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IN HAWAII Tk Faaay Things Om Sees in Smiling Round the World Br MARSHALL P. WILDER iCopynglu. Joseph B. Bowles.) The city of Honolulu, looking from the harbor, does not seem large, though there is a population of 50,000. The houses are so embowered in lux­ uriant foliage it is only- occasionally that a roof may be seen peeping out. As soon as the gang-plank was out A friend welcomed us with the beauti­ ful but ra ther embarrassing Hawaiian custom of throwing long wreath? about our necks. These are made of carnations, camelias or .jasmine, with glossy, green leaves. Women, who make them, sit along the streets in Honolulu with baskets of flowers and completed wreaths beside them; their fingers busily engaged in weaving others . So universal is this custom of wearing these flowery adornments that every native one meets has neck and hat decorated with a fresh, dewy wreath. Time was. no doubt , when these were all of their adorn­ ing, but civilization has decreed a few additions to such an airy, though, no doubt, picturesque costume. • • • » • Our doubts as to the best method of seeing the sights were settled for us by our friend, who had an automo­ bile waiting for us on the dock. The driver told us of his first trip in the machine through the outlying coun­ try. He came upon a Chinese coolie who had never seen anything of the kind before, and stood rooted with horror to the road until the driver tooted the horn. Then the Chinaman fled frantically to the fence, over which h« plunged, shrieking, "Heap devil! heap devil!" When the driver had finished telling us of his first ex­ perience I told him of mine--not in Honolulu, but in the good old Empire state, t\ S. A. As I remember it was a fine ride! The fine was a hundred and fifty. I said to my chauffeur (chauffeur is French for plumber) "Let her go!" and he let her go. We when he reached the last fctump hie audience reminded me of what Pater Dailey said of an audence in a New York theater where business \ffcig poor. Wrhen asked how. large the au­ dience was, "Pete" answered, "I could lick all three of them!" • • • • * From politics to Pall--a marvelous transition. This high cliff, garlanded with the softest and most luxuriant verdure, overlooks a fertile valley where is spread, like a carpet, every varying shade of green that finally melts in the distance to the exquisite turquoise and beryl tints of the sea, making an enchanting panorama of transcendant loveliness. I was next taken to the aquarium, where the collection of native fish is something beyond the wildest Imagin­ ation to picture, and quite baffles de­ scription. Little fishes striped in bright pink-and-white, like sticks of peppermint candy, jostle those that are of a silvery and blue brdcade, others of a dark color, with spots of vivid red, and bridles 6f golden yel­ low going about their heads are in the next cage to transparent fish of a delicate pink or blue--or a family of devil" fish. There are fish of a beautiful somber purple, and fish of white with, black horizontal stripes, looking like a company of convicts from Sing Sing. There are many many others, those with trailing fringes, or floating wings; those with eyes on little pivots that turn easily in all direction's like small, conning towers; all odd or unusual, seeming like dream-flshes, or the phantoms of a disordered brain, rather than prod­ ucts of nature. Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Writes of Things of Interest at the State Capital. NO 8YMPATHY FOR PRODIGAL. I spent considerable time on the architecture of the Hawaiian lan­ guage. but never got much abovt 'he ground floor; but if I had stayed In the cellar, it would have been just the same, for I could make but one thin& out of it, and that was that the whole structure is built upon the letter K. They can't get along without that K, They must stick it into everything. Kalahui is a breezy little port, with a kourthouse and a klub--good fellows, too!--and a mercantile marine, and a railway, and a wreck in the harbor, and all of 'em belonging to Kalahui. If you speak of the thriving planta­ tions that back the harbor, they'll be sure to ask you if you've noticed the Kalo patches? Kalo may be French for kabbages or karnations--you don't give a kontinental, either way--but you smile, and say, "Great! wouldn't mind having a korner in Kalo soma day!" If you want to go up a mountain, of course it must be Haleakala; it's nnlv Springfield.--The strength of the state banks in Illinois and the con­ servatism with which these institu­ tions have operated during the recent financial flurry is emphasized in a re­ capitulation of the aggregate resources and liabilities of all the banks doing business under state charters, issued by State Auditor McCullough. The auditor's statement shows the condi­ tion of all the state banks in Illinois on February 15, last, and a compari­ son is made with the condition of the same banks on November 19, last, when, the last preceding statement was submitted to the auditor. While the total deposits of the Illinois banks show a decrease of $14,915,104.59 in the period of depression, the total cap­ ital, surplus and undivided prpfits of the banks show a decrease of only | $679,511.60. The total cash and due I from other banks shows an increase of I $18,727,514.36. The statement of I February 15 shows the per cent, of re­ serve to deposits is 34.29, a condition of strength probably unprecedented in the history of Illinois banking. The per cent, of decrease of deposits is 3.53. One of the striking changes in banking policies adopted when the flurry came was the curtailment of loans, the item of loans and discounts showing a decrease of $32,199,775.08 on February 15, when it aggregated $293,107.S95.27. The action of the eastern depositaries in declining to surrender western banks' deposits is apparent in the items of cash due from other banks. From national banks was due $51,584,877.39, an increase of $14,958,666.31, and due from state banks and bankers, $24,022,765.87, an increase of $5,507,871.80. \ DESCENDED! THE "AND THE ANGEL LORD went so fast, the Hke a cemetery^ through the air. When the car stopped short 1 was still flying. I flew 80 feet through the air, shot through a church window, and lit right in the middle of the congregation, just as the minister was saying: "And the angel of the Lord descended!" Well, after working four days, with eight-hour night shifts, we got the car going; and all went well till 1 tried to steer. I turned out for a cow, and turned into a "dago" with a fruit stand. There was a free delivery of fruit. It was hard to tell which was the fruit, and which was the "dago." We stopped' long enough to remove a banana from my eye (you have to keep voar eye peeled) and went on. Nothing happened until we got in the midst of a crowded thoroughfare, when the blamed thing had the blind staggers; tried to climb an electric light pole, and bit a policeman in the middle of his beat! That cost the city a copper, and me a pretty penny. • * • • • An interesting phase of life in Hon­ olulu is the political speaker, who takes the stump--sometimes several milestones looked | got one K In it, by the way, but it's We simply flew got the biggest krater at the top of it you ever saw or heard of--20 miles in circumference, and 2,000 feet deep. It's stone dead--entirely gone out of business; but in my opinion that's an advantage of two-to-one on any live crater. If you want to go up another I mountain, try Kilanea-Mt's only an- | other K, and the avenue that leads ! out to it is a magnificent boulevard i set out on either side with bread fruit trees, mangoes and alligator pears, j Kilanea is the biggest thing In the live crater business in the world--a lake of fire 1,200 feet long and 500 wide, with a surface measure of 12 acres. You hold your breath and say your prayers; and, when a gust of wind carries away the blinding steam and smoke, you look down, down 500 feet into a veritable hell-fire lake, whose waves of flame rise and fall in convulsive throes that shake the very heart out of your body--in other words, the thing has fits to beat the band, and you wish you hadn't come! But you get all over it by the next day, and if you want to calm your mind and restore your nerves, you take a nice, quiet stroll down Kukui place and kommune with nature. Finally, if you've done anything you oughtn't to, and get arrested and ta­ ken to the lockup, you run up against the biggest bunch of ks in the whole business. The name of the "jug" is Kahlearnakakaparakapili. That got me! I was kompletely ker- flummuxed--down and out. As far as studying the Hawaiian language goes, I'm a kwitter! Oh, lovely island EWorld! Where else in the universe is there a spot made up wholly of beauty and peace? Where man--and even woman--can cease worrying about stocks, fran­ chises, new bonnets, real estate, soci­ ety, insurance, politics, and all the rest that go to make up the pande­ monium of existence, and settle down in the shade of a palm tree, royal, co­ coa, wine, cabbage, screw, fan or na­ tive--he has a choice of Beven--un­ button his shirt-collar and smoke the pipe of forgetfulness. Oh, happy Hawaii! that hath no poisonous reptiles, no noxious plants, no pestiferous insects! 'Tis not I that can do you Justice! Let my friend Charley Stoddard, with his prose--poem--paragraphs and his mellifluous periods do the job for me. When he sits down with his pen dip­ ped in honey, and his mouth full of guava jelly, to reel off a few reams of ecstatic English in praise oi his be­ loved islands, he makes the rest of us feel like 30 centB. And when he de­ clares that he has traveled the wide world over, but never, never has he seen a Bpot to equal this--why, what can we do but say, "Same hers, old man!" Cavalry to Make Tour in July. The Illinois cavalry regiment of the National guard will abandon the cus­ tomary encampment at Camp Lincoln in Springfield this year and instead will pass ten days in an overland tour of northern Illinois. The troops of Rloomington, Galesburg, Springfield, Peoria and other cities will mobilize by rail in Chicago on July 20 and in company with the troops of the regi­ ment stationed in Chicago will leave on that day on an overland trip, striking west to the Desplaines river, thence around western and northern Illinois, reaching Chicago about July 30. The regiment will be deployed by squadrons and troops and a series of army maneuvers carried on en route. It is believed that this overland trip will give the cavalrymen greater prac­ tical instruction than could possibly be acquired at Camp Lincoln. I To Meet Again at Springfield. Illinois county treasurers who met in convention here liked Springfield so well they decided to hold two more gatherings in this city in the coming year. The first will be September 15, of the present year, and will be a special meeting called for the purpose of discussing matters pertaining to the work. The regular annual convention will be the third Tuesday in February, 1909. Officers for the ensuing year were elected at the closing session as follows: President, B. A. McCoy, Ad­ ams county; vice-presidents, Fred E. Ames, Lake; Walter B. Rogers, Mor­ gan; Henry R. Arnold, La Salle; sec­ retary, James A. Hall, Sangamon; as­ sistant secretary, William H. Bowe, Sangamon; treasurer, H. M. Sanders, Madison. 8hurtleff Withdraws from Race. Speaker Edward D. Shurtleff has re­ tired from the gubernatorial race. Mr. Shurtleff says that he takes this step in the interests of the Republican party and the success of the ticket in Illinois this fall. He declares that in his opinion it would be impossible to elect the Republican ticket unless the candidate for the nomination for gov­ ernor had the support in the primary of a majority of the Republican voters. With Gov. Deneen and former Gov. Yates engaged in the campaign battle already, he savs, he will not proceed further with his contention. New Illinois Road Licensed. The secretary of state licensed the Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary Railway company. The capital stock is $10,- 000,000. It proposes to construct a railway from a point in Winnebago county, on the boundary line between Illinois and Wisconsin, thence south­ easterly in Illinois through the coun­ ties of Winnebago, Ogle, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Will and Kankakee to some point on the Indiana line, in Kankakee county. | Pure Water for Springfield. j The diversion of Spring creek and j the construction of a new dam on the rock bottom at a point below the pres­ ent waterworks dam is recom- | mended by a committee of the Sanga­ mon County Medical society as the one practical solution of the problem for securing a quantity of water suffi­ cient for the present and future needs of the city of Springfield. A com­ mittee consisting of Drs. G. N. Kreid- er, E. E. Hagler and H. H. Tuttle sub­ mitted its report to the president and members of the Sangamon County Medical society. This organization, in turn, presented thq report to the cham­ ber of commerce of 1 Springfield, and at a meeting of the latter organiza­ tion the report was referred to the civic committee for consideration. To improve the quality of water and to insure Its purity the committee recom­ mends that septic tanks be placed at the mouth of the sewers in southeast Springfield, so that the sewage will not be poured into Sugar creek. It is also proposed that the towns of Riverton, Taylorville and Decatur be appealed to and an effort made to In­ duce these municipalities to take simi­ lar precautionary steps. In addition, it is declared to be desirable to have the water of the town branch of Springfield pass through a septic tank before it enters Spring creek. Scheme Promises Big Returns. The promoters of the scheme to re­ claim thousands of acres of land along the course of the Sangamon river by straightening the stream have figured that the improvement will cost but ten dollars per acre for the land to be reclaimed, and are confident that they will be able to file their petition in the Sangamon county court some time this month. The work of securing signa­ tures to the petition which is to be presented has been greatly hampered by the condition of the roads, but it is thought the work will be completed some time next week. The greater portion of the land to be reclaimed is valued at $50 per acre* while it'will ad­ vance to double that price If the con­ templated improvements are made. It is estimated that an entirely new ditch could be constructed without at­ tempting to follow the course of the river at a cost not to exceed ten dol­ lars per acre. Beside reclaiming the land, the change would make the river much better in every respect, keep­ ing the water less stagnant and fur­ nishing a much better place for pleas­ ure boats. Smulski Turns Over Interest. Another payment of interest on pub­ lic funds into the state treasury was made by State Treasurer John F. Smulski. The amount of the payment was $21,756.61, being the interest on the public funds from October 1, last, to December 31, last. This makes an aggregate of $91,766.55 which has been turned over to the state by Treasurer Smulski, who is the first person ever in the office who has turned over to the state one cent of the interest re­ ceived on deposits of state moneys in depositaries. The action is wholly vol­ untary on the part of Mr. Smulski, as the recently enacted law creating a commission to loan the state funds for the benefit of the state does not be­ come operative until July 1, next. It is estimated that in two years of his of­ fice, Mr. Smulski will turn over al­ most $200,000 to the state in interest on moneys in his custody. All Doors Must Open Outward. As the result of the disaster at Col- linwood, O., Dr. James A. Egan, secre­ tary of the state board of health, ad­ dressed an open letter to mayors of cities, presidents of boards of village trustees, township .supervisors and boards of county commisloners of Illi­ nois, urging the necessity of making sure that doors open outward and that noncombustible fire escapes fdr school buildings be installed. The state board of health, under the powers conferred upon it by statute, authorizes the officers named to close all school buildings not so provided with safe exits, both private and pub­ lic, until such provisions for the pro­ tection of the lives of children are made. To Stand Upon the Edge of This Cliff Must Give a Thrill! Stumps, in succession--at the noon ' hour. All Hawaiians take a keen in- *».terest in politics. The speech I heard was in the Hawaiian tongue, the only words I understood being "beef ' trust;" this the speaker said very plainly In English, there probably be­ ing ho equivalent in Hawaiian. As he proceeded from stuny> to stump, his audience waned perceptibly-- perhaps from a native indolence of temperament which could not cling •ery long to one thing. At any rate. Horses Bring Good Prices. Many Sangamon county buyers attended a sale of horses which was held in Bloomington. Among the pur­ chases made by residents in central Illinois are: P. J. Tetlphers, Williams- ville, "Keota Florence," Percheron mare, $200; Joseph Augg, Spaulding, ^"Royal Diamond," Shire stallion, $380; "Sir Knight," Percheron stallion; "Kinsall G," Shire stallion, $165; Rob­ ert Thompson, Taylorville, iron gray two-year-old stallion, $750; black stal­ lion, $925; pure bred Percheron stal­ lion, $1,270. Chicago Bank Is Organized. Articles of incorporation were issued by the state auditor for the "Slovanlan Polish Building and Loan association" at Chicago, 111., to St. Broniarczyk, George Surma, Frank Palowski, An- toni Radecki, George Budz, Jan Bolla and Andrej Toman. The capital stock is fixed at $500,000. Mentioned for High Position. According to reports, Frank L. Smith of Dwight, who has been men­ tioned as a gubernatorial possibility, is favored for the position of comp­ troller of the currency should William Barret Ridgely resign that position to accept the presidency of the National Bank of Commerce at Kansas City, Mo. Charles L.. Furey, vice-president of the American Guarantee company of Chicago, also is mentioned as a can- dicfate for the place, but the downstate iran is said to have the support of nenatorb Cullom and Hopkins. Gov. Deneen Indorsed. One of the strongest indorsements yet given Gov. Deneen was contained in a resolution adopted by the Repub­ lican central committee of Christian county which met at Taylorville. In addition to praising the governor's ad­ ministration, the committee indorsed President Roosevelt and the records of United States Senators Cullom and Hopkins. The delegates were in­ structed to vofc^ for Joseph G. Can­ non for president, at the congressional convention. Bad Kentucklan Tamed. Sheriff Wright of Monticello, Wayne county, Kentucky, accompanied by his deputy, William Donley, departed from Springfield in charge of Charles Stephens, wanted for robbing a stage coach and jail breaking. The trio left on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railway. Stephens was arrested in Springfield by Officers Golden and Bo- gardus, after he had boasted to a Jef­ ferson street saloonman that he was a bad rtian from Kentucky and a fugitive from justice. <l«w York Man Tells How M« Nave Treated Him* "I went to hear Dr. Hillis' sermon on the Prodigal Son last Sunday night," said an enthusiastic Brooklyn man to a practical New Yorker, "and I tell yoa he made a brand new point on the parable of the Prodigal Son." "What was that?" asked the New York man. "It was about this matter of helping along a man who had made a mistake. His idea was that after a man had re­ formed it wasn't fair to hark back to the time when he was all wrong. Dr. Hillis said it was wrong to mock by referring to a man's past. For ex­ ample, he put it in this way: Finally, the night of the feasting on the fatted calf was past, and the next morning had come--the morning after. There is always the morning after. The affairs of the farm work must be taken up again. The same routine must go on. The time had now come for the elder brother, who was the boss, to set the younger brother to work; he must assign the prodigal son to his duties as he would have them to do in the future. So, he could say to him: 'Go feed the horses,' or, 'Go tend the sheep,' or, 'Go milk the cows,' but not a word must he say about the swine. The prodigal had been tending swine. The elder brother must not mention the swine; not a word about the swine. Anything but that." "I don't know about that," said the practical New Yorker. "There are two ways of looking at it. I think if I had been the elder brother, I should have said: 'Now, look here! You drew your patrimony like a hog; you went off by yourself and blew It like a hog, you have come home on the hog; now it's up to you to go out and mind the hogs.'" And the Brooklynite laughed In spite of himself.--The Sunday Magazine. Home of Tokay Grapes. "The greatest grape producing re­ gion in the world" is the title claimed by San Joaquin county, Calffornia. The average yield in France is 2.7 tons to the acre. The average for California Is two tons an acre, while that for San Joaquin county is four tons an acre. Lodi is the center of this district, chipping last year grapes to the value of a million and a half dollars. As only two-thirds of the Lodi vineyards are now in bearing it is declared that their yield will soon reach six tons an acre, almQst three times that of any other region in the world. The Flame Tokay is the great Lodi grape. In September last year the town held a Tokay carnival, lasting three days, the whole town being decorated with vines and grapes and the streets lined with booths where every step of the history of the grape, from making a cutting of a vine to loading and icing cars, was illustrated by the actual work. He Won't Always Be One. "I have a clerk," a New York whole- Bale merchant remarked the other day,1 "and he sometimes manages to hand back a. rather good one, though as a rule he is little short of stupid, ap­ parently. As a matter of fact, I sup­ pose he is one of those dreamy sort of chaps; and you never can tell about that kind. "I was sorry after I said it," he con­ tinued1; "but recently he had made a most unnecessary blunder, and I lost my temper. " 'I say, Jones,' I sneered, 'you'd make a pretty good clerk, maybe, if you had a little more sense!' "He looked at me a minute with a sort of half smile. 'Didn't it ever oc­ cur to you, Mr. Brown,' he said, 'that If I had a little more sense I wouldn't be a clerk at all?' "--Sunday Mag­ azine. Test of the Gyroscope. A practical test of the use of the gyroscope for steadying vessels at sea was made recently in England on the Seebar, formerly a first-class German torpedo boat, with a displacement of 56.2 tons. The apparatus installed consists of a heavy fly-wheel rotating about an axis, and carried by a frame which can oscillate abcfut a horizontal axis, the oscillating motion of the frame being checked by brakes. The wheel is 40 inches in diameter, weighs 1,106 pounds, makes 1,600 revolutions per minute, and is steam driven. The periphery is provided with blades and works like a turbine, the wheel being inclosed like a casing. In the tests with the gyroscope out of action the roll was 14 degrees, while the boat was kept steady with the machine acting. Something New, After All. "Well, by gosh," said Uncle Cyrus, "they can say all they want to about there bein' nothin' new under the sun, but there is, and what's more the world is growin' better." "What has led you to this cheerful conclusion?" asked his nephew from the city. "I seen an advertisement in our farm weekly riot long ago, where it said to send a iollar and find out what to do for cold feet." "Yes?" "I sent the dollar and got an an­ swer this ro^nin'. It didn't say to warm 'em." Defending Portsmouth Harbor. The construction of the new defense breakwater at Portsmouth, England, has been commenced. This is a unique undertaking in order to prevent hos­ tile vessels rushing the naval harbor under cover of darkness. A row of huge concrete blocks is to be dropped across the shallow sandbanks. Thesa blocks weigh 34 tons each, and placed end to end will make a formidable wall which no destroyer can jump. There is a tort at either end, cue r*2 shore and one In the sea, and the onlj' way of getting through the break­ water will be through a gap, which can be quickly closed in case of need. Prudence. "Why do you always announce your Intention of going to Europe at least six months in advance?" "Because," answered Mr. Dustin Stax, "I am largely interested in finance, and I have to avoid anything that might in the least suggest the ap­ pearance of haste." NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST ALL OVER THE STATE. STRIKE LASTED ONE DAY Sixty Miners at Tlce Return to Work Following Investigation of Griev­ ance to One of Their Number. Tice.--Sixty miners, employes of the People's Coal and Mining company at this place, resumed work after a strike lasting one day. A workman in the mlae, it is alleged, refused to per­ form certain duties, claiming they should not fall upon him, and was dis­ charged by the manager, G. W. Trow­ bridge. The 60 members of the union refused to work until the matter was investigated. It is said it developed that the miner had promised to accept the tasks, although not obligatory, ac­ cording to his contract. MAKES CLAfM TO LARGE ESTATE. Missouri Woman Announces She Only Heir of Rich Delavan Man. Is Pekin.--Claiming that she is the only heir to the estate of Amos K. Ayer, deceased, of Delavan, Mrs. E. C. McGannon of Joplin, Mo., gave notice that she will contest for the estate, which is valued at $154,000. In the petition which was filed ask­ ing tl\at an administrator be ap­ pointed, it stated that Mr. Ayer left no relatives except 14 cousins, as he was never married, his parents and one brother having preceded him in death. Mrs. McGannon states that she can substantiate her claim of being a daughter of Amos K. Ayer by the birth records in Bloomington and in Logan county. Her mother's name was Lee. However, when her mother married John Henshaw she was then known as Alvord Henshaw, and that is the name she gave when she married E. C. McGannon. Court Names Receiver. Madison.--James C. Hinde was ap­ pointed receiver of the Tri-City State bank at Madison by Judge Charles Moore In the circuit court at Edwards- ville. The petition for the appoint­ ment of the receiver was filed by Charles Herder, a stockholder, and was directed against Dr. C. R. Kiser, Henry Meinecke, J. C. Hinde, O. S. Schooley, D. M. Bishop, August Muel­ ler and C. W. Burton, officers, stock­ holders and directors of the bank. Herder alleges in his petition that the bank had become insolvent. All of the defendants, with the exception of Burton, appeared in court and con sented to the appointment of the re­ ceiver, who filed bond in the sum of $100,000, which was approved by the court. Charges Attendant Took Money. Blomington.--On complaint of C. H. P. Rogers, J. Ernest Edmunds was arrested charged with embezzling the sum of $195. Edmunds was an at­ tendant at the Central Hospital for Insane at Jacksonville when the com­ plainant was committed to his ward. He alleges that while in the institu­ tion, or about the time he was com­ mitted, Edmunds took the money. Cannon Gets Indorsement. Taylorville.--The Republican county central committee of Christian coun­ ty gave a hearty indorsement to the candidacy of Joseph G. Cannon for presidential nomination at a meeting called to select ten delegates to the state convention. The committee commended President Roosevelt, Gov. Deneen and Senators Hopkins and Cullom. Dies in Kankakee Asylum. Kankakee.--Buried face downward in his pillow, Henry Reed, a former banker from Bureau county, was found dead in bed at the Illinois Eastern In­ sane hospital, where he had been an inmate since 1889. The coroner's jury decided that death was due to suffoca­ tion during an epileptic seizure. Acts as Peacemaker; Arm Broken. Alton.--When David Honeyman, aged 55 years, attempted to act as peacemaker in a fight between his two nephews, John and Fred Gray, the boys resented it and John struck his uncle with a "shinny" club, break­ ing Honeyman's right arm. The boys were arrested. Given Twenty Years for. Murder. Litchfield.--Robert Munn, who gave himself .up voluntarily to the police in Pueblo, Col., pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering William Kothe in a saloon in Litchfield July 4, 1905, and was sentenced to 20 years In Chester penitentiary. He said his conscience hurt him. Bobbers Beat Station Agent. Glen Carbon.--William A. Miner, station agent for the Clover Leaf rail­ road here, was found lying senseless on the floor of the station. He had been beaten some time during the night and robbed of $65. Organize for Fight. Litchfield.--The women of Litchfield met at the Presbyterian church and organized the Woman's Auxiliary of the Litchfield Civic league. The pur pose of the league will be to defeat the saloons in North and South Litchfield townships at the next election. Refused to Indorse Deneen. Princeton.--The Republican county central committee selected delegates to the state convention. A resolution indorsing Gov. Deneen and the state administration was defeated. "Drys" Favor Chicagoan. Virginia.--Cass county Prohibition lsts held a convention here and select­ ed Rev. C. "C. French, S. J. Bartlett, 3. R. Fisk, S. A. Gould and Harvey White as delegates to the state con­ vention. C. E. Chaffln of Chicago was Indorsed .for governor. Three Men Kill 300 Crows. Tuscola.--Louis Appleby, Will Han- Ington and John Swift, living south of town, killed 300 crows, which infested the grove on the north farm belonging to Mrs E. Y.- McCarty. FOR SICK W LYDIA E. PINKH5 No other medicine has been sc successful in relieving: the suffering of women or received so many gen­ uine testimonials as has JLydia E. PinkhamssVegretabl© Compound. In every community you will find women who have been restored to health by Lydia EL Pinkham's Veg­ etable Compound. Almost every one you meet has either been bene­ fited by it, or has friends who have. In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,Mass., any woman any day may see the files containing over one mil- non one hundred thousand letters from women seeking health, and here are th9 letters in which they openly state over their own signa­ tures that they were cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has saved many women from surgical operations. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is made from roots and herbs, without drugs, and is whole­ some and harmless. The reason why Lydia E. Pink­ ham's Vegetable Compound is so successful is because it contains in­ gredients which act directly upon the feminine organism, restoring it to a healthy normal condition. Women who are suffering from those distressing ills peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts or doubt the abihty of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health. The Son of Ham. "During a revival in Texas," said Philip R. Bangs of Toledo, O., his turn for a story having come, "a negro was reputed to have had visions about Heaven and hell. His boss called him up and interrogated him as to what be saw in both places, and first as to what the white men and darkies were doing in Heaven. 'Lord, boss, the white men was all a-tiltlng back in their chairs, with their heels on the banisters, a smoking cigars, and the niggers was down on their Knees a- shining up their golden slippers.' Then as to what was going on at the other place. 'Ef you believe me, boss, every single white man had nigger in his hands a-holdin' him up between him and the flames.' "--Washington Her­ ald. OVER NINE MILLION (9,200,000) SOLD THIS YEAR. Sales Lewis' Single Binder cigars for year 1907 more than - 9,SH>o,oo© Sales for 1906 S^oo,oo® Gain 700^0®0 Quality brings the business. A Slip. Jack (studying geography)--Father, what is a strait? Father (reading the paper)--FIto cards of a--that is, a narrow strip of water connecting two larger bodies.-- Harper's Weekly. It Cures While You Walk. Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price 'i'ic. Don't accept any substitute. Trial package FllHG. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. 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