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Published in the mterests bi Highland Park, Highwood and Ravinia, every Friday afternoon by H. F. A. E. Evans. The Highland Park News. Advertlslnz rates nude known on ap‘pllc-flon at this 0.11169. .4 Terms, “.00 per year, 50 cems for six months, 30 ccnts for thrcc months. Office: in News Building, 255 Central Avemxe, Highland Park, Illinois. Entered at the posboffice at Highland Park, 11]., as second class matter. LEWXS B. HIBBARD, H. F. EVANS, - I IF the new city marshal wants to make his office “pay,” let him look out for the men who trot. sharp, too, over the bridges. We don’t think it hurts the new bridges, but it hurts that ordinance. ‘A' YOUNG MAN in Oxford, Mass., has just been sent to the lunatic asylum, having been made insane by cigaret smoking. The difference between ~th§s young man ‘ ”afitf' ""6i1'¥‘ " Illinois cigaret smokers is, that ours had soft brains before they began the 55bit". MAYOR EVANS’ choice of Frank Sheahen for city marshal surprised some good. folks. But he made the appointment after full conference with the aldermen, and harmonized all voices and preferences. We un- derstand they wanted some one to help out in the city clerk’s office. THERE isa tremendous wail all over the land about the folly of congress. Look at it; the House contains 234 lawyers, 25 farmers, and only 20 editors. Taking the average lawyer who runs for con~ gress, are not these 234 enough to make pandemonium anywhere? ()ur city council has one lawyer, one editor, one cement sidewalk maker, one merchant, one printer, one teacher - 7 one all around. TAKEN as a class. the church mpnr hers, that is the Christian men and women of a communityer a minor ity. speaking numerically. They may not cumprisv nwr one third. FRIDAY,- JUNE 4. ), ,. â€" EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER. THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. perhaps not over oneâ€"fourth of the whole. But when it comes to char acter, force, influence; things which determine results. they constitute the majority, just as the ancient prophet Isiah said “The holy seed shall be the substance thereof." A SCHOOL-MA’AM down in Vermont punished the wrong boy for a bit of mischief. She was from New Hamp~ shire of course? In; no teacher in.» digenous to the soil could have made such a mistake. When some one asked the boy his opinion of the transaction, he calmly‘ replied: “I was not the boy; I did not deserve the thrashing she gave me, but’l" feel greatly refreshed." That is one of the excellent qualifications of the average Vermont school ma’am; she can “refresh" a mischievous boy most satisfactorily. HAVING had our attention recently called to the matter of a change of venue in justice courts we find that the famous justice act of 1895 pro. vides that either party or his attor- nejiflmay take a change. That is, if the plaintiff tries a case before Judge Hibba‘rd the defendant may take a change to the nearest justice; that is Judge Dooley. Then if the plain- tifi' wishes he may take a change over to Judge Holmes, or if he is sick or disqualified to Judge Peaae. The great point is both parties can take one change each on a suit. FOR some reason, we neither know nor care what, Alderman ()lme, after the council adjtiurned last Tuesday night. began loud. hlustering talk- ing and pounding his desk. and finally, got around to the mayor, who stood near the stove, and talked to him most shamefully. if Mr. ()hee, as a private citizen, wants an altercation with Robert (1". E axis, as a private citizen, let him select some proper place and time, if they can he found. But in his capacity as an alderman and in {the city hall, to treat the mayor as he did that night. is an outrage, and as a third ward voter, we call on him to resign as one of our aldermen. He, may think what he likes personally of the. may- or. or any (\ne‘else. but he must re: spect the oifice, or we call on him to stép down and out. There is and can be no excuse, no justificatiou‘und no apology for such conduct. We speak not for ourselves, but for an insulted and indigmtm~ public. Tm: weak spot of our macadam streets is the tile drainage beneath themaCadam. This last spring has been a severe one on all clay streets, as thefieveral “bulgefi’ (mv Wmt show. There are holes from tno to three fleet long and six or eight inches deep, ivhere the heavy teams have crushml the macadam down through or into the soft, waterlogged clay beneath. A'Yile drain at least three feet below the macadam down the centre of that street would hate saved all that, and tobur mind the first, best and cheapest thing to do is to put that tile in the first thing The street will never be right and sound till it is done, and so with nearly every street'in t0v‘vn, and as that street is to stand and be used daily for several hundred years. the coax-Pars (lane flit": ‘Imuwr. I l WE MAY be obtuse, but It looks like a_ grievous mistake in someone to assess Mrs. Margart Edwards in the sum of $198 for improving V ine avenue west. Mrs. Edwards’ lot, one acre. does not touch Vine avenue at all; there is a two or three acre tract between her and the new street and it never has been the "policy of this city, so far as we recall, to go off the street to le improved in levying a special assessment. Furthermore, we understand, Mrs. Edwards‘ land is the only tract thus treated. If we are correctly inform- ed why should Mrs. Edvards he 215+ ses.~;erl while. the lots of Alfred St. Peter and Mr. Mowers are not assesed? , ()ur conviction is that the commissioners made a serious mistake in putting an assessment on Mrs. Edwards. The school children are learning their “pieces," etc, for comnwnce- montday. Our school Inn'ams do this work up in ‘fim- shape vvery your. Preparation is thorough and honco, performance wmplotv. That is right, for if a thing is worth do. ing at all it is Worth doing well. H