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. ' , . » ^ » ' - > , • » ' » J £ S » f < f : A V J i & « . *•*« Ĵ j7̂ ->ŵ r rĵ w '^p^rr YV ; ^j ~--?yi % ^ . f \ - '\*'* f ' ' • * * * 11 •*&M* fefor'n A TALC OF TUL OLD VEST c **y haddy leon Wilson >«»«& mm£~f cS*X#!**r **" ̂d̂ 0m>PUBi.*atî CQMP**n<. CHAPTER XXXItl. e^Wwwe#4NAwl*^ii'iii||6Wi|lww<NweA ABevelttlon Concerning the Trim 0 ̂ , ' der of Marriage. While matters of theology and con­ sanguinity were being debated ia Box canyon, the little bent man down in tho first house to the left, in his strug­ gle to free himself, was tightening the meshes of Ms fate about him. In his harried mind he had formed one great resolution. He believed that a reve- . lation had come to him. It seemed to press upon him as th® culmination of all the day® of his distress. He could see now that he had feit it years before, when he first met the wife of Elder Tench, the gaunt, gray wom­ an, toiling along the dusty road; and again when he had found the imbecile boy turning upon his tormentors. A hundred times it had quickened with­ in him. And it had gained in force steadily, until to-day, when it was overwhelming him. Now that his flesh was wasted, it seemed that his spirit could see far. His great discovery was that the revelation upon celestial marriage given Joseph Smith had been "from beneath"--a trick of Satan to corrupt them. Not only did it (taffy contra­ dict earlier revelations, but the very Book of Mormon itself declared again and again that polygamy was wicked­ ness. Joseph had been duped by the powers of darkness, and all Israel had sinned in consequence. Upon the golden plates delivered to him, con­ cerning the divine source of which there could be no doubt, this order of , marriage had been repeatedly con­ demned and forbidden. But as to the revelation which sanctioned it there could rightly be" doubt; for had not Joseph himself once warned them that "some revelations are from God, some from men, and some from the devil." Either the Book of Mormon was not inspired, or the revelation was not from God. since they were fatally in opposition. It came to him with the effect of a blinding light, yet seemed to endow htm with a new vigor, so that he felt strong and eag§r to be up, to spread his truth abroad. Sopie remnant of that old fire of inspiration flamed up within him as he lay on the hard bed in his little room, with the summer scents floating in and the out-of-doors sounds--a woman's voice calling a child afar off, the lowing of cattle, the rhythmic whetting of a scythe- blade, the echoing stroke of an ax, the mellow fluting of a robin--all coming to him a little muted, as if he were no longer in the. world. He raised upon his elbow, glowing with the flush of old memories when his heart had been perfect with the lord; when he had. wrought miracles In the face of the people; when he had besought Heaven fearlessly for signs of its favor; when he had dreamed of being a pillar of fire to his people in their march across the desert, and another Lion of the Lord lo fight their just battles. The little bent man of sorrows had again be­ come the lute of the Holy Ghost. He remembered the day was Satur­ day, and he began at once to word the phrases in which he would tell his revelation on the morrow. He knew that this must be done tact­ fully, in spite of Its divine source. It would be a momentous thing to the , people and to the priesthood. It was conceivable, indeed, that members of the latter might dispute it With htm, or even denounce a heretic. But only at first; was too simply true to be long tloned. In any event, his ' plain; with righteousness^ as the gir­ dle of his loins he must go forth on the morrow and magnify his office in tile sight of Heaven. When Prudence came softly tn to him, like a cool breath of fragrance from the canyon, he smiled up to her , With a fullness of delight she had 1 i ,*ever seen in his face before. . There was a new light in her* own eyes, new decisions presaged, a new desire imperfectly suppressed. He Stroked her hand as she sat beside him on the bed, wondering if she had at last learned her own secret. ' But she became grave and was di­ verted from her own affairs when she observed him more closely. "Why, you're sick--you*re burning tip with fever! You must he covered at once and have sage tea." He laughed at her, a free, full laugh, such as she had never heard " from him in all the years. "It's no fever, child. It's new life <£>me to me. I'm strong again. My |i.ce burns, but it must be the fire of ijealth. I have a work given to me-- flod has not wholly put me aside." "But I believe you are sick. Your V" Ijands are so hot, and your eyes look ' in unnatural. You must let me--" f. "Now, now--haven't 1 learned to . { tf'll sickness from the glow of a holy s* purpose?" ; "You're sure you are well?" > "Better than for 15 years. ^ She let herself be convinced for jnoment "Then please tell me something, i %Iust a man who comes into our faith, * $f he is baptized rightly, also marry Spore than one wife if he is to be gaved? Can't he be sure of his glory |ff%ith one If b» loves her--oh, very, 1-ery much?" 4 ,s? He was moved at first to answer r 'Her out of the fullness of his heart, -t'J^jfeliing her of the wonderful new A ^riifelation. But there came the im- ulse to guard it jealously in his own 4 Breast a little longer, to glory secret- t in it; half-fearful, too, that some "Spirtue would go out of it should he impart it too soon to another. •• J •*$ "Why do you want to know?" "•< : "Riiel Follett would join our church didflk't ti ft y f, to jmrry more ^s>n 4 d - ' * „.•< .*•. one wife. If lie love# some (die very much, I'm afraid he would find it hard to marry another girl--oh, he simply couldn't--no matter how pretty she was. He never could do it." Here she pulled one of the ribbons from her broad hat. She gave a little ex­ clamation of relief as if she had really meant to detach it. "Tell him to wait a Httle." "That's what I did tell him, but it seems hardly right to let him join believing that is necessary. I think some one ought to find out that ens wife is all God wants & man ever to. have, and to tell Mr. Follett so very, plainly. His mind is really open to truth, and you know he might do something reckless--he shouldn't be made to wait too long." "Tell him to wait till to-morrow. I shall speak of this in meeting then. It w^ll be all right--all right, dear. Everything will be all right!" • "Only I am sure you are sick, in spite of what you say. I know how to prove it, too--can you eat?" "I'm too buBy thinking of great things to be hungry." "There--you would be hungry if you were well." "I can't tell you how well I am, and instead A* being so trail " «ald Pru­ dence. "He hasn't eaten a thing *11 day.* "Well, he never did overeat himself, that I knew of," said the bishop. "Not eating ain't any sign with him. Now -ft would be with me. I never believed lb fasting the flesh. The Spirit of the Lord ain't ever so close to me as after I've had a good meal of victuals--meat and potatoes and plenty of good sop and a couple of pieces of pie. Then I can unbutton my vest and jest set and set and hear the promptings of the Lord God of Hosts. I know some men ain't that way, but then's the time when I beautify my inheritance in Zlon the purtiest And I'm mighty glad Brother Joel can "turn out to­ morrow. Of course you heard the news?" "What news, Brother Seth?*" "Brother Brigham gets here At II o'clock from New Harmony." "Brother Brigham coming?" "We're getting the bowery ready down to the square to-night ao's to have services out of doors." "He's coming to-morrow?" The words came both from Prudence and her father. "Of course he's coming. Ben Hart­ ley brought word over. They'll have a turkey dinner at Bell Wardie's house and then services at two*' The flushed little man with the rev­ elation felt himself grow suddenly cold. He had thought it would be easy to launch his new truth In Ama- lon and let the news he carried to Brigham. To get up in the very presence of him, in the "full gaze of those cold blue eyes, was another matter. "But it's early for him. He doesn't usually come until after conference, after it's got cooler." The bishop took on the air of a man •who does not care to tell quite all that he knows. "Yes; I suspicion some one's been sending tales to him about a certain " ' . f i t ' * h j / - i t / , w//////m nother 6lrl--He simply Hard to Marry Couldn't." constraint they talked * littia ffMto of other thlSgs. But as sooa as the two men were alone for the night Follett turned to htm, almost fiercely, "Say, now, what did that old goat- whiskered loon mean by his hintinps about Prudence?" ' The little man was troubled. "Well, the fact ia, Brigham v haa meant to marry her." "You don't mean you'd have let him? Say, I'd hate to feel sorry to? holding off on you like I have!" "No, no, don't think that of me.* "Well, what were yon sola*, to do?" •& "I hardly knew." > "Yoa better find out." « "I know It--I did find out^to-dfy. I know, and it will be all right Trust me. I lost my faith for a moment just now when I heard Brother Brigham was coming to-morrow; but I see how it is--the Lord has wished to prove mo. Nc$ there is all the more rea­ son why I should iSbt flinch. You will see that I shall make it all right tomorrow." Well, the time's about up. I've been here over two months now. Just bedause you were so kind of helpless. And one of our wagon-trains will be along here about next Monday. Say, she wouldn't ev«r have married him» would tehe?" "No, she refused at once; she re­ fused to consider it at all.". He was burning again with his fever, and there was something? in his eagerness that seemed to over­ come Follett's indignation. "Well, let it go till to-morrow, then. And you try to get some rest now. That's what I'm going to do." But the little bent man, flushed though he was, felt cold from the night air, and, piling more logs on the fire, he drew his chair close in front of it. As often as Follett wakened through the night he saw him sitting there, sometimes reading what looked like a little old Bible, sometimes speaking aloud as if seeking to memorise a passage. The last Follett remembered to have heard was something he seemed to be reading from the little book: "The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall n®t want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth ine be­ side the still waters." He fell asleep again with a feeling of pity for the little man. NEWS OF ILLINOIS.f HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FRflfefl ALL OVER THE STATE. j G. A.R*ENDS ENCAMPMENT * A.ItADFOW) EDITOR Although this is a one-story cottage, pipes would be necessary to heat the CHAPTER XXXIV. it Is not a very small affair. It is 33 feet wide by 50 feet long and contains five rooms downstairs with an oppor­ tunity to make a couple of good bed­ rooms on the floor above. The cost of the house will depend very much on local conditions, but it will de­ pend more on the tastes and require­ ments of the owner. It is not an ex­ pensive house necessarily. The largest timbers are only two by eight, and the principal framework is built up with two by four scantlings and the trimmings are such as may be bought in any lumber yard. Some men in building a house select a plan, let the contact and go away about their other business until the house is finished, but there are a great man:/ other men who are con­ structed on different lines. Contrac­ tors call them fussy, but I call them particular. They want to see what kind of material goes into the house, and they want to know whether a nail goes into each flooring joist or wheth­ er a flooring strip is put down in a hurry with one nail to four joists. While investigating the laying of the floor, this kind of a man is also inquis­ itive about the tonguing. He wants to know how often it is mashed in with the head of an ads. Then, there is a class of fellows who follow the construction closely, and study the plan as the-work pro­ gresses and who find out every day that they would like something a lit­ tle different They want a hard wood Veterans Elect Officers mid Leave D*» catur--Old Soldiers Favor Farm for National Park. house upstairs and down, and with the furnace in this position the shortest and consequently the hottest pipes would lead to the dining room and to the bathroom. These are the places where the most heat is needed, that is you need the; heat in the dining-room all the time, both night and day; you need the heat in the bathroom when you want it, and at such times you need plenty of it A warm bathroom in the winter time is a great luxury, one that is ap­ preciated by everyone who has had the opportunity to enjoy it There Is only one time in life when a man really enjoys a cold bath and that is when he la a kid and goes in swim­ ming the first warm days in April. He enjoys the sensation aa long as he lives, but he is not anxious to repeat the experiment after he arrives at the years of discretion. Furnishings in this bathroom are not expensive. It is not necessary to put a whole lot of money into a bath­ room In order to have the necessary comforts. You can be just as clean with a planished copper bath as you can in the most expensive roll-rimmed porcelain enameled tub, and there is • grant difference in the first outlay. Stamps as Deteetfves. The new series of postage stamps to be issued by the United States this year will be a great departure from the stamps to which letter writers are accustomed. Hftherto similar stamps -k. ^ Decatur.--The O. A« B. - encamp* • ̂>• merit of the department of IlftnoMp 'n' , came to a close after one of the most interesting sessions in the history oi| the organization. The election of Col. C. A. Matthew «» "^f€ of Pittsfield, as department command* er was concluded as follows: ^ I ~s, Senior vice commander--Henry 8* \ Wells, Quincy. rfg Junior vice commander -- Alh*'^ Knoph, Olney; ^ Department chaplain--JL H. Eple*£ Shelbyvllle. V Medical director--A&red Cole, Gh*» ^ cagw. Council---A. D. Csdwslfttder; coin; William Andrews,. Etockfoaft; , -„--i •i;#.- . * . " v , V'" :\r • " •> .. ' f ... 'i <, » 4 a Cap- Ml*na Afraid He'd -.S nrt; as for food--our Elder Brother has 1 been feeding me all day with the breath of truth. Such wonderful new things the Lord has shown me!'* "But you must not get up. Lie still and we will nurse you." He refused the food she brought him, and refused Lorena*s sage tea. He was not to be cajoled into treating as sickness the first real happiness he had felt for years. He lay still un­ til his little room grew shadowy in the dusk, filled with a great reviving hope that the Lord had raised a new prophet to lead Israel out of bond­ age. . As the night fell, however, the shad­ ows of the room began to trouble him as of old, and he found himself grow­ ing hotter and hotter until he burned and gasped, and the room seemed about to stifle him. He arose from the bed, wondering that his feet should be so heavy and clumsy, and his knees so weak, when he felt oth­ erwise so strong. His head, too, felt large, and there rang in his ears a singing of Incessant quick beats. He made his way to the door, where he heard the voices of Prudence and Fol­ lett. It was good to feel the cool night air upon his hot face, and he reassured Prudence, who chided him for leaving his bed. "When you hear me discourse to­ morrow you will see how wrong you were about my being sick," he said. But she' saw that he supported himself carefully from the doorway along the wall to the near-by chair, and that he sank inter it with every sign of weakness. His eyes, however, were aglow with his secret snd he sat nodding his head over it in • lively way. "Brigham was right," he said, "when he declared that any of us might receive revelations from on higH; even the least of us--only we are apt to be deaf to the whispered words until th© Lord has scourged u$. I have been deaf a long time, but my 'ears are at last unstopped)--who ;omlng, dear?" A tpTr ^ftgure, vague in the dusk, was walking briskly up the path that led in from the road. It proved to be the Wild Ram of the Mountains, fresh­ ened by the look of rectitude that the razor gave to his face each Saturday night "Evening, Brother Rae--evening, you young folks. Thank you, I will take a chair. You feeling a bit more able than usual, Brother Rae?" t "Much better, Brother Seth. I shall be at the meeting to-morrow. "Glad to hear it, that's right good --you ain't been out for so long. And we wfcnt to have a rousing time, too. "0 we're afraid he has a fever, ' > « % . , young woman's carryings on down here." He looked sharply at Prudence, who looked at the ground, and felt grate­ ful for the dusk. Follett looked haijd at them both and was plainly inter­ ested. The bishop spoke again. "I ain't got no license to say so, but having done that young woman proud by engaging himself to marrx her, he might 'a' got annoyed if any one had 'a' told him she was being waited on by a handsome young Gen­ tile, gallivantln' off to -Canyons day after day--holding hands, too, more than once. Oh, I ain't saying any­ thing. Young blood Is young blood; mine ain't always been old, and I never blamed the young, but, of course, the needs of the Kingdom is a different matter. Well, I'll have to be getting along now. We're going to put up some of the people at our house, and I've got to fix to bed moth­ er down in the wagon-box again, I reckon. I'll say you'll be with us to­ morrow, then, Brother Joel?" The little bent nian's voice had lost much of Its life. "Yes, Brother Seth, *if I am able." "Wel\, I hope yon are." He arose and looked at the sky. "Looks as if we might have some falling weather. They say it's been moisting quite a bit up Cedar way. Well--good night all!" , When he was gone the matter of his visit was not referred to. With some A Procession, a Pursuit and ture. FOllett awoke to find himself super­ fluous. The women were rushing ex­ citedly through their housework in order to be at hand when the proces­ sion of Brigham and his suite should march in. Of Joel Rae he eaught but R glimpse through the door of hi little»room, the face flushed that had a long time been sallow and blood­ less. When the door had closed h© could hear the voice now strong again. He seemed to be, as during the night, rehearsing something he meant to say. And later it was plain that he prayed, though he heard nothing more than the high pleading of the voice. Follett would not have minded these tfjlngs, out Prudence was gone, and tib one could tell him where. From Christina, of the rock-bound speech, he blasted the items that she was wearing "a dress all new" and "a red- ribboned hat." Lorena, too, with all her willingness of speech, knew noth- faoc definite. '^All I know is she fixed herself np like she was going to an evening ball ®r. party. I wish to the lands I'd kep" my complexion the way she does hem. And she had on her best lawn that her pa got her in Salt Lake, the one with the little blue figures In It She does look sweeter than honey on a rag In a store dress, and that Leg­ horn hat with the red bow, though what she wanted to start so early for I don't know. The procession can't be along yet, but she might Jiave gone down to march with them, or to help decorate the bowery. 1 know when I was her age I war s^ays a great hand for getting ready long before any one come, when my mother was mak­ ing a company for me, putting up my waterfall and curling my beau-catch­ ers on a hot pipestein. But, land! I ain't no more time to talk with you." Down the main road he hesitated. To the right he could see where the green mouth of the canyon invited; but to the left lay the village, where Prudence doubtless was. He would find her and bring her away. For Fol­ lett was determined to toe thd mark: himself now. In the oiie street of Amalon Cher# was the usual Sabbath hush; but %bove this was an air of dignified fes­ tivity. The village in its Sunday beat homespun, with here and there a suit of Btore goods, was holding its breath. In the bowery a few workers, under the supervision of Bishop Wright* were adding the last touches of dec­ oration. It was a spot of pleasant green in the dusty square--a roof of spruce boughs, with evergreens and flowers garnishing the posts, and a bank of flowers and fruit back of the speaker's stand. (TO BK CONTINUED.) EP£S iilll \ V ^ < N N V V " < s - -r* "* * S .Col. C. A. Matthews. SC. Campbell, Peoria; A. S. Wright* Woodstock; C. E. Vaughn, Chicago. The newly felected officers were Ufc* stalled by Past Department CtOjjp: mander A. L. Schimpf, of Peoria. 41 The only surprise in the electi«(|| session was the election of AldeSt Knoph, of Olney, as junior vice com- maiwier. The precedent has been to elect a member of the entertaining post to that honor. The encampment Indorsed the piatt t© buy the Grant farm and cabin near St Louis and turn it into a nwionai p a r k - : - ' y ~ Settled Case Right There floor in the parlor, or dining-room, or both and they want a little wider win­ dow in the sitting-room. Then the wife wants a change In partitions be­ tween her bedroom and where the children sleep. As a general thing a woman has not got a very clear idea of mathematlc. The moving of a par­ tition is a simple thing in her esti­ mation. She can see how it could be set over a foot or two and make the room a little larger, but she don't see the difficulty behind the partition. Josh Billings recommended Webster's dictionary in the following way: "My friend Webster has writ a book, he calls It Webster's Unabridged Dic­ tionary, a history of the English lan­ guage, or how one word leads to an­ other." If Jcsh Billings could have described how a woman's change in a house plan brings trouble down on the head of the contractor and how one of h®r changes leads to another, he probably might have invented some comical way of describing it. I have often known workmen to talk lightly of such interferences, but I never knew a contractor who was responsi­ ble for the job to really enjoy a joke of this nature. This cottage could be built under favorable circumstances for about $1,400 qr $1,(00, bat not when the had been used all over the eoontry, and there has been no means of de­ termining from what office they have been sold to the consumers. All this will be changed under the new system, and every post office of the land will "receive due credit for the amount of postage stamps which it sells, which furnishes the only baBls upon which the business of tho office can be esti­ mated. The new postage stamps of 1907 will bear on their face the name of the. city and state in which they are sold, and it will make no difference in what part of the country they are used, the city of their origin will have the credit for their sale. Postage stamps tn the past hsve proven to be exceptionally negotiable plunder for the light-fingered gentry. The Chicago post office a little while ago was robbed of nearly $100,000 worth of stamps of small denomina­ tions, and no trace of the perpetra­ tors was ever discovered. With each gummed pfcee of paper an inanimate detective bjr means of the name of its city of origin, it Is scarcely possible that a thief could as complete))* cover hii tracks In dis­ posing of his booty. Revenue Officer's Argument Coflsnt and All-Convincing. Miss Dorothea Klu«pke, the as­ tronomer, was talking sybout the dif­ ficulties and intricacies that astrono­ my presents to the lay mind. "For instance," she said, "there is the well-known case, of the meteorite that fell on a Vermont farm In '96. It was a valuable meteorite, and the landlord at once stepped up and claim­ ed It 'AH minerals and metals on the land belong to me,' ho said. "That's In the lease.' "But the tenant demurred. "This meteorite,' he said 'wasn't on the farm, you must remember, when the lease was drawn up.' "The landlord perceived the Justice of that claim. He thought a moment Then he said, decisively: 1 claim her as flying game.' "But the tenant was ready tor him. 'Sh#ff got neither wings nor feathers/ he said. 'Therefore, as ground gams, she's mine.' "They ^continued their argument and In the heat of it a revenue officer arriving with a truck proceeded to put the meteorite aboard. 'I claim her for the government' he said, 'as an article introduced into the country without payment of duty."* Fellow Passengers. "Pardon me, your necktie has been sticking out for some time. I refrained from telling you sooner because those young ladies seemed so much amused." Farmer--"Thankee; an' th© oil from that lamp has been dropping on that light overcoat o' yourn for the last ten minutes, but every one seemed se tickled that I hated to ppoil the fun.** --London Mirror. Cause and Because. tjfi a hsve his own way about everything and anybody can got Moot with him. FIOOR PLAIT > ^ A "K" &V^ i . * - owner indulges in flights of subse­ quent imagination sudh aa builders quent imagination such as builders frequently meet up aga|nst. A pleasant feature about this house is the porches. They have the ap­ pearance of having belonged to the plan from the very first They grew Into the original design in a manner not usual, especially with cottage houses. Verandas and porches sel­ dom fit a house as well as they should. Too often they have the. appearance of being stuck on as a sort of after thought A really neat design that follows through from cellar to gar­ ret and from front to rear harmoni­ ously in every respect is worth very careful consideration because such house plans are not as common as they should be. '•> This house should be heated with a hot-air furnace and the furnace ihould be placed under the partition that divides the dining-room from the front downstairs bedroom; then the pipes will all take a good pitch, they will be reasonably short and every pipe will be a heater. About eight '• J- ; ~ ' George Eliot Consulted Him. Frederic Harrison was a cloie friend of George Eliot, anl she often asked his advice in regard to points of law that came up in the course of her stories? She particulalry needed legal advice in a vital part of "Felix Holt"--for conscientious worker as she was, and as all really great ar­ tists are, she was not content to make a guess. Mr. Harrison listened as gravely to the presentation of her problem as if it concerned real Indi­ viduals. The next day he sent her a carefully and concisely worded opin­ ion, which she used in her book just as he wrote it. In the story, it is as­ cribed to "the Attorney General," and Is referred to as "final authority." It Is the part printed in Italics in chap­ ter XXV. Mr> Harrison was both sur­ prised and pleased to see his own words used. He expected that the novelist would wish to express his le­ gal opinion in her own language. "Thanks to George Eliot," he said, with a smile, "I have written some­ thing that will live forever In Eng­ lish literature:" PAID-PROTECTION MONEY." £ Chicago Grand Jury Begins lnvestia|P tioa of Sensational Charges.. Chicago.--The. grand Jury lias ho- gun an exhaustive examination Into sensational charges that women doe-' tors in various parts of the city had paid thousands of dollars "protection money" in connection with illegal practices. Incidentally the jury in­ dicted Dr. Lucy Hagenow in conn^ee^ tion with the death of Lola Maddiso®. of Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. HagO- now was indicted on this charge a year ago, but the indictment was found technically faulty. Later Dr. Hago- now was called before the jury to testify to an Interview Credited to her, but later denied that she, in com­ mon with others, had escaped trial for years by the use of "hush" money paid to a regularly organized cllqo* of politicians and police. State's At­ torney Healey has assumed personal charge of the inquiry. The victims are mostly girls and women from the country coming here, or sent through advertisements carefully worded and circulated privately, and in such regu­ lar publications as would handle them. The poBt office department at Wash­ ington recently barred a large nuMfcr ber of advertisements of this class. Thief Opens Arteries and Dies In C«#& Chicago.--Arrested at Elwood, Ind.». as a fugitive from Chicago, wanted5 jere for the alleged theft of $55, Thomas Jenkins committed suicide in his cell. Jenkins was 32 years oWF. He left Chicago May 22, on which dar James J. O'Neill, 913 Halsted street^ complained to Capt. O'Brien that to had stolen $65 from him. Detectives located the fugitive in Elwood and tel­ egraphed Chief of Police Nuzen to ar­ rest him. When the cell door waft locked on him Jenkins cut the arteries In his wrist and died shortly sftW- ward In a hospital. Sues Officials for $50,000. Centralia.--Former Sheriff Matthes* B. Wells has filed suit in the Martaft county circuit court for $50,000 dmt- ages against the county of Marion^ State's Attorney J. C. Smith and J. Simer, of the county board of sa~ pervisors for damages in trespass* libel and slander. This case grows out of a suit agkin3t Wells for alleged shortage in his accounts with the county which4 was decided: IfcffllpV favor. i j ! Art and Happiness. Artists are not as a class the hap­ piest of mortals. But that 13 because they fail to relate the ideal rationally to life, rather than because they are vowed to standards of perfection. Un- happiness comes upon them as it would upon anyone else--In conse­ quence of folly and indifference and wilifuinttss: and- thek devotion to art, concludes Bliss Carman, in his essay in the Craftsman, which is often held to be the cause of their misfortunes. Is In reality the only mitigating factor la their fives. :• r i yv f^:r Fit for a Poor Man's Wlffer * Anxious Mother--I am greatly sur­ prised, my son, to find that while yaa were away you became engaged. I hope you have not acted hastily. ^Haa the young lady you have selected the proper qualifications for a poor man'a wifet AduR Son--Yes» Indeed, mnth+r. She's got $50,000 tn her own right-- N. Y. Weekly, I"«uf; 'i, •;£ New Chicago Bank Licensed- Springfield--The auditor of pubM» | accounts has issued a permit to A. W. r'ord Lawrence. L. C. Alexander, and ; W. Deltoris LangfOtd to organise tha »» Cltisens' Commercial bank at Chitiip m~ go, with a capital stock of $200,000. o'.'O Rae 'to Succeed Greenfk-..-' ̂ S. Litchfield.--At a meeting v«f county board of supervisors at MIB- boro John Rae. of this elty, was ap­ pointed counjy treasurer to fill tha vacancy caused by the death pi. JUMi Greene. Death In Trot ley Starts Paate* Bloomlngton.--A panic was creaiwt tn a street car here, when Richard Sharp, a resident of Colfax, pitched forward dead from his seat while route to the depot to take a train for home- He had bora tn good health previously. ^ , - ' ' , H o u s e b y ' i l Palmer--The home of William Bates, living west ©f Palme?, waa struck by lightning after the family had retired and did considerable daw> aga Vr.v m- **