least one man who no longer cares to be “shown’ ’~~if it costs anything. He forwarded $1 recently to an eastern sharper ‘who had advertised a willing- ness to explain, {or the considere- tion specified. bow to prevent a shot. gun from scattering. The reply which cmne back was:' “Use one shot." Pastor Rabb’s subroopticon lecture on the‘ Life of Chritt,” Sunday evening. was the Last of the count: and he had a good house toonjoy it. If Evanston ean reduce its water rates $20,000 in one year. we can re- duce ours a few thousand. In other words we can leave the money in the people‘s pockets and let them use it aa'tbey like. It ivs‘ their money, and the city has no business with it to waste on filters and we b things 'as the people do not want. Rev Charles M. Sheldon is work- ing hard and expendinglots of money to le'arn. if he can, how Christ would edit a uewspafier. If he had sent for a sample copy K of the Nzws, it would have ‘saved all this work and money. ' ' SHERIDAN ROAD NEWSLETTER. and a little Ion theory, would he blessing. ' Slightly M. It. end Mrs. Robert 1“. Gregory 0! the Lodgemore Club grounds, with their family. expect to spend the summer abroad. They hue en- gaged 'pmage to sail from New York April 25th, to be gone till the last of August. After their return. Hrs. Gregory imitated no they would vilit the Park for a few days, per- haps a Week or two, nlthough her danghter will“ euterlflse Wheeler’s school in Providence, R. 1., in Sep- Iemher. The “hihhard Clans " of the West mat with Mrs. Gregory, who is a daughter of the well-know; William G. Hibhnrd. the hardware merchant prince. of Chicago, on Wednesday evening, the Nth. The object of the gathering was to formu- late plans for aiding in bringing out a history of the Hibbards in this country, from Robert lint. who came here from Salisbury, England, in 1638, with and at the request-of Geo. Winthrop. of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. to make salt for the countryâ€"Land his defieendants have been the 98311: of the‘ earth” ever since. ‘ On a recent visit to Chicago we talked ofver this-.SIable,-qu'e§tiorx with some of the; prospectiVe patrons ‘ of the Moraine, and they objected in mm to the location of the stables down here. They do not only want them near the hotelybut they don’t want their then down here all the time; some of them were very gosh tive about the matter. Hence all suggest that a place north and west of Mr. Montgomery’s home would be a suitable place, where there is plenty of room and light and air, and good drainage. The patrons ‘want the stables up there, that is certain; and some good place can be found. Thou Stables. _ Mr. Martin. who was here two wéeks agojookiug for a place fog-the stables for “The Moraine,“ tried to get eLMayor Evans to erect onefOr bétel Ingleside, and rent it for the “Moraine,” but he has absolutely re- fused to build there, a very wise decision ‘