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< '!&%'jM1* .Jo* 2& W- Henry Clay &%>an*. Clay Evans went to the Soath •mm Pennsylvania several jMn ago «*d grew suite popular in Tennessee, abate of his adoption. He has a •troaf political following and Ills friends have always claimed that ho Waa elected when he ran for governor, tat wu counted out. Mr. Evans has • food war record. He is about 67 Jew* old and one of the live, pushing Ben of Dixie. So well was he thought Of by all classes of persons in Chatta­ nooga that he was twice elected mayor of that town. In 1890 when he ran for Congress he had a strong Democrat for an opponent, but although It was * close race Mr. Evan* was elected by IS,641 votes to his opponent'* 18,353. HI* administration of the pension $'<: I 11 *. " HENRY CLAY EVANS. •Bee brought sharp criticism from f*ople favoring a more liberal policy. 'Jj. Matrimony and Branw. -ft would seem, according to t># •pinions of some educators, that there eught to be written over the gates of matrimony, or at least over the "la­ ities' entrance" to that happy state, the words: "Abandon brains all ye who enter here!" for matrimony and brain* are incompatible. This subject 1* a rather bare bone of contention,, and It f* one that does not admit of broad generalization. There are many wo­ men who seem to have reconciled hus­ bands and higher education; there are others who with that needed qualifica­ tion for matrimonial happiness, a lack of brains, are still unable to make a •access of that state; and there are women who are successful in life with­ out either the husbands or the educa­ tion. A sociologist of some repute, Lester P. Ward, say* that one who knows anything of the laws of biology must Insist upon the equal development of both sexes. "Any theory of develop­ ment," he says, "that recognizes the (act of the transmission of acquired fvalftles must expect that where only one parent has acquired such qualities the offspring will only inherit one-half of them. If the full value of the en­ ergy expended in conferring useful Qualities is to be realized in the off­ spring, they must be conferred equally upon both parents." Mr. Ward fur­ ther says that, while the female mind differs from the male in many impor­ tant and fortunate respects, intellect is one and the same everywhere, and that the proper nourishment of intel­ lect is truth. It seems rather late in the day for those who claim to be edu­ cators to advance the theory that only by starving the mind is woman fit tor the high state of matrimony. Mechanical Calendar. >JUI amateur artist by the nam* at M. Albert Jagat has invented a me­ chanical calendar, which indicates the days, weeks, months, years and even leap years. The apparatus is wound up and works like a clock. It consists a disc and five cog-principally of THE CLOCK-WORK CALENDAR, wheels, which contain a sum total of ninety-six teeth, three weights and sine levers. Of the weights, one is a counterpoise, one is wound up every fortnight and one every year. The parts are all very accurately adjusted AjU and are expected to last until they ac- ' tnally wear out. One of the wheels in , fact, is designed to last for 300 years, fe? * ^ Every care has been taken in the con- n atruction to prevent Ion of efficiency 5 t.' *7 friction. ' • • . 'Replaces Hitching fart. As a hitching post Is not always eonVtealent and it is somewhat of a bother to carry around a heavy weight in the wag­ on with which to tether the horse when the driver wishes to leave the animal for a time, it is likely that the horseman will ap­ preciate the hitch­ ing fetter hare shown. The In­ vention takes ad­ vantage of the fact that a horse will not move as long as he cannot bend > ;\"sjkls legs, the fetter being stiff enough prevent this. The inventors state V that It is adapted to afford cavalry- s / ',„V men a perfect means of preventing the Sf-V"/horses from escaping without human ' . aid, the claim being made that when an animal is tethered with one of ;; these devices he becomes tame, even in |f^i;fthe presence of danger.' ,J f, " Oklahoma has harvested % W&nt / crop of 30.000,000 bushel* LoxJe and Figure*. That love will find a way through all is illustrated by the recent of Philander Siipon and Bertha Karger, both of Paterson, N. 3. Philander had been keeping com­ pany with Bertha about two yeara, when for some un­ explained reason bis love began to cool. Simultane­ ously Bertha be­ gan to fret and pine away. There had been no actual engagement be­ tween them, so that a suit could not be brought for breaking the mar­ riage promise, but Bertha's mother, who is not only a woman of expedients but a thrifty soul, decided upon a plan for punish­ ing the faithless Philander. She fig­ ured that he had eaten sixty hearty dinners at her house, upon the occa­ sions of his Sunday wooings, which at 25 cents each amounted to IIS. Bo* sides this in a rash moment she had lent him $10. She accordingly hagan suit for $25. Meanwhile, Philander, who is al*o thrifty -and a man of expedients, be­ gan to do a little figuring on his own side, and promptly came in with a counterclaim for $86.80, which left Mr*. Karger $61.80 in his debt, if the claim were pressed. Bertha, a* girls go. bad not been expensive. In two years she had consumed but one box of chocolates, twelve pounds of candy, thirty Ice creams, and 100 sodas, amounting to $9.55. She had only been once to Coney Island, but had had 100 trolley rides, transportation foot­ ing np $12.60. Bouquets for two birth­ days cost $5 and two books 65 cents, a total investment of $27.80, which shows that Philander had the advan­ tage of $2.80 in actual expenses over Mrs, Karger. This margin Philander increased by putting in a claim for his time, charging 50 cents for each Sun­ day evening's wooing for two years, or $52. In the course of the preparations for the suits Philander and Bertha were thrown much together, and en­ couraged by the artful lawyers on both sides, as well as by thrifty Mrs. Kar­ ger, who was appalled by the counter­ claims, the flame broke out anew and with greater ardor than before. An ac­ tual engagement was effected, a day for the marriage fixed, and both suits were dropped, and Philander and Bertha are happy, all owing to Phllan- dear's Skill In figuring. " "' • Figured in Moltn&ajt (feifk Justice White of the New York 8u- court at Buffalo last week MRS. FLORENCE ROGERS, granted a divorce to Mns. Florence E. Rogers from Edward P. Rogers, thus confirming the report of the referee. The judge allowed Mrs. Rogers $2,250 in lieu of all alimony. Mrs. Rogers is the daughter of the late Mrs. Kate Adams, and a distant cousin of Harry Cornish. Roland B. Molineux was found guilty of causing the death of Mrs. Adams by poison, which he was accused of sending to Cornish at the Knickerbocker A. C., New York city. Cornish had a room in Mrs. Adams' apartments in West 86th street, New York. Mrs. Rogers lived there, and was there on the morning her mother died, after finding the dose of cyanide of mercury. Mrs. Rogers and her husband have been separated for some time, she liv­ ing in New York, he in Buffalo. When she brought her suit she applied for alimony. One of her lawyers stated; pathetically, that she had to "live in a New York hash house," while her husbana dwelt in luxury at the Iro- quolse hotel. It was shown, however, that Mr. Rogers paid his wife money for her suppprt, although ho lived apart from her. 'Plain TalK. to "Britisher*. Mr. Barber, the president of the Dia­ mond Match company, talked with wholesome frankness to the dissenting stockholders of that English match company the control of which has just been secured by his company. He said to these Eng­ lishmen, who had spoken of "Yankee trickery" and who had boasted of their intention to fight to the death to retain for Eng­ lish capital the business of making matches for British use, that-- I may as well talk frankly to you people. Unless you come to terms we will whip you out of your boots. We know that we are able to beat the world in the manufacture of matches, and we intend to keep our advantage. How long do you think you can com­ pete with us with machinery that America discarded sixteen years ago?" The salary of the young king of Spain m £150,000 a year. i FILTRATION EXPERIMENT STATION AT LAWRENCE 01? tbo Massachusetts State Board of Health Carried On the Mrst inve Water by Sand Filtration, Showing the Filtration Tank (Boston Correspondence.) epidemic of a few years ago--typl The water supply of cities and towns, whether drawn from a river or lake, and whether or not supplemented by artesian wells, has become within fif­ teen years a universal problem of the greatest importance. Before that time municipal governments were con­ cerned mainly about securing a suf­ ficient quantity of drinkable water, and cities that were able to draw their supply from rivers and running streams were considered particularly fortunate, until In Massachusetts an alarm was raised by disastrous epi­ demics of typhoid fever which fol­ lowed the course of the Jferrimac River. The disease was carried by the sewage with which the river was con­ taminated from town to town, wher­ ever the stream was used as a water supply, down to the city of Lawrence, which suffered worst of all. In 1887 an experiment station, the first of its kind In the world, for the purification of Sewage and water by filtration through sand, was established in Law­ rence by the Massachusetts State Board of Health, and the Lawrence filtration beds became an object leS- *on tor the Instruction not only of tho State, but of the world at large. Good'and "Bad Microbe*. Tho co-operation of the State and III* Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ ogy In the early years of the conduct Of these experiments at Lawrence at Once assured the success of the inves­ tigations. Professor William T. Sedg­ wick of the institute, as bacteriologist Of the State Board of Health, for eight years directing the bacteriological ex­ periments on which the work of puri­ fication depended. For, after all, It is held to-day at the Institute of Tech­ nology, as everywhere else, that tho purification of water and sewage--un- purifled water being considered by tho bacteriologist merely as very dilute •swage--is almost solely a matter of Controlling the microbes, tho "good" Jnicrobes and the "bad" ones, so that the pathogenic or disease-breeding germs shall be prevented from reach­ ing the human system, while the •"good" ones are encouraged to do their natural work of purification. The dramatic story of the microbe has frequently been told since Pasteur established the germ theory of fer­ mentation, but there is something unique In the accomplishment of such bacteriologists as Professor Sedgwick, by which millions of micro-organisms are herded together intelligently, with the character of their work and their hours of labor and rest definitely es­ tablished. To MaKje "Rixfer Water Safe. From experiments in Lawrence and In the biological laboratories of the Institute of Technology it has been demonstrated that any river water purified by means of a five-foot filter Is safe and wholesome, and, further, that effluent water from proper filtra­ tion of sewage would not be dangerous for domestic use. The records also have shown that since Lawrence, en­ couraged by the example of the State experiment station, has installed a mu­ nicipal filter, though it is still using the water of the Merrlmac River, al­ ways more or less contaminated by the drainage of Lowell--the very circum­ stance, that is, which caused the great has practically been eradicated in 1 city, although, of course, it might r be Introduced by other means-- oysters as well as bad water being' easy vehicle for the disease. S The lesson which Lawrence j illustrated so graphically not only f worked a revolution in the method; water supply in Massachusetts ci and towns, but is having its effect over the world. A notable instanc the city of Albany, which by a sys- of filtration has been enabled to tain a supply of pure water from Hudson River, previously a cons' source of disease. The" gravity of1 problem in the case of large cities • resulted in the expenditure of e? mous sums for the maintenance <" wholesome water Supply either by* rect purification or by the displ of sewage so as to prevent con tarn tion of the source. The case of < were guests in the family of Dr. Lawrence over Sunday. Mrs. Rnth McCauley died at the home of her parents in this city Sunday after a long illness of consumption. Mrs. Emma Headel and children spent Sunday with the family of Wm. H. Eckert in Greenwood township. It. J. Kelley was seriously scalded while working at the laundry last Mon­ day morning by the bursting of a steam pipe. The threshing season has commenced and there is a great rivalry among the farmers, as all want to thresh before the rainy season sets in. Mrs. D. D. Manny moted her family to this city from Marengo last week Thursday and they are now nicely set­ tled in the Austin flats. Mrs. John Niemann, Sr., || seriously ill at her home, three miles west of this city, with cancer, and no hopes of her recovery are entertained. Miss Eunice Boutelle, of Kensett, Iowa, is the guest of her sisters, Mrs. W. C. Eichelberger and Mrs. W. H. Oowlin, in this city for a few weeks. Tracy Forman, of Chicago, is the guest of his parents this week. He is enjoying a two weeks' vacation and will visit the Pan-American Exposition next week. The ball game in"Shiner's" Park in Greenwood township on Sunday last between the "Whirlwinds" and the "Cyclones" resulted in a victory lor the latter on a score of 19 to 7. Miss Edith Thomas is taking a vaca­ tion from her duties in M. I. Young's bakery, and is the guest of friends in Chicago. Miss Emma Reaiel is filling the position during her absence. Wm. Walkup, of Ridgefield, was in town last Saturday, looking after busi­ ness matters. Mr. Walkup is 82 years of age and bears the distinction of being the oldest Bettler in the county, having come here in 1885. The double funeral of Wm. D. Stew­ art, of this city and Mrs. D. A, Soper, of Elgin, a sister of Mrs. Stewart, was held from the Stewart home in this city last Friday morning and the remains were taken to Greenwood Cemetery and laid at rest in the family lot. A. F. C. Seabel, of Chicago, spent Sunday with friends here. He had just returned from a week's stay with the Second Regiment, Chicago, of which he ui a member, in camp at Springfield. He was a member of old Company G., and his comrades here are alwa^a ^lad to see him. m:W * - s . . i > f Question Answered. Yes, August Flower still has the larg­ est sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grand- never thought of using any- SARA VAN ALEN, WHO MAY SOON BECOME MRS. ROBERT COLLIE e caused a family of Cupid is said to have caused a slight disagreement in the family of James J. Van Alen, who has been "com­ manded" by King Edward VII. to at­ tend at court for the purpose of being invested with the insignia of a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John. By her friends It is said that MIsb Sam Van Alen sailed for the United States with the intention of marrying Robert Collier immediately on her ar­ rival. Mr. Van Alen Is said to op­ pose the match. Unfortunately Mr. Van Alen's commands in the matter will carry little weight, as his <± dren are independent of him in f tune. In fact it is stated that w» his three children are all married! will be far from as well off ss hi now well-to-do. Miss Sara Van if is a pretty, attractive and clever *" while Mr. Collier is a very quiet, tellectual and pleasant young geiy man. He Is an adept at polo anr the editor of Collier's Weekly, i! said Mr. Van Alen will oppose match and for this reason has p layed his departure for England. etsf Game o/ 'Bail ̂ >s •*•- .-V * ww " W ana Hote* to 'Piay jt. j l / l l A good variation of the American game of baseball, and one which needs no particular preparation, is known as club ball. This game may be played by any number of boys, from two to twen­ ty. All the outfit needed Is a rubber ball, a club, which can be picked up If ill ,-Ll' 4».U. somewhere about the playground, and a small stick, perhaps ten inches long. With a penknife hoi ow out the end of the stick so that the ball will not roll off when placed on it Now it is obvious that if the ball and stick are arranged as shown in the illustration and the stick is hit on the raised the ball will travel a considerable tance before alighting. The furt the ball travels the better for the C who strikes It, because he must r to a base and return before the gur can capture the ball and throw it$ the head, who stands just by |> clubman. The head never leaves V post unless the opportunity prest^ itself of catching the- ball on the I Occasionally when the clubman ma| an especially good stroke, he can ¥ twice to the base before the ball + be captured. - • If the ball is returned to the h| before the clubman has had time run to his base and return, the elf man becomes last guard, the head comes clubman and the first guard comes head. The boy who, at the of the game, has run to base and b; the greatest number of times Is counted as the winner. A ball cau$ on the fly causes the clubman ^ change places with the boy *4 caught It w ^ Mdlen Help Fire D^wrtani Half a dozen privates of the regiment lent valuable assistance to the fire department in its fight with tho flames that caused heavy loss on the south side of the square, Springfield. Citizens who watched the soldiers are preparing to secure medals for them, and besides this Mayor Phillips has sent a letter to Colonel Stuart, compli­ menting the men of the regiment, and especially praising the privates who he'ped the fire department. Th* sol­ diers arrived upon the scene of th* fire about the same time as the fire de­ partment, and at once volunteered their services, Fire Marshal Miller gave them assignments and intrusted two or three lines of hose to their care. The soldiers were the first to ascend the aerial ladder and take a line of hose to the roof of the three story building on the corner, and they were also the first to volunteer to carry a IjjyLof hose up a stairway We wish to gefoB^ho lor fall, which ; What we have on ially invite your c WALTER f£ Dr.Mix turned;: «*! tion of is one c< tfei *1, ; faiftela* ficauotti liance as an author, ant delighted two- rarely aaalyttsal ~ Lies <* flmMy.* bis riiVQOBp by which he is tion." In this book Dr. Nor purely psyc that a ll degecei by *hd life, and elafnw is seen in all mental ajiNti nomena. Dr. Nordau Is a well-known Jewish and mywmniMf mmi 3 D on't lgln, tor- olice th* ran- loor- tken ling, by Furniture until toy stock. D< can do better at; ter- irle* r th* head the 455 Os- ning city prices M!Fd| MAX NORDAU. peat He began writing to tho per* on many topics even while h* 1 a lad at school. He is 52 yean old. t prices \ d, if qua , rill give L and the for find her^nent en- to beau|toois ying the laim same pie1 f all _. erin- Piflrhey unds until aves man ! the isue. the Sls- ,000; S Ilfs not aen. icket for any woman to st a day to get up t our canned goods pi lunch, such as potte< oysters, salmon, sarmcoal crackers, cookies, fv ^d to fruits and in fact ev< ing this hot weather Our Ice Cream Parloi id he ORhtof The Best Liniment for Strains. Mr. F. H. Wells, the merchant Deer Park, Long Island, N. Y„ saj "I always recommend Chamberlaii Pain Balm as the best liniment strains. I used itb last winter fot severe lameness in th© side, resulti from a strain, and was greatly pleai with the quick relief and cure it fected." For sale by Julia A. Story t G. W. Besley. Half Kate Excursion Ticket# to Mo l »ir« Assembly at Madison, Wis., and Return, Via the North-Western Line, will sold on two days, July 27 and Angus limited to return until July 39 t iold- August 8 respectively. Excursion ticl will also be sold at reduced rates, J 17 and 18, limited to return August 3, inclusive. On other dates lith, certificate plan will apply. Apply P®" agents Chicago & North-Western E S"1* Yours respectfully, ! , Elwood MCCbacken Sold by Julia A Story and G. W. Besl "The way to gain a good reputioi to endeavor to be what you desire to pear." That is precisely the manner which Chamberlain's Cough Rem< has gained its reputation as a cure coughs, colds, croup and whoop cough. Every bottle that has ever t* put out by the manufacturers has b< fully up to the high standard of ex< lence claimed for it People havefou that it can always be depended upon the relief and cure of these ailments that it is pleasant and safe to take. sale by Julia A. Story and G. W. Beele s S. oom 920,- sroft, sroft, Chi- >ora- Women Should B# Hatrred. One reads with a shock of surprise that as many women as could into the room were present on day when the trial of a PresbytsrlMl preacher was begun before a tee of the presbytery on charge* ' involve his standing as a decent as well as a minister. The Is not-occasioned by the fact tiMi eat many women were present, tar will always be plenty of anxious to attend any hearing which prurient or sensational mony is expected. But as it ia tainly within the power of the hers of the committee to bar the courtroom women who haar* direct interest in the case < oertalnly expect that they the first to take such action. but morbid and unhealthy iwijlwMliijr can possibly lead women to flodctte* h*arlng of the kind. "0 A. ISO Mile an A society of mechanical representing the principal machine shops, has recently Matt Or­ ganised abroad for the POTPO** .otJl** veloping railroad engines of nal speed. The accompanying tration shows a railroad electrie i lately built by Siemans and connection with the ore which, by order of Bmperor m at NEW SPEEDY ELEJCTRIC ENGINHL was tested preliminarily a short since on the military railroad at lin-Zossen, when, according to report̂ it gave an exhibition ,!^, remarkable results; Wireless Telegraphy. , A report comes through Consul Q«s> eral Gunther of Frankfort to the effect that the captain of a channel mail steamer, which is provided with a wireless telegraphy apparatus, rtates tuat on his last trip he received a mes­ sage from the officer of the Freaah lightship, anchored about tweaty-gf* miles from Dunkirk, stating that he would be unable to light up th* ani night unless help arrived from the shore. The captain at once sent a wireless message to La Panne, on the Belgian coast, from which point It forwarded to Dunkirk by the telegraph line, whence a boat was < to the lightship and the necessary re­ pairs were made. "Railroad Signal. Many a serious railroad accident al caused by the washing down on th*> roadbed of rho CASTOR I A| For Infants and Children. Thi KM Ym Han Alwijs B< A six months' cruise will the speed of a ship 15 per cent. wmm Bears the Signature of ' •£? of earth or from the hillside* above. While th* railroad companiee realize that the cuts are liable te become filled from this cause it if hardly to be ext pec ted that they; will keep p«trol* at every dangerous point, but th* Illustration shows an apparatus lately patented by John K. Haddinott, of Baltimore, Md., which will constantly guard the cut or other section of which it parallels. It is simply a of contact rails so placed that a of rock or earth which incloses and throw the rails together to com plete a circuit and set the danger sig-^j nal. By placing a set of the apparaAaMT* close to each rail it would be nest te * Impossible for any serious obs to occur without the pointed oat by the signal. -•V - * < isJ . -"tit , - 'sm' • 1> ' n / . m. • -V-, I ..•A"1 ' ?... ,« . .V**.. " >. ...•%> 1u . ....v ,2 ....; * 'Mm