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MASSACHI'SETTS appropriates $8“), 000 for improvng the road“ for the hem-fit of bicyclists; Pennsylvania nxpends this your $1,000,000, while plucky Vermont, gives not :1 cont-â€" “nary a rod," is hm‘ motto, believing OUR esteemed contemporary, the London Times, of June 4, 1897, says the New York Tribune is the leading Republican journal of the United States. That certainly is news in this country, and when the “Thundcrer” receives d marked copy of the NEWS he will see why we say so. CONGRESSMAN GROVT of Vermont has a level head on the postoffice business. He sends or goes to the town where the fight is on and has a popular election of the patrons of the Oflice to find out their choiCe and then i’écdmmends his or her noinina~ tion, irrespective of color, politics or religion. Now if We could get up a v5 board of equalization, so as h us westerners the surplus, how we would be. THE Supreme court of. Misso‘uri has decided that railroad companies are not obliged to carry bicycles free as battgage. Don’ t let any wheel 111e11 be troubled over that; these United States are not 111 Missouri. Ad vertlslng 9! this office, LEWIS B. HIBBARD, H. F. EVANS, - I Entered . at Park; ' Office: in News ‘Building, 255 Central Avenue, Highland Park, Illinnis. 'l‘crms, 81.00 months, 30 cents Published in the Interest}; 0f Highland Park, Highwood and Ravinia, every Friday afternoon by H, F. 8; A. If. Evans. The Highland Park News. J: at the pastâ€"office at Highland ’ark; 'IH.,' as scam}! glass‘ mam: I " FRIDAY, JUNE 18 , 51.00 per ycar, 50 cents for six 30 cents for three munths. rates made known on application - EDITOR. 'SINESS MANAGER. happy hands and they could not use any advantage; .they don’t anV A cyclopedia is still worse. ] we want the pupils in our 8: taught how to use the (lictit the Shellinn'. nrnnnm-hflhm Now we want another branch of study added to our schools; the art of learning how to use. the dictionary and , cyclopedia. There are hun- dreds of families and thoumnds of persons to whom a dictionary or cy- clopedia would be of no use, though the books are chock full of the infor- mation they need. But they don’t know how to use the books them- selves. Put a dictionary into their to get hold of and use these books and facts and principles to the best advantage in their life work. _The old farmer was about right who said that lawyers Were not smarter or better than other men, but they know how and where to find the law and its application to a given case. The great and graml thing in a course of study, or getting an educa- tion, is-not the amount of knowledge "of this or that the student acquires, but the character he forms, and the learning how to stuck: :Ingother: koala learning howato educate himâ€" self. Boys and girls don’t know how to study, any more than they know how to read Hebrew, till they learn. The world is full of books and facts, and the object of an education is how “fig puddings is in the eating. ow Well this ctirriculum works can he told only by those connected with the schools « - Tl1e'highscl1ool has an old antiquated course of study, which has been changed and improved all out of recognition, so that no one not identified with the school knows what they do study But Professor Wilson gets the work out of his pu pile, and that 18 the main thing, after. all. The course of shady in our public school pleases us very much. It seems to be a sensible and ~practic~ ably affair, though of course the test Ilsllllfl “1U gum“ wuunwln state 18 obliged to respect. Come west. couw west, cyclists! ofwcourse that ~wheelmen have no rights the green mountain state is THE HIGHLAND PARK-“NEWS want the pupils in our schools ht how to use the dictionary, spelling, pronunciation, origin SCHOOL SUGGFSTIONS. .they don’t know how still worse. Hence it f0 Secondly, don’t label yourself, “Glass handle with care,” as you enter on youricanvas; for people will not give heed. to it. ()n the contra- ry they will “shake well before us.” ing,” and afterwards, too, without any label. When the campaign is all over, the votes counted and you, i not elected; ~why, let it be over. Don't nurse any grievances, as a mother does a sick baby. Above all else do not act foolishly about your dignity, and your character and the promises made to you before elec- tion; too many voters’ promises be fore election are no more reliable than the average campaign lies. Let other folks do the talking; no matter what they say, cherish no grudges, but go right about your business and if you are worthy you will win next time, though politics is “mighty onnartin" business. First of all when , you decide. to enter a campaign for oflice, accept. the fact that you Will get a good many hard knocks. Very many things will be said of and about you that are absolutely false; it may be ”with? your £21137â€" went "to side's prison, or ought to have gone; that it was a failure of justice that he did not, and so on. Bear in mind on' the other hand that should“ your an cestry fortunately be above reproach, this generation of voters will not support youon account of the. vir- tue of your sires. Ere the spring city election and hits immrtwt lesson‘s- have entirely faded from the minds and memory 'of 011' people the News has one 91' two practical suggestions to possible candidates of the future The sores and wounds 0t our spring campaign are so fully healed and the scars on the politicians epidermis *so far cf - faced, that we can speak without 111- jury to the delicate sensibilities of the office- seeker and use of Words, and also to become able to go‘ to a’ Cyclopedia and ex- haust its contentsyn a given subject, not read one article, but perhaps half a dozen and portions of a dozen or two more; tha is, learn how to get out of books what 155% is in them. ' " ' FRIENDLY ADVICE.