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A little elbow leans upon your knee. Your tired knee that has so much to bear: A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair; You feel the loving, trusttul.tcnder touch ()f warm, moist fingers holding yours so tight; You do not prlIe this blessing overmuch. You are almost too tired to pray tonight. Yet it is blessedness. A year ago l (“(1 not feel it as 1 do today, We are too dull and thankless and too slow To catch the sunshine ere it flits away. And now It seems surpassingstrunke to me That whlle l bore the badge of motherhood I did not kiss more oft and tenderly ' The little child who brought me only good. I wonder so that mothers ever fret At little children clinging to their gown. ()r that the footprints when the days are wet Are ever black enough to make them frown. lf 1 could find a little muddy hoot ()r can or jacket on my chamber floor. lf 1 could kiss a rosy. restless toot And hear it patter in my home once more; lf 1 could mend a broken cart today. Tomorrow make a kite to reach the sky, There is no woman in God's world could say She was more bllasfully content than 1. But, oh! the dainty pillow next my own ls never rumpled by a shining head: My singing birdllng from its nest has flown: My little boy I used to kiss is dead. Philadelphia Times. ()lney Moore, our former High- School correspondent, has gene to Milton, Wis. for his college course. Here is what the Journal of that city says of him: “Mr. Ulney Moore 'of Highland Park, 111., will attend Mil- ton college next year. He will also take a fease' on the Journal. Mr. Moore is a son of N. 0. Moore. who, for many years, was the proprietor of a printing establishment in Chica- go. He is therefore a printer of con- siderable experience. The Journal congratulates itself." By a curious coincidence, Mr. Davis the publisher of the Journal, Once worked for young Moore’s father as a printer, so that our young friend will be in congenial society, and amid first class intellectual and moral sur- roundings. We admire his pluck in pushing his way through college. .IIIVI he is starting out just as Daniel Weir ster did: but hggvill never commit flue superb folly of a 7th of March speech. as Webster did. In I870 we took out a $2000 life- insurance policy in what was regard ed as a first class company, and the other day it went into the hands of a receiver. We, have paid our prmniuum promptly all these 18 years, and now only a worthless policy to show for it all. Would we not have been in luck to have died a few years ago? That's the problem; Shakespeare mined it in Hamlet though he had no lilo in suramce policy. TIRED MOTHERS. EXCELSIOR. Col. Hall, the otlicer in command at Fort Sheridan, gave a reception Saturday at the Fort to the Chicago Press Club. Some (300 members ‘of the club and guests came out from Chicago on a 91min] train, furnished by the Northwestern road, leaving the city about 1 o’clock p. m. Gen- eral Brook in command of the depart- ment of the Missouri sent 'as his rep- rest-mt tive Captain Richiff his atafl‘. 9 " g “ ' THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. When the club and its guests reached ‘ the Fort, a little after 2 o’clock, they were received by a salute from a bat- tery of light artillery,'this was fol- lowed by a series of artillery maneu- vers of absorbing interest. Then came a cavalry display, followed by a battalion of infantry exhibiting their skill in a bar drill. Another battalion of infantry went through the full dress parade, the whole clos ing with a band concert. After these interesting, and thrilling exercises Col. Hall and others gave receptions to select members. Large numbers of people from the Park, Highwood. Lake Forest and Lake Blufl' were present to witness the military evo- lutions. for there is something in the human heart which delights in and responds to such displays. nl' 7 'i‘he Club returxiaf to Chicago high in their praise of Fort Sher- idan. The editor of the News was called up Monday by his friend, J. R. Mc- Quiston of Chicago, a former Well known resident of the Park, asking him to go in Tuesday and conduct the funeral services of his sister, Miss Clara, at Woodlawn Park. Mrs. Frank B. Green and Miss Ger- aldine Hull Went in and sang favor- ite hymns of the deceased. Miss McQuiston had conducted for some years a succeszul millinery husinesa in Yorkville, removed to Chicago some three or four years ago, where she was equally successful until at» tacked with pneumonia last spring which developed into tulmrculosis. ending in her death. She possessed the phenomenal family business ability, was of a strong and thor. oughly sound mind, and emlxxlied the sterling virtues and high charac- ter which endow life with its value and power. The interment was in ‘ Oakwoods. Robertson Nolan are reported as doing a thriving lumber business these days, their business last week being more than double that of the week hefure. They ”also are pre pared to furnish hard and snft cnal of null kinda at short native. FORT SHERIDAN. OBITUARY. A full line of school auplies at Dale Sweetland’a. John Wilson of Greenwich, New York, is visiting his son, Professer Wilson. The Deutsch folks over at Grays Lake are to have a Candy Makers‘ Picnic and Ball next week Thursday, Sept. 9th, and they invite the News and all the Deutsch over here to at- W It will gfigmfiwmfiwfirme my. an no postponement on @1660 nt of ' the weather. Of course they will serve all the delicacies of the Fader land. A young man has applied for the degree of “S. M.” VVVVV Scientiae Magis- ter, in the Chicago University and to obtain it he must write a satisfactory essay on “The Conform Re res‘en- tation by the function w=a â€"2 [7' x6 and the inverse function.” It must be painful to beso awfully learned as all that: we are glad we don’t know too much? Miss Helen Stone, who has spent some days with Mrs. Custer, came down one Sunday morning while here, and played the harp for Mr. Small at his mother's. Miss Stone is said to be one of the most expert and promising harpists in the coun- try, albeit she is yet only a pupil. Those who have heard speak of her efi'orts in‘ the highest terms. When you get ready to start for Klondike next spring, don‘t forget to go into Hiblmrdfipenoer Bart- lett’s for one of their complete camp cooking outfits. It is one of the most complete things we ever saw and can be fiacked aii'ay in small compass. We write this for the benefit of Dr. lng alls and Robert C. Rafien, who have Klondike on the brain, and have it bad, too. . The city council of Waukegan is not behaving with very great dignity. Not long since it tried to pass an or- dinance without the legal number of votes, and lately some few aldermen have skipped the meetings to pre- vent a quorum and so hinder business. That's the pettiness and folly of par‘ tisan politics in municipal affairs. Come down to Highland Park and see how men do things. Miss Erskine easily takes the prize on her window display of millinery. She has both taste and skill and while she may not put as much time into it, as do some of the big stores of Chicago, she has remarkable success. She has the Butterick pat- terns uf all kinds and up to date at Chicago prices, so that'any lady in town can get a pattern for_ a kitchen npmn or a party dress on a moment's notice. CITY BREVITIES.