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The Highland Park News. Published in the mlcresls of Highland Park. Ilighwnxnl and Rav'mia, every I’Iiduy afternoon by livuns Fnrrcsl. Terms, $1.001wr year, 50 Cents fur six months, 30 ccnts for thrcc munlhs. Advenlslng rates mnde known on application at this ofllce. ()tfipc A venue. LEWIS B. HIBBARD, A. E. Evus, - E A KENT(’('KY woman who proposes' to be a candidate for'the presidency in 1900. has formulatéd her platform. It has four plifhks: “Remonetizution of Silver," “Erohibitioufii “ Universal Sufirage" and “Agnosticism." That s. an up-to-datv affair for this fin-de- sieole age. EX-SENAII‘OR Philetus Sawyer 0f Oshkosh, Wisconsin, celebrated his eighty-first birth the 22nd. He is perhaps the most gifted and influenâ€" tial statesman his state has yet given the country, and like Ex-Senator Vilas. he was bornin Vermont. that mother not of presidents but of State?“ men. H. C. CHATFIELDVTAYLOR. who marâ€" ried Miss Rose Fairwell a while ago, has just issued a new novel, “The View of Fools," through Herbert S. Stone Co. of Chicago. It deals with the “smart set." says the pub- lisllers‘ unnouncmnent, which must mean the famous school board of Lake Forest. whose antics recently have been the greatest local circus of thettimefl. » , lHCl't" Tm: city council will meet in reg- ular session next Tuesday evening. The most important thingthat should come before it is the enlargement of the city building. New or greatly enlarged quarters are an almost im- lnetliute necessity for the public li- brary. In a few months the library board will begin to receive its en- larged income. and when it has $11K)“ :Innnnlly. there must be room for its new book“. The present rd at 1h:- postuflicc at Highland Park. “L. as sacnnnl class matter. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1. in News Building. 255 Ventral Highland Park, Illinois. . - . Em'rmz. 9 BI‘SINESS MANAHER. THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. quarters cannot contain the books. The police court has no room; if the city has any court souw tulerubly decent quartvrs must be secured. There is nu place for the tire appar atus. Tue enlargement of the city building therefore is a necesaity. It may not he done; that. however, will not pmw that the council acts wisely. A well known citizen of our re« public died a irhile since leaving tin estate of nearly 'five and a half mill- ion dollars, and he left every dollar of it to his widow and children; “no public. bequest,“ says the press re- port. And yet there are churches. colleges. academies, public libraries, public charities. the potent. philan- thropic forces of our civilizationn, founded and sustainod by the gifts of others, all of which have directly and indirectly contributed to aid this man in accumulating his fortule, and yet of his millions not one, cent do they receive. Ilonest men are supposed to recognize, and pay their debts, personal and public alike. “No public bequest,“ and yet, the public has been serving and aiding him till his life. EVERY one familiar with and inter- ested in county matters. knows that the department for the insane in the county buildings. has been for some years lamentahly inadequate. lnr mates have been literally stowed away like coolies in a ship's hold. a system fatal to health and destructivr, Of all efforts to restore the patients to san- ity and health. The board have dis cussed the matter time and again, but there it has ended. Lately hmv‘ Ever A. W. Fletcher and many other members of the board have taken hold of it in earnest, and at the late supervisor’s meeting an order was passed, after long and careful dis- cussion, instructing the committee on county l'arm to go ahead build a large. substantial addition to the insane department of the buildings. and properly equip the same. Hence the long continued reproach to Lake County will soon he removed. The same commitim- Were alHo in struoted to make a clear and full re A RIGHT MOVE. port at the next meeting, Dec. ch, how a big reservoir can he construc- ted which can he kept wall filled from the numerous roofs on the farm, and some method will be reported and put into execution, so that our insane and pour shall not he perpet uully exposed to danger from the and the countv exposed to great loss The board had a full and free» conference over this whole matter and all the supervisors were practically a unit on the matter not only for the good of the patients, but for tlw honor of the county. It is in the hands of a first rate committee: E B. Neville of Gray’s Lake. C. P Thomas of Fremont Centre and Dan iel Adams Jr. of Waukegan. ._ CONGRESSMAN FOSS. LAST Friday afternoon, after the herculean efforts incident to the run ning off and mailing the large week~ ly editibn of the NEWS. the editor sat in his office perusing that ideal papery the Springfield (Massachir setts) Republican. when a clear and resonant voice at the door broke on his ear, “Is the chief justice of the High and Park Police Court in his Office ‘8" There vas a familiar Green Mountain sound in that voice which arrested attention. Turning on our swivel chair. there stood inwthe door way, the tall erect form of our stal- wart congressman, Hon. George Ed- mund Foss of Buenna Park. Chicago. Mr. Foss remarked as he came in, that in passing the door he caught a "profile view of the editor and said to ‘ himaelf: “Hello. there is Porter Hih- l hard of Boston." an old time chum .and friend, so he came in to see him. 2 and found his brother. Mr. Foss drove out from Chicago, fed his team at Henry Clay Busyv‘s. had his dinner at Frank B. Green's famous hostelry, and spent half an hour with the editor, going over old times and friends down east, the weather and everything‘in fact but. politics. He was not, out on politics. but fur a pleasant (lriw tlirnugli lln- Huntli mulnf tho county to new his friends, gut a Hill” of. guml cuumry air and see “the folks“ when llwrv are no pulitics abroad. Politics am‘ all right in their placv. hut lw likes t1) SN‘ mm :H mm and in ilH‘ll‘ lmuiu-s.