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The Highland Park News. Published in the Interests of Highland Park, Highwood rand Kav'mia, every Friday afternoon by Evans Furrcst. Terms, $1.00 per year, 50 cents fur six months, 30 ccnxs for three months. link-red at the post office m Highland Park, “I , as sscnnd class Inuncr. ,.. ~ ~ ‘*‘.;mxvvrâ€" , Advertlslng rates made khown on appllcntlon at this office. LEWIS B. HIBBARD, A. E. EVANS, - I OLD Brown University is on its feet again. The force of an aroused public opinion compelled the marr agers to retrace their steps and ask Dr. Andrews to remain at the head of the school. We have no sympathy with the 16 to 1 silver notion. but we do believe in free thought, free speech and freedonrin all things. and that is what President Andrews stands for. The way the Alumni and friends of education all over the country came to the front and spoke out is one of the most hopetul and promising signs in the political hor- izon. ”(fleet in News Building, 255 (‘c-nlral \vcnuc, Highland l’ark.’l|linuis. ls 1853 two young men went from their farmer father’s home in Hadley' Massachusetts. into H. (1". Davis‘ dry goods store in Pittsfield. These young men were Marshall and Joseph Field; the latter is now a millionaire in Manchester. England, the former everybody in this region knows all about. At the same time two other young men. whose home was in Pittsfield. were in banks, one in the old Agricultural of Pittstield, Fred- erick Roberts, while his brother Theo- dore I’. was in a bank in Hudson, New York. some tive and twenty miles away. The two young Fields. slept in Mr. Davis‘ store. and so after the store was shut up they and the Rob- erts brothers would get together Sat~ urday nights and had long visits, with talks and plans for the future, ete. Theodore l“. is spending the summer here. at Mrs. Wilford H. Hall's. He served with distinction in the arnnx He is one of the west FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. ), - - EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER. THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. THERE are some bright men left down East yet. if so many have left “mile West. A man in Mfiihgm state George B. *Cmumiugs [came from, lost a whip“ pne uight_ from his buggy under the shed. He inserted ern managers of a big Eastern Adverâ€" tising Agency, :1 very genial man. He is full of reminiscences of those old days of “Marsh" and “Joe" Field. as they used to call them. In 1856 they all drifted to Chicago. Where will our Park buys. clerks , etc. be forty years hence? a notice in the evening papes to the effect that if the stolen whip was not back in its place in the socket on his buggy by six o'clock the next morn- ing he would publish the name of the thief. When he Went out to the shed the next morning he found 17 whips in his buggy. THERE are now before the people two examples of what we may style, “opportunity in America." Twenty- tive years ago a poor boy was selling newspapers on the streets of Chicago, like hundreds of other newsboys. 'To day he is President of West Virginia State University on a salary of $2, [500 a year and a grand future before him. Fifty years ago in a farmer‘s log cabin in Morristown. Vermont, a boy was born, who for the next three years will he governor of Iowa, Leslie M, Shaw. These are phenom- ena] cases, it is true, but in no land, save ours, could they transpire. WE do not remember. nor is it in» portant, who made the remark “there is something rotten in Denmark." to express thy general prevalence- of financial or political corruption. but it hits the case. Look at the number of bank and other (lefalcations of late. Young men as casliicrs and other officials in banks, a young woman the other day in Boston (-nding her life by suicide, and last a prominent Presbyterian Hitler in Chicago, no worsc for lwinga l’rvsliyterian inr stvad of a Baptist or Methodist; Home of/their mun will fall nvxt. A Chicago business man Htewing lliH wifv's body in a vat in his sausage factory: :Inothvr socic-ty woman vlop ROTTENNESS IN DENMARK. ing with an English ‘scoundrel; city franchises stolen and given away. Now why all this, and these are only specimens, prominent ones it‘s true. of what is going on all the time. Optimists tell us the times are out of joint. Perhaps, but moral rote tenness prevails, in business, po litical methods and morals. in the teachings of our homes, or lack of teaching. in our schools and in our pulpita «Not so much By direct mm eVen indirect teaching, as by absence of-all teaching. There is practically no positive, direct and clear teaching as to honesty in public and private life. This rottenness is in the air. it goes into the homes in the papers, is read by all the family and too often these defaulters and absconders are talked of as smart, and these ras- cals are regarded not as criminals but as “smart Alecks". In the majority of homes the atmosphere is either neutral or positively bad, the parents so far as they say anything. are not in condemnation of this dishonesty and moral rottenness. It is a sad fact, but it is a fact. no matter how pain in]. The teaching in the schools, is limited of necessity, but in the upper grades and in the High School it should have a prominent place. We can dispense with a little Latin for the sake of some good moral toning Then our pulpits shun such mat. ters too much. (iov. Briggs once complimented a country pastor on a sermon on “Common Honesty". The pulpits are silent where and when they should speak. and speak clear. loud and strong, and often too. There is only one way to cure such rottenness save the boys and this is the gospel of Christ. up. A young man in Wuukegan has held a fine position in the First National hunk for five ,yeare and could have remained for the next half century. but so strong is his desire for an education that he leuvmto enter Lake Forth University, for a full four years course. There will be room at cashiers” (leeks for that young mun by and bye. He has twu essentials to success. grit and gump tion. Wt- haw a 404mm farm mm milv west nf this city for sale ('hf‘ilp fur cash. A fim- chance for some one to mukv u snfc- rc-murwrative- inn-s17 ma-nt