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mmmw*. f -%>. * *•&• :J%:;: c->; • i*X' *1* ̂ ? # f ? 'tv :.'V>*:'-' •;, "&M • C* * *' <•< *V •> j»'x- ** ^ X , tj v, ^ * *' * <?,s *%, ^ v * * * » . J 1 ^ LA"/; ON THE TRAIL "OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY By WILLIAM T. ELLIS TTfcli DiatiwUMd Amrieu JoamalUt I* Traveling Around the World for the PurpoM of Iarra«t{*atin« *6 Aw***!' . poniti Miwiiwifr from t Pijreljr DUiatererted, Secular and NoB-Sactar»an StM^panrt. . " Illustrated with Drawing* and from Photograph*. 'if' c. Across India with Peeps at Missionaries at Work * Calcutta, India.--Beautiful, dirty; splendid, squalid; rich, miserable-- such are the contrasting adjectives which one may apply to this third largest city in the British. empire, seated on the banks of the Hoogli river, whose shifting currents are her beat defense against an. invading fleet. It Is a city of color, from the fat, shiny, black babu, scantily clad only la a few yards of purple cheese cloth and darling yellow shoes, to the pale and immaculate Briton, In top hat and frock coat. It to a city of historic In­ terest; everybody goes first to see the tfamoua Black Hole. But to all the world that is in any way interested in missions this is re­ membered as the scene of the labors of William Carey, the father of mod- 'i ll. ^ k % • fcV r ?• itf t era Protestant missions, who did his lifework at Serampore, a few miles from here. In the cathedral also one < sees a fine statue of Reginald Heber, the famous missionary bishop of the Church of England, and author of the njost widely-known missionary hymn, Throm Greenland's Icy Mountains." Dusky "Europeans." My work deals with to-day, so I must Introduce the reader instead to the most curious company of "Europeans" he has ever met, as they are gathered tor worship, several hundreds of them. In the fine big church of the American Methodist, mission. These dusky "Europeans" are mostly half- castes, Eurasians, but they dislike the latter name and are at all pains to claim identity only with their white ancestors. Thus a dark brown man, * three-fourths native, will speak osten­ tatiously of going "home" to England, though he never saw England, and only one of his forbears for centuries past has ever been outside of India. This very pride indicates that the Eurasian has certain Qualities which go with white blood, and this self-sap- porting, aggressive church, with re­ finement written on the faces of many of its members, indicates the impor­ tance of this branch of the Methodist Episcopal mission. The Methodists have been very successful throughout India in this work for Eurasians, and for the whites who have married na­ tive women, thus losing social caste In addition, other white people who do not care for the established church services, attach themselves to these Churches for Europeans. The Really White Euroaaans. If the blended brother is a problem In India needing the missionary's at­ tention, no less is the simon-pure white man. And I must say that, so far as I could learn, the life of the Eu­ ropeans (as all Caucasians are desig­ nated east of Suez) is more whole­ some and normal in India than in the tar east. This is doubtless due to the fact that British influence is alto­ gether dominant, and British ideals bave followed the flag. The white people generally attend the estab- lished churches, just as at home, as a matter of course.. For the young men--who are every- ; where the crux of the social problem ^ found the Y. M. C. A. doing a con- ? apicuously successful work. In the farther east it has been a failure so far as the white men are concerned, although its work for the natives, as these articles have reported, has been of a high grade. Here, however, the association is "good form," and the larger Indian cities have fine build­ ings, veritable gentlemen's clubs, with chambers for' any number of men from a score to a hundred, and in gen­ eral doing a sort of Christian work which deserves great praise. It would cause an American secretary to lift his eyebrows were he to see the num­ ber of men in evening clothes (includ­ ing, of course, the local secretary him­ self) to be found of an evening in the Calcutta or Bombay association. Therein, though, is a sign of success, for that is the very crowd that the association needs to reach here. The work for the native Indians, conduct­ ed in separate buildings, of course, is g . equally notable. •£. There are white women in the east, JlvM wel1 as native and half-caste wo- IlLi ®ien- needing the peculiar sort of help which the Y. W. C. A. affords. I was greatly struck by the hold that this organization has taken in India; there la a sanity, a careful, confident facing •Of actual conditions, and an effective aggressiveness about it which should place the association very high in the rank of missionary agencies. *5. One sort of work open to the Y. W. id,A. is illustrated by the following ln- Every ship sailing to India from England carries young women' going out to be married, and to live with fathers, brothers, or other rela- ltif«s. Not always do the relatives turn up, or the bridegrooms prove available; in which case the young woman sadly needs womanly help and safe shelter. On the ship in which I ••Went to Calcutta were three such young women; one of them dlscov- f ered that her uncle had gone te Japan and she was penniless, half a world : from home. At the first opportunity, after learning of the efficiency of the Calcutta Young Women's Christian as- j aociation, I put the secretary into % touch with the stranded girl, but al­ most too late, for a day later she at- - Jempted suicide. "Behind the Curtain." Kik% >. 5High-class Hindu and Mohamm^len -Women are kept "purdah," that is "be­ hind the curtain." The precautions ;r;".tfcat are used to keep them from the of all men save their families feem ridiculous to a westerner. One such woman was put into a railway j:/..""fiwii$artmeut next to mine, with the jfcost elaborate precautions. But when We stopped at a small station I caught gUx&l^-of^ll^-l^ through the window and--well, she would never be kidnaped for her looks! This se­ questration of the women leads to all manner of evils; and the lot of the poor creatures is narrow and pitiable, indeed. Now the women missionaries are penetrating "behind the curtain," tak­ ing with them medical healing, the schoolbook and the Bible. The Wo­ man's Missionary Union of America is especially diligent in this senana work, having missions in five Cities, and their range of activities includes visitation to the homes, day schools for children, orphanages, rescue homes, a hospital and a high school and college. As I talked with two bright American girls at Allahabad, Miss Wishard and Miss Bertsch, about their work, and heard how the} had rescued 23 ill-treated and wid­ owed Brahmins during the first four months of the year (they teach 500 women a week) I could not but agree that this was a womanly work for women, affording a career such as should satisfy any college-bred girl. A Tomb for a Home. The woes of women, and1 especially of widows, in India are too well known to need re,hearsal here. They afTord endless scope for missionary service. Thus, at Lucknow the Methodist Epis­ copal mission has converted an old Mohammedan tomb into a home for homeless women. It was rather inter­ esting to learn that a large part of the cares of the charming young woman in charge is the endeavor to find hus­ bands for as many as possible of the 50 women who come under her over­ sight every year. In this same city of Lucknow I found another flourishing institution for women, the Isabella Thoburn col­ lege, said to be the oldest college for girls in India, having been established in 1870. It is affiliated with the Uni­ versity of Allahabkd, and has more re­ quests than it can meet for graduates to fill governmental and private teaching positions. The college has won favor with high-caste natives, and its nearly 200 students represent all classes of society. I could not see that the life differed greatly from the life of American college girls. As I watched a file of these lustrous- eyed, graceful, white-robed girls cross the campus of the Presbyterian girls' school at Allahabad, on their way to chapel, it seemed to me that the spec- *_ "V. than anything an American college can boast. This building is the gift of Mr. John Wanamaker, A Christian Endeavor meeting by the girls was quite a model meeting of the Ameri­ can type. Christian Endeavor appears to be especially effective among the Indian churches. Even a slight asso­ ciation with the students here seemed to show in their character a reflection of the charm of Miss Forman, their principal. The caliber, culture and character of some of the American women to be met on the mission field are altogether beyond the imagining of the public at home. New India in the Making. Among the Indian reformers there is discernable a movement looking to­ ward the nationalization of India's varying creeds, which is a step essen­ tial to political unity. The national creed is not intended to be Christian­ ity. The one conspicuous agency off­ setting this tendency is the mission school. Up and down the length of India are schools conducted by mis­ sionaries and attended the children of Christian converts (for they are part of the machinery which must produce the next generation of native preachers), by the children of low castes, who are thus equipped to rise in the social scale and. to an increas­ ing extent of late years, by the chfl- dren of the higher castes. It is al­ most hopeless to attempt to enumerate these; I might specify the fine big Reid Christian college at Lucknow of the Methodist Episcopal church, situ­ ated on ground made historic by the mutiny, equipped with imposing build­ ings, attended by 500 students in dor­ mitory, from a wide region of which Lucknow is the center, and adminis­ tered to by men of ability and breadth of vision. Both collegiate and commer­ cial courses are given here. Early this year many Methodists from America journeyed to India to attend the Jubilee of Methodist Epis­ copal missions at Bareilly, where 50 years ago Rev. William ,ButIer estab­ lished the work of the Methodist Epis­ copal church, which has now grown to a force of 5,000 workers and 200,000 native members. At this celebration, which was attended by 2,000 native Christians, 500 converts were bap­ tized on a single day, a unique feature of the baptismal service being the" cutting off of the tuft of hair, the loss of which means separation from Hin­ duism. The occasion focused the at­ tention of the religious world upon the fact of Methodistism's aggressive, diversified, far-ramifying and success­ ful work in India. Thirty-seven differ­ ent languages are used by Methodist missionaries in this country. Allahabad, the university center of India, boasts another great education­ al institution of the western type, the Allahabad Christian college, of the Presbyterian mission. Its buildings are in quadrangle form about an im­ mense and symmetrical banyan tree. One of the buildings is Princeton hall, a gift of Princeton-alumni. An inspec­ tion of this plant impresses a ^lsitpr with the thoroughness of the standard maintained. The principal, Rev, Dr. Arthur H. Ewing, is rightly reckoned one of India's great educational lead­ ers. In the big preparatory school for boys, which is a part of the institu­ tion, I had a chance to test all the NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST PROM ALU OVER THE STATE. DRUGGED AND ROBBEP Head of Indiana Railway Pleads Guilty to Drunkenness in Order to Reach Directors' Meeting. Danville.--Drugged and robbed of nearly ©very cent he had, according to his story, William Ruhl, Chicago, president of the Covington & South­ western Railroad company, was found ine a school in. the homeland emerging I 'n *^e street late the o^hpr night by from this sort of ordeal more suc­ cessfully. J The Living Dead. At Allahabad is situated a large leper asylum, maintained jointly by the government and by the beneficent Mission to Lepers in the East. It is managed by Mr. Samuel Higginbot- tom, of the Presbyterian mission-- one of the Innumerable extras that I found missionaries everywhere carry­ ing, "Salaam, sahib," the lepers would cry as we passed, lifting pSti-; ful stumps of fingeriess hands to their' foreheads. A more desolate spectacle; than a leper asylum can scarcely be j imagined; yet here was to be found, in some cases, the grace of Christian resignation, with cheerfulness, which is not always present amid scenes of health and prosperity. Not all leeprs are In asylums; un­ numbered thousands roam the streets at will. While attending the daily clinic of Dr. Charles R, Cook, of Luck­ now, the only missionary in all India of the Reformed Episcopal church, I sat within five feet of two lepers crowded in the press. Next to one of them was a man whose family was suffering with the plague, five having died, and four being ill at the mo­ ment. Another one of the patients had, within a few days, lost a baby, a wife and four brothers, and his father lay dangerously ill, &il with the plague. One convalescent plague pa­ tient, whom the doctor had eured, was mildly rebuked by this quiet, unruffled missionary for leaving his bed too soon. A boy smitten with the plague was brought by a mother with dread- filled eyes, and carefully examined1 by the bare hands of the doctor. This one doctor, with a single na­ tive assistant, had 61,638 cases last year, including a few in his well-kept little hospital. All classes, rich and poor, Mohammedans, Hindus and Christians, come for help. I counted 30 crowded into the small room at one time, while outside a larger crowd of waiting patients was listening to the native preacher. A Medaled Missionary. One of the star missions of the American board is at Ahmednagar, where Rev. Dr. Robert A. Hume is senior missionary. Dr. Hume is less widely known as the recipient of a medal from King Edward for his fam­ ine relief work than as the author of the police and booked as a "drunk." In police court the next day Ruhl could remember little of the occur- rance. He said he arrived here on his way to Covington to attend a direc­ tors' meeting and, having a few hours between trains, he took two drinks at at down-town saloon with friends. After the last drink, he said, he could remember nothing until the police awakened him. When he arrived here he had $100, he said, hut the police found only $2.50. Desiring to plead guilty rather than be delayed on hiB trip, he telephoned to Covington and arranged for the payment of his fine. He then left for the Indiana city. 1 Our Springfield Letter lr Springfield.--After a week spent at | Legislature Again in Session. jj*neciai Correspondent Writes of t hing* Interest at the State Capital. POULTRY MEN IN OFFICE. J. A. Leland of Springfield Honored by Election as Treasurer. Springfield.--On© state-capital man who was honored by the Illinois State Poultry association was J. A. Leland of Springfield, elected to the office of treasurer of the organization at the point." That he and his associates stand high in native esteem was evi­ dent fromjjthe constant salaams he re­ ceived as we rode about the city to­ gether in a tonga, or native cart. Many non-Christian natives have given largely to this mission work for Indians, and the government also con­ tributes to the industrial school. I found all sorts of educational and Industrial enterprises under way, some of them, from a bicycle repair shop to a tract depot, being wholly or in part self-suppor>.ing. The big church in native style, where even Hindus have been known to worship unknown gods, interested me less than the extensive industrial estab­ lishments where oriental rugmaking, weaving, jwoodcarving, carpentry and brass and silver working are carried on for the market, under the direction of D. C. Churchill, of Oberlin college and the Massachusetts Institution, Of Technology, and J. B. Knight, of Am­ herst college, and an agricultural col­ lege--types of the nonministerial, col­ lege-bred missionaries who are doing pioneer work for the orient. Mr. Churchhill has invented a new hand loom that is within the compass of the average Indian mind and purse. Miss Emily r; Bissell and her bro­ ther, Rev. H. G. Bissell, carry on in this mission the work which their mother, who had been 54 years in In­ dia, laid down last year. While watch­ ing the arrival at the hospital here of a woman patient in a bullock cart I saw Miss Moulton comforting the weeping husband, a Christian teacher, in a manner which revealed,to me the beautiful devotion of the missionaries to this people. It takes devotion of an unselfish sort to do this work, especially among the villages. One Sunday morning I sat, with Rev. Mark Keaslar, of the Agra Methodist Episcopal mission, in blistering, life-shriveling heat, in a low, dirty, malodorous dwelling on the outskirts of the city, while he told a crowd of hookah-smoking natives the gospel Btory and answered their inter­ ested questions; which'looks roman­ tic and picturesque from this dis­ tance; but is work to take *he heart out of anybody less devoted than a missionary; and it is the work which many hundreds of missionaries are doing all over India to-day. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) cJZj&OMI: J4 XZZAJ\(Z>. recent meeting at Bloomlngton. S. S. Ncrble of Bloomington has taken up the duties of the presidency, and he is fairly satisfied with the work which the association did in 1907, but he is desirous of marking the present year With erreater nrnprpaa Physician Is Released. Decatur.--Dismissal of the suit against Dr. J. S. C. Cussins by State's Attorney W. E. Redmon and charges of blackmail against Jesse and Chloe Nelson are the outgrowth of the pro­ ceedings instituted by the Nelsons chaiging Dr. Cussins with criminal assault on Mrs. Chloe Nelson. the in Steel Plant Re-Opens. Granite City.--The plant of Commonwealth Steel company Granite City has re-opened. Nearly 700 men were put to work. The plant had been closed since December 21. About half of the regular force of men was put in and others are added as business conditions improve. Glad to Return to Prison. Champaign.--John Hall, a negro convict, who escaped from the state penitentiary at Chester a month agO and who was captured here, will glad­ ly return to prison. He says that dur­ ing the month of his freedom he was unable to find work and that he had been days without food. loggerheads, the legislative commit tee that Investigated the affairs of the Illinois and Michigan canal board in relation to the dam site of Dresden Heights held by the Economy Light & Power company, solved its difficulties by submitting thqee reports to the house. The findings differ in the amount of blame they attach to the canal commissioners and the house members took their pick tn the morn­ ing, when printed copies were handed around. Of the three reports, one is a whitewash for the canal commission­ ers, another is a censure, while an­ other Is a censure with a recommenda­ tion that the hoard he discharged. The wide difference in the tone and the text of the findings is due to the manner in which politics crept into the committee when the time came to formulate its conclusions. • The 1906 primary law, known as the Deneen-Shurtleff measure, amend­ ed to meet the objections of the su­ preme court, and with direct plurality primaries extended to all county of­ ficers, is up to both branches of the general assembly. . This program was agreed upon by the conference com­ mittee. If this bill becomes a law the primaries this year will be held in August, probably on the 15th of that month. As amended the bill will provide for: Uniform compulsory primaries, all to be held on the same day. Nomination of county officers by di­ rect plurality vote. Nomination of all other officers, ex­ cept city, village and judicial, on which the bill is silent, by delegate conventions, the delegates to be elect­ ed by primary districts. Instructed delegates to be released only by the candidate for whom pledged making the release in the convention. The election of party committee­ men, to whom is delegated the author­ ity to determine the number of can­ didates for the lower branch of the general assembly a party shall nom­ inate. Election of delegates for 1908 con­ vention by primary districts as pro­ vided for the last primary. Adjournment of all convention® sub­ ject to the call of the chairman In­ stead of empowering the central com­ mittee to fill vacancies. Must Pay for Fishing. The house passed senate bill 580, requiring a license of $25 for fishing for shell fish in Illinois rivers. Lantz Introduced a bill relative to QnnHov /*! *-ia i r» rr nf aolAnna in PK{a«»q and it was referred to the committee on Chicago charter. House bill 939, appropriating $15,- 000 for defraying the expenses of the committee to investigate the Dresden Heights lease to the Economy Light & Power company and for the ex­ penses of the committee to" investigate the charges of ill treatment of inmates at state charitable institutions, was passed. The senate passed bill 594 relating of payment of assessments for street paving in Chicago. Pemberton introduced a bill pro­ viding for an appropriation of $10,000 for the use of the internal improve­ ment commission for investigating the feasibility of a deep waterway be­ tween St. Louis and Cairo. House bill 927, controlling and reg­ ulating the water power of the state and prohibiting the erection ofdams, etc. without the consent of the legis­ lature, was passed. Raps Congregation. Medora.--Sharply criticising the members of his congregation * for drinking and card playing,. Rev. J. W. Harnly, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, tendered his resig­ nation as pastor to accept the pastor­ ate of the Maywood Baptist church of Chicago. Tag Lands Russian Woman. Kewanee.--Unable to speak or un­ derstand a word of English Mrs. Stefan Waley and two children ar­ rived from Russia, having made the long journey from Poland without trouble by showing trie name of this city on a tag tied to the woman's arm. No Hurry. The American traveler who en­ deavors to hasten the comfortably galttd orient against its wish soon comes to a halt. That was the ex­ perience of "A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan." "Make the rikman hurry. I have a date and can't wait here all day," she said to the "boss rikman" at the sta­ tion. He blazed like a fiery dragon. "Veil, you get so mad, you no can wait for dis, you go find 'nodder rik- sha," he said. She answered very meekly: "Dear friend, you do not know me. I am not the least bit mad. This is only a gentle American hustle. If you want me to be real mad, I will show yon the anything, difference." outlawed. "Veil, you vas almos' mad," he in­ sisted. "You seem jus' like mad when you say 'No can wait; mus' have rlk- Want Truman Rhoades Coroner. Plainview. --• Truman Rhoades of Polk township is being urged by friends to enter the race for coroner of Macoupin county. Springfield Gets Sunday. Springfield.--Rev. "Billy" Sunday, the ball player evangelist, who is con­ ducting revivals at Bloomington, has promised to come to Springfield and deliver several of his characteristic sermons during the anti-saloon cam­ paign. 8h« Shoots in Courtj Waukegan. -- Mrs. Maude Crews fired two Bhots at Arthur Nichols in a crowded courtroom here, wounding him seriously and causing the judge and spectators to take refuge in flight, Claims Debts Outlawed. Qalesburg.--In the circuit court Sheriff Mathews, former Sheriff Owes Aldrich and other defendants in the cases brought by the county to re­ cover alleged shortages shown by auditors a year ago filed written pleas denying that they owed the county They assert the debts are Sherman Names Committee. Lieut Gov. Sherman appointed the senate part of the joint conference committee. The entire body, when It assembled to take up the Oglesby bill, consisted of: Senate--Berry, Acton, Helm, Dunlap, Hamilton, Lundberg, Cruikshank; house---Chiperfield, Klt- tleman, Behrens, Pogue, Shanahan, Browne, Daugherty. The seven men selected by Sherman are all Republicans. Senator Cruik­ shank was put on at the re­ quest of Congressman Lorimer, and to even It up the lieutenant governor put on Senator Lundberg, from the De- neen district, although the governor made no request. As Sherman and others viewed the situation the ex­ pectations of the leaders were that the joint conference committee would not be able to come to an agreement on the Oglesby bill and the program then was a compromise measure in the shape of a "simple" direct primary bill. This dealt with ' county and municipal elections. Representative Klttleman had a bill molded on the lines wished by Chicago politicians. sha quick; n--Youth's classes in English, and I cannot imag- Companion. ^ Bourlartd Gets New Trial. Taylorville. -- Alfred Sourland, charged with bigamy, was granted a Wtw trial by Judge Wright. Firemen of Illinois Meet. The twentieth annual convention of the firemen of Illinois was held in Morris with 150 delegates. Chief Peter Kipley of Rlverdale, president of the state association, • presided. Among the prominent visitors were B. P. Steinwitz of the Twenty-eighth district, Chief James Hor&n of the fire department of Chicago, Capt Mc­ Donald of Chicago and C. C.-Chaus of Bushnell, president of the National Firemen's association. A banquet was given, at which Chief Horan sp^ke on "The Chicago Fire Department." Following the convening ol the leg­ islature the house passed a resolution by Hope providing for the appoint­ ment of a ^committee of five to investi­ gate the case of alleged mistreatment of an inmate in the state institution for the feeble minded at Lincoln and tor another case that may hereafter he brought before it, and authorizing to subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance. Representative Gau- mer, prohibitionist of Vermillion coun­ ty, asked for leave to introduce a bill declaring all places where intoxicat­ ing liquors are sold in violation of the law a nuisance and providing for in­ junction prqceedlngs against them. The house refused to suspend the rales for the introduction of the bill. Representative Lantz of Cook made a motion to take from the table Cer- mack's bill introduced at the request of the United Societies at Chicago regulating the Sunday closing of saloon^ in large cities, but Speaker Shurtleff ruled his motion out of order. A resolution inviting the govw ernors of other states to a celebration to be held in Chicago in February, 1909, over the spread of divorce legis­ lation over the country was passed. The senate passed Berry's bill giving the state board of health power to is­ sue temporary certificates to grad­ uates of medical colleges. Senator Jones of Cook introduced a resolution that it was the sense of the senate that any primary bill which is passed should contain a provision that the voters should vote directly for dele­ gates to the national conventions. The resolution went over. Work on Nine New Bills. The conference committees from both branches. have gone to work with nine different kind's of primary bills in their possession. The fact that they have decided to take up the consideration of the subject indicates that the legislature proposes to make at least one more effort to give the slate some kind of a primary law. It was formally decided to do so in the Republican steering committee of the house when a proposition for a sine die adjournment was made and voted down. Even those legislators who are opposed to primary legislation do not feel quite strong enough to adjourn without making one more try at it. All the new primary bills are con­ vention measures. They have not been introduced in the legislature, but have been given to the conference committees, which are not likely at this time to confine themselves to the matters of dispute between the two branches in regard to the Oglesby bill. One of these convention bills, with a few direct primary ideas tacked to it, is the product of Repre­ sentatives Hill and Shanahan. An­ other, a straight convention bill without any frills, Is contributed by Representative Kittleman. A third, also a convention bill, is an old-timer, contributed long ago by Attorney W. W. Wheelock, then attorney for the Chicago election commissioners. A fourth is Senator Gardner's "simple life" primary bill, providing merely that all conventions shall be held on the same date. Smallpox Again Exists. Dr. E. F. Baker of the state board of health has again been dispatched to Kilhpurne in Mason county to make a review of the smallpox situa tion there. Since the epidemic started several weeks ago there have been 60 cases, all of which have been quarantined. There are still a large number under surveillance. The suspected case of smallpox at Cham­ paign was reported as a true case to the state board and a quarantine was established. Dickerson Installed in OFfice. Following his election as secretary of the state board of agriculture, J. K. Dickerson of Lawrenceville is making use of the store of knowledge which he gained when he was a member of the body several years ago. His elec­ tion was arrived at after one of the warmest fights which had ever been seen in contests for the office and the vote resulted in a victory for the Law­ renceville candidate by two ballots. Already Dickerson has taken up the duties of the office, made vacant by the resignation of W. C. Garrard, who had held the position for 18 years. There were six avowed candidates in the field for the office and a number of tentative aspirants who field them­ selves in readiness to rush into the breach in case of a deadlock. Charges of injecting politics into the etection ,was made in several instances, but as soon as a result was announced the smoke of battle blew away. Verdict in Pension Case. Alfred Doughty, alias William Doughty, alias John L. Market en­ tered a plea of guilty in the United States district court to make a false affidavit to a claim for pension and was sentenced to five years ia the United States prison at Fort Leaven­ worth, Kan by Judge Humphrey. He had secured a pension falsely under the name of John L. Market, who lives in Cumberland county, Illinois. Sherman Sounds Warning. A warning that the Republican party is tending toward Socialism and Populism was sounded by Lieut. Gov. L. Y. Sherman at a banquet be­ fore the Bankers' club of Chicago. The lieutenant governor was airing his well-known antipathy to the poli­ tics of President Roosevelt when he made the statements that the head of the nation,, was directing the course of the ship of state into dangerous waters. Mr. Sherman averred that the proposed law to compel corpora­ tions to take out a license was ruin. Fourth Ordered West. The Fourth United 8tates infantry, the brigade of which was stationed at Camp Lincoln laBt summer, was oi^ dered to San Francisco by the war de­ partment. From that city they will go to the Philippine islands, further notice from the department at Wash­ ington. Maj. Tillson, who Instructed the Illinois militiamen at Camp Lin­ coln, is in charge of one of tJb.e bri­ gades. It was known last summer that the regiment was to go to the Philippine islands and :;t "• >,V lis-i • appeal to the Well-informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accor- inwtw !a AUMI1 9 "w W UW WMMU1«U V1MSV V» * and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturaQy * r truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection­ able substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine-- manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug* gists. *2? An Ancient I iwttane* Belshazsar was giving his weal feast and the wine flowed like water. "Inasmuch as I'm the whole works,'* he said, "I don't think a proclamation by a chief of police or anybody else Is going to stop this affair at one o'clock a. m. or any other hour!" No sooner had he uttered this boast than the handwriting appeared on the walL Catarrh Cannot Be Cured Wittj LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot raseb the seat of i.ue ufaeaeo. Catarrh i* a blood or conctf- tutlonal disease, and ID order to cure It you must take Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken In­ ternally, and acts directly on the blood and mucons surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure la not a quack medi­ cine. It was prescribed by oue of the best phynlclam in tills country for years and Is a regular prescription. It ia composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on thl mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tba two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful #ults In curlnR catarrh. Send for testimonials, fre» _ _ F. J. CHEKTKY 4 CO., Props., Tol«do, Ok Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Tlk* Ball's Family Pill* for constipation. Ring Watches Popular. Swiss watchmakers are reported to be busy filling English and American orders for finger ring watches. The ring watch, though little seen, is no novelty. The manager of an old Lon­ don watch-making firm says that he saw them more than 14 years ago. Queen Victoria had three or four. The simplest ones--a plain gold ring with the watch inserted--cost about $100, but with diamonds or other stones, $5,000 to $10,000 may be paid. Sheer white goods, In fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhanco their textile beau­ ty. Home laundering would be equal­ ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Went Him a Few Better. A very dapper looking young mn entered a Chicago hotel a few days ago, followed by a middle-aged man whb seemed to be just a little care­ less concerning his personal appear­ ance. The affable clerk offered a pen to the carefully dressed young gentleman, who registered himself as "William Henry Tyler III." When he had stepped aside the other man reached for the pen and under Mr. Tyler's name wrote: "John Smith MCDCCCLXLIX." A RESOLUTION TO BE KEPT. Mr. Woodson resolves that ha will never again wear a high hat when snowballs are ripe. BANISHED Coffee Finally Had to Go. The way some persons cling to cof­ fee even after they know it is doing them harm, is a puzzler. But it is an easy matter to give it up for good, when Postum Food Coffee is properly made and used instead. A girl writes: "Mother had been suffering with nervous headaches for seven weary years, but kept drinking coffee. "Oae day I asked her why she did not give up coffee as a cousin of mine had done who had taken to Postum. But Mother was such a slave to coffee she thought it would be terrible to give it up. "Finally, one day, she made the change to Postum, and quickly her headaches disappeared. One morntttg while she was drinking Postum so freely and with such relish I asked for a taste. "That started me on Postum and I now drink it more freely than 1 did coffee, which never comes into our house now.. "A girl friend of mine, one day, saw me drinking* PoBtum and asked if tt was coffee. I told her It was Postma and gave her some to take home, but forgot to tell her how to make it. "The next day she said she did not see how I could drink Postum. I found she had made it like ordinary coffee. So I told her how to make it right and gave her a cupful I made, after boiling it fifteen minutes. She said she never drank any coffee that tasted as good, and now coffee is banished from both our homes." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michigan. Read the little book "The Road |o Wellrille" in pkgs. "Tbere'a a Reasatk** •ikk Zkisi:' i