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*!', r >v r< •»• * >• r" BY BAVfB GRAfiAM PitiZtJPS Amm»m Co*r#*c<Yr e ; • *M «>- BpBBa-/feRftlLL COHPAHf i CHAPTER XVII. .__ "*• Scarborough. Now came the problem--to elect. We hear much of many wonder* of ; Combination and concentration Of in- . Ilustrial po.wer which Ail way and tel­ egraph have wrought. But nothing is ••aid about what seems to me the - ^jjfreatest wonder of them all--how •> these forces have resulted In the con- '• i fentratioh of the political power of upwards of 12,000,000, of our 15,000,000 voters; how the fsw can Impose their Ideas and their will upon widening Circles, out and outs until all are in­ cluded. The people are scattered; the powers eonfer, man to man, day ' iy day. The people are divided by jpartizan and other prejudices; the powers are bound together by the one self-interest. The people must ac­ cept such political organizations as are provided for them; the powers pay for, and their agents make and di­ rect, these organizations. The people are poor; the powers are rich. The people have not even offices to be­ stow; the powers have offices to give and lucrative employment of all kinds, and material and social advancement --everything that the vanity or the ap­ petite of man craves. The people punish but feebly--usually the wrong persons--and soon forget; the power* relentlessly ahd surely pursue those" who oppose them, forgive only after the offender has surrendered uncon­ ditionally and they never forget where It is to their interest to remember. The powers know both what they want and how to get it; the people know neither. Back in March, when Goodrich first suspected that I had outgeneraled him, he opened negotiations with the national machine of the opposition party. He decided that, if I should succeed in nominating Burbank, he ..would save his masters and himself by nominating as the opposition can­ didate a man under their and his control, and by electing him with an enormous campaign fund. Beckett, the subtlest and most in­ fluential of the managers of the na­ tional machine of the opposition party, submitted several names to him. He selected Henry J. Simpson, justice of the supreme court of Ohio-- a slow, shy, ultra-conservative man, his brain spun full in every cell with the Gobwebs of legal technicality. He was, in his way, almost as satis­ factory a candidate for the interests as Cromwell would have been. For, while he was honest, of what value is honesty when combined with credulity and lack of knowledge of affairs ? They knew what advisers he would select, men trained in their service and taken from their legal staffs. They knew he would shrink from anything "radical" or "disturbing"--that is, would not molest the two packs of wolves, the business and the politi­ cal, at their feast ufkm the public. He came of a line of bigoted adherents of his party, he led a simple, retired life among sheep and cows and books asleep in the skins of sheep and cows. He wore old-fashioned rural whiskers, thickest in the throat, thinning to­ ward the jawbone, scant about the lower lip, absent from the upper. These evidences of unfitness to cope with up-to-date corruptlonists seemed to endear him to the masses. As soon as those big organs of the opposition that were in the control of the powers began to talk of Simpson as mn ideal candidate, 1 suspected what <ras in the wind. But I had my hands fall; the most I could then do was to •upply my local "left-bower," Silliman, with funds and set him to work for a candidate for his party more to my taste. It was fortunate for me that I had cured myself of the habit of wor­ rying. For it was plain that, if Goodrich and Beckett succeeded in getting Simpson nominated by the op­ position I should have a hard fight to raise the necessary campaign money. The large interests either would finance Simpson, or, should I con­ vince them that Burbank was as good for their purposes as Simpson, would be " Indifferent which won. I directed Silliman to work for Run- die of Indiana, a thoroughly honest man, in deadly earnest about half a dozen deadly wrong things, and cap­ able of anything in furthering them --after the manner of fanatics. If he had not been In public life, he would have been a camp-meeting exhorter. Crowds liked to listen to him; the rad­ icals and radically inclined through­ out the west swore by him; he had had two terms in congress, bad got a hundred-odd votes for the nomina­ tion for president at the-Jast national convention of the opposition. A Splendid scare-crow for the Wall street crowd but difficult to nominate over Goodrich's man Simpson in a v convention of practical politicians. in May--it was the afternoon of j thfc very day my mutineers got back ! into the harness--Woodruff asked me ifc 1 would see a man he had picked 1 up la a delegate-hunting trip into In­ diana "An old" pal of mine, much the better for the 12-years' wear since I last saw him. He has always trained with the opposition. He's a fail-fledged graduate of the Indiana school of politics and that's the best. It'm all craft there--they hate to give up money, and don't use it except as a last resort." He brought in his mas--Merrf-! weather by name. I liked the first I look at him--keen, cynical, indifferent, i He had evidently sat in so many! games of chance of all kinds that play roused in him only the ice-cold pas- , •Ion of the purely professional. -'/'There's been nothing doing In our . Ijltete for the last two or three years-- jt| least nothing in my line," said h*. rmnkoptsider, Scarborough--•** } nodded. "Yes, I know him. He came into the senate from your state two years ago." "Well, he's built up a machine of his own and runs things to suit him: self." "I thought he wasn't a politician " said I. Merriweather's bony face showed a faint grin. "The best ever," said he. "He put the profession out of busi­ ness, without its costing him a cent. I've got tired of waiting for him to blow over." Tired--and hungry, I thought, After half an hour of pumping I sent him away detaining Woodruff. "Whai does he really think of Rundle?" J asked. "Says he. hasn't the ghost of a chance--that Scarborough'11, control the Indiana delegation and that Scar­ borough has no more use £or lunatics than for grafters." This was not encouraging. I called Merriweather back. "Why don't you people nominate Scarborough at St. Louis?" sa;d I. Behind his surface of attention, I saw his mind traveling at lightning speed in search of my hidden purpose along every avenue that iny sugges­ tion opened. "Scarborough'd be a dangerous man for you" he replied. "He's got a Simpson editorials in big opposition papers undoubtedly produced effect. I set for De Milt and his bureau of un­ derground publicity the task of show­ ing up, as far as it was prudent to expose intimate politics to the public, Goodrich and his crowd and their con­ spiracy with Beckett and his crowd to secure the opposition nomination for a man of the same offensive type as Cromwell. And I directed Wood­ ruff to supply Silliman and Merri­ weather and that department of "bi- partizan" machine with all the money they wanted. "They can't spend much to advantage at this late day except for traveling expenses," said I. "Our best plan, however, is good honest missionary work with the honest men of the other party who wish to see its best man nominated." While Goodrich's agents and Beck­ ett's agents were industriously arrang­ ing the eastern machinery of the op­ position party for Simpson, Merri- Weather had Silliman's men toiling In the west and south to Get Rundle del­ egates or uninstrncted delegations. And, after our conversation, he was reinforced by Woodruff and such men of his staff as could be used without suspicion. Woodruff himself could permeate like an odorless gas; you knew he was there only by the re­ sults. Nothing could be done for Rundle in his own state; but the far­ ther away from his home our men got, the easier it was to induce--by pur­ chase and otherwise--the politicians of his party to think well of him. This the more because they regarded Simpson as a "stuff" and a "stiff"-- and they weren't far wrong. "It may not be Scarborough, and it probably won't' be Rundle," Woodruff said in his final report to me, "but it certainly won't be' Simpson.' He's the dead one, no matter how well he goes on the first ballot." • But I would not let him give me the details--the story of shrewd and slip1 pery plots, strategems. surprises. "I am worn out, mind and body," said I in apology for my obvious weariness and indifference. I S 'Scarborough's Got a Nasty Way of Reaching Over Party Lines for Votes." nasty way of reaching across party lines for votes." I kept my face a blank. "You've played poliitcs only In your own state or against the eastern crowd these last few years," he went on, as if in answer to my thoughts. "You don't realize what a hold Scar­ borough's got through the entire west. He has split your party and the ma­ chine of his own in our state, and they know all about him and his do­ ings in the states to the west. The people like a fellow that knocks out the regulars." "A good many call him * dema­ gogue, don't they?" said I. "Yes--and he is, in a sort of a way," replied Merriweather. "But-r-well, he's got a knack of telling the truth so that it doesn't scare folks. And he's managed to convince them that he isn't looking out for number one. It can't be denied that he made a good governor. For instance, he got after the monopolists and the cost of living is 20 per cent, lower in Indiana than just across the line in Ohio." "Then I should say that all the large Interests in the country would line up against him," said I. "Every one," said Merriweather, and an expression of understanding flitted across his face. He went on: "But it ain't much use talking about him. He couldn't get the nomina­ tion--at least, it wouldn't be easy to get it for him." "I suppose not," said I. "That's a job for a first-class man--and they're rare." And I shook hands with him. About a week later he returned, and tried to make a report to me. But I sent him away, treating him very formally. I appreciated that, being an experienced and capable man, he knew the wisdom of getting intimate­ ly in touch with his real employer; but, as I had my incomparable Wood­ ruff, better far than I at the rough work of politics, there was no neces­ sity for my entangling myself. Mer­ riweather weftt to Woodruff and Woodruff reported to me--Scarbor­ ough's friends in Indianapolis all agreed that he did not want the nom­ ination and would not have it. "We must force it on him," said I. "We must have Scarborough." Immediately after Burbank's nom­ ination, Goodrich concentrated upon nominating Judge Simpson. He had three weeks, anfl he worked hard and well. I think he overdid it in the edi­ torials in our party organs under his influence in New York, Boston and other eastern cities--never a day without lugubrious screeds on the dis­ mal outlook for Burbank if the other party should put ap Simpson. But his *S For six months I had been inces­ santly at work. The tax upon mem­ ory alone, to say nothing of the other faculties, had been crushing. Easy as political facts always were for me, I could not lightly bear the strain of keeping in mind not merely the out­ lines, but also hundreds of the de­ tails, of the political organizations of 40-odd states with all their counties. And the tax on memory was probably the least. Then added to all my po­ litical work was business care; for while I was absorbed in politics, Ed Ramsay had badly muddled the busi­ ness. Nor had I, like Burbank and Woodruff, the power to empty my mind as I touched the pillow, and so get eight hours of unbroken rest each night. Woodruff began asking me for In­ structions. But my Judgment was un­ certain, and my imagination barren. "Do as you think best" said I. "I must rest. I've reached my limit"-- my limit of endurance of the sights and odors and befoulings of these sew­ ers of politics I must in person adven­ ture In order to reach my goal. I must pause and rise to the surface for a breath of decent air or I should not have the strength to finish these menial and even vile tasks which no man can escape if he is a practical leader in the practical activities off practical life. retarles to communicate with me. Sandys had no interest in politics- Ms fortune was in real estate, and, therefore, did not tempt or force him into relations with political machines. Early in the morning after my ar­ rival I got away from the others and, with a stag-hound wh° remembered me with favor from my past visit, struck into woods that had never been despoiled by man. As I tramped on and on, my mind seemed to revive, and I tried to take up the plots and scheme's that had been all-important Yesterday. But I could not. Instead, as any sane man must when he and nature are alone and face to face, I fell to marveling that I could burn up myself, the best of me, the best years of my one life, in such a fever «f folly and fraud as this political career of mine. I seemed to be in a lucid interval between paroxysms of in­ sanity. I reviewed the men and things of my world as one recalls the ab­ surd and repellent visions of a night­ mare. I shrank from passing' from this mood of wakefulness and reason back into the unreal realities of what had for years been my all-in-all. I wandered hour after hour, sometimes imagining that I waB flying from the life I loathed, again that somewhere in those cool, green, golden lighted mazes I should find--my lost youth, and her. For, how could I think of it without thinking of her also? It had been lighted, by her; it had gone with her; it lived in memory, illum­ ined by her. The beautiful, beautiful world-that- ought-to-be! The hideous, the horri­ ble world that is! I did not return to the house until almost dinner-time. "I have to go away to-morrow morning," I announc­ ed after dinner. For I felt that, if I did not fly at once,, I should lose all heart for the task which must be fin­ ished. "Why," protested SandyB, "you came to stay until we all started with you for St. Louis." "I must go," I repeated. I did not care to invent an excuse; I could not give the reason. Had I followed my impulse, I should have gone at once, that night. By noon the next day I had again thrown myself into the vexed polit­ ical ocean whose incessant buffetings give the swimmers small chance to think of anything beyond the next oncoming wave. Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Writes of Things of Interest at the State Capital. Springfield.--Among the legislators i Cannon Ends Fishing Trip. piloted over the drainage channel and through the new power house at Joliet by the drainage trustees of Chicago were J. W. Allison, of Kankakee; J. W. Templeton, of Fairfield; M. S. Lynk, of Madison county; Frank Covey, of Belvidere, and George F. Smith, of East St. Louis. Citizens of Joliet last week took a number of representatives along that part of the channel that runs through the eity and showed that the high water marks at which the waters of the channel will go through this city if the sanitary district bill is passed. The state leg­ islators were brought down the en­ tire length of the drainage channel from Chicago and shown the ease with which the waters of Lake Michi­ gan can be prevented from coming down the valley when occasion re quires. It was demonstrated that ample protection for the valley bpJow is afforded. Then they were taken Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, of the national house of representatives, has ended his fishing trip and long dis­ tance trolley ride and will spend a day at the state fair with Congressman W. B. McKinley, of Champaign, with whom he had made a trip over the latter's system of interurban electric railways. "1 have just come in from a fishing trip on that fire-eating' craft, the Illinois, after two days on the Illi­ nois river," he said on reaching Chi­ cago. "For a long time 1 have been promising my neighbor, McKinley, that I wou|d look over the interurban lines, and after Saturday's home-com­ ing at Tuscola 1 decided to fulfill my promise. We went from Peoria to East St. Louis on a ftshtng trip and then returned by trolley.'" The speak­ er laughed heartily over the report that he had quit smoking cigars, and then to prove that it was untrue bought a supply of big perfectos at DAM OF THE ECONOMY LIGHT A POWER COMPANY AT JOLIET. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XVIII. A Dangerous Pause. I took train for my friend Sandys' country place near Cleveland, forbid­ ding Woodruff of Burbank or my sec- David Sent Out Against Goliath. I was almost master of myself again when, a week later, I got aboard thi car in which Carlotta and I were tak­ ing our friends to look on at the oppo­ sition's convention at St. Louis. When we arrived, I went at once to confer with Merriweather in a room at the Southern hotel which no one knew he had. "Simpson has under, rather than over, 500 delegates," was his first item of good news. "It takes 650 to nominate. As his sort of boom always musters its greatest strength on the first ballot, I'm putting my money two to one against him." "And Scarborough?" I asked, won­ dering at my indifference to this fore­ shadowing of triumph. "My men talk him to every incom­ ing delegation. It's well known that he don't want the nomination and has forbidden his friends to vote for him and has pledged them to work against him. Then, too, the bosses and the boys don't like him--to put it mildly. But I think we're making every one feel he's the only man they can put up, with a chance to beat Burbank." My wife and our friends and I dined at the Southern that night. As we were about to leave, the streets began to fill. And presently through the close-packed masses came at a walk an open carriage--the storm- center of a roar that almost drowned the music of the four or five bands. The electrict lights made the scene bright as day. 'Who is he?" asked the woman at my side--Mrs. Sandys. She was looking at the man in that carriage--there were four. J>ut there was no mistaking him. He was seat­ ed, was giving not the slightest heed to the cheering throng. His soft black hat was pulled well down over his brows; his handsome profile was stern, his face pale. If that crowd had been hurling curses at him and preparing to tear him limb from limb he wduld not have looked different. He was smooth-shaven, which made him seem younger than I knew him to be. And over him was the glamour of the world-that-ought-to-be in which he lived and had the power to compel others to live as long as they were under the spell of his personality. "That," I replied to Mrs. Sandys, "Is Senator Scarborough of Indiana. "What's he so stern about?" "I'm sure I dqn't know--perhaps to hide his joy." <TO BE CONTINUED.) Dice Throwing for a Bequest. The singular sight of two 'servant girls throwing dice for charity money was recently witnessed at Guildford, The charity is known as "maids' money." This was left by John How in 1674, and each year there is a com­ petition for a check for £11 0s. The dice throwers must have, been em­ ployed for two years in one service in Guildford, but not at an inn. Laura Cadman secured the check with • double six, Emma Trimmer throw­ ing six and three. t-" rmriTtit inn iViii'in^rrirrtfttSi'^iir^Tiif I ^ * vs« * "> * * I" ' ... •". < *> At* ii appoaieu uutu ueimc auu after the opeuiug of the iiitnuis sanitary and ship canal. This dam promises to figure prominently before the session of the legis­ lature during the discussion of the bill in which the sanitary district trustees ask the privilege of developing the water power below Joliet furnished by the flow of the canal. The bill is opposed by the Joliet company. The sanitary trustees desire to extend the canal to Lake Joliet, which point would be the northern terminus of the proposed deep water way from the lakes to the gulf, and the sanitary channel would thus form the connecting link between this water way and Lake Michigan. EIGHT DIE 1H. ItCK down to the new power house two miles below and shown the apparatus that is to convert the force of the waters of the drainage channel into 30,000 horsepower that will be a con­ stant quantity the year around. One of the strong points pointed out by the sanitary trustees was that when their bill is passed and the proposed extension of the channel and deep water way made to Brandon's bridge the danger to Joliet will not be any greater and probably not so great as at present. The visitors left Joliet for Ottawa, where they took the trip down the river by boats as far as Peoria. ^ the Union League club just before he left to catch his train. Milk Prices May Soar. With the cost of living near the high water mark, housewives now stand an excellent chance of being compelled to pay more for milk and cream. Practically all of the big milk distributing concerns of the state have just signed contracts with the farmers and dairymen for their win­ ter supply at prices that range be­ tween 20 and 27 cents more a hun­ dred pounds than prevailed last year. The new scale provides that the price of milk during October shall be $1.55 a hundred pounds during the next four months $1.65 a hundred, and in March $1.55. Where Titles Are Cheap. The cheapest country for buying a title used to be Portugal, says London Truth. When a man is made a baron or a count there, his patent recites the service for which the grant is made. I was once in Portugal, and I had some curiosity to discover what were the services for which an Eng­ lishmen of my acquaintance had been made a Portugal baron. I therefore looked the matter up, and I found that it was for having introduced into the country a new tree. There used to be another plan for becoming a baron. It appears that there is--or was then--a convent which once had large possessions. All its tenants were, by the fact of being tenants, barons. But the convent had lost its possessions with the exception of one farm. It had an agent in London. For a very moderate consideration ths agent let this farm to a would-be ten­ ant. He therefore became a baron; and when he resigned the farm to th« next applicant he retained the title. 8mall Beginnings. It is a remarkable fact that some of the societies which have done most to regenerate the world have been cr»> died within the walls of city taverns iu the darkest hours of our national life.--Thornton Hall, is the Sundey Strand. Gets Vacation Not Requested. Secretary W. C. Garrard of the state board of agriculture was given a month's leave of absence by the executive committee two days in ad­ vance of the opening of the state fair. No explanation of the action was giv­ en other than that his health was such as not to permit him to con­ tinue in the position at present. Mr. Garrard, in spite of this leave of ab­ sence, remained at ttie fair grounds during the day and intimated that hi6 health would be good enough to en­ able him to pull through. Counties Are Dilatory. When the members of the state board of equalization convened here after a two weeks' recess they found 18 counties have not yet made returns to the state auditor of their respective assessments. The failure of these counties to submit their figures will necessitate another delay in the real work of the board. The members will not take a recess, as has been the practice in the past weeks, but will continue in session daily, figuring per cent, and probably arranging dates for hearings of various Interests. No­ tices have already been sent to cor­ porations throughout the state to sub­ mit annual reports to the board and several hundred have responded. The following counties have not yet sub­ mitted' their assessment report to the auditor: Boone, Clinton, Cook, Cum­ berland, DeVYitt, Hamilton. Lake, La Salle, Livingston. Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, St. Clair, Union, Wabash, Will. Woodford. Illinois Apple Crop Failure. The apple crop in southern Illinois this year is a failure, and but few orchards will be gone over for fruit. The late freezes and frosts this spring retarded the crop. || BALTIMORE * OHIO PASSENGftlt ' RUNS INTO A FREIGHT. li -a! -- •% DISASTER AT BELUMRE, O. , ' J Several Persons Fatally Injured*"*) Carle's Opera Company Has Narrow Escape--Musical Di­ rector Loses Arm. Bellaire, O.--Eight men were killed and a score injured, four fatally, when the Chicago & Wheeling express on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad crashed into a freight train at a siding near here Saturday. Failure of an operator to throw the switch and give a clear track to the express train, which was speeding to make up three hours* lost time, fg| said to have been the cause of the ac­ cident. The dead are: Carl Bereran, Mil* aukee; I; N. Galbraith, engineer, Newark, N. J.; Michael Heinze, Wheel­ ing, W. Va.; H. A- Lipscomb, en­ gineer, Newark, N. J.; F. E. Mots, conductor. Newark, N. J.; F. L. Rose, Cleveland, O.; Harry Seitz, Massillon, O.: William Shaw, Wheeling W, V. The fatally injured: E. J. Blu- baught mail clerk, Newark, N. J.; Ben Daley. Pittsburg, Pa.; W. CD*' sant, mail clerk. Newark, N. J.; D. EL Kneer, mail clerk, Newark, N.,J. Among the passengers on the ex­ press were the members of Richard Carle's Spring Chicken" Comic Opera company. All of them, with ther ex­ ception of Alfred Dalby, the musical director, escaped serious injury, how­ ever. It was found necessary to am­ putate Mr. Dalby's right arm, thus ending his musical career. Several other members of the com­ pany, including Mr. Carle himself, had narrow escapes from serious injuries. They owe their escape to the fact their private car was last on the train. Engineer H. A. Lipscomb underwent a heroic surgical operation to save his life. Caught beneath his engine, it was impossible to remove the broken iron from his body. Escaping steam across his face made it impossible to administer any anesthetic and the physicians amputated his leg as he lay there conscious. The effort was in vain, however, as Lipscomb died later. GREAT CATHEDRAL IS BEGUN. FouiyJation Stone of Episcopal Ediftee in Washington Is Laid. Washington. -- Sunday witnessed two events here of general interest to the religious tworld at large and especially to the Episcopal church. The first and chief of these events was the laying of the foundation stone of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul at Mount St. Alban, Wisconsin avenue. The other was the great open air service on the same grounds, un­ der the auspices of the international convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, which brought to a close the convention which has been in session here for the past week. The cornerstone laying was under the guidance of the Episcopal church in America. It was a notable occa­ sion, made more so by the presence of the president of the United States, the bishop of London and other dis­ tinguished people. Bishop Satterlee performed the ceremony of laying the foundation stone. The trowel was the one used in laying the foundation stone of the capitol building and the gavel was- used by George Washington. MINING MAN ARRESTED. Willey Cross Dedicated. Willey cross erected to the memory of Joliet and Marquette and other early explorers of the Illinois country was dedicated here with appropriate ceremonies. The cross is the gift of Cameron L. Willey and has been erecterf on the banks of the Chicago river just south of Blue Island avenue, Chicago. The material of which the cross is made is mahogany. The pro­ gram included salutes by ship guns and naval militia and the flags of the United States and-France were un­ furled. May Establish Diphtheria Station. Through conferences between Dr. J. A. Egan, of the state board of health and President Edmund ,J. James, of the University of Illinois, a station for the examination of diphtheria germs probably will be established at the university to guafd against diphtheria, but will also be available to the resi­ dents of the twin cities. Champaign and Urbana. The city council of Champaign and the state board of health have already authorized appro­ priations for establishing of the sta­ tion, and Urbana is expected to do so. Maj. C. M. Wilton, of Joplin, Mo„ tr Accused of Fraud. Joplin, Mo.--Maj. C. H. Wilson, _ well known mine operator, who for If y*ars has been engaged in the forma­ tion of mining enterprises in the Dtis- souri-Kansas lead and zinc district, was arrested Sunday, charged with having obtained money in connection with fraudulent companies here. The arrest was made by Detective Garber, of Indianapolis, Ind., who rep­ resents that parties of that city have "ost $17,500 through investments made ~ on solicitation of Wilson. The officer came provided with requisition papers and left Sunday night for Indianapolis with his prisoner. The arrest was made on complaint of A. J. O'Reilly, general agent of the Monon railroad af Indianapolis. Former Archduke to Wed Humble Girl Vienna.--Herr Woelfllng, formerly Archduke Leopold Salvatore of Aus­ tria, is engaged to marry Maria Rit- ter, the daughter of a humble Si­ berian. Herr Woelfling has tele­ graphed confirmation of this fact from Zurich. Rev. F. W. Poland Seriously Injured. St. Louis.--Rev. Fa"ber William Po­ land, professor of philosophy at St. Louis university and well known as a contributor to religious magazines, was struck by a street car Sunday and seriously injured. Ex-Senator Shumway Dead. Former State Senator J. N. C. Shumway- died suddenly at his home in Taylorville from paralysis, aged 57 years. Mr. Shuinwav was secre­ tary of the Taylorville Savings. Loan & Building association, and was re­ cently elected president of the State Association of Building associations. He was also manager of the electric plants at Taylorville, Pana, Jersey- ville, Robinson and Mattoon, and was active in a great many other business enterprises. Great Distress in Malaga. ' Malaga. -- The greatest distress everywhere is prevalent as a result of the storms and flood. The governor with difficulty is preventing famished neople seizing and eating decayed foodstuffs that have been thrown oat by storekeepers. Many bodies have been found in the mud. A band of emigrants which was encamped on a <jua> the night of the flood, awaiting a steamer, has not been seen, and it Is feared all of its members perished. The damage done by the flood tlr placed at $3,800,000. . ; if! Drops Dead «* He Ends Hymn. Kansas City, Mo.--With the words of the hymn which he was. stat­ ing with his Sunday school clasa, "God be with you till we meet agaia" upon his lips, Frank B. Mitchener, a real estate man of this city, d«B||§ppf i|" dead in church Sunday. Editor of Christian Observer Dead. Louisville, Ky.--F. B. Converse, e4» Itor of the Christian Observer. saM to be the oldest religious newspaper in the world, died Sunday of a heal* attack. He was T1 years old. '3 -47*"