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Evanston has hit upon a new device‘for local excitement now that theistudents dont hang or burn the professors in effigy. It is all popular postal card vote for favorite. candi- date for mayor. everybody sends his coupon or postal to the “Editor of the Press with his or her candidates name on it. Miss Willard lives there and women vote in this postal card election. The editor publishes the names of the candidates men~ tioned, all else is secret. That is. the people can express their preference before election, but at the election 'they will vote for the man set up by the machine. be be good. bad or in- different. Published in the intew3u of Highland Park, Highwaod wanvinin, every Friday afternoon by ’H. F. A. E. Evans. Mus-mini mu- “ knm'on mm a this film Terms, 81.091)“ year, 55 cents far six months, 30 cents for three months. The béafitifu} sleighing eldpéd with the Shuth’ wind Wednesday, leaving at: itching, slushy and mud- dy void. . - ' Perhaps we are‘ deceived, but it seems to us the- times are harder Wei-y (lax. No one‘seems to have vonfidence enough to sue his neigh- bOi'; the constable audfl‘ustice of the Peace are nigh unto starvation or the jmorhouse. The milleniuni iu politic-i has about come. Here is Senatpr-elect Spooner of Wiéoonsin, speaking in high praise of Senator Vilas. an un- compromising Democrat. A pron» inent Massachusetts Republican writes. in his paper that he wishes President- elect McKinley wbuld hep Smggtang Olpey in flie'depart ment of State. as his state- papers are anxs B. Human ~ - â€" ~Evy-r02. H. F. EVANS - BusmnssMfimun. Gfiics: McDonald's Buifding, St. Johns Avenue. Highland Park. Illinois. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1897. . "m gym“ "-1-: "- Park, 112. as second vim WW. Highland ~Park News. the ablest this country hasdiad ‘for a generation, and/he has covered the country with ' glory in securing the arbitration treaty with Great Britain,‘ the greatest political achievement of this century. And last the Times~ Herald ' p‘rouounces eulogies on Comptroller Eekles. and wishes Mc- Kinley would keep hiin. As Dr. Holmes said “Order your ascension rope, we pam‘xmnm in at hindâ€"Mpartisanship retires and statesmauship comes to the front. Apropos of our allusions to anon? ymbus letters will say that certiiih misguided arid seemingly; malicious peréon's have undertaken. what they think, the reform of an evil which hua'not the shhdow of an existence. They have adopted the method of Sending linonymous letters to scores of our prominent citizens. The whole absurd affair would be ludi crous did not these self deceived rc- formers attempt to press the Holy Scriptures into their service [)3 par- tial quotations and mifiapplication of passages and they lrfivc further shocked the feelings of many bv mutilating copies of the Ne“ Tesla merit in their ill- guided zeal. They have gone so far in some of their lot- ters as' to commit acriminal'otferw: themselves, in charging on wholly innocent' and upright persons. gross conduct ‘Were not our people so incensed at this scandalom‘ and out rageous performance. the NEWS would not notice it. The‘Apostlc James. 3: 15. describes with inspired accur- acy. this kind of “wisdom." THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. The editor of the News received a well-deserved scoring at the lips of an offended alderman. Most of said alderman's talk was through his hat. as it never (hues any‘ hurt ”to take the people into your confidence, es- pecially in‘matters in which their property is concerned. and '50, we stand by oywt‘iginal position be- cause it is rights We have not, been connected wi‘vh‘newapapers for more than twenty years without learning somethings. All the wisdom of a town ismt in its board of alderman. We seek toget six gmxl"htniness mm‘fn-“mé‘r'ehm thaws mm} AN APOLOGY. Monday night the Good Fellow- E ship or some other named club. in icluding Messrs. FrhnkKB. Green, ; Prof. W. A. Wilson. D. M. Erskine, } Jr., and we know not who else, ac- : eeptecl the invitation of that royal i good farmer Charles Mulke of West { Deerfield to spend an, evening at his t l l hospitable home. SJ they took a big ‘ sleigh and loaded up, nineteen in all ; and went over. enjoying a mggmh :eent sleigh ride. Notwishmgrto . ’kill Mr. Mulke’s generous spirit " by g overtaxing it. they put a pail of oys- f ters and other fixings under the 2 sleigh seat, and their pooling their gnupplies with those of their host, they had a good time, a royal sup- per of ten courses, with those genu- ine farmers’ mince pies, ete, such as cannot be produced at? a farm. Mrs. Bertha B. Green entertained the tcompany with one of her dialect 4 recitations. “Pat's Trial of High i Life.“ Mrs. Green not only recites dialect pieces, but is her own con» ; poser. She is author‘an’d recitation: l ist like Dickens and others. Wisely ' they took a member of the Highland ' Park Pres’s‘Club along with them. i The electric lights were out when other sixes Outside \the oOuncii. What W6 1:011:th for and what A1 derman Phillipa wanted was to se- cure the oombmed, plastic}! wisdom of all these sixeshthose in the coun- oil and- times out 9f 11,. in foxjmuhting the best ordin'lincemossibie for all concerned. On that point we not yield one iota; if any one feels ag- grieved, we forgive him. d.“ gunmed 1:35???“ an boodfé, was a typographic“ WV we 593 in looking at it ;_>u penalty for not seeing the proof before the Vani- cle was printed? ‘What we meant to write am] supposed we had written and printed, was that we wanted no dividéd feeling, “no talk of boodle,” for that ”thing had been said to as several timee,a charge too utterly abâ€" surd to be believed a moment, and we were disgust/ed with it. .In thBhe respects this Blufi City Railway Co; and the Highland Park COu'ncil stand like Caesar’s wife, on a lofty pedestal “ above suspicion." The plumbejs put on a long face as this thaw comes on apace. No more frozen pipes nnchuined pumps. they broke got home; Mac says the belt THAT SLEIGI‘! RIDE.