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While advocating a local museum of antiquities the other day, one man said he would like to know what Highland Park had to put in sucha 'museum. Why, bless your soul, sir. we have untiquilies enough to make quite a start, and a good start is the most such an institution media. It is like riding down hill on asleigh; all you want is a start and the grade. and the thing isdone. and the grade. and the thing is done. There is our old antediluvian snow plow. that came over in the Mayflower and cleared a pathway that winter when he fled from Salem to Narragansett bay. Tlieirtlmt old- fashioned useless thing known as a “city caucus." It ought to be. fum- igated before being put in . the mus» eum. ' There are several back num- ber politicians. which properly pack- ed in camphor. could be set up as mummies; what a public blessing if they would keep “mum." This de. partment could be enlarged every year. Then the city council might take on a generous mood and give a few useless. antiquated and perfect- ly dead ordinances. as the one on taxing dogs,( 1') trotting over bridges. etc. One large room could be set apart for defeated candidates; lnw ing been frozen out they Would be kept in “cold storage." Finally. Vermont couldcontribute :1 few of of her “distinguished" arms, for which neither she nor the world has any further use. Why. yes: come to look it over. all We need is to “start" the museum and it Would fill up at a rapid rate: Mrs. Clara Smilh's lmys lmve- just nttm-lIHl il stI-uIII \VlllHlll‘ to tlu-ir little playlmlmv Imildinu and mm ii In tlu II llé“ Irt 5 0mm IIt. Such an at tuclnnent as that to tln- play huusv of our lmyhuml would lmw given Ila Imm- real plemm- than sow-moon circuses . and :I \VlluollflerHV of candy l)('h‘l(ll'. WI- N‘lllf‘lnlx‘r unr childish ('Xlwrlllll‘nl uf «mm Iuni'vutiun. an Highland Park News. VOL I LET IT’WHISTLE. A. MUSEUM. HIGHLAND PARK, ILL, MARCH 26, 1897. netting the boiling teaâ€"kettle on a neatly constructed car, but the car did not go. Let the boys have their steam engine and whistle we like to hear it scream. With possibly one exception. no candidate for city office wants a can- one. Several petitions have _ been filed with Mayor Evans" name on every one of them, we understand; hence. he don't Want a caucus. Fred Greenslade. Fred Schumacher and Charles H. Baker. of the candidates for treasurer have all told us them «selves persdnall3. they did not want a caucus, much rather not have one. in fact. John Finne3. for city clerk, seems to be the people‘s choice, for filed. David A. Holmes is to be a candi» (late for mty treasurer, but as we understand it, he don't care for a caucus, but will file his petition. In fact. every one of these men intends to run. caucus or no caucus; and they must, have petitions anyway, so whv should they want a caucus. he, The Royal Arcanum had a private niinstrvl show of their own Monday night. Ten of their numlwr donnud burnt cork and costumes and enter» tainwl their ilSSQL‘l'dteS in royal style. L. t). VanRiper had on a pair of of toothpick shoes, with vxtvnded soles, about half a yard long. each “'0” turrwd up at tho tot-s. ()n the bottom of onc'. as ho sat and thre-w onv In}; ovm‘ tlw otln-r. wastlngmotto “Chew Bake-rs coal."antl on the oth ur. “ fiat Urn-Pu}; onion hit-xx" l’rof. \Vilson was interltx-utvr. Bowtlvn. Guilford and otho-rs sang solos. while- othm‘s furnished music on the piano, twu violins and banjos. a mandolin. guitar. bout-s. t-tu L. l). Vanllipor is pronounced unrivalled on tho bau jo. It was so imnu-nsely. _5u(-m-s.~alul that many want it rc‘pvatud for the hospital or library. Let tlw “Royal Minhtre-ls" show up. , is on every petitioti being ROYAL MINSTRELS. N0 CITY CAUCUS. Among the resolutions passed at the Michigan Military academy on the death of Paul Norton of this city, was this significant one: “He was a boy who had endeared himself to all by his genial manners. upright character, and high stand- ing, and both as a student in the academic and as a cadet in the mil- itary departments he had won for himself that high place in the afl'ec‘ tion and good will of his officers and companions, which made his life so worthy of imitation and emulation. and renders, his loss so keen.” ' The only remark we'wish tovv-add to that high testimony to the young man’s worth, is the fact that it, with rare accuracy, places the emphasis on the moral side of Paul’s charae ter, just where it belonged. Others might be as able and brilliant stu- dents, though his markings placed him in the front in this respect, but in the force, high tone and loyalty of his moral character he stood among the few. He took his stand for Christ and a Christian life when he went to Orchard Lake, quietly and unostentatiously, but maintained it from beginning to end, so that he commanded not only the respect of those who stood with him. in the. faculty and student body, but also of those of lower standards in pro- fession and life. And so when all exercises were suspended in the school that afternoon of the funeral hem 300 miles away, it was with a heartfelt sympathy for the friends and a profound respect and admira- tion for their late asstxriate. ()nr ustmeuwd contemporary. the London Times. almost shrieks with fear over this possibilitiu-s of female suffrage in old Albion. ()n the next page it goes into mild ocstaqies, to tlwvxtmit ofu column or so. over the glories of the ‘30 yi-Hrs reign of iH‘l‘ limjt-st)‘. Quovn Victoria. h tukvh‘ tliv m-uteness of :i dVfldâ€"ilI-fllt'r wuwl English tnry m sm- the lwmti ful (unmistuum of such lugiv as that A HIGH TRIBUTE. yE-Hrs reign of Vivturiu. h u (lyml-in-fln» NO 17